skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NSA famously recruits math geniuses and quants to solve abstract problems, esp. around cryptography. If you're a security person hired to harden infrastructure or web services, its not so abstract. People like Snowden for example.
Garmin seems to have vibration in Connect IQ api https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/Atte...
Why No One Reads Full Articles Anymore
So have American cars. Just because Kia, famously a low-end brand, cheaped out on immobilizers for their cars doesn't mean everybody else didn't put them in their cars, despite not being required to by law.
Some people are really great at reading code, and they’re the best equipped to take advantage of LLMs in their current slightly unreliable state. If you can read and fix the LLMs code faster than you can write it from scratch then it’s a net win.
What happens in Germany when someone plausibly describes a situation that indicates someone is in extreme danger? Over here (in Greece), police officers will knock on your door, say they had a report and need to check, and then walk in and look around.

I've heard of reports of domestic violence, child molestation, things like that, and it's always the same. They rush to the place, knock on the door, look around, and arrest the people they need to arrest. What they don't do is start shooting.
I am building Memelang (memelang.net) to help with this as well. I'd love your thoughts if you have a moment!
Not sure about your neighbors but if I get a random pizza delivery I would just pay for it and eat it. :)
I'm not sure I'm following, you're saying Apple should cater their Bluetooth wireless mouse to people who are too anxious about batteries to use it wirelessly?
I think Carl Sagan would overall just kind of be deeply sad about how it is turning out.

“In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness. I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.”
IIRC there is only a single Windows 3.1 dialog box in Windows 11 (ODBC Microsoft Access Setup -> Select Resource file chooser). Lucky you.
While I agree that "corporate America" is problematic, the lessons from Voyager are not really applicable. For starters, it was designed to take advantage of something that predictably happens every couple of hundred years. Very few corporations last that long. Then there is the element of predictability. The solar system pretty much works like clockwork. You can predict simple things, like the orbits of major bodies, centuries in advance with a great degree of accuracy.

Compare that to the tech industry. IBM itself can trace it's origins back to a data processing company about 140 years ago. They probably had the most natural evolution into a modern tech company because of those origins. Yet noone at the original mechanical tabulator company could have predicted what IBM would be producing 70 years later, nevermind a century later. Nintendo is roughly the same ago and is more-or-less doing the same sort of thing (gaming) but has gone from low-tech to high-tech so their path was not predictable. Yet those are abnormalities. Almost anything that old is an institution of some form (e.g. government or education). Perhaps the closest thing we had to predictable was Moore's Law, but that wasn't a pure law in the physics sense. It was reliable enough to build an industry upon for many decades, but it could have failed much earlier than it did due to hurdles in technological developments.

The other thing about Voyager is that its intrinsic value grew with time. While we could develop a mission that could go as far as it did faster, and have better instruments to conduct research, it would take decades to build the probe and get there. It also makes sense to support it to get what little data it can return to us because it would help us develop better missions when we do decide to go that route.
I'm always kind of annoyed that patients aren't part of the diagnostic team for the patient in most cases. Because sure they aren't a doctor but they're also the expert at their own symptomology given they have the unique experience of seeing their problems from the inside and are monitoring the patient 24/7.

It's why the DSM in particular is so frustrating because the diagnostic criteria are written for how the condition presents from the outside. Which isn't inherently a bad thing but there's a huge amount of overlap which makes it imprecise. The criteria from
the perspective of the sufferer is far far more specific.
20 days per swatting. Yeah, a couple of months would be more appropriate.
There’s a Wikipedia article for it
> I'm just wondering where the materials and the labor come from. We don't just have 5% of GDP worth of those laying around

IMO for labor, I'd say ~80% of jobs are more or less completely worthless. Many, many industries don't produce anything at all, they just move intellectual stuff from point A to point B, slap their existence on it, and shave off a few cents for themselves.
Looks great. I'd love to try an Android version.
You would need to change some code, or parameterize this:

#define LIBS "-L./libs -lmodule -ljansson
From the article:

> Turns out, the inactivity reboot triggers exactly after 3 days (72 hours). The iPhone would do so despite being connected to Wi-Fi. This confirms my suspicion that this feature had nothing to do with wireless connectivity.
Usually planes are turned around too fast to be waiting for them to fully reboot every time they fuel. Typically they would prefer to keep them running for weeks at a time to minimize any issues or delays with extra steps when the clock is ticking and customers are waiting to board and fly
I like having lucid dreams occasionally, but what I enjoy most from my dreams is being truly immersed without realizing I'm in a dream. However, it's good to have options for those who want it.
This isn't new technology. My 15 year old mid-range car has all that, and the headlights are original.
I started CBD that had THC in it a couple years back. At first I noticed a great ability to get to sleep. It was fantastic. I've often had trouble getting to sleep (going back...decades). But I did notice over time I had far fewer dreams. If I did have any, I couldn't remember. It wasn't an immediate loss, but I noticed.

