skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU passed battery regulation last year. I’m not sure how well it will force interoperability; that may be a byproduct but it might not.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
> To be honest, it seems unlikely they'd easily be able to contact the owner,

California DMV does collect the telephone or email address for each owner.
There's a race. NASA, not the world's richest man is driving this.

I don't understand these takes that don't get the industry
You seem to be willfully misinterpretating SpaceX's post. They say that only potable water is used in the deluge process. That's all they are saying. They aren't saying that the post deluge water is potable.
(Not Josh, not involved with illumos, do work at Oxide)

For at least one project at Oxide we use buck2, which is conceptually in a similar place. I’d like to use it more but am still too new to wield it effectively. In general I would love to see more “here’s how to move to buck/bazel when you outgrow cargo) content.
I used a panel made in 1975, in 2012, and it still put out it's rated wattage. A 37 year old panel. Why would anyone replace working panels that still have so much life left in them?
Isn't that the issue? We are not on the clock anymore, until China actually blows past us, we can just keep delaying everything.
Distracted pedestrians are a red herring propagated by the auto manufacturers[0].

When studies actually look at the issue deaths are not caused by distracted pedestrians but by poor road and vehicle design[1].

> Contrary to their portrayal as reckless rule-breakers, distracted pedestrians were more likely to cross with the light and use the crosswalk. Similarly, while distracted walkers did indeed take longer to identify gaps in traffic, this is a form of compensatory behavior that reduces risk.

>The authors point to two alternative culprits for the rise in pedestrian deaths: distracted driving and SUVs, both of which are incredibly deadly and have become more prevalent over time.

>Similarly, the risks to pedestrians were lowest in tech centers (San Francisco, New York, and Seattle) and in college towns (Madison, Wisc.). Instead, pedestrian risks were highest in several metropolitan areas of Florida that are known more for their inhospitable streetscapes than their distracted walkers.

0: https://citationsneeded.medium.com/the-great-neoliberal-burd...

1:https://bloustein.rutgers.edu/distracted-pedestrians-may-not...
NVIDIA owns the interconnects that are used for this training. I’m sure they have their own competing AI accelerator they are working on too.
I use Tomato on my AP (my old router). I eventually picked up a used Sophos device and installed Opnsense mainly to play around with it. Opnsense/pfsense definitely have a learning curve whereas Tomato was super easy to setup.

My one gripe with Tomato is, unless I missed something, upgrading your firmware is kind of a pain. You have to go out to the website, find the image for the latest version for your specific model of router, download it and then go into the UI and flash it. They even suggest wiping NVRAM which clears all your settings (I never bothered with that and it worked fine for me). It would be nice if they just had a "click here to update" button, especially since keeping your firewall/router up to date is pretty important for security.
Illumos is not Oxide. Oxide is just using a in house distribution of illumos for their needs. Illumos created is created 14 years ago by Solaris developers to swap the closed source bits by open source implementations.
I subscribed to the audio version of 'The Diff' by Byrne Hobart, and it's auto-generated. There's a few obvious tells, like when describing money - '$3' would be translated to 'dollar three'. But there's also occasional verbal nuances that I wouldn't expect from a TTS system. I don't love it, but I find his thoughts compelling enough to deal with it.
I was previously unaware of these particular radios.

You just inadvertently sent me down one hell of a rabbit hole.

It arrives Thursday.
> Bob is still delivering illegal content and Charlie knows it

Does BOB know they are delivering illegal content?

No... is it even possible to send unencrypted traffic by Tor? If it's even possible, Charlie must be the only person in the world doing it.
This is a distinction without difference.
The iPhone 16 will ship as a work in progress
I was going to run an exit node when I first learned about Tor, but realized that the cool positive use cases I was imagining it would help with could be effectively done in other ways. In some cases those other ways might not be as easy, but there would be enough resources available to the people involved to get the job done.

It seemed likely that it would be the horrible use cases it would benefit the most.

