skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tempest in a teapot. The SEM photos are likely taken by a specialist technician who is not an author but who is known to the authors of the paper.

A grad student who is n-th author on the paper copied and pasted the instrument name from a previous paper, because (a) that paper used photos from the same SEM, (b) the grad student has never seen the SEM, (c) the name and model number of the SEM doesn't actually matter (gasp!) it's more included for tradition than anything else because the contents of the image are what matters - no one who tries to replicate the experiment in a lab will care what SEM model was used, they'll use the SEM they have at their own lab, period.

Of course copy-and-paste damage happens in an area that no one but this "researcher" cares about or bothers to read.

This is about turning data mining into drama factories, nothing more.
Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge by Sebastian Thrun [video]
Google TechTalks
August 2, 2006
ABSTRACT
The DARPA grand challenge, technical details enabling Sebastian Thrun's win, and an introduction to the next phase called "The Urban Grand Challenge".
Anyone who tries to manipulate anyone in any matter is a fool.

Sales is necessary to every organisation however. There is no "built it and they will come".

Marketing in my mind should be about providing easy access to the right information so that human beings can make informed decisions. Sometimes you have to "push" that information or your message to the people you want to reach. Not everyone will magically find your wisdom.
Generative AI Transformed English Homework, Math Is Next
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You can see this in the fact that RISC-V and ARM architectures have caught up with x86 performance

Concerning RISC-V having caught up with x86 performance: dream on ... :-(
Starliner return from ISS set for Sept. 6 – SpaceNews
Various businesses provide paid service called 見守りサービス to have someone (or a machine) check up on you. The idea is to detect health emergencies early enough and act on getting help, in case family members and neighbors can't. Not that that is the best option, but at least money can help to some extent.
Curious if you might have situations where the really good image for publication is taken from a higher quality device, while the day to day work is done with an array of cheaper devices.
The tone of this article is moderately condescending to engineers.

> Engineers want to believe they are not influenced by ad copy—and that they make their decisions based on technical facts that are beyond a copywriter’s understanding. Let them believe it—as long as they respond to our ads and buy our products.

Engineers prefer to buy from ads where it is clear the copywriter understood the product they are selling.

> There is a raging debate about whether engineers respond better to a straight technical approach, clever consumer-style ads, or something in between.

You can be creative, as long as the critical facts are present and easy to find.

> Engineers are not turned off by jargon—in fact, they like it. ... Why is jargon effective? Because it shows the reader that you speak his language.

Maybe, maybe not. Too much jargon is as much of a turnoff as not enough jargon. It's more about knowing when to turn it on and when to turn it off.
> I don't think dead people care how long they've been dead before they're found. It's unpleasant to think about dead bodies sitting around, but ultimately not their biggest problem.

I think one unspoken assumption is that if someone is checking in with you regularly, they might actually find you before you die, and either call an ambulance to help you, or notice that something might be a problem before it becomes severe.
There usually is some initial setup where you can set how much salt (to help with hard water) and rinse aid the dishwasher should use. You can set the rinse aid to zero.
Imo "substantial set of features" is pretty ambiguous. If you're using search software, then you have a search use case in your product. At what point does your product cross the threshold into a competitor?

It seems risky to use in anything exposed as a customer facing feature

Search may be 10% of your software but what if your software is a managed email provider (or really anything) and you're pretty much exposing Elasticsearch directly through a minimal interface?
This is super nice!
There's a double space on this page: https://www.otherbranch.com/for-engineers in "arbitrary black box" and it's really annoying me, but I can't see anyway to tell anyone about it
If it's just for you, you could simply SSH forward the nextcloud's port to your machine. No need to deal with domains and TLS at all.
The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M
In another post he tested a water bottle and it had 960mg/l calcium in it, normal levels for drinking water was 25.
Where the computer industry went wrong
Here are the ones I currently read (most) every issue:

https://thehustle.co, https://zsa.io/the-ergo, https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com, https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff, https://www.calhoun.io, https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com, https://inside.com (tech, streaming), https://www.thefp.com, https://ground.news
Tammany Hall
Very real.

My relationship with my parents is extremely complicated at best. Therapy is literally why I have a relationship with them at all.

This is fairly common in the particular circle I grew up in (deeply religious and very conservative), and I didn’t see a healthy parent/child relationship until I started dating someone from a very different background. It was eye opening.
Gamers Nexus is not very technical though, they probably don't understand how a CPU works.
Well, there's a source if not a market - LLMs.

https://www.proofnews.org/apple-nvidia-anthropic-used-thousa...
Not bothered.

I dont do commercial celebration days.

I dont do predatory AI driven online monopolists.

Amazon the company takes $0.45-$0.51 out of every dollar that its sellers earn, and requires them to offer their lowest price on Amazon.

