skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope it doesn't contain any water at all!

Dry Powder or CO2 is what you need for energized electrical equipment. And considering there's potential lithium involvement, you might want something more specialized (e.g. F-500 Encapsulator Agent). I agree anything more than a small-scale incident you're just getting the heck out of dodge. I'd have built something along the lines of a concrete bunker, with an automated suppression system to buy time.
> The 3D games at the time let you go anywhere, view anything.

In 1993? I don’t remember any full freedom games back then. Certainly nothing could begin to approach the visuals for a very long time.
Could you provide the quote?
The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it
There are an estimated 4 million books published every year. Not all of them are "volunteer work that benefits society". I'm going to go ahead and assume it's a very, very tiny minority of them. Most writers (and certainly every single one I know) have nothing to contribute to society except their own vanity.

I have nothing against creative expression, but when people start splashing a bucket of paint on a canvas and going "I'm an artist, I deserve to have a comfortable life" I can't help but roll my eyes.
It's closer to exposing a first year CS student who has never touched a computer before to Windows, when the work is supposed to be done on Linux, and the TA is hemming and hawing, and insists that the reason the sudo command isn't working is because the student is not following the steps correctly.

It's a problem that's obvious to diagnose... If you already have passing familiarity with the material. Most people do not have passing familiarity with electronic components when they step into an engineering program.
All These Stripe Dispute Fee Changes – What's Going On?
I'm trying to find an answer to why Stripe is making so many changes to dispute fees. I'm in the subscription space for $19.99 per month and now I need to pay $30.00 for each dispute I want to fight. I'm totally in the hole now. Anyone have any suggestions?
The costs their parent mentioned are the costs now, not back when the system was originally built.
The fact that he applied to starlink and they didn't hire him is depressing....
That's really cool, Elias. I keep seeing people try to put LLMs into the role of the GM. But I think you're doing something new and important by working to have the rules available to it.

Is your project available anywhere? Best of luck!

If you're interested, because I kept seeing "LLM as GM" projects, I got curious about how well it would work to have LLMs as players instead. So I made this:

https://github.com/maxwelljoslyn/gm-trainer

It's a training ground for GMs to practice things like spontaneous description, with 4 AI players that get fed what each other say so they act in a reasonably consistent manner. It's not perfect, but I've gotten some good use out of it.
Hmm, I've a deja-vu... My mind tells me I've read these three comments before on a different topic... If I don't forget, I'll have to check tomorrow on a real PC.
thanks! we just use good old fashioned postgres running on azure, paired with a node server and blob storage in r2. i like how simple it is, and logs show up in places i'd expect without having to remember how to navigate some ui. queuing was something that took a bit to figure out correctly, but pg-boss ended up being the most straighfoward/easy to deploy on our infra.
Great - now at least you're being consistent about it.
If you detect it and think it's relevant, that might be worth a note. But "reset and start over" is something that could reasonably be thought of as outside the scope of the report. You're reporting on the experiment, not logging your entire time in the lab.
Florida insurance company paying state back $30M for 'false' claims
I feel like they could’ve innovated using novel technique, like 3D gaussian splatting (and upscaling the video or better yet record new videos). The vast majority of the time, you’re still pretty much locked unable to move when those CGI character show up, except for turning the camera around (from what I remembered). It could’ve been faked and still work and be much better as I felt it was the only downgrade to an otherwise fantastic remake that I really enjoyed.
This is sold as crystal cat litter. Very useful to put a sock in the car, the boat or the check-in luggage.
The github references this document: Timo Richter, Stephan Escher, Dagmar Schönfeld, and Thorsten Strufe. 2018. Forensic Analysis and Anonymisation of Printed Documents. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 127-138.

There is a copy here: https://ericbalawejder.com/assets/hexview/Forensic-Analysis-...

Table 1 (manufacturer, #of printers analyzed, dots found):
Brother 1 no
Canon 10 yes
Dell 4 yes
Epson 8 somemodels
Hewlett-Packard 43 somemodels
IBM 1 yes
KonicaMinolta 21 somemodels
Kyocera 4 yes
Lanier 1 yes
Lexmark 6 somemodels
NRG 1 yes
Okidata 9 somemodels
Ricoh 6 yes
Samsung 5 no
Savin 1 yes
Tektronix 4 no
Unknown 1 yes
Xerox 15 somemodels

It sounds like they mostly understand the dot patterns wherever they found them, with some caveats that are explained in the paper.
I feel the same way about Tailspire as I feel about pretty much every other VTT. They might do okay, even pretty well, at combat maps and/or character sheets, but I want is the whole game world in the computer. Maps are just a fraction of what I need as a GM. I need data on economics and population numbers and power structures. And I need computation over all those things.

