skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI all modern hard drives have multi-core ARM or Risc-V microprocessors built-in. Usually one core manages the motor control and signal decode from the RW head and another core runs an embedded OS and manages the data interface to the host computer. Folks have managed to get malware running on the hard drive's embedded CPU(s)[0] as well as full blown Linux distributions [1]. So your average hard drive definitely already has enough grunt to get the job done. Just needs a firmware written to expose the functionality.

0: https://hackaday.com/2015/06/08/hard-drive-rootkit-is-fright...

1: https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack
Sorry, unable to believe: 2-4% failure rate for CPU's?

That's for detected/known failures: what about random, unable-to-reproduce, hardly noticed the data skip failures?

Have I been living in a fantasy bubble where CPU's do exactly what you asked of them (and errors come from not holding it right)?
For luxury apartments that might be true.
Maybe because they are launching their own product after presumably a lot of work, undertaking a reasonably huge risk, and possibly the first one?
Italian here. I agree that anything coming from NL is complete garbage.
Vouching is onerous in some ways, but on the plus side it can be done anonymously so the vouching company doesn't know which sites you're visiting.

Examples being privacy pass and private access tokens, though I haven't seen much mention of them recently.
Please please please do not use the term "new MIT license"; it's extremely misleading. (Just like the extremely misleading Commons Clause was.) Also you should talk to the Fair Source people who have been working on this problem for years. https://fair.io/
I believe that the main function of guilds was as proto trade unions: to protect those with a craft.

The differentiation of craft and art originated in Italy. It was they who developed the academies as a panic response to a perceived lack of Italian geniuses (this was following the death of Michelangelo). Following that France developed their own academies as a means to develop a national style separate to Italy.
This looks incredibly promising.

Having only subway options (and not all of them) in the cities I've been traveling is was a good start, but just adding buses would be a tremendous increase in quality of life... no more going through all the buggy and slow local transit websites.

(Why do local transit authorities think it makes sense to front-load several MB of media files on the homepage of their route-finding website, and load the "itinerary" component last? This is beyond me)
Hm, once again this lacks numbers on variation within a generation. How much applies to K vs non-K processors? How much between i3, i5, i7, and i9? Does it affect low-end 13th-generation-branded Alder Lake?
That's what yahoo was doing until it's board decided to "focus" their efforts. If I recall correctly they had an investment in something that they sold way too early and would have made a killing.
The Olympics are a great many admirable things… but they’re also fundamentally a capitalist money making exercise with corporate sponsors, ad breaks, yadda yadda. It’s inevitable that it will end up being a reflection of western values at large.
> I think this might be the first step to making neural networks that actually mimic biological brains.

I don't think that's actually a good goal. I suspect the whole term 'neural network' is just misleading and leads to these kinds of misconceptions.

'Neural networks' are mostly just matrix multiplications interleaved with some simple non-linear functions like \x -> max(0, x). Nothing biological about that.
Show HN:Playing Checkers with Local LLMs
Yes...

They built it that way. Their goal is to earn money and sell ads, not to make their products better.
hm - do random end times solve that particular issue?
Appreciate it!

> there is an opportunity to “extend” this.

Ofc there is, and im already up to it.
So apparently my username is screaming 'Algerian' lol, It's so good to see a Tunisian here (or HN).
Also see the Nazi Olympics in Berlin, 1936.
I am interested in seeing something like the original MySpace. I'm not very active on it, but there is subreply.com (formerly sublevel) that made the HN frontpage a couple of times in the past.
Spending an extra 2.5 hours at work doesn't hurt you?
For the historical record, the Usenix Security paper PDF comment currently has 28 upvotes.

There is also your non-reproducible report that the PDF was incorrectly loaded as an Apple Wallet pass, which would require a web server MIME type of:

application/vnd.apple.pkpass
This made me chuckle. Some IPv6 zealots are mad!
We'll probably find out soon-ish, they dropped the name in their last investors report and said it's coming in the second half of the year. It's going to be the RP235x, which going by the naming scheme they established would be two Cortex-M3 cores with around 512k of SRAM and "X" onboard flash, whatever that means, as opposed to "0" flash (none) on the RP2040. Maybe multiple SKUs with different amounts of onboard flash this time?
You can ignore all the human rights you want if you're a friend of the USA.

Bring on the downvotes.
I don't know, to me the change in the phase of the project is the news, not just the fact that it exists...
It’s not dead yet?
It's good for some people to keep looking for more inspiration. Not just from brains, but also from all other aspects of the world.

