skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the deciding factors for me going for a Mazda (currently being shipped!) over other brands is because they still use a real gearbox (and not a CVT), and because their media system controls are physical buttons and not a touch screen. I hate taking my eyes off the road and the Mazda seemed like the safest option to reduce that as much as possible.
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I realize SvelteKit is overkill, but I originally had bigger plans for the blog, before deciding to just keep it simple. Yeah, I had Medium open on a different tab while building.

It's going to be a personal blog where I write about my experiences, if you're interested you can subscribe to the newsletter.
All of their domains and branding are .aL

I had no idea .aL was even a domain name. That's wild. I wonder how many of those are going to take off.
Yeah, but you left an impression and if you had something you needed from their department you could reach out cold and get a warm welcome.
The point is that foreign fabs are a very real multi-national security risk. Even if we decide that friend-shoring is acceptable, the best 'we' (folks in the US or the 'west') can do outside of Intel is Samsung.

Depending on TSMC in Taiwan is a disaster waiting to happen, and it also makes a great power conflict there more likely as the asymmetric advantages increase for non-western powers if they were to capture the island. Game-theory would probably suggest that the west should do whatever they can to bring fabrication home, because subsidizing fabs is less expensive than war.
In a car they’re a distraction from driving. You have to look at the iPad stuck to the dash and not on the road - where the driver’s focus must be.

With knobs and buttons, you can feel for them whilst still having your vision in the road.

This must make it safer to drive.

As a MX5 (ND) driver, even having a knob to scroll around the screen is a poor design choice. Touch would have been better (you can hack that) whilst driving but, frankly, this kind of car shouldn’t have a screen at all. It’s a driving car, not a home entertainment system.
If fiddling with the touch screen while driving is the issue, you can solve that with software lock-outs. The Mazda's touch screen stops responding to touches at faster than 5 MPH, and if necessary you could also lock out option and setting controls entirely while the car is in motion so that even the control knob couldn't be used to fiddle while driving. Moving control out of the already on board computer and control system and onto some external device is just plain over-engineering a worse solution.
The info page says it's based on some spottify thing I never heard od or used. It would be nice if it said what it actually did.
I doubt the ban will have the intended positive impact needed to overcome what a solid majority of students see as seriously negative.

Quite some time ago, the CEO of a company I worked for could not seem to manage his fascination with his laptop.

Banned laptops at most company meetings.

So there I was, right along with others, sans laptop, puzzled as to just how the meeting could be productive.

And the questions came...

Almost every question was answered:

I don't know and will follow up after the meeting when I can get access to the information.

Back then I was very seriously annoyed. Today, I find it hilarious!

Eventually, I and a few others said we either bring our machines or we basically skip the meetings because meeting up only to make a work list of all the items needing discussion was silly, and an insult to everyone capable of doing the meetings without getting sucked into Facebook.

Eventually, people were allowed to bring their actual tools to meetings instead of pretending. But, getting there was an expensive, painful process.

This ban will play out in similar ways. Many students will use their device in similar ways and it becomes part of their process. They will want to take notes, pictures, audio and write things.

If the goal is to get them the skills needed to participate in learning without the phones, why not be direct about it?

Make that part of the curriculum and call it a day?
What about touch buttons recessed by a few millimeters to prevent accidents, with braille on the face plate?

Touch controls have one really big advantage, they have no switch to wear out, and no opening to get water damaged. Touch might be a worse UX, at least to highly tactile people who are aware of their fingers often, but it can last decades with the cheapest imaginable hardware.
Are there any debugging tools similar to Jupyter available now?
Which tool do you think is better? Currently, it seems that langsmith and llmstudio might be useful.
> If you were designing the flight software for the Ariane 5, which choice would you make?

I would take note of the underlying hardware and what range of inputs are allowed and code appropriately. Stop pretending that your software doesn’t have a specific purpose and will run on an actual computer. If you’re doing finance you should be using fixed point integer arithmetic with two or three decimal places. If you’re doing physics simulations you need to be aware of how many significant digits exist. If you ignore your problem space and the kind of system your code is going to run on you’re living in spherical cow world and it doesn’t matter if you over- or under-flow because your software is garbage anyway.
Yup. On macOS you can use the iOS build of EX already today (i daily drive it, and it’s very usable). Meanwhile, I built an unreleased prototype of a possible EX Desktop which uses Tauri + matrix-rust-sdk (codenamed aurora) - weirdly enough it feels almost identical to Element X iOS, which makes sense given all the heavy lifting in EX is matrix-rust-sdk.

