skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you ever done a tour on a nuclear facility you'd hear about how careful they need to be managing water temperatures in their discharge pools, you don't want a nuke frying off all wildlife on the rivers and/or lakes nearby. You don't want to create massive ponds of still water for cooling, and you definitely don't want to have a nuke potentially discharging contaminated water near population centres (in case something goes wrong and the discharge needs to happen).

This limits a lot nuclear facilities placement.
It really bothers me when people make statements like this. I propose a bet:

If you’re so confident this will drive my car into a ditch, then front the money for me to buy a compatible car & this kit. If it drives my car into a ditch, I’ll pay you back double that money.

That’s an easy bet for you, right?
That doesn't really help at all. That list is why some people say the US is a socialist country, that Roosevelt was a socialist or communist, etc. For literally the first DDG example, http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html .

I know they are standard metrics. I don't think they are good metrics due to their built-in assumptions.

This thread has nothing to do with "giving them all your money and power means they would make things better for you". My observations were 1) "socialism" is such as broad term as to be meaningless until pinned down - and DonnyV clearly isn't talking about Marxism, and 2) a market economy clearly does not require capitalism as people earned money and had jobs long before there was capitalism or mercantilism, so your connecting the two is not a valid argument.

I ask again: Can we attribute the upcoming climate catastrophe to capitalism? If 500 million people die from it, can we say that capitalism caused mass deaths and economic and literal starvation?
In what ways it differs from React Native and Turbo Native?
You can be technically correct or you can move on and accept that terminology means what majority of people mean.

https://learningenglishwithoxford.com/2024/02/29/15-modern-e...
You can almost get something Matrix-like for XMPP employing OMEMO
This is a good point, and yet -- as high as position 24 (out of 208) in the list, we have "bsc-m03 0.4.0" at only ~160ns per byte compressed (compared with most above it being two or three orders of magnitude slower). Below position 24, there's one in the 20s of ns per byte. Looks like the cost was in the size of the compression program. Not sure if there was any "cheating" going on, hunting for benchmark scores with these two famous test bodies of text.

By comparison, the top contender clocks in at ~240,000 ns per byte (making your point).
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I enjoy Hotz as a hacker, but I'm really allergic to this kind of oversold language. "[W]e developed a proper successor to ROS" is a past tense statement, as if they've already done this thing. In reality, at best they have presented a roadmap for a thing that could approximate ROS one day.
It's only worth it if working as a founding engineer satisfies any combination of these three things for you:

1. You are emotionally invested in the idea (you truly believe in it)
2. Your passion for whatever it is you do at the company is so high that it doesn't matter where you do it at
3. You need experience or a job

Don't do it for money, of because your friend started the company, or for any other reason
I love the "Fabrication process" graphic. You can't make it simpler than that.
In this case, an expansion. :)

Agile was ruined because of this need to be predictable and adaptable to plans.

And business folks often overlook that it is predictable and adaptable -- just not in the way project managers were educated in the old days (or even to this day, I don't know) expect.
Radio Technosignature Search of Trappist-1 with the Allen Telescope Array
I don't know anything about this space, but damn, this looks impressive!

Could it be used to sort trash and recycling? Could it recalibrate if gunk got on it, or as it aged? (I guess silicon is probably pretty resistant to aging.) Can it wash and de-stem a tomato?

I think I want a trackpad made out of this. How much resolution could it get? I suppose I wouldn't want to sacrifice a lot of resolution for the pressure, tilt, etc. that I am assuming this would provide.

(I said "think", because I might find out that it feels like running my finger over skin, and I'm wondering how creepy that might feel. I don't really want my laptop to have a fleshy part.)
It's like a line-scan camera for the weather.
ROS2 has been pushed a the successor to ROS for like a decade, and people still prefer ROS for various reasons. So yeah like Python 2/3 kinda.
These are some of my favorite books about software because of how they reveal a specific human mind at work. And they're the only ones that I felt effectively taught me about design. Having books list design patterns felt much less useful than having books walk the reader through looking at code and making decisions about which patterns to apply and where

I wish there would be more books in this series.
Premature optimisation. We have a diverse set of clients but of all the ones I've audited with JWT and similar crypto-solutions, not one (of those that used sessions at all, not like a CDN or so) could not have run on a single database server. Some more comfortably than others, but also embedded devices with a handful of users at most will use cryptographic sessions nowadays. Some also choose to pack a session cookie into the JWT data and now you've got two things to validate instead of one

I understand it's nice to never have to worry about it regardless of scale, but generating sessions with an established CSPRNG and being able to invalidate them at will is an order of magnitude simpler. It's also standard and abstracted away for you already if you use any framework
$2000 is an absurdly small bounty here - you should up that
It does a lot of things better but it also does a lot of things worse and also doesn't fix a lot of the real problems with ROS as a system.
My absolute favorite channel on all of YouTube. Matt is fantastic.
> probably the easiest way to interface with custom CUDA kernels

In Python? Perhaps. Generally? No, it isn't. Try: https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda-api-wrappers/

Full power of the CUDA APIs including all runtime compilation options etc.

