skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they don't make the source data accessible

No. But you haven’t articulated why making everyone’s Facebook chats public is a net good. What does opening that data up confer in practical benefits?

Given what we know about LLMs, one trained only on public-domain data will underperform one trained on that plus proprietary data. If you want source data available, you have to either concede the "open" models will be structurally handicapped or that all data must be public.
> I absolutely never understood people running clusters of Pis or those goofy multi-Pi carrier boards. Just buy a real PC.

A bunch of Pis allow you to run multi-node clusters on the cheap. If you're just experimenting with Kubernetes/Nomad/whatever, you don't need a lot of resources, just multiple nodes. It's easier and depending on config potentially cheaper than getting a beefier mini PC, throwing lots of RAM, and running VMs.
The PET (with monitor) started a $795. The C64 was initially released at $595, which is pretty much the same considering that didn't include a monitor. But I would assume most of C64s were sold at a much lower price. I don't know its pricing history but I seem to recall the price dropped pretty quickly. My (very imperfect) memory says I got one in the early '80s about $399 and I think it was down to $299 not too long after that.
Unless you want to impose blurry fonts onto your visitors, this font won't be it unfortunately. The required increments of 11px to display a crisp font with DepartureMono makes your content either too small (11px) for most people to read, or too large (22px) to look good.

I am always saddened by landing pages like this, because they communicate an idea that only works in very specific cases. Are you looking to use this font for a similarly polished, "Apple"-style landing page that is form-over-function? Then this font clearly is for you. But on 99% of pages that have actual content on them this font likely won't work, as much as I, too, would like for it to.
Wouldn't it more be you are responsible for pinned posts at the top of thread lists? If you pin a thread promoting an unsafe onroad product, say telling people they should be replacing their steering with heim joints that aren't street legal, you could be liable. Whereas if you just left the thread among all the others you aren't. (Especially if the heim joints are sold by a forum sponsor or the forum has a special 'discount' code for the vendor).
Honestly, this is the most shocking part:

> We did not want to contact FlyCASS first as it appeared to be operated only by one person and we did not want to alarm them

It’s incredible (and entirely too credible) that this kind of “high security” integration could be built in such an amateur way: and a good reminder why government projects often seem to be run with more complexity than your startup devs might think is necessary.
Any sufficiently advanced tech is magic to those who don't see under the hood. Common folks thinking chatgpt is AGI for example.

mRNA vaccines wasn't some sort of green field, companies just plugged new virus into products and methologies they worked on for decade(s). What made it fast was all the bureucratic red tape removed, instead of 10 years of staged trials and processes we got few months iirc and massive fingers crossed.

Star trek level would be finding 100% vaccine with 0 side effects and instant cure of infected on spot, in few minutes, by single doctor/medic in tiny 1-room lab. Not yet there. Not diminishing the mammoth continuous effort of all involved here just to be clear
This is great —- my world has mostly been Mac laptops and cloud servers for the last 15 years, and recently decided I wanted a physical server in my office to use as a dev box.

I ended picking up a 5 year old Dell Optiplex SFF on eBay for $75. I added a few sticks of RAM and a new SSD, installed Ubuntu server, and it’s been great. Super fun and easy to pop open and work on.

I sort of want to start grabbing these for anyone I know who needs a basic computer.
Also in my quick glance, it didn't account for shipping costs either.
>Google already fired one or two of them.

I would appreciate more information about this.
In-Browser Semantic AI Search with PGlite and Transformers.js
Hilarious that the entire TSA system is vulnerable to the most basic web programming error that you generally learn to avoid 10 minutes into reading about web programming- and that every decent quality web framework automatically prevents.

It is really telling that they try to cover up and deny instead of fix it, but not surprising. That is a natural consequence of authoritarian thinking, which is the entire premise and culture of the TSA. Any institution that covers up and ignores existential risks instead of confronting them head on will eventually implode by consequences of its own negligence- which hopefully will happen to the TSA.
So you're suggesting they're not out of the woods?
> How would we tell the difference between rampant scamming and fudging numbers and an economy where we all pass around Monopoly money to do services for one another?

It will show up as decrease in exports because other countries (or societies or tribes or whatever you want to call them) will want less of what your country is selling.

Which then shows up as decreasing purchasing power for things that you do want from other countries (i.e. you getting poorer).

