skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bosch dishwasher here. Zero network connectivity of any kind

Absolutely bullshit. If you are a dishwasher without any network connectivity, how are you posting comments on the internet, Mr Bosch?
You stop for food?
Dish Name: Simmered Water Broth
Serving Size: 1 cup (240 ml)

Ingredients:
- Water: 1 cup (240 ml)

Wait where's the 300 word intro about how their dog lived on their summer estate's farm before being adopted into the family?
There was a paper recently that tackled this:

https://tiger-ai-lab.github.io/TheoremExplainAgent/
And then if you asked for a time estimate it would probably take hours to eat that slice. (not mocking the app, I like the idea, I just think its estimation feature is funny)
Can’t you just have it login?
The story goes that people would request to have sessions with it, even if they knew it's just parroting some phrases. They just needed to be heard out!

I feel really sad about how people need to resort to therapy for the kind of interaction that would be provided by a healthy social norm of honest and open communication. Maybe I should talk to my therapist about this feeling. But somehow I doubt that would actually accomplish anything.

This is the first time I see history repeating itself first as farce and only then as tragedy. Personally, I would be hard pressed to trust any data collection business with any honest information about my mental health.

DNA profiling in the 23andme thread, psychological profiling over here, teachers teaching kids to be unable to put 2 and 2 together in the "AI presentation maker for teachers" thread. Scariest of all is how those who would simply prefer to not live in that kind of world are gradually dehumanized by those who find nothing wrong with that sort of thing...
> The reality is that we do now have a ton of decentralized systems: most people -- certainly you, clearly -- just don't use them, as they are at least slightly worse than the centralized versions in ways you care about.

It would be great if you would not snidely assume you know anything about me in future posts, thanks! I am reasonably familiar with attempts at decentralizing webhosting, at least (off the top of my head: i2p, FreeNet, and (arguably) Tor hidden services are major examples that come to mind) and to describe any of them as "slightly worse" than the mainstream web is laughable. I'm certainly willing to hear you out if you have better examples, though; I can't help but note that as indignant as you are you still aren't providing any examples of these wonderful decentralized systems I'm so ignorant of.
This is the key. Ask all the developers for a ranked top-3 list of who they would most prefer to go to for help with a programming problem. Put that data together and you know who your best are.

Before the inevitable protest: I believe the ability and willingness to communicate with other developers is a vital skill in this business.
tbf those are features of early Java frameworks (particularly the awful java enterprise crap)
standard notation is much better for learning to see and hear patterns too.
Impressive use of reasoner CoT distillation method applied to deepseek R1. MIT license for the weights. Thanks, Deepseek!
To crush grain? Sure. To build iPhones, not likely
In the right hands, knowledge that something specific can be done is often enough to dramatically accelerate discovery. It allows for serious resource allocation in a specific trajectory, while the rate-limiting step in original discovery is working through innumerable dead ends, which both individuals and institutions are understandably reluctant to commit serious resources towards. See: Soviet thermonuclear program.
I would love for them to say that. Awe heck it was about transparency, we’re doing that from now on.
I enjoyed reading my >30-step process to boil water, which included "wait for the water to come to a boil", and the final step was "review all steps".
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There's actually a separate Wikipedia article about the variant/application of Newton's method being improved upon here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method_in_optimizat... Note the italic text at the top of the "Newton's method" article!
I'm really pleased to see this! The original ARC-AGI-1 paper still informs how I think about "what is intelligence" today. I was thrilled to see AI models make real progress on that test precisely when we had the next big idea (reasoning). Here's to hoping round 2 falls with a similarly big breakthrough!
Collect, yes. But those materials, at the end of the consumer use cycle, are definitionally about as far as possible from raw. Having collected this scrap steel, how do you propose to smelt it efficiently for reuse with little or nothing that burns hotter than the local hardwoods? That's the question actually being asked.

I believe you can work some grades of steel tolerably with manual, bellows-fired forge processes, but not all of it will still be the same kind of steel when you finish (decarburization, etc), some you won't be able to meaningfully hot work at all, and you likely won't be reliably able to produce pieces much beyond the quality you could get in bloomery days - forgings and hot working would benefit from well-chosen scrap of compatible metallurgy, but everything would tend over time to rehomogenization into something between wrought iron, and what we would now call low- to medium-carbon mild steel.

That's far from nothing, you can do at least as much with it as our ancestors did, but it also isn't close to anything we'd call "modern." Between the relatively
enormous energy inputs required to do any meaningful hot working and the relative scarcity of materials no longer being manufactured, tools and objects made of iron would probably come to be family heirlooms again for more than sentimental reasons: replacing your hipster thrice-great-grandfather's cast iron might indebt you the equivalent of half a year of your struggling truck farm's proceeds.

