skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a huge win for my family, we all have travel chargers that cover our needs and run off of common USBC.

I grabbed a Anker charging station/extention cable (https://www.anker.com/products/a9129-charging-station-67w) and can plug in one device and charge most of my families needs, including laptops in a pinch.

Also, 3 prong splitters for travel -- great for airports, bad ac plugs on planes, hotels with one AC plug, etc. (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Polarized-Three-Outlet-Power-Ivory...)
I did a lot of analysis for asteroid mining and one of the things I worried about the most was what to do with the volatiles that come out when you start digging into the asteroid (believe it or not some of them have a lot of trapped gas.) In fact you might want to separate the volatiles out first thing but that involves having storage tanks to put them in.

Once you got a metals line running it wouldn't be hard to make storage tanks (they don't need to be very strong) but you don't want to waste valuable volatiles plus the volatiles could even be dangerous.

On Mars it is different. Water is precious but martians are likely to vent waste CO2 to the atmosphere because you are going to get all your carbon from that atmosphere.

Either way you are going to need storage tanks for resource extraction, chemical factories and such and the quick way to get them would probably be taking Starships apart at least until they have steelmaking working.

Starship can land 100 tonnes on the moon if it can use all its fuel on the way down, it doesn't do much better than the Apollo LEM did if it returns to cislunar space. It's a reasonable plan to land a Starship with a bulldozer on the moon, lay it down into a trench and cover it up with regolith to make a habitat.
Secret bidet is secret.
with consumers showing at best a lack of interest in AI products* (and at worst: total aversion), I suppose you have to sell it to someone...

* https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/7/24290268/microsoft-copilo...
If you can handle putting the nozzle on your garden hose, you should be able to handle it.

In the US, the water pipe almost always connects to the toilet through a small shutoff valve. After the valve, it connects to the toilet through a "supply." The supply is basically a short garden hose, with screw-on connections at both ends.

Shut off the water at the wall.
Flush to empty the toilet tank.
Unscrew the hose at the toilet, and screw that end into what amounts to a y, or splitter that comes with the bidet.
From the splitter, screw one side back into the toilet connection; the other goes to the bidet itself.
Turn back on the water at the wall.

(This is for a simple cold-water bidet. If you need heated water or electricity, it can be more complex.)
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Am I correct in thinking that the Biden administration left all of the previous tariffs in place, and just recently enacted more tariffs on Chinese products (including 100% on EVs)?

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-locks-steep-china-tariff...
Weren't Tariffs pretty central to the argument of why trump? If Trump talked about Tariffs non-stop as his economic agenda, and 70+ percent of people said they trusted Trump's economic agenda, it seems like a weird thing to go back on.
"plain matrix" sounds a bit wrong - we put great effort into maintaining numerous of components of the playbook, including bridges, so it has a lot to offer. Alternatively, you can just get a managed server on https://etke.cc

Disclaimer: I'm Aine of etke.cc, and MDAD is our project
If you say that talking to $group is exhausting and $group is unhinged, you're going to get adverse reactions from $group and $group-sympathizers.
Amazing, good to hear! What were the minor glitches you encountered? Would love to fix them up.
Since this is a research facility, it would be nice to receive confirmation the monkeys are disease free.
Unfortunately, a few bacteria strains can survive the process.
This is adjacent to what I was going to comment, which is a camera for looking inside my own ears. My ears frequently got blocked and/or itchy, and I was almost addicted to sticking qtips in to try to relieve things. There are good reasons they say not to do that! I always felt like there was wax I wasn't quite able to reach, and in trying to do so I only made things worse, often causing inflammation.

The camera cost about £10 and came with a few plastic "scraper" tools (feel kinda gross to say it, heh). It allowed me to remove the wax, and importantly, visually confirm the results. Thinking about it now, it's been over a year since I last had to use it, so I think my ears might've reached a new "equilibrium" point (they are supposed to be self-cleaning, after all).

There is, presumably, a risk of damaging your ears any time you stick something in there, so I was just very careful to not do that.
That's good advice, thanks. In general I'll try to include that at the top level, but the edit window has passed. In these cases the companies were all about 200 employees, something like five to ten teams with hands in the code. Average team size: five to ten. All SaaS companies.
Cruft that built up over time But you make a good point, I'll write a ticket to remove it soon.
There was a story here a few days ago about the exact opposite: that Intel lost out to AMD on x86-64 because they were betting on Itanic to take over the 64-bit market.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41890779

> Intel could have beaten AMD to the x86-64 punch if the former wasn't dead-set on the x64-only Itanium line of CPUs
The problem is something a bit else (jstarks figured it out somewhere below). I'm not a compiler/abi eng, but it seems to depend on a compiler, eg. consider this with clang-16:

#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <alloca.h>
#include <string.h>

void s(long a, long b, long c, long d, long e, long f, long g) {
}

int main(void) {
long a = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF;
s(a, a, a, a, a, a, a);
syscall(9999, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
return 0;
}

Now, strace shows:

$ strace -e process_vm_readv ./a
process_vm_readv(1, 0x2, 3, 0x4, 5, 18446744069414584326) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

objdump -d a

117f: 48 c7 45 f0 ff ff ff movq $0xffffffffffffffff,-0x10(%rbp)
1186: ff
1187: 48 8b 7d f0 mov -0x10(%rbp),%rdi
118b: 48 8b 75 f0 mov -0x10(%rbp),%rsi
118f: 48 8b 55 f0 mov -0x10(%rbp),%rdx
1193: 48 8b 4d f0 mov -0x10(%rbp),%rcx
1197: 4c 8b 45 f0 mov -0x10(%rbp),%r8
119b: 4c 8b 4d f0 mov -0x10(%rbp),%r9
119f: 48 8b 45 f0 mov -0x10(%rbp),%rax
11a3: 48 89 04 24 mov %rax,(%rsp)
11a7: e8 94 ff ff ff call 1140 

11ac: bf 36 01 00 00 mov $0x136,%edi
11b1: be 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%esi
11b6: ba 02 00 00 00 mov $0x2,%edx
11bb: b9 03 00 00 00 mov $0x3,%ecx
11c0: 41 b8 04 00 00 00 mov $0x4,%r8d
11c6: 41 b9 05 00 00 00 mov $0x5,%r9d
11cc: c7 04 24 06 00 00 00 movl $0x6,(%rsp)
11d3: b0 00 mov $0x0,%al
11d5: e8 56 fe ff ff call 1030 <syscall@plt>

Only 4 bytes are put on the stack, but syscall will read 8.

It's tricky if one doesn't control types of arguments used in vararg.
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+1 on a large number of matching socks. My only problem is my wife and kids keep taking them because they can’t match their own socks
@JohnAtQNX the way to put the rug-pulling concerns to bed is to license all the source code under the ISC License, BSD 2-clause License, or MIT License.

This would certainly have an impact once that was done. Of course I cannot speak to what that would do to your software business...
> That's literally how you get Skynet, and that's what everyone claims to be worried about, right? Or are they just full of shit

It's the latter. They're full of shit both about our current approach to this being capable of becoming Skynet, and about their caring. I mean a handful of individuals might not be, but broadly, that's the state of things.

Painting it as so advanced that even the companies building it are scared has been an excellent sales technique, though.
Hiya! We've discussed how to make that work. It's good to hear the same thing from an outside voice. I'll bring it back to the table to inch it along. Thanks!
I highly recommend reading this article about how Israel has been using AI: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

It really brought home for me the real, existing harms this type of technology is already doing in the "defense" space.
I recall running QNX on my iPAQ handheld, sometime in the late 2000s. It was pre-iPhone, so seeing a Unix-like O/S on a handheld device back then was quite a treat.
That is a lot of food for thought that has got to be looming in some way or another for everyone without being in focus very much yet. Good points, I figure a lot more could be put into words and you're a bit ahead of the curve.

And the Trump followers can still be true-to-form and be completely optimistic about it anyway, while the opposition descends into an equivalent level of gloom over the same upcoming uncertainty.

Now this time this type uncertainty has a track record.

That could lay the foundations for professional gambling websites to start laying odds on which of the the initial cabinet members or advisors would be the first to go, and when. Plus when new contestants come in, it shakes up the odds so there's got to some opportunities there. I would think there's more counterparties that nobody has exploited yet, and there should be some completely opposite sympathy for any wager, even some that could be quite unrealistic during more stable administrations.

For all I know they were already doing it based on his track record of loving to fire people on TV. Or strongly inspiring some employees and contractors to work harder than ever so they end up moving on to better things on their own initiative, by not paying them :\
No one is stopping me from just dancing alone in my house. I feel thst misses the social point of dancing though.

And again. Anecdotes. There's no dance parties in my town. I need to travel 40 minutes to another city and pay $20 for 3 hours of dancing every month. Not worth it for me in any regard.
(< $500 category)

Legal doctor-prescribed pharmaceutical cannabis bud. Home cooked between 200-250F for an hour or so -- no smoking, only eating. Got highest grades (24-28% IIRC); eat only three fingertips pressed into very finely cut buds (pieces the size of a small peppercorn) -- so not very much. Dosage is not precise but close enough, and good for design and programming, for quite few hours, and can re-up after 4-5 hrs and have a good long day. And then a good night's sleep.

