skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did it advise him to call app Britain and claim the digital dividend?
Put it right in the middle of Trump's "National Garden of American Heroes"[1] He'd love that. Ha!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Garden_of_American_He...
> What's interesting is that broadly speaking, people acknowledge that negotiating with asymmetric information is immortal or wrong. Take the stock market for example, insider trading is illegal and you don't often hear calls to reverse these laws.

Insider trading is not about fairness. It’s about theft. If you overhear someone in a public place talking about an upcoming merger, you can trade on it.
Cohere's minimal compute new LLM
I guess the secretary would look things up in some lexicon otherwise.

The main problem is that it is easier to sound competent and less effort to spam. Like, the competence and effort filter is gone.
I only use tiling when I'm coding, so I have a shortcut to a script that tiles all the open windows and gives the main window around 60% of the screen width.
Suggestion: Make the time scale logarithmic.
Canadian woman sent to Arizona detention for trying to renew her TN visa
Is pulling decisions out of OpenAI's arse really better?
Incredible. Healthcare is a busted industry through and through. Even the tech companies that serve it are incompetent. There are so many things wrong here:

- the uber-fication of nursing, bc of cheap and corporate owned hospitals won't just hire them as w2 employees

- cheapness probably led hospitals to this crappy app, which probably gave kick backs to the admins that approved it

- this should totally bankrupt the ESHYFT, but more likely nothing will happen
Tracking Keystrokes for Login Identification
One can always use a fake email and login account. Upper class people don't bother because they don't eat at fast food chains as often enough as lower class people to warrant needing an app for each one; 99.9% don't give a shit about data collection, only people on HN and other technical fora do.
My club, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston (atmob.org), holds weekly mirror grinding sessions at our clubhouse. Along with another club member I'm working on a diffracting telescope and hope to see first light this spring.
There's a common theme in posts like this where the writer knows _too much_ about programming, and tries to do things that are awkward in Rust, but a lot of these problems don't actually come up in practice. Sometimes I feel like they take it as a personal challenge to never ever use .clone() and like -- it's okay -- use clone(), nobody else is going to know.

I'm maintaining 4 kubernetes operators written in Rust with a team of devs who are _not_ brilliant developers, and it's all async, and once I setup the patterns, they were able to jump in and start contributing business logic immediately.

Is it the most performant possible implementation? Definitely not! But once I told them how to stop using unwrap() everywhere, they have literally _never_ crashed or panic'd in over a year. When we were working in go, nil pointer exceptions were the bane of our existence.
Well, it depends on the audience of your software. Bloomberg Terminal is awesome, but has a steep learning curve. Most people who learn to use it are learning it with the specific intention of finding a job where they are paid to know how to use the Bloomberg Terminal. I agree, the UI is awesome for that, but if your startup is an app to find a dog walker or something, the vast majority of your potential users are going to be turned off by the Bloomberg Terminal interface.
Naples FL needs signs like these. Only it’s to warn motorists of elderly people attempting to pilot Lamborghinis and other ridiculously powerful sports cars. It’s surreal to see valet have to help an 80 year old out of a aventador and the step up the curb to the door of a restaurant.
C++ has long compilation times, when you have long code base.
This is exactly right. I hate seeing so many people say that iPads aren’t for “real work”, because it’s being hugely dismissive of the real work plenty of people do every day. You don’t have to be writing a compiler for it to count as “real work” FFS. Just because it’s not suitable for your work, it doesn’t mean that the work other people do on it isn’t real work.
I'm not in the loop, are 14 inch or larger mirrors affordable nowadays?
I use my PC keyboard to control the macbook so I have a backspace button. The macbook itself doesn't have one.
I am thankful for what he did. We need more Mark Kleins.
We are getting older and so are your heroes. They just die.
As useless as a marzipan dildo
It's not about price, but enjoying the process, or making instruments that just are not commercially available. Amateurs are constantly pushing the limits of optical designs.

Here is a recent groundbreaking example from Rik Ter Horst, a 10" f/20 kutter with toroidal secondary : https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/935825-a-250-mm-f20-kutte...

I did not do anything that impressive but enjoy my own set of non-standard scopes :

- A 8" f/3.5 hyperbolic primary + ross corrector

- a 6" f/2.8 with permanently mounted 4-element corrector

and am working on a 16.5" f/3.3 that will have a permanent Paracorr II lens group.

The only messy moment was my first mirror when I learned to cut pitch, but grit and glass dust itself are no problem thanks to the wet process.

