skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that scale you are probably better off building your own solution: a low-power microcontroller with a temperature sensor, a small heating element (search "heating foil"), some voltage sensing with the ADC on the battery and solar panels, and a bit of simple logic.

If you are mostly concerned with low-temperature charging you could even power all that from the charging side only.
Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
Because Game of Thrones popularized the idea of a dire wolf as an exceedingly rare protector of children, which helps them persuade investors that there is a viable luxury market for this product. They named one “Khaleesi”, so it’s not a coincidental reference.
At least in my car, fully preconditioning the battery can take an hour or two when it's really cold. If you're still on the way to the charging station, it can also impact your range. My car is annoyingly conservative about when it uses and disabled the preconditioning
Ōdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris.
Nesciŏ, sed fierī sentiō et excrucior.

I hate and I love. Why I should do this, perhaps you may ask...
I know not, but I feel it done to me, and I am wracked.
I have founded multiple companies in Germany and in the US. Sure, in the US you have services like Stripe Atlas that make it a bit easier. But still, I would not say it's much crazier registering a company in Germany compared to the US.

Of course, it helps if you have a bit of an idea of legal concepts and accounting, but to be honest, that also makes sense, since you are starting a business.

This is not to say that we should not work to make it less bureaucratic in Germany (and other countries).

I agree that applying to loan and grant programs within Germany, and especially EU, are a super pain in the ass. I definitely see some potential there.
True, it was a long time ago. I studied English in high-school in the 90's.
That depends entirely on whether you believe understanding requires consciousness.

I believe that the type of understanding demonstrated here doesn't. Consciousness only comes into play when we become aware that such understanding has taken place, not on the process itself.
Isn't language expressed thought?
Do biologists and neuroscientists not have any good evidence or is that just computer scientists and engineers speaking outside of their field of expertise? There's always been this danger of taking computer and brain comparisons too literally.
Education is usually a safe bet.
Not for these specifically, but most of them are funded by EU grants. The current ESF funding period runs until 2027, so you'd need to research which pathways to funding exist in your country and how to apply.
It looks like a roulette table, complete with chips too.
Perhaps that was true 50 years ago, but in an increasingly complex technological world, problems simply cannot be solved without increasingly advanced engineering skills.
The law doesn't care whether the tracking happens via cookies, localstorage, fingerprinting, or a private investigator looking through your window.

All require approval that is just as easy to deny as it is to accept.

The browser may be able to block cookies, but that's not a solution for the other options.
I think it is still useful to learn C, however. For personal projects you could use Zig, but it is still good to know C. C is like the lingua franca of programming languages, and some assembly (if you care about optimization, for example).
I have encountered my fair share of in-house RC4 implementations from the 90s. Every single one of them was vulnerable in some way. They suffered from all kinds of issues: improper IV initialisation, predictable keystreams, and even partial leakage of plaintext into ciphertext. RC4's deceptively simple specification made it enticing to implement, giving developers a false sense of confidence and security.

As another example, Microsoft Outlook 2003 infamously used CRC32 to "hash" the personal folder (.PST) passwords: <https://www.nirsoft.net/articles/pst_password_bug.html>. Naturally, it was trivial to find a CRC32 checksum collision and open someone else's PST.

Thankfully, the industry has come a long way since then. These days, rolling your own cipher is, quite rightly, considered a red flag!
OK, but the people who keep on harping on this never seem to mention that the boss "liking you" is not about you cracking jokes and bringing in muffins on Thursday. It's about you being low drama and helping them achieve their KPIs in a way that helps them get promoted so they can bring you along with them.

It's the guy/gal who you know needs to be informed that the feature they've been painstakingly working on for the last 2 months is scrapped due to a strategic realignment and now they're tasked on working on some non-revenue bullshit to win a turf war and their response is a shrug and brainstorming of how do we play this rather than getting all up in their feelings and require emotional babysitting for the next 2 months.
What's the advantage of integrating this at a library level instead of just compiling it and running in Shadow? https://github.com/shadow/shadow
> I think you'd need to explain to me why adding a tiny bit of additional complexity here is so unreasonable

As far as I understand DreamerV3 doesn't employ intrinsic rewards (like in novelty-based exploration). It adopts stochastic exploration which makes it practically impossible to get to rewards that require to consistently repeat an action with no intermediate rewards.

And finding intrinsic rewards that work good across diverse domains is a complex problem in itself.
There are some funny questions in the comments:
"So to be clear, they were Roman soldiers killed. Not locals?"
I had two phones with 108MP sensors and while you can zoom in on the resulting image the details are suggestions rather than what I would consider pixels.

Whereas a $1500 Nikon 15MP from 20 years ago is real crisp, and I can put a 300mm lens on it if I want to "zoom in".

Even my old nikon 1 v1 with its cropped sensor 12MP takes "better pictures" than the two 108MP phone cameras.

