skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's not like the work done by the trades is always a shining example of competence.

I can and often do do a better job on things myself, because I have more time and I care about getting it right. And with the apparent trade shortage (at least in part caused by how much you need them for real basic shit), it's expensive and half the time the bastards won't answer the phone or don't show up to appointments. So stuff gets done on the down-low or it just doesn't get done at all.

Gotta love the signs at the hardware store saying "You can buy this stuff but if you even think about installing it yourself, that's illegal!"
It’s a publicly available theme.
Having to cave to countries pushing for more and more content control is what their predecessors made possible. And it isn't just Turkey or India, it is the US and parts of Europe too.

For years there were arguments that a private platform could censor what they like. I guess some people are just ignoring the repercussions.
Normally the SELECT has a bunch of columns to group by and a bunch of columns that are aggregates. Then, in the GROUP BY clause, you have to list all the columns to group by. The query compiler knows which they are, and polices you, making sure you got it right. All the GROUP BY ALL does is say 'the compiler knows, there's no need to list them all'. Very convenient.

BigQuery supports GROUP BY ALL and it really cleans up lots of queries. E.g.

SELECT foo, bar, SUM(baz)
FROM x
GROUP BY ALL <-- equiv to GROUP BY foo, bar

(eh, except MySQL; my memory of MySQL is it will silently do ANY_VALUE() on any columns that aren't an explicit aggregate function but are not grouped; argh it was a long time ago)
FROM order is, like, the least offensive and least wrong thing about SQL.

Bikeshedding par excellence.
Leave it lens up for 5 minutes and they make a good BBQ starter.
This was my M.O. - something had failed on a ship somewhere or other. Sometimes, it was dockside (Hooray!), more often than not off some disagreeable coast, meaning I'd get airlifted out bringing anything I could conceivably need (and a few things I couldn't, just to make sure!) - then make sure it all worked before I left.

I always carried a couple of USB sticks with software, licences and documentation on them - one in my carry-on, one in a zippered pocket - and extra interface cables &c so that if everything went oops, I could just borrow a laptop at the client end, install my stuff and get going in a few cups of coffee's time.

Most interesting experience: A customer managed to store their spare parts ashore (!), and we found the reason a big oceanographic sampling system didn't work was because a very proprietary plug inside a data acquisition device hadn't been properly inserted during assembly, damaging the connector beyond repair.

We wound up having to disassemble a small DC motor (to get at the lacquer wire - very, very small cross section!) and hand solder jumper wires onto each of the 88 pins on the PCB.

Took us a few hours, each of which cost our client on the order of $7k in fuel and crew wages, but it worked in the end, ship's electrician and I taking turns getting those pesky, small wires in place without upsetting the work we'd already done.

Soldering .02" pitch connectors with a bog standard Weller iron is a character-building experience. It gets better once you've tacked a needle onto the tip, though.

The alternative? Taking the whole vessel back inside helicopter range, then airlift a $5 plug out (Oh, and a crimp tool! Might as well bring a spare plug, too. Just in case.) That would have cost significantly more than the downtime they had while we were soldering.

Having the spares aboard so that we'd be looking at them instead of for them when we figured out what was wrong? Ten minutes of downtime, $5 in parts, done.
It's a nice and quiet time.

Why do work when you can read HN?

Hi from east Asia!
Mlibc: A C Standard Library
Point 2. is interesting. Is it your personal experience or you have some sources to explore that topic?
You cannot fork something you do not own the rights to. You'll have as much luck forking Harry Potter as you will forking HDMI.
For several years, I lived next to a small church that operated a soup kitchen. The thinly veiled disgust many neighbors had for the kitchen's clientelle was unfortunate, but I was bewildered to learn that the Eastern Orthodox bishop of that church had no more respect for his diners than my calloused neighbors.
I'll second the recommendation of fiction (I love the classics) and add a recommendation for reading philosophy and specifically the history of philosophy. Learning how our frame thinking evolved from the time of the Greeks to the middle ages to more modern times has been nothing short of illuminating for me personally. I don't think you need to read the original works or the really academic stuff (you can if you want to) but having a feel of how our thinking got to be is really useful.
witter is a goldmine for OSINT due to its real-time updates, vast user base, and the sheer volume of public data available.
They’re a bit late to the game, there’s are least a dozen such popular query languages. LINQ
and KQL come to mind, but there are many others…
> Your monkeys are pretty bad at Shakespeare

