skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that's what inspired my project! My wife is a wildlife photographer, and taking pictures of the squirrels and birds at our feeders is what started her down that path. I had wanted to get her one of those feeders, but they're all subscription based and send the photos to their cloud/AI services. Like you said, I understand it. It's a really neat product for people who enjoy birding, but I want to try my hand at building something that can run off a Raspberry Pi and sync to my local NAS instead of a third-party cloud service.
As someone with schizophrenia I know for a fact bright sun and heat make my mood disorder harder to handle. Heat and humidity are well know triggers for mood episodes [1]. The stress could be from inflammation, catecholamine release, or even the increased blue light.

[1] https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2022-ualbany-led-stu...
I don't see how you can come to that conclusion. Apple has obviously gone to significant effort to detect and notify in these situations, and they actually provide helpful information - pointing victims to an organization which can actually help them. Abdicating responsibility would be to do none of these.
We already have one. What we don't have is an API for process pillaging.

Think about it - if you aren't init, what exactly is too limiting about "kill the processes or process groups of the children you created yourself"? As a rule, most grandchildren won't bother to enter a new process group, and if they do their immediate parent should be advanced enough to take responsibility for forwarding fatal signals.
This was the pre-Gerstner era of the “Baby Blues”: Lexmark, AdStar, Pennant, Eduquest, Advantis/ISSC, and some others I’ve forgotten. In the end IBM spun off Lexmark, Federal Systems (to Loral), AdStar never spun out but was the division sold to Hitachi. Lexmark was “small” printers and keyboards, Pennant was the room sized beasts. Advantis became IBM Global Network, sold to AT&T in 2000.
> using the api from the terminal requires installing some tool.

It really doesn’t. It’s just a HTTP API. So basically anything that can form a TLS connection will work.

But the bigger problem here is that email addresses can be private in GitHub. Also you never know when GitHub might change their API.
> I have wondered whatever became of that massive initiative from Google to scan books, and whether that might be looked at as a potential training source, giving that Google has run into legal limitations on other forms of usage.

A few months ago, there was an interesting submission on HN about this - The Tragedy of Google Books (2017) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917016).
It is rational (you have a cogent reason for doing do) but the reasoning is specious, because you are singling out one specific thing to avoid. If you listed all such substances fitting the criteria "unknown or poorly studied" then you would have to live in a bubble to avoid them all.
> I've had some good times in C++. But for everything that's been thrown into it, I can't believe we're still dealing with header files.

There is nothing wrong with header files. In fact, there is no such thing as a header file specified in C++. There are only forward declarations and definitions, and how those can be managed by developers.

Meaning, any talk about header files is a discussion on software engineering practices, and how developers create or avoid their own problems.
The research specifically deals with cellulose bags which are often sealed with glues containing synthetic polymers.

The picture from the study of the cellulose bags show a round “pillow” style bag which is likely sealed with a glue, unlike some cellulose bags which are folded and stapled:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00456535240263...

From the article that summarized the study:

> The tea bags used for the research were made from the polymers nylon-6, polypropylene and cellulose. The study shows that, when brewing tea, polypropylene releases approximately 1.2 billion particles per milliliter, with an average size of 136.7 nanometers; cellulose releases about 135 million particles per milliliter, with an average size of 244 nanometers; while nylon-6 releases 8.18 million particles per milliliter, with an average size of 138.4 nanometers.

So while polypropylene is the worst of the three by an order of magnitude, the cellulose pillow-style bag still leaches a large number of particles.

Here’s the study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565352...

Notably, the authors tested OEM empty teabags for polypropylene and nylon, but chose a supermarket brand of cellulose pillow-style bags with tea still inside.
RealID.
GPT-o1 performance on SIMD-heavy HighLoad.Fun performance optimization tasks
I don't think it's too complicated, especially if you start in a culture where people don't job-hop all the time. But, you have to make it your priority, which means:

* pay them more than competitors, pay them more than if they changed jobs

* actually treat them well, which includes listening to and acting on their feedback

* celebrate people with long tenure

* give them options to grow inside the company

* don't just hire fresh graduates, a 40yo might be tired of job-hopping and still has 20+ years of employment in them

* give them long-term incentives, like stock options
So 8% of the limit of toxic is okay for you even if they can be made with 0%?

Where was the problem with 80% then, it’s still below the limit.

It adds up with all other sources of harmful materials.

Less is better
The flame retardants were added to the plastic cases of electronics, which at the end of their lives got recycled into kitchen utensils.

