skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title makes it sound as if RISC-V is a liability. The liability lies in it being possible to reactivate cores that were supposed to have been permanently disabled.
The original code up to that point is still GPL though, so they can't lock down your contribution, they are just using it in a closed system. The open system is still available for everyone.
Perhaps the cartoonist thought it pretty obvious too, yet felt moved to act as she did. If you think keeping your job comes before everything else you are not weird, but might be wrong. At least your opinion might not be universally held.
The more I learn about epigenetics, RNA, and DNA, the more convinced I am that we need to be investing much more heavily in this area. There are a lot of barriers. It starts with our education system where people need to be in school until they are far too old until they reach the edge of the state of the art. I think it's time to rethink parts of high school and university so that people can specialize in this area sooner. Funding is another major hurdle. A lot of traditional sources of funding don't map well to these problem areas where the risk and reward are both very high and the holding periods are long.
We need to find the api endpoints of the body somehow.
New device's radio waves reveal lead contamination in soil
That is s great idea. I’ve used ChatGPT to help me define the names of the functions of an API. Next time I face a problem where it calls for DSL I will give it a try.
I love abbreviations! Is it a point of care? A piece of crap? A proof of concept? All of them would work :)
Social media distorts perceptions of norms (2024)
Nit: Google's project was called Soli.
Show HN: I'm building a Jazz exercise generator
I'm building an exercise generator to help me learn Jazz. It's still at an early stage, but maybe it helps you too.

I'm happy for any feedback!
Very inconvenient that people are still using Twitter. A presence on a more open network that would at least be cross-posted to, would be much appreciated.
>BPA in thermal paper was a concern of mine as well, but I thankfully found some BPA-free thermal paper on Amazon!

Cheers to that. A note about buying BPA-free thermal paper on the site might be nice, especially for those who plan to have children interact with your project.
What I mean is that we want something like set theory merged with weak computability theory (e.g. Kolmogorov complexity) but set means environment, embdded agent means element inside set, and then everything else gets built on top of that theory. This may be a an infinitely large -feeling work because there are many rules & interactions & games, but you are essentially answer what does it mean to be a rational embdded agent that's part of an environment, that probably doesn't have the exact same wants, in the abstract & formal sense of the inquiry.

Once you start examining scenarios where there are multiple clones of you that you perhaps cannot tell apart, your memory has been limited, you are facing larger amounts of pain & pleasure that you can handle without going insane, everyone wants the same thing but you also want something different, or someone gets mind-reading powers that might be partial and only work when they reveal their thoughts... then you are analytically working towards the end goal of building a larger catalogue of "everything" & making a theory & terminology out of that.

I would dedicate 2-20 years on the formal work but there's no funding I could get I know of & besides couldn't promise to yield results since foundations yields no results until it does if it ever does.

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A related note: Kolmogorov complexity & finitism go along beautifully but the bit-lifting to calculate memory computational process takes insofar is out of my capacity. Nevertheless you can define a maximum number to ever allowed to exist in a system as Church number & have then perhaps the minimum amount of logical operations required to get there to be the maximum amount of memory your operations can take, closing the system since you lose memory in say substraction to a, b, the process initial size (hello, Kolmogorov) & process memory consumed at most (in any procedure, the smallest procedure being the number itself).
Yea, it might perhaps be described more detailed in the mentioned paper (i haven't checked it yet.):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00194-4

EDIT: No, i don't think it's mentioned...
We need display manufacturers to provide a refresh cycle that is agnostic of the incoming signal hz sent down the cable AND to either provide shader support (ideally) at the displays hz OR to implement this shader.

There really is no need for an expensive RetroTink if we had this. Some manufacturer must be able to do it and the rest would follow.
I fondly remember a dot matrix printer that looked a bit like a single slot toaster from many decades ago, long before the internet and doomscrolling. You sat it above a stack of fan fold paper. My memory claims it was called Tiger, but what brand it was I have no idea. It was incredibly loud but also very fast.
At our school, the "computer" teachers were often teachers who were specialists in other areas that had some interest in computers, and weren't very ... security aware.
They all had admin/root user access, and they'd often forget to sign out, leaving us with the keys to the kingdom, at least temporarily.

We figured out how to create a SUID shell, so we could get back to root even after we head logged out. Poking a few bytes would have been more interesting!
In addition to the content licensing, it was released as serial web fiction presented in a wiki. Serial fiction usually benefits from significant editing to fit the structure of a novel.
Could you give some examples of more secure solutions?
theres definitely something nice about how analog this is, but as an anti-screen solution it doesnt make much sense since you would have to spend more time using a screen to make sure your tasks are filled out the night before. for me anyway there are certain tasks i just remember so i mainly only make a note of the things i would forget, but with this i would have to write down everything
Yes, apps for this is for sure the best solution. Hopefully something like "Be My AI" in combination with consumer products such as Ray-Ban Meta, where you can get descriptions without telling the world that you are requesting descriptions.