Worse, they can’t even tell their Shakespeare from their Dickens (It’s the opening line of A Tale of Two Cities).
AFAICT you need to have it connected to the internet so that their phone app can connect (presumably via cloud servers) to the control tablet and provide controls from your phone in and out of the house.

Also if you want to integrate the air-con with general smart home stuff.
We couldn’t predict consequences of most things, from wheel to eletricity to internet. People predicted mailmen on flying bicycles delibering mail to cloud houses. Best predictions were rare and still shallow. Still worked more or less. I don’t get this part at all.

I believe the most important part for ethics-concerned commenters here are ethics. But I have a hard time reasoning about it while living on a whole planet with (roughly) 90% of humans living under poverty line, 9.9% of humans living as modern-era slaves, and 100% of organisms that ever lived suffering in an incountable amount of ways. To me it’s more dangerous to leave this as is than experimenting on yet another 0.001% of biotissue.

Even when I try hard to take an ethical position, it seems moot to me. I still can’t be sure that my spinal cord isn’t suffering all these tears without me knowing. I mean yes, less suffering would be great, not even by ethics, just from empathy. But neural tissue that has no mouth and probably must scream is too effing everywhere to single some cell collections out. Nature doesn’t care. Scream if you can, and if you can not, too bad. I just can’t find this balanced view that you guys have, it feels pretty self patting on the back to me.
Off the top of my head and 34 years later, sadly not.

Best I can do is describe this code/listing:

It created a few lists of words (IIRC these lists were adjectives, nouns, verbs?), and in the main loop it kept track of which list it had just taken a word from in order to decide what to pick next — e.g. if it had just picked an adjective then was allowed to pick either another adjective or go onto a noun, if it had just picked a noun then it could end the sentence or it could go on to a verb — and it would pick a random word from whichever list.

This either fit entirely on one screen, or very close to that — I was little, I would have made a syntax error if it had been much longer.

(Perhaps it will turn out to be my family's user manual wasn't even the official one, though I do remember it being a thick blue thing which matches the pictures I've seen online).
Seriously, we managed to standardize charging ports by law, maybe we can also agree on using an open standard for displays.
> who reads books about swimming

Can you show me such a book? Ie a book that teaches one to swim (different strokes etc) aimed at a professional swimmer (athlete).
> According to the logic in France, since criminals use Windows, the CEO of Microsoft could also be blamed

What a superficial take. Following the same logic, highway management would be held accountable if a killer used one of their roads to go and commit a crime.

But for platform providers, they (the providers) have the responsibility to moderate the content that is hosted publicly on their platforms. Which most of the content on Telegram is.
And if some illegal material is there, they (the providers) have the responsibility to take it offline.

Do you have any idea how much, let's say Meta, spends in terms of money and manpower to prevent this? How much moderation goes on for most of the platforms?
Read about regulations in France (SREN law IIRC).
It is harder to create/merge numerous dialects for a computer language such as TLA+ than English.

Even the most popular languages such as Python have just a few viable implementations.

Roadmap/focus is useful in a collaboration.
There's no OBD2 port for jet engines I guess? :)
I've had the displeasure of depending on one such project, which means I'd need to look at it once every few months. Need to page all the vocabulary back every time.

(Actually it was a project with multiple subprojects done by different teams. So I'd need to page a different set of vocabulary every time.)
At the cost of a huge increase in complexity and maintenance costs, that is the trade-off.
IKEA? Thats a surprise, what happened?
Seems those tablets die not long after the warranty expires.

