skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I thought this was people complaining about having to share their address with Apple and was like “that’s bs just do that, why wasn’t it required already”.

I didn’t realize that they meant “share with the public on the store”. That seems pretty awful (I understand the intent, but I think such a law is geared towards actual businesses rather than hobby/side gig level devs).

I think this is one of those things where having a mechanism to directly contact the developer does make sense (as this is clearly intended as a mechanism to serve legal docs so often requires physical address), but given for many people this is their home address not a business address that seems super unsafe.

I don’t know what the PO Box situation is like in the EU either, but I know in some places in the US there’s a waiting list.

To me I think that maybe the safer solution here would be for the appropriate EU agency to allow smaller devs to register their home address and have that act as an intermediary to avoid just have their home address being public, while also having people be sure that there is a real and accurate contact address.

On the other hand I would have assumed that was covered by standard business registration?
Firefox Send used E2E encryption. The key was generated on the web client and not shared with the Send server.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200226024845/https://www.wired...
I wonder what would happen if Amazon introduced a boycott feature. It could be a list of active boycotts next to the buy button on a product page. Customers can choose to join one of the boycotts instead of clicking the buy button, and then get redirected to a list of alternatives.

It won't ever happen obviously, but I wonder if it would solve these types of problems? Consumers collectively boycotting something is the most powerful way to fight things like this, but I can't think of a successful example of that in recent times. Even "viral" boycotts on social media platforms are likely to get limited reach due to algorithm fuckery. Or is it that nobody but us tech nerds actually cares about stuff like this, and even a blatant in-your-face boycott feature on Amazon wouldn't make a difference?
Customer here!
Drop me a line if you ever decide to start. Be glad to help.
Ah man, don't go in there with a shortwave receiver and scan through the dozens/hundreds of stations you'll pick up anywhere in North America (or really anywhere in the world)... :\
Oh is this what people mean by big oil?
(The submission should have a [2006] in the title)

As silly as it sounds to say, the importance of Boatmurdered can't be understated. Boatmurdered was an internet sensation and put Dwarf Fortress on the map; the depth and complexity of the simulation was mind-blowing to read about for the era (and it's still more-or-less unmatched in many ways). Without that there'd be no Infiniminer (and later, no Rimworld, no Factorio), and without that there'd be no Minecraft.
The conclusion implied by the title seems self evident for anyone who has seen any (at least) nonhuman mammalian predator.
You are simply misinformed. `git push` always pushes the HEAD by default without question, but jj does not. @ is not special in any way, so it does not get special treatment from push. It will only push branches you tell it to or that have been amended/updated and are not immutable. jj also does not update any branch pointers (or "bookmarks" as we call them) unless you explicitly ask it to. You have to explicitly run `jj branch set ...` and then run `jj git push` to get the behavior you are describing, which is much more explicit.
Ah ok so if humans would be supervised for their edge cases then humans would actually be safer!
> The original version did use low power x-ray and people quite rightly raised a stink about that. Now it's backscatter in the radio frequencies--should be harmless.

"trust me bro" science at its finest.

Do we get to see the service interval on these machines to ensure that they are operating fine and have never had an issue?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3936792/

"Based on what is known about the scanners, passengers should not fear going through the scans for health reasons, as the risks are truly trivial.
...
it is premature to put a whole population through this with out more due diligence and independent testing"

Even the papers on this stuff can't come to any sort of agreement.

Easy enough to opt-out and just avoid the question entirely. I'm not bothered at all by the pat down.
Though I used it for 2 years of it as my primary language at work, I never quite got used to Ruby's quirky idioms like this. It just reads badly to me, in terms of quickly understanding code flow, to have statements that start with "raise" or "return" which might not raise or return. Similar to the up-thread comment about assignment.
I guess it could become so difficult that it could be easier to RE the hardware and remove all the spying stuff
Have your pet accept the EULA :)
Fast LLM Inference in Rust
Oh no, that's not true at all. They care about data, and they will actually tell you themselves that they already did it for you - right after convincing you that you need to do it again.
On GL.iNet website they state: "OpenVPN and WireGuard speeds will be slower when running the device as a server. Results above are in client mode."
> It doesn’t really matter to me if there is a proposed mechanism already or not. Phenomena exist before we are able to describe it mechanistically after all.

Right. But then you’re talking about something that could happen, or that could not. If you are thinking about something you do not observe, then not having any hypothesis as to how it could work makes the whole endeavour useless, to the level of the Russell teapot.

You could just as validly speculate that the pink colour is harmful because of Venus’ influence resonating with the water memory and justify your point of view with the same “there are things we don’t know” argument.