(It is still called a 'truck farm.' No one knows why. The old missus in town who reads says it has to do with some of the old machines, but even she doesn't try to pretend she ever saw one of them move, so no one thinks much of that. But all the village, not only the half or so she's midwifed, is happy to grant her her modest notions.)
I have a slightly different perspective, though in principle I agree with this sentiment.

I'm totally blind. Last year I bought an Instant Pot (multi-function pressure cooker) because it's well past time I start cooking for myself. There are numerous models available on Amazon, and I had no idea which ones would have tactile controls (I think this was before Amazon introduced their LLM thing, and I'm unsure if it would've helped in any case, or just hallucinated and caused me to buy something I couldn't use). Could've waited until I had a sighted person around or available online to look at pictures, but that's beside the point.

So I ended up spending an extra $50 for the "Pro Plus" model, which is WiFi-enabled. Apparently a previous model connected to phones directly via bluetooth (that model is no longer supported) and that's what I was hoping/expecting would be the case here as well. Unfortunately it only uses bluetooth for the initial setup. So, after creating yet another account with my real email address, registering the device, and waiting several minutes for who knows what (firmware download?) it's connected to the internet and seems to be controlled indirectly by the phone app through their API. So yeah, that company probably logs when, where, how, and maybe even what I cook, for how long, because why the hell not?

My point, though, is that for the moment, at least I can use this device. I'm well aware that this may not be the case long-term; the app has already had one update that made accessibility much worse, the company could stop supporting this model as well, or the internet could go down. The app and the device occasionally get out of sync, resulting in quite a bit of wasted time. But if I were using buttons on the device itself, the best I could hope for would be to memorize menus and the temperature dial and whatnot. In practice, that would probably be less tedious than having to pause while cooking, clean my hands and use my phone, but for now, at least theoretically, I can use all the features of the device via the app. Barring that, the logical solution would be to just connect directly via bluetooth, as was done previously, but then I wouldn't need to create an account, and we can't have that. Maybe there are/were better options on the market, but product listings seem to just say things like "WiFi-enabled", "App-Controled", or "IoT" without defining exactly what that means, and "customer support" will either be a chatbot that tells me what I want to hear and then claims to contact a human who will never get back to me, or a human following a script who doesn't understand my requirements even after I state them clearly, and probably doesn't even know what they're actually selling. Wonderful world we live in. Incidentally, I do actually need to get myself a dishwasher one of these days, and it's almost certainly going to be the same deal.
I've got 4,300+ 'read later' items across Pocket/Instapaper/Chrome. Every weekend I vow to organize them, but the pile grows faster than I can process.

What systems actually work for long-term knowledge retention?

Any tools that help you use what you save instead of just collecting?

How do you decide what to keep vs. delete?"
You're spot on - we wanted to support some async graph traversal calls similar to the ReBAC example and therefore made the evaluate_access call async. I also wanted to support short circuiting such that somewhat expensive IO calls might be skipped by returning early from a policy that didn't need to make that call.
Is the modern optimized form of the technology necessary for the application? Obviously not. You are the infomercial salesman who can't use a screwdriver. Or an ax.
Landfills are not full of fossil fuels
Obligatory Dr. Strangelove quote:

Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say... no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
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I asked it for that, but it refused to estimate the time required to "Conceptualize the universe and its fundamental laws to create the framework for matter and energy."
For the wealthiest, there's no such thing as 'enough.' The game isn't about money anymore - it's about keeping score.

When a company's lifetime profits still don't match a single executive's payout, it's clear the system has no upper bound.
I have very little sympathy towards the Soviet empire, but the war remained on the Afghan side of the border, and was of a limited scope for most of its duration; construing the Soviet defeat into a direct cause of regime collapse is an extraordinary claim warranting extraordinary proof.

For example, one wouldn't claim that the de-facto American loss of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is directly affecting the stability of the American regime, would they?

Coming back to the Soviets, I would concur to a claim that the Afghan War was a failed national project, alongside the Chernobyl tragedy and the ecological disaster of the Aral Sea. The narrative I think proper here is first and foremost is the ordinary Soviet citizen's loss of trust in the Soviet way as such, rather than the specific fear of a foreign invasion.
In case it is not very visible in the README:

It should be easy to try it out on the public demo instance (at least as long as my $5/mo VPS can handle it): https://rostra.me/ . Click "Random" to generate random identity, then "Unlock". You can follow my identity by pasting `rse1okfyp4yj75i6riwbz86mpmbgna3f7qr66aj1njceqoigjabegy` into the "Follow" input box and clicking the button.
I just poked around a bit.