Balancing an increase in the efficiency of doing good things that could already by done other ways against greatly benefiting horrible use cases made it so that I could not morally justify it.
I agree. I think 10,000 records for free tier makes more sense.
Telling someone they don’t exist is a bold move.

Our (Oxide’s) distro isn’t even listed on the main page for illumos.

Also the author is using the lower case i as far as I can see?
Once it's a solved problem, yes, it makes sense to think about design parameters.

When learning how to solve problems, that is not as helpful.
You're wrong. Calendars work
Looking at the last commits it does not seems like majority upstream development is not done by Oxide (I did not look at it extensively)
I guess if you only play one drawing, you’re right. Winning is always better than losing.

But if you play the lottery week after week, year after year—and you always play the same numbers—then you’re ensuring a mediocre prize should you actually get the jackpot.

Playing the lottery is not a mathematically sound decision in any case, but there’s no reason to make it even worse by chopping your potential jackpot winnings down by over 99%
> ill-gotten gains

We are assigning moral value to this? You don’t think EU is a self interested party looking to interpret the law as favorably as they can?
‘Truly bad’ still relies on the perspective of the participant though. Parents point is that ‘bad’ is a matter of perspective, and that right or wrong, at lease some cartel/nk/isis operatives believe their actions are justified for some greater good, Palestine/Israel opinions and belief are obviously a more easy to understand perspective, but the point still stands.
if he sometimes got searched when he went into work then he was probably permitted to bring things in such as lunch
They are honestly equally fine for most use cases. I find MariaDB tooling better and have a lower mental overhead dealing with it, but perhaps I'm just more used to it.

We used to hit a wall when reaching 100bn rows on MySQL but that was 15 years ago.
The environmental concerns are illegitimate though, the probability of hitting a sea creature is so vanishingly small.

Where's the outrage around the thousands of container ships that burn the dirtiest crude oil and dump their waste into the ocean? Or all the airliners killing birds?

Let's be real, this isn't environmental concerns, it's a way to punish Musk for his political stance.
In the old days, most if not all media would avoid mentioning or linking directly to HN. I think it was post 2016 they stopped doing that.
That’s ascribing a lot of power to the EU which I don’t think is politically cut and dry and certainly not a result of elections.
I doubt the SWEs have useful insider info at a company of this size.
Corporate tax is also paid by the consumer. They raise prices by exactly the amount of their corporate tax.
The easiest solution is to make a custom font with all the glyphs you want to be tabularized given the same advance width. Then you aren't subject to the vagaries of getting advanced font rendering to work.
What was that formula someone maybe tried to patent that would describe all of the things in the universe like flowers?
Well I took a different route.

Always beem 'forced' to use Windows as my workstation by a couple of specialty apps without Linux alternatives that need direct hardware access. But have always used linux on everything else (servers, even my media centre). Because I'm sometimes a late adopter of new tech, until recently I used cygwin as my normal command prompt. There were few downsides to that if you just need access to unix tools, except package management is a bit annoying. Well, discovered the MS Terminal and WSL this year, and happily moved off cygwin. More recently decided to switch over from WS1 to WSL2 but still evaluating the move.

Now I have a unix "more native" environment AND a linux distro I'm familiar with. I've been accessing the Windows filesystem under /mnt for two decades so this is normal for me, and if filesystem access is slower, it's not a dealbreaker. All my existing scripts were trivial to update. The integration of WSL and VSCode is also pretty cool. It means my vs code environment environment is also working natively in my WSL distro.

Overall can understand some lingering negativity about MS efforts in this dept but after years of rejecting all things linux and open source, in general the 180 from the top is much appreciated and it has kept me on Windows a while longer...so mission accomplished microsoft. Just gotta do something about those pesky apps I still need...
I think you’d have better luck using a browser with JavaScript turned off.

And certainly more content.

