skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a second I thought I had missed the M4 Ultra macs coming out.
Typically the tactics and abuses are shared among other staff to help them in their cases. The 7k number should be higher in 2024. Exponentially higher.
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The 1992 Rage Against the Machine song, Wake Up (which appeared in The Matrix movie) has a section that is a reading of a COINTELPRO memo from J. Edgar Hoover.
Another huge problem is that law allows union bargaining agreements to dictate what happens to disciplinary records, that officers are allowed to resign when there are investigations happening that effectively kills them, etc. Once an investigation starts you shouldn't be allowed to resign, or at the very least the investigation should still continue and you should still be able to be punished after. Any union contract requiring the deletion/obfuscation of any disciplinary records for any reason other than clerical error or pardon should be illegal.
Question for people who spent more time with these small models. What's a current best small model to extract information from a large number of pdfs? I have multiple collection of research articles. I want two tasks 1) Extract info from pdfs 2) classify papers based the content of the paper.

Or point me to right direction
It's most likely an attempt to give low performers (if you received a bad rating for last year) a chance to leave on your own terms before they lay you off.

If I was in that bucket I would definitely take this offer.

Looks like all the large tech companies are doing aggressive stack ranking right now.
Signs Of Life In A Desert
Does anyone find it suspicious they need another funding round after just completing the largest raise in history? It seems like the rumors are correct and they are burning through money.
I certainly think there is value in shared cultural values. But my point is:

1. We value a shared culture because that's what we're used to. There's no guarantee that future generations will agree.

2. Shared cultural values also have downsides, and depending on your perspective, the downsides might outweigh the benefits.
Yes, the public needs to understand this. That unit's [1] task is to provide transportation to senior government officials and security forces around the capital, including to and from that airport. If they didn't train to operate there, then their first time doing so would be with someone like the Secretary of Defense onboard or during some other mission that's critical to national security.

And the aviators assigned to that unit are typically more senior people who've already done a tour or two with more conventional units. Source: I'm a career Army officer and former Black Hawk pilot.

[1] https://jtfncr.mdw.army.mil/TAAB/
library.gamehistory.org – Now in early access [video]
There is a woman who found a way to game casino black jack and made millions out of it before getting caught. It's nearly impossible to replicate but it involved spotting imperfections in the way print sheets are cut up into individual cards.

I don't remember her name but she was an associate of poker legend Phil Ivey, and there's a whole documentary on YouTube about it. It's pretty fascinating what greed and a ridiculous level of risk tolerance can achieve.
This Is How You're Eroding Accountability
I ran the text through several AI detectors and they all returned 0% AI 100% human.

The cover image is however:

> Cover Photo Attribution: The cover photo was generated using OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise.
I always got the impression their tech stack was designed to be as complicated as possible so they could hire juniors who thought it looked cool.
Took me 10 seconds on Google: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/29/joe-biden/...

But the specifics are irrelevant, the spirit is clear.

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Sam Adams, address to Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788
I’m amazed how I’ve worked with all of the critical technologies in this article, I’ve dealt with the same or similar concerns, and yet the author or authors have written this engineering blog post in such a way as to not convey anything meaningful at all.

One part of it is the constant talk of high level abstract infrastructural pieces, and the other is bad product or concept naming.

Odin, “the controller,” the constant obsession with certain engineering orgs to use words like “plane,” and likewise, “fabric” was used at a previous org I worked for.

I’m sure Uber is doing Real™ Work, but this kind of crap sets off all my wank and bullshit alarms.

It’s just clients talking to servers talking to servers talking to proxies talking to servers talking to databases talking to replicas. Can you please stop with the false high engineering bullshit?
I had a friend whose home was full of movie memorabilia. The boxing shorts from Rocky, the journal from Raiders of the Lost Ark, props from Star Wars, etc. all professionally displayed in shadowboxes along with autographs and photos.

