skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true. The US is about to enter a phase of mismanagement, just like El Salvador.

It's very unfortunate.
There are plenty of amateur- to semipro-level youtubers out there in the metal and woodworking spaces with a total amount invested in their workshop that is way larger than that. I wouldn't be surprised if there are EE hobbyists with picosecond level scopes.
A robot is not only hardware. A robot is hardware and software.

The robots in the links you posted are either not commercially available or not capable of working in an unrestricted construction environment. Such an environment do require a humanoid frame at this time because the entire world is geared to that. I agree that a few show promising demos, but that's not what I would "available". Perhaps I should have been more clear. Unless I(As in some rando corporation) can go out and buy it I don't consider it available.
We're getting that.

https://www.caiso.com/documents/2023-special-report-on-batte...
I find it interesting that it doesn't recognises AI generated images (on the other hand maybe it's intentional).
Agree - this is something I'd be interested in trying out, but I don't have a MIDI keyboard.
> To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force

One time, my dentist told me "I can't get it out, I am going to fetch my dad to do it" when she had trouble removing a tooth. What followed was a not so fun experience in professionally applied dental violence. (Her father was also a dentist)
For comparison, with bare-bones tools (assuming `pip` is a globally-visible Pip version 22.3[0] or better):

$ python -m venv --without-pip .venv
$ pip --python .venv/bin/python install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/uv/refs/heads/main/docs/requirements.txt

This venv creation is instantaneous, because it doesn't install Pip in the new venv. On my 10-year-old machine, with cached packages (it still has to unzip everything and move it around), the installation takes about 8.5 seconds.

I have some wrapper scripts defined locally to smooth out this process; I can do `make-project-venv` (which puts the venv in `.local/.venv` and also attempts to install the current project with `pip --python ... install -e .`) and then `activate-local` and then `pipe install ...`.

[0]: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#v22-3
It's Time to Learn oklch Color (2023)
No, they would have as much mass as the black hole plus the energy of the photons (they still distort spacetime and exert a gravitational force, and have inertial mass) and you still have to move that mass with you. You may have increased your fuel density, but you haven’t reduced its mass compared to antimattter, and you still have not dodged the relativistic rocket equation.
Guess what considerable portion of Intel ME is for, or why normal AMD CPUs have closed source PSP...
You can tell it's American because Russia doesn't make single engine fighters.
What Is Vim?
Law enforcement takes down 'DDoS-for-Hire' sites in Operation PowerOFF
It doesn't work - it seemed to catch my accent once I ran it a couple of times on the same browser, but... in the incognito mode, it fails every single time, ranging from French and Swedish to Swahili. :D When I mumbled a bit and lowered my voice, it said 97% English, lol. Maybe its model treats mumbling as the UK, hard to say. When I added a bit of "R," it immediately recognized me as Russian, ignoring everything else. And when I increased my pitch without changing anything else, it started detecting Persian and Spanish. When I used a proxy server pointing to Scandinavia, it started detecting Swedish, lol. Fake as hell. I'm Polish, btw.
This is such a weird claim getting repeated. If they were infringing, opening the protocol wouldn't change that fact. They didn't even have to provide the client for other platforms, so their unit count wouldn't be increased for damages.
I wasn't expecting "mom and pops" to be part of the discussion, but kudos for finding an exception.
Drawing Elite Ships
It should be your default assumption that any and all data you hand over to a company will be collected, used by that company in any manner that they feel will be beneficial to them, sold/leaked to others, and ultimately used against you.

At a glace, it appears that the privacy policies of walmart, CVS, and walgreens allow for it. I imagine that's where most people these days take their photos for development and/or printing
So we burned a pile of wood and now everyone in the warehouse is having a bad time. Some people in the warehouse say: please stop burning piles of wood, we need what's left from the air for breathing. But you say: nah, can't clean it up, so it's fine let's just keep burning more piles of wood.

This is satire right?
If that's the only hammer they have, that's the one they have to use whether it works or not.
If you took the time to rent a place filled it with something and then hung a sign that said “Art Gallery”, I would argue that for sure is art. It may or may not be good art but it is art
htmx generalized hypermedia controls, so it makes HTML more powerful as a hypermedia:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3648188.3675127

that means you may be able to express more of your UI needs in HTML, using the traditional REST-ful architecture of the web (HATEOAS, in particular) and reserving JavaScript for the areas where that additional complexity adds the most value.

Depending on your application, this may lead to significant reduction in application complexity:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/
It wouldn't surprise me if you personally know an individual with some shred of integrity. It's be very surprising if you knew of even one large corporation that did though.
I would have liked a couple more shades of gray. I'm practice with lowres art and ansi, everyone just used cyan shades as a stand in for more gray. Which was sometimes cool. But very over used all the same.

