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Adm. Grace Hopper's 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published
I hate the TSA with every ounce of my being and these articles reinforce why. Incompetent and useless agency that only serves to waste people's time. Can't believe it still exists; 9/11 and the Bush administration really did a number on this country.
I think you're looking for the kind of precision that just doesn't exist in the legal system. It will almost certainly hinge on intent and the extent to which your actions actually stifle legitimate speech.

I imagine that getting rid of spam wouldn't meet the bar, and neither would enforcing that conversations are on-topic. But if you're removing and demoting posts because they express views you disagree with, you're implicitly endorsing the opinions expressed in the posts you allow to stay up, and therefore are exercising editorial control.

I think the lesson here is: either keep your communities small so that you can comfortably reason about the content that's up there, or don't play the thought police. The only weird aspect of this is that you have courts saying one thing, but then the government breathing down your neck and demanding that you go after misinformation.
You didn't cover what exactly "subnormal" means
Damn. If there was ever any doubt about why you should get off chrome, this seems to put an end to that.
Smalltalk envy source controll
Segmentation violations are often the result of different underlying problems, one of which can be running out of memory.

We (the Ibis team) have opened related issues and the usual response is to not use streaming until it's ready, or to fix the problem if it can be fixed.

Not sure what else there is to do, seems like things are working as expected/intended for the moment!

We'll definitely be the first to try out any improvements to the streaming engine.
I'm bullish on AI, but I'm not convinced this is an example of what you're describing.

The challenge of understanding minified code for a human comes from opaque variable names, awkward loops, minimal whitespacing, etc. These aren't things that a computer has trouble with: it's why we minify in the first place. Attention, as a scheme, should do great with it.

I'd also say there is tons of minified/non-minified code out there. That's the goal of a map file. Given that OpenAI has specifically invested in web browsing and software development, I wouldn't be surprised if part of their training involved minified/unminified data.
I also order from Zenni and have never had to provide my doctor's info. They happily create lenses with whatever prescription I type in, and for me personally it usually takes a couple years for it to change enough to warrant new glasses. (I still get an exam annually)
A programming language is a tool. It should not have an official stance on political issues, whether you agree with it or not.
Tmux allows you to start multiple windows and send commands to them.

An example from man tmux -

"

refresh-client -t/dev/ttyp2

rename-session -tfirst newname

set-option -wt:0 monitor-activity on

new-window ; split-window -d

bind-key R source-file ~/.tmux.conf \; \
display-message "source-file done"

"

Screen has no equivalent besides manually using the keybinds.

I believe tmux has some better mechanics around the attach/detach but it eludes me atm what was better.

Basically what made me switch in the first place from screen to tmux was wanting a split window watch compile and a logfile to run automatically with one command.

Hard with screen and easy with tmux.
I’m fascinated that a static site generator makes this! Is this a new concept?
Emphasis on way more power. Granted, power draw isn't a huge problem for price reasons, since the cost of electricity is usually not that huge of a factor, but if you wind up running a lot of these, it can add up. More power draw is also a detriment if you want to keep things lean for longer battery, which makes me hesitant to put many older stock computers in the critical path of my network.

Don't get me wrong, though. Old stock computers are excellent for a wide variety of tasks, it's just that they definitely don't encroach on a lot of the use cases of modern SBCs. You needn't buy a Raspberry Pi 5 either; plenty of use cases like Home Assistant will run pretty well on a Pi 4 or even a Pi 3, and that's not getting into the many other reasons why a Pi may be interesting (like HATs, being able to use PoE power, GPIO, or even just the I/O in general.)
Thanks that's helpful. I still have two with warranty until January so I might try my luck with Dell
I donate 15€ monthly already. I get a lot of use out of it <3 only issue I have is that it's not always ideal on FreeBSD. But I can't blame them for not prioritising an OS with 0.01% marketshare :)

Here in Spain that 15 is already a lot so I can't really do more
CAD Generation
Me too, and some days I do miss Dad.
I have some M910q that I am very happy with. UEFI is well supported, I was able to upgrade them to 32gb of RAM, i7 7700t and both a 512gb SSD and NVMe for mirrored storage. Highly recommended. Sure, it would be nice to get something newer than 7th gen, but it's still highly capable, small, quiet and fairly low power usage.
"Floating points are the worst method of representing rational numbers, except for all the others." —Winston Churchill probably
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I can't bring myself to buy Lenovo anything since they've repeatedly shipped products infested with malware, sometimes doing it in exchange for money. Once a company sinks that low and treats users with such disrespect I don't know how or why they should be trusted again.
They don't make the source data accessible :(
true spark has existed for years and is a great toolset.. i use it ever day. it's also a huge hassle spinning clusters up and down and configuration is complex.

