skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those competent departments. Dismantled on a whim. It is unbelievable. How many billions of investment dollars are wasted that way, spent during many years to organize such departments efficiently?
Edit - plane landed before court order!
Often referred to, as “recipes.” —Defining the goal, and a specific set of steps, to achieve that singular outcome.

How to calculate the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, etc.
Exactly (OP here).

The goal wasn't necessarily the result.

I like to tinker.

And well...my K8s cluster is only one node so far, so there's limits to what I can play with.

And please: No comments that K8s is overkill. I know, and I don't care :) There's things to learn from it, and that's good enough reason for me.
And yet this is what Tesla did. They sold a car and added a surcharge for full self-driving as a future option, or they added it as an upgrade option. But they never delivered. That's like buying a car with the promise of wheels but the wheels are never delivered (except you actually need the wheels etc).

I'm amazed there haven't been major class-action lawsuits raised against Tesla yet, both from consumers for not delivering what is promised (full self-driving), and from shareholders for not delivering what was announced years ago (semi, new roadster). And from shareholders for artificially inflating the stock value of Tesla to use as leverage to buy Tesla and / or fund SpaceX.
It actually knows about "Lisa the Iconoclast". Cool.
It's actually working very well for the US, just not the US consumers
An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem (2006)
I will never have anything voice controlled in my house if I can help it. I mean I have them but they're all turned off. Except for the teenager's iphone, but we troll him by saying stuff like "Hey Siri, how do I stop being annoying?" or something like that.
Twitch for example will allow you take over usernames of accounts that are unused. Also having a good name is less important than you think. Most people don't navigate by going to exact identifiers. They just type the name of the thing into a search and relevant results will be returned. Dead or useless results should not rank high.
This reads more like, 'they're not very good' rather than 'people don't want them'. They could be hugely useful, and even in their current capacity I find are very much so.

I find it maddening that my google home, hasn't got a single bit better in the 8 years since it's release, and it's now missing some of my favourite features it had at launch. The whole market has been stagnate ever since they convinced me to put a microphone in my house, it's almost as if that was their end game.
I mean this in a non snarky serious way: these things are a totally unnecessary luxury electronics item. Don’t buy one at all is also an option.
Home assistant is a nightmare to set up. Even with their hardware, you need to learn a whole new vocabulary and God help you if you stay off the happy path.

If HA (which is a wonderful project) is your example of usable OSS software, then your bar is set lightyears away from what actual consumers need.
The commenter did mention "except for accessibility reasons".
This is pure nonsense. These protests have nothing to do with Russia, and everything to do with corruption
Now that the government is openly corrupt, they even have a chance of success.
When I'm cooking food and hands dirty, setting a timer with my voice is extremely convenient.

When I'm driving and want to switch ANC mode, it's convenient as well.
if an app or tool has a huge speed advantage, then I'd choose it no matter what.
Try “helicopter” for a real mind-blow.
That’s different, delivering later (for example probably never) is not the same.

This is about removing a privacy feature.
Yes boycott is a solution. I don't need Amazon for anything except maybe to buy cheap off-brand toner, and honestly for the time toner can last I could've stayed with the brand.
It did not like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
What non-hacker users contribute, in theory, is widespread acceptance. This comes with its own benefits, such as F/OSS solutions becoming de facto standards, which in turn means things like e.g. Linux drivers for more software, content providers not trying to lock it out etc.

However, this all can only happen if there are a lot of non-hacker users. Unless and until you actually get to that point, there are no benefits, but the support costs are there regardless.

And I have serious doubts about getting to that point, ever. I remember being much more... optimistic - or perhaps naive - back in early 00s. Many of us really thought back then that F/OSS would surely win, gradually, slowly, but surely. Now? Things are better in some ways, but overall I'd say that the environment is more hostile towards openness than it ever had been before, with widespread adoption DRM and lock-ins throughout the entire software ecosystem, massive centralization of online services, and pervasive surveillance being pretty much the accepted social norm. On top of all this, smartphones became the dominant personal computing platform, and DRM and restrictions are even worse there.

So, I don't know. Maybe you're right and this kind of "secret knowledge" for the initiated, those willing enough to dedicate significant time and effort to make it work, is the best we can have. It sure is a depressing thought, though. And I'm not so sure we can keep even this much, to be honest. E.g. at this point I fully expect to see bans on things like backdoor-less end-to-end encryption in my lifetime. Or, privacy aside, how about protocols that are straight up non-implementable because of DRM? Free software has limited usefulness if it can't meaningfully interoperate with things outside of the bubble.
It's on my bucket list.

My Unifi Cloud Gateway Max doesn't (yet) support BGP, but other Unifi devices do, so I do hope that it'll come to my device to. If not, I'll have to think of other ways to test it. But in the meantime, there's plenty of other stuffs to learn.

