skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My files on my Pixel 4a are very important, and the battery barely lasts so even upgrading wouldn't work, it will surely mess up, and I am scared to lose or screw anything up with the phone. I also heard that doing anything weird like this can brick your phone. I also have bank apps that do not work on anything else apparently.

I wish Google would have told the truth so I had time to prepare. Luckily the news sites now are talking about how the update made the phone bust and Google has no batteries right now.

If someone can post this on the pixel4a and GooglePixel subreddit on Reddit I would be grateful as reddit is thinking I am a bot. I would hope Google fixes this issue for everyone, as I know there are many people like me in the same predicament.
I also heard they replace k8s etcd with a shim [0] similar to kine because their clusters are so large.

[0] - https://github.com/kubewharf/kubebrain
I started playing a week ago having letting it "cellar" for a few years; I was quite enjoying it but today, after downloading 20GB of free update, I reliably crash on boot :(

Edit: deleted C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS and I can boot again.

Edit 2: crashed again after playing for a bit; back in the cellar it goes -- needs a bit more time to mature I think.
Sure - but that's just, to the extent of our knowledge, regulations working as intended.

My point here is that OP's startup won't be able to compete with incumbents for enterprise money, and since the incumbents already provide this kind of service cheaply and reliably for customers of any size, all while handling applicable security concerns, OP's startup won't be able to compete with them for smaller customers either.
I like how the author breaks this explanation. Great job.
The decrease seems largest from 2010 to 2016, which correlates quite strongly with smartphone ownership rates, doesn't it?
You think they deliberately left their DB open to the internet, without a password? Why?
It seems fair since all the other AI's scraped copyrighted information, images, video online and from pirated books, etc. without ever asking anyone first.
Cool stuff. I honestly think we need more of them.
> The corporate world generally resembles Soviet culture a lot to me.

The problems of Soviet culture are really the problems of bureaucracy.

The way this is intended to be addressed in free markets is through competition. If your employer sucks, go work somewhere else. If their product sucks, buy it from someone else. This works pretty damn well as long as the company doesn't find a way to insulate itself from competition. But if that happens, it stops working, and then you're back to an unaccountable bureaucracy and all that entails.

This has been happening increasingly in the US because corporations capture the government, and then they do two things: Weaken antitrust laws/enforcement, and "strengthen" other laws that raise market barriers to entry which are then sold to the public under the subterfuge of some kind of safety/security/labor protection/etc., because the public rightly wouldn't accept their true motivation as a valid justification.

This also tends to feed on itself. Some industry captures the government, constrains competition, becomes abusive so people start demanding something be done about it. Instead of addressing the root of the problem (regulatory capture and insufficient competition), the incumbents propose a rule to reduce competition even more. So you get housing construction constrained by zoning, but instead of addressing that, the proposal is something like rent control, which disincentivizes construction even more and then long-term rents get even higher.
I wonder if we have a chance to catch it still on radar this pass. I know Arecibo used to do that and is now sadly gone, but Goldstone also has capability. Anyone know more?
Ah, just saw your edited comment.
I am open to suggestions about this. These names are defined in the mcp_agent.config.yaml (e.g. https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent/blob/main/examples/...). The logic that manages keeping track of them is mcp_server_registry.py.

I am open to alternative suggestions for this. I just wanted to make it easy to reference MCP servers by name and hide the logic of how they are initialized, what transport they use, what args are passed to them, into configs
Elon Musk claims Tesla will launch a self-driving service in Austin in June
ah you misunderstand me.

I don't mean "do dumb stuff", I mean I've literally never seen anyone redefine the `define` keyword in any code.

With javascript, I do see people use `===` frequently. It's a wart of the language that the operator even exist. It's not "dumb" to use it - it's how frequently are you assaulted with the bugs of the language (not bugs in your code).
Maybe look at the new openpebble that has opensourced the Pebble Watch tech.
TV Setup
If random security researcher does this kind of disclosure, fine.