I'm willing to bet money on that it's planned obsolescence, especially considering their "technology keeps moving forward" bullshit.
> - It’s not meaningful for Apple Notes’ local edits to only be local. Sure they will render, but if a tree falls and no one hears is, did it make a sound? So let’s ignore local edits.

Why would we ignore local edits? Notes is a note taking application. Not a communications platform. Local edits are the main point of the application.

> - A sentence in Apple Notes isn’t generally considered to have happened until it’s been rendered in every client and users can see it if they look

Of course it has! If I copy my favorite crepe recipe into a note on my phone, then open it up later, I don't care if that note has synced to my laptop. (Or anyone else I might be collaborating with). Local edits are meaningful and important.

The same is true of git. I use git locally on lots of projects that I don't even have any collaborators on, so I can track my work.

From the database standpoint, these are AP systems. They stay available (to reads and writes) in the face of network partitions. The blockchain is .. well, the blockchain is weird. But I think its closest to a CP system. You can't make transactions when you're disconnected from the chain. (If you could, you would risk double-spending).

I consider blockchains closer to traditional databases than eventually-consistent datastores built on CRDTs, because they have coordination and traditional atomic transaction semantics.
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Hey - As the owner of a similar system I have a question for you - do you use their phone app to control your system from your phone in/out of the house, and did it still work after this?
Specifically, rust was designed and created for this use case. It’s the language created to rewrite Firefox in a memory safe language, component by component. This means rust is uniquely capable of integrating into C/C++ code bases, unlike for example go. So it makes sense to do exactly that - take existing projects and slowly migrate them to a memory safe version.
Looks just like writing sql using Ecto in Elixir:

"users"
|> where([u], u.age > 18)
|> select([u], u.name)

https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Query.html
Sounds like you made a nice, tight little Rails app. 50,000 concurrent? Oh man, I wish.
> They're handing a win to DisplayPort.

And that would be bad how? DP is an excellent standard and royalty free.
I use this post to ask a question I just had a bit before: can anyone recommend me an Einstein's biography?
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, X(Twitter), Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp

They all cooperate with governments: https://www.engadget.com/authorities-reportedly-ordered-goog...

In fact, google is partly CIA/NSA

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
Remembering the Unhappy Flight of Ham the Chimp, 60 Years on (2020)
Also, likely the technicians company paid big money to be an official provider (or pays a % of this job up)

At least Ponzi had style.
I'm struggling to understand why someone who knows software would think things in your house relying on android was a good idea.

Just get up and use a remote control people. It's not that hard. You really don't need an app to do it remotely. Your life will be fine.
> Most people don't have hardware that requires HDMI 2.1 in order to get full use out of them, and of those who do, not all of them use Linux and/or care about open source drivers.

Arguably true, but I think that is changing all the time while there is a push towards open-source drivers regardless of the average user knowing/caring what that is, along with resolutions and refresh rates increasing.

I was affected by HDMI Forum's decision by buying an off-the-shelf 4K 120Hz monitor which refused to work at that resolution/refresh rate on an HDMI cable.

I was not expecting an arbitrary decision affecting software to be the cause instead of a hardware problem - which took me a while to figure out.

Now I know if I want to use my hardware to the full capacity, I need DisplayPort in future.
Banks make money from arbitrage and card services are in some jurisdictions immensely valuable. Perhaps I misunderstand how both contribute to "how do banks make money" but to me, these are non trivial sources of income, even if buried under other costs and profits.

I like this FAQ otherwise. Even when I hate markets for services which I think are better run as public utility functions or as non contestable regulated monopolies i see a role for banks in managing risk.

People also use fintech and banking to undermine the state. See "crisis, what crisis" which blew a UK labour government out of the water, or the Khemlani loan fiasco which did for Labor in Australia, or the effect of the world bank on Latin America.. Vaoufakis' views on eurobank and Greece...
From the horse's mouth, in French and English, the official press statement from the Prosecutor's office (it's a PDF):

https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files...