At least ega could adjust the palette for more color options. This was pretty fun with rip colors and ansi. I'm thinking of making a filter to adjust ansi color codes to their RGB counterparts so art can display properly with modern terminals that have custom pallets.
Accent Oracle
Discussions

(36 points, 26 days ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42181466

(62 points, 22 day sago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42213125
Would you say that a calculator is also self-aware, and that it must know its limitations so that it doesn't attempt to do calculations it isn't capable of doing, for instance?
The physical layers of everything are converging. The breakthrough we need is on the logical layer, with peers describing their capabilities and working out a sensible, predictable suite of resulting functions. Right now there are _zero_ conventions for what the DP Aux stream should do, so random member of the public has no expectations. HDMI for the most part does what normal people expect. USB has maybe a few too many possible outcomes ... for example yesterday I discovered that my Pixel phone was charging my MacBook, instead of the other way around.

Unfortunately working out a set of norms and expectations that are useful to users is harder than just making bits go over wires.
Could you please tell some? I am about to switch to a self-hosted solution.
Dupe (217 points, 3 days ago, 252 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392088
> It seems to be written by someone who doesn't understand BlueSky. It isn't twitter or Facebook where the posts you see are determined by some hidden algorithm. You get to choose the algorithm that chooses what posts you see. Many of them are open source.

The thing is - a lot of OG Bluesky users don't understand BlueSky, since they are ones harassing Trust and Safety team of Bluesky with their demands to ban Jesse Singal. Just read the replies to BlueSky's T&S team post on the matter
https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/post/3ld7e2hse2e2r
What are the specific reasons that this is a problem?

Asking without any bias, just curious if there’re any other reasons than what I already know…
I use recoll: https://www.recoll.org/

Recoll will index an MS-Word document stored as an attachment to an e-mail message inside a Thunderbird folder archived in a Zip file (and more… ). It will also help you search for it with a friendly and powerful interface, and let you open a copy of a PDF at the right page with two clicks. There is little that will remain hidden on your disk.
If you think I'm trolling that proves my point: there is no room to criticize or question anything the far left does. Double the trucks on the road? Fine. Send "recycled" plastic back to china to dump it in a landfill? Fine. Try to stop it? You're a monster who denies climate change. Life is easy when you force everything in two bins: "you're either with us [environmentalists] or you're against us [trolling]". Which president said that again? You have more in common with conservatives than you realize.
Seems like a nothing opinion piece offering no new insights.
WhatsApp ran on Nokia S40, which is J2ME, but it did not run on other J2ME phones (unless there was some way to put the s40 app bundle on them? I never heard about that).

There was a period of time where someone was selling low end phones with an unauthorized and incomplete client built in... In addition to not supporting group messages, it apparently had a backdoor to remote send spam.
Question. Are there white-hat hackers out there who pen-test the Python ecosystem on a regular basis?
Yup, that claim went a bit far. I mean, the company account API exists and you can do buttons and automation and lots of companies do support this way. (All my contact with Dell support was over WhatsApp) So the tech is there, but the actual deployment of it isn't that big.
I’ve seen that too. A lot of people think that business is magic. Heck, plenty of publicly traded companies think that too!

Adding my experience as the owner of a small corporation, for me the struggle is _time_. We have taken the time to build things slowly and methodically; intentionally trading fast growth for building a foundation. In a way we’re intentionally operating in a manner that is anti-modern-startup.

No matter how lean our processes, despite the fact that most of our accounting processes are automated in an ERP, and having the benefit of formal college courses in corporate accounting, there are still manual tasks I have to perform _all throughout the business_ (and in finance) that I struggle to balance with other tasks.

One of the most practical things small businesses struggle with is human power. Hiring an employee is expensive, and for us, we’re in the middle ground where we don’t have enough work or income to justify bringing on someone else.

I refuse to sacrifice my work/life balance and I’d rather spend my career building a business that can pay off in the long run rather than next year. Lately I’ve needed to spend more on the “life” side so I have. That’s a luxury I have, which I acknowledge. Not all have that.
Reminds me of the article “Language Models Model Us”:

> “On a dataset of human-written essays, we find that gpt-3.5-turbo can accurately infer demographic information about the authors from just the essay text, and suspect it's inferring much more.

> Every time we sit down in front of an LLM like GPT-4, it starts with a blank slate. It knows nothing about who we are, other than what it knows about users in general. But with every word we type, we reveal more about ourselves -- our beliefs, our personality, our education level, even our gender. Just how clearly does the model see us by the end of the conversation, and why should that worry us?“

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLg7CyeTE4pqbbcnp/language-m...
did the last two prophecies come true?
Cyber1
How do you opt out of Google updating your user/advertising profile based on information they glean from your photos?
This one is very common as every (insert your country) designer googles images of jets, tanks, what have you.