The stuff not readable without JavaScript isn’t worth reading anyway and that still leaves you with vastly more content than what’s available on Gemini.
Ironically the switches are cheap (from Ali Express anyway) and easy to replace and TMK virtually all microwaves use the same type. But yes, when you open the door, they do the following, in order:

- open to send a "stop microwaving" signal to the controller

- open to physically open the power circuit to the magnetron transformer

- close to short out the power after the above relay (the crowbar part)

The bottom two relays (in the list, not necessarily physical order) are independent of what the control board does. If due to mechanical slop, the bottom one switches before the middle one, boom goes the fuse. Even if you're just opening the door of an idle microwave. That's why, at least in mine, it says on a label inside, if the fuse is blown, replace the door switches along with the fuse.

The sequencing is very tight. You have to push the button veeerrry slooowly to actually observe the switches clicking in sequence.
Because it's not illegal to do that and if they're accessing hidden services they know they're accessing it via TOR and aren't directly connected to the illegal host. The most common reason exit nodes get raided is because they're the exit for some illegal user and appear as the source of the illegal activity.
I’m not aware of any that have; this would require them to become experts in running parallel infra, in many languages and with varied setups, and would mean that they’re not longer self-contained. That feels antithetical to their goals to me at least.
There is a big gap between a master’s and a PhD, and then another between a PhD and a seasoned pro. To do something like a bioweapon, you would need a reasonably sized team of pros w/ a lot of capital intensive infrastructure. It would be virtually impossible to do in secret.
Foundational maybe isn't the best label for this kind of model. My understanding of foundational models is that they are made to be a baseline which can be further fine tuned for specific downstream tasks. This seems more like an already fine tuned model, but I haven't looked carefully enough at the methodology to say.
I'm as much of a supporter of encryption as anyone, but I also accept that true effective encryption enables some pretty horrible things.

One of those "better look your meat in the eyes, before you murder and eat it" idealism-meets-realism moments.

On the whole, though, I think even with perfect encryption the remaining physical traces of illegality are sufficient for law enforcement purposes (granted: if more difficult).
What are the national priorities in the US right now?

In the last SOTU address, I gather to Biden one of them was healthcare/limiting pharma prices.
> just anticompetitive

It sounds like just this, only all wrapped up in a "let us protect you" wrapper.
The Chinese AI image and video models are doing superbly. It’s super interesting because they are largely uncensored compared to western models.

But they won’t touch any Chinese political issues with a 10 foot pole.

A future where nation states plant disruptive AI generation technology is at hand.

Maybe it’s something analogous to China supporting fentanyl import into the US to weaken civil society.
Better do it from elsewhere than the web ui.

It ensures you don't get locked out.
Can confirm because at my work, they initially put ordinary consumer microwaves in at the coffee/lunch stations. They failed quickly. The commercial ones last. However the latest ones have a very flimsy feeling control wheel, I somehow imagine a 25 cent rotary encoder behind that which, if it fails, may still cause the otherwise solid machine to be discarded.
Okay, but that's just... not true. Joyent is still around, OmniOS is doing their thing. Oxide is a major player, but they're not the only player.
> Your right to knowingly run a service that is used by people to kill other people while never having to interact with the consequences of that decision?

Can you name a product or service for which this is not the case? Militaries use general purpose software to design weapons. Murderers use vehicles and transit systems. We don't expect the government to harass the makers of cutlery because they provided a product used in a mugging.
Great. Kudos to you for being open to the feedback!
Here's a start:

https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/wastewater/industrial

https://www.tceq.texas.gov/downloads/permitting/wastewater/f...
Some exit nodes have tried that and they still randomly catch raids or warrants from law enforcement who don't bother to check or don't care to.
ReBoot TV series 30th anniversary – remastered episode 1 'The Tearing' [video]
Parsing decimal strings to double in that way will produce the wrong bit value in many cases.
Not really. Broadcom is generally best avoided.

I'd look at openwrt and opnsense tables of supported hardware for 2.5/5/10gbps.
How many times must the mainstream media write about this?

iOS routinely promises features at WWDC and then ship them much later. This is nothing new.