Eg dropout was (allegedly) inspired by our doubled up chromosomes and evolutionary selection.
Why do local governments allow this? People have been so brainwashed into believing that they are powerless in the face if money.
It's one of those things where if someone does the work, they're allowed to show off how they like.

Next time you do an interesting display mod or port, you can choose whatever video you like.
Amazon and its shareholders do own a lot of commercial real estate...
::1 is you entering then leaving the terminal immediately.
It almost certainly would completely break thousands of functions that have those magic letters hard coded into them in fortran, cobol, C or whatever. You might even find that clever people back in the 70s used other ways of representing those letters so you can't even search for them.

I've worked on codebases like this -- I've seen it take a team of engineers years to add a single digit to an ID number in a multi-million LOC mixed language codebase that was written in the 60s.

It's not that it can't be done, it's that it costs millions of dollars and takes years and you're never sure it's actually done because nobody has ever written a single test for the system and if you tried that would take years as well.
> The computer systems airlines use are built on top of systems that are built on top of systems that date back sixty years.

It means it’s the time to upgrade the system.
Clang, as a non-standard feature, allows you to put a type-id into `_Generic` rather than an expression.
One thing to look for are local farms that have subscription services. Some give you a box of seasonal veggies each month, which will be very fresh.
Script.aculo.us – Web 2.0 JavaScript
I wonder what the risk of getting your google account banned by using tools like this is?
Not sure I follow, but how is this more convenient than pressing the UI buttons? Genuinely curious.
I am wondering if anyone used https://elekscava.com/ device for similar purpose?
Do I read the graph correctly that 14th gen had a ~10% per month failure rate each each month of May–July 2024 for a cumulative failure rate of almost 30% even with much more conservative than industry average power settings/clocking?

Have I misunderstood the graph or is it actually that awful?
I'm sure every other country on earth will approve of that. This needs to come from IATA, not the FAA.
> Could there be a similar case for bringing back a low-fi social media not ruined by algorithms, either MySpace or something like it?

Everybody that keeps reinventing Facebook/Twitter (Post.news, BeReal, BlueSky, etc) does so with dollar signs in their eyes. There are FOSS options for messageboards and IM services but people gravitate to the least-friction options, which lead to spam and flame wars because there's no cost to do so.
When landowners died of plague it was often the laborers that inherited the land.
Can you plug an EV into a wall outlet? I imagine it will charge extremely slowly, but isn't there a way to do that?
I don't think you understand which markets Apple targets with their $1.5k phones.

If they were marketing it for the masses it'd be vastly different. Obviously they're marketing it for Western nations.
The shooting competition got split into gendered competitions after the first woman won in 1992; women were then banned from competing in the formerly mixed event until 2000 when a separate women’s event was organized. https://olympics.com/en/news/zhang-shan-the-only-female-shoo...
VLLM hosts local LLMs easily
> It's enough for the average voter to trust that some other people - independent experts - are able to verify the vote.

I don't agree. This is plausible within a coesive electorate, but it feels like moving the problem. What guarantees that the experts are trusted by the voters? And more importantly, assuming that at some point the system (experts) is trusted, how is the trust in the voting system retained over time? (e.g. in case of disagreement over the results)

I have argued in another thread like GP that because the ultimate purpose of voting systems is to collectively take decisions, and because disagreements are very common when deciding, the system needs to be able to justify itself to retain the electorate's trust. Otherwise it will eventually be replaced by a different voting system (or tyranny).

A proxy for this is of course simplicity. If the voting system is clearly understood by everyone, it is more easy to persuade a losing party that the outcome is correct. Conversely, if a voting system needs high expertise to be understood, it is more difficult to bring everyone to agree on the result. So the latter is less robust than the former, especially if the disagreement is over a result that is close to a tie. A self-correcting mechanism is important to keep the voting system in place.

In appendix B of your thesis you raise an interesting point I had not considered.

> As an extreme example, consider the case where a voting system
lacks verifiability, is trusted by the public, and is compromised by a
foreign superpower: the people have lost their democracy and do not
even realize it. Compare that to a hypothetical case where a voting
system has perfect verifiability, thus can not be compromised (without
triggering a new election etc.), and, for whatever reason, is not trusted
by the people.

> Clearly, the outcome where people are suspicious of a perfectly
functioning voting system is superior to the outcome where people
are blindly trusting a compromised voting system. We hope that this
outlandish example is enough to support our argument that verifiability
is more important than trust.

The external threat is a very valid point but I do not think that this is sufficient to absolutely conclude that verifiability is more important than trust. If the system is rigged, it may eventually displease the electorate to the point that it will eventually be replaced.