The only thing is that they were all fake. My friend's hobby wasn't collecting memorabilia, it was making fakes. He was quite open about the fact that none of it was real and would happily describe how he created each piece.
DeepSeek is not open source
100% agreed on small communities being more fun. One of the worst times to moderate the server was when a YouTuber known for troll-y content made a video with his friends. The video was really funny, but his fans kept logging on for MONTHS bringing a similar borderline-trolling energy. It was rough.

Our community EXPLODED after some viral TikToks in March 2020, and for the first time in almost a decade we had to start implementing new guards against bad behavior at scale (automatically muting new accounts that join with VPN's, for example). Luckily that's mostly died down, and only the good-faith folks have stuck around!
This is a similar but different statistic.

I suspect "close enough" is adequate here though :)
Keep in mind any centralized authority is subject to disclosure laws like the patriot act.

i.e. people can jack your phone/sms line for around $23, or access any email server on US soil for free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y

This is why 2FA is actually more dangerous in some situations.
Big surge of The New Yorker subscriptions in Saxony, Germany
Have you some impressive evidence for that?
Nailed it. This was confusing to me too hearing about other stacks, as they stopped being effective once I used the top (And sometimes bottom) for components, which happens on every design I make. If not, I'd shrink the design! EM concerns aside, I want easy access to power and ground.
"At that time the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father." Matthew 13:51
Looks like images are broken in a lot of posts on this blog
I would love to see some more detail added and variety of structures and whatnot. The planets are cool but I just end up feeling so bored after awhile with the same random structures every so often.

I think I would rather play on maybe 100 planets that are partially random but have a lot of manual work put into the detail of the surface and structures.
Too late I already archive.org'd it lol:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250130201835/https://www.uber....
4x4 is 4x4, not 16x32?
I’ve seen how the frontend world solved state management with reactivity, but I couldn’t find anything similar for backend development in Python. So I built reaktiv to bring the same automatic dependency tracking and state propagation to async Python code.

In frontend frameworks, Signals eliminate the need for manual subscriptions and event handling, making state updates more efficient. I wanted the same benefits for backend systems where changes to shared state should propagate automatically, without polling, callbacks, or race conditions.

For example, if a config value or cached result updates, anything depending on it should react immediately. With Signals, you don’t have to manually notify consumers or keep track of what depends on what. It just works (hopefully).

About `asyncio.sleep(0)`: it’s just there to keep the example concise. Normally, you’d be inside an async function that naturally yields control, like handling a request or waiting for I/O.
Because, as someone else noted, it might be hidden for you because you're using something that's inside another function, macro, struct, etc.
I ran this through ChatGPT and it found a few grammatical errors - that I agree with - and awkward wording. Usually AI generated text doesn’t have these types of errors.

It reads like a standard corporate blog post. You can find plenty of those on AWS blogs that were written before LLMs were publicly available.
mines great! its buggy as shit and burned out pixels in the screen. Thats why they call it the "pixel"
I always loved my Pebble! I only went to Fitbit when Pebble was sold. Can't wait for a new version!

Things I'd like to see:

1) transflective screen with a backlight which turns on when you raise and rotate your wrist (like the Fitbit). I think Pebble supposedly had this but it didn't always work very well and many times the screen was hard to see.

2) Contactless payment (I use it on my Fitbit all of the time!)

That's all! Everything else about the Pebble worked great!

Can't wait for updates! (I'm following your blog as well as the Discord)
Have you something even remotely resembling a proof for this set of rather interesting claims of fact?
We're definitely bike-shedding a decision that has already been made, but I agree that it's a horrible name.

First, "Temporal" is an adjective, not a noun. It might be related to time, but it doesn't make intuitive sense.

But more importantly, choosing an odd name because it has a lower probability of conflicting with old code will just make the language increasingly obscure over time.

When they added Promise and Generator, there were plenty of libraries that used those object names. It didn't matter, because unlike reserved keywords, you can override built-in Objects.

