skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooo. Not sure if you can tell us anything. If you can’t I totally understand.

But in case you can: Was a radar based altimeter considered?

How do you guys deal with kicked up regolith? (I have seen first hand how hard heavy snow is on lidars, and would imagine that regolith “shower” is similar, but what do I know.)
Oh for sure. I’ve seen people get promoted based off the possibility of the bullshit idea they’ve come up with, and then move on before reality kicks in.
It doesn't seem like it should be terribly hard to calculate the improvement in that as the article notes they were already taxing people on imputed rent.

Achievable rents would be one of the factors among others that one would use to calculate the value of a building.
This gets my goat as well, particularly given how vast Africa is (the Mercator projection does it no favours in that regard) and the diversity of cultures.
I did not said it is exclusive to the right. I said right attempted violent coup. Also, in USA, right wing terrorism/violence is the most common one.

Protests itself are legal and fine. As much as you hate pushing for rights of non-whites or palestinians or women, none of it counts as "violent coup". Likewise, calling vandalism against Teslas "terrorism" is a stretch.
Who would even have the money, technical know how, and business acumen to buy, maintain, and make money with Chrome?
> I am not sure about "always". Does it not depend on the temperature difference?

My understanding: A heat pump is always better than resistive electric heating. Sometimes a outside air using heat pump needs to use extra energy to defrost the outside unit (with resistive electric heating). The defrosting is driven by sensors, but rarely happens more than e.g. once an hour for 5 minutes at a time. Heat pumps really do win over resistive electric heating on everything except initial cost, and that's not even hard -- resistive electric heating is very wasteful.
There’s a whole world of async IO in Ruby that doesn’t get enough attention.

Checkout the async gem, including async-http, async-websockets, and the Falcon web server.

https://github.com/socketry/falcon
As a user of a Firefox-based browser, YouTube's performance really is hit or miss. Sometimes it's ok, other times it's barely useable.

These days I simply queue up videos in mpv. It is much lighter on the resources, and also provides a nice cache that makes seeking through videos a breeze. I can open a link straight in mpv using a very nice system[1].
Once I have an mpv instance open I simply drag links on top of it to enqueue them. (shift+drag if you haven't set the following option in your config: drag-and-drop=append)

It works so well I find myself doing it for other online sources of videos too (e.g. Twitter/X, local TV websites, ...)

[1]: https://github.com/Baldomo/open-in-mpv
Here's a 'dead' person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say
Then unfortunately the internet will remain a luxury for people who aren’t able to afford the cost. The internet is a product, not a charity or human right.
Me too! But I can't really remember why. The proof was impressive.
I wasn't aware of the already existing SHA-1 collision support created by Github. It's very interesting read and AFAIK it seems that using SHA-1 collisions is not possible:

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/sha-1-collisi...

Is anyone aware of a git hook I could use to analyse my .github/workflows/*.yml files and replace git tags like "v4" with the current git commit hashes?

I think this would make it much safer to use 3rd party GitHub Actions.
I have something similar as a simple PHP script on a shared hosting service. I can't PHP well anymore so it's probably the worst and most insecure code I've produced by a big margin. Does it do the job? Yes.
Tesla's market cap is $804.06B and PE over 120.

Quarterly Revenue Growth (yoy) 2.10%

Quarterly Earnings Growth (yoy) -70.80%

Markets are believing really hard, but at some point it stops.

(An energy company ,yeah right. Chinese are 10 year ahead the rest of the world in battery technology.)
The article didn't really make a lot of sense to me.

But I do agree: to edict the sale of chrome won't really accomplish much.

This is reminiscent of the M$ anti-trust suite in the '90s. To edict for example, the creation of an "open standard" for word documents. Which led to the creation of .docx, which has been harder for 3rd parties to functionally incorporate than the original .doc format. When the corps performs minimally compliant reforms, with continuing antagonistic behavior, there seems to be no real technically specifiable solution (sorry, I didn't go look up some obscure word to mean the same thing). That litigation also had web browsers as a central element, yet nothing was accomplished in diversifying the operating system market, or the web browser market.

