skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is what I mean by "doing weird stuff" on freeways the phantom breaking is pretty crazy, but it's quite manageable once you expect it/experienced it a few times. Usually like once a week/two-weeks on average usage.

The scarier one is in construction zones where the lanes have been moved. During dry it's pretty easy to tell apart, but combine night and wet, it starts doing weird stuff fast. I don't think Lidar would fix this problem.
Just brought Tactical Breach Wizards.

Ohh boy, as an offline Unity game that's Steam Deck Certified it should just run on my EndeavorOS install.

Gosh it doesn't!

Well, at least Linux works on my laptop. Just have to upgrade to Linux RC to stop constant crashing.

Normal people will never widely adopt Linux. I'm optimistic within a few months the kernel will be updated and Linux stable will work correctly, but I respect other people have different priorities.

I make music and need a giant SSD. Since I don't want to pay 3k for a 4TB MacBook, Windows it is. The software I use for music (Maschine) only supports Windows and OSX.

Dual boot is the way to go for most advanced users.

When I want to actually get stuff done, Linux is vastly superior. When I want to play games, or piano, it's Windows
I have a Quest 2. After 6 months the non-replaceable battery lost 70% of its capacity and the controllers developed unfixable drift. Never making the Meta mistake again.
> The remedy is to abandon author-paid OA publishing and seek less harmful alternatives.

That's just "No remedy is known" wearing a suit.
Playing Personal Space Invaders
I recently spoke to Professor Michael Graziano about the mechanics of personal space, thought y’all might find it interesting.
That works, to varying degrees, until the provider gets a letter from law enforcement. And unless you find some provider willing to take crypto, you are doxxing yourself when you pay.
you need a special app to scan these
Yeah idk, a lot is going to have to change with their offerings before I'd ever consider shopping there again. After first hand encounters with overheating issues with motor tools to weird shit like angle grinders with 2x the normal RPM and zero torque, abrasive disks that delaminate and fly all to hell under normal use, chain falls with chains so short the unit is functionally useless, leaky jacks, and incorrectly heat treated hand tools, I got tired of playing roulette.
I don't think Amazon management is aware of how bad their site as gotten.
Grey market pro keys are like $5 on ebay. I have zero qualms buying them when such a basic and critical form of security is absent from the base edition. It’s malpractice.
In the end this is relies allmost completely on proprietary AI as a service services, right? I think the exact services should be advertised as well to help understand the limitations of the device.

E.g. Can I use this device for any language or is it just English. Can it do translations?
Wolfram explains the basic concepts of neural networks rather well, I think. He trains and runs a perceptron at the beginning und then a simpler network. Then he dwells into replacing the continuous functions they constitute into discrete binary ones — and ends up with cellular automata he thinks emulate neural networks and their training process. While this surely looks interesting all „insight“ he obtains into the original question of how exactly networks do learn is trained networks do not seem to come up with a simple model they use to produce the output we observe but rather find one combination of parameters in a random state space being able to reproduce a target function. There are multiple possible solutions that equally work well — so perhaps the notion of networks generalizing training data is perhaps not quite accurate (?). Wolfram links this to „his concept“ of „computational irreducibility“ (which I believe is just a consequence of Turing-completeness) but does not give any novel strategies to understand trained machine models or how to do machine learning in any better way using discrete systems. Wolfram presents a fun but at times confusing exercise in discrete automata and unfortunately does not apply the mathematical rigor needed to draw deep conclusions on his subject.
Talos is great. I'd recommend using Omni (from the same people) to manage Talos. I was surprised how easy it was to add new machines with full disk encryption managed by remote keys.
Complex solutions exists for complex needs. If you just need to crop an image, you don’t install Photoshop to do so. If you only have a simple web app for a few thousands users, you don’t go and setup k8s. Yes, having photoshop means you may do what all the cool kids are doing, but if you’re only cropping image, Preview.app is good enough. Eschewing simpler solutions because “standard” is how you start to see everything as a nail for your hammer.

There’s another thing that no one who advocates for these systems wants to mention: The cost of maintenance. I’m ok with systemd as 98% is outsourced to the maintainers. But I’d be more comfortable if k8s was a more monolithic system a la BSD. At least linux have distros.
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If you begin the txt file with .LOG each time you open the file Notepad will add a timestamp and a new line at the end of the document.
It's only a problem if your nodes go up/down often, or you have other things causing pods to be pre-empted/etc.

If you have a static number of nodes and don't have to worry too much about things autoscaling, I don't see why it couldn't be really stable?
Some states/countries publish stats on car registrations/unregistrations and also record mileage each year at annual tests.