But there are uses for the pixel density and I enjoyed having 108MP for certain shots, otherwise not using that mode in general.
> Money is the best tool we have to measure that.

How you measure matters. Looking at only the individual misses the value of the organization they are with. If businesses did this then only sales would be employed since they are the only ones actually bringing in money right? Everyone else is a net negative. With government you would have to step back from even the organization level view. The National Parks Service doesn't make money right? That whole thing can be cut because they are a net negative right? If you are going to use money as a value signal, which I am arguing is a very flawed signal at the government level, then at least go to something like median income and not the individual or organization level. It is terribly flawed to say 'high median income - good country' but at least it is a money signal that, maybe, captures a few features about the utility of government. I'd argue strongly against this signal but at least then you could look at various actions as a whole and say 'overall median income is up/down because of this move' and then things like employing someone that isn't great at their job just to keep them off the street becomes an obvious win because median income is higher because of that.
This would be useful if it was client-side only. I only very rarely have curl commands to run that don't also include some stuff like cookies and tokens, which I'm not sending to someone's server so they can run curl for me.
Even if the democrats received a sudden vertebrae infusion, they hold no levers of power. One might ask where the spines are of the Republicans who are in a position to apply pressure from the inside. Trumpism may die due to pressure from the outside, but it seems far more likely that it will be taken down from the inside, eg internecine billionaire arguments, or a congressional palace coup.
"The experts also noted remarkably good dental health."
Most of your comment is spent arguing about "can question and deny entry", which is missing the point by a mile.

Also, things can be legal and iffy at the same time (indeed, such wide-ranging powers basically invite that, since they give wide latitude to go overboard in cases that do not deserve it).
You mentioned the comic before - it's really different and I like that. I recently went back and read through all the finished No Pizza on Luna panels. Keep doing what you do!
The fatal scenario for a camera vendor would be to transition your customers to DNG over some years, then a dispute arises which causes Adobe to revoke your patent license, and suddenly all your past products are in violation of Adobe's DNG patent.

You not only have to remove DNG-support on those products, but due to warranty-law in many countries have to provide an equivalent feature to the customer (--> develop a converter application again, but this time for products you already closed development for years ago).

Alternative would be to settle with Adobe to spare the cost for all that. So Adobe has all the cards in this game.

Now: Why bother transitioning your customers to DNG...?
Nah. The zoo's expenses will be pretty much fixed, regardless of number of visitors. They'll want as many visitors as possible: there's more money in selling a million cheap tickets per day than there is selling 5 expensive ones!

At worst, it'll be a very crowded zoo
Try and adjust shadows and highlights in a jpg vs a raw file and see what happens. There is no data there in the jpg just black and white blown out. Raw file you can brighten the shadows and find moth man standing there with a little extra sensor noise.
I know linux because I ordered a mandrake CD and put it on my windows computer in the 90s, nothing worked...I had the most insane experience, I'd go to high school, go online, have to write out how to do everything (including code) on paper, take it home, make progress, same same daily for some time, few days maybe a week I guess. I'm not sure why exactly it was easier to make mandrake work vs go back to windows, I think because of the file format and I didn't understand drive formatting or something. I basically just spent my whole childhood...er..life? fixing broken computers and breaking computers then fixing them...
Feel free to substitute my use of the word "company", with "company / organisation / foundation". Plus others I'm surely forgetting.

I meant 'company' in the sense of a legal entity, probably paying some kind of tax, probably having to register/file their accounts every year. Here in the UK, all of these various different types of 'companies' all have to register with Companies House, and file tax returns to HMRC. 'Company' is the overarching legal term here.

— But sure, my bad: the post I was replying to actually used a term that is arguably better, 'organisations'. And I should have used that.

But my point still stands, whether a private limited company, or a non-profit of some kind, or an organisation, or a foundation, or a charity, or whatever — they're all legal entities of some kind — and they're all able to fund anything they please, if they see value in it.

- NetNod is actually a private limited company according to Wikipedia [1]. Corporate identity number: 556534-0014.

- Swedish Internet Foundation, formerly IIS, have corporate identity number: 802405-0190 (on their website [2])

- Sunet is a department of the Swedish Research Council, and uses the Swedish Research Council’s corporate identity number 2021005208, according to their website [3]

So they are all registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office. Which I assume is their equivalent of Companies House here in the UK.

Maybe if you still think that they're not 'companies' — of some kind — then perhaps take it up with the Swedish Companies Registration Office! ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netnod

[2] https://internetstiftelsen.se/en/

[3] https://www.sunet.se/en/contact
Funny that you end your comment this way, as the government is one of the few organizations that readily employed the disabled.
Nice to see that they require minimal changes at the battery manufacturer. Too often people come up with good ideas like this without accounting for other factors in the supply chain.
Running MCP Tools Securely
> I fully expect the founders of those businesses originally have dreams of their business becoming the next F500. But when validation fails...

I take it you've not met many such people or business owners. No one except the utterly delusional would think a mom & pop restaurants, dry cleaners, new law practices, etc. would become a F500 company. Amazingly people start companies for reasons other than becoming a F500 company one day.
I know the OP was a mixup, but related question... do you only reach back out if it's for an interview? I had an experience last year myself where I never heard anything at all. Which was unfortunate, bc this place actually fascinated me on a bunch of levels.
It really is.

FWIW I am also linking to AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS...

I wish "Notch" Persson or some other billionaire nerd would just buy the things and declare the whole lot freeware. There surely cannot be much residual value to extract any more.
I get that they don't care. I was just curious why that would be an intention in itself.
What should the bar be? Should it be higher than it is for the average human? Or even the least intelligent human?
Fortunately, he had the much more long-term sustainable solution of driving a truck full of explosives into a building. Over years of doing this, we will find that bomb trucks will provide green energy and joy to all the poor.
Soon iPhones will be the most smuggled item from Canada into the US. Unless you are wealthy you won't go to Apple Store to buy your next iPhone. Instead you will meet a stranger in a dark alley to buy a smuggled iPhone.
Well, I'm sure you're smart enough to take that step given it's given us the directions.

For the purposes of this conversation I'm pretty confident what ChatGPT said is correct, feel free to look it up in case you doubt it.
Alternatively:

Peace is a lie, there is only passion.

Through passion, I gain strength.

Through strength, I gain power.

Through power, I gain victory.

Through victory, my chains are broken.

The Force shall free me.
I don't think running a fragment to calculate one blit operation isn't doing anything to the "sanctity of your machine". Believe me, Chrome abuses your GPU much more than that. Turn off JavaScript if it bothers you so much. You won't be missed.
What if?

Are they?
Show HN: A New Type of Dictionary for (Language) Learners
Inspired by Krashen's i+1 hypothesis and yomitan (a Japanese popup dictionary) my friend an I made a chrome extension that provides you with a custom definition of any word or phrase you encounter on the internet.

Custom because in addition to adapting to the context of the text, you can also adapt the difficulty level of your definition. This is great if you are an intermediate language student and want to go monolingual, but are struggling with the full native level dictionary definitions.

(P.S. there is also a science version that explains the highlighted text at multiple levels... think Wired's 5 levels More info about the tool at https://incontext.fun)
The penalties and interest that the IRS charges are cheaper than any bank or credit card rate.

This time around, it's a cheap casino bet that the IRS will be totally abolished by the end of the year. Approach random systems with random strategies.
That's them.

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/compute/nonstop-servers.html

Still around, still on sale. Only x86-64 since 2020.
My comment wasn't self-referential, I'm not complaining, I do exercise. Have you noticed the use of terms of possibility and not certainty in my prior comment? I'm just stating the general facts on long-term career of a software engineer.
The server had POP3 support and one of the email accounts being used had been set to delete messages after 60 days. In the investigation FBI director James Comey said there was "no doubt that the work-related emails were removed electronically from the email system". There were more than a dozen cell phones and several ipads that were used to check the email accounts but most of them couldn't be obtained to check for downloaded email or forensic evidence of classified email, because hammers were used to destroy the evidence.
> We spent 40 years moving the goal posts on what constitutes AI.

Who is "we"?

I think of "AI" as a pretty all-encompassing term. ChatGPT is AI, but so is the computer player in the 1995 game Command and Conquer, among thousands of other games. Heck, I might even call the ghosts in Pac-man "AI", even if their behavior is extremely simple, predictable, and even exploitable once you understand it.
Yeah, I always struggle with how to describe what Xerox invented GUIwise. Sutherland's SKETCHPAD in 01963 had an interactive CAD graphical user interface with windows, icons, and a pointer—but no menus, overlapping windows, or desktop, and not much text (it slowed the display list redraw down a lot). NLS had white backgrounds, hypertext, and a mouse, but still no command menus or WYSIWYG editing or overlapping windows. You issued textual commands to make edits to the displayed text. What I'm using now to write this is recognizably "the same thing" as Smalltalk-76 in a way that Smalltalk-76 wasn't the same thing as Smalltalk-72 or NLS or Sketchpad.

So, "the desktop GUI"? But Smalltalk-80 didn't have a desktop in the sense of a place to represent your files with icons, even if Star did. WYSIWYG? Direct manipulation? But Shneiderman's #1 example of "direct manipulation" is Emacs.

But it's also recognizably "the same" as medieval manuscripts in many ways!
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

This book has stayed with me for years. It's a quiet, deeply reflective journey about self-discovery, the search for meaning. What resonated most was this idea that true understanding can't be taught—it must be lived and experienced.