Happens every year on every side of multifaceted aisle.
Jobs' statement at the time was the intent to make it a published standard. If that standard was patent encumbered (or could be claimed to be, as the suit did) then it would be pretty hard to convince other people to implement that standard, and difficult to get a standards body to actually publish it. Why would Google, MS, or anyone else implement something if it'd get them bogged down in the same lawsuits Apple was already dealing with?
Yes but parent poster was almost certainly talking about lead guitar and rhythm guitar.
This tells nothing much interesting. It seems to think all my photos are taken with a NORITSU KOKI QSS-30 camera. Which, btw, does not seem to be a camera of any sort.
Has the capacity to maintain HIPAA compliance maybe, but Google is not a HIPAA covered entity and thus is not subject to any of its rules
a theory of everything would have to have quantum mechanics as an emergent theory and quantum mechanics is fundamentally non-deterministic. and even if it was, a theory of everything is almost certainly not going to be practically computable for the same reason that even basic non-relativistic quantum mechanics cannot even solve for a reasonably sized molecule numerically (let alone exactly - just as classical mechanics is unsolvable for more than two bodies)
Hi. I run IRATA.ONLINE. Where should I post news? :)
-Thom
The initial WhatsApp plan was to charge between $1 and 2€, initially a one time fee paid after a few weeks, then a yearly subscription after one free year.

I kinda wish that had paned out.

It'd still be hundreds of millions of dollars in yearly revenue. Plus businesses.
That embedded video is equally hilarious and depressing, especially at 1:26. Starship-Troopers-level cartoonishness.
> What can you do as a publisher to the Python Package Index?

Does PyPI rate publishers based on how well they comply to these rules? Can users see which publishers are more reliable than others?
>Is there any reason why most TVs still don't support USB C display port and just support HDMI?

Personally I’m convinced it’s mostly because the display manufacturers want to discourage the use of TVs as monitors, in order to protect their margins on monitors.

8k monitors should be sub 1000 usd by now and standard for anyone working with screens. You can get that as a tv but not as a monitor. :(
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/93c1b742-3801-7f06-775...

https://www.chainalysis.com/government/
The web client can be used on any system with a suitable web browser. Press the orange button on the website. :)
Keep in mind, when you use this, you are waiving your right to sue the authors in court: https://theyseeyourphotos.com/legal/terms

> PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE TERMS CONTAIN A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION AND CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER.

These are common in the US, and consistently upheld in the US. Curiously, Ente did not add the opt-out provision they have in their usual ToS (https://ente.io/terms). I wonder why they made their Terms more restrictive for this specific service only.
Are you suggesting that Nayib Bukele is mismanaging things? I'd like to see some evidence of that.

While I'm not a supporter of who got elected for US president. I do think that there is some real potential for change that wouldn't have happened otherwise. It won't be easy or clean, but I'm open to seeing how it plays out.
I'm talking about your average person, not the court system. I'm asserting that culturally we need to shift to acknowledging that photos are not proof, rather than pretending that some fancy counter-model or watermarking will somehow allow us to maintain an already-misplaced trust in the veracity of images.
Programming languages should be safe by default, except in clearly delimited sections of code (as small as a single expression) where the programmer requests less safety.

Safety is the property that erroneous situations are intercepted and diagnosed, rather than running off with incorrect results or behaving unpredictably. It can be a continuum based on the number and kinds of situations that are treated safely.
GPU offloading languages - cuda, openmp etc - work something like:

1. Split the single source into host parts and gpu parts

2. Optionally mark up some parts as "kernels", i.e. have entry points

3. Compile them separately, maybe for many architectures

4. Emit a bunch of metadata for how they're related

5. Embed the GPU code in marked up sections of the host executable

6. Embed some startup code to find GPUs into the x64 parts

7. At runtime, go crawling around the elf section launching kernels

This particular library (which happens to be libc) is written in C++, compiled with ffreestanding target=amdgpu, to LLVM bitcode. If you build a test, it compiles to an amdgpu elf file - no x64 code in it, no special metadata, no elf-in-elf structure. The entry point is called _start. There's a small "loader" program which initialises hsa (or cuda) and passes it the address of _start.

I'm not convinced by the clever convenience cut-up-and-paste-together style embraced by cuda or openmp. This approach brings the lack of magic to the forefront. It also means we can add it to openmp etc when the reviews go through so users of that suddenly find fopen works.
i gave it a picture of making some meatballs, and it didnt capture the interesting parts.

a) it didnt catch that they were made of ground pork and not beef
b) it didnt realize that the inconsistent browning and look of the fat was from butter browing the breadcrumbs and flour
c) it didnt realize that the surrounding on the pan was bits of browned meat that fell off while rolling, instead claiming it was garlic or herbs
d) it didnt spot that one had fallen apart a little bit
e) it didnt get that i took the picture because i thought i rolled them too big
f) it made up a counter, when only the cast iron pan was visible

with a different picture, it couldnt figure out what my makeshift Halloween costume was, despite it having been a pretty obvious squid games character.