For instance, my game rules include an economic subsystem, which takes in the production of goods and services at hundreds of in-game cities, and computes prices for over a thousand player-purchaseable goods. The "second app" that I referred to above allows players to (among many other things) purchase stuff at the market nearest their current location and have those items go straight into their character sheet. If the "item" is actually an animal, a hired mercenary, etc. then a different subsystem generates a new NPC with the right statistics and attaches the player to it as owner/liege.

I could write an extension for a VTT that talks to my economic system over an API, and throws items up on screen, lets players purchase them, moves them into their character sheet using the right function calls in the VTT's extension library, etc. But every step of the way, I would be fighting to cram this subsystem into the VTT's conception that gameplay begins and ends with maps and char sheets.
ya - i think the replication of the wechat super-app has been attempted so many times in the west at this point, but maybe agi coding solves this...?
Scrum/Kanban ceremonies with assigning points to tasks etc. GP is being melodramatic
Why are credit card rates so high?
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505448 :

> There are default gcc and/or clang compiler flags in distros' default build tools; e.g. `make` specifies additional default compiler flags (that e.g. cmake, ninja, gn, or bazel/buck/pants may not also specify for you).

Is there a good reference for comparing these compile-time build flags and their defaults with Make, CMake, Ninja Build, and other build systems, on each platform and architecture?

From
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306658 :

> From "Building optimized packages for conda-forge and PyPI" at EuroSciPy 2024: https://pretalx.com/euroscipy-2024/talk/JXB79J/ :

>> Since some time, conda-forge defines multiple "cpu-levels". These are defined for sse, avx2, avx512 or ARM Neon. On the client-side the maximum CPU level is detected and the best available package is then installed. This opens the doors for highly optimized packages on conda-forge that support the latest CPU features.

But those are per-arch performance flags, not security flags.
> I always think it is weird that so many people that don't work in government have this odd belief that government work should basically be a vow of poverty. To pretend that people pursuing positions of power would accept universally that they should be poor is to deny human nature, which never works.

Members of Congress make $174k/year, with the Majority and Minority leaders making $193k, and the Speaker of the House around $223k. They also get various allowances for expenses related to doing their job such as a travel allowance.

They get good healthcare benefits and a pension that vests after 5 years.

Restricting their stock trading while in office is not going to plunge them into poverty.
Map projections can be deceptive (2018)
That music is intense
That sometimes you can do everything right and still lose.
Half the global population lives on less than $7 a day. I admire your optimism, but it's perfectly possible to keep large swathes of people living in abject poverty.
Per Wikipedia, the dots' "arrangement encodes the serial number of the device, date and time of the printing", so all you really need to spoof somebody else's printer is the serial number. Which can likely these days even be accessed remotely through printer settings.
It's likely just a statement of emphasis, though the correct usage would be something like, "now, something something something..." with a comma instead of a period
Jj-fzf: Text UI for Jujutsu based on fzf
We Need an Interventionist Mindset
> put whatever you have thought the best available upscaler

I kind of suspect all they have had at at this point is the over compressed video files that must have been what, 240p at most?

I suspect it may have been just so low that even if they wanted to they would have no choice but to recast and reshoot.

At least they got to reuse the original audio, IIRC.

I’m guessing the original video source was either lost or also possibly low quality/degraded.
I don't know if I'm a fan but I've almost never had erb be the problem in a Rails app. The LLMs can work with it easily. Don't need to bring in extensions to work with major text editors. Sticking with ERB for now.
Wouldn't it be way easier to just track the people handing out the flyers?
For once I think the rust part actually adds value to the sales pitch. Nextcloud seems to have right idea wrong tech.
Did you consider using lottie and its interactivity? What were the tradeoffs?
"Now" as in "all of those things are true now, but they weren't when this project started ten years ago."
It's just wild to me that someone spent two and a half years of their life perfecting their book and then...sold away the rights for £2,500. At that point just self publish, or even put it up for free on the internet with a "donate" button next to it. Why devalue your own work to this degree?
If I'm being entirely honest, in the general case I don't.

But I don't particularly care, either. After a couple tries I decided it's better not to point at object examples of suspected LLM text all the time (except e.g. to report it on Stack Overflow, where it's against the rules and where moderators will use actual detection software etc. to try to verify). But I still notice that style of writing instinctively, and it still automatically flips a switch in my brain to approach the content differently. (Of course, even when I'm confident that something was written by a human, I still e.g. try to verify terminal commands with the man pages before following instructions I don't understand.)

