skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, was just about to post that this design ended up having issues with chafing between the sdcard read and the sdcard and that the new design (for the reader part at least) addressed this. I love the new version and have been contemplating making one myself. Very nice videos and description, so thank you for sharing your projects
Now I wonder how much inflation would be necessary to make "mining" europium from low denomination Euro banknotes profitable. There's places were "mining" copper from street poles is already profitable, and wire theft is a huge problem.
If you've got plenty of time for the build, you can. Make a two-stage build where the first stage installs Python and pytorch, and the second stage does ten COPYs which each grab 1/10th of the files from the first stage. Now you've got ten evenly sized layers. I've done this for very large images (lots of Python/R/ML crap) and it takes significant extra time during the build but speeds up pulls because layers can be pulled in parallel.
Someone has indeed solved this problem before! Your comment reminded me that a project triangulating a cat via BLE was posted to HN a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26024049
https://github.com/filipsPL/cat-localizer
same.

for a while i feel like chrome developer console had the ability to pause (and step thru) js.

i don't see that button anymore... am i crazy? did that ever exist?
Yeah, exactly, it isn't reasoning or creating in the way that humans reason, it's calculating that statistically speaking, when a human says what you said here's roughly what often comes next.

It's like debating your political other. You can often predict what they will say not because you understand their reasoning, but simply because you've seen multiple times how they react to a given argument in the past.
Nationwide is dropping pet insurance coverage for 100k animals
I would assume that engineers, at least in the US, are far more concerned about getting fired/eased out than prosecuted if they do stupid things given that companies can do so pretty easily.
The reason one cannot push the ramjet any higher is the air, slowed to subsonic speed, is simply too hot. If it's sufficiently hot the materials of the engine cannot withstand it, and even combustion stops being effective (because the temperature drives reactions in reverse, preventing heat production.)
I honestly believe it so but at a gradual pace and not in entirety. Think about 10 years back when we laughed at the potential of AI but now we are living in the middle of those potential transforming into reality and action. We have lot of well wishers very optimistic and on the another spectrum just predicting collapse. The jobs will slowly disappear at the least white collar jobs but blue collars will stay for some time to come longer than white collar. As the transformation unfolds Government will do some kind of protectionism if UBI is not possible. Potentially jobs could stay because of government protectionism not because of technological in capacity. But this government protectionism cannot hold for long because corporates will find a way to force the government for UBI. UBI is nothing full blown welfare, if UBI is not in the picture who is going to buy the products if people has no money. If the production is at a staggering level we need consumers to consume and if consumers has no money the whole purpose of AI benefitting the humanity is just a lip service. I think the technology will continue to grow at a staggering pace but how it will transform the society will be a wait and watch game. Global warming is already threatening the human survival so that is another challenging issue. if AI can actually help to reduce global warming by finding a solution or taking up the jobs and create less carbon print and helps in UBI for all then this will be like true heaven on earth.
>If the treatment successfully turns off production of endogenous prion protein, then there won’t be any there to convert, and the disease (theoretically) won’t progress

Yeah that's true, but given how ubiquitous PRNP is in mammals, this could also produce some form of memory, cognitive, or other deficit.
> Of course in those cases where they did end up having bad luck (be it health or otherwise) their employers did not in fact have their back, at least not longer than possible without harming profitability.

If you think unions or taxes will “have your back” in any real sense if you fall seriously ill you will be sorely disappointed.

> Granted, most of the people I talked to were in Central and Eastern Europe.

Could have something to do with these countries having experienced full blown communism not too long ago.
The fine was in industry speak because it was only for industry. This is a chronic problem where commoners read stuff they don't actually understand, but think they do, and then completely freak out about it.
> Do you mean software that can modify audio streams via the Windows audio system

I think so. TBH I'm quite new to the world of DSPs so I don't know the right terminology. The purpose of the DSP (which I should've mentioned in my original post now that I think of it) is to tweak the speakers on my laptop - there are for example ways to "fake" bass (through missing harmonics), or have dynamically changing bass. I'll have a look at VirtualAudioStream, thanks for the recommendation.
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Want to tell us a bit about why you made it, how you made it, what obstacles you had to overcome, etc.?
This is the reason I use mutt to keep my inbox organized. It's a bit spartan for an all-around email client, but when it comes to archiving and deleting mail, it's so much faster than any graphical client I've used. 50+ emails at a time on the screen and nothing else, just hitting a key to tag them and then committing the delete is great.

