skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on how many cloudy/winter days you want to be proof for right? There needs to be some backup capacity for when you won't be able to fully recharge for weeks on end.

Although I suppose it is cheaper to oversize solar and not the battery, but that's usually already maxed out and limited by roof space. Maybe a small wind turbine to compensate for stormy days...
I just told my young boys about this sad news.

They've recently gotten very into visiting retro gaming stores and buying DS, Wii and other console games.

The death of physical media means the death of video game stores (eg. EB games), and the death of the second hand market, the very market which allows retro gaming stores of this generation to thrive.

The kids of my boys won't be able to experience the games of the next generation of consoles because their game stores will have been shut and entire generations of games no longer available unless said company decides to re-release them again.

That's just games.

Movies have a similar problem. I can see Archive.org becoming very popular for accessing what publishers have decided they no longer want, or care for, being available.
Doing your own research has lead to an incredible advance in public intelligence.
My curl complains when -J/--remote-header-name and -C/--continue-at is combined.

$ curl -JLOC- "https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css?nZdOgS3Y18zj0ynCo50h"
curl: --continue-at and --remote-header-name cannot be combined
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
Don't expect too much to change in the grand scheme. Short term, there will be some policy reversals and more social policies put in place - but Starmer is former header of the Crown Prosecution Service (take of that what you will), has continued to support anti-trans legislation, and recently signalled a continued isolationist policy post-Brexit. Without waving some magic wand, I don't see how his party can get the country back on track.
Title is clickbait trash. They’re only ceasing production of recordable media, they’re still producing commercial disks.
(Can totally sée some AI-based solutions performing some heavy "interpolation" to "upsample" content in realtime ...)
Seems strange that people were damning algorithmic social media walls but are now welcoming preprocessed reality.
>I probably get 20 spam calls a day, at least half of which leave “voicemails,” some of which are just really loud high pitched noises for whatever reason.

That sounds like fax spam.
Surely someone could find a taxonomy that makes a distinction...

I guess we have to colive in a world where both views are true.
I’ve found some success is curbing spam calls with the “Silence Unknown Callers” feature in iPhone.
However this presents a few challenges. Mainly missing calls from delivery agents, who's number is obviously not in my iPhone contacts
The EU should be the heat-pump pioneer
Despite what you get in Australia being pretty reliable, it's too expensive to justify quite yet. My 8kW solar is connected to a Fronius inverter, but until I find a less expensive option I can justify adding a battery.

A 13kWh system is over $AUD10k, and the ROI is on par with the expected lifespan of the battery.

If sodium cells can bring the price down to $AUD100 it would indeed be a massive game changer.
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I am subjected to "font boosting" on some Web pages with android chrome. I understand how website owners can mitigate but I find myself wondering why all the Web refs are 10+ years old and android/Chrome developers are in a #wontfix on this? Why is this not something I can own in flags? It's a classic UI preference issue, ie user pref, not enforced mandatory.
A vaccine developed against a pathogen that is not available to study is unlikely to be effective against said pathogen.
> 24-bit audio is obviously a noticeable improvement even on $150 headphones

Not going to question your subjective experience, but I do not think most people will hear any difference between 16 and 24 bit playbacks under normal conditions, even with fancy headphones.

"120dB is greater than the difference between a mosquito somewhere in the same room and a jackhammer a foot away.... or the difference between a deserted 'soundproof' room and a sound loud enough to cause hearing damage in seconds.

16 bits is enough to store all we can hear, and will be enough forever." [1]

[1] https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
> There's about a million other uses for LLMs.

Ok. But in browsers ?
Bluray or not, much of your comment is sensible.

That said, maybe one in 1000 people here is going to successfully stick to a regimen of regular backups all the way to their old age. That's the HN crowd, not the general public who have never heard of the Rule of Three. People get distracted with life, or become incapacitated, or find themselves moving across the country, or make mistakes.

Without recordable Bluray, it's all much more difficult. Discs don't need regular checkups the way magnetic, cloud and electronic media do because they have fewer issues drying out, rusting out, suffering head crashes or suddenly vanishing due to someone else's corporate decisions.
It isn't obviously noticeable when 99.9% of people could not tell the difference. Take Pet Sounds which was mixed in mono onto analogue tape, hiss and all. Most people do not have magic ears.
You mean Marx’s? Shame on you spreading this nonsense
Do you have more information? seL4 seems to run on raspberry pi 3/4, but I didn't find any mention of cortex-m class CPUs being supported.
Blindness by José Saramago and The road by Cormac McCarthy.

Both offer a look at how humanity holds up under difficult circumstances.
Do not watch the movies, read the books.
>there is almost zero hope of AGI ever being realized, much less a SkyNet or Johnny Number 5 scenario, without absurd computing infrastructure and ongoing electricity costs.

