skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 7-24W laser at basically any wavelength will instantly burn the camera sensors out of these pods (and any other surveillance camera for that matter) - and are easily operable on drones or other RC aircraft operating in public airspace.
Can you give more specific criteria than “best?”

Visual Studio seems very popular and has everything one needs for writing and debugging C code, but only runs on Windows and costs money.

vim + git + gcc + make + gdb another popular set of tools, more portable and free.

The “best” environment or set of tools will depend on your skills and patience, and likely on the kind of development you intend: embedded code has different constraints than desktop application code, for example.
Edge of tomorrow power armor is cool? Wasn't it supposed to be poorly conceived & haphazardly designed in universe?
Penn only agreed to the "Red Ball" trick after Teller hit on the idea to tell the audience how it works at the start.

https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/2008/nov/20/man-ball-hoop-be...

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/619/transcript

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhnATlPdG6A

Here they are showing how they do ball & cups by using clear cups and it's no less amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8osRaFTtgHo
Processing beyond simple DB data retrieval or io dependent processes can be time consuming and fully justify a cache. Eg, geographic processing that goes beyond geoDB capabilities with millions of rows, eventually involving retrieval of data from third party providers can take long so you'll want to cache results one way or another.

No denying SQLite is very capable. However in my understanding it's designed for being used by a single application, it's not really scalable, and its functionalities are still limited compared to the big DBs. Anyway there's no single fit for all cases, and for core components flexibility is really important.
"Must support 6-digit PINs" is not part of "the spec for secure credit card transaction handling" – which is also not a (or at least one) thing: There are dozens of card networks, and many of them have tons of regional variations.

In some markets, issuers only allow 4 digit PINs, and customers don't expect to have to press an "enter" key when they're done entering their 4 digit PIN – so the reasonable implementation is to allow only 4 digit PINs, or you'll be left with people staring at the ATM/POS terminal, waiting for something to happen.
Technically you could symlink all required POSIX header names to a single physical header.
The are FCC rules concerning foreign ownership of broadcast channels, which could be considered an exception to this.
Convert caps lock to control key.
It's actually number #5316911983139663491615228241121378304 if you were keeping count.
Better air quality is the easiest way not to die (2021)
How so? Devices like this are manufactured in China. Any "US vendor" is reselling them
Orders of magnitude longer than what?
Why? It works for me.
> But Instagram also actively censors criticism of Israel

I have friends working for nonprofits in this space, and I can assure you the 25 stories a day they blast out are not being censored
"neuton"
YMMV, it's a negative effect in terms of "reasoning" but the delta isn't super significant in most cases. It really depends on the LLM and whether your prompt is likely to generate a JSON response to begin with, the more you have to coerce the LLM the less likely it is to generate sane input. With smaller models you more quickly end up at the edge of space where the LLM has meaningful predictive power and so the outputs start getting closer to random noise.

FWIW measured by me using a vibes based method, nothing rigorous just a lot of hours spent on various LLM projects. I have not used these particular tools yet but ollama was previously able to guarantee json output through what I assume is similar techniques and my partner and I worked previously on a jsonformer-like thing for oobabooga, another LLM runtime tool.
Which is honestly not a bad idea, given that somebody shoulder surfing or trying to read smudges on the PIN pad becomes much easier in the case of repeated numbers.

"1111" would just leave a fingerprint on a single key, for example, and only one possible PIN (or maybe 3, if the bank/card allows 6 digit PINs).
With Israel coverage, companies have had leaked moderation guidelines to remove practically anything critical of Israel.
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I think we’re basically on the same page. As you note, a conserved promoter without strong sequence conservation elsewhere suggests functions that might be more structural or regulatory. Still, it’s also true that some (actually many) non-coding regions show no evidence of selection and appear to evolve neutrally.

To borrow an example: an onion likely doesn’t need 5x more DNA than a human, and a lungfish probably doesn’t need 30 times more than we do (and 350x more than a pufferfish). And yet, these enormous genomes exist. It’s very likely that portions of these sequences are what we’d call “junk,” i.e., DNA that doesn’t confer a meaningful functional advantage and can accumulate due to the relatively low cost of carrying it along.

If we want to avoid the term “junk,” we could say something like “areas of the genome for which we assign a very low prior probability of functional importance.” But “junk” is a concise shorthand to acknowledge that, while some non-coding sequences matter, there are also huge swaths of DNA in many eukaryotes that show no signs of being anything other than evolutionary baggage.
Yeah but don't assume that because a lot of obvious scams got funding means that every legitimate project also got funding... It's not like the market 'ran out' of legit projects and people had no choice but to buy scams to meet their insatiable demand for crypto. There were a few high-exposure 'obvious scams' which became viral but they are not the norm.

