skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The mark of intelligence is to not need much data at all.

I think part of the answer might be information filtering. The eye can detect single photons, but by the time that information from 10^16 photons/s entering the eyeball gets to the meat CPU it's been filtered down to something relevant and manageable. And at no part in that pipeline is any component operating at more than like 100Hz.

So fine tuning the filters to match the processor--and all the high fidelity sensors--simultaneously sounds like a job for evolutionary search if ever there was one. But this is the wild ass guess of someone who doesn't actually know much about biology or machine learning so take with a big chunk of salt.
> So is open source actually a core item as the author asserts or just a nice to have?

I think there's a difference in terms here. Having a computer that lasts for 50 years doesn't necessarily mean that you want a computer that is forever unchanging, frozen in amber. You should be able to upgrade a long-term computer, if you want to (including the software); the point is just that you don't have to upgrade.

For the "frozen in amber" use case, sure, you could just pirate the proprietary stuff and hope to fly under the radar. But for the living use case, you need open source, even if that's based on some decompiled proprietary code.
yes but that doesn't mean that the us should not crack down on marked power abuse

being atm. in a position where suing you doesn't work well doesn't mean you are not causing harm nor doesn't mean you are not acting outside of the law. It only means that there is currently no effective way to use the law against you. But that can always change. And the US cracking down on them isn't limited to judge orders from cases of 3rd party companies against them. More specifically it's not even part of the state cracking down as that only refers to legislative and executive organs of the state judicial organs are supposed to be neutral.
Unavailable in EU, so here we go; https://archive.is/9I14n
Take it up with the EPA I guess?

https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/basic-in...

It's not trying to be alarmist, it's just different from things like, say, table salt, where small amounts over time are fine but 1 pound will kill.
Just as a data point, we paid $750 for one of these engagements (scan + some discussion about use cases etc) to one of Google's preferred providers. There were multiple options for providers.
> The Hacker News pages are "static" -- correct?

No. They are inherently dynamic. They are generated by user-submitted content at real time.

On the article's categorization, it would make HN a complex site. But the categorization does not apply here.
There’s no free market in the housing market. Local zoning restricts the supply of new homes leading to shortages. People buy whatever they can. Sorry to burst your gotcha bubble.
You say all of the advantages go away, but I read, “if you put in extra work you can achieve some of what static sites get for free”.

Which is kind of funny as the main advantage of static sites is fewer things to worry about.
Most GA planes still use leaded gas!
When Alfred Nobel wrote his will in 1895, there was no computer science or information theory.

One could argue it's closer to mathematics than physics, but if you'd say to him that someone made sand think like a human he might even put it under the medicine category.
Does it affect libido?
When we filled ours out for a CRM they wanted a video of the CRM. So we showed them a video (from dev with fake data). We appealed the process explaining that Mickey Mouse is a not a real person. They rejected that appeal. So after going back and forth for a week or two we uploaded a video with basically everything but the navmenu blurred out and they finally approved it.

The entire process was awful.
deamontools was the first supervisor service I used that required that programs not background themselves, it even included a tool for preventing "legacy" daemons from doing so.

It made a lot of sense to me at the time and honestly felt easier. Going back to init.d or upstart just felt like a step backward and so much more complicated that it needed to be. Then SystemdD comes along an have the same expectation and things makes sense again and writing "startup scripts became as easy almost as it was with daemontools.
I’m in a weird spot with 23andMe - when I signed up, I used a fake name as a fig leaf in case they decided to sell to insurance or whatever. Since then, several members of my immediate family have all signed up, so “the child of X and the sibling of Y” means that fig leaf is pretty useless now - except I can’t issue an actual CCPA now, because fake name.

All of this is super predictable, but I wasn’t nearly cynical enough 15 years ago when I mailed my spit to them.
It's from the eponymous 1979 book by Malcolm Feeley and may predate it
TikTok is 'digital nicotine' meant to hook kids, AGs fume in new suits
A Review of Embedded Devices and Tools for Detecting Stress in the Workplace
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Can you clarify if "Executive Director of WordPress.org" is the same job as "Executive Director of the WordPress Foundation"?

I know you personally own wordpress.org and not the foundation (as many people suspected) so this is unclear.
AI's advantage would be that their learning can be shared

For example if Robot 0002 learns that trying to move a pan without using the handle is a bad idea, Robot 0001 would get that update (even if it came before)
C#'s "ToUpper" takes an optional CultureInfo argument if you want to play around with how to treat different languages. Again, solved problem decades ago.
Your source is a blog post by a polemic author whose own source is second-hand by NYT, an organization that is in lawsuit with OpenAI. I would have rather have heard it from the horse's mouth. What financial information about OpenAI does NYT have that I don't? Do they have privileged access to private org financials?