Luckily for the US, that does not seem to be the case given the resilience of the purchasing power of the USD.
It's bulletproof if you can shoot it and the bullet doesn't pass through. You don't get to invent new definitions IMO
Oh it gets even more amusing. By the logic of the GP, Bush must have impersonated every member of the house and senate because they're not aware of how the TSA came into existence/how a law is created. The Aviation and Transportation Act garnered broad bipartisan support.
Seems like the bias will be against manipulative algorithms. How does tiktok escape liability here? They give control of what is promoted to users to users.
> Apple was a completely new entrant into the space vs entrenched players that had already established sales channels

So? If anything it supports the point that iPhone wasn't an immediate success. It wasn't as successful as the Razr flip phone was before it, not for a while. The original point was just that it would have been difficult to predict the success of iPhone even after it released, because it didn't do that well at first.
No. Section 230 protects you if you remove objectionable content. This is about deciding which content to show to each individual user. If all your users get the same content, you should be fine.
There are many places you can get food and seeds that are verified to be non-GMO.

If you're trying to do a "reflections on trusting trust" reference, well, this is the real world. You might not ever be 100% sure that something is what it says it is (you might be a brain in a jar!), but it's usually better to get it from the guy you trust than the guy you don't.
No I think he/she was referring to his/her "big ISP".

It's very likely my packets don't go through it.
> 8 vs 16GB RAM, would that make a measurable power difference?

I think the short answer is.. it depends. Current draw depends on usage, supposedly from 10% at idle up to full when doing massive read/writes. But it should be in the two to three digit miliwatt range which isn't much compared to the N100 itself which pulls 6W at idle, being an inefficient x86 space heater.

The Pi 4 4GB can idle at 1W using LPDDR4, the Pi 5 8GB using 50% more efficient LPDDR4x idles at... 3W. Meanwhile the average 12GB LPDDR5X Android phone can idle a whole week on a tiny 1 cell lipo (with power saving mode on), making this look so bad it's actually funny.

The long standing problem with Pi Foundation products is a complete disregard for any low power states, sleep or hibernation, so they probably don't do any RAM related power optimization either. It's only now with the RP2350 that they've finally implemented some kind of working sleep mode for the very first time in anything at all.
It’s just for lunch.

Part of why this works is because Japanese school is structured differently from American school. In the US the class of students moves between teachers’ rooms; in Japan the teachers move between classrooms. So things like lunchroom coats that fit the particular students are always in the same place, and the lunch is served in the classroom so you’re only serving a few dozen people.
Something like "quote unlinked" is more terse/cryptic/technical, but at least it's something people will have to look up the meaning of, rather than misinterpret by default.
If so it'd be different in that regard. I was thinking of it more as the better-engineered underdog that lost out to the more corporate-friendly option.

IIRC it had full duplex unlike USB 1/2, it launched well before USB with a fast 400Mbps transfer speed and its hardware controller was sophisticated enough that it could work without much intervention from the OS.

But looking into the history, the patent situation was indeed grim. Likely that's what kept it in an Apple and DV niche until USB caught up.
As a joke, I wrote an Ibis backend (https://github.com/cpcloud/ibish) that processes expressions using shell commands strung together with named pipes. It supports joins using the coreutils join command, projections, filters and some aggregations with awk.

It's faster than pandas in some cases and folks should put it into production immediately!
Smarter summaries with switches and content references
You can also sinter sand into 3d structures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptUj8JRAYu8

In theory if you could manufacture lenses and optical fibers, you could 3d print active solar powered structures anywhere where there is enough sun. Imagine a 3d printed little bottlegarden, with a water collector using a heated silicagel cycle printed in situ on mars. Still low atmospheric pressure, but warm and wetter.
The safety of airports and air travel compromised by a simple SQL injection ?

What is it, the year 2000 ?

It should be a criminal offence for whoever developed that system.
Unproductive Claims about Generative AI in 2024
Oath.vote supposedly does not sell information but it's a shame they don't get nearly as much attention as ActBlue.

Perhaps it's time for people to start mailing cash and checks to campaigns instead of using online portals. The campaigns only need your name, employer info, and a valid mailing address and often provide forms on their site for this purpose.

Maybe after campaigns see that they're spending a bit more time opening physical mail from small donors they'll reconsider their strategy.
I'm pretty sure Kagi is like a normal search engine with AI integration like Google. Not an AI designed to be open source with an open dataset of knowledge it was trained on.
You know what, that's totally fair. I also do not trust them. I suppose I tend to assume the capacity for deception on this scale is rather limited.
I have a Carrier Infinity heat pump, and have been running https://github.com/acd/infinitive on a raspberry pi zero flawlessly for years. Cost less than $10 and with Alpine Linux running from ram, it still has the original SD card.
Orphaning Bcachefs Tools in Debian
Right? I missed the part where a business is "entitled" to that. There was a really good quote I've never been able to find again, along the lines of "just because a business has always done things a certain way, doesn't mean they are exempt from changes".
People who buy specific low cholesterol foods probably also buy drugs that lower cholesterol. The AI notices this correlation and makes a reasonable suggestion, and frankly it's pretty close since this guy was already concerned about it and in talks with his doctor.