Separately to the aurora experiment, the Element Web/Desktop codebase itself is starting to move to a MVVM model to support swapping out the underlying SDK (e.g. for a WASMified matrix-rust-sdk) and avoid an Element X Mobile style rewrite. That said, making matrix-rust-sdk work on WASM is not trivial (especially if you want to avoid maintaining two different FFI layers for wasm-bindgen and uniffi).

Another track is that matrix-js-sdk is also sprouting Simplified Sliding Sync support - I even demoed it in the Matrix 2.0 talk: https://youtu.be/ZiRYdqkzjDU?t=617. And it already has Next Gen Auth and Element Call support. So there's also a chance that "Element X Web/Desktop" just ends up being an evolution of the current codebase - I guess this is the default path right now.

Finally, there are other clients built on matrix-rust-sdk - e.g. GNOME Fractal is shaping up to be an excellent fully native GTK4 Rust desktop client, and given it shares the same engine as Element X, is suspiciously similar in terms of capabilities and perf (although I can't remember if they've enabled sliding sync yet). https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal
I mean, that's just a register. The memory region itself is not special in any way, a random "heap" region that would be similarly frequently accessed would be just as fast.
Waymo already exists. Is it just the lack of sensors holding them back?
I had to disable touch control on mine (gen 4) as it would detect touches from the pillow I was resting my head on.

The most annoying part is there are some buttons already on the phones for connectivity so the could have added more for basic functions.
The Martin Garrix interview they linked to was kinda famous for blatantly showing him using pirated software plugins: https://youtu.be/CfCmoEixxro?t=558

Here he's using Sylenth1 licensed to "Team A.I.R." ...a well-known VST piracy org: https://audiosex.pro/threads/team-air.41932/

Just goes to show, you might build the tool that makes the next club banger or viral social platform, but good luck making anyone, pros or hobbyists, pay for it.
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Does the environment you wrote it in support networking? If so an interesting option would be two have it run on two phones. Each phone would show both times.

This would have two advantages over other phone chess clock apps I've seen.

1. Convenient placement. Each player could have their phone where it is most convenient for them instead of it having to be in the usual place on the side of the board.

2. Others have brought up the concern that people might hit the phone too hard after their move. In a time scramble people do sometimes hit pretty hard because they are trying to hit it as fast as possible. Also, they don't always hit it with relatively soft flesh. They often hit it with the bottom of the piece they just captured. Imagine what repeated hits to the phone from pieces from a tournament sized triple weighted set could do.

If each player is hitting their own phone they might be more careful.
I read it for about 3 minutes but I still have no idea what this does.
The attack surface from a browser is tiny. All you can do is call into ANGLE or Dawn through documented, well-defined and well-tested APIs. Or use things like canvas and CSS animations, I suppose. Browser vendors care a lot about security, so they try to make sure these libraries are solid and you can't interact with the GPU in any other way.

Native applications talk directly to the GPU's kernel-mode driver. The intended flow is that you call into the vendor's user-mode drivers - which are dynamic libraries in your application's address space - and they generate commands and execute ioctls on your application's behalf. The interface between these libraries and the KMD is usually undocumented, ill-defined and poorly tested. GPU vendors don't tend to care about security, so if the KMD doesn't properly validate some inputs, well, that issue can persist a long time. And if there's any bit of control stream that lets you tell the GPU to copy stuff between memory you own and memory you don't... I guess you get a very long security bulletin.

The point is, webpages have access to a much smaller attack surface than native applications. It's unlikely anything in this bulletin is exploitable through a browser.
> The screen was going to be there anyways due to backup camera requirements

This. Backup camera requires a large screen leaving little room for buttons.
Car Thing is a physical device that looks alike a 7" tablet with a giant knob/button sticking off the face. It originally only did Spotify, ow it can do other stuff I guess.
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Russian troops were in the Crimea back when British redcoats were stationed in New York City, so I don't know exactly when this "seizure" of the Crimea by Russia is supposed to have happened.

So if the Redcoats were to come back to New York today, and started acting like they ran the place, they wouldn't be "seizing" anything, but rather just going back to the place they once were, is what you seem to be saying. Or if they did "seize" it, you wouldn't know when it was supposed to have happened.
In this post yesterday https://justine.lol/lex/ there is this quote:

> The new highlighter and chatbot interface has made llamafile so pleasant for me to use, combined with the fact that open weights models like gemma 27b it have gotten so good, that it's become increasingly rare that I'll feel tempted to use Claude these days.