In my opinion the standards committee needs to have backbone and do the right thing for the long-term health of the language and use "Time".

But again, I'm sure this argument has come and gone and the decision has been made and agreed upon by all the browser makers and JS engine implementations.
The reason most of it gets detected is that it doesn't succeed at being half convincing.
I needed a 3W buc just to talk to satellites ... I assume the satellites need at least that much power to communicate back.
That's usually balanced more by banning or restricting a card than by rarity. It may have been part of Garfield's early design to use card rarity to limit the meta but it simply doesn't work (instead of limiting the cards it would limit the competitive players to those who can afford the cards). Instead there are multiple formats with different sets of permissible cards, from the most permissible (vintage, which gives access to any card that has ever been printed and is not banned or restricted to 1 copy per deck) to the least (standard, which only gives access to cards from the most recently-printed sets). The deeper the card pool, the more expensive the format as those cards are not reprinted due to their gamebreaking power.
This is an embarrassment and just one more example of how far this enterprise has fallen.

Even as a consumer, I've stopped using Uber due to, of all things "biz 101", incompetent billing.
Trump killed the Trans Pacific Partnership.

(This was a surprise to me. I'm grateful that I'm not at risk of being extradited to rot in a chinese prison for reverse engineering some IoT POS.)
it may be that google is checking the referer header.
> the Torment Nexus is clearly bad, but a lot of bad things

I had a friend who took a job with TitleMax because his daughter was in college and he needed money to help pay her tuition. Plus he needed to eat. I have two kids in college, and need to eat, too - I'm not in a position to pass judgment on somebody who took such a job.
I find it oddly hard to switch fields. I guess I did web stuff for too long and filled my CV with it. Although i regularily do other stuff (embedded eng, systems eng) and find my existing skills applicable to a large extend employers seem to be put off by my history in web.
You can load giant models onto normal RAM such as on an Epyc system but they're still mostly bottlenecked by low memory bandwidth.
I wouldn't mind it if building didn't seem pointless. You travel with your ship but build on planets that you are meant to quickly abandon.

The exploration and building aspects are in opposition to each other so you can't really hop in between them when you get bored without starting over next time.
>>> The same - your “revealed preference” is different from your “stated preference”.

> It tells me that you really like Truth Social and I shouldn’t believe what you say - you “revealed” your true “preference”

That's what I thought you where thinking. Thank you for at least not beating around the bush anymore.

You're wrong though, and you're thinking about this too simplistically. Yours is one possible interpretation, but not the only one, and not necessarily the right one or even a likely one. The discrepancy between "revealed preference" and "stated preference," only gives you the barest scrap of information. You're jumping to conclusions when you go from that scrap to "you really like X" and "I shouldn’t believe what you say." With the information in the scenario you outlined, about as much as you can reasonably infer is "you can tolerate Truth Social."

It's just like my scenario with the prison cell and the rotten food: if you eat it, it doesn't mean you "really like" it and "I shouldn’t believe what you say." It means you can tolerate it and you have a desire to avoid a negative outcome (starvation) that trumps whatever disgust you feel eating it.

tl;dr: complex and ambivalent feelings are a real and common phenomenon that you should consider.
Weren't tether's numbers sort of shady?
well if you're collecting something, it's age kinda matters?

maybe a counterfeit that's also from the 90s would have a similarly interesting story, but one from last week is much less interesting than the possibility of a beta card from the first set of a game inherently, and so less collectible.
"Moreover, human beings are called to develop their abilities in science and technology, for through them, God is glorified (cf. Sir. 38:6)"

This should be much more emphasized. Many people (atheists and religious extremist alike) still believe that science and religion must exclude each other.
The surprising way to save memory with BytesIO
You nailed Apple corners! That alone shows serious dedication.