But if serious company that seems to offer services to seemingly plenty of serious customers acts this way, I'd not want to be their customer, if they seem to have such a cavalier attitude, disclosing stuff without even a sniff of "we notified the company about the breach".
> The part where people disagree seems fun.

Apparently, you haven't been on that Internet thingie in the last five years or so... :-)

But I do agree with your point. What's interesting is the increasing number of people who act like there's some clearly objective and knowable truth about a much a larger percentage of topics than there actually is. Outside of mathematics, logic, physics and other hard sciences, the range of topics on which informed, reasonable people can disagree, at least on certain significant aspects, is vast.

That's why even the concept of having some army of "Fact Checkers" always struck me as bizarre and doomed at best, and at worst, a transparent attempt to censor and control public discourse. That more people didn't see even the idea of it as being obviously brittle is concerning.
They're trying to bark up a tree that might happen to be backed by the People's Republic of China. That's not their league, and even Microsoft would think twice before getting into that kind of kerfuffle.
From my experience with LLMs, it matches your description of "corpo-speak". I think it is the right balance of politeness. The result is usually rather simple, and when it is not, that's because it wants me to add extra information, which is often a good idea, not because of too much politeness.

It is not at all like you say in the end, way more boring and that's the point. But out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT for some appropriate formula for a use case like yours and I got "Sounds good to me! I accept your suggestion—let's move forward with it." Of course, there is some formalism here, in day-to-day communication with people you know, I found it to become less formal over the years. "ok" is fine now when it wasn't before. I think because test-based instant messaging is now commonplace.
My understanding is that the Switch build had custom attention paid to the quality/performance tradeoff, and I'm guessing that's because they knew they had less margin for error. Does it look good on a TV screen? Keep in mind that even if it looks good and performs well on the Switch, that doesn't excuse degrading the performance for the original customer base on the original release platform. The "Gen 8" console settings give you the illusion of choice, but both modes result in too much focus on quality and not enough on performance. Performance mode = bad performance, and Quality mode = I just want to take a cool screenshot and then will immediately reactivate Performance mode.
Maybe it will start climbing in probability, giving us a chance to reflect, and to improve our ways.

Since, if we're already doing Nazi salutes at a US Presidential inauguration, less than 100 years after we'd learned that Nazis are pure evil, then I'd understand if some higher power was ready to hit the reset button. Maybe tardigrades would evolve better.

(ProTip: Be sure to send a second asteroid, to Mars, ahead of the Nazi escape ship.)
Right - we only got a short glimpse of it, not enough to get a high confidence of its trajectory.
I am getting started writing a blog, and this article is some of the most helpful I've read.

Makes me feel OK to be quirky and unpolished when the rest of the world is making reaction faces and pointing at text to feed an algo.
I don't care if I can't, some people can. Good for them.
If anyone can post this on Reddit, on the pixel4a and GooglePixel subreddit, I would appreciate it. Reddit auto bans new accounts and I can't post. Google has no more stock for their batteries, and people are left in the dark...
The main food deliverers (Uber Eats clones) here are Dutch and Swedish. The place you can find someone's apartment to stay in temporarily is German. The Fediverse was invented here, in Germany. Ride-sharing companies are Estonian, German, and some others I don't remember.

There are no companies that rise meteorically, capture billions of users and then collapse if they can't monetize. There are just companies that quietly provide products and services users want. If that's considered a failure to you, then... okay? Signal is American, but Telegram is Russian. And you can just, you know, send a text message, without involving any third party (but both your phone companies can see it).

Oh and the b2b companies... like ASML and SWIFT.
Turns out that $ profit is one of the least gameable metrics.

Not completely ungameable, but for a consumer product manufacturer in a free market it's the least gameable metric invented so far.
I have showdead enabled in my profile and I sometimes see new users that are shadowbanned (i.e. their posts/comments are automatically "dead"). If it's not spam or low quality, I'll vouch for them.
Didn't say they would be.
I kind of agree, though at least Django with type stubs gets me 95% of the way there.