To quote Cory Doctorow: capitalists hate capitalism

And so does the US government. What they both love is the unbridled concentration of wealth.

This is why similar comparisons could be made to the AT&T "break up", which was largely ineffective, with the clear oligopoly in telecommunications in existence today.

I do agree with one aspect of the article: if goggle is a monopoly (it obviously is), then don't take tangential measures, break it up, completely.

The semantic web, elimination of internet search via for-profit entities, widely applicable and enforced anti-surveillance and privacy laws. There are many approaches that could work. None of them will be applied, because they would lead to the very richest people making less money. The US will never implement any law with this consequence, period.
>Doesn’t that internal state get blown away and recreated for every “next token”

That is correct. When a model has a good idea of the next 5 words, after it has emitted the first of those 5 most architectures make no further use of the other 4 and regenerate likely the same information again in the next inference cycle.

There are architectures that don't discard all that information but the standard LLM has generally outperformed them, for now.

There are interesting philosophical implications if LLMs were to advance to a level to be considered sentient. Would it not be constantly creating and killing a thinking being for every token. On the other hand if context is considered memory, perhaps continuity of identity is based upon memory and all that other information are simply forgotten idle thoughts. We have no concept of what our previous thoughts were except from our memory. Is that not the same.

Sometimes I wonder if some of the resistance to AI is because it can do things that we think requires abilities that we would like to believe that we possess ourselves, and showing that they are not necessary creates the possibility that we might not have have those abilities.

There was a great observation recently in an interview (I forget the source, but the interviewer's last name was Bi) that some of the discoveries that met the most resistance in history such as the Earth orbiting the Sun, or Darwin's theory of evolution were similar in that they implied that we are not a unique special case.
US citizen here in Michigan, grew up and currently live near the border with southwest Ontario.

For as long as I can remember it's just been known that going to Canada the border control folks are friendly, and coming back into the US is a mixed bag. Sometimes things are fine to cold, other times it's like the folks are having a bad day and taking it out on you.

And this is just me, rando US citizen without any criminal record, going to Canada for random couple-day touristy things. Seeing Toronto, Niagara Falls, hiking, etc.
> you'll just end up with over supply during sunshine/wind

You will only need enough storage to cover 12-24 hours to reduce that a lot: Much of the surplus power can be put into vehicles when they're resting at home overnight, or for evening and next morning peak.

For the rest, well, so what? Temporary "oversupply" on days when there's lots of sun and no vehicle to charge up is not the worst problem to have - it won't kill anyone. The worst that you can say about it is that it's a misallocation of resources to sometimes have the power supply that you can't use or sell. But solar panels and batteries are becoming cheap. So the upside of having occasional surplus remains, the downside diminishes.
Interesting project and great to see other projects as well. Everyone has their own wants, wishes, and requirements for their YT feed so its awesome to see what people have come up with.

This post has actually inspired me to create something of my own because I am the worst YT addict of all time.
Show HN: Sample NCSA Log Generator
When we were doing a bunch of customer examples for Bacalhau[1], we needed to create a fake NCSA compatible log generator[2].

We also containerized it to make it even easier[3]. E.g.

docker run -v ./logs:/var/log/app ghcr.io/bacalhau-project/access-log-generator:latest

Absolutely no business model behind this - just Apache2/MIT. If you like it, just use it! If you don't, happy to tweak it!

[1] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau

[2] https://github.com/bacalhau-project/examples/tree/main/utili...

[3] https://github.com/orgs/bacalhau-project/packages/container/...
What if there are eight floors with two pantries each, four types of milk, five other drinks, plus seven different snacks that need replacing. They'd spend the entire day peeking at fridges and cupboards.

