skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We mostly use Alexa for playing music (Radio & Spotify) and setting timers.
We also use the multi-room music feature where Alexa plays the same audio source on a certain group (great for parties).

Does Home Assistant also have these features?
Yes, also the lack of peripherals. Amiga had way better graphics and sound in 1985 to 1987 than almost all PCs with no extra peripherals. But with PC compatibles becoming more established also the the range of graphics cards and sound cards grew.
It's a little simpler than you're thinking: only fully matching configurations (of all particles etc) can interfere. If you have a setup where a particle can pass through one of two slits and then end up in the same location (with the same energy etc) afterward, so that all particles everywhere are in the same arrangement including the particle that passed through one of the slits, then these two configurations resulting from the possible paths can interfere. If anything is different between these two resulting configurations, such as a detector's particles differently jostled out of position, then the configurations won't be able to interfere with each other.

An interesting experiment to consider is the delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment, in which a special detector detects which path a particle went through, and then the full results of the detector are carefully fully stomped over so that the particles of the detector (and everything else) are in the same exact state no matter which path had been detected. The configurations are able to interfere once this erasure step happens and not if the erasure step isn't done.

Another fun consequence of this all is that we can basically check what configurations count as the same to reality by seeing if you still get interference patterns in the results. You can have a setup where two particles 1 and 2 of the same kind have a chance to end up in locations A and B respectively or in locations B and A, and then run it a bunch of times and see if you get the interference patterns in the results you'd expect if the configurations were able to interfere. Successful experiments like this have been done with many kinds of particles including photons, subatomic particles, and atoms of a given element and isotope, implying that the individual particles of these kinds have no unique internal structure or tracked identity and are basically fungible.
> efficiency for the coming decade

They were future proofing though: the "I" is between "8" and "9", so they were optimising for the next 130 years, not merely coming decades.
Talking about hoarding, LTO tapes are the king of cheap storage, but if you want to archive significant amounts (hundreds of TB or more), it takes a significant investment to buy a tape library with somewhat recent drive. Too bad there aren't any alternatives - or are there?
Seems better but still:

> "When a user talks or types to Siri, their request is processed on device whenever possible."
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I’m hoping that LLMs may be helpful, here. Sort of like a “documentation concierge” service. Like going to the reference desk in a local library, and asking The Librarian to help you find some information.
It's acceptable only because the authorities know the masses will accept it. And what could the masses do otherwise, gather signatures? So yes, it is how it is, until the masses somehow decide it's not - and then will get gassed again. Because the masses wishing for a change are rarely in a majority and authorities usually listen to majorities.
> I don't know that making a new volume from a snap should fundamentally be faster than what a P4 sync could do. You're still paying for a full copy.

My experience with running a c++ build farm in the cloud is that in theory all of this is true but in practice it costs an absolute fortune, and is painfully slow. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter if you’ve provisioned io1 storage; you’re still pulling it across something that vaguely resembles a SAN, and that most of the operations that AWS perform are not as quick as you think they are. It took about 6 minutes to boot a windows ec2 instance, for example. Our incremental build was actually quicker than that, so we spent more time waiting for the instance to start up and attach to our volume cache than we did actually running CI. The cost of the machines was expensive that we couldn’t justify keeping them running all day.

> You could have possibly had existing volumes with mostly up to date workspaces.

This is what we did for incremental builds. The problem was when you want an extra instance that volume needs to be created. We also saw roughly a 5x difference in speed (IIRC, this was 2021 when I set this up) between a noop build on a mounted volume and a noop build that we had just performed the build on.
It's probably a mix. The computational power to run a dialog system is one thing but it's also just more convenient in terms of maintainance to have the system be completely server side.

Of course, getting your sweet voice for future training also helps!
Wow what a great point.
This will be a controversial take here on HN: I'm not too excited about governments getting directly involved in the development of software, let alone open source. With possibly a few exceptions (internal software for national agencies, etc.), it is way outside their area of expertise. I think it would be better to pay a vendor like Redhat or SuSE or Cannonical to do it. And, the gov't can write the support contract such that for X EUR per year they get Y competent developers to work on LibreOffice, or whatever they like.
The C standard Annex J has a list of undefined behavior: https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c99/n1256.pre.html#J
OP here.

Yeah, I don't expect this to really change, either, in normal operations. But I'm a home user, I don't pay for a static IP address or a static IPV6 prefix.

But I'm a geek/hacker by heart, so curiosity sometimes get to me.