At the end of the day I end up writing a service layer over everything so I'm not super bugged by most of this. But it's busywork when first starting up a project.
> NordVPN probably makes more selling user data than subscriptions for its VPN service. It’s a huge scam

What is the evidence? Is Deloitte part of the scam?[1]

[1] https://cybernews.com/news/deloitte-verifies-nordvpn-no-logs...
> big implications for understanding the rise of life

That's quite a stretch. We've known since the 1950s that amino acids form spontaneously in a hydrogen-rich environment with ultraviolet light exposure. Which matches both the protoplanetary disk and the early Earth. This is just physical confirmation of what the blackboard nerds have been expecting for decades.
Sublime is the best! I've been creating a new programming language ACPUL with Sublime for 10 years https://old.reddit.com/r/acpu/comments/1fxxjtx/acpu_mobile_d... .

I don't have the resources, so please add support for the ACPUL programming language. If Sublime had a good debugger, it would be even more powerful.
> I’m not an expert on at-scale inference, but they surely can’t have been running at a batch size of more than 1 if they were getting performance that bad on 4xH100… and I’m not even sure how they were getting performance that low even at batch size 1. Batching is essential to serving large token volumes at scale.

That was my first though as well, but from a quick search it looks like Llama.cpp has a default batch size that's quite high (like 256 or 512 I don't remember exactly, which I find surprising for something that's mostly used by local users) so it shouldn't be the issue.

> As the comments on reddit said, those numbers don’t make sense.

Absolutely, hence my question!
This is the last thing I would want. Hypothetical, but not totally unlikely scenario: I live in Florida. I use a Google VPN service to access Pornhub. The Florida AG decides to subpoena Google to see who's been using a VPN to watch porn. Of course Google bends over and provides the data. The AG finds that I've been looking at porn, so now I'm a criminal. Google suspends my account(s) because I've violated their TOS (criminal activity). I just lost access to GMail and I'm never gonna get it back because that's how Google rolls. In this scenario, if I had used an independent VPN service (not Google or Apple), perhaps, my VPN service would've been cancelled, but that's it.
Gandhi's List of the Seven Social Sins
Transparent wood composite > Delignification process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_wood_composite#Del... :

> The production of transparent wood from the delignification process vary study by study. However, the basics behind it are as follows: a wood sample is drenched in heated (80 °C–100 °C) solutions containing sodium chloride, sodium hypochlorite, or sodium hydroxide/sulfite for about 3–12 hours followed by immersion in boiling hydrogen peroxide.[15] Then, the lignin is separated from the cellulose and hemicellulose structure, turning the wood white and allowing the resin penetration to start. Finally, the sample is immersed in a matching resin, usually PMMA, under high temperatures (85 °C) and a vacuum for 12 hours.[15] This process fills the space previously occupied by the lignin and the open wood cellular structure resulting in the final transparent wood composite.

How could transparent wood production methods be sustainably scaled?

Is the lignin extracted in transparent wood production usable for valorization?

"Lignin valorization: Status, challenges and opportunities" (2022) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09608... :

> Most of the research on lignin valorization has been done on lignin from pulp and paper industries (Bruijnincx et al., 2015, Reshmy et al., 2022) The advantage of using lignin from those facilities is that the resource is already centralized and the transportation costs to further process are significantly less
Yes, it has the standard LLM trait that when you nudge it to stop being confidently wrong based on insufficient information, it also tends to be less assertive when it actually has sufficient information.