It's a laundry list of accessory to commit crimes + a few interesting associated ones like organising to commit crimes, and laundering the proceeds of crimes.
-Probably, there's a (at least used to be) rubber membrane between key caps and switches to ensure water, coffee, hydraulic fluid, blood, assorted acids, dust, gravel etc. does not make it inside when you douse it in one or more of said substances.

(My last Dell Precision died after having been first on the accident site when a high-pressure manifold burst, courtesy of a sub-par weld - it sat merrily on a tank opposite, logging pressures, temperatures and contamination levels during an operation when suddenly, the manifold opted out of existence, blasted the Dell into the bulkhead, cracked the casing in so many places we didn't even find all the parts afterwards, dousing the remnants in hydraulic fluid (which, as it happens, is quite corrosive and reasonably carcinogenic, too.)

Had a similar thing happen to a ToughBook years later. Simply donned gloves, took it outside, hosed it down in lukewarm water for a while, rebooted and got back to work.

For all their shortcomings, ToughBooks are amazing at their intended use case.

(Oh, and before anyone asks - we set up the test rig, make ourselves scarce, and only then do we start the pumps and apply pressure. I am a firm believer in staying alive.)
Maybe these websites cooperate unlike Telegram? First paragraph or second one from the article:

"Telegram has played a role in multiple criminal cases in France tied to child sexual abuse, drug trafficking and online hate crimes, but has shown a “near-total absence” of response to requests for cooperation from law enforcement, Ms. Beccuau said."
So it's already hosted for you, you don't have to do anything to get a production ready URL.

But yeah if you want your own hosting for some reason you own the code and can take it to a provider like Netlify or Github Pages fairly easily.

Send me an email at viktor@lovable.dev if you have any questions :)
GPT-4 based test case generator for Xray
I have been doing a few mentoring sessions there and it has been a great experience. However, I don't see that many people asking for mentorship there, I wish the volume of mentees was higher.
Indeed. Elastic has also recently released a piped query language called ES|QL. Feels similar to Kusto.

I find piped queries both easier to write, and read.
> Free speech is defined as speech free of threats to the establishment.

Well, if free speech for you is pornography with infants...
Incompatible licenses would mean that no distribution would have kernels that support it, though. It would be a second class citizen, compiled via DKMS or something, and often broken on a lot of hardware.

The difference to broken MP3 support is that if your music file does not play, you can still browse the Internet and write emails and play games, but if your graphics driver is busted, you can do none of those things from GRUB menu. In the worst case recovery mode does not work either, and you just converted your laptop into a headless server.

Troubleshooting it by browsing instructions on the mobile is no fun.
Some interesting facts:

- Durov is, according to him, living in exile outside of Russia since 2014 - due to Russian gov persecution.

- Since his "exile" - he has travelled 50-60 times to Russia https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/1f2pgg3/pavel_dur...

- Most Russian billionaires that live in exile and are persecuted by the RU gov fall from windows (or something tall) quite often. Durov has been living lavishly though.

- Russia is trying to protect him now that he is being charged.

i.e. a lot of odd and contradicting moments.
"Telegram has played a role in multiple criminal cases in France tied to child sexual abuse, drug trafficking and online hate crimes, but has shown a “near-total absence” of response to requests for cooperation from law enforcement, Ms. Beccuau said."

That's not little low on details.
also, they're not the same colour to me in bright sunlight - one is light murky brown and the other is dark murky brown. under fluorescent lighting they are both the same shade of murky brown.
We're about $330 with the 25% off, which is in line with most high-quality battery brands (an much cheaper than Bosch or other)
Brain Scientists Discover the Glue That Makes Memories Stick
https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge
Then you should be happy to know that there are multiple open source coding weights out there already! Some of which are as good as, or possibly better than co-pilot.

