skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah bro. You didn't call me a racist for this? WTF?
Many were asking the question when the news came out prior to the fires. In terms of actual management, I'd rather leave that to the city's experts. As long as the city didn't pay for it (which was the assumption), then I'm ok with it. Otherwise, I'd rather she spend her time here trying to fix domestic issues.

I think it's one of those issues where both sides of the aisle could agree except for the right-wing side turned it into this weird DEI stuff.
The interesting part about this quote is not the quote itself, which is blatantly false but feels good (how would it sound: "I cannot remember the tiktoks/tv series/comic books I have watched/read...: even so, they have made me"), but how much we succumb to authority.

If the patron of the local pub had delivered the quote in question, we would tell him to put down his tenth beer. But since it was said by an intellectual, who has nothing more to say on the matter than the patron mentioned above could say, we take it at face value.
Interesting. I’ve never found a fuzzyfinder that “just worked” on windows for fuzzy searching in files under the current directory. Will give it a shot.
I've heard plenty of engineers say. "Yes, but that's a training issue"
LLMs are really bad at this. I tried finding long lost comic book using everything available on the market and got either basic bitch replies listing biggest authors and suggesting its in one of their works or plain hallucinations.
I had the great fortune to work at UCL in the early 1980s, just as SATNET came to an end as a project. I worked on what became ISODE, and related stuff as well as doing operations bits and pieces. I was far too junior to figure in Peter's planning but I will say, he was a very interesting HoD: he didn't suffer fools gladly (and I am one) but at the same time could be quite forgiving, if you were at least entertaining about your foolishness.

His most preferred model of funding work was to have 9/10ths of it done or a sure-fure thing, and then use the funding to work on the next idea, so he was guaranteed to have goods to deliver at the end of the project. He didn't always carry it off but when it worked it was superlative. I was on at least one OSI (protocol) project with 6 partners across industry and research in Europe, and the work was very unequal. That said, very fine dinners. I have fond memories of INRIA canteen food having wine and fresh fruit. UCL had baked beans and pies, the staff club had the same baked beans and pies but you could eat them under a superb Stanley Spenser oil painting of the resurrection.

The first Cisco Router turned up one day, it had annoyingly noisy fans which blew air a useless direction compared to the rest of the racks. As Mark Handley has pointed out below the basement was full of trash: a fantastic Prism-wedge shaped digital copying stand used with the British Library to photograph rare works, and an unbelievably expensive CCD digital camera attached gathering dust, a BBN Butterfly (it was a heap of crap frankly) running pre-BGP routing, a BLIT terminal and depraz mouse, the first Dec and Sun workstations.

We ran a project with the slade school of art doing digital arts design with them, lovely people. I still have some of the reject works.

Peter liked inviting people to come and be at UCL. During my time Bob Braden (SATNET) was there, and Mike Lesk (UUCP) -and they were also very nice and approachable. Tiny tea-room, I caused a kurfuffle washing out the most disgustingly stained coffee mug there, the owner of which was bulding the patina both to see how thick it got, and to discourage others from using his cup.

Peter had one standing rule you did NOT break: If there was an inter-departmental meeting with the people from ULCC (at that time down at Lambs Conduit St) he expected you to "vote against" any proposal they brought to the table without question: Departmental politics ran deep.

Peter was a committed skier, he was hardly young when I got there and he was still avidly visiting the alps as often as possible.

UCL ran the gateway from JANET (X.25 based non internet) to the ARPANet which required you to login to a unix jump host and use kermit to connect across, and lodge FTP requests using JANET "grey book" FTP protocol to talk to the FTP client through a conversion script. The gateway got hacked every now and then. Some of us were a bit unkind and said it used Kermit because Peter, who was somewhat small, frog-like and had thick glasses he peered through, appreciated the joke that he was Kermit personified.
> with zero sysadmin costs compared to setting up VPS

If you need RDS for example you need the VPS.