I have not done any app development, and for this project I wanted to keep some things simple to focus on what can be expected from a low quality camera in combination with AI for descriptions.
Because I hate it.
One way is to find at least 5 instances of people complaining about something online using a phrase 'take my money', or 'if only there was a company selling this'.
That is very doable as a groupchat or a private mastodon or lemmy instance. Invite your family and friends, don't federate with the wider fediverse.
Sure, but this sort of limits the kinds of thing you can realistically build unless you want to build everything from the ground up. Even in the case of code reuse with statically linked assembly files there would be some sort of "convention" about how to call and be called.
impressive tenacity
Interesting. The amount of samples is a bit low (high chance of oversampling), but still interesting to pursue further
Very interesting. This in combination with something that "tracks" described object not needing to describe them again would be a game changer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFuse so many
I browse HN on a mobile device so personally, I appreciate seeing a few images and technical details before deciding to thrash my battery on a demo.
Oh, I had that too, just never upgraded the CPU. Selling it in 1996 for a few bucks was probably the worst mistake I did in my computer life.

The second worst error was also getting rid of my Asus EEE also featured in the OP.
Maybe for the same reason I stopped using headphones with my phone: There's no headphone jack, and Bluetooth is too finicky.

Airlines have also been passing out cheap earbuds for a while. They can't do that for Bluetooth now.
For example we have it behind a kind of transparent proxy, where you get only packages which were tested and scan by a team of experts.
Corporate ownership of open source copyrights is actually optimal from an efficiency standpoint. Companies have the resources and legal teams to properly steward these projects, while non-profits like the FSF are bogged down with bureaucracy and outdated ideological concerns.

The article vastly overstates the importance of enforcement. In practice, the collaborative nature of modern software development makes strict copyleft enforcement unnecessary and potentially harmful to innovation. Most companies comply voluntarily because it makes business sense.

I've worked at several major tech companies and have never once encountered the kind of enforcement issues described here. This seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Show HN: ClojureScript Tiny Slides
> They chose the phrase specifically to be something they had no interest or search history in.

If you feel like repeating this experiment, try generating the phrase randomly rather than choosing one, to eliminate unconscious bias.
This is pithy but won't. There's a clear difference between software (no evidence that everyone can do it capably) and cooking (thousands of years of nigh everyone from every background doing so). Laundering it as "thousands of man hours" doesn't change the fact that we've had less than a century of evidence for people coding, and for most of that only a small subsection of the population has picked it up.
Good point! We did consider SSE, but ultimately decided against it due to the way we have to re-implement response payloads (one for application/json and one for text/event-stream).

I've not personally witnessed this, but people on the internets have said that _some_ proxies/LBs have problems with SSE due to the way it does buffering.
Another operating system that deserves mention for 286 class machines is Coherent. This was an Unix like OS you could buy for $99, and it had all of the various Unix utilities and came with a HUGE manual to help you learn it.

They had a 386 version as well, but went all in on getting X-windows and graphics working, and ignored TCP/networking just as the Internet started to gain a lot of traction. Still an interesting OS to look at!
That is somewhat terrifying
I learned to take a picture of darkness, set that as my background picture, and then set the brightness at absolute minimum. Works everywhere except in direct sunlight, when trying to take a picture, but my new camera app has a feature to go to full brightness on launch ,hopefully that will fix that, and it occurs to me to look for the same feature in a photo album.
I can’t help but think that adding facilities like shower or laundry at libraries would just make them de facto shelters
We talk a lot about having the freedom to criticize those in power (and being rich does give you outsized influence and power in the US). But it’s important to test that assertion regularly, otherwise it is just propaganda.

If you cannot publish a cartoon criticizing someone in power, then we do not actually have a free press, no matter what the constitution or the people say. It is the act of testing the assertions without reprisal that grants us the freedom, not the act of simply asserting we have it.

So yes - if one of our foundational freedoms is that the press should be able to ‘bite the hand’ without consequences, that’s exactly what we should expect when someone tests that assertion and we should be uneasy when that isn’t the result.
The metaverse was obviously worse. It's already proven that you can build bots good enough to keep some people engaged, and keeping people engaged is good for ad-revenue. It's not as likely that people would like to spend most of their day with a VR headset on, working in a cartoon office.
Almost all atomic spies were Jewish.