A huge amount of legit projects (mine included) got barely any attention and struggled to raise $30K in spite of having top-of-the-range tech (at least by several measures). The tech, and even business aspects are often a tiny component compared to the pure hype aspect. This is true for essentially any project that raised any significant sum. All the business or tech-focused projects are dealing in tiny numbers and virtually unknown. It's hard to find them even if you look for them. Total media blackhole.
Would love it if the scrollbar was draggable on iOS! I thought it was broken until I realized you can click on a spot to scroll to.
Watching Teller do the cups and balls trick with transparent cups is mesmerizing.

Yes, you can see everything. No, you still can't follow it.

Sure, you can see that "something changed" after the fact when it is stable. However, Teller is so damn smooth and fast that any active change looks like teleportation.
Weissman score doesn't really have meaning anymore if the input is constrained. For example this website is 200KB as per the network traffic and I can beat it handily with ten-line script to generate every UUID. Or even verbally by just saying "every UUID".
Agreed: The real joke is any organization using SSNs as an authentication mechanism (as opposed to an identifier).
The last line of https://xkcd.com/566/, except it's UUID formats.
Managing up is just rebranded brown-nosing.
> Was your status “Productive” most of the week? Awesome, you know you are improving. What is the next workout? Done.

Right, but to us monkey-brained seeing a boolean "productive" isn't a great motivator, we need to see a number that can go up, making it much more addictive. That's why I was so convinced by the Apple Watch user giving that one number that they look at - that will definitely work for me as it's super effective on the reward-related parts of my brain. A boolean, or having a hundred numbers - not as much. If you're someone who doesn't need that, I'm sure the training readiness is much more actually useful for improving, but we're not necessarily looking for that - our hope is to one day get to a point where we may start looking for that :)

I've noticed it myself even when doing projects. So much easier to stay motivated when you have this one number, e.g. page views or active users that updates every day (not "enterprise contracts" which may change once every month), to focus on, purely for monkey-brain reasons.
I don't think this is a universal solution. I was unemployed for around 6 months, and my parents thought it was laziness that I didn't try to get a job at a gas station or something. I used the time to develop skills that helped me later. I got a job after that which didn't pay the best for being a software position, but the skills I fostered in that time were directly helpful in landing the next one that had a 60%+ pay bump with better benefits and learning opportunities. I absolutely would not have gotten this position without that time devoted to sharpening a specific skill set.
Definitely! Takes a bit of time to go through all of them, though.
For security & fraud teams who want to 'own their AI' vs trust with Sam Altman, we are doing some fun things here as part of louie.ai, and looking for our next cohort of Splunk/databricks/elastic/neo4j/etc teams. LMK or signup on louie.ai -- I do agree with the direction openai is going, but as always, devil is in the details, and especially for serious problems on sensitive data.
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Yes - but the point is, rather than tracking and synchronizing against an existing power sinusoid, you can track and synchronize against a global clock source and never deviate.
In the US, there is a program kicking off known as BEAD that throws money at states to implement broadband access to underserved communities. Fiber being the classic mechanism: cheap, fast, reliable.

With new occupants in the White House, I expect that the FCC will come under intense pressure to allow Starlink service to qualify as broadband. This article gives me pause that Starlink could ever provide decent broadband service?
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> It's reasonable to drop logs beyond some window of time -- a year, say [...]

That's reasonable in a reasonable environment. Alas, I worked in large legacy enterprises (like banks etc) where storage space is at much more of a premium for reasons.

You are right that sampling naively works better for metrics.

For logs you can still sample, but in a saner way: so instead of dropping each log line with an independent probability, you'll want correlation. Eg for each log file for each hour only flip one weighted coin to decide whether you want to keep the whole thing.
I wrote a tool some time ago called ingest ... to do exactly this from both local directories, files, web urls etc... as well as estimating tokens and vram usage: https://github.com/sammcj/ingest
How is it risky? They're well known.
At the very least there should be legislature to disclose the parties involved in decision making around algorithms and content moderation
The question isn't if our government gets to do that, it's if another government gets to do that for us. our government is for the people by the people. this other government isn't like that for their people. and we want to put them in charge?
Oh.. ha, gotcha. Thanks for explaining. Incidentally, glad uuid's computed on the fly (as opposed to pre-computed) as I think the site would require a very (impossibly?) large database.
Well Starbucks, you designed them to be recycled and you certainly have the volume and the existing logistics network, how about you collect and recycle them yourselves?
Why do you think so? Flying keeps getting cheaper and cheaper in real terms and part of the reason for that is the “enshittification” you decry.
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> depending on where they came from, which I'm not sure of

They're coming straight out of your processor :)