Of course, AI writes the way it does for a reason. More worryingly, it increasingly seems like (verifiably) human writers are mimicking the style - like they see so much AI-generated text out there that sounds authoritative, that they start trying to use the same rhetorical techniques in order to gain that same air of authority.
Agno is now generally available
When did she say she deserved a comfortable life? She writes. She doesn't get paid. Where are these bad vibes coming from?
I wonder if it's "responsive design" i.e. variable terminal sizes versus the fixed size DOS terminal.
Idlewords has devoted an entire essay to the topic, "Dabblers And Blowhards" (2005). As a callout quote, and one immediately preceding a long list of specific issues with pg in his own essay Maciej Cegłowski is critiquing:

It's no surprise, then, that a computer programmer would want to bask in some of the peripheral coolness that comes with painting, especially when he has an axe to grind about his own work being 'mere engineering'. Yet while this might be charming or quirky in the abstract, it gets seriously annoying when real facts start getting butchered...

<https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm>

From a flagged subthread here, several prior criticisms on HN:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515252

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43526888

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527106

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515723

(From: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529517>.)
While we wait for the official discriminated union feature, the OneOf package is a pretty good stand-in: https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf
What was your takeaway from the article?
> When the recipient is a Gmail user (enterprise or personal), Gmail sends an E2EE email. The email is automatically decrypted in the recipient's inbox, and the recipient can use Gmail in a familiar way.

So what happens with Search?
Bigger, fewer, more chill cells, fairly robust trenchcoat.

(IIRC, these packs are 16 100ah LiFePO4 cells in a steel case w/ built-in fuse, breaker, and BMS that monitors individual cell health and pack temperature, w/ automatic cut-off if any of that goes out of spec. The weakness is primarily the MOSFETs on the BMS potentially failing shorted. Fortunately, they've added some sort of additional fire suppression beyond just "steel case" in recent-ish versions of these packs)
At some point OpenOffice decided that the shortcut to save was Ctrl-G because my locale was set to Spanish ("guardar").
https://tvtropes.org/
> The bloat isn't coming from "huge frameworks" like React.

I agree. This is such a familiar cycle. People still blame Java for things that were really the fault of the average "enterprise Java developer".

The reality is that these frameworks don't automatically lead to bloated code shipping everything.
You can get 15 kWh for $1,3000 if you pick up in Texas (these use EVE MB31 which usually end up testing at ~310 Ah): https://www.apexiummall.com/index.php?route=product/product&...

It just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper every year...
I think that'd break deleting incremental snapshots unless you tried uploading a gigantic blob of the entire filesystem, wouldn't it?

Meaning you'd need to upload full snapshots on a fixed interval
I don't remember the details, but the function key shortcuts changed enough between WP4.2 and 5.1 to slow me down. May have been the first time I grumbled about a SW update breaking my workflow. Some things never change.
100% fake.
Thanks, I guess I confused its role with the adjacent step!
A ok got it, the next token is sampled from a deterministic probability distribution, hence the random output. But why not get the token with the highest probability/weight? Is this to avoid some local minima?
That's sweet! I think LLMs have incredible potential for descriptions and for NPC behavior, and I really like that you have this bridge between freeform intent and a rules engine. I'd like to pick your brain about it - I'll send an email.
Looks cool but isn't this just using gsap and having a wrapper around it?
If I did a book for money (bad idea yes!) I'd try at least to self publish and make it a premium thing with upsells. Like the Total Typescript course.

Selling 100 for $50 (no mean feat but still modest) copies would probably beat any publisher earnings!

You could also get away with less perfect grammar etc. BYO editor or just edit yourself. The goal is to teach after all.
Hire an electrician please, I sell and run electrical work and a generator installation is not something you should take on yourself.

If you want to have a few electrical loads on a generator backed panel, you have an electrician install the generator, automatic transfer switch, and a subpanel that is fed by the automatic transfer switch, which is fed by both utility power (from a breaker in your main electrical panel) and generator power. If you’re using natural gas or propane to power the generator, a pipe fitter will need to run the gas line.

Then you tell the electrician to move the circuits you wanted backed by a generator from your main panel to the subpanel fed by the ATS. The subpanel receives power from the utility until the ATS detects an outage, which fires up the generator and transfers the power feeding the subpanel to the generator.

Generators can use gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or propane, or a combination of any of the aforementioned fuels. Ideally you’d have a multi fuel generator hooked up to a natural gas utility with a backup propane tank in case the natural gas service goes down.

