skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that work if you only have a pair of stereo headphones?

I've had quad speakers before (with a "delay" unit for the rear speakers) but I think it would be hard to do 3D in stereo (I know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_audio_effect and HRTFs but I have never noticed any 3d-ness to the sound I'm listening to in games).
Interestingly showing spherical trig identities was how Hamilton demonstrated his quaternions to the royal irish academy when he found them.
See (D) through (K): https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/Quater...

When i first read this i found it very hard to understand, because i was unfamiliar with spherical trigonometry, but there's quite some beauty to be found there.
You get your favorite version of yourself if you go to heaven and your least favorite if you go to hell.
Sounds to me like it's going to be either take the "voluntary exit" with the severance, or if you don't then eventually get let go without one.
Depends on the denomination, but Christianity in general usually has some sort of bodily resurrection. Certainly you see that in the gospel narratives about Jesus. Paul talks about it as well in his epistles, but whether he meant some new form of body or the existing one being restored is debatable. The ancients thought divine beings had bodies made of a celestial material. It's important to note that they didn't see the supernatural as existing in some other dimension. It was literally right above in the heavens or below in Sheol. It was all one universe.

So Paul may have been arguing that Jesus and his followers would receive a new celestial body that wouldn't be subject to disease and death upon resurrection. Orthodox Churches don't believe in cremation because they think the biological body does get resurrected. The idea of a pure immortal soul is Greek, not Jewish in origin. Or at least it was believed that a soulish existence was a shadowy one in the underworld, not one enjoyed by beings in the heavens.
No.
In baltics, northern EU you can encounter countryside unsupervised apples, tomatoes and even honey where you take it and put money a box. No camera.

Also, even with cameras, it is little help of I am a tourist.
In Switzerland, I was in such a store in a mountain village.

I visited there once - no point trying to find me if I stole something.
Yeah the phone number thing is an obstacle for me aswell, I remember Claude requiring this aswell. They said they are working in adding "Sign in with Google", so hopefully that arrives soon.
Check these out:

- https://www.hyperstack.cloud/technical-resources/tutorials/h...

- https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

- https://preview.redd.it/the-llm-gpu-buying-guide-august-2023...
I mean this is simple English.

I say I want to do one thing. But I do another. Which evidence do give more credence to?
Do we need to have a single, common cultural experience? Mass media, and the resulting mass culture, are a recent phenomenon, and certainly one that has been heavily criticized.

My sense is that we're in the middle of a phase-transition, and the unhappiness and dislocation that people feel is because the old world (shared cultural context) is dying, but the new world hasn't yet been born.

Our generation will have the hardest time because we have a foot in both worlds.
How much are you willing to pay for that money?

First, getting hired at a FAANG is not easy. How many years are you willing to work, not work at a job, but just work at getting hired?

Second, FAANGs pay well, but the work/life balance is often terrible. How many years are you willing to have no life, in order to get that kind of money?

I would suggest that you think about having more of a life, even if you have less money, rather than grinding away at a chance at grinding away at a job that pays a lot. Your 30s are some good years. Live them; don't just work during them.

But the first steps look the same. Learn a language - any one. Python is fine. And, whatever you're doing now, look for ways to help your work with a little programming - a script here that automates a manual process, a script there that makes something easier. Depending on your work environment, you may not even need to ask for permission to do those things. But now you have written code that's actually used. That opens doors at your current job to do more. Along this route, you get experience, and you get paid to get it. It's a wonderful thing if you can get it to happen.
https://test262.fyi/# will give you a bit better update on the progress on implementation in the various engines / interpreters :)
I think they also sold HA-SMR (host aware SMR, a mix of drive managed and host managed) drives to datacenters but I couldn't find any recent news so I guess those aren't that common.
Are you talking about the party that wants to tear down all wind turbines (among the cheapest way to generate power), in favor of coal and nuclear (among the most expensive ways to generate power) for purely ideological reasons?
As the sibling says, it is easy to think about in terms of what you are doing with the data. Reporting on how many transactions of a type have happened over a duration? Probably OLAP. Really, if the word "report" shows up, at all, probably OLAP. Executing parts of a workflow for an active transaction? OLTP.

Briefly looking, I can't find the books that I thought covered a lot of this in a good way. Will keep looking, apologies.
We're serving customers in Africa, LatAm, & South Asia at the moment — but yes, nonetheless, we'll be pursuing an MSB and are planning on using infrastructure providers with MTLs to make sure we're fully licensed to handle this activity.
> Wisdom doesn’t need to grow

This seems to imply that we've gained all the wisdom there is to gain. Do you believe that's true?
I remember having to write a java applet in my senior CS capstone class at DePaul 20+ years ago. I’ve never written one professionally.
I agree that analytical queries cause a significant portion of the complication in transactional systems.