But I'm not sure why anyone would prefer a model which parses sentences as containing information that isn't there 30-50% of the time to a model which gives false negatives 4-10 %age points more often when given relevant information (especially since the baseline model was already too bad at identifying true positives to be remotely useful at that task)
Of course they're a closed system. Why wouldn't they be?
Well, if you just run OpenVPN, I suppose that you're using the conventional algorithm.
A Soviet cartoon with similar story - a greedy customer wants a fur hat from a sheepskin, and he asks whether the hat tailor can make 2 hats from the same skin, and the tailor says sure he can ... that goes to 7 hats, and when the customer comes to receive the completed order he receives the 7 hats as ordered https://youtu.be/gSpjDi2BrQk?t=193
Right, but it was never about doing the right thing for humanity, it was about doing the right thing for their profits.

Like I’ve said time and time again, nobody in this space gives a fuck about anyone that isn’t directly contributing money to their bottom line at that particular instant. The fundamental idea is selfish, damages the fundamental machinery that makes the internet useful by penalizing people that actually make things, and will never, ever do anything for the greater good if it even stands a chance of reducing their standing in this ridiculously overhyped market. Giving people free access to what is for all intents and purposes a black box is not “open” anything, is no more free (as in speech) than Slack is, and all of this is obviously them selling a product at a huge loss to put competing media out of business and grab market share.
Man! I used deepseek.com
luckily I didn't use the same password as I use. :)
Time to use ollama!
Ignoring the fact that “central” planning is a nebulous and uninformative term, what do you propose when those “economic and physical” constraints are insufficient to mitigate the negative externalities of a collective action problem?
I haven't been hugely focused in the agent space for the last few months, so want to get myself up to date a bit as there's potential I could fairly quickly contribute in a few ways - including porting to TypeScript.

I'll then either send you an email or jump onto your Discord.
Those are not the questions in the test though. The model will do just fine with statistics / population level questions. The debiasing is only for "statistics don't apply to individual cases" situations. Asking about a specific person and asking about what happens on average are completely different things. Nobody is disputing the facts you mentioned here. (Well, apart from the HIV rates - that's 7% higher now, not order of magnitude)
I'm not saying that supersonic aircraft is particularly useful. I'm saying that it's not widely presented in the USAF.

I'd say that manned military aircraft should generally be on decline, and manned fighter aircraft, tenfold so. The future belongs to drones that can withstand 30G, and have the "brain" more evenly distributed within the craft to increase survivability, and which can carry extra 1000 lb of payload because they have no human + cockpit + ejector seat + life support system on board.
https://archive.is/f5exc
Roon runs on linux and supports AirPlay and AirPlay2. Not free, but is excellent.
> instead of following responsible disclosure practices

They literally did, though? They were resolved before publishing.
You can compile a native program. Not one that requires the JVM. And it also interops with a number of more native graphical tools (as opposed to having other use things that require/work-from java). To those coming to this thread who might not be familiar with Clojure: Clojure already can sit on top of javascript (as Clojurescript) and there was work making it work on top of, if I recall right, some of the C languages. But those latter ones don't seem to be anywhere near the capabilities of this project.
A much better build compared to Tesla.
Sure, but that default batch size would only matter if the person in question was actually generating and measuring parallel requests, not just measuring the straight line performance of sequential requests... and I have no confidence they were.
Ya its less for anonymity and more to prevent unsecure sites and wifi from leaking credentials
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No idea why this is downvoted.

Responsible disclosure normally means you wait up to 90 days so they can fix it, before you disclose it to the public. In this case, it was fixed immediately, so they disclosed it to the public immediately.

Which is another thing it seems Chinese corporations do better than American ones.
A Drone Tour of Elon Musk's Factories Outside Austin TX [video]
This. Is. Awesome. Please keep moving forward with it. If it works well it will be a total game changer.
> I do think C# is by far the best mainstream language

C# is a hugely underrated language that I feel like often gets overlooked when teams look to move beyond JS/TS. The language has a pretty tight syntactic congruency to JS/TS[0], Entity Framework is pretty amazing in terms of DX/perf/maturity, and it seems like we should see more C#/.NET it in the wild than we actually do.