For example 13/15 on this list (exceptions are Klaus Fuchs, Alan Nunn May):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies#Notable_spies

Plus others, such as Ursula Kuczynski, Fuchs's handler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Kuczynski
Nobody is removing 32 bit support from the kernel.
Since 2010, liberal adolescents tend to get more depressed than conservatives
> The lawyer looking over the records was probably fine. Him paying his neighbor to help him look through them is more questionable.

I don't think so. The "paying" part is important - the neighbour becomes an employee for the duration of the work, which is fine, as then there's a contract between the employer and employee which includes, even if only implicitly, that the employers data is not to be exfiltrated.

If he were simply sharing it with his neighbour for shits and giggles that would be a different story.
Thank you, that's a really great explanation.
Awful title, but the video is actually quite good. It explores how Feynman - at least in the popular imagination - is more famous for being Feynman than for his actually contributions to physics.
I see some comments about the lack of security of Pypi. And they are totally right, I’m also concerned. But to be fair, many other languages don’t fare better in that arena. I don’t want to give examples, but everyone knows horror histories with other languages.

Again, is not that because others are worse, is ok, but I would cut a little slack. Specially for the fact that having all packages somehow signed/audited would be a titanic task. And I guess I’m not willing to pay for it.
https://github.com/Anime4000/RTL960x

The article reminds me this Github project, which using 3rd party SFP ONU connecting internet with SLID, Model, SN and other parameters.
The OP blames "various idiot web 'designers'" for problems, but in my 30 years of being a web designer I have yet to meet one designer that wants to cause these problems. It's usually people responsible for generating revenue.
Unless I'm mistaken, you can transfer employers on an H1-B, and you have 90 days to find a new job if you get laid off. On an L1 you are immediately out of status when your employment is terminated, with no option of transfer
Embedded projects where intel was involved often use something like Atom.
How would you tell the difference if the apps are listening all the time without you knowing it?
Cryptography-based networking using radio [video]
Awesome! Thanks for the lead, I'll check em out. Seems likely to be a rush next year to reap the federal incentives before the upcoming admiistration likely guts them
Aedan's talk was impressive enough, and for sure he got lucky with the 3's, but that second talk is a mind blowing level of commitment and makes me appreciate even more just how much work went into Asahi linux I'm running and similar reverse engineering projects. I got stuck on just some simple audio routing on the pinePhone SoC, and this inspires me to go back and spend some more time on it. It seems the industry solution is to iterate fast on this stuff, i.e. before we get time to fully understand it. When I think how long we had to play around with the Z80 and 68000 chips, and now they are popping out new chips each year, and more and more of it custom silicon. I wonder what hardware designs we'd have if we were in a cooperative market vs walled-garden competitive one.
Wonder what happened to so called smart insulin https://bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/august/ziylo-deal.html
Thanks for calling this out.
That was also my impression after having skimmed their paper: the only link to glucose monitoring is that the authors mention a few papers on the topic to motivate their research.
And looking at the papers they cite, I see little evidence that this approach could work in practice in the near future. Most of the citations [2, 15, 16] are to their own work, which did not look at glucose monitoring in the human body.

This is not my field of expertise, and maybe I am misunderstanding the papers. But it seems that there is little evidence that non-invasive glucose monitoring via measuring dielectric properties works reliably in practice. No in-the-wild studies, no investigation of potentially confounding factors.

Take for example citation 22 from the paper. A study where the authors propose a new antenna design. They seem to measure how the pancreas changes size during insulin production by monitoring its dielectric properties. IIUC, they look for a dip in the frequency spectrum caused by absorption of a certain frequency band.

But their measurements show an even larger effect when measuring on the thumb instead of the pancreas. This effect is not explained at all. (My guess: after having patients fast for 8-10 hours, giving them glucose will have an effect on the whole metabolism, resulting in higher blood flow, and that's what they measured).

Also, while they operate the antenna in the GHz range, they use a cheap USB soundcard (sampling rate 44.1 kHz) for capturing the signal. I did not understand this at all. They also repeatedly use the term "dielectric radiation". Seems to be a rather uncommon term?

The "machine learning algorithms" mentioned in the title seem to be a simple linear regression?
They claim an accuracy of ~90% and show some sample results. The complete study data is only available upon request, however.

[22] S.J. Jebasingh Kirubakaran, M. Anto Bennet, N.R. Shanker,
Non-Invasive antenna sensor based continuous glucose monitoring using pancreas dielectric radiation signal energy levels and machine learning algorithms,
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 85, 2023, 105072,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2023.105072
Easy: That indicator is not always on when the mic is.

Unless we're talking about an electret capsule with a physical LED wired into the supplying power rail that is switched off when the mic is not in use, you have to trust software.

And good luck with that after the patriot act. I am not implying the NSA has a microphone backdoor, but if they had and someone abused it, how would you know about it?