However, at global/twitter scale, just basic CRUD operations become pretty hard for OLTP, so scalable OLTP in the cloud is a pretty big deal, especially when you get fun things like phantom read/writes as writes may take time to get to distributed read replicas, so a user may send a tweet and then not see it on their profile for a while.
> Not offering people the option to leave in advance was a complaint about how Google handled past layoffs.

Guess we know what’s coming.

Very interesting that this only applies to US based employees. I wonder how long before Google completely moves overseas and drops most of their domestic employees.

Voluntary exits are generally more humane, and have been used across Silicon Valley for decades before layoffs became common, so hopefully it minimizes suffering of layoffs.

Also, I’m surprised the title just calls out Pixel and Android, because this also affects most of their hardware efforts (Fitbit, Nest, Chrome, VR, etc)

Edit: I’ve heard from people there that the buyout is worse than previous rounds of severance from layoffs - namely, no stock vesting
Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages
Sports are also totally about betting in the 21st century, at least in the US
The strictly Christian response would be "wrong" is what goes against the words of Christ, and they could have flipped from "right" in the past to "wrong" now, or vice versa, or even from "wrong" to "wronger".
It tells me that you really like Truth Social and I shouldn’t believe what you say - you “revealed” your true “preference”
Designing Data Intensive Applications is a very good book in this space.
> ecl and gcl compile to C. That's fine, but not necessary to merely use C libraries; for that you need a C foreign function interface (FFI)

Last time I checked, they also allowed literal C code inline in Lisp programs. That's a bit more than the other Lisps which offer FFI.
"I was extremely surprised to find out that based on ICE’s annual reports, which are still up, Biden’s administration deported far more people than Trump’s did..."

I think this is an essentially meaningless number until you also include the total number of illegals that were let in during the same period for each administration.
I mean, why do you think they are rent seeking in the first place?

(Hint: to make a profit and deliver profits to shareholders and investors)
The author, Nicholas Carr, is doing a free Zoom event with Christine Rosen from the American Enterprise Institute on Feb 10th. They are giving out free copies of the book to those that attend. - https://www.familyactionnetwork.net/events/superbloom-how-te...
Thank you so much for sharing this. Probably the most wholesome, scary, heartening thing I've seen this year.
Well, yes. The 70B indicator is right there in the title of the post.
Vue, Svelte etc don’t use JSX and are perfectly fine
I was trying to say: some people will reflexively try to put some blame on dei initiative in addition to overwork etc but (2nd paragraph) not sure why.

There are some good replies so I I'm not going to delete my (now obviously) poorly written comment.
> simply run for office

That "simply" is doing an absurd amount of heavy lifting.
I imagine it's either (or both) of the following: job seekers started wanting that in their ads, and people with this way of thinking entered the internal recruitment world.
DeepSeek's not the only Chinese LLM OpenAI have to worry about. Right, Alibaba?
Problem with pretty much every modern battery-powered device is that battery is flogged to near death at every charge. From @marcan's mastodon post, Pixel 4a's battery is charged to 4.45V:

qcom,max-voltage-uv = <0x43e6d0>;

This is completely insane, and it's a small miracle that this phone didn't follow Note7's fate.

As for charge limiting... limit at 80% is an okay workaround (certainly better than no limit at all!), but it's far from perfect. Namely, with this approach, charge controller chip doesn't know cut-off is coming, and will shove several amperes into the battery until last second, thus overshooting safe voltage level. This wears the battery (less so than with no limit, but still more than necessary).

Battery charging limiting should be done by voltage: this way, controller chip knows where to stop, so it makes soft taper-off at the end of charge cycle, by gradually nudging current down to stay within voltage envelope.

Charging profile could be observed from a rooted adb console:

grep NOW <$(find /sys/devices/platform \
| grep battery/uevent$ | head -1)

(depending on phone model and firmware, some tweaking might be required to find/grep to get the right battery status file)
The point of short-lived certificates is that you need the CA to continue affirmatively trusting and authorizing you in order to have a valid certificate.
Does it mean anything for the Pixel program? Is it going to be continued?
For context, Guantanamo's "usual" usage/population numbers would be something like ~700 prisoners and ~6000 of everybody else.

So this is a demand is for a big change to the place.
I wrote a similar maybe hacky script using `git blame` on every file. In our main application, we still have a couple lines from the initial commit in 2011.
This reads a bit like someone saying they bought some basketball shoes and started practicing some dribbling, and they want to know how to get into the NBA.

Do you even like playing basketball? Do you just see the money and the lifestyle and think "ok that sounds good, how do I get that"?