You are right though on the last bits of figuring, it's a psychological challenge and my first mirror took 3 attempts over 18 months.
When did you try hey calendar? I've never used anything from hey, but saw a lot of griping about its performance, and eventually saw that they apparently addressed the primary issues.
Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks with Binance Following Exchange's Guilty Plea
Perhaps an interesting question is, can a programming language be created that works well from low level operating system use cases to business apps? Or, is it fundamentally necessary to have multiple languages to cover different domains?
We just had that whole Cliven Bundy thing happen a few years ago, no? Also, large swathes of the western US, Alaska, Appalachia, etc., are often difficult for authorities to access (at least quickly).

It's important to be clear that the lack of government control in Central Africa has a lot to do with that same sort of geographic inaccessibility. There are whole countries in Asia that exist largely because of the difficulty of administering rugged frontier; the Amazon still exists largely because the Brazilian/Colombian/etc. governments understandably have trouble administering thousands of square miles of jungle.
As an AWS Solution Architect - Associate, I can confidently say they should’ve been using AWS Macie (tongue in cheek btw)
How many pirate ISPs exist in EU? How many of them have satellites in orbit?
Governments provided with source code from MNCs like Huawei will be under strict NDA - providing source is very unusual for obvious reasons (poor security being one - assuming they know it’s bad, sharing it opens a huge threat vector). They are almost certainly unable to share any specific vulnerabilities.
NIH cuts funding for vaccine hesitancy research
There's something very wrong with FOI legislation that allows this.
This expensive M3 macbook has a pad you touch with your finger to move the cursor around. It has one click only.
why flutter instead of react native? Flutter is destined to be a dead language because of google
I don't try to accomplish here anything. I expressed my opinion that I don't think that particular phrase is poetic, it is just broken without being poetic. Then people tried to prove that it is indeed an existing English idiom, which is usually very easy, they are in the dictionaries, in the books, in the articles, on the internet. Then they failed during this process, which made me more confident in my opinion.

> https://pastpapers.co/cie/O-Level/English-Language-1123/2019...

Okay, I can accept this.
I don't really see how a plane crash is an easy way to fake a death... Plane crashes get a lot of investigation, and investigators will surely notice when the pilot's body is one stolen from a morgue and the real pilot bought a spare parachute from eBay which is nowhere to be found.
That was a lot of words to say "Jakob's Law"[0]

"Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know."

"1. Users will transfer expectations they have built around one familiar product to another that appears similar."

"2. By leveraging existing mental models, we can create superior user experiences in which the users can focus on their tasks rather than on learning new models."

"3. When making changes, minimize discord by empowering users to continue using a familiar version for a limited time."

[0] https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/
I think Carl was more of an early supporter and provided vital services without which TPB might not exist but I'm not sure if he should be considered a co-founder (or is considered so by the other three).
Does anyone remember the Longhorn presentation video of 2003?
BYD say they expect to begin 'demonstration use' of all-solid-state batteries by 2027.

>Large-scale adoption of all-solid-state batteries may not happen until after 2030, BYD's battery business CTO said https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1iq5ukh/b...
Some Windows machines have compatible GPUs while others don't, so this doesn't necessarily help. What is really required is querying the OS for what type of compute unit it has and then installing the right version of an ML library, but I'm not sure that will be done.
Try the AV Herald, you’d be surprised how many incidents there in the world every day
More just that the rules are actually a summary of a very complex set of behaviours, and that those behaviours can interact with each other and unusual situations in unexpected ways.
I don’t think that tech companies are inherently different by virtue of being tech companies. There are good ones and bad ones just like in other industries. There’s nothing special about “tech” that makes it a better place to work.
I think it’s both progress and a problem depending on the application. Yes, innovation, but it’s also why people continue to do heroin.

The human brain is easily manipulated, easily hacked.
I don't personally find ChatGPT as useful as some people here apparently do. But, assuming outputs are not being put into effect unthinkingly, this seems well in the domain of ChatGPT being used for brainstorming as many people on this board seem to endorse.

Certainly, information leakage from search activities of any kind by high government officials is a cause for concern (as are travel patterns etc.).
Sunny places with good ports and cheap land.
This would be more applicable to death by natural causes, not death by plane accident.
CatGPT – Text a Cat
I bet I could shred some serious kickflips with this thing.
GOOG currently pays ~0.47% APY. The GOOG stock price could reflect some certainty of these dividend payments, but there is not much stock price independent risk basis to choose GOOG over e.g. US treasury bonds at ~4.32% or Swiss bonds at ~0.77% APY.

As well, micro-fluctuations in APY driven by stock price values create inconsistent hopes: a dividend investor that will "never" sell should hope that stock prices do not exceed inflation so that APY is stable or goes up, while most people hope that stock prices inflate with the economy or go up so that appreciation can be realized at sale.

Then there are the people who bought at IPO, at which the closest thing to a true valuation exists: it is at the IPO cost basis that a true value is established. IPO is also where the company performance becomes coupled to the stock price as the general public invests money into the company in the sale, and employees with stock options become incentivized to exercise any available control over the stock price, including increasing company performance.

I think there is a continuum between dividend investors and stock price speculators, and there is also some kind of monotonically devolving continuum from a rational value basis into chaotic market forces. In one corner of this N-dimensional continuum, I can definitely agree with you.
slower so there’s more hassle swapping discs. One time use media generates trash when the data on the disc is obsolete. Discs are a better fit when the use case calls for read only access or physical copies cheap enough to literally hand out. Such as ransomware resistance or evidence chain of custody. For offline copies you could just be diligent in unplugging external hard drives and testing backups.
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So private aviation is 666% more dangerous than commercial (e.g. 0.0002 / 0.00003 = 6.66...) That is significant, but commercial is incredibly safe.

I wonder what the death rate for flying yourself around, e.g. part-time pilots, is versus professional private plane pilots. I would think that part-time amateur pilots is where the real danger is - it is a hobby thing.
It's funny because Isaac Asimov would have come up with some convoluted logical puzzle to justify why the robot went on a murderous rampage - because in sci-fi robots and AI are all hyperrational and perfectly rational - when in real life you'd just have to explain that your dying grandmother's last wish was to kill all the humans, because a real AI is essentially a dementia-riddled child created from the Lovecraftian pool of chaos and madness that is the internet.

I recall that story of the guy who tried to use AI to recreate his dead friend as a microwave and it tried to kill him[0].

You couldn't sell a sci-fi story where AIs just randomly go insane sometimes and everyone just accepts it as a cost of doing business, and because "humans are worse," but that's essentially reality. At least not as anything but a dark satire that people would accuse of being a bit much.

[0]https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-ressurects-imaginary-friend-a...
No, I'm in the EU but working for an American company. This is the best arrangement in terms of money and quality of life for me.
Here is the list of IP blocks for the UK defense:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

Here is the nginx proxy rule so that requests from the UK government go to the right place:

if ($remote_addr = 25.0.0.0/8) {
set $backend_pool grok_with_special_information_for_really_smart_uk_tech_ministers;
}
else {
set $backend_pool grok_for_poor_and_stupid_uk_people;
}

I don't have actual information that Grok names the backend servers this way, btw. Nor, do I know if Peter Kyle is using tor.

This was generated with help from Claude, so please verify your own sources.
There's no meaningful order to shared dependencies or cyclic dependencies. You can pick one, but making it undefined is a lot more useful as the language implementer.

As a language user, don't rely on order for your side effects. Actually, just don't have side effects on module load. You almost never need it. Lazily initialize your globals.
Have you checked out the Le Robot project by Huggingface? You can build two robot arms SO-ARM100 (leader+follower) for less than 250€ or so.

And you can train the model by yourself without relying on cloud services.

Some URLs to get your started:

https://huggingface.co/lerobot

https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/examples/10...

the latest project: Le Kiwi, using the SO-ARM100 arm:

https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/examples/11...

the super advanced HopeJR shoulder + arm + hands:

https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/HOPEJr

cool video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHfy2vACyw
>> 1/3 you get .33

I have never seen any COBOL code but I'm surprised this works in a general sense even for currency related calculations due to the loss of accuracy.

In any case, it seems that it would be relatively easy to implement COBOL compatible numeric processing in any language in a library (and maybe one case where operator overloading is a feature instead of a bug).
I enjoyed it :) I see a lot of complaints about the ai generation. My 2c would be the photorealistic style is throwing people off a bit. Painting/artistic renderings might do it better justice
I think all of the comments you are missing the point. We beginning to see the outsourcing of critical thinking to a few technology companies. We’ve stopped valuing leaders that understand issues and can make sane decisions. Instead we pick leaders that present good sound bites or appear strong. They in turn do not understand the issues and can get quick and easy answers from AI that for the most part are pretty damn good.

The most insidious part of this, is it gives us the feeling that we are still in control.

When in reality, a few extremely powerful and extremely wealthy individuals are in a position to dramatically shape and shift policy.

15 years ago Google was still pretty damn good. Today most people agree that it’s departed from its original goals and in its efforts to make money actively censors and shapes the results it serves.

The AI systems people use to make decisions will make this shift once they have a lock on the market.

It’s wild to see the creation of a technological equivalent to the medieval Catholic Church. an entity that represents itself as benevolent to the masses, but in reality, exploits them and maintains a stranglehold over the political ruling class.
How do I become a cert authority for STIR/SHAKEN?
This seems like free money, why wouldn't everyone do this?
It takes 11 MW of electricity to make 1 ton of ammonia, ammonia plants can make 1000 to 3000 tons a day. Providing battery storage for that production rate for 24 hours would probably cost more than the plant itself.
It has a few problems.

#1 is that it makes you model everything using their awkward computational solid geography-based authoring tools.

If I could import my photos and stereograms I'd use it, but I can't. I can't import GLB models.

My understanding is that the MQ3 has limited texture memory and, if you want to use photographic content, you've got to be sparing of memory. I'm pretty sure I can make it work in A-Frame if I work at it, but I just can't do it in Horizon Worlds.

I'm sure the risk of piracy is another reason why they don't let you import assets, but intellectual property cuts both ways -- it wouldn't be authentic if they didn't have the Coca-Cola logo on the side of cups in a McDonald's world and McD's probably has that logo as an Adobe Illustrator file or equivalent and just wants to import it.

#2 is a lack of understanding of why social media appeals to people, in particular that it is something you can participate in with 50% attention and that it is asynchronous. In fictional VR games such as Sword Art Online and Shangri-La Frontier there are NPCs which aren't usually as responsive as players but at least try.

That virtual McDonald's world (never mind a world for a local restaurant, many of which are run by people who are super-savvy at SEO, SMO and all that) couldn't have real people staffing it 24-7. What if it becomes a place where a few jerks hang out just to make people miserable? It's a hard enough problem to moderate people's text-based behavior, but make it voice and motion and it's close to impossible -- given all that "social VR" might be undesirable compared to single-player worlds.

#3 The promise of this kind of system though is that the VR world needs better authoring tools. I went to an event where Cornell instructors showed off VR-based instructional material and it was clear that, even with a unit specialized to help them, they struggled. One physics instructor built a Unity app that lets people visualize electromagnetic fields but made it a desktop/tablet/phone app instead of a VR app because he wanted students to collaborate. A good social VR application could change that, but it has to be better than Horizon Worlds.
Did the author forget to finish the blog post?

They show a single example of incorrect dithering, explain it's wrong, and then don't show a corrected version. There isn't a single example of proper color dithering.

And they talk about the distance to the nearest color (RGB) but don't explain how to account for black or white -- how to trade off between accuracy of hue, brightness, and saturation, for example.

This post doesn't explain at all how to actually dither in color. I don't understand why this is on the front page with over 50 votes.
Out of curiosity, is there anything technical the Spanish authorities could do to block Starlink (i.e jamming)? Or are legal/bureaucratic measures the only solution?
This guy wasn't flying in a private jet with a professional, hired pilot. He was flying himself in a propeller-driven Mooney M20.
$800 a Pound: The Rush Is on for Oregon Truffles
The anti DEI crowd forgets that not long ago people got hired because they had a penis or white skin.
> 4G and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) architectures do not include support for circuit-switched voice and video calls. Two tracks are available that provide interoperable voice services on 4G smartphones: Circuit-Switched Fallback (CSFB) and VoLTE.

(from https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/white-papers/...)

Circuit switched fallback means falling back to 3G or 2G (or maybe CDMA) for voice calls; if such networks are no longer available in a given area, VoLTE is indeed mandatory if voice calls are to be supported. (Which is often mandated by regulations, so networks sometimes even block non-VoLTE UEs from attaching.)
The resources required are petty trivial. Users hand over their name and email when they create an account. Likewise you get the IP address of a request.

You could identify which world leaders are using ChatGPT pretty easily.
It does, and from what I've seen the UK public service are pretty diligent in making sure the rules are enforced... but I don't expect ministers only use recorded accounts and machines.
https://archive.ph/o6nX6
If you've a decision to make, then asking chatgpt for 20 possibilities is a great way to get ideas. Using them blindly would, but there's no suggestion that is the case.
Meh, I just shared the fact that for the same scale of project outside of Burlington, anyone can literally 10x their budget for construction costs based solely on land price differences.

Of course the counterpoint is: a single stalled project with extremely unique economics (built for students and on land that was already owned)

So who knows!
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Are There Opportunities to Use OODA Loops in Your Software Project?
They aren't generally potrayed as bad, either, just as things which are not as simple as they first appear. Even in the story where the AIs basically run the economy and some humans figure out that they are surreptitiously suppressing opposition to this arrangement (with the hypothesized emergent zeroth law of not allowing humanity to come to harm), Asimov doesn't really seem to believe that this is entirely a bad thing.
It helps with security. It’s why starting with iOS 20 you can’t access non-notarized websites either.
Interesting, thanks very much.

To clarify, the headless chrome is because it's ultimately a js-rendered app, so you just pre-render all the routes on the server to get the final html, cache that, then serve the html on any first request. Then when the app is loaded in the browser, it just does everything client-side?
> Only because you assume that they should only be working on browser development.

Why not? This isn't Oxfam, this is Mozilla. To an outsider, the assumed point for all these other endeavors was to be profitable to provide more money for browser development. When that money doesn't primarily provide for that something seems sketchy.
The 0th law worked out pretty good for Daniel and humanity