Leaving me tempted more than ever to see if I can integrate some sort of LLM workflow locally. I would only consider doing it locally, and I've an older computer, so I didn't think this would be possible till reading that post yesterday.

The only thing I thought was - how would I work it in to Emacs? And then today, this post. It looks very well integrated. Has anyone any experience using gemma 27b it with llamafile and gptel? I know very little about the whole space, really.
It would be nice if there was some 'horribly compressed media' dump. Like, I can live with '96 pic resolutions for an offline copy.
Of course it's important that enough people check their ballot and say, "hey this isn't what I meant" it triggers a formal audit. Not just letting those 1000 have a redo and chalk it up to human error.
Mistakes sure. This was intentionally done though.

It's a strong term but there is no denial. I'm not even sure why people are so against calling out the obvious. Biden probably would have won a legitimate contest
I agree that an amazing Desktop client would be great, and that most likely there's a need to prioritize where efforts go at the moment.

For now, maybe check out Ferdium. AFAICT, it's just a wrapper app for web clients, but even this might solve some shortcomings of the official desktop app (e.g., cleaner usage of multiple profiles).
I have a Philips fully automatic coffee machine that goes feom beans and water to espresso. Is there such a thing for rice? (Yes im that lazy/disorganized)
You're saying Excel failed, when the work was mostly getting done, if inefficiently.

You showed up, unburdened by Excel, and soon quit ("bailed out" -- your words) because the projects were "crappy", "not interesting", "no one wanted to deal with". Yea, boring, crappy projects are a big, but essential part of business!

Lets be clear, YOU failed. Processes built upon Excel are often messy and inefficient, that's well-established, but just like in this example, attempting to replicate the processes without using Excel often implodes entirely.
I have an alias "git prune-branches" that deletes branches that remote has deleted. Is that what you are loking for? Cannot check the code right now but will try to get back tomorrow.
> Just buy trusted brands like Anker, Monoprice, Cables Direct, etc. for slightly more than the cheapest on Amazon.

That category includes cables that can

- do one of the many quick charging standards (or multiple), but data only at 2.0 rates

- data at 3.x rates (any variants) but no power delivery

- power delivery, but only at limited wattages, and data at 3.0 speeds, to slow for alternate modes

If you know what you're doing, you can dodge all these landmines, but 99% of consumers do not and never will, and to them USB-C is that weird connector where they never know what'll work today. (Whoever decided that USB2 passthrough only works in one orientation was a real sadist, too.)
The irregularity is not following the written law when conducting the election and instead making up rules.

These were not mistakes. The secretaries of state announced that they were going to ignore election law. That should not be tolerated. It's an attack on democracy of the highest order.
Hi! Author here. Some of these can indeed be an alias, others.. not so much. `git-root` for example is more-or-less a one-liner, meanwhile `git-mode-restore` is a ~840 loc python script.
I do use git aliases but trying to do anything non-trivial in them seems rather counter-productive so I'm confused about everyone suggesting it :P
I don't care if America wines and dines commie Vietnamese.
Have you tried calling the irs ?

If you gave google the authority to jail customers who didn’t buy their services with 25% of income, even google might provide some customer service, but would surely provide better api’s.
Wikipedia has a good table to compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon#Comparison_of_M_...
Honestly, very little if anything.

I would double-check my offline backups of everything I care about (personal files and professional projects, as well as local copies of music and videos), be sure my local maps are up to date for directions, and perhaps grab new videos from a YouTube channels to have some new entertainment in case I wasn't able to get anything new for a while.

Otherwise, there's not much I'd want. Presumably my local library would still have books, and the radio would still carry news. Most of what I find valuable on the internet are things that refresh in near real-time like message boards and news, or aren't really data to be backed up so much as services I use like ordering food or checking my bank balance.

Having recently gone through over three weeks of power, internet, and cell service outage with Hurricane Helene, at no point was I tempted to go into town and download me some more internet for use offline.
Is this the libgen fiction mirror or some other large collection?
Is Synapse still the only Matrix server implementation that is not in beta? The matrix.org site seems to suggest as much, but I don't know how up to date that is.
What would you want it to do?
I was offered a book deal and turned it down, hah. I read in spectacular volumes and books have a very special place in my heart. Growing up in Malaysia, most of my English was initially mastered from a gigantic pile of Enid Blyton books my family had lying around after the British occupation. We even give everyone at Hermit Tech a day off per week to study non-IT things and let the subconscious do some processing on work. Not because I'm a weirdo (though I am), but because I genuinely believe this produces a higher-quality experience for our clients, and no one can stop me from testing things like "five day work weeks are too long".