I did it because there was things to learn from it.
TIL also - until today, I thought it was just "mercaptan". Turns out there are actually two variants of that:

> Ethanethiol (EM), commonly known as ethyl mercaptan is used in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and resembles odor of leeks, onions, durian, or cooked cabbage

Methanethiol, commonly known as methyl mercaptan, is added to natural gas as an odorant, usually in mixtures containing methane. Its smell is reminiscent of rotten eggs or cabbage.

...but you can still call it "mercaptan" and be ~ correct in most cases.
Yeah, this article about a rust "win" perfectly illustrates why I distrust all good news about it.

Rust zlib is faster than zlib-ng, but the latter isn't a particularly fast C contender. Chrome ships a faster C zlib library which Rust could not beat.

Rust beat C by using pre-optimized code paths and then C function pointers inside unsafe. Plus C SIMD inside unsafe.

I'd summarize the article as: generous chunks of C embedded into unsafe blocks help Rust to be almost as fast as Chrome's C Zlib.

Yay! Rust sure showed it's superiority here!!!!1!1111
For .pl TLD, due to GDPR, domain data is hidden by default for private individuals (as opposed to companies), yet some registrars still try to upsell the "domain privacy", hoping you don't know about it.
> Meh. Just change the type to long long, and it works well.

C libraries tend to support a lot of exotic platforms. zlib for example supports Unicos, where int, long int and long long int are all 64 bits large.
Good find! Everything stated here sounds deeply familiar. At the start of COVID I did a literature review of epidemiology and was blown away by how corrupt it seems to be as a field. Evidence simply being made up, circular definitions of disease and lots of cover-ups seem to be common.

Around the time this article was published the UK had an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, triggering a terrible government response that was also based on the most absurd pseudo-science. Lots of similarities too this story. Yet they never learned anything from it.

Still, it's hard to be fully convinced by the journalist's / renegade scientists' alternative theory, seeing as the evidence seems to boil down to "trust me bro". Especially as the symptoms and timeline sound rather like what you'd expect from a transmitted pathogen rather than food poisoning. The justification for it being food related never seen to be given after the official theory was dismissed.
I use Rust reasonably often. It's a decent language. Mostly more bearable than eg C++ or Go.

> It's unlike any programming community I've seen.

Oh, you clearly haven't hung out with the Haskellers in their prime.
You are not superior to obese people, even if you exercise every day. Simple as that.
The source code is at https://github.com/Dwayne-Phillips/CIPS
The general purpose of publicly accessible registrant data is that people should be able to contact the owner of the domain in case of an issue, rather than the registry or registrar. "domain privacy" is simply the registrar putting themselves as the domain contact and becoming a forwarding service to you.

For large companies, and registrants under those ccTLD's that require local presence, it not uncommon that a legal firm acts like a proxy for the domain owner. This is a service that they take a few dollars for, and is in many ways similar to domain privacy.

The requirement of having the registrant as the contact person for a domain is something that (to my knowledge) comes from ICANN, and I think it has a positive effect. A domain should be owned and controlled by the registrant and not the registrar, which is then reflected in the contact information. In an alternate history we could see that the registrar (or even registry) owned the domain and only leased it to the registrant, in which case the registrant's power would be limited to other online services that people "buy" today.
"go definitely doesn't"

What? gccgo, TinyGo, and GopherJS.
The importance of basic electrochemistry terminology in battery research
original title: The importance of basic electrochemistry terminology in the era of interdisciplinary battery research
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> For Modern Hardware fully utilizes underlying core to get higgher throughput and better hardware utilization.

Would be great to disclose details of this one. I'm interested in using what DiceDB achieves higher throughput.
The encryption gives asymmetric power to the people. Tor and Matrix for communications that can't be broken by the rich, no matter how powerful. Bitcoin for free transactions, vpn and torrent for the media etc.
Are those features worth having a wiretap in your entire home?
The wave went through the two slits, for any normal everyday definition of "go through". Yes, you can say "the wave function is just a function that assigns an amplitude for the particle's presence at every (x, y, z, t) co-ordinate, it doesn't go anywhere". But that's no more valid than saying that a regular water wave is "just a function that assigns a height to the water at every (x, y, t) co-ordinate, it doesn't go anywhere".

There is a pattern to the wavefunction, where the amplitude at (x+delta, y, z, t+delta) is closely related to the amplitude at (x, y, z, t). (Specifically, it's that amplitude rotated by delta times the mass of the particle). Or, unless you're being wilfully obtuse, the wave packet moves from x to x+delta in time t to t+delta, rotating as it goes as quantum mechanical waves do.

You can, if you really want, insist in Zeno's paradox fashion that nothing ever goes anywhere, that things just exist at given places and times, and in a certain sense that's true. But there's nothing QM-specific about that, and it's misleading to complicate a discussion of QM by claiming so. If we allow that things can move through space, and waves can move through space, then the wave moves through the two slits in the normal sense of all those concepts.