This is why in places like I just described, you often have a shortage of particular items; the checks happen only every so often and usually by multiple cleaning employees. On the other hand, it's also exactly why Kanban came to existence, to solve a very similar problem in manufacturing.

This particular example feels weird because your job is not to drink milk, but in theory it should work and allow you to have just-in-time replenished stock for everything.
> I don’t want to sound mean, but a friend of mine has suggested that he believes that “Rob Pike invented Go as a practical joke.”, and things like this really make me wonder if he has a point. Why would you design a language where the result of a function call cannot be stored or passed around?

Somebody show this person CMake, because if they've never used it, the resulting blog post will be incredible.

(CMake has functions... with arguments... and no return values. At all. Everything has to be saved to variables. Their workaround is that you can set and clear variables in the parent scope...)
63 comments and no one brings up Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

(The 63 comments essentially support Betteridge.)
It's a shame that some comments in the original post are so toxic and unwelcoming. There are plenty of empathetic people on HN. Well HN is welcome if at least when the topic isn't website standards or a page failing to load in some commenter obscure browser.
Let's be clear, hoes: Those nice things I give you don't come for free. So I'm putting your ass on the street. Bitch, where's my money?

- Jeff Bezos
I see your underground coal fire and raise you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo
Not much changed on Mozilla's side, only the law (e.g., CCPA, GDPR), because technically speaking (as far as CCPA is concerned), Firefox has already been “selling” users' data.

Furthermore, at this point, that legalese talks about features that the user expects. Otherwise, in the EU, Firefox would be forced to ask for explicit consent. GDPR is so strong that when Firefox will actually sell your data, you'll know it because in the EU it will have to tell users exactly how or why.

Note that Mozilla was already hit with a privacy complaint in the EU due to PPA [1] because it's opt-out instead of opt-in. Whether they'll be found guilty by EU's DPAs, it really depends on whether they actually anonymize that data, as they claim to do, or not. Note here that the GDPR doesn't accept pseudo-anonymization as being valid anonymization.

Of course, it may take a while to find the outcome of such complaints, just note that as far as the GDPR is concerned, that Privacy Policy of theirs doesn't count for squat. It really doesn't matter what they claim in their Privacy Policy, unless they are lying, i.e., if they actually “sell the data” of users in a way that users don't expect as part of the service, then the GDPR asks for explicit consent (opt-in).

Technically speaking, they've already sold user data since 2006 because they've been installing Google's Search as the default, used, for example, for search suggestions. So everything you type in that address bar, goes to Google, and they get paid for it. Of course, search suggestions are part of the service that the user expects, but note that the user's search history can also be used for user profiling by Google. So as far as the CCPA is concerned, that's selling user data. And, very importantly, Firefox has been funded by ad-tech since 2006, much like all Chromiums and even Safari.

What's actually new is that Mozilla wants to diversify. Which is good, as the Search deal is in jeopardy and those hundreds of millions of $ they need to fund the browser aren't going to come from donations. So they would like an alternative to cut the middleman, i.e., Google. If that alternative is also privacy preserving and at the very least opt-out (though I'd prefer opt-in), then that's even better than the status quo.

People unhappy with this deal are people that hate advertising, or any reasonable monetization strategy, as if a viable browser with an independent engine could be funded via the donations of people that ad-block YouTube instead of paying for Premium.

---

TLDR:

1. Nothing actually changed, and that Privacy Policy doesn't count for squat.

2. Results matter, not words, results such as that wonderful offline translation feature, which is a great showcase of privacy preserving AI tech that only Mozilla pulled ;-)

PS: Isn't it odd that whenever the underdogs get boycotted, the winners are always the Big Tech solutions that are far worse in every aspect?

