skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Policy at $Job - all important data is backed up to a rotation of high-quality hard drives. Which are stored off-site, powered down. Every N weeks, each one of them is powered up (in an off-line system) and checked - both with the SMART long test, and `zfs scan` (which verifies ZFS's additional anti-bit-rot checksums for the data).

Yes, it's a bit of a PITA. OTOH, modern HD's are huge, so a relative few are needed. And we've lost 0 bits of our off-site data in our >25 years of using that system.
Sure, but we were on the clock against Germany. Are there similar pressures today?

Put differently: what's the strategic impact of a 2 month delay?
Probably a lot of the problem GP is describing comes from people having inconsistent distance to their microphone, moving around a lot. Then using an audio compressor effect plugin is an appropriate answer.

I've often thought about adding a compressor pedal to my TV sound system. It would be excellent for when you're watching action movies with hard to hear dialogue mixed with loud noises, and the kids are asleep, so you spend the evening turning volume up and down eight times per minute.
It does use cash unless the company dilutes the stock by adding more shares. And if they dilute stock, they're effectively taking money from the existing shareholders. There's no free lunch.
Because Hubble was designed for in-orbit servicing by the STS, it had it's optics, CCD systems, and even the flight computers (not originally designed for in-orbit servicing!) replaced over the various servicing missions. The differences between WF/PC 1 and WFC 3 is the difference between going into space in 1990 with mid-80's hardware and going into space in 2009.

Since the 2009 Service Mission 4, Hubble tech has held steady, but until then it was regularly being upgraded to state-of-the-art.
I didn't say anything about a timeline for _solving_ these, just that the short timeline for drop off in demand for compute is unfounded since there is still so much ground to cover. The article takes the shortsighted view that the current state of text generation feels like it's in a lull (I strongly disagree with this for a variety of reasons chief among them being that 1. the supposed stall in progress hasn't gone on long enough to call it and 2. the big players are all focusing on productization and making the current SOTA as cheap as possible to improve their bottom line and expand its applicability) but there are a large number of other domains and sub-domains where these techniques can be applied and will likely see similar rapid advances as the amount of available data increases.
> eventually these fake humans will have lower error rates than real ones

Source?
OnStar has been tracking locations and able to be used for conversation monitoring since the 90s.
> Also there are a lot of trucks that are not a dual wheeled F350. I feel like that is a misrepresentation when people are overwhelmingly buying half ton trucks like the F150.

Doesn't change the the vast majority of F-150's are not being used for actual truck-appropriate tasks. They're hundred-thousand-dollar grocery getters, and like, I wouldn't give half a shit what other people are buying and running, if not for the fact that we're currently on-pace to boil ourselves to death and a chief cause of that is oversized vehicles that require more energy to move than otherwise, while offering more and larger blind-spots and more aggressive designs that heighten their ability to kill people, so that a middle-aged accountant can feel like "more of a man" than he would in a van.

> Also keep in mind, full size SUVs (like the Yukon) are similar in size to a half ton trucks.

Yes, which is why they're arguably even worse since you just have a vehicle with the dimensions of a truck, that lacks the capabilities a truck offers. Not that most consumers need EITHER ONE but that's neither here nor there.

> but also just hauling a family and gear around

Literally any class of vehicle is better than this. For decades prior to SUV's becoming dominant, people accomplished all of this in minivans and station wagons, which offer more carrying capacity than an SUV (thanks to not having so much dead space in the middle behind interior panels and styling) and they offer a lower loading height, which makes them easier to take things in an out of.

An SUV is just a van, but worse, and sitting an extra foot off the ground that it doesn't need to, which also thanks to sharing suspension components and engines with the truck it's based on, gets worse fuel economy than it could, so higher fuel costs, and inherits the higher maintenance costs of the truck too.

You're literally any way you go as a family man further ahead buying a van, a station wagon, a sedan, or an MPV.
I’ve been tempted to get a drone by falling prices. However, living in a small, densely populated country (the Netherlands) drones are practically useless. Looking at a map of no-fly zones for drones, they cover almost the entire country. The few spots where flying a drone is allowed have nothing worth photographing in them, unless you’re very interested in aerial photographs of fields with cows in them.

Such a shame, because it seems like a really fun thing to play around with.
There is a secondary issue of LLM's taking questions literally, and not really being able to (at the moment) deny the premise of a question. For example, if you google benefits of circumcision, the LLM will quite literally print all the benefits. But it also wont contextualize them, it wont frame them, it wont provide counter arguments, it just responds literally to the question.
Which is a great way to have a company full of people who can’t be fired with no motivation, harming the parent organization
In some alternate timeline, there's yet another attack vector of noise from still-in-use floppy drives. (In addition to other less-obsoleted things like flatbed scanners.)