I have a real, ISP-routed IPv6 net to play with.
Did you read what I wrote there? Just in case you did not I'll quote it with emphasis on the important parts:

"One of the differences between this site and the otherwise comparable Reddit is that politics is supposed to be mostly off-limits here where it can run wild on the former site. Had the election been won by 'the correct candidate' (according to the same vocal minority) I suspect that similar griping from the opposing side would have been slammed down hard as being off-topic so my question is: what is different this time around? Why is politics suddenly a relevant topic here?"

It is the rules for thee but not for (D) which I reacted to there. Either all politics are off-limits or none are. Given that political discussions seem to be the new thing here the latter seems to be the case.
>> even though I just made it up

One person inventing a word that they have never heard before doesn't negate the possibility of that word being in common use somewhere.

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Arboreality.html?id=S95Y...

"An expansion of the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning story. Arboreality is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the winner of the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction."
It should, but as far as I know you have zero guarantees about that. I just hope there's privacy organizations and / or hackers that continuously verify these claims. Of course, Amazon can push an update at any time to change this, at which point it'll be too late to think "hmm, 1984 warned us about this".
Summarization quality depends on the question, of course mathematical or programming requests will benefit from reasoning models, but for some casual researches consisting of a few web-pages summarization is done ok even by mistral:7b, but as for the Detailed Report it would be better done by a reasoning model.
how is their revenue gonna grow in the future when they don't have an edge in their main core product. Batteries are by panasonic. while BYD makes its own batteries.
Tesla has no moat. At least Nvidia has CUDA
Very cool to use initially, but then completely locks you out with a modal in your face demanding an email address. That is despicable and you should be ashamed.
So a good operating system doesn't let you install apps except from the app store?
I'll no longer misunderestimate AI
I love chewing gum but I've never thought about what it's made of. The thought that I've been chewing on synthetic rubber the entire time makes me uncomfortable.
"I have nothing to hide, so I have nothing to fear." Or "I don't know any better"
I know at least two UK based elderly people who use Alexa on the regular for various reasons. Of course, the device struggles with their accents frequently but that doesn't seem to be enough of a deterrent.

For a lot of people, voice commands are easier than figuring out a device.
How many times would you need to parse to get an energy saving on using an lm to parse vs using an llm to write a parser, then using the parser to parse.
at least the people in power can be trusted not to abuse the situation
/s
Even stories point out flaws of no-lidar approach with particular brand of cars are being flagged. Is that no tech related?
I run dual-stack.

I used to run a dynamic DNS service, but these days I prefer to do it myself towards the API of my DNS provider. External-DNS in k8s is pretty neat that way.

Changing the K8s resources automatically is not really a big deal. It's a fun exercise.
“Car-free” here seems to be defined as “large cities tend to have congestion charges and/or traffic management schemes”, which seems slightly alarmist.

I live in a city (Dublin) which recently made some very modest traffic management changes, with the result that the bus system has _dramatically_ improved (at least once Dublin Bus figured out that they had to change their schedules; there was a slightly farcical period where it was common for some routes to stop for 10 minutes to stay on schedule, because a key point that was previously almost unnavigable at peak times had become free-flowing).

The buses are the length of three small cars, and hold a hundred people. It just makes sense to give them priority, from a volume perspective if nothing else.
I can confirm this from the producer side.
The documentation is often neglected.

I got fed up with the Word docx (with code examples) we sent out to our customers and replaced it with a hosted Docusaurus markdown documentation.

It is a lot of work to transfer the knowledge to a the new place.
It is a lot of work to keep the documentation up-to-date.
It is also a lot of work to formulate things in a widely understandable way with screenshots and good examples.

Still I would do the same refactoring again.
While the documentation is still not perfect, our customers now comment that it truly helps them to get going fast with our product.
A search function is also very helpful.

Our QA team does follow the integration instructions in the documentation when a major change is released (so "putting somebody in the student's place" does work for us).
It of course takes time.
personally prefer affine.pro. selfhosted is enough for me
'Silence is complicity' as the Americans like to point out.
Chinese scientists turn tumours into 'pork' in cancer treatment
It would if you are running your IPv6 and real IPv6 addresses on your K8s ingress adresses.

And I do.
Good take on that. I still think a q8 32B model with a 200k context would fit into the 48Gb VRAM of one of those modded RTX 4090.
This is fascinating, I didn't know they did this. This is actually not using the built in functionality that Git has, they use a shell script that does basically the same thing rather than just advertising the bundle refs.

However, the shell script they use doesn't have the bug that I submitted a patch to address - it should have all the refs that were bundled.
First thing I used to install on macOS was Binaryage's superb asepsis utility, which intercepts the creation of .ds_store files and redirects them all to a local container folder, until SIP killed its development.