I'm pretty sure somewhere on the internet you'll find enough official data to figure out median car mileage.
It's simply not true, from my personal experience. Who cares it's tiny when it's still more than I want or can pay.
In many cases, we know the quality is substandard but don't have a choice either, depending on monopolies in the area.
To paraphrase Linus:

"Only wimps use traditional journals. REAL men just upload their important stuff on arXiv and let the rest of the world peer review it."
Apple's phone support is insane, at least where I used it.

High audio quality, no rush and no signs of them being an underpaid call center operator, always going the extra mile to help me.
>To another point of the article, I walked by an SUV the other day where the front hood was up to my shoulders. I'm pretty regular height at 6' and just thought how getting hit by that thing would probably kill me. It's like all the cars on the road are in an arms race with each other.

I hate to break it to you but even a little car can kill you. Cars and even motorcycles are heavy enough already that an impact at a high speed will be super bad. At low speed they aren't all that different either, provided the driver applies the brakes at roughly the time they hit you.
Not sure how well it works but I like the idea of incrementally automating coding tasks instead of an all-promising AI agent like devin
This. Someone probably migrated the backend from Django to Jekyl and manually migrated a few years of blog posts and decided that anything older than 2020 was no longer relevant.
By the time Windows 8 rolled around Microsoft wanted a 'unified' UX across devices so bad that they threw the desktop and laptop users completely under the bus. Most people can barely remember just how unusable the first new UX Word was on a laptop screen before years of reluctant rollbacks reclaimed some screen realestate for actual work. But hey, "Just imagine 30% app store revenue for every application on every PC" is a powerfull enough motivator to sacrifice even the UX on.
What do you use for distributed storage (if anything)? Storage has always been my biggest headache when trying to make geographically-redundant clusters of any kind.
I couldn't agree more. One is a number on your pay stub the other is a measure of what that actually means. In 1998 I could do more on the $8hr I was earning at the time than you could earning 3 times as much today.
WebP also has a lossless variant, and it compresses much better than PNG.
Yes, with a strong emphasis on the proprietary part. Apple and Google both have their own networks.

All the Apple devices (and now, rolling out, all the Google Play Services enabled devices) scan for nearby Bluetooth LE beacons (that use their protocol) and upload (with some cryptographic operation) the location of the device who found the beacon, together with the accuracy (signal strength) to a proprietary server (Google or Apple).

Then, with the respective apps, the key holder can retrieve the reports for a given key hash and decrypt them to get the previous location.
Technically speaking, anyone with the key hash can fetch the encrypted location reports from Apple / Google servers, but they can't decrypt them.
On top of that, the key is rotating every 15 minutes (AirTag in paired mode) and there is no way to know that two keys are connected... unless you own the main key that is used to derive the rolling keys (see "update" and "diversify" in the linked paper).

Now, all of this is fantastic, until you think of this as a monopoly. Apple and Google get an interesting tax on every device that gets built and joins this network (IIRC it's 4$ for partner devices in the Apple network).

My problem with this is that no-one else other than Google and Apple can build an "open" network - you'd have to find a way to push your code to everyone's devices.

I'm surprised no-one is investigating this unfair practice.

See: https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2021-0045
and https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack
If it can’t be monolithic like *BSD, at least offer distributions like the Linux Sphere. Like a ready to go LAMP stack. Or a collection of services (Database, Storage, Logs,…)
The topic wasn't really about something like "where did this bubble sort come from" but about bulk removal apparently before training, such that:

> .. if I ask something like Claude, "what sort of code has Justine Tunney wrote?" it hasn't got the faintest idea. Instead it thinks I'm a political activist, since it feels no guilt remembering that I attended a protest on Wall Street 13 years ago.
I still don't get what you mean. Clearly Windows isn't the same as it was 39 years ago and if it didn't change in all that time we wouldn't still be using it. Every operating system rewrites fundamental core features all the time.
Thanks! Give it a shot and let me know any feedback.
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The longer they wait to make such a statement, the cheaper it becomes (due to more cars being taken off the road, or sold 2nd/3rd/4th hand to new owners who don't care).

At that point, they can decide if it's cheaper to settle all the lawsuits and refund all the angry owners, or if it's worth making an upgrade adapter to fit HW4/5 into the slot designed for HW3.
The main gripe is they seem to think we use it on a touch interface for tablet, so it makes no sense visually on desktop

The second gripe is they seem to add features to it whenever they change something in windows, so older stuff that doesn't change because it doesn't need to is not in it
You don’t?

Check out how services, load balancers and the majority of CNI actually work then.

Kubernetes was designed for stateless connections and it shows in many places.

If you want it to do stateful connections you could use something like Agones which intentionally bypasses a huge amount of kubernetes to use it only as a scheduler essentially.
If it keeps going this way, one day they will remove windows from Windows.
Found it. Quite amazing story:

NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/us/airpod-hit-and-run-flo...

