skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google search sucks now anyway. It’s been getting progressively worse in the past few years since they have decided that selling ads is more important than relevant search results, and don’t even get me started on the AI dribble they’ve been pushing. If they can’t keep up in a fair market then they deserve to fail just like everyone else.
I am the author of the blog (chemisting.com), working on the project with Kirk and Josh.

The Coulomb efficiency of a device with a microporous, non-selective membrane depends fundamentally on how fast you charge/discharge it, as the device self-discharges while it runs. The faster you charge/discharge, the higher the CE will be.

In the case of the photopaper device, it will be in the 85-90% range when charging to high SOC values at 20mA/cm2. The big advantage is that microporous membranes are really cheap and they still work even if dendrites pierce them. I must me clear that photopaper is meant as a DIY demonstration, a commercial unit would never use that but a polyethylene microporous separator - such as Daramic - with these memrbanes the CE and EE tend to be higher.
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AIUI, this sort of system is likely to end up a lot like TLS negotiation and asymmetric crypto in general. Even if it never has very much bandwidth, the ability to share secrets on a channel that is not just declared secure by engineers, but declared secure by physics has some advantages. Asymmetric crypto is generally atrociously slow too, but incredible useful because we can use it to bootstrap symmetric crypto which is very fast.

Of course, if it does upgrade to the point that it can move gigabits per second, they'll use it for that. I don't know of a particular reason why this would be fundamentally impossible. I'm just saying that's not a necessary condition for the technology to be useful.
Hollywood union strikes deal for advertisers to replicate actors' voices with AI
And it is an optional thing you don't need to have or use, but some people like graphical logos or even animated logos so there you go...
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I think this article means well but the advice is dated and times are changing.
Sure nobody is going to kick down your door or send you a fine if your little business is doing 1K or revenue per year but if you start making 100K or 1M then things are going to be different.

Secondly, yes many companies haven't paid their sales taxes for years and nothing bad has happened to them but the governments around the world are not stupid. They can see that they are only getting a small % of what they should be getting so I am expecting that things are going to change pretty rapidly.

Why? Simple, most governments today are broke. Living on debt and saddling future generations with more and more debt each year. Do we really think that they are just going to sit back and relax and watch companies around the world not pay their fair share?

And by companies around the world, I don't mean Apple or Google, I am talking about the small companies, the Shopify stores, the little SaaS just starting out. Apple and Google can fight and delay and financial engineer their way out of this but the small mom and pop shops won't be.

Case and point Stripe just bought Lemon Squeezy. If the MOR model was not needed, if paying sales tax was optional as it was pointed out in this article, why would Stripe bother purchasing this company?

My take is that the days of being a cowboy selling stuff on the internet while "forgetting" to collect the sales tax that is owed are over or will be over soon.

Governments can see that internet companies are making a lot of cash and they want what is owed to them. Should they make it simpler to collect and remit the taxes? Absolutely. But lets call a spade a spade. If you are supposed to collect the sales tax and pay it, and you don't do it, then you are cheating, plain and simple.

We are always rightfully asking governments to tax the companies that offshore their profits like the FAANG companies do, so why should we encourage people to cheat then? Isn't that hypocritical?
TIL about the term "AuDHD." I have both, but the term itself seems kinda strange. I get that it's common, though is there a need for that term or rather a convenience/"pop" term?
I agree, but I think it's important to note that the date in the URL can also be misleading. For example, it's often assigned at time of creation. If that page or post gets updated years later, even if almost entirely rewritten, it still has the original date in the URL
Those shouldn't be included, of course. If the server has them too tied up to be decoupled, then I guess someone needs to unscramble the spaghetti before serving it
That's what fallback bootloader path is for, though...
You're probably right, I'm just saying that if you want to design a RNG that doesn't look extremely suspicious, you do it in such as way that there is no way to have a private key to start with. For example with a hash function somewhere in the loop, since these are (presumably) one-way.
Goofy looking OpenDyslexic font vastly improves reading
Personal experience. Last year I switched my Kindle font to 'OpenDyslexic' and after a day or two reading became overall more enjoyable. Less eye strain. Longer reading sessions. I've doubled the amount of books I'd normally read in a year.

I was never diagnosed as dyslexic and have always enjoyed reading. It's one of the best life hacks I've found.

Has anyone else experienced this?