In my estimation, you're not qualified for this conversation.
I’m old enough to remember when there were some devices with schematics included inside or when you could order a complete service manual from parts vendors. Nowadays I’m happy to find replacement parts and if there’s no code inside them.
The problem is that if you want to provide a full-featured file picker, and not rely on Google's limited browser-based version, your app will require the full "drive" scope. (We do, and we do, for our InDesign-to-Google Docs connector plugin.)

If you use some of the lower-tier CASA labs, it's not that expensive (4K/year), but it is definitely a nuisance for a pure desktop plugin like ours that has absolutely no cloud component (other than connecting to GDocs).
YouTube really helps with this. There are plenty of cooking channels, and you can find just about any recipe you need.
I want something that will last longer
This policy is to create a moat for AI offerings.
I've just started doing the same for one of my websites, 90% html but php for headers and include() for a few odd global bits.
Replaced it with higher-end pex. Yes, there is a trade-off there, but to me the effects of lead over long periods of time are very scary. I also have a filter for our actual drinking water that is able to filter some micro plastics as well.
And as much as I dislike Amazon and the juggernaut of AWS, this is how they win me over.

It's rarely a complete black hole, and I have spoken to product engineers and owners for multiple lines.
> You're going to find 'health problems' with every pipe material...

IIR, larger chemistry laboratories often use glass & quartz pipes to distribute distilled water. Though the direct costs of such a system are relatively high.
Hey, guess what? That’s piracy!

You aren’t licensed to play that game on a PC or in an emulator. It doesn’t matter if you paid for the game and paid for the Nintendo Switch to play it on. If you used a hacked Switch to dump the console or you downloaded the rom, that’s piracy. It is not legal to circumvent the DMCA for fair use reasons.[1]

It is very cut and dried in the legal world, and it would take a very significant case and a few appeals which uphold a decision that changes how the DMCA is interpreted in the courts.

If you’re not in the US and not a US citizen, then I have no idea what laws apply to you or how they are interpreted.

1: https://copyrightresource.uw.edu/copyright-law/dmca/#excepti...
Are you saying more automation or less automation would benefit people?
So, if the world isn't going to be nuclear powered, what is your alternative? Sticking to fossil fuels until we're in Permian-Triassic extinction 2, Electric Boogaloo?

If the world and industrial civilization are going to survive, it's either nuclear or renewables.
> Never hitch your wagon to somebody else's horse.

Though this was a nice and welcome feature, it wasn’t Transmit’s only feature nor even its main one. I don’t think this sentiment applies, exactly.
Sure integration points to all that are great. The mistake is when your entire company can no longer function at all without Amazon AWS for example. I've worked at a place like that.

EDIT: Of course if you're sure your politics are completely left-leaning you'll have no censorship worries, because these platforms are mostly Silicon Valley run. Also since conservatives basically don't play dirty in this way, the conservatives won't censor stuff just because it's left-leaning. We're for protecting freedom of all legal speech and actions.
Define "adult". I got my undergrad degree in Fine Arts, walking in at 18 with very little in the way of skills, but learning along the way. 4 years of classes and practice can do wonders for just about any skill set.
We have the economy to get the maximum output for the minimum input

Having 100 people working doing something that could be automated is bad for mankind. It's a total waste. Might as well have them digging a hole then filling it back in.

The problem is that we don't allow for changing work requirements, both on an individual basis with retraining into jobs of equivalent satisfaction and compensation, but also into keeping areas which lose their industry relevant. This causes people to blame the automation.

It's nothing new, in the past workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes, called 'sabots', into the machines to stop them. ...Hence the word 'sabotage'.
I love MUX so much!
I still find it astonishing anyone would be so careless of their own and close blood relatives' privacy to hand over their genetic material to a private company. What were you thinking. You can't undo that and you can't change your DNA ever. You have no idea where it ends up any time -- and that "any time" covers your life time and your close blood relatives entire lifetime too. These companies should have never been able to get a single customer but I guess.

And here we are 18 years later and some people still think they can delete this. What else do you believe in? The tooth fairy? Santa Claus? Come on.

Also what have you thought they can tell you? An archaeogenetics teacher described this belief as "they think we throw a bone in the machine which tells us it was half hun, half avar, half bear and spoke slavic".

Y'all surrendered an intrinsic part of the privacy of your, your sister, your brother, even your unborn children for snake oil -- and paid for the privilege. I can't even.

commence the downvotes but you can't put the toothpaste back once it's been squeezed out.
We know for sure that lead causes retarded mental growth in kids, especially if they are under 6. The issue of microplastics is less studied and given a choice between the two I would go with plastic.
In the original will, invention is given the same weight as discovery.