I stopped THC in January this year, and ... dreaming came back. Been dreaming for several months at least. Probably back as early as Feb/March, but I can't recall for certain.
There is also IoT windows and miniNT used for older NT installs bootstrap
Americans have no choice, it's either drive or die. Your car is more important in this country than your job, ask any poor person.
That doesn't cover all the things I'm (maybe poorly) attempting to suggest.

Treat calls that don't have the hallmarks of an emergency as "maybe not an emergency" - I admit that sounds simplistic and requires heavy training, however.

But my commentary was more about the gung-ho-ness of the follow-up. Don't houses have windows that aren't always blocked by drawn curtains? Don't binoulars exist and are relatively portable? Aren't there relatively quick and painless methods to adjudicate a situation prior to knocking impolitely? Even if time may be of the essence. One day maybe the heavy knock on the door is a trigger that blows up an entire Police / SWAT response team - then there might be some new policies around situatonal awareness instituted. (not that I would in any way promote such a grotesque act of violence).

The police are putting themselves in danger by their own behaviour.

Re: Trump assassination attempt, wouldn't that have been averted if someone just "went and had a look"?
CPython doesn't do TCO, but you can implement it yourself in Python.

This version is one of my all-time favorite StackOverflow answers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13591970/does-python-opt...
They're pretty evidently test questions being directly copied and pasted from a browser. The two buttons for True and False end up in the prompt as "TrueFalse", for example. "Listen" appearing where the copy selection was sloppier than normal and included an audio element was not surprising to me at all.
No, nobody has proved it.

Side point, there is no existing AI which can prove - for example - the Poincaré conjecture, even though that has already been proved. The details of the proof are far too dense for any present chatbot like ChatGPT to handle, and nothing like AlphaProof is able either since the scope of the proof is well out of the reach of Lean or any other formal theorem proving environment.
It wasn't just fine, otherwise there would be no need for business travel, and Skype's been around since 2003 so video calls have also been around for decades at this point.
> The main issue is the insecurity of the old telecom system where spoofing is so easy.

I disagree.

The main issue is qualified immunity.

The phone companies never killed anybody in a SWAT raid. The phone companies never claimed to be building a "secure telecom system", nobody ever offered to pay for them to ensure high grade authentication and integrity checking of phone calls.

And the cops know that. And don't care. They are the people showing uo with military weapons to people's homes. It's their responsibility to know and understand the reliability of the information they're acting on, and the ease with which the phone system can be made to show them misleading information.

Cops with guns and police unions and qualified immunity who now they're never going to be held accountable for killing people based on false information are the problem, not the phone system.
I’ll believe it when I see it. I’ve used many many different UI frameworks, and react works the best out of all of them that I’ve tried.
> We were asleep at the wheel for maybe 20 years too long on renewables, but the pace over the last 10+ years has been mind-boggling, and especially the pace the last 4 years.

The construction of "renewables" requires massive amounts of emissions. "Renewables" do not move us towards 'net zero', because the critical part of the NET is the removal and storage of tens of billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere, every year. Forever. At least that's my non-technical understanding of what "net zero" means.

> I'd like to know how anyone with an ounce of reality thinks we're going to reduce emissions substantially faster than we already are.

For anyone with "an ounce of reality"' we aren't reducing emissions. We haven't reduced our emissions at all. It's the opposite, they've gone up every year, I believe around 50-60 % since 1990 when we agreed to reduce them.
Pulling the fire alarm, too. Given how many times this happened at my high school, I'm sure that at least one person in the US has died because first responders were at a false alarm rather than available to help them.
If he didn’t cover Chapter five on compiling, he didn’t cover SICP’s best part.
Having to put your passcode in every three days is not the end of the world. It would make sense also that if you turned off the passcode entirely it also wouldn’t restart.
I meant more in a general way, like a piece of pizza is usually around X carbs. We have apps that make the guess a bit easier but it's almost always a guess. I was thinking could this look at a photo and know there's a sweet potato, a piece of chicken and some corn and give a basic idea.
Well he is facing 20 years
The quality of AI algorithms is not based on formal mathematics at all. (For example, I'm unaware of even one theorem relevant to going from GPT-1 to GPT-4.) Possibly in the future it'll be otherwise though.
Excellently put. Haven't heard of Huginn/Muninn before.
Nope. Windows CE was more in the old school “smartphone” (pre iPhone) and PDA, marketed along with a baseline hardware profile and called Pocket PC. Also used in a number of industrial PDAs (think postal service and warehouse scanners), set top boxes.
And then various and sundry embedded devices, but usually these tended to be smaller, often battery form factor and/or headless. While x86 a target more often than not, ARM or MIPS. Windows CE was early on pushed for video games on the Sega Dreamcast and a short lived smart car OS called Auto PC.
Signage, ATMs (if they weren’t OS/2), and test equipment more often ran bonafide Windows NT on commodity x86.
Yes there was: MacsBug, and later there was OpenFirmware. But you wouldn’t get dropped into MacsBug or OF if the machine crashed or failed to start up.
Discussion (373 points, 4 days ago, 174 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130881
the linked article is very light on details, here is a better one:

https://www.wired.com/story/alan-filion-torswats-guilty-plea...
You got it.