No one has a 45-51% margin, so every seller jacks up their prices on Amazon, but you don't notice it, because Amazon forces them to jack up prices everywhere else.

I dont support that either

I only buy online from independents
Oh, but they can put blinky video ads all over the page so no matter where you look there are things to distract you.

yeah yeah adblock pihole yes I know.
You obviously don't know much about how a blockchain works, haven't spent a minute thinking about the answers to your questions, and think no one else has either. Your concerns are unoriginal as far as blockchain technology is concerned, and solutions easily exist to each issue.
That is not remote: instead of weeks on camels you can easily fly basically anywhere.

But a good example of remote is Nulato, Alaska.
> Social decay is a real phenomenon

Calling this decay is an incredibly short sighted view of the actual changes that are happening. Kids used to grow up in toxic households with parents fighting and hating each other. Just look at old TV shows like Married with Children and The Honeymooners.

Now they grow up with an absent parent. I'm the latter and I'm really happy my parents chose divorce over keeping up appearances and giving me a shitty life. Domestic abuse in general has also been on a pretty steady decline because of the decrease in societal pressure to stay married.
It’s not universally true but some of the comments here play into this stereotype perfectly.
I love that the creators are considering adding gradual types.

Given TypeScript’s popularity, it’s clear that developers really appreciate types. Honestly, the lack of types is what eventually drove me away from Clojure.
+1 to WireGuard. For people new to it, there are some great scripts which set up and configure it for you like https://github.com/Nyr/wireguard-install
Alternatively, recalibrate your expectations. A port scan is nothing, hardly even qualifies as an attack. It's Internet background radiation. You want to go to space, there's background radiation in space, you want to go on the Internet, there's background radiation on the Internet. And if you aren't running vulnerable services, this port scanning radiation is equivalent of eating another banana per month.

It only bothers you because you're looking directly at it in your console. If you bring an overly sensitive Geiger counter on your aeroplane ride, you might be alarmed, but if you're not aware of it, it won't hurt you at all.

I am also surprised by internal services being exposed to the internet, but that's for two reasons: (1) I don't trust most programs' authentication systems, and (2) I don't want people to know which services I'm using internally - not from a technical security standpoint, but sometimes just privacy. But things that are supposed to be on the Internet, that I trust to have a strong front door (or be suitably sandboxed) - they can be on the Internet all day.

Port scanning is just the Internet equivalent of walking around the city taking notes on whose lights are on. Stalkerish? Maybe a bit. But it's public info.

By the way: ssh -w makes a VPN tunnel interface, but it won't auto-configure the rest of the VPN like actual VPN products do.
Do you have a balcony facing south? You might be able to just buy some solar panels, a battery, and a microinverter and set it up on your balcony. You won't be able to sell your electricity back to the grid, but you can perhaps greatly reduce the amount of grid electricity you use.
Like something you'd see in a movie and think "well, that could never really happen". Yikes.
Same here. Coincidentally I just upgraded from 8 GB to 32 GB and this was the first time my new RAM was full. FF ate 30 GB! :-)

I also didn't saw the memory usage in process manager, only in Windows Task Manager. Also interesting: Closing the tab did not release the memory, the process keeps eating more RAM until I kill it. By the way, I'm using FF 115.14.0esr.
For me, Anandtech often scratched the itch that once upon a time was satisfied by Byte, 2600, and some of the trade magazines. Sad day.
IMO traffic enforcement is convenient busywork to keep cops occupied until capital needs them for something specific. As a bonus, it generates lots of interactions with the public that they can choose to turn violent if they want to let off some steam, and so keeps a persistent note of terror playing.
That's a poor comparison to this case.

Would Mercedes be liable if the car (i.e. the algorithm) decided to run over someone?
you can statically configure if you don't have a zillion hosts
Well-written and thoughtful.

The "create a system to play a game" is actually referenced in one of Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" short stories.

I find it really sad that Gibson didn't read Hesse --- almost as sad that I haven't met a person IRL who has since I was in the military.

Surprised to see this link here, since it speaks more to society and ethics and technical aspects --- which again, I'm bummed by because I've found the various thoughts about using "The Glass Bead Game" as a matrix/construct/template for programming and information systems fascinating, and have really wished that one would be workable for the population at large and become popular/influential.

The problem as I understand it is that the representation presentation is bounded by screen-sized chunks, so reviewing/parsing it creates this problem of which direction does one scroll in, and by how much --- but if you try to increase the density by modularizing with functions and subroutines then you return to the textual representation which presumably you were trying to escape from, just wrapped up in drawn boxes and highlighted by lines/nodes, because it seems to sideskip a fundamental question which we don't seem to have an answer for:

>What does an algorithm look like?