couple random nitpicks:
- is the motor driver necessary? for simple vibrations, just a single Nch MOSFET between motor negative to ground(low-side switch) should suffice.
- there are BLDC vibration motors, because you can(or to eliminate brush sparks)
- that button cap doesn't look resistant against external water pressure, if that's a huge issue, but paradoxically waterproof without a drain hole = water container so I can't be sure anyway
- color paints flake off. simple acrylic clear, or super ideally two-part urethane, top coat hides it well. I think it's just making flaking of clear layer impossible to notice but it works a lot better than color only.
- I think I've seen people mentioning atrocious power saving of ESP32's entire Bluetooth sub-system. it has none or something.
- entire watch being sealed from top is right choice, as it allows guts to simply pop out in an unlikely event of battery failure

but all aside that watch looks gorgeous.
> where corporations control the digital commons

The web: the Commercial Commons. True dystopia.

Another example: Apple forgot about selling bicycles for the mind. They sell media kiosks now.

Not trying to pick on them in particular, but that was a vivid realization when I got the Vision Pro. I love it as a Mac upgrade. It should be a total independent Mac replacement. The new work horse high end. It says "Pro"! Give me 2x, 4x, 8x more computing power, no sandbox, and more system level creative/customization power. Raise the price!

I want to see my data. See serious math. Move through my files as a visual navigatable graph. Surround myself with my tools for every project. Then save that context. Contexts saved for dozens of projects, small or large, important or rabbit hole, that I can drop and pick up exactly where I left off. Tomorrow, next year, never, or after I die and the investigators are trying to figure out the secrets I was working on, why I was assassinated. You know - things the hackers would have done in Neuromancer!

Instead, the Apple Store people couldn't stop telling me about a cool app for looking at the stars. Neat! But I don't want lots of "cool" $2.99 throw away apps.

I want VR for the mind.

Instead, it's just a nice enormous Mac screen upgrade, which lets me sit in bed working and Hacker Newsing, ignoring the kiosk that gets Tim Cook up in the morning.
Why Children's Books?
I'll be trying this out for my needs, it seems closer to what I've wanted.

Along the way other nice projects for slightly different but also overlapping use cases include teable.io, budibase and supabase among others.
A homo erectus-ish species from 1.95 million years ago.
Thanks! Yeah this is definitely a lot more complex and deep than the WebAudio API but that’s still a great tool for some situations.
Do they have a breakdown by industry? That would give some insight into what's happening. Did a wage increase cause management to try a speedup?
Cozy video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety
> Took me 10 seconds on Google...

Finding an article that says, essentially, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, and then goes on to talk about government licensed privateers - akin to the modern setup of a security guard licensed to carry in a state that doesn't otherwise permit it. Is there evidence outside of that of personal home ownership of cannons? (Let alone of a widespread nature?)

Do we think Sam Adams would advocate personal ownership of nuclear bombs, or do we think he'd perhaps see such things as a category slightly different than the muskets of his time?
It's not middle of the pack in price either. I remember seeing this survey where Telsa was right next to Dacia in terms of reliability despite the very different price tag.
Fifty years late.
Interesting. Thanks for that. I have the drive hooked up to a Mint computer running the openSeaChest utility, but that utility appears to only parse the logs. I can't find any way to extract the logs from the drive's memory. This is undocumented by the utility as far as I can tell.
The issue isn't writes to uninitialized memory, it's reads from uninitialzed memory. The compiler doesn't know how much of the buffer `read` writes. The docs say it returns a unsigned integer with how many bytes it wrote, so a programmer can know the later read from `buffer[0..num_bytes_written]` is valid, but the compiler doesn't know what the number returned from `read` represents, so from the compiler's point of view, the whole buffer needs to be initialized regardless of what read does for reads from it to be valid. That means it has to be initialized before it's passed to read, otherwise the compiler can't prove the elements which are later read from the buffer are initialized.
Related. Others?