Much the same way that people have used them to make music.

https://www.theverge.com/24034551/floppy-disk-music-scene-un...
Paperwhites come in multiple colors...

"color e-book" does not return a b&w Paperwhite in the first page, which disproves your assertion.
Question is more implied than literal. Why are you commenting on cruft in NT when the article is all about Unix cruft? Why no mention about the contrast? No snark. Honest question.
Building my own podcast feed
Economy is a prime example of a field where a bit of knowledge is worse than no knowledge, and nothing is more deranged than someone who has completed Econ 101, and thinking they now understand the world:-P
And IIRC there is some law saying that if you renounce citizenship to avoid taxation, you might never be able to enter the US again.

EDIT: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Amendment_(immigration) (Thanks, ChatGPT!)
Distracted pedestrians is a good guess. I regularly see people on their smartphones crossing the street when they don’t have right of way (like no blinking walking sign). There is also a trend of a lot of pedestrians dying at night, for which there are various theories if you do a search for this topic. But more than 75% of pedestrian deaths are at night.

Note that road fatalities per capita is 85% of what it was 20 years ago, and it is similarly lower if you look at it on a per mile driven basis. Sales of consumer trucks is 150% of what it was 20 years ago, despite the reduction in fatalities over that time. So I don’t think we can really attribute deaths to trucks or SUVs.
The NY Times is mostly subscription funded now:

> Subscription revenue in the quarter grew 7.3 percent, to $439.3 million, compared with the previous year. Total advertising revenue was up 1.2 percent, at $119.2 million.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/business/media/new-york-t....
> the management better starts to analyze how you can reduce the number of, in this case, tech workers because with thin margins

This happens anyway, regardless of how well a company is doing. Tech has been laying off workers with record profits and very high margins. But I trust the workers to have better insight than you (or me) of whether the strike is beneficial for them or not in the long run.
> I like Git Bash because…

> I’m more comfortable with bash commands than CMD or PowerShell commands (because I’ve been using Bourne shell (sh) and friends for more than 30 years).

This is the only argument I'm willing to accept, and honestly it's the only argument the writer needs, really: un-learning 30 years of experience to use something else even if the latter is objectively superior, would be a pain in the neck for anyone.

That being said I believe that seriously attempting to use the native tools would help the author understand Windows at a more fundamental level.

Also, this does raise a few questions, though—if the writer has been using UNIX shells for that long, why are they using Windows at all? As I commented elsewhere, why shoehorn the whole set of UNIX core utilities and binary utilities onto Windows when the latter comes with its own shell, command-line utilities, and management tools? More importantly, the author going by the rest of their posts (assuming it was the same author) doesn't strike me as the type (i.e. normie, for lack of a better word) to use Windows as a daily driver, but they seem to use it all the same. Therefore, why not an OS where these utilities feel more native and more useful, like Linux or one of the BSDs?

In contrast to the author I've been using and programming almost nothing but Windows (with a brief stint on Linux in university and now at work, but only for work), and on Windows I use PowerShell and if I really need to, CMD.exe (good riddance). As far as compilation goes, I use Visual Studio with MSVC and Clang-Cl, because they are the only complete development environment for Windows—all the others (MinGW, Cygwin, MSYS2) are incomplete or worse in some way, or make life harder than necessary in some way.

> I have experience using Windows PowerShell (powershell.exe), but do not yet have experience using the cross- platform PowerShell Core (pwsh).

For the record, functionality between powershell.exe and pwsh.exe is almost identical, with some minor differences[1]. Additionally they differ in the .NET runtime they were written against (.NET Framework 4.8 for powershell.exe, and .NET 7 and later for pwsh.exe).

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/powershell/scripting/whats...
A very useful guide about how diffusion models work and implementation: https://keras.io/examples/generative/ddim/

I find the explanation in this article very intuitive.
I listen to a number of podcasts which are reading books, stories, literature, etc. Having a professional actor read a text has appeal (e.g., Selected Shorts), but many are less-than-professional. A sufficiently-competent automated text-to-speech would fit at least some roles.

There are a few podcasts for which I'd have greater interest if the narration were by someone other than the current host....

There are also services such as the National Library for the Blind (UK) and BARD (US) which provide books, including a large number of audiobooks, for the blind. Automated text-to-speech would make a vastly larger library available, particularly of very recent publications, niche publications, and long-since-out-of-print books. Such services do take requests, but tend to focus on works published within the past five years.
You need to work on the speed. Its painfully slow. Also the videos overflow on mobile devices. A suggestion is to start the videos at the relevant time(t parameter). You could also use an intersectional observer to detect when videos come into view on mobile so they auto play, when in view.
mintty is a great TTY emulator for Windows
> The 1st [subpoena] was someone sent a bomb threat email to a university. The 2nd one was someone sending a phishing email.