I can execute some pretty hairy scans against a huge s3 parquet dataset in Duckdb that I would typically have to run in either spark or athena.. it's a little slower, but not ridiculously slower. And, it does all of that from my desktop.. no clusters, no mem or task configs.. just run the query. Being able to integrate all of the expensive historical scanning and knitting that back into an ML pipeline with desktop python is pretty nice.
i created directory for such ai agents and i have a category for coding:
- CursorAI
- Continue

there are many others pen source and close source
https://aiagentsdirectory.com/category/coding
Every other day there's an article about FOSS crisis, bubbles and unsustainability.

Meanwhile there's rock solid free software, just chugging along for longer than the people writing those articles have been alive.

I first started using Screen around '95, it was the nicest way to stay logged in to my ircII session while yielding the vt220 terminal to someone else for a while and going for a drink/smoke/walk.

Used it ever since, from terminal multiplexing to daemonizing services at a shoestring startup. I've used just a tiny subset the features I know it has, and probably don't know of many more, but it has served me well over the years.

Congrats on the release!
Why China wins every Paralympic Games
> Simply put; you keep it to yourself, and never share it with another living soul.

Hey, that's what I do. Also cuts down maintenance, complaints, cost, judgementalism, you name it.
I think I agree that they shouldn't use "open source," but again, this confusion highlights that you have to put in work when it comes to this topic.

Free Software has the GPL, and all its related, healthy controversy. It's not perfectly clear, but it's far more battle-tested than the much more nebulous "Open source."

People who like "free software" put in work, and better understood that, to some extent, you can't have your cake and eat it too. "Open Source" is much more about a whole lot (to me, naive) wishful thinking.

(The OSI is a bunch of companies in a trenchcoat, the creators of the GPL were more principled.)
> I don't think actual malicious planned obsolescence is as prevalent as many believe.

I've been saying this for a while.

Consumers are insanely price-sensitive while also short-sighted. They'll buy a $20 blender that will die in a year rather than the $100 blender that will last a lifetime.

Manufacturers know this and there's a race to the bottom on pricing. To get pricing as low as possible, quality and durability take a hit.
Wow! I had no clue that this ever existed. I guess it was DOA given its short life-span.
This is going to surprise you, but having more money enables you to spend more of your finite lifespan working on your own initiatives/goals in life (whether they are financially rewarding or not) without needing to persuade someone wealthier than you that they want what you want and are willing to pay to do it.
A family member has a Toughbook for sailing. There are no repair shops at sea.
I don’t claim expertise in AI or understanding intelligence, but could we also say that a pocket calculator really understands arithmetic and has superior intellectual performance compared to humans?
> Don't like it? don't follow it

How did you find it in the first place? A search? Without any kind of filtering (that's an algorithm that could be used to manipulate people), all you'll see is pages and pages of SEO.

Opening up liability like this is a quagmire that's not going to do good things for the internet.
Paul Graham blocked me on X because I quoted Hacker News's guidelines
Feel free to try yourself http://bananas.ethz.ch/debian/gnustep-back/2/
I may have ruined my chance of ever being backed by YC in the future.

This is probably not considered On-Topic for HN, but posting about it here just feels appropriate.
For those that haven’t seen it: Do yourself a favor and watch it. At least two times. It’s such a strange (haha) movie. Quite unique IMO, can’t think of any other movie that is similar.
> Chronological timelines are the best , and will bring back some sanity. Don't like it? don't follow it

You realize that there is immense arrogance in this statement where you have decided that something is good for me ? I am totally fine with youtube's recommendations or even Tiktok's algorithms that according to you "manipulate" me.
The Rust maintainers said they would maintain the Rust bindings. But wouldn't it be nice to have a heads up that the bindings might break? Or whether assumptions have changed? Or even what the assumptions are?

It's a little tough to build a safe abstraction layer on top of C or encourage maintainers to stick around with a hostile "that's a _you_ problem" mentality or inaccurate rhetoric that Rust are trying to force their religion onto the C devs.
Indeed, regardless of the branding for the feature, the service is making a decision about what to show a given user based on what the service knows about them. That is not a search result with no terms; the user is the term.
I have to ask the obvious question: how do you know the unminified code is semantically equivalent to the minified code? If someone knows how to verify LLM code transformations for semantic fidelity then I'd like to know because I think that would qualify as a major breakthrough for programming languages and semantics.
Try wlmaker? https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker
Given how modern "AI" works, There is a certain irony in an AI focused company finding its content slurped up and spat back out with minor tweaks and then feeling blindsided. Do you vet all agents you advertise for how well they pay for all their training data?
> manipulating people is not OK whether it's for political purposes as facebook and twitter do

Not to mention CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, NPR, etc.
Do you mean that Brave is a competitor, or something else?
If you have the model weights you have roughly the same opportunities as the company that trained the model. The code you need to run inference on the Llama weights is very much open source. The only thing you're missing out on is the training code, which is prohibitively expensive to run for most anyways. Open source training isn't going to give you any unique insights into the "digital brain library" of your model.