One could also argue that in 1895, applied computer science and information theory would be considered physics.
I’m going on 7 years with my iMac Pro now and it’s still more than enough for my uses. (Audio recording/production) I am hoping to get 3 more years out of it if possible. We’ll see if Apple lets that happen.
I feel like the author missed the most critical point: Leetcode style interviews are great at weeding out terrible coders (95% of applicants) early on in the hiring process, but don't carry an as strong signal for separating excellent candidates from the good ones.

Asking standard array/string manipulation/sorting etc questions in a 30min phone screen is very valuable to save your engineers 5hrs on a poor candidate. Conversely, throwing an NP hard leetcode hard at a senior dev with 20 years of experience and excellent culture fit with your organization in the 9th interview is basically meaningless.
This dichotomy seems like a very useful tool for analyzing media.
> It raises the bar for low effort hackers and improves security.

There are meaningful ways you can improve the security of your app. There are ways to make sure your app passes CASA. I found very little if any overlap between those two when going through the process.
Hang on - corporations and corporatist are opposite. Corporatism was industry groups negotiating en masse with the state that was running things.

You're confusing a big-state authoritarian word "corporatist" with the thing that's the opposite of big state - private citizens forming corporations.
I'm surprised that there isn't more support for just using object storage via a GUI.

I would love for as user friendly way to just use Backblaze or some other S3 compatible provider as my drive.

Edit: I guess that's sort of exactly what Transmit does, but I want something that is simple enough that anyone can use it.
> Edit: Next logical step is auditing every IMAP client before you can connect it to Gmail. Ridiculous.

Actually .... They're not that far away from that, if they're not already implementing it. Office365, and Google, if they haven't already have disabled basic Auth for IMAP/SMTP, and only supporting oauth2. Which requires a AppId/ClientSecret handed out out by registering your app with Microsoft/Google.

It seems that you can still steal thunderbirds appid/clientsecret from their open source code, for now ( https://simondobson.org/2024/02/03/getting-email/ ) , but ......
It's not about appearances, it's about supply. When we go to a store or supermarket we want them to have everything we want to buy, whatever the quantity we want to buy, and when they are out of stock we are very unhappy and that hits their reputation as well.
LibSQL: An Open-Source Fork of SQLite with Open Contributions
The dose makes the poison here.

How much lead is permissible before it’s bad? The answer is, very very very little.

In comparison, you get copper contamination from copper pipes (especially if the water is too acidic), however the body handles a little copper just fine. It doesn’t build up in the body unlike lead.

Then you’re left with plastics: PEX or PVC. As of yet, there’s some potential concerns with microplastics in general… but that is from all the tiny plastic particles found everywhere, not solid pieces of pipe. And there hasn’t really be any evidence that it causes any specific known issue. If it was some giant problem (like lead in drinking water!) then the magnitude of effect would be much more obvious.
Really elegant stuff, thank you for sharing.
It's not an alignment problem, it's a distribution problem. Automated ports would acutely hurt a very small group of people and help all other people a small amount.
"worse is better" is "the right thing"
That’s a real shame. I use the feature a lot, but I can’t blame Panic for it.
Boeing at Risk of Junk Rating with S&P Amid Strike
I think people should buy Ashok P. Nadkarni's

"The TCL Programming Language"

and they will understand why Tcl is still relevant.

I hope he releases an update for 9.0.
> and came to the conclusion it wasn't worth the time and now money to do it a second time.

Especially because they'd now have to go through an other third-party to perform the audit process (not just the security lab, the entire thing), according to the total commander folks[1] that's 75k/year/program.

[1] https://www.ghisler.com/googledrivehelp.htm
I'm kind of curious how many components you can jettison from a Rust compiler and still be able to build these libraries.

It's not like Polonius or the trait solver were designed with bootstrapping gccrs in mind.
This one is awesome. I laughed with the reasoning behind `aaa`. I tried using rails engines in the past and had a not so great experience, but it was more related to how we used them and the buy in from the team at the time.
> the problem only partially smaller, since you still need to sync and back up the keys.

I mentioned that: It makes the problem much smaller, as you only have one single, small piece of data to backup and and erase, instead of an ever-changing many-faceted blob of distributed data.

> Also, is an encrypted piece of data with a lost key truly deleted? What if the encryption gets cracked?

Oh boy. If simple symmetric encryption gets “cracked”, then you have much larger problems.

> I would say it is more deleted than toggling a `deleted` flag in the db and less deleted than burning the tapes in fire.

For all practical purposes symmetrically encrypted data that lost its keys is considered “random” data. If you “erase” data on a device before you sell it, most often it will just throw away the key to the disk contents nowadays.
Ask HN: Do all LLM models speak the same interface?
I see a number of Open Source web server that sits on top of some LLM models. Eg. TabbyML.