That is why white plastic utensils are not being called out: although white utensils are common, white electronics cases are rare, so the white utensils do not have high levels of retardants.
multiprocessing has more overhead even without serialization. I just brought it up to expand on why the GIL would force someone to thinking about being data-parallel.
> C++ became great to work with once C++11 was rolled out. The problem is that teams need to port their projects to >C++11

The problem is the C++ that's not great to work with is still there, and there's nothing preventing the rest of the world from using it; there are always going to be naive developers with a lack of experience who don't know how to use the tool. For this reason, all the code that's possible to write in C++ will be written, that includes the unsafe code.

It's not enough to have a safe, nice, modern, subset of C++ that everyone "should" use. If developers have the option to use the warty, sharp, foot-gun infested version of C++ they will, and they will gift that code to the rest of us in the form of readily exploitable software.

This is why organizations like CISA are suggesting developers move to other languages that take a stricter posture on memory safety: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/urgent-need-memory-saf...

> companies should investigate memory safe programming languages. Most modern programming languages other than C/C++ are already memory safe. Memory safe programming languages manage the computer’s memory so the programmer cannot introduce memory safety vulnerabilities. Compared to other available mitigations that require constant upkeep – either in the form of developing new defenses, sifting through vulnerability scans, or human labor – no work has to be done once code is written in a memory safe programming language to keep it memory safe.
What Spotify Is Really Costing Us
I wish scientists who do psychology and cognition of actual brains could approach those AI things and talk about it, and maybe make suggestions.

I really really wish AI would make some breakthrough and be really useful, but I am so skeptical and negative about it.
The person who defined the Hard Problem researches LLMs and is a lot less woolly about it.

Being woolly isn't the best that can be done if others are making actual arguments, the kind that aren't in the article.
> In September 2023, the United States Marine Corps used an M72 LAW anti-tank rocket launcher fixed to a Go1 robotic dog during tactical training at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitree_Robotics
Eugenics and vitamin C as a cure all.
The thing about metaprogramming magic in Ruby is that, it can work okay for one thing, but if you have 2 or 3 or more things all using it to do different things, it's very likely they'll conflict and blow up in a way that's really difficult to troubleshoot or solve.
> Furthermore, if you use RDMA over Ethernet, you are using infiniband at a low level. RoCE which enables it was originally called Ethernet over infiniband.

This is wrong.

RDMA over Ethernet is... RDMA over Ethernet. There is no Infiniband involved.

RoCE was motivated by supporting RDMA, which was then an IB-only feature, over regular Ethernet. The user-level APIs are the same (verbs), but the underlying architecture is all different --- it is traditional Ethernet with link-level flow control to make it lossless (pause frames).
How much of the limit would you eat?

Is 99% okay, or 80%, or 10%?

Especially when the intake could easily be avoided by not using recycled electronic‘s enclosures.

How much risk are you willing to take for a company‘s profit?
The stuff you use for work is not fun. The stuff you use for fun is fun. There, I solved the mystery for you.

If you choose technology for work by what is the most fun - you enter a hedonist treadmill. Stop. JS framework insanity lies that way. No cool technology will save you from burnout.
The Julia article was a good read. Probably something I run into once a year, but glad to have a better understanding of it.
>they are instead trying to increase our collective knowledge

I'm not sure that's even clear since they seem to be conflating cellulose with microplastics.
> How much longer this will go on for nobody knows, but there are lots of people pouring lots of money into this game so it would be a fool who bets on progress slowing down any time soon.

Money cannot solve the issues faced by the industry which mainly revolves around lack of training data.

They already used the entirety of the internet, all available video, audio and books and they are now dealing with the fact that most content online is now generated by these models, thus making it useless as training data.
And based on social media, taken out.
Use whatever operating system you want, but I can't imagine being a Windows "fan". It's like being a fan of traffic and billboards. Linux has community ownership and MacOS has the weird Apple design quirks that you can learn to love. Windows is something you trudge through just to get it to do what you want without shoving ads in your face. It was not created with love.
>Why isn't it a crime to preside over a company that prioritizes profit over people's lives?

Because the publics and their representatives made the law that this is a perfectly legal and acceptable thing to do.

Killing a CEO does very little, as there are hundreds of millions of people lined up to take their job.

It would be more effective to go out and kill your neighbors who vote differently than you, and reject things like single payer healthcare or reform.
I wonder what adaptions humans could develop to survive overheating in a wet bulb szenario. Some thermal shutdown of metabolism or almost all muscles could make those temperatures surviveable?
Exactly. It means that we must continue to act ethically within the system that is the way it is now, which we must accept, while at the same time doing our best to change that system for the better. It's a "why not both" situation.
>I never eat or drink anything heated in plastic when I can control it.

Do you avoid restaurants and cafeterias completely?
From what I read, the activist investors were complaining about poor sales and an inadequate China strategy. Not 2% payrises for employees.
You can argue any form of data is an arbitrarily lossy compression of any other form of data.

I get your point, but nobody is archiving their companies 50 years of R&D data with and LLM so they can get it down to 10GB.