Microsoft is constructing a mammoth data center at an inflation-adjusted cost comparable to the Apollo Program.

We already know AGI is possible with 20 watts. It's only a matter of time before it is created on another medium.
> while most modern hard drives are lucky to make it to five years.

Lots of people say things like this, but I have still never even heard of a normal consumer disk with normal access patterns¹ failing in even ten years, across dozens of hard disk drives (3.5″ PATA, 3.5″ SATA, 2.5″ SATA) and solid state drives (2.5″ SATA, NVMe). The last disk I remember hearing of failing was probably around ten years ago, and it would probably have been fifteen years old.² I’ve heard of laptops dying of other causes, but not disk failure any time recently.

Now USB flash drives, I definitely encountered a few failures at less than five years of age over a decade ago (in 2011, I started one week running some tech for an event with three sticks 2–6 years old, and by the end of the week all three were dead!), but haven’t encountered a failure in the last decade (mind you, I haven’t used them as much either).

By similar token, I’ve heard people saying things about consumer-written optical media commonly becoming unreadable in a decade with careful storage, but never had any issue with reading CDs burned fifteen years ago.

All up, it seems to me that people commonly say all these things barely last a few years, but it just doesn’t match my experience at all.

—⁂—

¹ The only thing I’m excluding by this is Backblaze storage pods, which are clearly not typical of consumers, and will obviously hasten mean time to failure.

² My favourite drive at present, one that by rights should have failed, is the second drive in my laptop: 256 GB capacity, 326 TB read, 140 TB written, 119% used, SMART failed. It spent the first threeish years of its life in a Windows laptop with 8 GB of RAM and a workload that would have filled 32 GB of RAM. This caused lots of swapping, amounting to about 500 GB of I/O per day. It fails SMART and has 2031 error information log entries, but still works fine for now, and hasn’t got any worse since I rescued it. Oh, and I also improved its aboriginal habitat, giving it another 8 GB of RAM when I upgraded my own laptop to a 32GB stick; the owner said that made the laptop perform much better.
> was simultaneously 10 years ahead and 10 years behind.

This is a great way to put it. "Recipes" were ahead of their time, but half-baked ...
"Empowering Startup Success: Y Combinator's Role in Innovation"

This title succinctly encapsulates Y Combinator's mission and impact on the startup ecosystem, highlighting its role in fostering innovation and supporting new businesses. It emphasizes the organization's commitment to helping startups succeed and driving forward technological and entrepreneurial advancements.
It's different though, isn't it? Social media walls are the social media sites giving you what they want to show you. AI tools are (mostly) you asking for what you want - albeit you're at the mercy of whatever the AI gives you back, but usually it's what you ask for.
24bit is definitely noticeable.

The extra dynamic range helps bypass bad mastering.
My browser should be my user agent, not my user nanny. I don't want it depriving me of features or working against my interest, ever, on the grounds that the browser author's personal opinions on the social impact of various technologies.
I just buy internal high-capacity (at least 10 TB) HDDs and use an USB SATA controller. I use Borg backup for archival, at least 2 copies on 2 HDDs. It seems more reliable than DVDs.
Have no problem with them not following the trend, maybe even a good thing.

Their reasoning is shoddy. Misunderstands LLM's and plagiarism is of no practical concern to a browser, may as well remove the copy function from the browser if that's the view, theres also use cases where hallucinations don't matter such as the AI tab sorting and semantic search. He should've just said they don't see the value in it and left it at that.
Weird, sorry about that queryparam I didn't see it there or would have stripped it.
Yet there are too many non-experts thinking they "did research" and then go on to ignore medical or political facts. Those people are easily influenced by adversarial misinformation to incite hate and anger for political warfare.
Not so useless. A user of that could memorise the times/dates where a particular easy-recall code comes up. With that, they have effectively "transferred" 2FA for those times into their brain, and not need to use any 2FA app (at only those times).
It's the question mark that is messing it up.
... and when running it's SQL
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> The PSRAM/HyperRAM PIO engine provides 42/32 MB/s (write/read) of memory bandwidth. Further, four PIO engines are used to provide four seperate read/write memory ports. This allows independent memory access for the emulated CPU, video DMA, and receive/send Ethernet traffic. Note that all 32 instruction slots are used.

> The video PIO engine can support up to a sysclk/2 pixel rate. Thus, for the 300 MHz sysclk typically used, it is possible to run 1080p60 at a pixel rate of 148.5 MHz. The default video rate is 1024 x 768 @ 70Hz, as this matches the screen used for development and the pixel rate is an integral divisor from sysclk. Only five PIO instruction slots are used.

PIO code https://github.com/rscott2049/DECstation2040/blob/main/sw/ps...