So git was first created with u32 time in mind only. However because of the looming year-2038 problem, they are working on expanding that.

Apparently git internals are almost ready to support more interesting timestamps. However, much of the git tooling and UI (like command line parsing and output) refuses to deal with pre-epoch timestamps.

I briefly tried with git 'porcelain' and also via libgit2, but it's all a bit annoying.

In summary, I think you'd need to hack up at least some of git's tooling to make everything work, but it wouldn't be heart surgery, because the internals are already nearly ready for this kind of change.
Santos-Dumont flew in public for an assembled group of experts. The Wright’s did not.

There is no sense in which he was a pretender. He had been “open source” flying for years.
he said similar thing on his confirmation hearing

"My commitment is to not touch alcohol while I have this position"
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Efficiency sounds like a hardware problem as much as a software problem.

$10000 in compute is a moving target, today's GPUs are much much better than 10 years ago.
One step at a time. Remember, you have to show not that one step fails, but that one step fails and cannot be worked around. It's a heavy claim.
This interview was great! I really wish there were more of these sorts of interviews published.
Deepseek just used FoundationDB to build a parallel filesystem. Parallel filesystem are a big deal -- their number, including proprietary ones, is probably in single digits.
It isn’t so much a matter of skill really. Just, there’s a random probability that any electronic device will catch fire because the manufacturer cheaper out on some component. If you’ve screwed around with the internals, it takes it from the “obviously not my fault” scenario to “there is an argument to be had.” Being right but having to argue with your insurance company anyway is still a pain, right?
It is not that easy. You need to open console and navigate to the project directory first. While with ordinary HTML files all you need is to start typing its name in address bar (or simply never close the tab).
Not just knowledge, but the Haber Process is part of a complex machine that involves mining and transporting the feedstock (methane), distributing and applying the product (ammonia), etc. Economic infrastructure (dollar, euro, etc). Nobody knows how to build a major government money system from scratch.

We've turned the Earth into a complex and delicate machine for sustaining human life. We don't know how complex or delicate.
Social media with the last small vestige of real human interaction stripped away.
When you're trying to hit something moving 20kt, with something moving 30-35kt, from a few thousand yards, it doesn't take much error in estimating speed, heading, or distance, to make them miss. It's honestly more remarkable that they hit at all in those conditions, even with a "spread" (shooting several along slightly different headings hoping one or two will hit).
Awesome thank you for the clarification!
Your'e right. Raising the debt limit is a separate event, in theory there could be a shutdown if no appropriations are passed October 1st, and that was the flavor through 2000.

The idea that there's some sort of forced budgetary event on the calendar, related to the debt limit, that's then raced through to have competing solutions, then laden down with pork is Not Even Wrong, i.e. in the Pauli sense, and plainly wrong.

You raising the October date does leave open that maybe they're thinking of budgets and think the minority party in Congress has peer footing as a solution / is required to make a budget. That, at least, would explain the pork mention.
FYI: 95 JS errors and 9,000 log messages and counting, in the web dev console

https://i.imgur.com/i8SU5Qg.png

Latest Firefox/macOS
1.5M-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania are the oldest
Do you have a point here besides dunking on the current sorry state of things? We all agree that existing systems have significant flaws. The swiping and reflexive downvoting in this thread is disappointing.
Make stickers and go put them on the units at the store. Send Bosch a picture of how you've improved their labeling along with a nice note indicating that you'll do it again if they don't change their ways.
Thank you for sharing. I'm very happy to hear this is helping for you
> burning biomass

Murphy goes into this in one of his posts.
The energy density of fossil fuels is such that it's hard to convey that vast quantity of biomass it takes to equal it.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/09/can-modernity-last/#more-...
I probably would have voted against such a compensation package if I was a board member. But the board thought differently and voted for it. Why shouldn't we let the board do what they wanted to?
I'm a little confused why there aren't better, non-exploitative chatbots.

There's not a big technical moat here. Seems like anyone could build a modest business with a better chatbot, built for conversation and companionship instead of the purely utilitarian veneer of chatgpt or Gemini (Claude natively gets pretty close without special prompting).

If you can make an ok profit you don't need to exploit folks, and in some kind of perfect market theory those good actors could actually win. But it doesn't seem like a real category at the moment
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the login with password seems not working properly
We basically did that in old project. We need to transfer audio from our device to phone, but our device is BLE only, and LE audio was not mature enough.

So we define a custom BLE service and blast audio file through it
Parallel Filesystems aren't a new or novel concept, and there have been lots of implementations.