it seems like it can see whats in the picture mechanically, but it can't see what the picture is of. whats the point of all this ai photo stuff if i cant give it a picture of a cake and have it tell me to turn down my oven a couple degrees next time?
Very likely BBs can't exist in our current high-stability regime, and only in the post-matter universe where vacuum-decay-style events occur more often would they manifest. I think they're incredibly far future only. As for the type of intelligence, it seems probably that they'd be completely alien to us, yes, as there must be modes of intelligence other than that evolved my social monkeys. Don't expect any of them to be friendly (though, what sort of violence they could hope to commit is beyond me).
He already did. Look at Tesla’s stock since the election.
Your employer is definitely selling your paystubs to their HRS provider. I believe it’s default for most HRS providers
This reminds me of learning the term "culture jamming", and the antics of a group that would perform silent plays in front of surveillance cameras, not knowing whether someone in a security booth was even watching.

At the time I wondered if they might've anthropomorphized the camera itself as the audience, to be able to emote to it and not focus on the uncertainty of whether there was anyone "else" in attendance.
Yeah, I'm a bit surprised that this has so many upvotes without any easily accessible text
No ICE downtown isn't about CO2, it's about smog.
That's an international problem)

Su-27: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/pr6ppb/us_air_for...

Typhoon submarine: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/04/01/april-...
We can't even get lead devs on camera.
As a matter of policy, I avoid looking into details of patents, but from the title, I thought the patent was about something the server does, routing or something? In which case, infringement or licensing would scale with the number of users, not the number of shipped clients.

This was around the same time that Apple was charging for OS upgrades, at least on Mac, and I think they wouldn't have wanted to pay for something they were providing for free.
Oh wow. I seriously considered working at comma (the company I believe George Hotz is referencing in that post) once. After reading "[Elon Musk] […] had all the same ideas as me", I feel like I dodged a bullet.
that's just assassination with extra steps
for many the midlife crisis is when you find that middle :)
So. Can we put the idea to bed about bad Putin, poor Russians ? This is a marketing video aimed at parents enrolling their kids. That they want you to see this tells a hell of a lot about societal values.
Go look up some of the surviving Hitler jugend footage, or the militaristic scouts clubs in later East-Germany. Isn't it getting a little too close for comfort ?
I’ll take the US on this one.

At least the US gives a voice and wide representation to its flyover country instead of telling it to “know its place”.
For example, a few months ago the Canadian conservative party made a political ad talking about fighter jets conducting a training mission to defend Canada...

On top of video of Russian fighter jets: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-video-deleted...
There seems to be so much excitement around LoRa, but I don’t really get it…

What is the use/appeal?
I am very very happy with immich. See the other commenter's response for many more.
I'm no expert but going off of Wikipedia, I don't see the issue with the passage you quoted?

The nomenclature for colonial species seems to be that even if the colony can be a single organism, the parts are still referred to as animals (e.g. "A zooid is a single animal that is part of a colonial animal.")

But anyway, is there even a strict definition for what an organism is?
You are correct, this is exactly the reason.

Other countries charged per SMS so everyone had good reason to use an app instead.

The US didn't charge, so why would anyone download an app?
I never said randomly selection from the global population. The point still holds, even if sampling from only those who have died from caffeine: the LD1 dose, by definition, is still safe for almost all the population. That’s why arguing about LD1 or LD.0001 isn’t particularly useful and comes across as overly pedantic.

Also, FWIW the LD50 can be calculated with censored populations (ie not all subjects have died.) Think about it: if I administer a dose that kills half but leaves the other half living, the LD50 remains unchanged even if I continue increasing the dosage until all have died (or not). LD50 does not require a complete set.
-a ) check out Leo Marks' "Between Silk and Cyanide", which touches on a telegrapher's signature 'fist' - they were distinguishing between different (German) senders of coded messages over the air.

-b) this is still relevant today for (especially amateur radio) morse code operators
They don't have to "resell" the photos "as their own". It's the data you hand over to them, including the data in your pictures, which is theirs. I'm sure if Facebook decided to sell a book with one of your pictures on the cover, or if they put your personal photo on a mug and those mugs were then being sold at walmart their terms of service and privacy policies would allow for that, but that doesn't mean that there wouldn't be lawsuits and bad press as a result, which makes those kinds of scenarios unlikely.

More likely they'd sell your photos to third parties who wouldn't make products out of them. Those third parties would just extract as much information as they could out of them and then use that data.

You would never see it happening so you'd never know who to be angry at or when to be upset by it. That data would later be used to manipulate you, take more of your money, assign you into specific categories/castes, etc. but even if you were aware those things happened, you'd never be aware that facebook or your photo was a factor. Facebook gets an extra income stream and you're totally unaware.
https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries