skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Vtuber” refers to the the virtual persona but also the real person behind the avatar, cf. “Youtuber”, “blogger”. And “avatar” is a much less specific and less informative term than “vtuber”. And anyway the street finds its own names for things.
Comcast and Spectrum join in on the satellite messaging wave
Not just the i3, BMW also produced the 'carbon core' 7-series, which I think was a very interesting development as well.

The 'carbon core' chassis are a combination of steel, aluminium and carbon fiber parts bonded together with adhesives. It is primarily used to improve chassis stiffness, not necessarily for weight savings.

Unfortunately it wasn't well received by the public, most critics seemed to agree that it's a bit of a gimmick feature. As far as I can tell BMW is no longer using the carbon core concept anymore. It was announced at the time that the 5-series would get a carbon core chassis as well, but I don't think that ever happened. The technology also hasn't trickled down to their performance cars lineup as most had hoped.

To me it's kind of saddening that people are willing to pay top money for carbon fiber body panels and interior trim, but when applied to the chassis (where it actually matters) they become sceptical armchair engineers.

Anecdotal, but a friend of mine who worked at BMW dealership at the time told me that the i3 didn't sell as good as BMW had anticipated, but since they had already invested heavily in the tooling to produce the i3 carbon chassis parts they needed to look for other applications. Apparently this is what led to the carbon core chassis concept for the then upcoming G11 7-series.
Yes but you cant limit to a set of websites, I have tried sometimes it works but rarely and if it does search your set it will still go off and pick others. In the field I work in there are around a dozen specialist sites and I just want it to query those. Perhaps I need to develop around it.
And dang refuses to recognise that there is any kind of problem with this. Just tells people with a straight face to assume everyone is acting in good faith and that you shouldn’t ever question that assumption for the sake of harmony.
Solitary confinement is torture: https://phr.org/our-work/resources/endless-nightmare-solitar...
Getting bailed out by the government because you ran it into the ground is the plan when you buy one of these assets.
> it does prevent crawling

No it doesn’t. It politely requests to crawlers that they do not, and if said crawlers choose to honour it than those specific crawlers will not crawl. That’s it. It can and is ignored without penalty or
enforcement.

It’s like suggesting that putting a sign in your front yard saying “please don’t rob my house” prevents burglaries.

> Robots.txt does absolutely apply to LLMs engines and search engines equally

No it doesn’t because again, it’s a request system. It applies only to whatever chooses to pay attention to it, and further, decides to abide by any request within it which there is no requirement to do.

From google themselves:

“The instructions in robots.txt files CANNOT ENFORCE crawler behavior to your site; it's up to the crawler to obey them.”

And as already pointed out, there is no requirement a crawler follow them, let alone anything else.

If you want to control access, and you’re using robots.txt, you’ve no idea what you’re doing and probably shouldn’t be in charge of doing it.
"I moved from academia over a decade ago, and I know the difference"

Pressures are different indeed, but let's not pretend academia of all places is any less "priviledged"

Btw, most professors age well into retirement. Trying to find a software engineer over 55 is looking for a needle in a haystack that definitely will not make it past the next boom/bust cycle.

Agism in this field is endemic, probably the worst of any in knowledge work.
Its not the learning of COBOL thats the issue - its the custom nature of a lot of older systems and understanding the associated business logic.

I remember getting taken thru the core interconnectivity of the mainframe at a bank and being shown a diagram of the key flows which didnt look to bad. They then overlayed all the flows and the screen was like a bowl of spagetti - and understanding that is where the real skill and expertise is

Thats probably true of most legacy systems
At this point in time this is absolutely a "people and process" problem. But also the process that is there has been excercised and is known to folks you may hire. Trying to come up with less of it (or with a different version of it) dramatically shrinks the number of people who can be productive on your product from day 1, and is not a choice to be made lightly. There is also a number of people who will then be spending time convincing you that the "none" or "less" process you have imposed is wrong and you should "just get on with the program".
For the original GameBoy, without a doubt: Zelda Link's Awakening.
> . But enacting regulation forcing Volvo to give you a full experience without Google Account login is just acting a step too late if you already bought it, or taking a step too far if you'd like to buy it but don't like it enough, and are now demanding they change it.

Translation: no one should demand sensible things from companies ever. Because it's either too late, or too far.

How has the world, especially the tech world, become so enamoured with corporations, walled gardens, and the idea that nothing done by any corporation can ever be challenged?
> unreliable drivers that fail before the LED does, or kill the LED by heat or excessive voltage

That. I have a rather enclosed (little ventilation) ceiling fixture that in theory is supposed to be specced for up to 2 x 75 W incandescent. You'd think it will handle 2 x 9 or 12 W led "bulbs" just fine, right?

It killed one averagely priced led "bulb" every 2 years until i switched to a slightly more expensive brand.
At this point, I expect this to be flagged, as soon as the correct time zone matches DOGE interns wake up time...
Really it goes back on to the seller. Because if I don't get my item, I'm going to dispute the charge on my credit card. Eventually, someone pays, but not me.
The cops had confiscated all the electronic devices for a "forensic" examination. The easiest explanation is that it was probably found on said person's ChatGPT history logs.

The notion that someone at OpenAI outed this info sounds a bit far-fetched. Not impossible of course.
Here i'm seeing the cheapest HDD at a cost of 15€/TB and LTO-9 tape at 4.72€/TB. That's more than a 3x difference.
This is one of those application that I love. Does it job well, nobody is trying to make interface "modern", that is use sweet colors, big squares everywhere with weirdo icons that you need to guess what they are supposed to mean. Starts fast, works fast, does not encourage me do buy some subscriptions, register somewhere, connect to some "service", just does it job perfectly.

Unfortunately with every year there are less and less such applications, but they are still out there, e.g. SumatraPDF or KeePassXC.
If it's anything like the PE1NNZ uSDX/derivatives it tunes only in the (rough) ham bands - obviously if you modify the firmware to remove the end limits of the ham band you can tune to other frequencies but fundamentally, the thing has a bunch of relays and coils for the different bands.
Great comments from both of you. I will also add the (unsupportive) environment and uncertainty for the future as major factors IMHO.

One should also consider the "outside" environment. We jumped from covid right into war without a break in between and now we are being told that we will be replaced by AI, while expecting the stock market to crash and increase unemployment. Ah and also the inflation (wage reduction) that has been going on for the last five years and doesn't show a sign of stopping.
In case anyone isn't familiar with remix, bloomingkales seemingly has no familiarity with the framework. Obviously it's not been created as a conspiracy to sell training courses. The idea is ludicrous.

It's quite a nice framework. It's easy to learn, straightforward, the people in their discord are very helpful. It has the backing of a large company (shopify) who are using it extensively.

It is, I'll say again, obviously not a conspiracy to sell training courses.
What country are you even talking about? You seem very determined to tell everyone this is the way the world is, but steadfastly fail to show any evidence.
:-)

Existence, universe, galactic processes and time scales are very fascinating. I do loose sleep over it, but because it is impossible to grasp, so marvellous and unlikely. And it is treated like shit by too many of my fellow earthlings. My worries are much closer and much more concrete than a galaxy collision, and I think much more urgent.
I think you're good for 20 years or so if you store the tapes well. Pretty much all of the industry is using LTO tapes so i don't see them going away soon.
Coding with ChatGPT always makes me angry in the end. Claude at least stays professional. ChatGPT always ends up sounding kinda mean.
> no there aren't. there just aren't.

You do realize we all know it's impossible to have any degree of certainty in asserting the non-existence of something, right?
Having switched to a kobo in the last week from a kindle, yes it is still possible, but involves a few steps, one of which can require an old version of the kindle for PC app. [1]

I couldn't make it work on books already downloaded to my kindle - they had to be downloaded via the app - and since it requires an old version of an app that automatically tries to update, I'm not sure how long it'll be possible, so my suggestion is to dump kindle and Amazon if you every want to have any control over your books.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/1jbsf2n/comment/mhwhx...
The indieweb is both beautiful and frustrating to me. I have been writing online for 20 years in various forms, and my current site is 10 years old.

I feel like I should be part of it. And according to their website, I own a domain and a site, so I am a part of it!

But then you scroll down and the headaches begin.

https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started

It feels like so much infra and setup to get stuff up and running that it scares me away every time.
His argument makes sense. This of someone who is exclusively working with cobol and a specific version of a very specific mainframe. If he is staying there for 5-10 years, where would he go? Are these skills transferable? Would he become a data engineer maintaining Spark, no one would hire someone with a senior salary with no experience with a bit more modern stack.
In reverse, company is unlikely to let him go, sourcing a replacement would be a nightmare. This is a gold cage opportunity
Calibre is IMO best used in a Docker container, set it up once and then forget it.

Drop your books in a directory on your NAS, let Calibre pick them up from there and do your actual processing with Calibre-web.
Beige proto-iMac. I had a 5200 as a teen and upgraded to either a 5300 or a 5400 at university for a few years — the latter broke while at university and I upgraded again to an eMac, but I think this was before then.

Looks like there's many different old scripts, no idea which, if any, was what I read back in the day: https://old.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/rb4x93/early_draft_...