More about OpenDyslexic
https://opendyslexic.org/
Great point about the README needing more details on how to get the API key. I'll add this. Thanks!
They are a very useful identifier. However they only prove that someone with such a name exists. They are not enough to prove that the given person with that number is the unique person they say they are.
It's not explicitly mentioned, but they do implicitly say it here:

> We then apply the softmax function to convert the logits into a probability distribution that sums to one.

To go from a probability distribution to a single token, you need to sample it, ie pick a random element according to the probability distribution[1]. Elements with higher probability have a higher chance to get picked, but it's still random. This is also why the "temperature" parameter works the way it does.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_random_variate_gen...
Yes, this is actually a common way of getting out of debt. Often times the "proof" for a debt is lost in the tangled web of debt collection, and by the time someone comes around to collect, there's no tangible evidence the debt was valid.

It's a best practice to request proof of any outstanding debt before paying collections, and I've personally seen cases where friends have gotten out of a debt that went to collections simply by asking for proof, and when it wasn't provided, poof it went away.

I'm a sucker, and don't take advantage of this, but I don't blame anyone who does. Keep good records, and it won't be a problem!
I really like this - because technology is for everyone but can end up being harder to use because of design decisions. Thanks for sharing this.
I am the author of the blog. The Zn/I chemistry actually generates very little H2, so that's not a problem in our current configuration.
It is quite common to see people in Rust circles mentioning Rust being innovative for feature XYZ, that was initially in a ML variant, Ada, Eiffel, ....

I would say familarity, and lack of exposure to programming languages in general.
Your assumption that all that is needed does explain some things. Almost none of that is required and indeed, most of it would make things worse.

Running a webserver is as simple as "apt install nginx", forwarding ports 80/443 on your router and saving a index.html to the webroot directory. HTML and files in directories live forever. And there's no need for a domain, DNS, or especially an "application". Just drag and drop myphoto.jpg to ~/www/ in your GUI file manager and you're ready to send the link, http://my.ip.is.here/myphoto.jpg to friends. And it'll last forever with no security worries. nginx remote exploits are once a decade, if that. Sure you might have to re-link if your IP changes but that's not a problem. Sure you site will be inaccessible sometimes if your computer is off, but you're not sharing files to friends during that time so it's fine. The requirements of business use cases just don't apply. It's not "serious".
It's only fraud if there's evidence showing you took out the debt. :)
Simple. American society tends to value blond white girls more.

Notice you didn't question what the gender of the grandchild.
People are more sensitive to the pain of others when the victim is perceived as cute. See cute animals vs not so cute animals. We're instinctively wired to think that cute means innocent, helpless and deserving of help and protection. Obviously what is considered cute is subjective and culturally influenced to some extent.
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Again, you are ignoring the identity based systems they describe, that have been in place for centuries before either of them were born.

You know which ones I mean.
It’s hubris to think we can know anything about the reason for the existence of the universe. But just because we can’t know doesn’t mean there is no reason, that line of thinking is just hubris in the other direction.
> it is a kestrel requirement to do ssl termination

Couldn't you just pass it x-forwarded-proto like any other web server? or use a different self signed key between nginx and kestrel instead?
Tech is 30-40% of the S&P 500 so just investing in a index fund you would have exposure.
If I haven't paid for a license or even if I have, I don't have permissions to reproduce or use the code. So let's say I'm making a game like Mario paint, and in my game I'm doing some image manipulation.

If I've looked at your proprietary code, you could argue I stole your ip to make my game. That the functions I wrote in my game are fundamentally similar to those you wrote, and therefore I need to stop selling.

Most studios have pretty strong "don't look at code you can't own" processes for this reason.
As an aside, I'm a big fan of this site's imitation of neoplasticism as a form of web design
If you care enough to run a personal Vaultwarden, you should care enough to back it up too. If you don't want to back it up, you probably shouldn't run it locally and just use the service.

Exactly right. I have a script that briefly stops my Vaultwarden container and creates a .tgz of the contents of the data volume before restarting the container. The .tgz file gets copied off-site so I always have an accessible backup should my main host disappear.
> When Congress Critter's little blond granddaughter gets pwned (someone takes her identity), maybe Congress will get real serious

LOL. Congressman Danny Davis' grandson was murdered by someone who wanted his shoes and Congress didn't even care enough to yawn.
The 9950X seems more exciting than the last week's 9700X/9600X. It is comfortably ahead of the previous gen (including X3D) in code compilation and video/image processing, which I care about more than performance in games, and it's also in a class of its own in workloads heavy on AVX-512, though they might be a bit niche.