(Yes, I wrote that...)
Damn, that is bad. While I enjoyed reading through the write-up, I think a "summary section" at the top would have benefited me lol.

Someone recently recommended Arc to me, I installed it on my macbook and then never actually used it when I realized there's no Linux version available, and I like a consistent browser experience across all my devices.
Looks great, and seems like some of the details oft missed are captured here. I didnt investigate, but hows your a11y support out of the box?
"3 years of experience with TypeSpec"
This may or may not be fair, but in my view, the type of person that would opt for a firebase solution is probably the type of person most vulnerable to foot guns.
If you say you solve a real problem, you know it is real because you know people who have that problem right?

Go talk to them to see if your solution actually solves their problem.
The financial crisis was a specific event and other countries had put it behind them within a few years. The UK's growth inflected around that time and never recovered since. It doesn't make much sense to argue a temporary event changed UK productivity or economic growth permanently, especially as the only reason to think that is rough temporal proximity. There were other things going on at that time too that are equally or more plausible e.g. mass immigration from eastern Europe was kicking into gear around that time as well, which created a glut of cheap labour. Cheap labour always kills productivity growth because there's no reason to invest in automation.

> Yes, despite what that British lady said, there is an emergent phenomenon called "society" and if you deny its existence you will get devoured by demons of its own creation.

Thatcher was responding to people who asserted that for any given problem, "society" should solve it or pay for it. Her answer made the obvious point: when it comes to taxation, there really is no such thing as society. To complete the quote: "they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families".
> price insensitive business travelers.

I've done paid travel for several companyies and they've all still been price sensitive. They usually have some policy where they'll detect some "reasonable" itinerary but then let me choose my own as long as it's within a certain dollar amount of their "reasonable" itinerary.

Who are these "price insensitive" companies?

What's always been especially annoying to me is that I've never had an option to pay out of pocket to upgrade my seat. Company travel portal only lets me book an economy ticket, and if I ask the airline about upgrading, they say to contact the company travel portal, who of course tells me to contact the airline. $eyeroll_emoji

Of course, the companies always have a strict "ALL TRAVEL MUST BE BOOKED THROUGH THE PORTAL" policy, so I couldn't even just pay the ticket out of pocket and get a portion reimbursed.

> I routinely book short flights between MCO (Orlando - current home) and ATL (former home)

That's only ~450 miles. I'd just drive that.
Nice packaging.

Sensors like that have been around for decades, but this is a nice way to package them. The replaceable cover is a big win. "Skin" type sensors have been built many times, but the part that wears out contained the sensors, so they were not suitable for production use.[1]

You have to have a Google account to order one. Even though this was funded by Meta.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLdVkaF9ZR4
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At any serious level, there's plenty of psychology and self-motivation in winning competitions. So whether it actually helps them win, or makes them feel better about their efforts - don't knock it.
You can already do that by just closing your eyes and letting Jesus take the wheel. No, the point is doing so while maintaining safety.

It is materially less safe to operate a ADAS while distracted than driving manually. Humans are exceptionally good drivers on average, only encountering minor crashes on timeframes measured in years to decades. As such, if safety critical ADAS errors occur more frequently than every ~100,000 miles and you are attentive in less than 100% of all such occurrences, you are operating your vehicle multiple times more dangerously than the average driver (which is a number that includes drunks and distracted drivers).

That is why it is critical to deliberately downplay the capabilities, to avoid wishful over-reliance, and enforce strict driver awareness (through techniques such as driver monitoring) to avoid operating multi-ton killing machines in ways that are multiple times more dangerous to the occupants, other drivers, and pedestrians. Without that, people are prone to over-generalization of safety capabilities, extrapolating that a single success means robust, continued success thousands to tens of thousands of times in a row.
That's kind of insulting honestly. Getting Linux to run on an i4004 is bona fide engineering. More real than engineering that we're paid to do most times. Looking at the list of Ig Nobel Prize winners it sounds like The Onion but not funny.
Why this level of pedantry when the meaning is absolutely clear? A professional can make an amateur mistake. This makes perfect sense. That isn't implying the professional is actually an amateur, but that he made a mistake that an amateur would make.
Well, the current team perhaps.