It’s a short read, but one that invites you to slow down. Each time I return to it, I take away something new depending on where I am in life.
The backstory is that she illegally entered from mexico but CBP is in the US, Mexico won't take her back so ICE has to arrange deportation. Unsurprisingly there are no return flights from bumfuck border town to Germany so she is detained (and interrogated, her Instagram shows her giving tattoos to people in mexico) and sent to San Diego and detained until ICE arranges a flight. ICE prioritizes mass deportations so a single person likely gets put at the back of the queue.

A sane border would just block illegal entrance. But pretending that ICE should be optimized for single person expedited deportation is just stupid. While in CBP you may not be allowed to contact your lawyer the 60 days she was in ice custody was completely fair game, but she didn't for some unknown reason.
Not so sure they can be trusted to have the users interests at heart e.g Chrome and 3rd parties cookies, Topics/Fledge
The king is insane.
I enjoyed Peter F Hamilton's Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, which I expect is the first of a trilogy per his pattern. Not a short book!
In my lifetime, I've gone from $20 copays with no deductible to $60 copays with a $7000 deductible.
In C, you mean?

You clearly can in Go. How would you deal with exceptions otherwise? You can even get silly with it:

func main() {
try(func() {
throw("Oops")
}).catch(func(e any) {
fmt.Println("Caught:", e)
})
}

https://go.dev/play/p/Y1-w9xUXIcO
Sure if you build and restrict your life around no car, then its doable. Very restricted.

Also that part about cost being cheaper ain't true - I have that half tariff. For going somewhere, anywhere, its the same cost (+ saving tons of time). Taking family of 4... you do the math.

There is reason why there are so many cars everywhere. Families with kids usually have 2. Basically everybody has at least 1. If what you said is true people wouldn't be buying and using them constantly.
IMO, it's wiser to focus on RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and utilizing vector db's as MCP is essentially an abstraction on top of that idea.

In essence, MCP is the next esoteric acronym that can be hyped/used to get attention.
And the book it is based on would have been written had there been no copyright at all.
So, I absolutely agree here that an engineering manager has to have the insight to tell truth from catastrophising on both sides. At the same time, I've seen sales orgs drive a department into the ground where everything comes to a screeching halt. I've seen times where that "feature X" is vaporware. Times when feature X is possible there because of different architecture choices. Newer entrants who learned from the older entrants. Features that look great for smaller customers that can't scale.

And all of those might be plausible answers. As you'd agree, nuance is key here. However, that is all from the department or product head. Now consider the CEO's perspective that has 8 equally loud voices all clamoring for resources.

My point is that it might not be disrespect but rather a management team that is trying to navigate competing priorities and economic realities.
Is this a serious comment? "Apple has the means to do something highly illegal that benefits them and they're stupid they don't make use of it?"

Even if you were right (which I don't think) this is not how one should do or think about business.
Marc feeley wrote “using closures for code generation” way back in 1987. Everything old is new again!

It’s quite nice and only a small bit more code than an ast interpreter - but not as fast as a luajit- style tail calling bytecode vm, nor a baseline jit like copy and patch. It works wonders in languages that support closures though.

https://www-labs.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/papers/FeeleyLapal...
I had to do this in the 80s when I made a mistake that resulted in the file being erased. The fun doesn't begin until you start debugging it.

Actually this happened twice: once, someone else's code but I had the listing. Another, my own code but no listing.
Been reading this gem of a blog for years. Happy to see it get some attention here.
My unpopular opinion, as someone who worked in vaccine development and biotech manufacturing for a lengthy portion of my career, is that:

- vaccination should be a personal choice... no one has the right to compel anyone to get injected with anything. Full stop.

AND

- we need to raise the level of scientific and medical rigor applied to vaccine development, manufacturing, vaccine administration, and ongoing monitoring / pharmacovigilance so that people will feel comfortable taking vaccines.

The fact is that different quality and risk/benefit rules are applied to vaccines versus other injected drugs and this is not okay (read up on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed on 1986, why it was passed, and how vaccines are tested for efficacy and safety versus other injected drugs).

Under normal circumstances, the COVID mRNA vaccines should have failed the clinical trial requirements for human safety. There were far too many adverse events in the clinical trials and many, many people were harmed by these mRNA vaccines (with quite a few deaths). The NIH & FDA largely swept this under the rug and refused to investigate or fund adequate investigation. Unfortunately, that entire episode has seriously harmed people's faith in the government and has negatively influenced people opinions on vaccine safety.

This is very disappointing because there are a lot of highly effective vaccines with excellent safety profiles when administered properly... vaccines almost everyone should receive. But the average citizen can't tell the difference and I don't blame them if they don't trust the government to protect them at the moment.
Philosophers are often the last people to consider something to be settled. There's very little in the universe that they can all agree is true.