Two observations specifically on electromagnetic radiation:

- if this were actually a thing, we’d have seen the signal in epidemiological data, considering that WiFi has been around for 25 years and is used by ~billions of people, and cell phones are even older and more used

- we do know quite a lot about the effect of radiation on matter. We might not know everything there is to know, and biology adds a layer on top, but e.g. the energy transfer from some microwave radiation to biological tissue is limited by very well-known Physics.

We know that occasionally an atom gets knocked out of its position, and that even though most of the time it’s fine, it can occasionally cause problems, which is why UV sunlight is bad. We know how X or γ radiation interacts with matter and is more likely to affect molecules. Saying that “there are things we don’t know” is misleading in that the subject is actually very well known, even if we don’t know everything, particularly on the biology side.

It is perfectly valid to be skeptical by default. But in face of evidence and a solid body of knowledge, we should also be skeptical about our own skepticism.

> Modern science works well when the fruit is low hanging statistically, but thats not always the case for every question.

That is quite far from the truth. In reality it’s quite the opposite. Science is incremental, with occasional breakthroughs. But most of its progress is through constant grinding on tiny subjects, very far from low-hanging fruits. You have lots of different people, each one exploring their own ideas and hypotheses. In a field so important and popular as the effect of technology on human biology, there are thousands upon thousands of researchers competing, each one trying to find a better idea than their colleagues. This system is actually very good at exploring weird, goofy-sounding hypotheses because the reward is so important.
They still do. They think it's a magic salve that cures everything, even cancer. Which is sad because for many of them it's probably the only health care they have access to. The way the media reacts to this stuff only makes things sadder.
They would give the seat to any standby, so the airlines are void of sympathy
Did they really get interrupted or did they willingly click into 'Settings' and select 'Reset AD ID'?

Why would a device, monitor or TV or refrigerator, randomly reset it's AD ID?

I believe this is just your stock standard X (formerly known as Twitter) ragebait post.

Congratulations, you fell for it.

It's a shame ragebait is now popping up on this site.
Actually there is a small bike company named Framework that was featured on Gravel Cyclist YT channel two weeks ago.

https://youtu.be/UlXSB5Inr-A
Awww it’s talking about “submarine cables” in the sense of “cables that go under water”, not “cables that are in submarines”.

Which obviously makes more sense, but I was really curious to learn about this new problem I’d never considered about construction of submarines :)
Interesting concept. Likely useful for a limited set of applications. Speed is a problem. That's OK, not everything requires high speed or high volume manufacturing.
Sold out 2 contracts ago in return for a clause guaranteeing work placement in Washington state, which Boeing promptly moved to South Carolina as soon as the contract expired.
If someone identifies as electrosensitive, and moving to a low-EM zone helps relieve their symptoms, it seems more likely we have something to learn about the nature of psychosomatic illnesses than something to learn about radiation physics.
But how is the shareholder value doing?

Not a joke. Our metrics are different from their metrics. They might have succeeded.
I know you guys are joking, but there use to be a Microsoft energy drink, that was only available to employees.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Microsoft+employee+Talking+R...

The blue one actually tasted really good. Was available on campus for several years in nearly every building. :)
In the Netherlands it's often kids riding to high school now, who certainly would have used normal bikes in the past.

And once they start with ebikes, I don't expect them to ever switch to mormal bikes anymore.
My bet is that largest bones here are just too big and find some recipient where to cook them was impossible.

But both whale fat and petrol oil are possible here. Maybe the whale died by a black tide and was floating some time before to be scooped by the ship. Fin whales type are fast cetaceans and crashing with a ship is not so usual like in other cetaceans. Not unless is an ill animal.
My favorite Dwarf Fortress playthrough description and did a good job of explaining how the game actually works and how different people approach the game. I believe someone made a comic or animation or something based on this specific playthrough.

Reminds me a lot of sofrware engineering projects where someone works on this pet project for a long time then someone else comes in and completely ignores it or has no idea how to use it because there's no documentation...
Soundcore by Anker Space Q45 Adaptive Active Noise Cancelling Headphones. They are cost competitive, but not perfect.
Agreed. "got" is more informal and less universal across variants of the English language than "become". Bad editing.
>I didn't claim there are an infinite number of Mersenne primes.

I didn't claim that you did, only that the contest...

you actually almost got me :)
https://archive.ph/s3lvW

(First photo is obscured but can be seen at the original link)
Related: my mac bugs the hell out of me to accept new cloud Eula junk after os upgrade ... it's constantly popping up every 5 mins or so and can interrupt shutdown. Out stubbornness I've ignored for 6months running.
I mostly agree, but for sake of honest discussion... Why are the mechanical/electrical engineers also not paid well at these companies? Even at these companies capable of achieving massive scale with new products they design. Think something like 3M, making billions of units of widgets and commodities.
> the content has become horrendous

Do you attribute this to bots?