But it's also likely part of the startup mentally of "move fast and break things", which is not entirely compatible with the goal of the browser.
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Thanks for the response.

While people might nitpick on how things were handled, the fact that you checked if anyone was affected and fixed it promptly is a good thing.
I've landed on your issue too at the time when I was building my Dokku setup. I don't disagree that it would be nice but I just disagree with the parent poster making it sound like it's an essential feature that makes the project any less valuable.
Nothing specifically. Just maybe give some context to the post here, since this article is rightly pretty harsh and I used to be somewhat proud the work I did with the company.

I wouldn’t say I’m ratting them out because these partnerships aren’t literally a secret, just that they aren’t widely known and are similarly obfuscated like the relationship with Forbes. Ultimately like I said leadership does everything in a silo and unless you’re high up in the ladder you’re not really getting a say. So probably yeah just felt a bit powerless
The loop itself is claimed to be the problem. It doesn't matter whether you use an AR or non-AR model. They both have a certain error probability that gets amplified in each iteration.
That doesn't work very well for the Western North America. After sunset there is nowhere to obtain much solar or wind power. We're not going to build a transmission cable to Hawaii.
For those who don't understand, they are talking about diatomaceous earth [0]. It's literally fossilized microbes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
Individually productive, 100% no argument there from me, people work better and quicker at home.

Collaboratively productive… remains to be understood. We need a collaborative tech breakthrough to push remote productivity forward. AWS Chime is awful and they use it very extensively. MS Teams is awful. Google’s Meet is subpar. Asking for certain work to happen remotely is just not going to be as fruitful as in person.
I think that there is some supporting machinery that uses symbolic computation to guide neural model. That is why chain of thought cannot be restored in full.

Given that LLMs use beam search (at the very least, top-k) and even context-free/context-sensitive grammar compliance (for JSON and SQL, at the very least) it is more than probable.

Thus, let me present a new AI maxim, modelled after Tenth Greenspoon's Rule [1]: any large language model has ad-hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden and slow reimplementation of half of Cyc [2] engine that makes it to work adequately well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

This is even more fitting because Cyc started as a Lisp program, I believe, and most of LLM evaluation is done in C++ dialect called CUDA.
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The savings can be a lot more than 20% - last month I had a roundtrip ticket of $2000 brought down to $1300 (and got there faster!) via the switching airlines approach. It did come with some additional stress - needed additional visas and was worried about missing flights.

If things go wrong with Kiwi, they're likely to go very wrong, yes...but on the other hand, if I can keep saving $700 per trip, I can afford for them to go very wrong sometimes and still come out ahead.
I didn't call Palestinians "human animals".

I wish that October 7th was unprecedented. It is not the first pogrom Jews suffered. I'm not aware of a case in the history where Jews behaved like that. If it did occur,it is unexcusable, just like October 7th.

Let's put it in clear terms. I'm an Israeli, humanist and supports a two states solution.
You, on the other side, are terror justifying and, I guess, antisemite.
Makes sense. It seems after retrieval, both would be useful - both the exact quote and a summary of its context.
Dry cooling towers do exist (though I am aware they also have disadvantages).
SaaS reselling – the hard, legal part
I'm becoming desperate. I was recently laid off but found this as an opportunity to start something on my own. I've got a big client who's interested in purchasing software through me as a reseller. I worked on the partnership agreements with a couple of SaaS tools but I'm very worried on the legal stuff.

I don't want to be held liable in case of data breach or have any financial liabilities as a reseller.
Unfortunately I'm tight on money and I don't have the resources to pay for a lawyer to write me a thorough MSA.

I wanted to ask HN whether you have any resources that can help me on my journey. Either share an existing MSA or a template I can use for this purpose. I'm currently in a difficult spot and would really appreciate some help ..
ldr: Shear forces set up a nano-scale front/back electric potential difference.

Arxiv: [1]

ACS Nanolett paper: [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.16083

[2] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c03656
Tamper-evidence (which itself might be served by open and auditable HW and codes) would probably be a more robust and readily tested option. I can think of how that could be applied to SW, and possibly chip designs themselves. Overall hardware kits somewhat less so. E.g., a "resistor" or "capacitor" with its own CPU and potentially some weaponised capability could probably avoid detection from such methods.

Installing an entire secondary circuit board (as seems to have been the case for the AR924 pagers used on 17 September) should be more immediately detectable, though a partial tear-down would be required.