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/mozilla-hit-with-privacy-c...
its feasible. if you want to try yourself you can start with the april-asr package.
It doesn't make much sense to be measured by classical armies if all these countries unfortunately have nuclear weapons and can use them in case of a critical situation. And that's the scariest part. :( It's better to find a middle ground in negotiations somehow.
it's well know. the most obvious public visible act was to reorganize their entire sigint depts to mimic the nsa, in the early 2000
There are a few folks working on this in neuroscience, e.g. training transformers to "decode" neural activity (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16046). It's still pretty new and a bit unclear what the most promising path forward is, but will be interesting to see where things go. One challenge that gets brought up a lot is that neuroscience data is often high-dimensional and with limited samples (since it's traditionally been quite expensive to record neurons for extended periods), which is a fairly different regime from the very large data sets typically used to train LLMs, etc.
Here's the full free link since the submission form seems to be removing the code: https://medium.com/@fareedkhandev/094d166af27f?sk=f0b04b82c9...
We Are Creating Our Own Replacements and Silicon Valley Is Celebrating
> I manipulate URLs every day, both for work and private usage

Zen/Arc are actually much better for this use case, albeit after an adjustment period for people who’ve become accustomed to the way Firefox/Chrome do it.

The idea is that URLs are out of your way when you don’t need them and front-and-center when you do. Instead of simply focusing on the URL bar when you CMD+L or CMD+T, it brings up a modal dialog in the center of the screen where you’re free to do everything you can do in a normal location bar and more. It’s modeled after the command palette design in code editors or application launchers. So, for example, not only can you edit URLs, but you can search for commands instead of hunting for them in the browser’s menus. As an example, I’d never memorize the keyboard shortcut to take a whole-page screenshot because I don’t use it enough. But the other day I needed it, so I typed “CMD+L, screen” and it was the second result. Task completed in under 2 sec.

It took a few days to get used to, but now I never want to go back to the sort of location bar that Chrome and Firefox use. It just takes up space that I’d rather devote to the sites I’m visiting. Even the tab pane is easily toggled to get out of my way when I don’t care about it, which is especially useful when I’m tiling websites. I’ve developed a fondness for keeping documentation open in one panel alongside the website I’m developing, which means recapturing the width I lose from the tab pane is valuable.

I highly recommend pushing through the awkward phase where you’re sure you’re going to hate this browser design. Because once you get past it, you’ll wonder how you ever thought the old way could be better.
This is true. While I prefer non-SaaS solutions generally, S3 is something that’s hard to cost effectively replace. I can setup an AWS account, create an S3 bucket, and have a system that can then persist at least one copy of my data to at least two data centers each within a goal of 1 second. And then layer cross-region replication if I need.

It’s by no means impossible to do that yourself, but it costs a lot more in time and upfront expense.
Honest question here: Could someone explain to me how Apple and Safari relate to what Google is doing?

I currently use Adguard as a content blocker for Safari on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Does this mean that Safari will also start restricting access to these ad blockers?
I think there’s potential for a race condition between when you close the Listener and the http server spins up on the no longer reserved port that we’ve seen with lots of tests being run in parallel. You can return the listener, use t.Cleanup to close it and serve your web server on it.
If you haven’t already, make sure that versioning is enabled on that bucket!
Elderly patients can deteriorate in the ER. This team works to get them out
frixion pens are amazing

Be careful what you do with your notes, if you care about longevity. Leave a notebook in the sun and you may find it blank. Throwing it in the freezer may bring back some text, but it will bring back stuff you erased, too.

It doesn't matter for throwaway stuff, but I've lost notes on older projects due to this.
You could make the same argument for the Linux kernel. Or Postgres, or Bitcoin Core, or CPython. So many companies have a vested interest in Chromium, v8, and Blink (especially by way of Electron) that it would be wild to think some sort of foundation couldn't be pulled together.
> Most of arfica (sic) has been too unstable to safely invest in. Everytime things start looking up there is another revolution and all investment is lost

You can't view Africa with such broad strokes. A West African country with British administrative norms like Nigeria is going to have entirely different outcomes compared to a former Portuguese colony impacted by the Colonial Wars like Mozambique.