I get a LOT of mail. The information density in mutt allows me to accomplish a feat of organization that felt impossible for years in Thunderbird.
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> the only purpose of a business is - given money - to make more money.

That's overstating it. Making money is certainly a very important purpose in business, but it's not usually the only purpose.
I see this gripe throughout but the streaming subscription service is more like HBO in the old cable days. They had a licensed set of content that rotates every month. You don’t get to own any of it because their whole illusion of catalog depth is based on the rotation semantic. This is less about streaming and more about royalties and licensing.

Although still imperfect as an ownership mechanism the analogy to DVDs is purchasing the content from say Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV. You can “own” a much broader catalog, the ownership rights aren’t super clear or stable over time, but the DVD / streaming video is licensed to you permanently and sits in your library.

Using contemporaneous language Netflix is to HBO as Amazon Prime Video ownership is to a DVD.
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so there are regions and societies where the former of those use cases is massively more common than the latter, and then there are also...
waiting to see it posted on HN!
What Linux solves through configuration, Windows solves by having everything you buy come with its own model-specific drivers that burn the needed configuration into the .INI + .DLL.

Windows "not liking your video card" is presumably because you either aren't using the right driver, or because Windows doesn't like your driver — i.e. the monitor is old enough that there's no version of that driver for current Windows.
In a perfect world, studies should not only be required to include the code, any of the following should also be a reason to reject a publication:

* The code can't be run outside the original researcher's undocumented special snowflake system

* A fellow scientist who understands the domain can't understand what the code is doing and so is unable to verify that it isn't making any mistakes

* It'd be really nice if there were some sort of test cases that could verify that the code in question produced results in line with what the scope of the paper in question considers to be established science in that domain before it was applied to the experimental data - probably not always possible, but it'd be good to at least try

Yeah I know this doesn't touch the dozens of other reasons the whole institution is in trouble, and for those reasons usually nobody who has the skill and time to properly review the code actually reviews it carefully. For that matter, most scientists aren't very good at writing code that's easy to understand and will run everywhere. Just one more set of things that ought to go on the list of things that really should be changed.
Agreed... I use deno a lot for my ~/bin directory scripts, being able to rely on direct references and just run stuff, without the npm install step is just handy in practice. That node_modules doesn't work the same as well. There are things that are somewhat annoying in practice, but shell scripting with Deno has been beyond nice to say the least.
It all depends on the country you live in and if you have a legal contract. In UK for example you can use a debt collection agency. Those guys will probably give you 50% of the amount and then it's their problem.
The SR-72 is thought to be a real hypersonic from Lockheed flying since 2017. Extended reportage here:

https://youtu.be/QlMX6TYdU7I
You still can. I did it just now with this text field form. Hit pause, and then the next event (focusing the text field) caused it to break.
> a proprietary spec

PDF is open since 1993, if that's the spec you mean
Nix and direnv is such an insanely good combo. I use them together, typically via devenv, the latter sometimes as a library on top of a plain flake.nix, other times with the full devenv CLI and experiene— I love both for different use cases. Really pleasant.
Ha, I think this site is styled by a single-sheet CSS called Tufte.css
My SS card has that text. I got into an argument at the DMV when they asked for it. I relented because I needed my drivers license.

Congress could solve this by enacting a simple law. Something to the effect of SSNs shall not be used as a means of identification by any party, governmental or otherwise other than the Social Security Administration. Use of an SSN as identification shall be subject to a $100 fine per each SSN used as identification, per day.
I am almost certainly presenting a stronger argument than I intend here. My assertion is that it is somewhat fashionable to wear a watch, and there is surprisingly little utility in it. Adding any utility is enough to get many to make the jump. (Note that this is very different than me only claiming the Apple Watch is a fashion item. Largely, my claim is ALL watches are fashion oriented.)