Cache: https://archive.ph/sRHFV
In the future developers will be amplified, not automated
A manifesto by the team at Continue.dev about their belief in a future where developers are amplified, not automated
symbolically, keeping one original file seems a lot more meaningful to me. is a younger generation at the helm? an older veneration seems less likely to do this.
That's why my phone SIM is still not a subscription but rather I manually buy credit each month. The price is even lower than subscription and benefits exceed it, shitloads of Gb and minutes. If I'll use roaming I'll pay for a more expensive credit that month but I have piece of mind I won't be charged thousands of euro at the end of the month.

Like telecom providers of course cloud providers could have metered service billed under "get only as much as you paid" policy but it's obviously they totally and in bad faith don't want that.
can't wait to be back in Bangkok so I can go to a VR cafe and play HL: Alex. Huge fan of the series and haven't been able to justify buying a headset myself.
Good luck viewing those on Chrome.
You're right, I was getting two relatively recent posts mixed up:

1. After a DDoS attack, someone got a $100k bill from Netlify for his static site and after he asked to have it waived, they generously reduced it to $5k. Only after his posts about it blew up did Netlify waive it completely. [1]

2. Someone got a $1k bill from AWS because lots of people made _unauthorized_ requests against his empty S3 bucket. AWS did agree to waive it immediately, prior to any social media posts. [2]

I probably just remembered (2) as "that ridiculous billing situation involving AWS" but got the details of what exactly happened mixed up with (1).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40203126
I'm naive to the translation tech space but is this sort of thing unique to languages like Chinese? I figured all this stuff was mostly solved. Like I wouldn't expect dflhglsdhfgalskjdf to have Google Translate output some grammatically valid Spanish output.
I noticed this too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP4CKn86qGY&t=41s
Suggestions:

1) Any research institutions that receive government funding are required to spent 10% (or 15% or 20% or whatever) of their total budget on replication. If they don't, they stop receiving any government funding.

2) When citing a paper scientists are required to include any replication studies, both successful and not successful.

This would hopefully lead to more replication studies being done, even if it doesn't answer the question of what to do with a study until it's been replicated sufficiently.

The second part would help us guess the validity of a paper. Papers that base their central premise on studies with multiple independent replication would probably be a bit more trustful than papers based on unverified studies.
The privacy issues with this and the inevitable data leaks and blackmail potential is staggering.

Please consider whether you should publish something instead of just whether you can.
If camera based self driving doesn't happen at first, it never will later.

That's because it would be a safety downgrade, and the public never accepts new technology which does the same as a previous one, yet drops a safety feature.

For example, requiring a handbrake separate from the main brakes in cars. There hasn't been an engineering reason to keep these separate for 50 years, the main brakes already are doubly redundant. But people won't adjust laws to reduce safety, even if the safety reduction is so vanishingly small so as to not matter.
HTML semantic tags and the World Wide Web at large are very rooted in traditional academic research papers. One of the new awesome features HTML brought was the "hyperlink" to go to another document from citation.

With single-page apps and the like, even with early jQuery, it seems we overload the HTML language to do so much when it's so often just used as a tree of nodes w/ no meaning until you get to a node.
What Lasts and (Mostly) Doesn't Last
Do they add Moire lines for realism? Some of those shots seemed to have them.
They can try to protect it but anything inside the UK is subject to UK law and no other law. As I said, there may be practical concerns (read, consequences) for a course of action but this is separate to the domain of law.

Inside the UK, if a law explicitly counteracts, say, an international treaty, the British courts MUST find in favour of British law.
Portlanders are the best! My brother was visiting us here and he lost his wallet at a major tourist attraction. He figured it was gone for good. Nope, someone turned it in with the $200 in cash still in it.
Untrusted Certificate.
If it were done by an Act of Parliament, no they wouldn’t. If that Act explicitly overrides external concerns, the Supreme Court must find in favour of the Act and the ECHR would have to find against it, which the UK Parliament is free to ignore, if it so chooses.

As I point out, this isn’t “free” because it can invite consequences from other parties. But that’s a different domain to law.
It struggles mostly because it’s far too expensive, which also prevents bootstrapping some ecosystem of usecases.
> Both openvpn and wireguard protocols are trivially blocked by DPI.

I don't understand why this matters, it's not like your ISP will ever block this kind of traffic since every company that has any form of IT department uses some form of VPN making it not only a legitimate kind of traffic but also quite common.
Ok, Microsoft is killing anything that was good about Windows. Don't want to be that guy, but the Settings app in KDE is the best in class and can configure almost every aspect of the desktop environment. Overall, Plasma Desktop is a better Windows experience than Windows itself now.
Expand on that thought, in terms of Linux for the contemporary desktop of the era.
That's because Mozilla has no interest supporting it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588883
We should write with *pointers.
> That's the way everybody used to work?