I've been trying to do this sort of thing for 3D:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/osge_cut...

but am currently working using a hacked-together Literate Programming system (see literati.sty in the above repository) which at least reduces scrolling to one dimension (up/down) and allows one to do it in a PDF which has a ToC, marginalia, hyperlinks, and indices --- all of which framing seems to reduce my cognitive load sufficiently that I'm hopeful one more re-write will get me to a point where I can evaluate if re-creating at least portions of it in OpenSCAD Graph Editor will be sufficiently expressive that including the images of the code will be worthwhile.

By way of contrast, the ethical problems of society are arguably solved by being awash in data and record-keeping --- recent conflicts have demonstrated that there is no need for military efforts against stateless actors, since instead, there is sufficient potential bandwidth in terms of individual legal action to put forward arrest warrants for those who have committed terrorist/criminal acts, which can then be acted on by law-abiding societies working in concert --- the problem of course is that that is a two-way street, and there are very few governments willing to subject themselves to such scrutiny. Hopefully, society as a whole will step forward and insist on such transparency and evaluation of legal proceedings, and punishment systems.
Sales people are trying to discern what pain you are facing, your level of urgency for solving that pain, the consequences if you don't solve it, your budget, and your authority to make a purchasing decision.

SDRs/BDRs are often compensated by a "meetings set" goal. They may linger on the phone with you if they think you will agree to a meeting with an account exec. But outside of this initial marketing outreach, effective sales people don't want to waste their time with you. Much more so than engineers, they are measured and paid on objective results and specific productivity metrics.
Or don't care if no one finds you when you're dead. What does it matter if someone finds you in a day or a month? You are dead.

Not having many close relationships when you die is probably a better net benefit. People are crushed when their parents pass.
> Gamers Nexus on YouTube appears to be carrying the torch of obsessively in-depth coverage.

Although via videos rather than articles, sadly.

It's sad how much information is moving to a much slower and data-intensive medium. The same is happening in lots of other areas as well, like game development. Articles always been easier for me to consume, but more and more valuable information is moving into videos these days that it's hard to avoid even though I prefer other mediums...
Show HN: JSONhost – An hosting platform for JSON files
Hi HN!
After way too many nights, I finally launched my side project JSONhost.com.

It’s a tool to make managing JSON files as painless as possible: upload, share, and let non-tech people edit it without you needing to jump in.

I built this because I was tired of spending time tweaking JSON variables and redeploying for every tiny request. Now, someone else can directly do it.

Would love any feedback, or just tell me it’s a terrible idea so I can move on.

It doesn't need an account to try it.
My great aunt had 6 children, and arguably raised them alright. They had all moved on with their lives and she died alone. My grandma and I were the only family that spent even a little time with her.

There is no solution for growing old and dying.
Garmin Fenix 8 AMOLED review
Putting in a plug for Open BCI

https://shop.openbci.com/collections/openbci-products

which has been making EEG equipment for DIY use for years, and has some scientific validity claims.

Including their
https://shop.openbci.com/products/ultracortex-mark-iv
for the same price as the article's

No affiliation, just a fan.
The comments about "AnandTech’s rebuke of sensationalism, link baiting, and the path to shallow 10-o'clock-news reporting" are interesting.

Sounds like it difficult to make enough to survive unless you're doing these things.

Which I suspect ties back to things like Google (and others) neglecting the quality of organic search, pushing it down the page, etc. Or competing with quality content by exposing it in snippets and AI summaries with only subtle ways to get to the actual article.

I suppose, if that's the case, those practices eventually eat their own tail. No new Anandtech content to ignore or copy now, for example.
AWS CEO: In 2 years...it's possible that most developers are not coding
https://www.404media.co/
Everyone is attempting all attacks all the time from everywhere. Why not secure yourself so the attempts fail?
It's not that simple

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%27s_theorem_(diffe...

So it's important to keep in mind the difference between integral and anti-derivative.
And note that as soon you say "within an epsilon" you're already on the other side of "not a lot of info" vs "infinite info". So global, local doesn't matter, especially since eg an analytic function is completely determined by it's derivatives at a single point (good ol Taylor's theorem).
One of them comments right here.
Is there anything like this for Linux (i.e. user-friendly blockers for the entire OS, not just the browser)

I love the screen time feature on my iPhone to set nonnegotiable time limits for myself. However, I have not found any good solution for Linux I am happy with so far.
I interpret the below quote as: if there was a wav file and an mp3 file, they dumped the mp3 and created an mp4/aac from the wav (saving both the wav and the mp4/aac pair). Where there only was an mp3 file I assume they kept the mp3. Hence, not a lossy transcoding process.