It might suggest insulin for someone who buys a lot of sugar free candy.
As an advocate for peace in Gaza the moderation has been anything but light. Can't even use the word zionist on there.
Gmail Q&A: A new way of searching your inbox with Gemini on Android devices
Why do you think polars is likely to die soon?
Now for a followup question: How does any website surface any content when they're liable for the content?

When you can be held liable for surfacing the wrong (for unclear definitions of wrong) content to the wrong person, even Google could be held liable. Imagine if this child found a blackout video on the fifth page of their search results on "blackout". After all, YouTube hosted such videos as well.
You got it right there Germany can’t satisfy demand with renewables and decided to cut itself of from coal and nuclear, brilliant right!?

Cherry on top some powerful player blew up Nordstream forcing Germany to buy exorbitantly expensive LNG.

Your argument to stop using LNG doesn’t work if you have many parts of industry build with gas infrastructure which can’t be replaced just like that.
I have taken a look at screenity, and I like it. I really like the fact that it is totally local. Thanks for sharing.
I have used Firefox on android since 2018. I have never encountered a bug. Not a UI hiccup, not something doing something unexpected, not slowdowns, not crashing, not anything.

I routinely open links in the default android browser (chrome now), and it literally crumbles under the weight of ads in your average article, and then open it in firefox and uBlock means it runs great and any issue I was having disappears.

>I don't quite understand the appeal of Firefox

It's not chromium based, so Google can't force it to grow in the direction that only benefits their infrastructure like they do so much with chrome, and uBlock is a strictly better ad blocking system than anything I have ever used. I don't think Brave is independent, as they are beholden to the Chrome team's architectural decisions and design goals. It attempts to send less tracking information to people tracking me (with a caveat that Mozilla themselves do a little first party tracking and advertising, which I consider morally less wrong than Google's entire business), and is not incentivized to make the web a worse place for the sole purpose of increasing Google's share price.
Which would make the cost of each mirror higher, right? Additional processing will naturally increase the cost per unit.

By the way, super cool project and thank you for sharing. My experiments with concentrating sun power when I was a child were directly related to the spontaneous combustion of insects. Still making amends for the number of ant hills my brother and I cooked with the sun.
This doesn't look good for Boar's Head. A kind of similar case happened here in Spain in 2019, also in a meat processing plant. 4 people died in that case.

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/08/23/inenglish/15665...
It doesn't seem particularly unique to TSA. Flying elsewhere in the world has essentially identical security screening, with all the same stupidity.

I'm a little butthurt right now, in particular, about the security at Heathrow. They confiscated a bottle of whisky that we got in Edinburgh. After 10 minutes of head-scratching and consulting with a supervisor, they concluded that "it does not say 100ml" (it had "10cl" cast into the glass) and "even then, that is just the size of the bottle, not the liquid inside it." What an incredible demonstration of intelligence there.

They gave us a receipt and said we could have it shipped. We checked when we got home. 130 GBP with shipping. Ended up just buying a 700ml bottle from an importer, cost about half as much.
Those kind of wheels turn very slowly. I will bet any takers $50 that Ian will be prosecuted.
California passes bill requiring easier data sharing opt outs
The new legislation creates an “opt-out preference signal” tool which would let citizens opt out of sharing their information by simply pushing a button to activate the signal on their internet browser, which would then send opt out requests to every website consumers visit by default.
Kubernetes the Harder Way
This has been a long time coming. The 12-factors have guided us well, but the ecosystem has changed.

The point we're at now reminds me a lot of Java in 2010. Everything was complex--too complex--and the "best practices" led to operational toil. The 12-factor manifesto ushered in a period of simplification that brought us out of big enterprise web servers, and into containers with executable jar files.

Similarly, the cloud-native ecosystem is brimming with complexity. It's time to establish patterns that result in more scalable, portable, and maintainable apps. Updating the 12-factor is how we'll do it.
What was surprising to me was that they didn't immediately do pre-dawn raids on the pentesters' homes and hold them without a lawyer under some provision of an anti-terror law.
>I can sue the corporation. I can start a competing corporation.

Ah, the libertarian way.

I, earning $40,000 a year will take on the corporate giant that has a multimillion dollar legal budget and 30 full time lawyers and win... I know, I saw it in a movie once.

The law books are filled with story after story of corporations doing fully illegal shit, then using money to delay it in court for decades... then laughably getting a tiny fine that represents less than 1% of the profits.

TANSTAFL.
cool to see this launch, actually came across this a few weeks ago and tried it out, really nice for local dev :)
Hmm. Maybe what "counts as an observer" is relative to your reference frame, and so is the concept of "superposition". And thus, though the cat is making observations within its environment, since the environment is sealed off, the cat is not "an observer" from our reference frame because there is no interaction between us and the cat. From the cat's reference frame it is probably not in a superposition - If it is observing anything, it is alive, and if it is dead, it is not observing anything. But if we observe the cat, the wave function is collapsed from our reference frame and the cat is in one or the other state.