It only looks good on the outside.
If you comment with evidence showing that, you might be enriching the comment section. Simply having a bunch of people leave unsubstantiated comments like "truth has a conservative bias" or "truth has a liberal bias" is only adding noise. And it shows a certain lack of self-awareness.
it's not really a problem for Playwrite, because Playwrite is really intended to be run by the owners of the website, not as a webscraper.

It may become a real problem for the usefulness of this style of LLM driven browsing.
An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
>I'm in the US and my current IP address puts me in an area about 30 miles away currently. However, last year up until a few weeks ago my IP would place me in my current ZIP code (using ipinfo).

>My city is comprised of several ZIP codes so you could have figured out where I live within a ~1.5 mile radius.

How do you know that it accurately knows your location down to the zip code level, and not just that your zip code just happened to match up? After all, a broken clock is right twice a day.

>The granularity may not matter that much though. You can infer a fair bit of data. If you remove mobile network IP addresses, which tend to be quite vague here, you can sort of tell how often someone leaves the house, goes on vacation, or if they visit a friend/family member often.

That might be useful for stalker-ish reasons, but it requires work to implement, and it's unclear why advertisers would care about this sort of stuff. You go to work 9-5 and visit your friends on weekends, how can you turn that into money? "people with a job and friends" isn't exactly a very lucrative marketing demographic.
https://archive.ph/I6ptD
A bit meandering but it does paint a picture of a particular time.

For more about Margaret Mead maybe read this interview with Mead and Bateson, they both come across as extraordinarily sharp:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210116040013/http://www.oikos....

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315632
I just enabled the "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" option. Going to be interesting to see how many apps this breaks.
If maternal mortality were the only issue, evolutionary pressure would also favor women with wider hips/birthing canals. After all, we see hyper intelligent individuals at the current brain size, it's clearly possible to get more processing power in there but there doesn't seem to be much reproductive benefit.
The MX-500s have a design misfeature where power is constantly on internally. The switch only controls the output driver to the handpiece. Put these on a switched circuit for part time hobbyist use.
I'm pretty sure noscript will break 90% of the webpages I visit. I just rawdog the internet. If Chrome gets 0day'd then a lot of us are going down - at least I'll have company.
Samsung are some of the worst offenders enshittifying all these products. I would never give them the satisfaction.
Yertle the Turtle
I recently came across this set of stories. Quite amazing.
The loosey-goosey mapping of code points to characters has always bothered me about Unicode.

To guard against this nasty issue that is going to take years to fix you can enable global UTF-8 support by doing

Settings > Time & language > Language & region > Administrative language settings > Change system locale, and check Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support. Then reboot the PC for the change to take effect.
Hunyuan Video is a gift to the open-source community
They mostly seem to be "by and for high schoolers". This is what I was told when I was asking how I could help with my son setting something up.
here is a thread about a paper on this topic on the second page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651572

Ketogenic Diet in the Treatment of Gliomas and Glioblastomas

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9504425/
Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region is now generally available
Luckily we insured through the California State Fair plan. FEMA may also be able to provide some assistance. We’re learning as much as we can as fast as we can, but it can be difficult to source accurate information. Thank you for your kindness.
Other than what I've suggested previously, what sort of alternative are you seeking?
The loosey-goosey mapping of code points to characters has always bothered me about Unicode.
Doesn't have to be LLMs specifically. With how much data and metadata major companies have on all this media, it shouldn't be impossible to do this sort of stuff. But it's probably not mega-profitable enough. They'll just keep shifting buttons on devices and maybe rounding some corners on UI buttons.

EDIT: Maybe LLMs trained on the media itself - cast, crew, physical descriptions of people and places and equipment in various scenes, along with timestamps... - maybe LLMs and other search tech together could do this.
What they really meant by this is: “Competing products [at peer companies]”.

This is still in effect, however the primary competing products at peer rivals is now “foundational ai”, and they need far less people and mostly people of a very specific skill sets of ML research, Inference Scaling, Hardware R&D, AI prompt engineering research. Also the cost to play is 10 billion minimum.