Also just to be clear, if you want to set up a RAG with an open weight model and a large dataset there's nothing stopping you. Download Red Pajama and Llama and give it a try.

https://github.com/togethercomputer/RedPajama-Data
I used a plasma panel, vintage 2004 (retired in 2016 with no noticeable burnin), that had a DVI connector with HDCP support. If it had not supported HDCP, I could not have connected my cable box to this panel.
We as a civilization are terrible at getting over things, it seems.
> A Pi will sit much lower in total power consumption than almost any used PC

For electricity consumption, beyond the wallet, it actually seems that hardware should have a lifespan on the order of decades before electricity consumption savings offset the environmental impact:

"For laptops and similar computers, manufacturing, distribution and disposal account for 52% of their Global Warming Potential (i.e. the amount of CO₂-equivalent emissions caused). For mobile phones, this is 72%. The report calculates that the lifetime of these devices should be at least 25 years to limit their Global Warming Potential." —https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/frugal-comp...

Rather than buying a new Pi, repurposing a 5-year-old laptop has advantages if this something one cares about. Desktops are quite a bit more hungry (I've heard this got better in recent years), but I can attest that a 2012 laptop still functions very well as a server, easily better than a 2024-era Pi. Probably I'll replace it in the next 2-4 years (so at ~15yo) when my current laptop finally will have given me enough grief (my inner grandpa complains they don't make 'em like they used to), and I'm not saying others must optimise for climate alone either, but it's something to consider when deciding on a good balance
Gosh, that looks like fun. Will it be street-legal, though? The pictures in the article suggest that it could be, but the manufacturer's web site makes the current, non-electric version look more like a UTV/side-by-side.
tmux does all that
> no one will go to jail

Did you know that there's has been a homeowner jailed for breaking his HOA's rules about lawn maintenance?

The chances are good that someone will go to jail.
China knows based on the US' response (or lack thereof) to Russia's invasion of Ukraine that the US won't move against a modern military (which Russia barely even qualifies as having.) The US was soundly defeated by cave-dwelling guerilla fighters at least twice. Getting their ass handed to them by one of the world's nascent superpowers would only be humiliating.
> One of the primary functions of NULL is to say that a tuple satisfies a predicate except we don’t know what this one position is—it’s certainly is something out in the real world, we just don’t know what.

I'm not sure I understand this. Can you explain it with an example?

I'm thinking something like:

let (x, y) = NULL;

But then I'm stuck.
You know it's bad when it's so bad that as I write this no one has even bothered talking about how bad storing MD5'd passwords is. This even proves they aren't even so much as salting it, which is itself insufficient for MD5.

But that isn't even relevant when you can go traipsing through the SQL query itself just by asking; wouldn't matter how well the passwords were stored.
Since the case hasn't yet been adjudicated, I don't know whether or how Telegram failed to provide a certified declaration, but it seems possible that they simply never submitted the form.

"Certified declaration" does not imply any authority giving permission, especially not when the original French is "déclaration conforme." You could call it a "declaration fulfilling the legal requirements" instead if you want.
I'm not sure California is "new" as a center of political corruption. Willie Brown added many layers of intentional complexity to San Francisco's city government while he was mayor (1996-2004). The only way for a citizen or business to navigate that complexity is by paying people, both legally and illegally.

SF's Mohammed Nuru (mentioned in the article) learned at Willie's feet. So did current mayor London Breed, who worked as a nanny for Willie, and dated Mohammed. If you throw in his other acolytes, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris (and the late Ed Lee), it is clear that we are living in Willie Brown's world. And that world is one of transactional politics.
If they are using a standard 300mm wafer and have similar yields, the D0 stepping will allow them to get ~50% more chips per wafer than the C1 stepping.
Maybe a lot of CRC errors or something. Just a guess.
Funny, the same) When I was switching from R (data.table) to Python, it was painful. Not only because it was slow, but because of the API. At that time, I thought that maybe it's because of switching to something new. Several years later, switching from Pandas to Polars API was a real joy (Ibis is also good is that sense). So, I learned that it had been Pandas fault all along))
There exists an argument that people who are not white are, in fact, capable of saying or doing things which tend to discriminate against white people; and furthermore that such speech and action is harmful and morally offensive.

"reverse racism" is a term used by people who find that position disagreeable or inconvenient, to mislabel, misrepresent and mock it.