I miss those days. Even software development back then was more fun with REALbasic than today with SwiftUI.
I should have thought more carefully and included the DC buildings, but it's still only a few buildings and thousands of people. And that took an enormous amount of planning, plus luck, etc. He was never going to take over the US, defeat the US military, or endanger more people than the flu.
Having to clarify that it's not a warning is a warning.
Mandatory "output may be wrong and must not be used in any business decisions" disclaimer would allow LLMs to continue to exist, but would also torpedo the "LLMs will steal all white collar work" sales pitch.
> The country's foreign ministry clarified the updated guidance doesn’t constitute an official travel warning to the US.

Clickbait headline. Nothing has changed officially.
thanks for sharing

I personally feel most graph patterns are just easier implemented using functions unless the graph has some other purpose like observability or even just visualization also those can always be added ;)

I prototyped a similar system at a hackerthon last year: https://github.com/Davidiusdadi/obsidian-node-canvas

Your docs would be more readable if you made the code blocks just wide enough so that the lines don't wrap.

https://pocketflow.ai/ whitepaper link is 404ing btw.
I lost my CashApp account because I ordered something with my debit card and it was delivered somewhere else who eventually handed it back and redelivered to the merchant who kept it.

I asked CashApp to step in and refund me and they said "Look chum, the FedEx ticket says DELIVERED".. and I'm like "Yes, but not to me" and they said "Yeah we get that, but our policy states if its DELIVERED it's over with. How about we just terminate your CashApp account for complaining?"
The thing they ship on android is just horrible. It appears closer to markov chain than actual AI
there is another, better UI for HN:
https://hn.algolia.com/
set it for the last 24 hours and enjoy uncensored content
Nope...

The UK electricity grid is nationalised - it's run by the National Energy System Operator (NESO).
rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic
You're probably right. However with sparse models and MoE, 128GB may be useful.
"I don't understand why there's no startups making open source modular electronics." There is, maybe it is not a startup per se. In Shenzhen there is 500 companies that will produce whatever you need in whatever amounts you need, could be 10, 100, 10 000 000.
Ah yes, another b.s. title designed by the corporate overlords. 10 years of school studying computers and a rigorous tests in the interview only to have your expectations be about maximizing profit or "delighting" the customer.

Why not just make engineering about building something correctly? Nope. You must run the business, and understand the customer. But... computers? Nope. Customer.
That exact same article says someone has been tossed around in that system for ten months. That’s just someone among the 100-200 people they met. That same article even has photos of the system from the 2000s. There’s a photo of people sleeping on the floor wrapped in the exact kind of aluminum sheet “blankets” dated 2014. It’s been going on for very long. (Btw, I suspect it’s only getting attention now that the more-equal-than-others groups are also getting the same treatment, but I’m not going to push that point.)

And I was very clear about which part is “not new”. What a shame people can’t read. What a shame partisan commenters read “U.S. has been blah blah for a long time” and immediately jump to “Trump defender!!!”

Edit: I should also mention I literally emailed dang to get https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410548 (discussion thread for your link) restored when it was flagged.
I think a `gap-image`, similar to `border-image` would be more flexible.
It's circumstantial, but in one of the videos streamed by Lina on YouTube, it shows they share a computer.

There are a few other oddities, but nothing 100% that I'd feel comfortable repeating as I don't have an opinion whether it's true or not.
As I said before, I would not travel to the US unless my life depends on it.
Activision Cut Call of Duty's Build Time by 50%
Translation via DeepL:
"The German's mother made serious accusations against the immigration authorities in the US media. She told NHPR in New Hampshire that officers had "violently interrogated" her son for hours. He had to strip naked and was forced to take a cold shower by two officers before being put back in his chair. He was then taken to a room with other people in bright light and was given hardly any food or water. He was also denied access to his medication. According to his mother, the man eventually collapsed and was taken to hospital. It later turned out that he had the flu."
The devil is in the details – you do shit clippy-like integration = nobody will use it, you do it well – everybody will, even though nobody currently does in any meaningful way beyond setting a timer.
I feel that's assuming a whole lot of unrelated things, such as machines and humans having anything at all in common.

I get that your take qualifies as stoner philosophy, so I won't push too far, but really. Do give some concrete examples to support your ideas rather than GPT fluff.
They do hire in LCoL countries (hello from Warsaw). Whether this will make the dent I'm a bit skeptical though. Nobody flies candidates anymore.

I told the last recruiter flat out that it's no longer ethical for me to work for a US company but I don't think many people will do the same.
That’s not true… both the RS-25 SSMEs and the SRBs were reused - however, the extent of refurbishment required between flights was so extensive, time-consuming and expensive, that it erased much of the benefits of reusability
Is there going to be a replacement bus service for the flights?
I really like the idea and what you’re building here. That said, I’d argue the documentation website is the face of any open-source project. Reinventing the wheel rarely ends well — the current docs are hard to navigate and read.