It's quite a difference not consuming whatever street cannabis is made with or packed into. It's far cleaner while active and gets flushed out gently and quickly.

I'm very grateful our (American) state finally legalized MM (medical marijuana), and allows telehealth evaluation and prescription, which was, itself, <$100. Then even 7g is <$100. That much lasts me months.

It'll prolly be a total of $400-500 for my first full year. Outstanding bargain and results, finally legally.

(Note: I suggest adding in some good fish oil for EFAs and such, for more optimal results -- <$50 a bottle.)
been using cline extension in vscode (which can execute commands and look at the output on terminal) and it's an incredibly adept sysadmin, cloud architect and data engineer. I like that cline lets you approve/decline execution requests and you can run it without sending the output which is safer from a data perspective.

It's cool to have this natively on the remote system though. I think a safer approach would be to compile a small binary locally that is multi-platform, and which has the command plus the capture of output to relay back, and transmit that over ssh for execution (like how MGMT config management compiles golang to static binary and sends it over to the remote node vs having to have mgmt and all it's deps installed on every system it's managing).

Could be low lift vs having a package, all it's dependencies and credentials running on the target system.
Unlikely. The wall that Mexico was going to pay for was also a bad idea in so much as building the infrastructure to build the wall in more remote parts of the border would actually make crossing the border illegally easier, not harder.

But I think Trump is pretty reliable at least trying to deliver what he promises. And since presidents have basically full control to tariff, I don't see anything stopping from instituting world crippling tariffs on day one of his presidency. So get prepared for the price of computers to double at least. I would stock up before January.
> typically only occurs in very simple cases

Would you agree then that it has understanding of at least these simple cases?

Personally I think the fact ChatGPT/etc. don't ask for clarification more often is largely just down to system prompt and RLHF encouraging it to always give an answer, not necessarily any deeper limitation of LLMs. May be worth testing how well it can recognize ambiguity when specifically tasked to do so, or standard Q&A but with a system prompt that clarifies that it can ask for information before answering.
People congregate around water sources. They don't just gather anywhere and make it happen. Ports are where they are due to the location having the necessary resources to support a population servicing a useful(1) industry.

Similarly, moon or Mars bases will be where they are if the location has some useful(1) industry and sufficient resources to support a population servicing that industry.

(1) 'Useful' to them, and not necessarily to everyone everywhere all the time.
"Chat (formerly ChatGPT)"
From the manifesto...

> The products and services we provide will use the least amount of energy and material resources possible.

Is this from the same W3C that has been pushing us all since 2013 to upload our locally hosted files to one of 3 major cloud providers who just happen to be megadonors to W3C? Funny now that we have to send our personal files across the internet. I wonder what the sustainability "under/over" is gonna be when I have to send packets around the world to retrieve the files that used to live on my computer.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/wiki/Cloud_Computing_Accessibility...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080594
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Again, it's anecdotal. Don't underestimate how many live in the rural/small suburbs.
The ideas discussed in 1990s suggested a way to ensure that mitm guaranteed deviation from data transmitted. How well it would work in real life I have no idea
Postal mail is also available to everyone, but it's as functionally equivalent to Instagram as RCS is.
Sure, the spent fuel is considerably more radioactive per kilogram, but how many kilograms of coal does a typical plant burn in a decade, versus how many kilograms of nuclear fuel are spent?
Electric toothbrush on the list? And possibly over $100?

What benefits have you experienced? Just curious, asking as a lifelong boring toothbrush user.
Apple Macintosh before System 7
You should look at the matrix specs, include the new matrix 2 stuff...

My point is, this argument is a bad one as it expects people to get the protocols right on the first try and that's never going to happen.
Yeah, they have to cover at least some generic ones. They don't have to cover every weird little specialty.

Now that I'm in more of a maintenance mode, I'm working with one who's in-network and free. It just cost more than $1k to get to this point.
Yes. You are also correct in understanding that the previous Trump tariffs were limited in scope (steel, aluminum, solar panels) and the new Biden tariffs were just on EVs, and not on Macbooks or iPhones made in China's SEZs. Definitely not the very broad tariffs Trump promised during his campaign.