My sense is that there are some legitimate reasons to pick something like Kotlin (JVM ecosystem), but a lot of folks that might have worked with C# in passing in the .NET Framework days simply haven't given the ecosystem another look. It's productive, stable, performant, and secure.

VS Code support is really good and Rider has a community license available.

[0] https://github.com/CharlieDigital/js-ts-csharp
For the average person? Sure. For someone trying to access region blocked content? No. For someone trying to torrent files? No. For someone trying to do... uh... hacker things? No.

VPNs have their uses. The vast majority of people don't need VPNs, but some people do find a use for them.
US has adequate intake while Norway, Germany and Finland have iodine deficiency.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8240726/

> The iodine intake is also inadequate in several countries with strong health systems and otherwise successful public health programs (Norway, Germany and Finland). In Norway, iodized salt is not widely implemented and the allowed level of fortification is only 5 ppm, below the recommended minimum level of 15 ppm. Fish and seafood were assumed to provide adequate iodine intake in the population, but their iodine content is not high enough unless consumed every day, and their consumption is declining. In Germany, a major challenge is the low use of iodized salt in the production of processed foods, which contributes to most dietary salt. Finland had an effective salt iodization program for decades, but decreased consumption of iodized salt and milk resulted in lower iodine intakes. Actions to strengthen the coverage of iodized salt were recently recommended by the Finnish National Nutrition Council.
Ironically, Google _does_ run a VPN, which of course they announced last year that they are shutting down: https://9to5google.com/2024/04/11/google-one-vpn-discontinue...
It is perfectly reasonable to assume a 78 year old will have a worse memory than a 22 year old all else being equal.
That depends on if it's in the grass that the cows eat. They first researched iodine in cows because there isn't much iodine in the grass around the great lakes. This area was known as the "goiter belt".

Adding iodine to the cow's food made them healthier and that's how they estimated the dose for humans (mcg / kg).
Interesting hypothesis. Mental acuity does seem higher while fasting. Is that a dopamine specific effect, or could there be a handful of hormones impacting mental state?
It's a recent meta analysis and isn't the only one shaping my view, but this issue has been raised for a long time. I'm asking you directly: why would you make this tradeoff? Makes no sense. Do you just accept it because that's the way things are, you're told it's good? I don't get it.

Why would you preference a dubious need for your teeth easily mitigated by just taking care of them, over potential harm to your kids (plus societies kids) brains?

I believe that's a dumb tradeoff.
"On launch it would crash every ten minutes."

Not me, I got a good 20 hours out of it (not at once). Then I went checking for reviews... Ooof

I tend to start away from preview videos/etc, it does me well.
> https://epicforamerica.org

Did a bit of digging, and this place is run by Paul Winfree:

> Winfree’s former employer has arguably made that shift. One of the last things Winfree did at Heritage was help pen a section of its controversial Project 2025 policy roadmap for the next GOP administration. That section raised the idea of effectively eliminating the Federal Reserve.

* https://rollcall.com/2024/10/31/with-an-epic-name-this-conse...

Who was previously with the Heritage Foundation:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation

Heritage are the folks that published Trump's Project 2025:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
I wonder how much of it is simply that Sublime has a very pleasant default color theme (Monokai) in my opinion. It feels warmer than other IDEs. I actually use it in VScode too now.
Wow all the gamers with mad LLM skillz.
It was fixed. Disclosing it after it's fixed is responsible.
It's unfair that in your country you decide nobody should have to work more than a certain amount, and then you make other people work more than that amount in a different country instead, yes.
> Yeah so MoE doesn't really come into play for production serving -- once you are batching your requests you hit every expert at a large enough batch size

In their V3 paper DeepSeek talk about having redundant copies of some "experts" when deploying with expert parallelism in order to account for the different amounts of load they get. I imagine it only makes a difference at very high loads, but I thought it was a pretty interesting technique.