I agree that content has gone down hill quite a bit. Though personally I don't think it has anything to do with bots. People I used to follow and respect have devolved into posting memes and engagement bait. When there is discussion it usually ends up as 2 sides taking past eachother. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with social media feeds in general, information overload, and providing means of fast gratification.

It really does feel like social media is making people stupider, myself included. At the same time it's also providing me some sense of interest aligned community aligned that I can't really get elsewhere. I'm sure others feel the same.

It's possible that I'm wrong about social media making us stupid, and very possible that it's just illuminating the stupidity that was always there.

Either way I wish it were reversed and trending towards increase in highlighting smart discussion.

(Side note, I've also tried Mastodon and found that there was equal or greater stupidity in the communities there)
A much more interesting hypothesis is that abstract thought (thought about things not within the present sensorium) , or perhaps all thought, requires the use of symbols or tokens to represent the things that are to be considered.

I think this may have been partially substantiated through experiments in decoding thoughts with machine sensors.

If this turns out to-not- to be true it would have huge implications for AI research.
Related: my mac bugs the hell out of me to accept new cloud Eula junk after os upgrade ... it's constantly popping up every 5 mins or so and can interrupt shutdown. Out stubbornness I've ignored for 6 months running.
It's a well known phenomenon! I will drop this link here in case you are not familiar with it:

https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-big-difference-in-how-...
That's weird, I thought the original also decrypted them. (You pass the key in the hash fragment, which your browser doesn't send to the server.)
> ... coming within 9 to 12 inches of the bumper for no reason. I heard about that one believe me.

Oh dear.

Glad you're okay!
"Radio wave" is an engineering term - it just describes photons that we can detect and emit using a certain type of technology. It's a totally arbitrary category in a physical sense. What we're really talking about is photons with an energy up to about 10^-3 electron volts.

My body is constantly radiating about 120 watts worth of photons, with energies up to about 10^-1 eV. I'm constantly glowing with non-ionizing radiation that I emit as a natural side-effect of living, producing vastly more energy than any wireless device you're likely to encounter.

There's just no plausible mechanism by which a small quantity of low-energy photons could be more harmful than the far greater number of higher-energy photons you're exposed to in literally any environment compatible with human life. If you fear WiFi, you should be terrified of heat and light. Radio waves aren't a mysterious force summoned up by man, they're a tiny portion of the cacophony of electromagnetic radiation that we're exposed to by literally every speck of matter in the universe.
I don't think the "interrupt" part of this is what I find concerning.
Well, I look forward to their `docker run awslabs/the-real-s3:latest` implementation then. Until such time, monkeypatching api calls to always give the exact answer the consumer is looking for is damn cheating
So the hypothesis here is that they hung a dead guy in front of a dark cloth for a few months, and also made sure that the details of his face somehow made it onto the cloth even though the light was silhouetting him? Or am I missing something here?
You’re worried about the radiation dose from the scanners and not from the flight itself?
I once realised that, for me, subvocalising thoughts was a way to keep something "in RAM", while some other thoughts went elsewhere, or developed something else. Perhaps slower speed helps in that respect?
Is it a Pi 3 B+?
A prepaid cellular modem is installed to transmit essential telemetry.
I've been using this version for a while, presumably it's just gone under the radar enough. So please don't upvote this too much, haha.
Looking Inward: Language Models Can Learn About Themselves by Introspection
I'm utterly out of shape but use the bicycle for trips within my city (that I can't walk). It's just that that's only a few times per week and it's hardly strenuous, so it's not nearly enough exercise on its own.
Autism's Four Core Subtypes
Yes. I haven't yet read this paper to see what exactly it says is new, but I've definitely seen log-based representations under development before now. (More log-based than the regular floating-point exponent, that is. I don't actually know the argument behind the exponent-and-mantissa form that's been pretty much universal even before IEEE754, other than that it mimics decimal scientific notation.)
And we've faced more headwinds than that before.

The difference is, before, people had at least some confidence in their ability to make a living. We've whittled down the average person's wages and job security to the bone and when people don't feel secure, they don't spend, or maybe they do, but they put it on the card... which is another problem and story unto itself. And places like McKinsey are a part of the knife that did that whittling.

Anyways, when people don't spend, businesses don't do better over the long term.
Why would you even turn it on at this point…
In re: your point #2, it's meaningless word salad. Even the most diligent parser of the text will come up with absolutely nothing sensible.
Full v5.x changelog:
https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/blob/main/packages/svelte...
Weed was illegal and not everyone went to prison for it. But, a lot did, for even minor infractions, and that was the problem.
Absolute classic.
A calorie tracker app has been my tool of choice for the past few years, one that includes a catalog of food items, meals, and recipes.