It always seemed suspicious to me that Apple, a company that is famously obsessed with UI/UX, would settle on such a ridiculous process for storing file metadata.
While it will become cheaper, it will never be as fast / efficient as 'just' parsing the data the old-fashioned way.

It feels like using AI to do computing things instead of writing code is just like when we moved to relatively inefficient web technology for front-ends, where we needed beefier systems to get the same performance as we used to have, or when cloud computing became a thing and efficiency / speed became a factor of credit card limit instead of code efficiency.

Call me a luddite but I think as software developers we should do better, reduce waste, embrace mechanical sympathy, etc. Using AI to generate some code is fine - it's just the next step in code generators that I've been using throughout all my career IMO. But using AI to do tasks that can also be done 1000x more efficiently, like parsing / processing data, is going in the wrong direction.
These days if you do a blobless clone, Git will ask for missing files as it needs them. It's slower, but it's not broken.
I owned an Amiga 600 when I was a kid, absolutely loved it! A great gaming machine.
It could, but then all my IPv6 traffic would take a detour around the network.

My ISP gives me native IPv6. Granted, it hasn't changed yet. I am pretty sure it will, some day. Probably by an accident of mine or the ISP.
Sure, if the docs are bad, the docs are bad ;-). Jokes aside, though, I think the nice thing that this article does is pointing out various common ways in which the docs can be bad. My 'favorite' one is having docstrings for documentation. They take quite a bit of time to write, clutter the code with helpful information like 'the method get_heigth, gets the height' and if they are the only thing that is shipped as information use users severely lacking.

Another thing to note is that what this article lists as good docs actually cost a lot of time to create. Perhaps this is why people settle for the less than helpful alternatives. I think, though, that it is better to provide a subset of the good docs rather than useless docs that just annoy people.
New native code implementation of zlib faster than old native code version. So what? Rust has a lot of recommend it, but it's not automatically faster than C.
Good bye, then, whois.

I can remember times when you could still see the names and addresses of registrants in whois records. That was before abuse and fraud became everyday occurrences in today's internet.

I miss the times when we could still believe in basic human decency.
User hostility level +1

But that is of no problem, users seem to enjoy being abused, repeatedly, so they continue giving their money to the organization to come up with further marketing startegy (smaless bullshit lies) to introduce the next one never asked for abuse in the next company output that solves very marginal or no problem of their life.
> In practice this perception of mine seems to be valid:
>https://openrouter.ai/models

According to your link, there's two providers (Chutes and Targon) offeri Deepseek R1 API access completely free of charge.

Is that true? Can't see any info about usage limits.

Is that
Thank you! I had a very similar feeling, as I had read another long-format investigative report on Covid (I don’t remember where I put the link now), which especially paralleled the Lancet magazine and high profile officials!
The retro stackexchange post talks about win 3.x APIs, not Win32 APIs.
Glimpses of AI Progress
I recently switched to uv, and I cannot praise it enough. With uv, the Python ecosystem finally feels mature and polished rather than like a collection of brittle hacks.

Kudos to the uv developers for creating such an amazing piece of software!
Integrity verification of what? The OS definitely has its signature/hash checked.
If you want private sector work ethic, you gotta pay private sector salaries.

(Many federal employees have a better work ethic than the average private sector worker. But you can't make that an expectation if you're paying less than they could make elsewhere.)
Persistent iOS malware is quite rare these days.
I agree. The intended usage for this MCP is more for complex querying of onchain data. For MCP to actually sign and create transactions on my behalf I would not trust pure LLM solutions as of now (waiting for verifiability)
Have you read Brian Bagnall's series of books on Commodore? It really digs into the full universe of badness that was Commodore management in excruciating detail.
It's the integrated python version management which sold me.

Took a huge chunk of complexity out of bootstrapping projects which I was otherwise handling myself.
Ocean Worlds: Water in the Solar System and Beyond
Why does wikipedia have to exist forever any more than encyclopedia Britannica? Both are gatekeeping knowledge behind editors, let the LLM creator decide what things are valuable after ingesting everything. You can contribute to LLMs this way.

People can pay a tiny bit extra for source attribution at present so there is no short-term issue.
* trip control
* trip assist
* co-pilot
* auto steer and throttle
* partial self-driving (i.e., what it's actually doing!)
* hands-free steering
"It's actually really good for me, it's just bad for almost every cell in my body"
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What you say doesn't quite correspond to quantum physics as it's known. Quantum physics is quantitative and precise, so it's difficult to say there's something undefined there. It doesn't suggest nonlocality, absence of hidden variables means only absence of hidden variables. It doesn't suggest antirealism, if only due to precision, you can say it doesn't work how you want, but at worst this makes it unintuitive. Conversely Dirac formalism works as if quantum state exists in itself in precise form, which has a good compatibility with basic macroscale intuitions about what "physical reality" means.
Well, I think the proper analogy would be that it's good for me but bad for my kidneys and colon.