Reality is, plenty of African countries do have the right building blocks, and are seeing a significant amount of capital investment from the Gulf States, China, and India because their investors understand how to operate in similar conditions from 10-30 years ago.

Whenever an African country like Nigeria or Kenya does something good, it's positive attributes as masked as part of "Africa" so Western donor organizations can continue to justify spending in basket cases like Rwanda or Mozambique, which is what this article itself is doing.

The Mini-Grid project in the article is a program that private and public sector players in Nigeria worked on, and only succeeded because of Nigeria's administrative apparatus and 10 years of hard work (started back in 2015-16).

The only learning this provides is that

1. You need a relatively competent bureaucratic system in order to actually execute on initiatives

2. You need to have a robust domestic private sector that works closely with the public sector and foreign investors

3. This can only be done through a profit motivation, not a local or international non-profit boondoggle, as that's the only way to unlock the economies of scale needed and incentivize execution
see

>OpenAI calls DeepSeek 'state-controlled,' calls for bans https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355779

>Ask HN: Why is OpenAI pushing for regulation so much? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36045397
The former. Still get the degree they need for the career they want, but explore other subjects, extracurriculars, sports, exchange programs, etc. I focused almost entirely on "take the hardest CS and math classes" so that I'd have a better chance at a good job. Turns out I didn't need to do that. Could've gotten the same jobs but had a more enriching college experience.
I read this as "what caused this statement to appear in the summary". Was it the source materials or the LLM base model / hallucination?
That 1998-era website with mouseover graphics seems more functional, intuitive, and faster on a 30 year old PC than any framework-laden digital dreck produced today.
Hi! The author of Cradle here. Internally, we use misp and opencti during our research process a lot as well. They are invaluable when you have to look up certain IOCs and get results from many data sources.

However, our analysts frequently felt the need to add some additional context to their findings / take notes with their observations and screenshot. This methodology came with the following problems:
1. Analysts had to (often did not) manually enter the IOCs into misp once they were done writing their note.
2. Transferring/sharing cases between two analysts was a problem mainly because they had to communicate not only case related information but also how their (very disorganized) note system worked and share large files.
3. It was not easy to reflect the semantics of a relation between two entities as misp handles things using very well defined types that are not super flexible.

With cradle we tried to address these issues. It is by no means a replacement for MISP, but rather they are two products that complement each other. Especially with the external data source integration support we have planned ahead for cradle.
Biden or Trump administration? This remedy was originally proposed under Biden's DOJ.
Knowledge Base as an Across-Time Thinking Tool
I recently set up email from scratch in a a FreeBSD box running on a free VM from Vultr. The stack is dovecot, Postfix, and a couple of small pieces like the DKIM service. I did add Roundcube too but mostly use native mail clients with IMAP. It can send and receive email with great deliverability on several custom domains. I found it challenging to figure out because I do not speak the language of email but after a while it did all work exactly how I wanted it to.

I tried mail-in-a-box in the past and it was ok but I never trusted it enough to really use it. I do trust my new setup much more. And it really rekindled my love for FreeBSD. The OS is just such a joy to use.
Free speech has nothing to do with Mahmoud Khalil. He can continue to exercise it while the State Dept noticed discrepancies in his green card filing and arrested him.
Probably the Simplest Sequencing Synth
Very good work!

Sadly this model really does not like nosy images that have codec compression artifacts, at least with my few test images.
One of the episodes of The Simpsons I saw as a kid that had a surprisingly large impact on how I think was where Willie had cameras in all of the bathrooms to monitor if they needed the toilet roll changed: “That roll of towels is nearin' its end! She's on double red stripe!”
Why do browsers need to be free?
Oops! We will fix that broken link. Until then, here is the real backend developer docs :)

https://cradle.sh/docs/developer-guide/backend/