Do I think this is the only reason at all? Probably not. I will agree that there are certainly many people that do get it for the utility alone. Happy to see numbers going over any of this, of course. Mostly all I have to go on are anecdotes regarding Apple watches.
I met plenty of Americans in both Iran and North Korea. American tourists often receive extra interest and admiration from the locals, who express a genuine warmth and fascination towards them.
Perhaps your users don't have the same abilities with ssh?
The reason why xpra switched to paramiko as default ssh implementation is because it makes it possible to integrate (cross platform too) with the GUI so that asking for passphrases or passwords can be handled by the xpra process itself (it may already have the password or it may delegate to pinentry or gpg agent or putty agent or whatever).
This also means that ssh errors can be handled much more gracefully - natively in the code.
With openssh launched as a subprocess, the user interface is non-existent, and when the ssh process fails, all the xpra process sees is a dead process with a non-zero exit code - which is much more difficult to handle gracefully.
Tables are scan-able. The description list isn't. Use both. The table for the fixed size information and the list for the details that wouldn't fit.
Unironically, yes.

You don't have the kind of security in your home that you are asking for in your computer.
> The security component of communications isn’t built by them

Are you claiming AT&T outsourced security and have contracts to back that up? Buying security equipment surely doesn’t amount to having security, that would be hilariously naïve. Equipment manufactures are not responsible for AT&T’s data security, AT&T is. There are laws around security that can hold AT&T liable, in the US and Europe and elsewhere. Whether they will hold the company liable is another question, but these laws will not accept an excuse that AT&T purchased security equipment from another company.
Presumably, because river crossing challenges are an important benchmark in satisfying AI hype, it's been aggressively trained to output solutions to them and now overfits their three-object/eight-crossing structure onto prompts that approximate the river cross prompt.

Parlor tricks are lurking everywhere, and especially in ChatGPT, because of it's high profile and high stakes.
So annoying that it had to get to that. I hate people who do this, scum of the earth.

Glad you got your money back
Nothing to see here.

You can’t disprove a common practice just by giving a singular example and then say one is clearly better the another.

Most the time, tables are a perfect and reasonable use of wide monitors. The problem starts once start adding columns mindlessly.
Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing?
In principle you would expect reasoning to eventually emerge. During training LLMs predict large volumes of text, and that text contains a lot of arguments and chains of thought. You can achieve some success predicting these with pattern matching, but the best way to complete arguments at scale is a reasoning process.

But I think we are only scratching the surface of achieving this. Based on my admittedly casual observation of current model capabilities you need a model that's fairly big (closer to 70B than 7B) and trained far beyond what's implied by the Chinchilla metric.
It's a little more complicated then that. The main impetus for the development of the Concorde was actually fuel efficiency - once you get high enough above the sound barrier supersonic flight is more fuel efficient than subsonic flight, all else being equal. Back in the 50s, as fuel costs became more and more of a concern for airlines, this seemed like the obvious future: you get your passengers to their destinations faster, you spend less on fuel, and you can make more flights per day. So Super Sonic Transports (SSTs) looked great on paper. SSTs need to use turbojet engines, which all passenger jets in the 50s were using anyways.

But shortly after Concorde's design was locked in high bypass turbofan engines were developed whose fuel efficiency was way higher than turbojets, and indeed much higher than the jump to supersonic flight could achieve. Now it was a choice between speed and fuel efficiency. This really could have gone either way, but when Boeing got out of the SST game they lobbied for overland supersonic flight to be restricted because of sonic booms, which eliminated the potential domestic market. Concorde was reduced from the future of air travel to an offshoot for a niche market.

Still it was profitable. People were willing to pay a premium for faster travel, it just wasn't a big enough success to warrant further development. The aircraft aged, unable to take advantage of many of the improvements that came to subsonic jets, and there was no replacement in sight. The Concorde was increasingly expensive to operate compared to more modern aircraft, not because of fuel but because of maintenance and staffing. Between a high profile Concorde crash in 2000, then the reduction in aircraft travel after 9/11, and the security increases which essentially tacked on 2 hours to every trip by air, the Concorde ceased to be viable.
We can go full postmodern - what gives anyone a right to anything in the first place anyway? In the end, isn't it whoever has the most capacity for violence who has the "right"?
I imagine in that same timeline, none of the issues have actually been solved but there are a lot more homeless people with missing fingers.
how do you own and service mailchimp, quickbooks, creditkarma, and turbotax, all built and maintained by underperformers?

now they have Intuit Assist an AI powered financial software.

at this rate they are probably underperforming for good reason.
Everyone is talking about the legal approaches, or fine print of contracts, and so on.