The two most useful features are the barcode scanner (scanning is much easier than typing into a search bar) and the fact that it knows, for example, how much a slice of cheese from a scanned package weighs. Weighing the food is actually the most annoying part, at least for me.

It’s even trickier when you're having breakfast and need to weigh butter, etc., before and after to get the difference, to avoid prepping everything beforehand.

All that sounds annoying, and it is. But compared to exercise, it has been a great time investment for me. Weighing things and using this app takes about 5 minutes a day. It yields results I'm happy with and significantly reduces uncertainty.

When you're unsure if you can eat one more thing near the end of the day, you can just look it up. Otherwise, uncertainty, at least for me, leads to under-eating, causing more hunger the next day, or overeating, jeopardizing the goal.

The thought of using an LLM to analyze a picture is intriguing.

I tried laying out items from the fridge on a plate and asking an LLM what I could make from them. That worked surprisingly well. But I like your idea much better.

The question is how accurate that would be. But snapping one more picture and testing it for a few weeks sounds fun.

Thanks for the food for thought! :)
That's assuming you can prove direct lineage over 2000 years. The Kazar theory of 8th century Ashkenazi conversion hasn't been completely debunked.
nit: >React, Svelte is an integrated framework

You're talking about SvelteKit. Svelte does not have a router.
Very good point. The product that requires supervision and tells the user to keep their hands on the wheel every 10 seconds is not good enough to be used unsupervised.

I wonder how things are inside your head. Are you ignorant or affected by some strong bias?
This is an important result.

The actual paper [1] says that functional MRI (which is measuring which parts of the brain are active by sensing blood flow) indicates that different brain hardware is used for non-language and language functions.
This has been suspected for years, but now there's an experimental result.

What this tells us for AI is that we need something else besides LLMs. It's not clear what that something else is. But, as the paper mentions, the low-end mammals and the corvids lack language but have some substantial problem-solving capability. That's seen down at squirrel and crow size, where the brains are tiny. So if someone figures out to do this, it will probably take less hardware than an LLM.

This is the next big piece we need for AI. No idea how to do this, but it's the right question to work on.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07522-w.epdf?shar...
But your old phone probably has USB or Bluetooth with which you can connect some cheap board with all the pins you desire.
Unpopular take: Even with perfect FSD which is much better than the average human driver (say having the robotic equivalent of a Lewis Hamilton in every car) the productivity and health gains won't be as great as people anticipate.

Sure way less traffic deaths but the spike in depression especially among males would be something very big. Life events are much outside of our control, having a 5000lbs thing that can get to 150mph if needed and responds exactly to the accelerator, brake and steering wheel input...well that makes people feel in control and very powerful while behind the aforementioned steering wheel.

Also productivity...I don't know...people think a whole lot and do a whole lot of self reflection while they are driving and when they arrive at destination they just implement the thoughts they had while driving. The ability to talk on the phone has been there for quite some time now too, so thinking and communicating can be done while driving already, what would FSD add?
We (https://supernetworks.org/) have a Tailscale integration https://github.com/spr-networks/spr-tailscale and support Site destinations for devices. For our hardware products one thing we do need is to source a good carrying case for travel.
Great point. They even did a bad job of reading the title. The title wasn't "Language is not essential for thought", the title was "Language is not essential for the cognitive processes *underlying* thought."

We'd better hope that is true, because if we didn't have non-linguistic mastery of the cognitive processes underlying thought it's hard to see how we could even acquire language in the first place.
Nonetheless whale oil remained very useful as a low temperature machine lubricating oil, and its use for that purpose increased so much that by the 1960s sperm whale catches were at their all-time highest, before abruptly falling with the rise of the environmental movement.
That isn't what I was saying, at all. It is the non-zero potential for a high radiation dose from a defective machine (or being forced through it multiple times), that I don't want to take the risk on.
Happy 10,000th Day to you :-D Yes, moto and its friend localstack are just fantastic for being able to play with AWS without spending money, or to reproduce kabooms that only happen once a month with the real API

I believe moto has an "embedded" version such that one need not even have in listen on a network port, but I find it much, much less mental gymnastics to just supersede the "endpoint" address in the actual AWS SDKs to point to 127.0.0.1:4566 and off to the races. The AWS SDKs are even so friendly as to not mandate TLS or have allowlists of endpoint addresses, unlike their misguided Azure colleagues
Significantly more though? I think people overestimate x86 idle power draw.
Would think that timeline is more likely to be extended than shortened. There will be successor missions, and other space use cases for which derivatives of an astronaut transfer vehicle have value.

The bigger question will be whether it's better for Boeing to take the relatively low cost option of fixing the propulsion system which to some extent is their third party supplier's issue, in a funding environment where operating actual missions is more favourably funded than R&D, or whether that's sunk cost fallacy when SpaceX is clearly ahead of them.