JavaScript Temporal Is Coming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809834 - Jan 2025 (18 comments)

Mozilla: Temporal (Limited Availability) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42776548 - Jan 2025 (1 comment)

Is It Time for the JavaScript Temporal API? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712118 - Dec 2021 (100 comments)

Temporal: Getting started with JavaScript's new date time API - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27661667 - June 2021 (194 comments)

JavaScript Temporal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395236 - June 2021 (1 comment)

JavaScript Proposal Temporal for Dates is now stage 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26432346 - March 2021 (1 comment)
Until today, no language model I've run locally on a 32GB M1 has been able to answer this question correctly: "What was Mary J Blige's first album?"

Today, a 4-bit quantized version of Mistral Small (14GB model size) answered correctly :)

https://ollama.com/library/mistral-small:24b-instruct-2501-q...
How does the self-custody part work if all the crypto stuff is abstracted away as much as possible? Will people realize that if they mess something up you won’t be able to help them? What’s the chance of messing it up?

Kudos for getting this out, serves a real need for a huge amount of people.
Desktop applications, and sometimes servers unrelated to the web. Actually all the technologies that existed for 40 years before the web.

The fact that I hate JS and think it’s the worst language ever created explains why I’m not doing web stuff on purpose unless I’m ordered to.
Making tools for data engineering. Most of my previous career was text processing.
Guide to Multimodal RAG for Images and Text
I've gotten new movies on DVD-Rs from Amazon before. Also clearly pirated since they just played the movie when you put it in rather than a forced showing of the FBI warnings &c.
I’d argue definitions of good and evil are very much based in societal norms. We absolutely define freedom of religion as good with our current societal norms.
is something like this possible with Threads app?
Does it have a "front page" view that could show flagged posts with > X upvotes? I think it'd be cool to allow that. Sometimes I get a little concerned that maybe there are networks of HN bots flagging political content. I don't think dang or HN are censoring HN, it's just that it'd be so easy to set up a bunch of accounts that flag stuff you don't want hackernews users to discuss.
It would be incredibly funny if these cards are actually genuine and someone just didn't bother to set the clock (year) correctly on their printer.

(But I don't believe this is the case and am not sure if available printers back in 1996 would even emit these patterns in this form. Just noting in this case the device's knowledge of date and time is also a factor of uncertainty.)
I remember when that blog used to be top notch.

Today it just seems odd that anybody is still using MySQL. Postgres? Sure. SQLlite? Hell yeah! DuckDB? Of course. MySQL? Not so much.
With Paragraph.xyz I'm pretty sure you can sign-up with just a crypto wallet.
Given you have 64GB RAM, you could run mistral-small:24b-instruct-2501-q8_0
Mirror with working images: https://web.archive.org/web/20250130201835/https://www.uber....
There is a film essay by Orson Welles called "F for Fake" about art forgery, an artist that creates forged works that gain value by being works of art in their own right, that then takes a sudden turn. I don't want to spoil it, but it's a fascinating look at art, truth and lies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake
Probably makes sense to not comment too much on hypotheticals to avoid the "Vatican predicts AI will be sentient" interpretations. I don't see them inaccurate given what we have currently
Some of the smartest and most accomplished people I've met in my life spent their 20s experimenting heavily with weed and psychedelics. But that was not *all* they did and the goal behind this experimentation was not 'get fucked up and have fun' but fuel for their creativity and curiosity.

So it does seem that easy negative generalizations based on superficial correlations are poor models of what is actually a much more complicated reality.
Why? Most police spend their time keeping the peace and catching bad guys. That seems an intrinsically rewarding activity. No need to posit any character flaw to explain why someone would want to do that. Maybe you are thinking “power over other people” is the issue, but I think most cops see that as a necessary tool rather than the chief reward.
Mamma mia. Yes, I totally agree with what you wrote: this is a landmark, profound, historic (and very courageous) document.
Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid's Odds of Hitting Earth