But if you want the real answer, like what actually works, then try to shame them in public or to people they care about.

Like if the CEO posts on LinkedIn, post underneath saying "How do you reconcile this with not paying your freelancers?"

Send an email with every single person at the company you have an email address for, ideally including the top people, copied, and ask them the same question, while asking if this is a common problem at the company, like are you guys all getting your paychecks on time, or is this just something you do with freelancers.

If your client has case studies or a list of their client's logos on their website take a guess at who their contact would be at that client and reach out to them via email, copying your contact at the offending company as well, asking them if they've had any issues with financial misconduct at the offending company during their engagement with them, because you have.

Clearly there are pros and cons to this approach, and your own reputation to think about, as well as fully burning the relationship and so on.

But assuming you're OK with all that, this tactic, unlike the others suggested, is completely free and exremely fucking effective.
Python has perhaps the least tolerant culture toward monkeypatching of languages that are capable of it. Outside a couple well-known common cases (gevent, I think?) it’s widely frowned upon.
Preach! I'm using a computer, not a phone. I want to take advantage of the extra real estate and input precision.
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I think the knowledge that another person took the trouble to do something for you is in fact part of the product.

It's an interesting thesis but I don't for a second believe Starbucks sells billions of coffees because people want the barista experience. Starbucks would absolutely automate their business with fancy machines if they could. The problem is that the drinks are so complicated and customizable that no one has built a machine capable of making them all.

Plus there are plenty of people who order Starbucks drinks through an app and never actually meet the barista who made them. If those drinks were made at some fully automated commissary and delivered by drone they'd be just as happy.

The very knowledge that another person was involved is important. You are receiving communication from this person.

That's important for some people, and some games, but not for everyone. I play roguelikes mainly for the challenge. The procedurally generators in these games can create bizarre and very challenging situations no human could ever come up with.

If there's no person on the other end, why should we care?

Because it's a puzzle for your mind to figure out. It's why people play solitaire games (with a deck of cards), random sudokus, tetris, etc.
I don't know if not everyone knows about this, but Amazon and YouTube offer $3 movie rentals and seem to have a really extensive catalogue, as in I've never failed to find a movie there that would have been available in the old DVD Netflix with its huge selection. I guess they managed to get the rights from all the big IP companies, much as Spotify and Apple before them did for music.

It's honestly the best way to watch things today, and probably the best way to watch things in all history (although Netflix DVD was cheaper if you watched more than 3 movies a month). It's cheaper than video rental stores used to be and no more expensive than RedBox, but you don't have to go anywhere.

That's why RedBox is dead. Of course RedBox wasn't killed by Netflix -- Netflix doesn't compete with them at all. It's Amazon/YT Payperview that killed them, I assume.

Yeah, streaming sucks, but a la carte pay per view is amazing and underrated. And I emphasize again, it's cheap -- it only seems expensive compared to streaming, but it's cheaper than rentals used to be in video stores, which IIRC also cost $3, but that was 25 years of inflation ago.
This is more or less what we do but recently the Jellyfin iPad client has become very flaky. My suspicion is the JS app's memory usage has grown to a point where it's causing the web view embedded in the app to run out of memory in which case getting newer client hardware should fix it.
> AIX isn't exactly a desktop OS.

If so, only artificially; AIX was born on a workstation and seems to still support running a graphical desktop environment.
"huuuuge barrier to entry for new users"

1. go to https://web.libera.chat/

2. click Start (as a Guest account)
638GB? what makes it so big?
Its not like old dos games were huge,
only very late and those on CDs.
Nice article!

Incidentally, value speculation (or prediction) is a way to break causality in concurrent memory models.
Why this isn't your grandma's CenterPoint
Yes, one notices there's been lots of shooting and bombing going on. The question is whether the current Israeli government rationally believes it will improve its overall security position in conducting the operation in the way it is doing (the usual intended outcome of a "war"). Or whether it has other goals in mind. As its numerous (quite nauseating) statements about the long-term fate it in has in mind for both the territory in question and the "animals" who inhabit it consistently indicate:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-0...

It has long since abandoned any pretense of freeing the hostages as a primary goal, in any case.
Because that’s what a data warehouse is? You’d think they’d guard them more, though.
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I will give it a try, I have tried several social media management tools and they are all bad or expensive, to the point I do it manually now, but I will check this out.