Unless, the rigged system doesn't displease the electorate and is essentially a hidden benevolent dictator, which would be an interesting situation. Only in that case verifiability could unambiguously be more important.
This article could maybe use something about Dell having a partnership with Rambus proliferating the world with those modules RD-RAM for a year or two. It was more than just a concept which never saw light. It was a spectacular failure.
Fairly sure you can run a vnc client on a remarkable 2. I've been on the fence about getting one for a few years and I'm not super up to date on them, but a quick search turned this up
https://github.com/matteodelabre/vnsee
This would be fine if the representation was accurate. It's not.

>White men won't admit that, because for them they're always represented.

No they aren't... what? People represented to the market before they represented for "moral dilemmas".

>And, lastly, if you LOOK you can see white people are still in almost every ad.

No, they aren't. That's the point of my comment. It's almost a meme that every company refuses to put a white straight male in advertised media.

>The world is truly made for us and our success.

You sound like you've taken a sip of the Koolaid. This entire comment is bizarre and wrong. I'm going to assume you also think cultural appropriation is an actual thing too?
I would never have guessed how much thermal expansion had to be compensated for in modern hard drives, I would have assumed they were built such that no degree of precision that required accomodating changes in physical parameters was attempted, and/or that materials science had found an ideal set of alloys for the case, the platters, the magnets, arms etc, that all behave in a predictable way under a given thermal map, so that addressing the surface was nearly always a deterministic process.

Have there been attempts to use active cooling/heating (i.e. thermal sensors combined with piezoelectric effect elements embedded in the housing) to maintain a precise, consistent reference internal operating temperature, as a means of eliminating the need to accomodate thermal-induced drift in tolerances?
> Do you know why it's under resourced?

Except for government getting ripped off by contractors, which extends far beyond the need for disability housing, the causes you give are minor issues. They're the issues that pop up on tabloid news sites and TV shows.

The largest cause for it being under-resourced is because of decades of government cuts and freezes on spending.

Properties are being damaged because the government is not funding repairs and maintenance.

You can report something minor (say a window leaking), and it'll sit in a queue for a year or two before it gets looked at. Meanwhile the tenant tries to do a patch job themselves, but that really only slows things down - and the leak is now developing into a mould issue in the cupboards/wall. So now the entire kitchen needs to be replaced and your $150 repair job is now a $15k kitchen renovation job.

This happens with other things like roof leaks, where the entire property is now a health hazard due to black mould everywhere, and the tenants having to be relocated.

Meanwhile, the department does not have funds to acquire/build new property - so every loss of a property due to poor maintenance is that much more impactful.

Combine that with our aging population and yeah - we're not even close to "It's the refugees with the massive family" being even close to a real cause.
Rick Bayless is my hero
Week numbers is achievable (probably allocate a 10px column on the left), but starting day of the week is more of a personal preference I think. Will leave it for the user to decide.
This is it. We westerners, and very especially Americans live an incredibly inflated lifestyle. Walmarts stuffed tonthe roof with useless shit, people mistaking luxuries with necessities and whinging like hell when they can't have their air conditioned 3500sqft house stocked with 3 refrigerators and 9 tvs.

We waste an absolutely disgusting amount of absolutely everything that we produce. No one values anything, and everything is replaceable.

It's sad but I feel like a really and very hard depression would likely be the absolute best thing for this planet and our species in the long term. We are so fat and so lazy and so entitled. It's hard to imagine getting to a more efficient future without a hard cultural reset.
This sounds cool and fun, but in my experience, AI-generated content is never 100% accurate, so you always have to double-check, modify and fix it, and those checks and changes take usually more time than doing everything from scratch.
> Starting with 10th Gen, we have only sold the top 2 SKUs (XX700K and XX900K) in volume, which gives us a nice clean set of data.
It is definitely resource intensive, but not as much as you would expect. Especially considering the fact that the route only gets calculated once and most modern phones are pretty fast, it won’t really drain your battery.
Oops. I meant that we were using the maps/places API to get lat/long of the restaurants using the street address from the other API providers, then using that to calculate a 'N mins walk away'.

We were just testing the abilities of the various APIs. Google was the only that provided travelling time estimates.
It used to be the standard knee-jerk reaction here on HN to comment on how requiring sign-up just to try was a big no-no.

I'm curious if you're actually seeing people sign-up and try it. From the comments below, it seems after 2 hours, none of the commenters have tried it.