I wish people would stop going out of their way to make QM sound confusing/weird/"spooky". Most of it is just normal wave behaviour for which you can observe exactly the same thing with everyday classical waves.
Tapes are really crap for home use though. They're expensive, super noisy. You constantly have to change them during backing up.

What I do now is use a whole box full of older harddrives that I replaced in my NAS. And I basically use them as tapes with a change frame.
Well, traveling west
+ Avoid SATA SSDs.

Cries into his soup, having built the home ZFS filestore out of the cheap Patriot M210 2TB SATA SSDs...

However I don't drive 'em over USB. They're on a 5 port PCIx4 SATA card.

I was surprised how hot these babies report themselves to be. I bought a myth that I would be fanless. Well, with a noctua 40mm to cool them I can't hear the fan although I have old ears. I'm mostly fanless I guess.

The amount of cache amazed me. I guess at the point your job is to write complex encoded block states, lots of RAM on the local device (for the FPGA or chipset doing the smarts, which I assume is itself a computer) doing this marshalling makes sense.

Its funny how "bad" we are as an industry, making rational choices. Like WHY do NVME SSD not implement TRIM? What is it about them that "TRIM" didn't make sense?
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Notable that 'natural' photosynthesis only has a 1% efficiency at producing biomass. The best plants get 2%.

That's really low compared to standard solar panels at 20% efficiency, or expensive lab solar panels at 47% (output: electricity).

Basically, we have already beaten nature. Aiming to copy nature at this game is probably fruitless.
And MMU... and CPU daughter cards on the Zorro bus with local RAM for things like "distributed" Lightwave rendering. It would have made performance better for the rather price insensitive pro segment.

Commodore basically catered to no market segment.

Edit: the A1200 could have been better (twice the speed for calculations) if it had some just a tiny sliver of fast RAM instead of only chip RAM. And so on. It should also have had a VGA connector, it wouldn't have cost more than a few cents. People used TVs because the couldn't find multisync monitors. Commodore, a fractal of bad business decisions.
>Of course, getting your sweet voice for future training also helps!

There is a setting to disable having your voice saved along with options to automatically delete it after a number of months.
> Lorentz invariance is also violated in QFT assuming non-zero temperature.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_covariance
Ah, the internet! The place where people go to paraphrase what others have already posted, just with passive aggressive sarcasm. Thanks for that!
Cool!

What I would recommend right off the bat is installing the handy tool `rlwrap` and starting `tclsh` using the command `rlwrap tclsh`. This wraps it with readline which imo is a better experience (especially if one is used to the readline keyboard shortcuts).
there was 18f too :(
Found this an interesting game I coulnd't crack yet. Wonder if anyone found a solution and what it could be.
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Absolutely not, where did you get that idea?

Mastodon _instances_ have Impressumspflicht, sure. But normal users don‘t and I have never seen anything contrary about private accounts.

Edit: unless the Account is for/by a business of course.
I do believe the rational part (need the big floorpan for the battery) of this but I also believe the non-rational part: well, less rational. Once you have been monstered by enough SUV driving a small car, you start to feel a bit less safe in your small car. NCAP has nothing to do with this: large SUV can be worse to be in, they are rigid and don't always do the thing crumple zones are designed to do. But what they do well, is monster out the smaller cars.

There are small EV. Ora CAT, the MG, even the ioniq could be said to smaller than an SUV. the BYD atto is not small, but the dolphin is.
There is a fascist revolution in the US and your primary concern is banning political discussions.
Why do you think software is outside the area of expertise of government?
> Can’t have socialism forcing a pharmacy to exist where the market says it can’t.

Strange that small towns (500-5000) in Brazil are able to have a pharmacy, same in many countries in Europe, just found this one in Portugal in a town of 600 people: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fnFZMFtU3ZqbBAVk8

Perhaps the over-reliance on massive corporations like Walmart, CVS, Walgrens, etc. instead of small shops owned by private individuals is not really very good for society to fill in basic needs like groceries, medicine, etc. where "the market says it can't".
The issue, I guess, is that the Vampire sits in this weird space where they've picked a pretty arbitrary cutoff in which classic hardware they care about - most users who stuck with the Amiga for a long time would have had an accelerator with an M68k with an FPU, and MMU.

At the same time the Vampire extends the 68k instruction set and chipset in various ways. So it reflects this very opinionated "alternate history" version of what the Amiga could've been that involves ignoring a lot of what was.

I find the Vampire fascinating, and would quite like one (but maybe not enough to fork out what they're asking for it) but I realise I probably wouldn't use it much - it's mostly interesting because it's a fun oddity.