Edit: LOL at the downvotes. It's true. The US is basically mistreating its "undesirables". In the US if you're poor, f** you. Payday loans, food deserts, car dependency, etc, everything is meant to hit you while you're down.
Console error: game not found
Doesn't look fake to me. English is not a closed-world language, as far as I know.

Between things like "verbing" and "nouning", and the cultural acceptance of doing them in casual speech, I'd say English is a great language because you get to "invent" new words on the fly, and your interlocutors know what you mean.

In this sense, even if no one before ever said or wrote "multiarborality", it's pretty clear what it means (as long as you don't misread it), and IMHO it's perfectly fine to derive its etymology by deconstructing it back to "common" words and pulling etymology on those, recursively.
Make it explicit that the API can fail. Panicking is not acceptable in systems programming. Force me to handle all the cases.
FYI: Here is the creator and maintainer's profile: https://github.com/arpitbbhayani

Is there a plan to commercialise this product? (Offer commercial support, features, etc.) I could not find anything obvious from the home page.
Uv should replace pip for all I care.
Be aware that next.io is a fairly big conference-organizer / news service in the igaming industry.
> and lastly be enclosed in walls

This is mostly a Western-centric view, as there were lots and lots of cities in the Muslim/Ottoman world (just to give an example) with no walls encompassing them whatsoever.
How does it work when gov outsources major tech to the private sector?
If you consider any advantage of voice as an input modality to be an accessibility reason, then by definition there are no non accessibility reasons to use voice.
World's first silicon-based quantum server
See also previous discussion in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12069662

One commenter shows that this was caused by Bayer Nemacur (an anti-nematode pesticide), a pesticide which was only banned in 2021(!) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2020/1246/oj

Here is an overview over the EU pesticide regulation updates: https://indianembassybrussels.gov.in/pdf/Pesticide_Monitorin...

Quoting the pesticide in question:
> Fenamiphos : Non-renewal of the active substance
A nematicide used to kill plant parasite roundworm and
thrips infestation in fruiting vegetables (i.e. tomato,
aubergine, cucumber, pepper and courgette), herbaceous
ornamentals and in nursery stock (both perennial and
herbaceous species).

Effective date: 23 Sept., 2020 (for non-approval
of substance); 23 March, 2021 (for withdrawal of
authorization of plant protection products); 23 Sept.,
2021 (for grace period given if any).

Reason for non-approval: Potential acute risk
for consumers - despite of incomplete data, was
identified for all the representative uses concerning
fruiting vegetables.

Usage in India: Used in wide variety of vegetables
such as okra, cauliflowers etc. and fruit crops.
> This is begging the question.

It's not. It's about setting a clear legal line.

> It's only a moral contradiction when people fall for the non-central fallacy that all chemical weapons are bad.

Who's begging the question here?

> You can literally say that about any other bad thing that police does.

Maybe police shouldn't be doing bad things? ... And maybe supporting them when they do bad things is also bad?

> This is obvious a derail, and has nothing to do with the use of tear gas, or the geneva convention.

Fascists and chemical weapons are not separate questions, because fascists are known to use extreme measures when suppressing dissent; systematically escalating past all previous reasonable lines.
Why is ELF a good example?

7F 45 4C 46

- MUST be the very first N bytes in the file -> check

- MUST be at least four bytes long, eight is better -> check, but only four

- MUST include at least one byte with the high bit set -> nope

- MUST include a byte sequence that is invalid UTF-8 -> nope

- SHOULD include a zero byte -> nope

So, just 1.5 out of 5. Not good.

By the way, does anyone know the reason it starts with DEL (7F) specifically?
I think the conventional approach of checking for vulnerabilities in 3rd party dependencies by querying CVE or some other database has set the current behaviour i.e. if its not vulnerable it must be safe. This implicit trust on vulnerability databases has been exploited in the wild to push malicious code to downstream users.

I think we will see security tools shifting towards "code" as the source of truth when making safety and security decision about 3rd party packages instead of relying only on known vulnerability databases.

Take a look at vet, we are working on active code analysis of OSS packages (+ transitive dependencies) to look for malicious code: https://github.com/safedep/vet
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I mean, aren't you having such an interaction right now? Do you find this discussion toxic?
Ok, you convinced me to give it a try. Tbh, I am a casual user of python and I don't want to touch it unless I have a damn good reason to use it.
My personal interpretation is that elementary particles physically are those waves and never anything else. Those waves interact with each other with probabilistic events exchanging some energy and momentum and reshaping each other. They can get narrowed down if they exchange energy/momentum or get spread apart, for example through interactions on the edge of an object. What's completely virtual for me is the idea of pointlike particles occupying some specific location and having some specific momentum. Almost everything we know contradicts this idea, and yet we cling to it.
Predictions for future technological development (2008)