Amazing
So you don't have to anymore!
It was killed by fear-mongering, a common cause of death for new technologies. (Remember the press fomenting a moral panic over Google Glass?) The idea is sound and will be part of our normal day-to-day computing experience in the future.
Unlikely to be a software problem. If I had to guess the serial communication bus is misconfigured.
No, with a MAC function you don't have certificates in the first place ;)
> and widely deployed for it to happen.

(And, don't forget, "mass adopted" ...)
I guess the question mark at the end makes it weird, with a period it would make more sense, to me.

Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend(.) ---> the article explains why Vivaldi will not follow the trend.

Why (won't) Vivaldi follow the current AI trend(?) ---> someone's wondering and asking why Vivaldi will not follow the trend.
I would also add that what the question really really means is "Do they understand what we and I are doing here? Do they understand what they are asking of me? Can they emphasize with me?"

That's really important. It's annoying to constantly have to explain and justify basic things because people in power don't understand what the workers are doing. I'm also pretty sure that's true regardless of who you are, which company or industry you work in and what you do, you'd prefer to be lead by people who understand what you are doing.
Got a source? Would love to get the tea!
>If only they'd add a 'close all tabs but this one' feature.

???

Right click tab -> O ?

Edit: oh, you're talking about Edge, not Vivaldi
evil-mode has existed for years ;)
>And I find it odd when people call me on WhatsApp.

Given that you're European, do you not have any friends/family outside your country, in neighboring EU countries? Wouldn't they have to pay high per-minute rates to call you?
There's an unfortunate distinction between people who are very curious and possibly have formal training in a technical field, and those who do it because it makes lots of money.

Orthogonally, there are project managers (PMs) and architects (they need an acronym) who either A. recently had or B. distantly had serious technical chops, and those who C. were the latter of the first sentence.

C'est la vie; the anti-pattern of the corporate machine operating with the efficiency of the Peter principle.

Perhaps the only and irreducible way to discern A. above is to work with someone else on something meaningful for longer than the pop quiz bullshit of 20-30 minute technical interviews.

Possibly, project managers can be effective without technical knowledge if they both check their egos and communicate efficiently and effectively to reduce and consolidate external comms.

Architects also need to defer to people digging away at the problem rather than mandating a vision or some equally ineffective pretend work. Architects and PMs can be extremely effective if they know their limitations, are honest, understand human nature and the natures of their team, and how to manage external expectations.
I agree, I guess I could have made my reply more sarcastic.
> every now and then, the galloping animal is a zebra. This doesn't mean you shouldn't plan for horses.

With permission, I am going to put that on a t-shirt :)
More robust:

open -b com.Microsoft.Excel

That will open it even if it has a different name or is in a different directory.

Disadvantage: autocomplete doesn’t work on that in the terminal.
> DirectX 12 Ultimate: Disabled

That right there is already a reason not to buy this in 2024.

DirectX 12 Ultimate is 4 years old by now, and with DirectX 12 the best it can do is a 10 years old 3D API.

This is basically a GPU for Office work.
LLM's are not useful enough to me to want them integrated with my daily-drivers (web browser, email client, etc.) - so this is a great take & one that I personally identify with.
> Not going to question your subjective experience

Read enough glowing product reviews from "audiophiles" on nonsense like $100 electrical sockets and $75 Ethernet cables and you'll start to question everything.
Key distribution can be done manually at the factory where the plane is built. Which can also keep a keystore holding the key used for each plane. But we don't need to delve deep in this scenario, as ultimately op's point was that, by introducing crypto, you risk adding failure modes to the plane.
Occasionally I find myself disliking projects simply because they overload existing acronyms..

But this is pretty cool
Well my position comes from some of the positions Dawkins has publicly stated, when he really didn't need to speak up in those circles.

Maybe you find 'idiot' a strong word? The problem with someone like Dawkins is he is 'clever' - someone who doesn't understand that in his position it's better to not wield it like a weapon. This is why I prefer someone like Sean Carroll, who absolutely entertains some bonkers ideas, but never from a position of superiority or dismissal - but rather challenges it rationally.
Sure, I mean i'm not their product team but surely LLM's could easily complement things like parental controls, autocomplete mail / language assistance (there is mail in the browser), in-browser language translation etc
I've thought about this a bit, as well. Simply as neither physical nor "cloud" services can really be expected to last.

The solution, in my mind, is that there should be an open source standard of "grouped media items" which can be easily imported / exported between services (being: a diy home server, or a cloud service, or a "burn to disk" program, etc.) which then allows for easier redundancy and updating.

For a very simple example, you could use a zip file that you upload everywhere and put onto USB/CD-ROM. But whatever the system is, it would have to be easy and attractive to use.

I'm trying to go about doing that with building digitapes[0] but I don't know how to really build "a standard" other than building something and hope that it becomes status quo.. (I'm also getting way too into work recently, so I need more time and energy to work on it)

It's a little bit embarrassingly unfinished in all regards. But eventually I want to make a system where an app allows you to easily share your files onto S3, which you can easily download onto a disk, which you can easily connect to mirror on YouTube, etc. All open source and independently connectable.