I'd have loved a Vampire-like machine that actually tried to take things forward across the board. I'm happy to see them experiment with 68k extensions, but I'd have loved to see them match the "full" classic experience with FPU and MMU first.

But it's their project - they're of course free to do what they want.
Yeah that's what I try to push for if the user (CI, whichever) just wants the files, using "git archive --remote=" is the fastest way to get just the files.

However, a lot of CIs / build processes rely on the SHA of the head as well, although I'm sure that's also cheap / easy to do without cloning the whole repository.

But that falls apart when you want to make a build / release and generate a changelog based on the commits. But, that's not something that happens all that often in the greater scheme of things.
IANAL but I thought bait and switch is illegal? It definitely is in the EU. Is it not in the US?
I understand their improvement figures exactly as you wrote, "C could be as fast, but with a lot more effort".

Yes, if your code in Lang-X is faster than C, it's almost certainly a skill issue somewhere in the C implementation.

However, in the day-to-day, if I can make my code run faster in Lang-X than C, especially if I'm using Lang-X for only a couple of months and C potentially for decades, that is absolutely meaningful. Sure, we can make the C code just as fast, but it's not viable to spend that much time and expertise on every small issue.

Outside of "which lang is better" discussions on online forums, it doesn't matter how fast you can theoretically make your program, it matters how fast you actually make it with the constraints your business have (time usually).
The US government is currently doing crazier and crazier things on a daily basis, and is run by a guy who’s pretty much open in saying that, actually, he likes doing crazy things; the courts and legislature have made barely any attempt to stop this. I mean, at this point, I don’t think the slippery slope fallacy really applies; the crazy guy who’s obsessed with vengeance against perceived enemies may well get it. Do not assume that there is a limit.
Here’s a working link to explain the black triangle:

https://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745
Just like HN crowd enjoy working on cool AI toys, now widely used to suppress people in china, iran, russia and soon the trumpland.
If git lfs fulfills this role, it could become pre-installed with new git installations.
My father was foreign-born, and immigrated to the US, where I was born.

Did the immigration authorities then screw over their own kids by letting him in?

Did the US screw over their own kids by accepting Cuban refugees during the 1960s? By accepting Hmong refugees in the 1970s?

During 1860-1910 the percentage of foreign-born in the US was about 14% - very close to the current percentage. Did the US screw over their kids then?
OP here.

Of course I haven't mastered he fundamentals of K8s yet, I am just beginning to learn it.

Like you, I have been using docker for years, and to be honest it served me very well - and would probably continue to do so. But as a geek, I have a natural curiosity, sometimes just the curiosity of whether or not something can be done, and how it works, is enough justifications to do it.

As you probably read, this is in my home services. Which is where I am free to do exactly these experiments before I know the inns and outs of it.

Some of what I wrote in the blog post, I have already ditched. I am no longer hardcoding the ipv6 addresses from the pools, for example, but I still need to change my pool ip addresses if my ISP changes the range. I am not sure if my way is the correct one. I could do it manually, but what's the fun in that ?

There will be more blog posts as I learn, you be sure (there already is). I have more coming up, but one of my current projects will take a bit of time, as I have decided that writing a Unifi Operator for managing firewall rules is a better way to do it :)

Now, for home use? Whoever does that, write K8s Operators?

If you're on hacker news then you should understand that the goal isn't necessarily the result, it's the learning experience.
So many fond memories of building eggdrop bots with Tcl scripts in the good old days of IRC. Trivia games, quote dbs, channel management, nick squatting, all sorts of shit.
Except nature’s framework comes with ability to manufacture and self maintain with infrastructure requirements that literally fall from the sky(rain). Given most of the cost of solar panels is installation and maintenance there are still places for photosynthesis.
Time-Series vs. Streaming Databases: Key Differences and Use Cases
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Signs of Terry Pratchett's dementia may have been hidden in his books
OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini?
I think the audience here might be ok with '"enthusiast" (aka nerd) territory' hardware.
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I actually don't think this is satire and find the post energizing and informative.

Some salient points that I took home.

Work in the morning before your day job starts.
Treat the customer like a deity, forever.
Built wealth, find customers, sell that wealth.
You could get another one of those machines and turn it on with a precisely calculated delay. :P
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I want to learn the notation. Just not everything at once. I need to be able to see real world usecases, otherwise I wont be able to remember and apply the notation.
What I meant is learning the notation step by step, topic related.
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The main benefit of whois and RDAP is to see which registrar handles a domain and when there were recent changes or upcoming expiry etc. RDAP is also useful to see who operates an IP address etc. I've been using RDAP for a few years but the service has been spotty, hopefully that improves now.
You're putting words in their mouth