As for in-house production: there's been a greatly increased reliance on "COTS" (common off-the-shelf) products in many realms, including the military:

"Off-the-Shelf Solutions for the Battlefield" (2008)

How are commercial off-the-shelf products helping to drive down the military's costs? Steve Polak and Brendan Jordan discover how these products are helping coalition forces in their fight for interoperability.

...

Since the 1970s the steady shift towards a consumer-based society and economy has seen civilian commercial entities increasingly replace traditional military suppliers as the leading drivers in technological advance.

In no industrial sector is this more apparent than in electronics, where the once dominant technological edge of military electronics of the 1960s has been replaced with the increasingly cutting-edge nature of civilian microelectronics driven by insatiable consumer demand.

<https://www.army-technology.com/features/feature1918/>

More generally (Wikipedia):

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf>
Being right doesn't mean it's funny though... Call me old fashioned but isn't the point of comedy to be funny, not correct?

What do I know though, it's been years since I've found any standup comic very funny, and most comedy movies just make me groan. I'm no expert on what is or isn't funny, I just find it odd that you defend the humor here by pointing out its correctness.

FWIW I've never heard of this guy nor heard any of his jokes.
Incorrect, if only 1% of people had it only 1% of people would be obese.

If you're arguing that, in the past 50 years, something magically occurred to make people magically lazier that's a bold argument. The problem here is that you're using individual problems and language to conceptualize a societal problem. It just doesn't work that way.

Either you propose societal solutions and societal explanations, or you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. From where I'm standing, you sound clueless.
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How do you handle flakes pushing an entire copy of the repo into the nix store? Is this not an issue for you somehow?
>You should also do the "ring" test before mounting a disc.
https://youtu.be/QSQiLxDBpu8

Oh, wow that's amazing.
People say open source is toxic because the base assumption is that it is not toxic, so it is surprising and worth mentioning when you see it that way. Where people don't say that about work environments because the base assumption is that they are toxic so it is not worth mentioning as you'd just be stating the obvious.
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My 2019 Audi S5 was excellent at this. It would ping pong at most once then auto-correct itself to be perfectly centered in the lane.

It did some weird things like if the car in front of you was driving a bit too far to the left/right of a lane, it would copy them. Other than that it was nearly perfect, though. Never had it take an exit by accident, etc.

Their tuning on when to accelerate/brake and make it smooth needed a fair bit of work, but I found that switching the drive mode from Dynamic (Sport) to Comfort changed the eagerness of the system and smoothed things out.
Interesting. Any links to examples or docs on how to use PyTorch as a general linear algebra library for this purpose? Like a “SciPy to PyTorch” transition guide if I want to do the same?
I think a fair few of them were created because they knew a bit too much about FOQS
But reveal any "classified" information about the govt and you will end up in jail. The severe asymmetry between what a citizen can do and what the govt gives itself the right to do is crazy.
While I'm basically fine with Colima on Mac, this seems like a nice alternative to Docker Desktop.
mitmproxy.org can act as a wireguard vpn iirc
If you'd like to see this implemented in a practical way, check out Weather Strip.

It's a master class in information density while also being intuitive and readable.

https://www.weatherstrip.app/
Widespread adoption fraud separated generations of Korean children from families
Ezra Klein: The men - and boys - are not alright

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1H1khmaQynRdMtCvxenW9J?si=N...
In a somewhat related vein, the wonderful Ootside[0] website gives you the weather with a Scottish twist.

Mostly, the weather around where I live is described as 'Mostly shite'.

[0] https://ootsi.de/
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LVN actually wraps the 1st class native UI framework. So we are not rendering out our own UI or using a WebView to render HTML/CSS with a JS bridge.

Similar to LiveView itself, we manage state and event handlers server-side.
Relax, buddy.
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I borrowed a Laowa 100mm macro lens (Venus Optics) for a little while. The only reason I didn't buy one is it disabled TTL since it lacked the required electronics.

https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-100mm-f-2-8-2x-macro...

There are also several Chinese graphics tablet companies that Wacom still doesn't realize it's in competition with.
> Two authors (so, one, lol)!

What do you mean?
The sky didn't fall for you, but some people genuinely did not go to the World Cup as they were fearful of legal repercussions. Ultimately nothing of note happened in terms of arrest, but that's mostly due to Qatar being shamed by other countries into not arresting anyone for morals during the World Cup.

Can a tiny programming language convention get a State to informally stop enforcing its own laws?
At some point you will just need to offload the actual "processing" part to some nice old chap named Dave who has himself an abacus, and every now and then you send him a letter and he moves some stones and sends a letter back with the result.