What allows them to be able to freely switch between LLM models?

Are all LLM speaks the same interface? If so, is that interface standardized?
Every moral panic needs alarmist names for things.
Would that be equivalent to Weight matrice parameters?
My computer has a finite state space, but I can still write programs where termination is not decidable.
That's why they get fined all the time?
The corporate excuse before was “no one would buy a brick”, now the excuse is “no one would buy a non-waterproof phone”. We have the technology to make a user-replaceable phone with modern parts, just look at the Fairphone.
I'm using TLS 1.3 based sites with Dillo just fine.
The Mux marketing strategy is brilliant.

Take over or create new open source projects so that every developer comes across your company in the search for a video package.

Another example I noticed recently is https://github.com/cookpete/react-player
Are employees of companies who float debt on the bond market prohibited from trading their company's bonds in the same way they may be restricted from trading their company’s stock?
If you have rodents inside your walls or attic, you have a major issue unrelated to the PEX. Also, to my knowledge, the colored PEX is the main culprit. Clear variants aren’t nearly as “tasty”.

Either way, if you have rodents inside… that’s its own issue.
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> Hopfield networks and Boltzmann machines

Think of this as a Nobel prize for systems physics – essentially "creative application of statistical mechanics" – and it makes a lot more sense why you'd pick these two.

(I am a mineral physicist who now works in machine learning, and I absolutely think of the entire field as applied statistical mechanics; is that correct? Yes and no: it's a valid metaphor.)
Every incoming kindergartner, middle school student and high school student should be required to submit a blood lead level test to their school for data collection. This can be easily administered as part of their yearly checkup.

That data can then be used for tracking, remediation and support.

It would also reveal how much differential education outcomes are correlated to lead levels.
Apologies to NlightNFotis for implicitly accusing you of being the griefer. I replied quickly between other tasks and evidently didn't pay due attention to the username. No misplaced offense intended.
And the issue is the other corporations may likely follow, so you have to stack hefty audit sum every year for multiple monopolistic cloud vendors because you made some cheap documents scanner app with convenient storage options for your user.
this is amazing, keep up the great work. been wanting something like this forever
They're the ones who will take the blame when a third-party app gets compromised and is used to siphon off people's data.

This isn't a theoretical concern. It's pretty much exactly what happened with Cambridge Analytica. Facebook didn't really do anything wrong; they provided an API for data access, people explicitly authorized an app with broad access their data, and it turned out that the app was basically a trojan horse for data collection. And politicians, the media, the general public, and even the technologically savvier people who should know better all blamed Facebook for this.
Air Sandwich
RE "...Arguing that AM "has significantly longer range" is quite foolish..." I should have made it clear, I meant the present AM band which is around 550 Khz to 1600 Khz and the present FM band from about 88 Mhz to about 108 MHZ . At the present band frequencies AM radio has a much longer range. ( Most people would not have a receiving capable of receiving Long Wave AM which is on a significantly lower frequency around a few 100 KHz or much less. )
Fuck me .. as if we needed another shading language.
Honestly I have no idea what you are asking about. It's just dedicated hardware to a yolo-like object detection model
It is on behalf of investors that suits are bought. And when money is paid, it happens when a judge decides investors are harmed.
Mind blowing. 50 years later we are putting VM in a VM in a VM to send videos of funny cats along with bank transactions across the world to everyone’s wireless pocket computer.
Encrypt with an individual key for each user. Throwing away the key is indistinguishable from deletion.
Doesn't even have to be whole containers, whole containers would be harder to hide.

Just divert the container to an area without cameras for a few minutes, pop it open and remove the kilos.

In a manual world, nobody notices that the container takes 15 minutes longer to reach the storage area.

In a manual world, nobody notices that the container suddenly became 100lbs lighter.

In a manual world, nobody notices the GPS trace showing the container going behind the warehouse where the camera coverage is spotty.
> Smells downright anti-competitive The EU will have fun with this when it catches up

What? The EU wants to introduce certifications for all products and services, further kneecapping local innovation through regulation and costly certifications.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cybersecur...
Hm yeah sure, I didn't think of the llm part. I don't think it's really useful tbh.
If we follow the OP's point, a good port is one where insiders can be busted for facilitating drug traffic and a bad port is one where insiders get killed for trying to stop it.
This is what everyone said they wanted after Cambridge Analytica! For platforms to exercise due diligence before allowing users to delegate their access to third parties.
> Okay, so those are the problems. What’s the solution?

> If you need to perform a case mapping on a string, you can use LCMap­String­Ex with LCMAP_LOWERCASE or LCMAP_UPPERCASE, possibly with other flags like LCMAP_LINGUISTIC_CASING. If you use the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library, you can use u_strToUpper and u_strToLower.