My understanding of quantum mechanics is pretty shallow so take this with an ocean of salt.
It depends, a lot of composite materials are actually stronger than just solid wood, while being lighter and easier to move. Sometimes there are too many shortcuts though.

Wood veneer over cheaper materials has been common for over a century at this point though.
There should be an automated way to customize the setup using a series or checkboxes and/radio buttons options. Check VSCode, Git, Java version whatever, click Run, come back in an hour, and it is done. Helpdesk workers should not need to be involved.
In all practical terms, subnormal is the same as denormal (a non-normalized number with the smallest possible exponent).

I think this is a situation where there's confusion over precision of terminology, so things have shifted to a new term which is consistently used. Subnormal is now the new preferred terminology for denormal, I think out of confusion as to whether or not unnormal numbers were also denormal (I have never heard the term so used, but I'm also not a great connoisseur of non-IEEE 754 floating-point).

There's a similar attempt to shift use of the term "mantissa" to "significand", since a mantissa implies that the number is in the range [0, 1), whereas the usual implementation in a floating point type is to use the range [1, base).
Note that the post is from 2017, and pandas now has (optional) support for PyArrow backed dataframes. So there is movement away from the critiques that were presented there.
Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits
It's all tangential to the point.

> So you think it's a crime to allow people speak things you don't like?

That was the original question which was clearly designed to trap me in an opinion pitfall. I was making sure I was referencing external sources when responding to that, but nobody seemed willing to take what I wrote in context.
> due to safety concerns

Seems just a rehash of the same old excuse: "someone think of the children!" which usually comes from people not giving a damn about children but worried about their own interests.
Haha totally fair and it happens to me too, but trying to work on it.

I actually have some stuff I'm working on in that area that is having some success. I do need to extend it to diffusion but I see nothing stopping me.

Personally I think a major slowdown for our community is it's avoidance of math. Like you don't need to have tons of math in the papers, but many of the lessons you learn in the higher level topics do translate to usable techniques in ML. Though I would also like to see a stronger push on theory because empirical results can be deceiving (Von Neumann's elephant and all)
Depends. If no one currently cares, there is no significant structure or personnel or political change in the future several years, and they don't have any assets worth taking, and the government doesn't get any more desperate for assets to seize -- then they're out of the woods.
A new open dataset release, Hermes Function Calling V1
If your needs are greater than a Pi but not at the level where you want to be buying professional server hardware, I can recommend checking if you or a family member still has a laptop they're not using anymore. Free hardware that would otherwise end up going to waste, and anything that had good performance in 2012 is still faster than a new Pi today. The older, the more likely it is to have replaceable RAM so you can stick in 16GB easily (older RAM types are also cheaper)
Hey hey!

Yeah I think that makes sense! I don't do that kind of work and so it's more usual in the kinds of code I write.
Yes I've traveled abroad extensively and as a tourist that's nice it's a just know that the price I see is the price I'm going to pay. As a local I like understanding how much of my payment is going to tax. I really wish gasoline tax in the US was shown what it is at your gas station when purchasing it. And knowing the amount of money you're giving away in tax should be an incentive for most people to be more involved in their government at all levels.
I'm being paid to write Kotlin at the moment. I _still_ prefer modern Java and it's what I use for personal stuff.
This wasn't a request to rewrite anything in Rust. This was a request to have the facilities to build Rust in FreeBSD base (which includes userland and kernel code). Specifically the request was to write new code in Rust.
IIUC the main difference is that third-party cookies are not blocked, but scoped to the top-level domain.

So if you visit games.example which loads tracker.example it can set cookies. However these cookies are only used while you are on games.example. If you start browsing comics.example which also loads tracker.example it will start with no cookies, but can set cookies that only affect comics.example.

This way cross-site cookies can still be used for auth, experiments, spam protection or whatever else. But you can't do cross-site tracking as each top-level site had a separate cookie jar.
See also: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...
Unfortunately, the biases of newspapers and social media sites are only diverse if they are not all under the strong influence of the wealthy.

Even if they may have different skews on some issues, under a system where all such entities are operated entirely for-profit, they will tend to converge on other issues, largely related to maintaining the rights of capital over labor and over government.
> * A Pi will sit much lower in total power consumption than almost any used PCs if both are doing effectively nothing (ie - simple, spiky tasks like filtering DNS, serving static content from RAM, etc.). You need to be doing something with the system before a PC server comes out ahead, and most people using a Pi as a home server... aren't.

That's not necessarily true since the Pis are particularly terrible at idle power consumption. E.g. the "power off" state consumption shown in the article is actually higher than the idle consumption of some low-power Atom/Celeron x86 chips. The Pi is just terrible at power management.