It's because it's hard.

The closest thing we have to this is dialysis, and we need to replace the business end (dialyzer) of the device every treatment.

It's biofouling. The body naturally wants to attack and foul up anything that's not natural. It's a classic problem in implants.
Size per dingus is somewhat irrelevant to the use case: what's it matter if you buy 10 things that take up a rack or 20 things that take up a rack - how much did it cost to store all of your data at the speed you needed? Modern tape still has extremely good $/TB. If you have a LOT (and I don't just mean a fews 100s of TB) of data you need to keep but don't need to be able to access all of it constantly then tape can still save you a metric boatload of money on TCO vs SSD or HDD.

Dual tier systems are for when a small amount of that data may be hot at any given time (like you say, financial often has a lot of active data in a pool of tons of inactive data they can't throw out. Medical is another example). Rather than manual manage this you just run a 2 tier system that automatically bumps things in and out of high $$$, high performance storage banks to low $, high capacity storage banks transparently.
Math doesn't have a property that you can verify everything you're doing is correct with little cost. Humans simply tend to prefer theorems and proofs that are simpler.
Regarding "no accountability", it seems 'wrong' that the response to the calls must be immediate, but it seems to have taken at least a little while to identify where the calls were made from / who made the calls. They started some time in 2022.

That level of asynchrony is not how the system should work.

(Admittedly "should" does a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence).
Huh. Worked for two decades at a very high level in the final years at Google. I’m almost entirely positive you never did either.
> https://caniuse.com/do-not-track

Oh. I think we have a misunderstanding. I thought you knew some browsers that support some sort of please-do-track-me-quietly.

> So, GDPR?

Right but about all data and all identities. You believe that holder of cookie <guid> likes cats? If my browser holds that cookie you should be forced by law to offer UI where I can see the preference for cats and possibly change it or delete it.
I see PHEVs as the worst of both worlds. Electric but short range, hybrid but lower efficiency. All of the complexities and costs of both drivetrains added together.
> It's not clear to me that the probe we send to one place for one purpose is the same we'd send to another.

We've launched twins before. The two Voyagers, for example. Two Vikings, for another.

When we build different airplane models, quite a bit comes from other airplanes. Even if the parts aren't identical, they are usually just resized or tweaked or modernized. Look at all the 737 variants, and the 747 variants, for example. If every model was a ground-up redesign, nobody could afford to fly.

When the 757 and 767 were developed, there was a big push to share identical parts between them. This was a big success, and saved huge amounts of money.

> I've read from experts - somewhere here on HN - that isn't how the costs work.

I debated those experts here, and a lot of their arguments didn't hold up. For example:

1. only need to design once for N craft

2. only need to devise a test plan once

3. only need to build test equipment once

4. only need to develop the expertise once

5. only need to write the software once

and so on and so forth.

> I don't see why that brain research is junk science

What's more important? Solar system exploration or half-brain cats?
Thanks to the author for clarifying something that's been a mystery to me for a few years. The positional encoding scheme in the "Attention Is All You Need" paper is only given half a page and the construction appears to come out of nowhere.
If you need to donate to your wife and aren't compatible, separate from the NKR vouchers, there are "kidney exchange" programs where pairs of people in that situation are matched with each other. So you'd donate to someone else, and at the same time someone would donate to your wife. Actually calculating the match among all those pairs is a fun NP-hard optimization problem.
The Chinese subsidise their own manufacturers of some goods. [0]

They do that partially as you say to develop their own energy independence. But there would be more efficient ways to do that, and specifically they wouldn't need to give gifts to foreign consumers.

I'm not sure why you think that I think it's nefarious? Western consumers (and other foreigners, like in ASEAN and the Middle East etc) get stuff for cheaper, that's nice for them.

The Chinese government subsidises these companies with tax payer money that they take from other parts of the economy; it's a net loss for the Chinese economy overall; but perhaps a net plus, if you focus on just the politically connected companies.

If you want to find anything nefarious: it's that rest of the Chinese economy that's being shafted.
TIL. I had thought a computer reboot was snappy compared to filling those fuel tanks, that's so counterintuitive to me. That does make it more of an issue then.
*Severance* has entered the chat.
Constitutional amendments are basically impossible in the US. A congress member shot at a congressional event won't even vote change the second amendment (Scalise).