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> I one day hope to resume running exits as I find it rewarding to be able to help people from around the world in a small way.

This really doesn't strike you as cognitive dissonance? I mean, yes, I get it, it's easy to construct a scenario where you're "helping people". But you're also "helping" people engage in terrorism and identity theft in exactly the same way.

Surely that deserves at least a little thought and moral calculus, no? You're not making a first principles argument about fundamental rights or anything, you're saying you run exits because it's "helping". Well, shouldn't it help more than it hurts?
The end goal is probably to get you to do what you did, which is shut down the exit node. If they make it painful to run a Tor exit node, they make Tor harder to use.
I was just going to post that you could probably make an autoencoder over flowers and use it as an embedding to probe genomic alterations that tweak the flower generator functions
Laws are also often intentionally written in such a way to be both hard to understand and ambiguous. Such rarely exercised laws are really only made manifest once tested by a court of law.

It's basically impossible to protect yourself via the word of law. Because when the rubber hits the road the judge can interpret whatever they want. Unless there is precedent even the best lawyers are just guessing.
Would the F-35 actually show up on SAR or does the radar absorbent material distort the image somehow?
No, I think it's an engineer in search of a fun challenge
Feldera stream processing 6.2X Flink on Nexmark Benchmark
Why adding and then removing HTTP headers of a existing request for routing instead of adding a dedicated (custom) routing protocol above the HTTP stack? This would allow to just drop the added protocol on the outbound and be much more space efficient.
Lots of people and organizations facilitate crime. That’s not generally the legal standard. They typically must be proved to done so intentionally (or with reckless disregard)
> The core question here is w whether law enforcement actually believes, incorrectly, that the exit node operators are being intentionally unhelpful

They could keep logs, but they choose not to. They are intentionally unhelpful.

The reason they aren't keeping logs is not for the privacy of others.

If I run an exit node, I know I am not reading the logs to garner personal information of others. And unless someone hacks my server and goes through the logs, which is extremely unlikely, noone else will read the logs either.

The only one reading the logs would be law enforcement.

By not keeping logs, you are intentionally hindering law enforcement.
There's a very productive spammer that sends out spam for their shops and, on their home page, they have a big info about how they didn't send that spam, and it's just somebody else trying to ruin their reputation.

If all you'd need to deter law enforcement is to put a website up on your server and say that you don't have anything to do with anything happening on that server and that they shouldn't bother because there's nothing to see anyhow, a lot more criminals would do that. I'm sure they'd even put an actual exit node on their machines if that protected them from law enforcement.
One useful use case would be helping making academic papers more accessible. It would be useful also for people to listen to arxiv papers that seems interesting. It would be useful tool in academic world. Also useful for students who would have more accessible form of learning.

I have a project idea already to use arxiv RSS API to fetch interesting papers based on keywords (or some LLM summary) and then pass it to something like illuminate and then you have a listening queue to follow latest in the field. Though there will be some problems with formatting but then you could just open the pdf to see the plots and equations.
Using OneAPI and TornadoVM to Accelerate Java Programs on x86, ARM and RISC-V
Should we be concerned that Mein Kampf shows up in a list of HN "favorite books"?
> This is a very naive way of thinking about debt.

Well it’s how this economist and Citibank’s former number 1 trader describes our debt based money system. So maybe you’re the naive one here. Please watch this video and enlighten yourself: What is Money? https://youtu.be/_gcNMu40jqs

> As long as the US has enough to pay it's obligations over the next few decades there are no issues

This is rather my point, as more wealth is transferred from individuals and governments to the rich (who the tax system is largely optional for) there simply won’t be that tax take to support the debt.
My experience with working with hospital textual data is that, for the most part, it's either useless, or doesn't exist. The radiologist reading the image is expected to phone the specialist who requested the images to be red in order to figure out what to do with the image.

Hospital systems are atrocious for providing useful information anyways. They are often full of unnecessary / unimportant fields that the requesting side either doesn't know how to fill, or will fill with general nonsense just to get the request through the system.

It gets worse when it's DICOMs: the format itself is a mess. You never know where to look for the useful information. The information is often created accidentally, by some automated process that is completely broken, but doesn't create any visible artifacts for whoever handles the DICOM. Eg. the time information in the machine taking the image might be completely wrong, but it doesn't appear anywhere on the image, but then, say, the research needs to tell the patient's age... and is off by few decades.

Any attempt I've seen so far to run a study in a hospital would result in about 50% of collected information being discarded as completely worthless due to how it was acquired.