So Salesforce will perform rent seeking as long as their moat allows rather than gamble on foundational ai.
SyncThing-fork, Google cloud for everything I can, and FolderSync handles that!
In nth normal form, you can't have 'no value'. That would mean your model is wrong. In academic relational data books, null does mean "unknown". There is a value, we just don't know what it is (yet).

If there might actually not be such a value, you're supposed to change your schema to reflect that.
Meta Confesses to Training Llama with Pirated LibGen Data [pdf]
> 1.5y vs 4y

That's pretty common. Details vary, but having 1-3y of credit you can transfer in and then only having to stick it out for 1-3y to navigate the maze of upper-level course requirements happens all the time.

In my case, MN heavily subsidized AP and CLEP tests at the time and didn't require you to take the class to take the test. A couple heavy weeks of testing later, and 2yrs of college was banged out. Toss in the fact that the credit cap per semester is just a guideline the dean is happy to override, and finishing early is all but guaranteed.

A hundred or so of my high-school classmates had other paths to similar endings. They took AP courses almost exclusively in HS, and their last year or two they'd spend a lot of their HS getting dual credit from a local community college. They all started with at least a year done, usually much more.
You should ask them if they want you playing doctor.

I have a chronic disease, not fatal, and totally manageable. But the most annoying thing is when someone finds out and suddenly pretends to be the expert.

Of course my doctors and I investigating it for years were completely wrong! I should’ve ate more apricots!

Please just check with them if they want their limited time spent like that.
The house was framed in 2x4 which is standard in most of the US. We did have modern fire resistant siding and roof tiles, but this was leagues beyond what any of those materials are designed for. It melted most of the steel around the property. Thank you for the kind words.
> more like the ideal vector for some nasty stuff

Advertising is mosquitoes. Fits.
Related. Others?

Rodney Brooks Predictions Scorecard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34477124 - Jan 2023 (41 comments)

Predictions Scorecard, 2021 January 01 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706436 - Jan 2021 (12 comments)

Predictions Scorecard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18889719 - Jan 2019 (4 comments)
Feels too self-congratulatory when he claims to be correct about self driving in the Waymo case. The bar he set is so broad and ambiguous, that probably anything Waymo did, would not qualify as self driving to him. So he think humans are intervening once every 1-2 miles to train the Waymo, we’re not even sure if that is true, I heard from friends that it was 100+ miles but let us say Waymo comes out and says it is 1000 miles.

Then I bet Rodney can just fiddle with goal post and say that 3.26 trillion miles were driven in US in 2024, and having a human intervene 1000 miles would mean 3.26 billion interventions, and that this is clearly not self driving. In fact until Waymo disables Internet on all cars and prices it never needs any intervention ever, Rodney can claim he’s right, even then maybe not stopping exactly where Rodney wanted it to, might be proof that self driving doesn’t work.

Next big thing after deep learning prediction is clearly false. LLM is deep learning, scaled up, we are not in any sense looking past deep learning. Rodney I bet wanted it to be symbolic AI, but that is most likely a dead end, and the bitter lesson actually holds. In fact we have been riding this deep learning wave since Alex-Net 2012. OpenAI talked about scaling since 2016 and during that time the naysayers could be very confident and claim we needed something more, but OpenAI went ahead and proved out the scaling hypothesis and passed the language Turing test. We haven’t needed anything more except scale and reasoning has also turned out to be similar. Just an LLM trained to reason, no symbolic merger, not even a search step it seems like.
I'm a bit older, but can relate to the "lost interest in software" because of the uselessness of most software I see around.

I look at the job ads and for most of them:
1) I don't see myself fitting and/or
2) I could not care less for what they are doing.

So trying to look deeper into my soul, considering something on the verge of software and hardware, related to helping humans, or trying to get to academia.

I don't have a solution for you, but for sure, look deep inside you - if there were no social / financial / ego constraints and the possibilities were endless, what would you choose?