That should satisfy anyone who actually cares about this as opposed to only being interest in making a snappy gotcha one liners.
1) We use whichever LLM that is performing best at the time, so no, not necessarily OpenAI
2) Only images as attachments for now. You can add more files by uploading them to the connected Github repo.
They must not be making this verification call since we've been doing this for years. Yes, it's straightforward forgery, so your unease is warranted. But I have no problem breaking pointless laws.
Nah, can't remove Pocket integration.
yes! Bigger models coming early 2025
So… your solution is slavery?
The rest of the post absolutely does, in that it explains why the people doing the buying aren't considering the needs of the people doing the using. It goes further to explain why their interests actively work against the kind of competition that might be inclined to offer right to repair as a selling point.

I also highly doubt anyone doing the buying are having either their performance or their budget impacted by the cost of repairs. Those are certainly separate budgets, and the DOD has never passed a financial audit; for the last six years, it hasn't been able to provide auditors with enough information about its $4 trillion in assets to even form a qualified opinion.
This would work perfectly indeed!
> I guess the criticism of GAIA-X is fair as it is probably a multi-million euro deadend (or the usual kind of hidden subsidies to the huge players).

Projects like GAIA-X are aimed at eliminating the dependency on US companies for critical infrastructure. A few million are peanuts in the scope of shedding a multi-million dependency.
Bummer - some TV's are tremendous value for money as computer monitors (Small 8K tv's that sometimes sell for sub-1000 usd) but they tend to only have HDMI.

I got 8k/60 working in Linux using an nvidia card and a dp-to-hdmi adapter cable, but I have a feeling it's not meant to be supported (the same cable does not work in windows).
There's an open source project for that:

https://blog.unetstack.net/Project-Sabine-Low-cost-DIY-under...
It's different from distinct. Distinct just eliminates duplicates but does not group entries.

Suppose...

SELECT brand, model, revision, SUM(quantity)
FROM stock
GROUP BY brand, model, revision

This is not solved by using distinct as you would not get the correct count.

Group By All allows you to write it a bit more compact...

SELECT brand, model, revision, SUM(quantity)
FROM stock
GROUP BY ALL
I don’t think it’s about accountability, after all democracy has more or less the same accountability mechanisms as a publicly traded company.

Given the massive public interest, there is probably at least an order of magnitude more oversight of public offices than there is for private companies.

In the end it’s the same challenge that every team, department, company has to solve: how to have people that care about their job?

Here my impression is that that’s often not the case, leading to the effects you described.

Given the often severely reduced pay in public jobs, compared with industry, I don’t find that overly surprising, you get what you pay for.
The truth behind US firm's sci-fi plan of providing sunlight after dark
And then there's me with 12 terminals opened across 7 tags for running random ls command. I also have a nice collection of 10-12 firefox windows with dozens of tabs. My tendency to open many many windows has sky-rocketed, thanks awesome !
Both of these examples, and others, sound like an underserved market.
Uh, no, that is certainly not the only concern with slavery.
I feel this may be natural selection at play.

With bottom-of-the-barrel (and/or "value add") IoT garbage, hardware suppliers are a commodity, and under competitive pressure, the winners will be ones that can make cheapest hardware that just about outlasts a typical warranty period of their customers' products. Shorter-lived parts will not bring repeat business; longer-lived parts will get value-optimized further. Failing just after warranty period is Just Right.
I don't think the problem is necessarily space, but rather write-limits being used by superfluous logging
whenever people say that modern journalists are bad and nobody knows how to write anymore, i'll show them this article
Thanks for your message! The battery is already designed and in production, it's running on 1500 free-floating e-bikes in France without issues since around 2 years

We're doing a Kickstarter because we're a startup so we need the upfront money to buy the parts and build the battery! We expect to ship to Kickstarter customers in November 2024!
I would like to add PQE to our WebRTC E2EE system, have anyone here dine that?