Even conservatives know the only hope is stacking the supreme court.
On "Safe" C++
That doesn't help you at all when you don't have the source and even then, compiler changes break source compatibility all the time.
100% no nuance and not comparable. There are millions of engineers and maybe 1000 players in the NBA at any given moment. It’s entirely not comparable if you understand anything about how scale is different.

But you don’t. Like most on this forum these days it’s low
Level Randos commenting with little insight or knowledge
This quote is important, but in isolation it's not clear that they are claiming to have beat this problem: they are saying the new model, voyage-multimodal-3 instead identifies linked concepts across modalities. That would indeed be pretty cool -- if there is a latent space that could cluster the same idea, represented visually or in text.

> ... the vectors truly capture the semantic content contained in the screenshots. This robustness is due to the model’s unique approach of processing all input modalities through the same backbone.

With that said, I think this benchmark is a pretty narrow way of thinking about multi-modal embedding. Having text embed close to images of related text is cool and convenient, but doesn't necessarily extend to other notions of related visual expression (e.g. "rabbit" vs a photo of a rabbit). And on the narrow goal of indexing document images, I suspect there are other techniques that could also work quite well.

This seems like a great opportunity for a new benchmark dataset with multi-modal concept representations beyond media-of-text.
Depending on what you want to model, either view can make sense.
That's a pretty light sentence for 375 murder attempts and threats.
Target demographic are regular people of all types who want to afford a home and have a quality life.

All either have the problem now or had in the past and are curious if they got a good deal.
I think it will be a long time before local manufacturing of high-tech goods on the Moon is cheaper than shipping it from Earth. Lunar manufacturing is likely to be limited to proof-of-concepts (demonstrating that we can manufacture X on the Moon, even if more expensively than shipping it from Earth), basic construction materials (“mooncrete”), rocket fuel (H2O=>H2+O2, maybe CH4 from carbon-bearing lunar ices). Likely small scale greenhouse agriculture too (to improve the crew diet), maybe even some aquaculture
Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table
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> If you don't know what an API should look like, write the tests first as it'll force you to think of the "customer" which in this case is you.

The other way to do this (or if writing tests isn't helping) is to start with writing examples in the README (or wherever it is you keep docs). If your examples look tortured then your API is torturous. If your examples are understandable then your API is probably laid out reasonably.
Most fascinating part of the article is at the end:

```
Dr. Chen said he noticed that when he peered into the doctors’ chat logs, “they were treating it like a search engine for directed questions: ‘Is cirrhosis a risk factor for cancer? What are possible diagnoses for eye pain?’”
“It was only a fraction of the doctors who realized they could literally copy-paste in the entire case history into the chatbot and just ask it to give a comprehensive answer to the entire question,” Dr. Chen added.
“Only a fraction of doctors actually saw the surprisingly smart and comprehensive answers the chatbot was capable of producing.”

```
Good taste, I also think cornflowerblue is a very balanced color
I wouldn't pay for anyone to write this, if I were Lucid...

Mercedes sold their cars by having better engineering (perceived by customers). Does Lucid have better batteries? Almost certainly not.
> Agreed, they’re much worse. “We’re going to spend nothing, and when something happens to you, too bad, so sad” under the guise of fiscal responsibility.

1) What, Republicans don't need to drink water now?

2) I find it amazing. For decades the small government people have been arguing that centralising power to the national level is a bad idea because it creates a single point of failure. It is a real tell that people are play-acting with their concerns about the Republicans that they currently control all the major organs of the US government AND are led by Trump, but this is not enough to provoke a "gee, maybe centralising all these critical functions is a bad idea" response. The answer is still to concentrate power towards Trump and the Republican party, just to demonise them more vociferously.

I mean gee. If there are a group of people who are so terrible at securing clean water, don't give them control over the water systems ~50% of the time. Let it all happen at the local or state level. Is this such a radical position?
If it’s real you don’t need to be anonymous.
Equinix to close its 'Metal' IaaS offering in 2026
High performance experience is by definition not universal. I still doubt you’ve seen it.

I’ve seen hundred million dollar retention packages. Not random engineers getting 100k more because they made a c suite happy once.

Also a x billion dollar company amounts to maybe What a few hundred people.

Come on you’ve not seen the major league even yet.
Fission reactor without a moderator!
The profit argument is not great for everything humans need, not everything can be driven by profit motives, look where that’s gotten us in medical care in America, social insurance, etc. Profit driven enterprise is efficient, but needs balance that doesn’t seem to be there today in order to limit the extremes.
Yes, and something like scientific notation is used fairly often even in lay contexts.

Eg it's common to read sentences like the following in popular science texts: 'ACME produces one quintillion widgets per year, that's a one followed eighteen zeroes.' The second half is basically scientific notation, but written out.