I think the TDP on the 9700X and 9600X may have been set a bit too low (in fact, there are indications it will be raised in a future BIOS update [1]), which led to a relatively cool reception from reviewers focused on raw performance. When looking at performance-per-watt in Phoronix tests, 9700X and 9600X often fare better than the bigger chips with higher TDP, but for desktops I guess efficiency is just not that big of a concern.

[1] https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-set-to-boost-tdp-for-ryzen-5...
The agency behind it called it "mood lighting" https://www.instagram.com/p/C-dd-pEy2qu/
Bernstein's argument is that, even if the NIST curves are not backdoored mathematically, they're designed in a way to strongly coerce implementors towards a route which leaves side-channels open, such as non-constant-time implementations or sloppy handling of invalid data such as points that do not lie on the curve, or in a small-order subgroup (all of which has been seen in practice).
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Hi, I built a tool to scratch a personal itch and also to play with Vercel AI SDK.

Airstrip is a platform that allows you to manage AI integrations with different providers and to build internal AI chat apps. By AI integrations, I mean api keys with LLM providers, e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. You can add these integrations at the org level or optionally restrict to a team. Admins can create internal AI apps (like GPTs but internally) by prompting. It's quite simple - as of now, you need to put all the data that the app needs in the text prompt when creating the app. Up next would be allowing users to upload files for the AI's context.

Also happy to add other types of data sources based on feedback :)
I'm not sure this is true anymore. There are recent improvements in quantum factoring algorithms, which significantly reduce the number of qubits required. See eg https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/222
My DL number is predictable if you know my name and birthdate and when I got my drivers license. :D
The streets of GTA3 looked too clean so I added litter
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Damn, you got there before me!
Posted because of the Tim Peters controversy? We can cut that one short: The narcissists and dark triad personalities are in the Steering Council.
This is basically a restating of how high-level rich people deals work; the contracts might exist, but it's really all down to trust and a handshake. If you do screwy things, you may find nobody willing to deal with you at all, contracts or no.
Passkeys are fantastic!

I recently had to use somebody else's computer to access my Google Mail account.

I was able to login securely, without typing my password into the untrusted computer, by selecting "Try another way", then "Use your passkey". I scanned the QR code with my phone's Camera app, I tapped "Use passkey", my phone used Face ID to verify it was me, and then attested to Google that it was me logging in via an automatically-established Bluetooth connection between my phone and the browser.

It was GREAT, and way better than typing in my password (no worry about keyloggers) and having to do a 2FA dance.
If you have a manager overseeing 4 people, and a higher level manager overseeing 4 managers, it takes 10 levels of management to oversea 500k people. That is not particularly daunting.
What state has drivers license numbers the same as your social security number?
Asesprite plugin that, for instance, manages all my animation objects
I don’t believe in efficient markets. I’m saying that there’s a lot of people sending their money to the SP500 on autopilot. The value-add of investors are

a) provide capital

b) re-allocate capital from less efficient to more efficient co’s.

The autopilot style of investing is good as far as it goes, but it risks inflating the SP500 far beyond what is logical, while starving smaller but still great companies of capital.
To be fair, that's pretty much the intended usage. The SSN is supposed to enable them to figure out exactly which John Smith they're looking at.

It's a serial number, not a shared secret. It sounds like your college treated it as such.

The real problem with SSN is the prevalence of unintended usage.
It was a backpack with my work laptop and so on. Thin.
these are 12 month numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome
> I doubt a significant portion of this niche is “being kept unaware” that Patreon has a website.

If this was true then Apple wouldn't have provisions against informing them.

People keep on saying that this is some informed choice. It's not. If it was an informed choice, Apple would not have a policy against informing them.

> A better question to ask is how satisfied are Apple’s users compared to users of other competing products, and what can that be attributed to?

We don't know how satisfied they are compared to others, because Apple has a policy against informing them about competing products.

This is an apple-to-oranges comparison. If your grocery store charges you $10 for a loaf of bread and the store down the street charges $5 and you don't realize that you could get the bread for $5, then you'd probably be satisfied with your purchase.

It doesn't mean you're not being exploited.
How about we punish the bad actors and their state-sponsors?
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Good question. One thing I know they are good for are 3D photos because they solve a fundamental issue with the current tech: IPD.

The current tech (Apple Vision Pro included) uses two photos: one per eye. If the photos were taken from a distance that matches the distance between your eyes, then the effect is convincing. Otherwise, it looks a bit off.

The other problem is that a big part of the 3D perception comes from parallax: how the image changes with head motions (even small motions).