In particular, Apple was for sure caught with their pants down when it comes to GenAI so it's no surprise that the announced Apple Intelligence features are going to take a while.
Well I don’t think we’ll end up being teammates, and I haven’t had issues before :)
Legend has it that tardigrade was the one they sent into space
Dyson vacuums have a 3D printable adapter to take power tool batteries, so there's that.
> Happy 30th anniversary, ReBoot! The series first aired on September 10, 1994. It was a groundbreaking triumph in the field of animation, and its legacy continues to this day. Check out the very first episode newly re-mastered in HD!
China is second in mass to orbit after SpaceX. All others amount to a rounding error. There are currently a couple dozen Chinese startups working to build reusable orbital class rockets. Launches or test fires every week. No other country has an active program to build a reusable launch stage. It's not a hot war... yet. One might call it a cold war.
> Are you pretty sure about that?

NT OS/2 started development in 1988 and NT Win32 in 1990.

Build 297 of NT 3.1 contains a TCP/IP stack dated June 25th, 1992. This is not the earliest public build.
Technically, "bullshit" is the most accurate term. From "On Bullshit" by Professor Harry Frankfurt:

"What is wrong with a counterfeit is not what it is like, but how it was made. This points to a similar and fundamental aspect of the essential nature of bullshit: although it is produced without concern with the truth, it need not be false. The bullshitter is faking things. But this does not mean that he necessarily gets them wrong."

Both "hallucinations" and valuable output are produced by exactly the same process: bullshitting. LLMs do for bullshitting what computers do for arithmetic.
user@machine:~/illumos-gate$ git log --since 2023-09-10 | grep ^Author | awk -F @ '{print $2}' | sed 's/>$//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
11 mnx.io
16 grumpf.hope-2000.org
18 gmail.com
21 oxide.computer
29 hamachi.org
36 richlowe.net
37 racktopsystems.com
71 fiddaman.net
91 fingolfin.org
125 me.com

I'm not going to post names because that feels a touch icky, but a little bit of cross-comparison suggests that one of those domains should be combined with oxide (read: I search for names and they work there) in a way that does probably make Oxide more than 50% of commits in the last year. Though even if that's true it doesn't make them the only player or anything.
I consider myself a heavy podcast user. I don’t listen to radio or any music. Mostly podcasts and the odd audio book.

I listen to a ton of podcasts in different niches: Theo Von, all in pod, masters of scale, the daily, some true crime stuff, etc

I found the AI briefing room which is a quick summary done by and read by ai. It’s not as good as a human but I’m completely used to it now.

I am thinking of summarizing the business related podcasts I listen to for myself so I can consume more content in less time.

I wish all podcasts had a shorter ai version
Here you go!

https://github.com/bazelbuild/examples/tree/main/rust-exampl...

I wrote all of those examples and contributed them back to Bazel because I've been there...

Personally, I prefer the Bazel ecosystem by a wide margin over buck2. By technology alone, buck2 is better, but as my requirements were growing, I needed a lot more mature rule sets such as rules OCI to build and publish container images without Docker and buck2 simply doesn't have the ecosystem available to support complex builds beyond a certain level. It may get there one day.
-180 it’s a wrapper around alphafold with some pre prompt.
It elevates Google itself. “It’s a place where people like Jeff and Sanjay work!” Not saying that was the main motivation for producing the article and definitely not trying to question the protagonists’ achievements.
Did I say they have to vote on everything?
Haha, thanks! I had completely forgotten about `nix2` commands. I’ll try to remember this one!
Big childhood nostalgia, and coming at a formative time both personally and technologically in the world, I loved everything about this show. Creative magic off the charts. From little studio in Vancouver, Canada too!
I understand separating a mother from a baby that was just born will have life long impacts on that baby yes.
sqlite has 99% of the features most people use on a day to day basis.

for the 1% or if you don't wanna deal with the well-documented quirks - then yeah reach for the big guns.
All the rarest minerals on Earth, including the ones which gravitated toward Earth's core while the planet was molten, are present in asteroids.
Would you then call it a buzzword, or is there some gentler excluded-middle interpretation of that word's application to the project?
https://lwn.net/Articles/572740/

https://lwn.net/Articles/938236/
People really love SpaceX and Tesla on HN. It is generally difficult to present a counter-opinion. Even with good evidence.