I think these are the wrong questions to be asking.
I really appreciate your thoughts on this. Tools are key engagement with the world. A good tool is empowering , and a poor tool is demoralizing. I'm glad there are others pondering this issue.
I used to work at a place where people had to use PIV cards to log into certain work related websites.
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help" are words you like to hear? At least anybody else I can tell to leave me alone.
PayPal will include your business address on invoice from 1st Feb
such a powerful insight.. until the last half-sentence.. why add that ? really?
Yeah, there's definitely edge cases that make this difficult — though these are the same problems that users may already face on existing P2P exchanges — now we're just getting more involved in the customer service and support :D.

The best risk mitigation here is having trusted, verified sellers that we've met + a robust support functionality that allows users to indicate any issues. To be honest though, in some of these countries, the domestic payment systems (e.g., UPI in India) are quite reliable.

Re AML -- we do KYC, and we discourage / don't present cash as an option. That way the payments happen through more transparent channels.
Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves laptops headed for silicon cemetery
the comment above was about policies yet to come leading to inflation that's already here.
Yes, definitely. You'll be able to use it to REPL into your phone, for development, and it'll AOT compile alongside the rest of your app for release (Apple is a stickler about JIT compilation in released apps). This, we get largely just by using LLVM.
Elon made this popular with Twitter/X. Offered a voluntary exit in the "Fork in the road" email with a deadline. The message was quite similar, that if you're not aligned with the company's [new] vision, you can choose to leave with severance.

It seems better than doing random layoffs, no?
+1 to this! And is classical music isn't your jam, there's always theatre organs[1] :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8AoVxO1fg
j like gentleman, ank like tank
That's what I glossed over as "complicated analysis". In my mind, if a compiler can understand register and stack use (required for static transformations), it can (theoretically, and with some effort) understand heap use. Am I wrong?
Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
Good points. When I hear some people talk about reality and the Universe, I cannot find any distinction between the definitions for those concepts people use and between what other people call God.

I would find it hard to believe someone was being genuine if they said they reject the concept of God. Now for Christianity, I can see why people would refuse to believe that God came down to Earth in human form. And then they... washed feat and performed miracles. And the people then crucified the Son of God. But then that Son forgave them. Why would God let that happen and why so much forgiveness? And if that did happen, what would that mean?
if only it was as simply a reading int64 epoch values :')
I re-uploaded a short 1K times [video]
If there's a fertility gradient based on heritable traits then there is evolution happening.
A shiver runs down my spine reading „full terminal control“. For me that is a definite no-go. We fight hard to get remote code execution abilities off our system and here we freely invite it. „Hey gpt let me sudo first so you can execute that“
Related:

https://eater.net/quaternions
> easier to see.

One has radars even on recreational boats. That was a military helicopter. At night. It would be hard to believe that it doesn't have nor radar nor IR cameras, and the plane would be lightened up like X-mas tree in both.
History of YC Request for Startups
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They get a pass because we know what these companies train on (proprietary or private data) but they can't admit it, but they're still giving away multi million dollar models for free.

Yes, it'd be nice if it was open and reproducible from start to finish. But let's not let perfect be the enemy of good.
I don't use PowerShell often at all, but this IMO is one thing it gets right, by piping .NET objects and implicitly piping to `Out-Default` at the end.

Of course this is another standard that tools would have to be incredibly careful to keep track of, but JSON is decently mature and a bunch of modern tools can operate in it, so at least there's slow progress away from the plaintext quagmire.
The Commoditization of AI
Video quality deteriorates on each reupload.
I'll give you my understanding, which isn't exactly Christian or Buddhist or whatever—it's just how it seems to me, and YMMV.

The word "soul" describes the fundamental sense of self experienced by a human person. We know this self isn't the same as our mind, our body, our possessions, or our memories, because those things change but the sense of self seemingly doesn't. It's just "me" or "I".

Because this sense of self doesn't change, it seems timeless, or eternal. And many experience some amount of tension because this eternal sense of self seems to get mixed up with all of the temporary things in the world, especially our bodies and minds. With that admixture comes a fear of losing the self (i.e. death), as everything temporary is eventually lost.

So what? The infinite is infinite, the finite is finite. IMO, any direct experience actually includes both. But anyway I figure it's wise to keep them straight and not mix them up.
Awesome work building it all from scratch!

Hate to be that guy, but was using something hackable like a PineTime (https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/) and doing a direct BLE connection to the device using the Blood Glucose Profile (https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/glucose-profi...) not an option?

Another approach could be to hack one of those cheap fitness trackers (https://rbaron.net/blog/2018/05/27/Hacking-a-cheap-fitness-t...). I got a few off AliExpress a few years ago for $9 each.