Careful where you scroll: Your password and your crypto wallet recovery phrase are in there somewhere too! (Unless you have one of those fancy 24 word long ones.)
How the Federal Government Weaponized the Bank Secrecy Act to Spy on Americans [pdf]
I used to think like you but lately I just can’t be bothered with editing too much and with the raw workflow so I mostly shoot in JPG these days. I shoot in raw when I’m shooting in situations where the lighting is difficult.
Nothing>door>door with lock

Both in terms of security, and in the crime of vulnerating it.
If it weren't impossible to store 2^122 128 bit values, things would look pretty dire for most cryptographic algorithms we use.
This is for the CoCo 3?
I had a friend whose senior project was a game engine for the CoCo3 written in 6809 assembly. Wonder what happened to him?
I'm hoping you meant "usable" and not "unusable". Or maybe you did. Funny either way!
Where exactly can one purchase the MT8791 SOC used to make this board?
>Meanwhile the assassin needs a name.. the Midtown Hilton Shooter? The 3D Killer?

I'm partial to the Chief Executive Offerer.
IMHO, you are trying to say «if a foreign hostile nation will unlawfully influence election process in Canada, then election will be unfair, ha ha!»
This reminds me of some code I stumbled on recently, where someone had implemented a custom exception they could throw if their 32-bit loop counter was greater than the maximum value of a 32-bit integer.
Around 9,400,000,000,000,000,000%
At one point I considered writing an interpreter for my scripting language Lil in bash to maximize portability, but quickly realized that floating-point arithmetic would be extremely painful (can't even necessarily depend on bc/dc being available in every environment) and some of the machines in my arsenal have older versions of bash with very limited support for associative arrays. My compromise was to instead target AWK, which is a much more pleasant general-purpose language than most shells, and available in any POSIX environment: https://beyondloom.com/blog/lila.html
If we have a service commoditizing fraud for middle schoolers to use, I'd say the human garbage is not the middle schoolers who push the fraud button, but those who made the button.
Alright here’s my counter point. The useful range (min focal length to max focal length) of most zooms is small enough that if you have a high end sensor and you’re not doing large prints you might as well use a prime. It’s like you don’t need those intermediate steps.

With zooms, if you need wide angle you have to switch to a wide angle zoom, if you need telephoto you need to switch to that. There are some exceptions like zooms that cover ~35-140 but most of them fall into one of the categories that a prime falls into
Have you taken a peek at sqlsync? It's a cool take where you write your entire application logic to operate as transactions and queries over a sqlite database but you do it in wasm so that the same transaction logic can run everywhere. The end result is nifty. That's at least my recollection of the thing.

https://sqlsync.dev/
Why is ReaR not on this list?

https://relax-and-recover.org/

This is the equivalent of the "Ignite" tool under HP-UX.
I kind of agree. I look at the shortlist for ideas but make my own decision about whether the book sounds interesting to me.
Same! The cursive font is Cartograph CF.

I thought at first it may have been (one of the) Playwrite fonts.

See https://fonts.google.com/?query=playwrite
Bird flu has been detected in a pig in the US. Why does that matter?
I think it's the direct opposite: A huge part of "managing up" is making your your boss knows what's going on enough to help them make a wrong decision due to being unaware of details you and your reports are aware of. If you're scared of contradicting or correcting them you can't do that.

A huge common mistake for anyone with a boss - at ANY level, IC or management, is assuming their boss knows everything that they know + more things. The intersection of what you know + they know is probably smaller than you think. And so being able to recognize what they will NEED to know in the near future is a valuable skill.
> And the convenience stores are the thing that makes the money at gas stations.

Because the gas is expensive, you need to hold inventory (and have a tank that needs to be insured and inspected and ...) and a lot of the profit is going to huge oil companies.

If you are running chargers, there is no inventory and the cost is whatever the electricty costs are.

I suspect that chargers could actually be a profit center as opposed to gas pumps which barely break even and sometimes go negative in profits.
I think this is funny, but reading the code also makes my head hurt.

A+
Yep, this is why I'm not a fan of WASM. It's going to make debugging/reversing webapps much, much harder while that has always been one of the charms of the web.
I asked it:

> I have a sorcerer character on D&D 5e and I've reached level 6. What do I get?

It confabulated a bunch of stuff. I also asked GPT-4, it confabulated a bit. Claude was spot on.
That is simply false. Due to the minimum medical loss ratio, rationing care doesn't increase health insurer profits. Rather the opposite.

https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/med...

Every country's healthcare system rations care. Demand is effectively infinite and resources are limited. Socialized systems tend to ration by restricting supply, forcing patients to wait for expensive treatments or simply not offering certain treatments at all. That might be a net improvement over private insurance but there are certainly some downsides.

https://peterattiamd.com/saumsutaria/
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"How one British musician is shaping the future of music"
It seems like enough of his face has been uncovered that they could generate a 3D model and render mug shots from any angle. Baseball cap and glasses do not stop my iPhone from unlocking.
I often see comments like this on HN and my first thought is if the person writing them has any sort experience with drug use.