No. In the bad old days, for many people version control software wasn't sufficiently better (and in some respects much worse) than just not using any. So many people didn't use any.
It's not really different from the looks you mention.

Looks is not an objective measure. You buy a nice looking car because its look evokes positive feelings in you. But other things can evoke positive feelings by association. The brand itself, marketing campaign, corporate image. For many, these (usually carefully cultivated) associations are overshadowed by a loud, controversial, partisan CEO who doesn't evoke positive feelings.

It used to be that Tesla cars evoked for me feelings of progress, sort of futurism (although I never really digged its rather bland design), eco-friendliness. Nowadays I see a Tesla and feel a low-key disgust.
Git ain't the only modern version control system, just the most popular.
I'm saying it's unethical to start a new medium/platform where majority of the world would be simply be left out.
They can do surprisingly things if prompted correctly.

But their ability to do complex logic falls apart, and their limits are pretty much a hard wall when reached.
It's not an argument at all, it's just an explanation based on my experience playing and studying chess. My purpose was not really to argue or debate.

If you're -curious- about why weaker players can't accurately analyze the chess of strong players, I've laid out for you why that's the case.

On the other hand, if you're -skeptical- that weaker players cannot do this, I'd encourage you to do your own research on the topic and highlight where you believe I've stated something false.
I would have agreed with you once upon a time, but I'm building a project in Laravel right now. You want superpowers? Do a week's worth of fullstack JS in an afternoon with Laravel.
> A medium-sized Rust project can easily tip the scales at 2-300 crates, which is still rather more dependencies than anything I’ve looked at here, but that’s explained by the simple fact that using libraries in C is such a monumental pain in the ass that it’s not worth trying for anything unless it’s bigger than… well, a base64 parser or a hash function.

It's odd that this article spends so much time arguing that Rust is no different than C or C++, only to concede at the end that Rust projects do have more dependencies.
> It doesn’t really solve enough of a “real” problem to justify the current cost

Exactly this, for now the minimal use cases for these kinds of high-end VR headsets leave them firmly in the "gimmick" category. I'm pretty sure some mass-market use case will be found for them, maybe even outside of gaming, but the fact that some pretty smart people haven't found this one already is a teensey-tiny bit worrying too.
https://developers.google.com/tech-writing covers the same topics in more detail.
The issue with vision only, especially without IR is that even if it becomes safer than a human, it won't ever have the awareness of vision+IR/Lidar, thus be less safe.
In some brief testing, I discovered that the same models (Llama 3 7B and one more I can't remember) are running MUCH slower in LM Studio than in Ollama on my MacBook Air M1 2020.

Has anyone found the same thing, or was that a fluke and I should try LM Studio again?
Not majority owned by Blackrock, Vanguard and Goldman Sachs? Guess that truly explains all the anti-X vitriol in the press .
Filtering should happen after publication, and be built into platforms like ArXiv.
tinypng.com compresses ‘lossless’ .pngs
Why Don't You Just
Possibly the article talked about in this relevant video from Adam Savage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP4CKn86qGY&t=41s

I had noticed this too subconsciously, but could never put into words why it felt bad to receive (otherwise totally valid) suggestions in this form. It seems a common phrase in technical circles.
I think the status quo Control Panel moves apart to dumb Settings and limitless command line.
I think one thing that's weird to me is that Shell and Exxon or 76 or whatever all somehow got their gas to be somewhere in the same ballpark. You'd expect to see that some gas companies can't get their shit together and can't figure out how to extract, purify, and distribute gas at anything less than $500 per gallon. Now, naturally you'd expect those companies to just go out of business. And you'd also expect to see at least one that figures out how to do all of that for $1 per gallon. Yet, here they all are, selling it around the same price. It's too strange in my opinion. There is collusion happening in many markets. I suspect they are all producing it for way less which is why one of them doesn't suddenly go out of business, but the fact that they're not selling it so low that the competitors simply go out of business - again a collusion signal.
Funny how the unabashedly partisan are the ones who make partisan statements in the same breath as their denouncements of partisanship.
People don't want to do background checks on companies. But you don't have to do that for Tesla, Musk tries hard to shove his persona in your face.
The Windows 11 networking experience is beyond awful. It's incredible how bad it is.
Hmm? Pretending the page size is larger than it is would not yield the primary performance benefits of reduced TLB misses. Unless I am missing something, that seems more like a hack to save a tiny bit of kernel memory on a constrained system by having two PTE’s backed by the same internal page structure.

Unless we can change the size of the smallest page entry on Intel, I doubt there is room to do anything interesting there. If we could do like ARM and just multiply all the page sizes by 4 you would avoid any “shoehorning”.
Have you tried contacting Payoneer to find out what actually happened?

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