You can also get a whole house generator and have the ATS feed your existing electrical panel, you’ll need a 24kW 120/240V for a 100A service or 48kW 120/240V for a 200A service

I’d recommend a Generac generator if you do get one, Costco sells them and will connect you with an installer.

If you want to get crazy, you could add a 50kva single-phase 120/240V UPS and the UPS would keep the power on while the generator starts up but that would be serious overkill (and tens of thousands of dollars).
Incredible project.
you can also do ipconfig /release in some contexts (works in hyperv but never in the real world for some reason sigh)
Also a perfect opportunity to link to one of my favorite comics https://onegianthand.com/post/188730414621/silica-gel
If you read the OP and felt angry or offended, can you quote a key sentence that seemed to be a problem?
This is way some countries like Germany have fixed book prices. They set a minimum price that the book needs to be sold at.

This helps authors and also prevents smaller book shops from being out competed by price.

It is a pretty great system. Sure German books tend to be significantly more expensive than the English counter part but its not like I don't have already enough books in my pile of shame. And for those tight on money there is always libraries.
My main concern would be these seem to be fabricated claims.

Mr Mitchell still was invited to the auction and attended it [1].

Ryan Burger seems to have never invited Mitchel to any events at all [2] prior to the video and yet shortly before the video was posted he invited him 3 times and canceled all of them?

These guys seem to be people that Mitchell has been friends with for very long times so it seems more reasonable to me they'd help him out with an email or two when it's literally at no cost to them. Where's an email from some Stock Brokers convention reneging on an appearance deal or a merchandise supplier asking him to find a new supplier?

That said, IIUC Australian is not as loose as the US is when making verbal claims about other people so claiming "Billy caused Apollo to kill himself" is a much weaker claim to make then "Billy is happy Apollo killed himself".

[1]: https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2021/09/24/museum-pinba...

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ryan+Burger+Billy+Mitchell
Almost no writers make significant money from their writing.
> if you like reading, then buy the books outright, pre-order it, ask your library to get it.

I don't think the issue is that people are reading her book without buying it or requesting it at the library. The issue is that not enough people want to read it in the first place. That's just the way things work. Far more people want to write books than can be supported by the market.
It should be noted that in C#, at least, the standard pattern is to use value types for enumerators, precisely so as to avoid heap allocations. This is the case for all (non-obsolete) collections in the .NET stdlib - e.g. List<T>.Enumerator is a struct.
I don't think his personality was compatible with the corporate world.
Considered good by whom? By socialist teenagers? Work hard and build a family, then re-read your comments in a few years. You'll think different.

Also, again, the thresholds are ridiculously low. They don't even cover the cost of the deceased's house. Stop the theory, start the reality.
Does this website also have a print version, and maybe counting those subscribers? Not really familiar.
Fireworks has you covered now: https://fireworks.ai/blog/fine-tuning-deepseek-models :)
And what was the call to action?
No need to examine the printer. Just find a sheet of paper that printer printed, decode the dots, and then print your super illegal whatever with their printer's dots and a timestamp that makes sense for whatever you're framing them for doing. Nobody's ever gonna believe "the dots were a lie." They sound too much like fingerprints.
>... whose fans think they're making any money...

I am curious about this.

I might be alone, but very rarely do I think about what the authors I enjoy, or musicians I enjoy earn.

I am constantly, however, being exposed to what tailor swift earns. But I absolutely don't make myself belive that German niche Orchestras make comparable amounts.

Being a musician, author etc. Does not pay well. And nobody has ever told them elsewise, or is telling them elsewise.

It has really always been the case.

So it rings hollow when authors and musicians try to put awareness on their earnings.
This has always been the case. What's new is that LLMs let people churn out books in seconds, meaning that for e-books in particular, formerly (possibly) lucrative topics like niche erotica are about to get competed down to zero.
This article missed a critical point which is "the right way" to select a glibc ABI version: see binutils ld documentation, second part of the page related to VERSION support.
This must include glibc internal symbols.

This will allow to craft ELF binaries on a modern distro which will run on "older" distros. This is critical for games and game engines. There is an significant upfront only-once work in order to select an "old" glibc ABI.

The quick and dirty alternative being having a toolchain configured to link with an "old" glibc on the side.

This article missed the -static-libstdc++ critical option for c++ applications (the c++ ABI is hell on earth), but did not miss the -static-libgcc and the dynamic loading of system interface shared libs.
> But I’ve never seen another staticly-typed language where you need to break out of the type system so regularly.

It's about the same as Java and C# prior to their adoption of generics, and largely for the same reasons.