Radiologists have general knowledge about the system in which they operate. They can identify cases when information is bogus, while plausible. But this is often so much tied to the context of their work, there's no hope for there to be a practical automated solution for this any time soon. (And I'm talking about hospitals in well-to-do EU countries).

NB. It might sound like I'm trying to undermine your work, but what I'm actually trying to say is that the environment in which you want to automate things isn't ready to be automated. It's very similar to the self-driving cars: if we built road infrastructure differently, the task of automating driving could've been a lot easier, but because it's so random and so dependent on local context, it's just too hard to make useful automation.
WSL1 used a concept called a pico process [1] and the pico driver that is associated with the process is forwarded the syscalls to translate to the required NT APIs. WSL2 is a VM running through Hyper-V but integrated in a way that mostly looks like a normal process. It was introduced to improve filesystem performance (on the Linux mounts) and avoid having to translate and maintain the syscalls required by Linux [2]. The tech behind WSL1 is quite fun but WSL2 certainly has better compatibility and aside from FS performance between Linux and Windows is mostly a positive.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/pico-pro...
[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
WSL 1 worked that way. WSL2 is a full Linux vm.
Does iMessage or WhatsApp has wire tapping feature? Are they "facilitating illegal activities"?
Maybe you have worked with a different XML than I but I have only terrible memories of working with XML. Starting from the parser inconsistencies (that even led to security vulnerabilities in Apple, see https://blog.siguza.net/psychicpaper/).

On a higher level, the fact that so much different kind of information could exist at each level was nothing but headaches. In YAML, or in JSON, it's pretty straight forward. You have an object, it has children, children have types/values etc.

In XML, you have to keep in mind what the tag of the element, what its attributes are, and then what the child elements are, and then whatever the heck CDATA is.

I think my fellow posters are looking at the past through nostalgic rose tinted glasses. XML was terrible and I am glad it's not used as widely anymore.
Novo Nordisk is the highest valued company in Europe, employs about 65k people, and has $35 billion revenue. It's not exactly what I call a "small" competitor – it's basically part of "big pharma".

More importantly, "Pfizer rejected GLP-1s in the 1990s because they would eat into their other product lines" is not an accurate reflection of the article it links. If you read the (rather lengthy) article then it seems more corporate politics, tunnel vision, and a small startup not being able to "sell a story" on this to investors such as Pfizer.

Having read the entire article, I fail to see how anyone can come away with that conclusion.
With you on this one. The Pro's just never fit my ears. I tried all sorts of tips. Foam, silicon, even the ones that fit "into" the ear curve fail and leads to a really inconsistent experience.

The regular AirPods work well ENOUGH for me that when I walk I don't need anything to keep them in, but running would be an absolute no go. And I feel like they never actually "stay put" in the ear even when walking. I always have to push them in again.

Will try these new ones, but most likely will fall back to my usual AirPods.
Yep, WSL1 was a translation layer. Extremely awesome but unfortunately dog slow for anything involving npm packages or large(r) PHP environments as all file accesses would go through the translation layer, the Windows filter chain (aka virus scanners) and then finally NTFS. WSL2 in contrast is a VM, which avoids all the slow paths in file accesses - all that Windows sees is a bunch of bulk block I/O to the backing file of the VM disk.
As someone who previously worked in an XML-heavy environment, I would rather have an NFL linebacker dropkick me in the head than deal with XML again. Tim Bray himself has had doubts [1] at one point.

XML is too big of a hammer for the space it fills.

[1] https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/16/XML-Prog
Yup that's the same conclusion that I've come to for now. I got a family and stuffs now so don't want to bring any stress to them.

One day I will resume but in the future :)
A minivan has nowhere near the capacity of a Yukon or an F150, and is more comparable to a mid size SUV. I’ve not driven a truck but I have driven modern minivans. They have lots of conveniences but are very easy to fill up with gear even on a modest weekend trip. I am not sure if you have a family, but just consider the amount of cargo room used up simply by throwing in the equipment you need to care for a baby (like a stroller, pack and play, etc).

As for sitting an extra foot off the ground - that’s very useful in very common conditions like snow on the ground, or unpaved roads, or whatever else.
Tip: Install the IDE inside WSL2. Should also run somewhat faster, especially any operation which has to do with many small files, at the expense of a tiny bit of latency in the GUI.
As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these holdouts remain
Not sure where your 6% figure comes from, but you can easily find the 2023 Annual Report which states the following:

> Adjusted operating profit margin (adjusted operating profit expressed as a percentage of revenues) increased to 16.1% in 2023, compared with 15.1% in 2022.

You might also look into the NYT's recent history of stock buybacks while denying raises to their lowest-paid employees. The money is there.
Now that sounds like a fun story :)