Also curious about a post-mortem - come back to share here when you've figured out.
Hearing a Mysterious Chime from Your AirPods Pro Case? It's a Feature
Thanks, edit to the title!
Reality is that Wordpress is not an application for Hacker News techie types who can just create their own whatever. It’s a website appliance where you can have someone design focused apply a design, mash in a few plugins and assign some slightly higher than minimum wage fresh employee to manage your website.

We are not the target market for this product.
People have documented it. I didn't know there was a lawsuit but these groups definitely existed and managed to continue at least for long enough for them to be exposed. There was at least one of these groups in several major cities.
Ah yes I misread because it was written separately. Not sure where 36 GWh came from though.
Fasting, and carnivore diet.

Anthony Chaffee, Shawn Baker, and Sean Omara are strong signals and examples of what modern diets lead to: inflammation, sickness, slow death.
The meaning of NULL in general being "value not specified" lends itself pretty nicely to "either true or false."

You mean neither true or false?
Nothing. It’s all partisan theater.

Why else would you explicitly call out CA workers as being biased and the solution being to move that work to Texas? The state where the Gov recently pardoned a convicted murderer whose victim was a leftist protestor. No bias in the state of Texas!
So, I ran a few of those, called them Hacking Society. In Fort Collins we have a Linux Users Group that meets on Tuesdays, in Boulder it meets on Thursdays. So the remaining Tue/Thu of the month I would secure space, often at a coffee shop, for us to get together and work on projects. It has worked very well, I did it for ~20 years, I know the Fort Collins one is still going strong. If you want a location page on HackingSociety.org, let me know and we'll figure out a way to set you up one.

But mostly it's about just finding and announcing a place with a regular schedule. For the first ~10 years, I took "meeting notes" about what people did, which I felt helped keep people in mind of the "working on projects" component.
OP, I still don't really understand how you got it to work in Chrome?
Every time you see a little banner ad at the bottom of an app, there’s an instantaneous auction to show you that ad space. Google forwards info to bidders, who calculate how much they will spend to show you the ad. This means even the losers of the auction get a firehose of data. There are companies set up right now whose purpose is to lose that auction but collect the data anyways.

It should not surprise you to learn, then, that In-Q-Tel (the non classified investment arm of the CIA) has invested in some of these analytics (read: digital surveillance) companies.
"Inspired" seems perhaps too strong a word for the connection.

Can you say that, had Natural Born Killers not been made, there would have been no Columbine? I contend that it would have happened anyway. If that movie didn't exist, they would have found another movie to imitate, or even one of the other things they were interested in, such as DOOM or whatever. Correlation not causation.

Sure, you could remove both Natural Born Killers and DOOM and KMFDM and whatever else, but then they would have moved to something else. You can't ban everything just because some sick people might enjoy it.

How many mass shootings have been inspired by the bible or the quran, or The Catcher in the Rye?
I've made Breathable free and app will remain free permanently
Lots of money in calling something an “illness” or a “disease”…10% of US GNP is dedicated to medicine. That semantic difference can be quite profitable, if the illness model is correct.

But you can’t just “will” your way out of an illness. You can will your way out of an addiction. In fact the addicts I know who are no longer troubled with their addiction say it’s the only way to conquer it. It must be a deep transformative personal choice, an act of will. Supporting that new life often requires support, say AA, but not the sort of support normally associated with treating physical disease. Even “mental illness” isn’t a match, because again the will can’t be applied if the mind is broken. (Here assuming that the addiction alone is the issue, and physical pain or organic brain dysfunction isn’t the actual culprit.)

But there’s not a lot of money in strengthening/reorienting the will. Only actual deep, permanent healing. But if you can grift it into an “disease”, well…say hi to Matthew Perry for me.
Don't forget that many of us grew up in an era when leaded gasoline was widely used, and if anything the population today does not seem any smarter, so whatever effects leaded solder has is going to be miniscule in comparison.
Pick the team that most impresses you with their expertise. That sounds like the robotics company.
MS SQL Server treats NULLs as indistinct for UNIQUE constraints, SELECT DISTINCT and for UNION.