They may have traits of data compression, but they are not at all in the class of data compression software.
You're using it wrong, you can use natural language in your equation, but afaik it's not supposed to be able to do what you're asking of it.
Thank you, my bad.

I was referring to Linus's harmful and evil promotion of Vitamin C as the cure for everything and cancer. I don't think Linus was attaching that garbage to any particular Nobel prize. But people did say to their doctors: "Are you a Nobel winner, doctor?". Don't think they cared about particular prize either.
bourgie brands of tea come in little nylon pyramids instead of the normal paper/cloth bag.
> They’ll still bullshit you and send you on wild goose chases

And confidently at that. It can't seem to find the backbone to say no to me either.

If I say something like "wait, X doesn't seem to make sense, isn't it actually Y and Z?" it will agree and reformulate the answer as if Y and Z were correct just to placate me. I usually use the LLM to learn new things, I don't don't actually know if Y and Z apply.
>If they use ZKP's correctly then what you are proving is membership in a set.

>However, they are collecting iris scans which means they are the ones building the set and therefore own all the data about all the members of that set.

Totally agree, but any other official of any kind can do the same and create their own membership set. A mayor of a town can create a similar set of citizens. A football's team coach can create their own membership set, of players and fans.

I don't see why that particular membership set is more special than any other.

> To do it properly the government should be the ones who build the set.

To do it properly governments around the world should agree on a standard or two, and use that standard worldwide for the next 50 to 100 years. See for example screws and screwdrivers [1] which are effectively identical for so many years.

When a standard is established for identity, for ownership, for ownership transactions, for signatures, for contracts, for passports and many other things then it is government's job to keep the data safe and private, we agree on that. As soon as identities for example are a technological screw, then we don't want incompatibilities between governments.

> There are also problems with respect to stolen identities.

The ZKP does not need to be the identity by itself. Another identity can be tied to the ZKP proof, and use it's children identities for everyday use. They implemented something like that for Python to avoid supply chain attacks [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXWSn8rMeEo

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136375
Yeah it’s on by default and I’m not even sure how to turn off the visual lookup feature :/

Yet another reason why my next phone will be an android.
Normally not for Twitter, but for a standalone blog, yes, you do.
but I can't imagine being a Windows "fan"

S/he specifically writes "Although I’m not a big Wind7ows fan, it does what it needs to, and that’s a relief."
Is Everyone High?
Would you trust a ML self-driving algorithm trained on a "digital twin" of a city? I would. I view synthetic training data like a digital twin in which it can provider further control or specified noise to understand from.
thanks this explains so much. was a bit stunned that all shoping possibilities are so far away from the homes
It still has to know what to code in that environment. And based on my years of math as a wee little undergrad, the actual arithmetic was the least interesting part. LLM’s are horrible at basic arithmetic, but they can use python for the calculator. But python wont help them write the correct equations or even solve for the right thing (wolfram alpha can do a bit of that though)
How can you state that as a universal truth?
I actually did the same thing for my old 286 ages ago, worked great for many years. Sadly I moved to a smaller place and was stupid enough to toss it out :(

Too bad they went to soldered batteries, decades ago people realy knew how to design systems in the old days. Now, not so much.
Agreed. I feel like every OS has its flaws. My sense of Windows is that installations deteriorate.

My cursor currently doesn’t show in VSCode after an update. My ‘Downloads’ folder also disappeared recently and everything now downloads to my desktop.

I’ve learned to reinstall the OS from scratch every year or so on Windows and that resolves my issues.
Schools still want people to donate paper? My local school system got rid of most printers/copiers years ago and it takes administration approval to print something on the few that remain. My daughter is a senior and I don’t think she has brought home a piece of paper from school since 5th grade.
IIRC, it also disables the Javascript jit compiler and configuration profiles.
China is in the forefront of drones, EVs, batteries, robotics and solar. It can't really be considered much behind the US on AI.

I think one day soon the US is going to get a rude awakening of being behind on tech. Probably once they come up with 4nm or less chips and that is likely not far off.
Four rounds of beers for three people anywhere on the west coast is like $100 now. Even in Copenhagen you can find a tall Tuborg for $1.50. Very sad
Even current people will feel differently. I don't bemoan the fact that Lean/Mathlib has `simp` and `linarith` to automate trivial computations. A "copilot for Lean" that can turn "by induction, X" or "evidently Y" into a formal proof sounds great.

The the trick is teaching the thing how high powered of theorems to use or how to factor out details or not depending on the user's level of understanding. We'll have to find a pedagogical balance (e.g. you don't give `linarith` to someone practicing basic proofs), but I'm sure it will be a great tool to aid human understanding.

A tool to help translate natural language to formal propositions/types also sounds great, and could help more people to use more formal methods, which could make for more robust software.
Threads like this are just rage bait.