Have you ever taken any sort of hard drug ever in your life? Or been around the people who do?

What is your experience with drugs and how does it shape your perception of the people who do them and the reasons why they do them?
I've been playing around with the idea of alert() and prompt() and confirm() replacements that work like this:

await Prompts.alert("This is an alert message!");
const resultBoolean = await Prompts.confirm("Do you want to proceed?");
const name = await Prompts.prompt("What is your name?");

Demo here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/prompts-js - code written by o1: https://chatgpt.com/share/67539c28-4df0-8006-b021-4f468e011f...
"English" does not describe a single ethnicity. It may describe the origin of one's ancestors. England experienced multiple waves of immigrants in the past, before the discovery of the New World. Romans (not all of whom had Italian roots), Angles and Saxons (from regions now part of Germany), the Norse or Vikings -- Scandinavian people who also have older roots in what we now call Germany, and the Normans from today's northern France, but ethnically a mix of Norse and French (with "French" not describing a single ethnicity either). The English have also mixed with the Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Scots, Dutch.

What does it mean to claim German ancestry when the nation we call Germany didn't coalesce until the 19th century, and since then the borders of "Germany" changed. Do we include Austria and Prussia, once parts of the German Empire and the earlier Holy Roman Empire? Does "German" refer to the area the Romans called Germania? England formed as a nation-state earlier than Germany, France, Italy, most of the other modern European nation-states. The whole question of ethnicity and ancestral origin seems slippery especially when it assumes modern political boundaries and language dominance continued more or less the same from the past.

Based on my family name I have answered questions about my ethnicity as Scandinavian, specifically Danish, although that comes from just one great-grandfather. While visiting relatives in Denmark I learned my ancestors had immigrated from Sweden and adopted a Danish name, in the 19th century, and before that the ancestral Swedes had migrated from (what is now called) Germany. Other branches of my ancestry come from England and Scotland. My children had their DNA tested and it shows almost 100% northern European, consistent with known genealogy. So given a US Census form, what ethnicity can I claim that makes the most sense, or gives the most accurate answer? How far back do I go for a meaningful answer? Because of my name people assume Scandinavian heritage, but the name comes from a late 19th century name change, not from a line of Danish ancestors going back many generations.
Sure. I'll sell it to you for $150/unit for 1-5 units, $125/unit for 6-20 units, $100/unit for 20+ units. Has a few weeks lead time, though.
Please. The media have been nothing but sympathetic and have continued to push the bullshit narrative that this came entirely out of the blue. My favorite quote was from Fox: "as so many try to process the why of it all". Why? I'll give you one guess.
It is also more resilient to have system wide slacks. This is what I wrote in an earlier HN thread

I feel that a 100% efficient system is not resilient. Even minor disruptions in subsystems lead to major breakdowns. There’s no room to absorb shocks.

We saw a drastic version of this during COVID-19 induced supply chain collapse. Car manufacturers had built near 100% just in time manufacturing that they couldn’t absorb chip shortages and it took them years to get back up.

It also leaves no room for experimentation. Whatever experiment can only happen outside a system not from within it.
The helicopter flight that landed on the summit briefly was helped by some strong updrafts according to the pilot. It also looks like it was a number of flights.
Yes, the UK is part of the other countries. However, I managed to get good bread in London. So it's not completely uniformly bad; just generally bad.

(They had some great Ficelle at a small bakery in one of those markets under the rail arches near the Bermondsey beer mile. I think it was 'Little Bread Pedlar', but don't quote me on this. Their other baked goods were also tasty. But this was in 2017.)

> The bread I make at home is order of magnitudes better than any of the bland, dead, oversalted bread I get at local supermarkets in the UK.

Interesting that you complain about oversalting. We put quite a lot of salt into our wheat/rye-mixed sourdough here in Singapore; partially for taste but also partially to retard the rapid fermentation you get in the local climate.

> But try, say, France, or Italy, or Spain, or Greece. Just go to a bakery -if you can figure out which ones make the dough in house (in France there are rules for this). And then we can talk about mass-produced German sourdough.

You can also get artisanal bread in Germany, and you can get arbitrarily fancy there. If you are in Berlin, try Domberger Brotwerk. (Their yeasted cakes and (open) sandwiches are also great.)

You can get decent-ish bread in the countries you mentioned, though I think it's all rather white and wheat-y? I prefer at least some rye mixed in. (So I might prefer a German factory produced Mischbrot over an artisanal white wheat; even though the latter might be a better example of its style.)

My point is not that German factory produced bread is the best bread ever. It is not. My point is that it's decent. Decent enough to deny the statement 'and yet the food industry hasn't mastered the sourdough.'