The first one I encountered was DrFTPD circa 2004. But these days, any object storage system qualifies because they all support varying replication schemes and reading from any valid in-sync replica.
Glowing spiral appears in might sky over Europe
They've used their wealth to lobby against the liberty of American citizens. They deserve the ire of the masses.
A similar book is Ryan North's "How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler." It is framed as part of a user manual for a rental time machine that can travel as far back as 12,100,000 BCE and return to the present day. Should the time machine break during a visit to the past, the "Repair Guide" section of the manual helpfully explains: "There are no user serviceable parts inside ... ." The rest of the manual (about 400 pages) "contains all the science, engineering, mathematics, art, music, writing, culture, facts, and figures that are required for one human—without any specialized training—to build a civilization from the ground up."
Somebody check for Trojan horses. (Ref to Ken Thompson)
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For the last years of my dad a chat robot would have been a godsend. He had increasing dementia and the last years you had basically the same conversation every ten minutes. It’s really hard to stay nice and play along when this goes on for months and longer. It would have been a great relief for my mom and the rest of the family if he had been able to have these conversations with an always patient and cheerful robot.
Therapists follow a standard patterns or approaches to help you express what you are feeling and then suggestions at how to deal with it. Seems to be the perfect formulaic thing for an LLM to do.
"So, can we agree on these architectural principals, except in edge cases:

1. A team must be in control of its own destiny...

2. Any communication between teams must be done by... an interface such that changes between teams are made obvious."

Sure. You'll get no argument from me on these points...

"it comes back to my original point: The architecture is the function of number of people in the system."

...or on this one.

I will grant that a division of code along the same lines as the division of labor is both sensible and inevitable. I will also grant that 100 or 250 or 2500 or more people are sometimes needed for a firm to achieve its objectives. Will you grant that sometimes, they aren't? That sometimes, the tail wags the dog and the staff and its culture determine the architecture rather than the reverse? That sometimes, adding more people to a slow project just makes it slower? I ask these questions because in my world, micro-services have typically been narrowly defined as network servers in Java, Python, or Rust, each interacting with a database (sometimes, the same database) through an ORM, and a rigid adherence to this orthodoxy has padded resource budgets both in terms of compute and people and has sapped performance both in terms of compute and people.
I think it might be referring to a current lack of experience in programming and debugging.

The situation seems to reflect the issue that Kernighan's Law refers to, which is that debugging code is twice as hard (perhaps more?) as writing it in the first place. I imagine debugging AI-generated code might be even harder.
Did I read this right that only 2 humans out of 400 solved the problems?
I can reliably report how the site works, without composing Rage Against The Machine lyrics in the process.

These don't seem to have any relevance to what I've said, are you getting me mixed up with someone else?
It looks like teachers are actually creating presentations in minutes with this tool.

I'm an Aussie teacher, but in the same boat as everybody else. Swamped and time poor.

Recently we had some pastoral care activities for National Sorry Day and I whipped up a quick presentation 5mins before home group lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1jgetof/we_all_lo...

"lol" indeed.
Why let El Salvador have all the fun. It is boggling the level of stupidity this administration will sink to to appease the chaos monkey.
and the grift continues
Right wing but non-Trumpist rag Bulwark had a article on the National Archives recently, that was a great refresher of how our nation and how our parties carry (or not) our nation's legacy forward. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/nations-archivist-should-not-be...

The Iran-Contra tapes show up, as an element of history that we nearly lost, that the illegally-political operative running the Archives tried repeatedly to let get deleted.

Trump administration has been no stranger to destroying history. Their read outs for meetings with foreign officials were just the most absurd hokey fake abbreviated read outs last term. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/2019-05-07/white-house-f...

I cant stand what this sham of a government is doing. But that they use illegal communication channels like Signal to hide what they are doing, to avoid making the lasting record of history, that we the people are denied the democratic necessity of looking at and assessing what's happened: that absolutely makes my blood boil. Such denial of democracy, such hiding and cowering from history is the act of people with no pride, with no dignity, who knows they bring nothing good to America.
Discussion (488 points, 1 day ago, 392 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43457666
the use of customer-central water usage data piques my interest. there's a huge market for selling water and waste data to advertisers and other companies interested in consumer data. This is one of my friend's startups, smartpipes, which is a type of smart sewage pipe - these smart washers remind me of smartpipe (which supports dishwasher waste!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
We should, of course. But we should also recognize that it’s not an independent board, it’s his cronies who also see personal profit from not exercising fiduciary duty to shareholders. But I think that’s ok, everyone knows the governance shortcomings.
Lazy reporting. I don't know what "gains on gold reserves" means.
According to Wirecutter, they pulled Bosch from their recommendations after all the old models were pulled and this new line of WiFi connected dishwashers replaced them in 2023.

You would really purchase something based on past experience with the company, not caring about looking into the current state of what they are producing?