- Anyone claiming one OS is the "best" is often either incredibly misinformed, or intentionally trolling.

- Use whatever OS does the job you need it to do, nobody cares. They're all great/suck/win/lose.
>We've been doing the education approach for decades.

Have we? The "education approach" seems to have worked for cigarettes[0]

But we haven't used that approach for sugary drinks. And the results show that[1].

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184418/percentage-of-cig...

[1] https://blogs.cdc.gov/nchs/2017/01/26/3410/
I agree with you, but the best ones see things the rest of us don’t
Was looking at prolog and having it shadow the llm activity in order to flag whenever the conversation trips.
I don't mean Rachel. Please read my parent a few times - that's what I was answering to. You might not know what my parent is referring to, but it's a different blog.
Building Low-Maintenance Community Websites
MTTR: When sample means and power laws combine, trouble follows
> The problem is the C++ that's not great to work with is still there, and there's nothing preventing the rest of the world from using it;

That's precisely why all this criticism is actually thinly veiled naive inexperient developers blaming the tools. Selling full rewrites as solutions to the problems they created is a telltale sign. As they are lacking the experience and know-how to fix the mess, they succumb to the junior dev disease of believing deleting everything and starting from scratch is a solution to all of life's problems and inconveniences.
> with an annual contribution of €13.61 and a real rate of return of 3%, 400 years of annual compounding would be over €7 million. With a rate of 4% it would be €280 million.

Reminds of Futurama with billionaire Philip J Fry after unintentionally leaving 93 cents in the bank for 1000 years.
I reviewed articles and never verified their calculations because it is not part of what a reviewer should do. A reviewer should never try and replicate the experiment or crunch numbers. It should look at the methodology, background, significance, possible enhancements etc.
I understand, I'm just explaining why the average person wouldn't expect to find flame retardants in kitchen tools. It is not a logical assumption like the other comment claimed.
The Total Cost of Contact Center Tech
The author 'LOL's at Windows keeping a game going while under heavy memory pressure, but this is the correct approach. Killing a random process due to OOM is not good, especially when it can lead to data loss.

Windows does not distinguish between World of Warcraft and SQL Server.

The author also does not understand that "virtual memory" is all memory (physical, page/swap, backing store) and is managed by a virtual memory manager. It's called "virtual memory" because an application does not know where the memory it has requested originates from (sure, you can get more pedantic than that, but it works).

The rule of 1-1.5x sounds like the very old and outmoded Microsoft "rule" for a pagefile, which was only there because back in the NT4 days Microsoft wanted to guarantee that a machine could create a full memory dump for analysis. 1-1.5x was never for performance, but gamers often lack that knowledge/history.

In Linux, using a swap file would be more appropriate than partition. Just as fast, fragmentation is no longer a concern with SSDs, much more flexible, and does not require partitioning tools.
The grade schools do, high schools barely seem to use paper.
"LLMs, without pattern matching, can only do up to about integer division, and while they can calculate parity, they can't use it in their calculations." - what do you mean by this? Counting the number of 1's in a bitstring and determining if it's even or odd?
I don't know why folks think Windows is easier to maintain than Linux. Sure, if you're running Gentoo maybe, but Bluefin is the most hands-off and stable operating system I've ever encountered; and I've used ChromeOS. I've never seen a Windows install over a year old that didn't have ad popups, corrupted drivers, 100 apps starting and running in the background at startup, or was just slow as all hell.

Every one of these posts boils down to "I wanted to play Fortnite, now I can, that makes me happy." Sure, you've now given some random company access to your machine at the kernel level, but if you wanted to make that tradeoff, good for you. It's not a terribly interesting take though.
In the late 90's, US manufacturers, including high-tech electronics, had 2 mantras:

1) Cash is king

2) Inventory is evil

I think this mindset may still be here, in 2024
This really checks for true values, which is fine for nil and numbers. But it will fail you if you want to cache `false` or any falsey object.
What's the point of ever so slightly changing it?
> Twitter and Facebook will still be around, Bluesky will be no more, Mastodon will continue to be niche

I'd be curious to know if you have an expectation for what will cause your cited Bluesky death. About 6 months ago I would have probably backed a prediction of "will remain niche" for it just like your Mastodon one, but now I am following some relatively big name accounts that have migrated over. And I undoubtedly enjoy the experience a lot more than X
I missed something: why do you as a seller have to enter your bankdetails?
This looks better than Robo dog in the sense that it's being robot, not an animal/human replica, using those wheels. That's how a robot should be. And it looks fantastic with those moves.

Video does not say if those moves were made by a human behind remote control or was the robot doing it by itself? It will be many times more impressive if the robot was avoiding collisions by itself.
This reminds me to re-read The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.