I’m not sure why that is. Techno-optimism perhaps.
This gets back to AnthonyMouse's argument (above) that

(1) TOR exit node operators are buffers to protect people from being hacked. A hacker would more easily use TOR than need the effort to runa scan for vulnerable routers, root one, and hop between various routers.

Which implies

(2) if TOR had no exit nodes and/or clearnet service blocked TOR ranges, hackers will just resort to hacking routers / other systems / botnets to make their own proxy. Now the block doesn't work, someone(s) got hacked, TOR is gone.

Basically TOR as a "containment" system. Seems to me that would be preferable for law enforcement, particularly because some state actors (https://www.infosecinstitute.com/resources/general-security/...) are putting great effort into unmasking TOR, making it a great honeypot. Ironic that Germany prosecuted a German exit node when they were the same ones investing heavily in unmasking it!
Yeah, I was just catching up on one of the branches of the conversation that have been triggering you. I, um, understand why you might be triggered...

And, you know, I've never over-reacted or misinterpreted someone. Never. Um... at least not today... um, well, uh...

I also was a bit hair-trigger in my reply to you. In particular, you gave pphysch more grace (the first time) than I gave you.
I don't think the analogies to encryption are fair because a Tor exit node is far more active in shielding criminals than the inventor of a new cryptography scheme is. The inventor merely puts out an idea that can be used for good or bad. The exit node operator is actively paying on an ongoing basis to shuttle CSAM and bomb threats.

The exit node operator is also shuttling other content, so it's not wholly evil and on the balance someone might decide it's still worth it, but it's still a much less obvious ethical call than simply designing a piece of tech.
We’ve got a crew working to replace Cab 3 right now. If you got stuck in Cab 1 or Cab 2 during the week I think they’d have you out in 5 minutes. Nights or weekends might take a little longer.

(You might say “Why not take the stairs?” Well that is hard because there is no stairwell from floor 1 to floor 6, there is a bullpen of graduate students that I don’t have the key to in the way so I’d have to go to the back of the building, then go maybe to the 4th floor, go all the way back to the front and then down a long hallway, then up the side staircase and then back out to my office.)

Back on topic though I find it is hard to get people’s attention if you have something to say with them and I think there is nothing more urgent than potential dangers in the environment, like cars.

As for the OP I think you have to understand that he is a preeminent poster of questions to HN presumably in search of Karma so you have to see it through that lens.
> I think you make it seem like EU doesn't care at all about what member states do in regards to taxation

Did GP change the original text? The closest match I can find to your assertion is where they said "or non-EU readers, note that taxation is explicitly not a competency of the EU"
I think that's highly dependant how many years of experience you had. 2008 was definitely worse for inexperienced new grads than today, but today is probably worse for people in their peak earning years as companies are trimming the fat.

There are plenty of jobs out there right now, you just have to be willing to move and take a lower salary, which is much easier for young people than mid-career folks. The same definitely wasn't true in 2008.
Command and Conquer Pathfinding
Oh snap you can `scoop install busybox` and get a bunch of nix builtins!

https://paste.almalinux.org/2A
I photo/video lights from Neweer that use a Sony standard battery which may or may not be made by Sony. This seems to be because media creators already have these batteries/chargers. So maybe sometimes the market does give people what they want. It has to be enough to influence the puchasing decision.
I once heard a story of a family living abroad feeling quite bent about this extra taxation that they were paying no reason. But the story ends with the family being rescued by a USMC helicopter and airlifted to safety after a natural disaster, at which point they supposed they had been paying for something after all.