Again, not to take away anything from the amazing accomplishment to build a device from scratch, but if anyone else wants to try making one, maybe they could start with less of a steep learning curve.
Slides: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2030/DEF%20CON%2030%20pre...
If you're calling FFIs in an inner loop, you have bigger issues than the time it takes to clear the buffer, right?
For timestamps, which are considered fixed points in time, yeah. Dates and times are different. If you block off 12-1pm for lunch in your calendar every day, the actual timestamp of that event might change if you fly elsewhere and set it to use the local timezone automatically. Same with holidays and birthdays.
That's a great episode, but the question of whether anything has a soul is ill defined.

Until someone can come up with a rigorous definition of what a soul is, the question itself has no meaning.
true! there is a macabre vein of history in tech where "the inventor is killed by their creation" .. the list is longer than you might think at first
"Seamless rawdogging into C++" is the best thing I've read in a while. ^_^

Anything less than seamless rawdogging would be neutered C++.
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We also have a lot more managers than we used to. Managers are proxies for the authority of capital to ensure we're providing as much value as possible to them. The more of them we have the less we control our labour.

You don't even need to be building the Torment Nexus. You're simply building whatever makes the most profit for the capital class. Not necessarily what is best for users, people, or the wider public good. You end up talking more about value instead of utility, etc.

Shop around to as many jobs as you want. I'd bet the majority of organizations act this way because these are systemic pressures from how we organize labour in our field.

Your job ends up being framed around your utility to the capital class and how much profit they can extract from your labour. The most common advice you get when you ask, "How do I improve as a developer?" is: think about ways you can do less work and maximize how much customers are willing to pay. What features we should build into our systems are dominated by product managers, engineering managers, etc... as a programmer you'll have more power in a small startup but once your company grows to a certain size, it'll be dominated by executives and the managers: product managers, engineering managers, etc.

The Torment Nexus is really quite banal in the end: subscriptions and surveillance and nags. The kinds of things that lead people to mistrust technology.
Don't forget to factor in unemployment benefits, which typically don't apply if you quit.
I don't like the idea of intellectual theft without attribution/citation. If it is shared publicly/into the public domain, I believe the least that should happen is attribution/citation where possible - especially if a for-profit entity is using the content.

On the other side, for many of my thoughts/ideas/creativity, I find it is often a question of, do I die alone with it in my head or put it out there, maybe for someone to find, use or be inspired by? If it's a question of one or the other, I think perhaps I'd rather let it go free so the value isn't lost (assuming, that what I have to write/say/share is of some value).

I have seen that mechanism be exploited.. sometimes you put something out there, someone uses it, and there is zero attribution/citation. For myself, I prefer to try (most of the time) to treat non-fictional writing in the traditional sense of an academic paper and include citations whenever they are useful and I can - even for non-academic purposes - for the purposes of giving credit to others. It's nice to share credit and show how things connect, IMHO.

FWIW, I like some of the inspiration behind Creative Commons, but even old school citations (MLA/ALA or heck, even just this kind of inline citation style [1] that is common on HN and other sites is better than zero).

There are citation generators online also [2] - for formal purposes/writing/papers you must get these formats right, but for informal/casual use, I think simple citation is better than no citation.

[1] simple citation style, or even just paste the URL - at least you're giving credit.

[2] example, https://zbib.org/
I've had the same idea for a while, but the classifier I had in mind was for identifying wood ("yep, it's wood"). I wonder if this kind of tech could be used for low-light enhancement (night vision). This would require "injecting" light into the "lens" I guess.

MNIST classifier using a DNN: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00211-6
The risk from prompt injection attacks on AI systems
What is the threat here? That you will try to bill your care to someone else's insurance?
Forgeries, Fakes, and Phantom Time
Faster SQL pagination with keysets, continued (2013)
I am not convinced by your framing and some of the factual claims you have made. I am able to find sources that disagree. But in an effort to be curious - do you have any sources of your own (like news articles or research or documents or videos or whatever) that support the things you're claiming here and in your other messages?
Seems like more of a scare tactic than anything, and not one I would be worried about.

In my opinion, most people are so obsessive about mitigating exceedingly rare downside risk that they throw their whole lives away, leaving nothing worth protecting.
OpenAI's Nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi
On that, this might be of interest to you as well :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42028697
Makes sense. It wouldn’t be Heaven if you couldn’t order some tacos.
Yeah, supposedly Verily had $559 MM in revenue in 2022, so total revenue for other bets (including Verily and Waymo) being 65% of that is pretty weird.
How likely are we to get temporal literals? And in JSON?
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Sealed Types
Philosophy of Mind papers uses that kind of language all the time. It's agreed that humans have sensory input and social interaction, those are facts of biology, psychology and sociology. It's also agreed that human bodies and brains are different in significant ways from modern computers and robots.