Did you consider not having a sign-up? How are you planning to get over this hurdle? Is it a hurdle?
Context: just benchmarked it with across-the-US routes and it seems fine
Well given that it's an AI based product, it's not unreasonable to assume that they might have delved into using an LLM (see what I did there?) to help generate the launch announcement, and that's just the kind of overly effusive verb ChatGPT would lean towards using.
How can Reddit and Twitter turn openly hostile to users? They're just platforms for users to submit posts. I haven't seen a major change in Reddit since the UI overhaul in 2018. And even that I wouldn't call hostile. Just annoying. And it can be worked around.
I'm convinced that in 200 years time historians will know more about the daily life of an average person in the roman empire than they will someone around today. "The Internet never forgets" might have been true at one stage but is definitely no longer the case.
This is my favourite HN comment of the day: you’ve been told you can’t install Spotify or whatever on your work machine for security reasons so you’ve built a custom hardware keylogger to change the songs on your phone. Truly glorious.
Infosys Coded India's Tax Network. It Got a $4B Bill
Maintaining the road system on an inadequate budget is a lot harder than maintaining a fibre optic system, and yet municipalities do a passable job at that. They do a heck of a lot better at their jobs than cable companies do of maintaining their network.

That's a major point of my analogy -- having the road system being anything but a monopoly is stupid, yet the road system has largely destroyed the railway companies which are not a monopoly.
Thermal Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection Using Compression and Classification
Twitter wants you to believe few people left but they've lost as many as 30% of their users since 2022.
the number of layers it takes to get it to work on my phone is so high, but it's amazing.
>Charging a 100kW car in the 350kW bay is fine, but these owners should be given some reason to prefer a 100kW or 150kW charger if it's available. I like the idea of using someone being queued for the charger to trigger an infrastructure charge if you are underutilizing the charger, just like we already do if you are simply parked there and not charging.

...or just charge a premium for using the fast chargers. That way you're not you're not checking your phone every 5 minutes to see whether you're racking up additional charges and whether you need to move your car or not.
Force exerted on an underwater vehicle at the bottom of the Mariana trench [pdf]
“Supervised by select paediatric hospitals, eligible babies will be given gradually increasing doses of peanut powder each day for at least two years, to reduce sensitivity.”

Wouldn’t this effectively mean that some newborns would be inflamed for a prolonged period of time?
Related: “How to Make Fermented Hot Sauce” – https://www.seriouseats.com/fermented-hot-sauce-how-to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32486504)
Some of it was rescued by archivists and uploaded to the Internet Archive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19569865
The science isn't clear at all. The question "To what extent do you actually see an apple?" is completely unscientific. You can't simply ask people questions, that's not science.

It's also a question about qualia, which is notoriously a field of study resistant to science.
Trying to imagine that it does is quite fun, though.
As a software developer myself, if an "independent expert" comes out and says that some software system is fully verified, I might trust their allegiance, but I probably won't trust their competence.

I wouldn't expect the general population to trust them either.
except copying biology (neural networks) has worked better than other approaches tried so far (reasoning as search, symbolic and semantic nets, expert systems...) so stick with whats working and we have a working reference model to study and we can build optimized hardware to match if it keeps working better than other methods
Your posts are being flagged as dead. Ah, now I see your username.
4% seems very high to me; but CPU errors happen with relative frequency, and design mistakes are common.

If you ever run “cat /proc/cpuinfo” on, say, Skylake - Linux will happily tell you it has 5-6 workarounds active for hardware mistakes.

CPUs are still pretty darn reliable. Think about how many GHz your CPU runs at, multiplied many instructions per cycle there are, and then calculate the failure rate if there was just 1 mistake per minute. Nothing on earth would compare.
Well, perfection and peace aren't part of what remains, either.

And it does give some context to what he might mean by "perfection" and "peace".
I don’t have a strong opinion as to which org owns it, as long as it is a neutral non for profit party or other consortium arrangement. IATA did not immediately come to mind, so I appreciate the correction. Upvoted!
There's https://spacehey.com/ for that.
I love it. I too started programming with QBasic in the 90s. I spent many hours modifying (and breaking) the code for bananas.bas and nibbles.bas to give myself all kinds of superpowers.

I haven't touched QB in decades but I'm glad someone did and had fun working on it.
But that's precisely why those other platforms failed as they couldn't/didn't monetize anything.
Reddit killed 3rd party apps almost entierly.

> 2018. And even that I wouldn't call hostile. Just annoying. And it can be worked around.

How please?
>I believe in not just the rich being able to fast charge without issue.

What about the competing interest of making charging fast and convenient, which surely would drive EV adoption? Is slowing the energy transition a worthwhile cost in the pursuit of equity?
The making of Tap Tap Dance, part of the popular iPhone Tap Tap Revenge series
Ah Syncany. Good times <3
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