> Some radio broadcasts were stored as mp3 and wav files, with accompanying checksum files. Other broadcasts were only stored as mp3. Before the re-archiving process began, it was decided to generate new MP4 playback files from the wav files to replace the varying qualities of the old mp3 files.
Opened in the sense of "user working on/with them" corresponds to stuff displayed on your desktop. The mapping is then:

Open tabs :: books on a bookshelf

Tabs on screen :: books open on your desk

Most people tend to have 0 or 1 books laying open on their desk at once. Similarly, most people tend to have 0 or 1 tabs visible on their screen at any given time. In special cases, people tend to have multiple books open on their desk, or tabs visible on screen, but that number is unlikely to be larger than 10. Having 100 books on a bookshelf or 100 tabs in a browser is not a problem.
Very sad, but Anandtech has been on a downslope since Anand left. Once that happened it seemed like they almost instantly went from publishing many times a week to only occasionally pushing out content, usually quite delayed. The quality was still very good though and I always tried to find an Anandtech review of whatever it was I was looking for. Did the publishers just cheap out and stop paying for enough articles? Or did people lose motivation when they found themselves working for a faceless corp instead of Anand?
That’s great, but data is also real:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10666570/#:~:te....

I.e. on average your life would have been even better if your parents were awesome.
The parallel is Amazon called their offering Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
Pure PV farms have minimal operational costs, nuclear has huge ongoing costs. For a more realistic comparison the operating costs of nuclear offset the cost of batteries for solar.

So capital costs vs capital costs on a per Wh basis isn’t in favor of Solar it favors nuclear which has less flexibility. IE: 24 GWh per day of battery backed solar can dump half that power over 2 hours @ 6GW. 24GWh of nuclear IE a 1GWh reactor caps out at 1GW. If you want to ramp to 6GW of output nuclear needs several nuclear reactors and all of their associated costs.

> Modern reactors have load following capabilities

Load following isn’t free for nuclear, any time you’re not operating at 100% you’re losing money. Batteries are inherently way more flexible.

It also costs more to build a load following reactor and they have more experience maintenance issue due to thermal stress. Nuclear inherently favors steady state operations due to the Xe pit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_pit) but it also requires being taken offline for long periods for maintaining, refurbishing, and or refueling.
I just quickly tried to fit the whole rp2040+ethernet phy in the WIZ850io formfactor (mainly because I already used that module in some projects before) and have not yet been able to make it fit without using the more expensive jlcpcb features like burried vias. It would be very cool to have though since the W5500 really needs an update.
yt-dlp audio only, and stuff that into whisper: video to text in ~30 seconds.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that the definition of "open source" that narrowly defines open source is going to be the thing that contributes to the reduction of open source software.

Open source communities are essentially anarchist syndicates, collectively working towards common good. Groups like Amazon coming in and taking their work and selling it, profiting to the tune of millions, and contributing nothing back will fundamentally alter the dynamics of the system.

IMO, we need a definition of open source that permits me to limit users to those who aren't actively exploiting me. GPL flavors get close, but not sufficient.

I believe, genuinely, in wellbeing for all, and that we should be working towards the common good of all. Open source is one such effort, but I'm tired of seeing people say, "it's only open source if the code is also permitted to be used against the common good and for the enrichment of a very select few already wealthy people."
I didn't find it too buggy personally, in fact it has an unexpected level of composability between libraries that I found exciting. Stuff "just works". But I felt it lacked performance in practical areas such as file I/O and one-off development in notebooks (e.g. plotting results), which is really important in the initial stages of model development.

(I also remember getting frustrated by frequent uninterruptible kernel hangs in Jupyter, but that might have been a skill issue on my part. But it was definitely a friction I don't encounter with python. When I was developing in Julia I remember feeling anxiety/dread about hitting enter on new cells, double and triple checking my code lest I initiate an uninterruptible error and have to restart my kernel and lose all my compilation progress, meaning I'll have to wait a long time again to run code and generate new graphs.)
It's something that seldom comes up in conversation due to politeness and the strong likelihood that it will cause discomfort, but a few friends I know intimately have reported bad relationships and questionable parenting only after long personal conversations when we're alone.

A causal factor is the tendency to normalise early experiences, even if they are neglectful or abusive. This means many are unaware or reluctant to realise their upbringing wasn't that good when they are older. Without critical examination the early experiences and the assumptions you had as a child are carried into adulthood. So a lot of people will say their parents are 'loving' even if they were far from it.
Author writes

> I really couldn’t connect the “elite” who graduated from a prestigious university in China and worked for one of the top three companies in the world with “criminals”.

You are probably seriously underestimating her
Then don't use it? It's non-functional right? I don't get where the complaints come in.

Side note: Security in these discussions is often something more like "It works with my single sign on system" or "It lets me check this box on my audit form". Security doesn't only have to happen at the app layer and it's completely doable to isolate any software in a way that is is secure despite itself. So it's less security and more convenient security that is being demanded for free most often by people who offer nothing for free themselves. The entitlement is really extreme.