[0] https://zukini.io/posts/digitapes-model/
>If the government can’t regulate spam then what could it be expected to regulate.

The (US) government does an excellent job of regulating many things, such as commercial airplane design and construction. Oh wait...
Sure, there are different acceptable levels of restoration and backup but a 'backup' by definition is just a spare copy of data made in case the original is lost or damaged. I was only pointing out that a cloud copy is a backup, albeit a fairly weak one and as you say not useful by itself in every eventuality. It's just absolutist to deride cloud storage as "not a backup" as it can absolutely save data that would otherwise be lost.
I am not old enough to know how resource forks were implemented on Mac OS but this is definitely not the case today. Resource forks are implemented (or maybe "emulated" is a better word to use? Not sure how much effort is put into them) as random-access. You can use POSIX APIs to interact with them (using _PATH_RSRCFORKSPEC) and these are typically faster than other interfaces.
I agree to a certain extent, mainly that it is a matter of appeal and it's about finding the right match, etc. That said, I can't help but think there is value being lost by thinking engineers need to scale their productivity by managing more people rather than by managing more software.

Software is inherently about automation and abstraction, and the possibilities are limitless as we are witnessing with recent AI breakthroughs. If more engineers had the opportunity to optimize their expertise throughout their career they could produce advanced solutions adding orders of magnitude more value.

It has to do with the nature of software and how you can build an intricate system with whatever properties you want, but instead companies like to use popular frameworks and slice their product into tiny fragments that they can divide among their army of low level engineers, so of course they need a proportional amount of managers as well.
Mandatory speed limiters on EU cars from 2024
It will stop you from exceeding speed limits based on gps or cameras reading speed limit signs.

Can disable with a hard acceleration or disable each time you start driving with a button press.
> 24-bit audio is obviously a noticeable improvement

16-bit is (IIRC) 96 dB of dynamic range, going from well below human perceptual noise level to above damage threshold.

24-bit is good for headroom when recording/mixing but useless for listening.

If there's any difference between a 16-bit and a 24-bit version it's either because they're actually not the same (different mixing/mastering^) or they're just poorly mixed/mastered from the start and don't use the full 16-bit (or 24-bit for that matter) dynamic range: if you by and large use only 2/3 of the bits to actually convey a signal change then it may say 16-bit on the tin but it's actually 10-bit or something, (and for 24-bit it's only using... 16-bit!) and the remainder bits are just wasted space.

^ I find that quite frequent on vinyl vs digital: vinyl sounds better not because of some inherent property of the medium but because the mastering (and sometimes even the mixing) is simply not the same, presumably because it doesn't cater for the same audience/use case (vinyl at home for amateurs/enthusiasts/audiophiles, digital for a much wider variety of users, listening conditions, and listening hardware)
You have point but still, it is modified reality.
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What features are Vivaldi depriving you of by not including an LLM?
Well, considering I was part of the implementation team of one of those hardware tokens, I'm sorry I'm going to have to disagree with you :). Please note that I'm not talking about RFC6238 / 4226. I'm talking about proprietary implementations for hardware tokens.

We most definitely had drift management. One of the differentiating features to our competitors is that our algorithm had both a "click counter" (number of times the button was pressed) and a "clock counter". The least significant digit of both counters was included in the OTP that was generated. The authentication server used the last digit of both counters to figure out what values to use, and as you say, generated codes in both time directions in order to try and identify the values of the counters (well, the click counter obviously didn't go both directions).

The server then stored the last matching click counter value and the drift of the clock value. It wasn't uncommon to have tokens that drifted by multiple minutes per month.

This being said, you're right: the clock only incremented every 28 or 32 seconds, not 2.5 seconds as I incorrectly remembered.
They also back transparent filesystem compression
> here (UK)

I think it's mostly just an issue in the US/North America
I understand this point of view; it's a reasonable action to stop going in this direction if some valid concerns are still unanswered by the industry. At the same time, I suspect that a good part of the people who complain about LLM hallucinating underestimate the human rate of hallucinations/errors.

Of course, there are a lot of other considerations linked to topics like accountability, etc.. but take autonomous driving as an example: we don't need self-driving cars to be perfect and do exactly 0 incidents to be a better solution than human driving.
They just need to be significantly better than us to be a very useful technology for mankind and let's hope this happens soon.
You might want to check out how other people are announcing their projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

In particular, having a link where people can try it out is very important.
Turns out its seats that actually matter for who is in government.
Gosh. "Clown Devices" :)

PS. Actually, it might be a good word for "self hosted cloud" setups, where you "[c]loud [own] (as in, 'ownership')" your data and infra is under user control ...