Listening in for keywords and only send text/audio when keywords are spoken isn't only good for ads, that would be dream of any intelligence agency. And since Snowden have been a few years.
Could someone explain to me why the sun-rise/set doesn’t seem as sinusoidal as I would naively expect?
Fun! A friend of mine has been working on something similar: https://www.wintermute.org/project/The_Screenless_Office/
Excited to read this article. I clicked. It loaded. White background. I closed immediately because it isn’t on a dark mode and hurt my eyes. Maybe I’m to old (30’s) with poor eyes or maybe I’m cranky.
Not sure what counts as surgery for everyone here, but having my femoral artery punctured counts if a <X>ologist does it to me.
With about half of the screen is black, can it also boost FPS by not spending GPU time on pixels in those areas if integrated deep into engine?
I don't use one or have diabetes but my understanding is that current CGMs measure interstitial glucose levels, which lag blood levels by up to 15 minutes. As a result, I believe those who require accurate spot measurements rather than just overall trends are still recommended to use finger stick tests.

In the article, the researcher claims "No other technology can provide this level of precision without direct contact with the bloodstream", so it sounds like they're claiming it's better than existing CGMs in a way that might be clinically relevant. Not sure if that's plausible or whether they are directly measuring blood glucose rather than interstitial.
The Adrian Dittmann Story
First thing I turn off in every single game is motion blur. It’s only useful in racing sims to have more sense of speed but that’s also a personal taste.

Motion blur made a bit
more sense on the 30fps Xbox 360 and PS3 games.
> the old utilman (or other suitable module) replacement hack from Windows repair (trigger by interrupting boot),

Can you elaborate on this?
As cool as thermal printers are, if you want to have printed news from the nyt in the morning, it might be simpler to just, you know, subscribe to the newspaper.
Quarantining projects is just a band-aid. If you’re worried about malware, maybe stop letting random people upload code to the official package index. Or just write better docs so people stop using random packages in the first place.
This was wonderfully explored in the following paper

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/668166
Is it really? Who are the apparatchiks?
I don't disagree on the actual policies, but I have an even darker view. People expect a return to the T1 strategy of making the rich richer. However, that was targeted to a low-power-grip environment, where the goal was re-election. The T2 strategy will be to make everyone poorer (except the rich.)

The T2 goal is to switch to autarchy. It's accomplished with the stick, not the carrot. The blueprints are Venezuela and Argentina. Trash everything and blame the opposition. Claim that the only solution is to trash everything further. Incarcerate opponents, and pretty soon the remaining opponents shut up or flee the country.

Once there is no opposition left to speak of, switch to the Russian model and to the carrot again.
Does all this shader really get around is the problem of display inversion?

From Gemini: "Display inversion is the process of alternating the voltage between positive and negative for each pixel on an LCD screen to prevent damage. This process is called polarity inversion."

If display manufacturers knocked that on the head for certain scenarios then surely we could just have a simple block of horizontal screen scrolling down the display at high refresh rates?

Phosphor fall off as far as can be seen in Slo Mo Guys is quite a small effect not on the scale of this shader.
As far as I understand there are machines or automations for this process. But it decreases the quality. We have saffron here in Switzerland and the reason it's premium priced is mostly because it's done the exact same way as 100 years ago.
Why would I as a nondiabetic buy it? Out of general curiosity for my blood sugar levels?
Are We Multiplanetary Yet?
42-bit is the right answer of course.
Visiting SF a few years back (pre covid), I was surprised to see how many cars had no license plates at all.

The owners weren’t particular about keeping a low profile or not being noticed. As an outsider, it seemed to me perfectly legal to have no plates.

Turns out, having asked around, it’s all those people going over the golden gate bridge and not wanting to pay the toll and instead rather taking the risk of being caught without plates - obviously cheaper than paying the daily toll.

Is this in anyway related to cracking down on this practice?
Who is "they"? PyPI is an index; it doesn't control your installing client.

(This is a larger issue - or feature, depending on your perspective - with Python packaging. But it's important to understand that PyPI itself can't force `pip` or any other client to pick any particular resolution order between indices.)
I've been wanting to build something similar, but can't get myself to buy a thermal print for just this project. I'll probably settle with a "Sunday Newspaper" as a compromise on my laserjet printer.
Tool: LLM based "2024 GitHub Rewind"
The FSF is the only entity I'd trust with a CLA. Considering they're the stewards of the GPL, if they went evil everything would be FUBAR anyway. So I'd say yeah, the FSF doing it is fine.
Harari is a shill.
If you are looking for a quality product (ex. Non contaminated soil, high ecological standards, ...) I wouldn't think a second of buying an American produce.