+1 for accuracy!
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From the git-scm book:

"The other main caveat that many people run into involves switching from subdirectories to submodules. If you’ve been tracking files in your project and you want to move them out into a submodule, you must be careful or Git will get angry at you. "

Though apparently newer versions of git are better about not losing submodule branches, so my concerns were outdated.
I could be missing something, but is there some sort of metric for these comparisons to other software? Like the BLEU score which I've seen in studies relating to comparing LLMs to Google Translate. I find it difficult to believe it is better than DeepL in a vacuum.
I use my intuition a lot and have learned to listen to it. Sometimes though, it sucks when you intuit something, turn out to be correct, and you don't really have a good explanation to your peers as to why you knew it was correct. I remember one time in my career, we knew we had a rogue server somewhere (out of probably 100k+) we had to decommission but no one in the org knew where it was and everyone that did had long been gone. All we knew was that it was out there in the stack somewhere, because we'd see the effects of its existence elsewhere in the metrics, but this thing was like a complete ghost. All we had to go on in the end was nginx logs that had hundreds of thousands of IP addresses in them, go through them one at a time with a script and run a certain curl to it, and hope we got lucky it was the one we wanted. Even then there was a ton of false positives.

I was skimming through it on a call and a certain address just popped out to me. I said "that's the one, I'm pretty sure I've seen that before." I had no real reason to believe this, I just had a very strong feeling that I recognized it from somewhere and felt like it was the right one. Sure enough it was. People on the call wanted to know how I knew, and I couldn't really describe it, it was just pure gut. That doesn't really translate well in a professional setting, people will think you're weird or withholding/hiding something.
They don't really have a plan yet.

Thinking things through isn't a quality that Australian governments have ever been blessed with, particularly when it comes to tech policy.
Are you an adept sysadmin, cloud architect, and/or data engineer?

It’s a weird catch-22 giving praise like that to LLMs.

If you are, then you might be able to intuit and fill in the gaps left my the LLM and not even know it.

And if you’re not, then how could you judge?

Not really much to do with that you were saying, really, just a thought I had.
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They're often much cheaper at Costco if that's an option and you don't care about a specific color. They are a complete game changer though, especially if you're a new parent.
When I hear "Edge" I imagine that it keeps working if you remove the ISP (e.g. it'll still talk to with other stuff on the LAN) but it works better when the internet is available. Like bit torrent.

I'm aware that what they usually mean is significantly less interesting.
It’ll accidentally shoot the wrong people somewhere in a foreign country, which is already government approved.
What, uh, do they think they're going to do? Tell people "Static sites are cool actually.".

""the IG plans to liaise with regulatory bodies to improve compliance targets""

Regulatory bodies absolutely do not care about W3C. Hell, they barely care about the IETF, IEEE, ICANN, etc.

I'm all for pushing for sustainability, but look at the other interest groups. For example, privacy. Cloudflare just published an article talking about post-quantum crypto [1] where they talk about how wild a percent of traffic would be just cert exchange (and, currently already is). There will always be competing interests, so a body that only exists to checks notes talk about ""sustainability"" on the web feels moot.

They explicitly say hardware is out of scope. Cool. So software. The only way to help sustainability is to use less or make it more efficient. Less never happens, and efficiency isn't a concern above ad revenue for literally anyone.

Honestly, I'm inclined to see this as actively harmful more than anything. Putting out statements about sustainability just dilutes the waters on web issues they might have real pull in, like standards for user privacy that DO help with sustainability. For example, making it easier to choose what content gets delivered cough DNS blackhole adblock cough means less data being transfered.

I still wish this group the best and hope that they can discuss actions of other groups (Such as the Media and Entertainment Interest Group) in context of their choice of standards impact on processing power requirements.

Honestly, reading the manifesto [2] just makes me more angry. It doesn't say anything. Go read some solar-punk manifestos by people on the Indie Web or in Solarpunk culture. Those at least say something. This is just marketing fluff for the sponsors at the bottom of the page.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/another-look-at-pq-signatures/
[2] https://www.sustainablewebmanifesto.com
Maybe they are using Claude API for the translation, Claude models are really good multilingual models.

EDIT: the "Limitations" section report the use of LLMs without specifying the models used.
I think about this a lot! How did you overcome the compulsion? I quickly revert when I try to ween off any tech.

What do you do instead?
Top Billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge
Given that part of those "safeguards" were enshrining weird AI doomer logic in a federal agency's mission and trying to put a doomer in charge of enforcing it, some of them could use dismantling.
Furnace control was one of the first practical applications of multi-layer neural networks: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282185187_Artificia...
I think it is reasonable to believe humans will use all three technologies as a means to an end. I think the user you replied to was more concerned about that, from my understanding.
Tolerance sounds good on paper but it can so easily become complete and utter indifference. And you should never make the mistake of thinking that it implies respect.
I know deeply unhappy expats in Amsterdam who are faced with such an English speaking but very cold and alien society.
The globalisation lie is that the world is the same everywhere.