The argument is not at all "far right"; it's centrist, and obvious. But certain extremist identity-based ideologues have manage to sell that nonsense with their propaganda based on the label. Occasionally you will see people who don't know any better use the term unironically, because of the dominance its derogatory use has achieved; but serious opposition to so-called "progressive" identity politics does not actually use the term.
Yeah, ok. Now count the number of Rs in this word.
I wouldn't mind them not using open firmware as much if we had unofficial alternatives that worked without sacrificing functionality, but I don't think anyone has managed that even after all this time.
You can start the server as a user session service if you have a service manager for that, like systemd, instead of needing to do it manually. For systemd specifically, tmux also supports socket activation for the server since some time ago, so you can do that to start it on-demand.
You're not wrong, but I would have a hard time as a jury member convicting them of a CFAA violation or whatever for creating a user named "Test TestOnly" with a bright pink image instead of a photo.

If they had added themselves as known crewmembers and used that to actually bypass airport screening, then yeah, they'd be in jail.
Definitions are not proscriptive. You cannot define a word and then coerce everyone to use that definition via your word.

Definitions flow out of usage. The definition clarifies how the word is used and what people mean when they do use it.

You are, in a very literal sense, doing what Orwell, et al was so desperately against by actively controlling how language is permitted to be used.
Costs for construction are also way up.
If anything it sounds like "related" is not what they are actually doing. Rather they are looking at ways to uniquely fingerprint users through optimizing how they split "related" sites.

Reminds me of the research that shows that 87% of people in the US can be uniquely identified with only three pieces of information: date of birth, gender, and zip code [1].

[1]: https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.p...
> Like an email address!

Except I cannot send an email to the whole world, as I angrily learned after switching to email from BBS's ;-)

Also, there is a reason every explanation of Mastodon says something to the effect of "your handle is like an email address - it's tied to a provider" :-)
Thank you. Agreed.

With the new rush of LLMs being everywhere, copying and pasting will be common practice.

Trying to protect something that is unprotected like open information while benefitting from this exact transaction is a great irony.

It's just a bad business idea. If OP wants to make a directory it would make much more sense to open-source it and accept it will be continuously churned by AI
Soon (if not already) the largest costs associated with solar installations will be the labor. It's expensive to get people on roofs and electricians to reconfigure panels, install transfer switches, etc. The equipment could be free and it would still cost thousands for the skilled trades to install.
That's very fair feedback, we appreciate it!
Amazing! I didn't notice the control panel earlier
If anyone from there reads the parent, they should know they have created an atmosphere where the worry of possible prosecution over responsible disclosure has the potential to scare away the best minds in our country from picking at these systems.

That just means the best minds from other, potentially less friendly countries, will do the picking. I doubt they will responsibly disclose.
Maybe I am wrong, but that is exactly what I always assumed the many world interpretation to be. Especially I think many worlds also requires an outside of the cosmos observer to look at all the worlds, I do not think I ever heard someone claim that many worlds allows you and me to see or even move between different worlds.
1) They go down but not to zero. Consider a hypothetical person with excess solar and a large power bank, they still cost money to serve and build reserve capacity for when events require them to pull from the grid.

2) They don't and there was a LOT of complaining about not getting paid full rates by early solar adopters.

3) I'm fine with it. The power grid is one of the natural monopolies where state operation makes more sense than the weird quasi private marketless mess we have now and progressive tax structures are normal there so I don't see as much problem with income related grid fees. Also higher income people will generally have larger grid demands meaning they need more excess capacity built in so they probably do cost more to serve.
Jail? This was a civil suit, no criminal penalties apply, just monetary.
If you're able to generate minified code from all the code you can find on the internet, you end up with a very large training set. Of course in some scenarios you won't know what the original variable names were, but you would expect to be able to get something very usable out of it. These things, where you can deterministically generate new and useful training data, you would expect to be used.
That's a ridiculous amount of power, is that answer from a LLM? It's in the range of ~150mW for LPDDR4. Around half that in idle.
So, you'd rather spend $12k+ to replace the entire system just to spite the manufacturer over making a minor patch to support a new tablet yourself?
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I think I’d agree with your statement, in the same sense that a chess simulator or AlphaGo are superior to human intellect for their specific problem spaces.

LLMs are very good at a surprisingly broad array of semi-structured-text-to-semi-structured-text transformations, particularly within the manifold of text that is widely available on the internet.

It just so happens that lots of code is widely available on the internet, so LLMs tend to outperform on coding tasks. There’s also lots of marketing copy, general “encyclopedic” knowledge, news, human commentary, and entertainment artifacts (scripts, lyrics, etc). LLMs traverse those spaces handily as well. The capabilities of AI ultimately boil down to their underlying dataset and its quality.
Does anyone remember Bruce Schneier and his faked boarding passes? The TSA scribble used to be the weak point of the entire system.