Techniques that are not limited to two fixed images, but instead allow us to create new views for small motions, are great for much more impressive 3D photos.

With more input photos you get a “walkable photo”: a photo that you can take a few steps in, say if you are wearing a VR headset.

I’m sure 3D Gaussian splatting is good for other things too, given the excitement around them. Backgrounds in movies maybe?
We hope to go from these low cost kits to home kits, to commercial kits. Out technology will always be open source. We hear you and we want to get there. We definitely want to live good lives - and have those who work with us have good lives too - but we really don't care about being rich.

We are going to start a work coop soon to build and sell the educational kits, as soon as we finish with the initial development. We also have a Hardware X paper coming, showing the initial results of the DIY kit. Things are slowly coming together, but it takes a while since we're literally doing these experiments in our houses.
My dad etched his SSN on his tools back in the day. It was my student ID as well. Wasn't the SSN not considered secret until later when more transactions happened online instead of IRL where it was harder to impersonate someone?

The bad idea was to try to convert a semi-public number into a secret identifier.
I know it seems crazy but it’s a real thing. There’s been litigation related to it over social security numbers, even. I’ve known people IRL who are sure any ID improvements are a move toward the rise of the Antichrist, and these were otherwise “normal” Christian folks. It’s fairly widespread, as nutty concerns go.
The key with Ramsey is if you follow his debt rules, you'll .... be ok? Maybe not mathematically as great as you could be, but ok?

But if you follow Kiyosaki's rules, you could be in prison.
I want kids, probably 3, working on it
The data is definitely an issue, but they do make for fairly convenient alternatives to something like matterport where you need their cameras rented etc.

Though I think matterport will just start using them since the other half of their product is the user experience on the web.
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It blows me away that even with the investiture of 100% of your intelligence and effort, at the peak of your personal ability, that you couldn't realize that I only said "It blows me away" because I was mocking the comment I replied to.
Thanks, It's my spare time project, I am always trying to improve it and add new features.
There's a bunch of validation software at https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/verify.html
Needs to be short enough to fit in a social media bio.
It's not just you. On the plus side, it's successfully reducing my desire to spend time on the web!
There's the "If you have nothing to hide..." guy.
.htm and .html is relevant just like .pdf and .zip etc etc

But I agree about .php, .aspx and other extensions that are telling something about the server side. That’s irrelevant for the user.
Yeah, but stocks is high risk.
Artificial scarcity? Who sold you that crock of shit? The state of Vermont is 2,615,376 acres in size and that number isn't subject to increase. Short of living in a bunker with a stash of bullion and a couple tons of crated toilet paper you aren't likely to find an investment strat that doesn't rely on some form of governmental oversight.
Picture this: Teenage me, eyeing a self-help book my old man brought home. I was skeptical, sure, but still green enough to think, "Hey, it's a bestseller. Gotta be some good stuff in there, right?" Fast forward 20 years, and boy, have things changed.

These days, my BS detector goes haywire the second someone starts singing praises of self-help books. Finance gurus, spiritual know-it-alls (I'm looking at you, Eckhart Tolle), you name it. But the crown jewel of nonsense? "The Silva Mind Control Method." I'm still gobsmacked by how many folks bring it up as their life-changing bible, despite it being chock-full of pure insanity.

The good news? It seems like it's getting tougher for these wordsmiths to pull a fast one on people. Gone are the days when you could slap together a bunch of truisms, sprinkle in some tall tales, and watch the cash roll in.

But hey, it's not all doom and gloom. There are some self-help gems out there that actually deliver the goods. "Atomic Habits," "Thinking, Fast and Slow," and Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" spring to mind. These bad boys? They're the real deal.
And you would daily drive one of those?

You would be ok getting into an accident with one the same as you would get in an accident driving a civic?

Or maybe those are just learning vehicles meant to teach, and not meant to be car replacements? Just like this flow battery project?

Ironically your post validates my whole point: This is a student project at best, and likely worthless as a "democratization of energy storage". The same way those EV's would never be considered "democratization of EV cars".

C'mon...
Oh, come on. The whole thrust of this kind of pricing is to create higher prices for that segment of the buyers in a market that will pay it. For the most part, a mass market without information about segments of the buyers will only bear some "average" price. The extra information monopolies have about their consumers let's those monopolies create a few higher price points. This isn't about helping consumers.
I remember how back in the day this particular feature had somewhat impressed me in this game.
Maybe that occurred since the post specified “granddaughter“?
How? Sanctions? War? What do you suggest?