Indeed, the sqlite page the pull quote is from says as much.
The two app lists from the article:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ukgd0gIWd9gpV6bOx2pc...

https://gist.github.com/fs0c131y/f498b21cba9ee23956fc7d76292...
Right, but I mean it's a plugin issue outside of Stagehand. That's currently how the space treats the issue.

There are plugins that extend the major browser automation libraries to do this sort of thing.

And undetectable browser automation doesn't use Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium at all.
I feel like there's some modern version of the Henry Ford quote, "if I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Users say they want all of these features in an integrated package; who would say no to a new feature? But the end result is a jumbled mess and the sacrifices made along the way weren't considered.

Henry Ford said customer feedback was bad because people actually wanted a transformative product. I feel like the modern version might be that customer feedback is bad because people actually don't want a transformative product, despite surveys all saying "yes" to everything.
Hitler killed millions of people and started numerous wars. Trump started no wars and isn’t on a campaign of mass murder.

Taking basic similarities between virtually all politicians on how they lie and become popular doesn’t make Trump Hitler.
It looks like there was no pause in 2015: https://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video-accessories/lg-AN-MR650...

Play and pause were there in 2016: https://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video-accessories/lg-AN-MR600...

There were other weird designs over the years too: https://media.us.lg.com/transform/b10eeb90-5206-4f69-9959-bc...
I cannot imagine anyone soldering with SAC at 300ºC. Not even leaded solder with pre-heating as merely an option. But somehow those values crop up from time to time.

I'm not going to debate them though, I'll just dump my values, it might help someone.

My job involves soldering at least once a week from through-holes to SMDs(mostly), 1.6mm to 0.8mm pcb thickness, from 1206 smd to 0402 (imperial) sizes. From flimsy 0402 resistors to beefy 1cm² all metal casing inductors from hell.

To do all this I use a JBC soldering station with C245 and C210 tips. I also use a non-brand hot-air station for TSSOP ICs with exposed pad on the underside for heat transfer. Sometimes I use a hot-plate as well, and a reflow oven while we're at it.

On the JBC:

For leaded solder: 350ºC on both C245 and C210 tips. I do increase it to +/- 360ºC on occasion to solder near big stubborn ground planes on the pcb. Less than that is impossible without pre-heating because I can't afford to spend more than a few seconds on each soldering op, both because have other things to do and because I can't overheat components. Overheating is also dependent on the time you spend on each component. Might bump it up to 380ºC on those inductors and switch the tips to beefier ones like the chisels and the knives.

For unleaded SAC: 360ºC to 380ºC on those same tips, and I might bump it up to 400ºC again on those inductors.

On the hot-air station:

For leaded: 275ºC

For SAC: 282ºC

On the hotplate: 240ºC for both SAC and leaded. (Mostly repair work after pcbs come out of the oven.)

On the oven: It's a temperature curve and I only use leaded solder paste. Peak at 240ºC.

NOTE1: All the soldering wire I use is flux cored. I tend to use extra flux a lot (Chipquik SMD291), even if it's not really necessary. But on lead-free SAC it's always obligatory.

NOTE2: We don't have any fancy setup where I work and it's overall barely professional in my opinion. Pre-heating is not used much if at all so, I don't have any temperature values to share in that regard.

NOTE3: The SAC solder wire I use is Sn99Cu0,7Ag0,3 EVO11 from CYNEL. I like the brand but I feel the need to try other formulations for different use-cases so I can get away with using lower temperatures on specific temperature sensitive components. On leaded I don't feel that need at all.
What’s libgen?
When I press the "input" button on my remote, the TV displays a list of HDMI ports and what is plugged into them. Why would I want to be looking at my remote for that information? I'm already remote-controlling the best display device I own.
I used to work on robotics, then left to focus on AI - now without question robotics is the place to be.
I remember typing some prefix character in notepad.exe then your hole txt became messed up. Funny unicode times.
A black mirror?
Toyota rethinks its bet on hydrogen