Just use an off-the-shelf solution for docs, like Docusaurus, for example:

https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus
Meta was fined €1.2 billion.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ has a list of 2,560 fines.
Not so. The solid rocket boosters were reused, as were the three SSMEs bolted to the orbiter itself. The only part that wasn’t reusable was the external fuel tank because bringing it back intact from almost orbital speeds would’ve been hilariously uneconomical.

That said, refurbishing both the SRBs and the SSMEs after each use was labor-intensive and as such expensive.
Great article. I'd be interested with something similar for industrial and public transit cases.

I totally get that it's feasible to run a common household with 100% solar+batteries, but I'm less convinced a train or an hospital can be run during a winter evening with solar+batteries alone. Let alone one of those new fancy AI datacenter.
So its a minimalist stop motion avatar using a specific image file format (for its ability to embed an alpha channel aka transparency I guess).

I prefer minimalist stop motion avatar to "PNG-Tuber" which sounds more like a slang description of the person that relias on said avatar variant.

Also avatars in early games were exactly that simple, so that name was here before.
I do, I’m vegetarian.

But my comment entirely missed the mark. It’s referencing the great Pulp Fiction scene.
That’d be fine if there was an equal number of people that could vouch for something, but that button doesn’t exist now?
> South Korea probably went too far in the other direction.

In what direction? Freedom, self-determination, democracy, rule of law? Should someone who staged a coup not be arrested? Poor guy! He can plead in court that he was scared, in trial with a jury and judge.

> If I were the sitting president I'd probably be scared too, and might take risks to try to hold onto power as long as possible even to the point of declaring martial law or something.

:)
> I'd wager for tourists it's very safe in Germany.

Unless they're Black or "look Muslim", in which case I'd stay the fuck out of Eastern Germany. There's more recent reports as well, e.g. [1] - and it's been a massive issue for Eastern Germany, especially since the rise of Pegida [2].

But don't get me wrong, Western Germany also has its no-go areas, especially anything rural. The large cities tend to be decently safe from far-right violence - but even the smaller ones can be dangerous. Just last week a friend of a friend and her child was attacked in Landshut near Munich by a drunkard (and no it's not hearsay, there's a police report).

[1] https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/dresden/dresden-radeb...

[2] https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2015-10/pegida-dresd...
They used to get broken down for parts, as the screens etc were still worth hundreds on their own. But since the parts are now encoded, that can't be done as easily.
Apple knows how to call an OpenAI API as well as anyone. I don't think they're struggling with the LLM side of things. The problem is to ensure security (vs prompt injection), and to create an ecosystem of apps and developers who will provide hooks into their apps to let AI perform actions on behalf of the user.
Unleashing Linux on Android: A Developer's Playground
This is insane, everything that criticize US and current gov is flagged. Really disappointing and frightening. As a European citizen who reads European news, it was really strange not to see topics about the deterioration of US relations with its allies and its closer ties with Russia on this site. It was major news in the EU and completely silent here.
It's nice physical activity, satisfying, healthy, makes me happy to go out,
Also not everything is priced the same. If i wanted to cut back i'd still grow some stuff that's easy to grow but for some reason expensive here.
I get to give some stuff away that's hard to preserve.
And when winter comes....yeah i go to the store more often because i totally could but don't like eating only frozen, canned, pumpkins, beets, carrots, & leftover kale/winter spinach, etc
Is there a problem with that?

>Statistics also show that people in the cities eat much more vegetables than people in the country side - if you exclude potatoes. I don’t want to eat potatoes only.

I'm very confused how that has to do with anything?

>But if I have to prevent any DDoS that is already too much to handle and I am DevOps by trade and we buy anti DDoS services.

I'd have some serious questions if someone were to feel the need to ddos my blog.
But I think some ddos protection comes with my ovh plan.
I could be running on some rpi in a closet but i don't in the same way that i could be seedsaving but don't.
What makes you think that? I quote:

> "Instead, based on what we see around nearby Milky Way analogues, there ought to be at least 6 trillion galaxies contained within the observable Universe, and it’s plausible that a number that’s more like ~20 trillion"
Sorry, the quoted part of my comment should have said 'where nobody feels safe', but I can see you figured that out.
thanks for suggestion , dont worry i have a great background in maths and physics, an olympiad student (top 40 in country in just grade 10)
so dont worry about that , i have learned a lot of maths and physics at great depth and understanding... I will try to implement more thank you
I depends on your ethical limitations.

Do you want the _exact_ book file you've downloaded or just _a_ file of the book you purchased (a license to read)?

For the latter, finding (main stream) ebooks isn't exactly hard, but it also isn't exactly legal.

For example I buy physical copies of books, which I don't have the space for. Then I donate them away and "acquire" the ebook version to read and archive. If an author sells the ebook directly without Amazon (or Rakuten) as a middleman, I purchase it from them directly.