In any case, the book deal had constraints like "no swearing", and it was implied they'd find their own artist for the cover. I didn't even intend to swear, but I care too much to let them assign an editor and impose arbitrary constraints. I ended up chatting a bit with Ed Zitron after the AI rant article went super viral, and he told me that I have the audience to just publish my own books.

So I'm doing just that! I'm starting with ten short stories, at the advice of someone in the local Melbourne scene that has helped many people publish. Then I'm aiming to write one book containing a series of essays on IT work, and one fantasy/fiction book. I'm a reasonably good judge of popularity, and because neither will be particularly angry, I will probably only sell a few hundred copies. But I'll have a book with my name on it, which is very special to me.
Those people think that they should be allowed to do so legally.
All countries should be striving to use it instead of fossil fuels for power generation.
"Geothermal electricity generation is currently used in 26 countries,[1][2] while geothermal heating is in use in 70 countries.[3]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power
I don't like them and won't contribute to projects with them but isn't this the exact point of a CLA[1]? A textfile in the repo seems a lot easier to track and audit than PR comments and a bot to chase people.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreemen...
> 1. Operating a heavy, dangerous piece of machinery in the field without learning how to operate it first is most certainly the operator’s fault. That’s careless, irresponsible, and endangers others. If they had hurt or killed someone, they would’ve been prosecuted and would possibly be in jail right now.

Yet I can switch between very different cars and "it just works" and I dont' have to go through the darn manual each time... weird inni't?

> 3. You may not appreciate the benefits of the changes that Tesla made, as these things are ultimately subjective, but those changes contributed to the Model Y becoming the best selling vehicle on the planet.

_Something something correlation something something causation_

Have you considered that Tesla mayb got to that point because it was 1) very efficient and 2) Musk has a cult-like following (something akin Apple users making pointless decissions) even DESPITE dumb solution like tablet stuck in the middle of the dashboard or stupid changes like this one?
Huh. I have a device that charges fine with A-C, but only charges in one orientation with C-C. Does this suggest that one of the resistors is busted?
Infrastructure, regulation and the experiences of delivery cyclists in cities
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Indeed; fire up gptel-mode in an Org Mode buffer, and you'll get to work with Org Mode, including code blocks with whatever evaluation support you have configured in your Emacs.

Also I really like the design of the chat feature - the interactive chat buffer is still just a plain Markdown buffer, which you can simply save to file to persist the conversation. Unlike with typical interactive buffers (e.g. shell), nothing actually breaks - gptel-mode just appends the chat settings to the buffer in the standard Emacs fashion (key/value comments at the bottom of the file), so to continue from where you left off, you just need to open file and run M-x gptel.

(This also means you can just run M-x gptel in a random Markdown buffer - or an Org Mode buffer, if you want aforementioned org-babel functionality; as long as gptel minor mode is active, saving the buffer will also update persisted chat configuration.)
Not if you have no hope of actually changing their vote.
Promptfoo is pretty good
Surely climate controls change far more based on the weather at the current moment than on the preference of the individual drivers? My wife and I have polar opposite preferences for cabin temperature and airflow, but even if the car remembered our preferred settings we would both be changing them frequently anyway.

I would much rather retain the ability to quickly change temp or re-orient a blower without taking my eyes off the road than for the car to remember that I like it cool and breezy and she likes it like a furnace.
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Can't wait for what weird thing they'll do this time and reverse later. We had butterfly keyboards, touchbar, USB-only dongle-fest, the notch (hopefully going away this time), ...
This reminds me of a similar attempt with Perl[0], done a few… erm, twenty years ago. Might be interesting to do a three-way comparison for a few well-covered cases.

[0]: https://metacpan.org/release/CWEST/ppt-0.14
Definitely interesting to see the difference this time. The first time I was spammed for weeks and the second it went by without me having noticed save for someone in my timeline posting about the attack.
some of these crucial companies -- gvt should own the at least 40%. fuck the free market. because of the expertise needed - if the expertise leaves your country, it will never come back.

Intel is one of those companies - where the gvt gets two board seats, while being close to a majority shareholder. not 50% but 40% ish.

I have libertarian leanings btw.
No idea, I do not use it. I generally do not like using browser versions of e.g. IM clients.