MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ddahlen | 2025-05-07 11:43:08+00:00
Basically all observations of solar system objects besides the big planets are going to be unresolved point sources. IE: We don't have telescopes which can resolve most objects into an image. An example, Hubble famously had to image a ton to get a grainy, ~12 pixel approximation of Pluto. We can do a lot with measurements of points, even reconstruct 3d models if we have enough data.

Resolving power is related to the PSF (Point Spread Function) size. The PSF is the image on your detector if you have an infinitely small point source. A quick google search says that DECam has a PSF of at least an arcsecond (atmosphere is probably causing issues for that). Which means anything smaller than an arcsecond is going to be unresolvable.

However, you still want pixels smaller than your PSF, since PSFs are typically gaussian-ish, having a bunch of measurements within the gaussian allows you to estimate the center accurately. This is vital for Astrometry (the measurement of position).
by treetalker | 2025-05-07 11:43:41+00:00
I don't believe that the Timmer statement was related to the case, and I would imagine that it likely proceeded the use of AI there. It would indeed be strange — almost certainly disqualifying — for an appellate judge to comment about a case that could go up on appeal.

The judge at trial, according to the posted article, was a Todd Lang:

> Judge Todd Lang responded positively to the AI usage.

I don't know Arizona law, but I would think that the defendant should and would get a resentencing if he challenged this on appeal.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-07 11:44:11+00:00
Access to the Energy Star reviews requires a 'subscription' too, in the form of a tax. The difference is that people who aren't in the market and don't want to buy it are forced to, for which there is no moral basis.

If there are products that don't have reviews at all, just don't buy them in favor of those that do. In markets where consumers are choosy (e.g. films) companies often ensure reviewers have early access to products to ensure reviews are plentiful.
by sparky99 | 2025-05-07 11:44:13+00:00
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by scbzzzzz | 2025-05-07 11:44:33+00:00
My two cents, tipping should be optional and only reserved for exceptional service.

It is problem with business taking advantage of low income groups and business should be guilt into doing the right thing. Not people for not tipping.

If a company can't exist/ will be bankrupt ( or whatever the greedy business owners complain) if they can't provide livable( not minimum wage that was set 10 years ago and never account for inflation) wage to workers they should not exist in first place.

Tipping just enables this exploitation and at the same time paying billion of dollars to shareholders . I have read news about companies, owners taking share of the tip.

delivery drivers should protest and make sure government to pass bills to stop this exploitation.

these business are taking advantage of situation of vulnerable people who either have to sleep hungry and not exploited or be exploited but have a meal. No idea how we can as a society make it better.
by timr | 2025-05-07 11:44:37+00:00
The point of the doorbell metaphor was to illustrate that we're (over-)regulating a tiny sliver of the problem, and ignoring the big issues.

To this point, you're making a big leap, going from "current consumption while running", to "overall energy usage". How many times a day are you running your dishwasher? I guarantee mine isn't in the top items in my life that consume electricity, in aggregate.

While EnergyStar may have been a good idea when it was created (when energy prices were lower), it's no longer necessary in a world where cost of use significantly exceeds the cost of the appliance itself during its own lifetime. And if that isn't true, then you really have to ask what you're doing in the first place, regulating the energy use of an appliance that doesn't use much energy?

I think there are certain aspects of EnergyStar that make sense -- the little label that tells me how many watt-hours an AC uses helps me compare products, so fine. Keep the little sticker. But it doesn't require an agency making silly rules about how much energy any dishwasher, doorbell or dongle can use. Let the market decide.
by sweezyjeezy | 2025-05-07 11:46:15+00:00
Only skimmed, but both seem to be referring to what transformers can do in a single forward pass, reasoning models would clearly be a way around that limitation.

o4 has no problem with the examples of the first paper (appendix A). You can see its reasoning here is also sound: https://chatgpt.com/share/681b468c-3e80-8002-bafe-279bbe9e18.... Not conclusive unfortunately since this is in date-range of its training data. Reasoning models killed off a large class of "easy logic errors" people discovered from the earlier generations though.
by lmm | 2025-05-07 11:46:22+00:00
> You pull in some library - maybe it resizes images or something. It in turn pulls in image decoders and encoders that you may or may not need. They in turn pull in metadata readers, and those pull in XML libraries to parse metadata, and before you know it a fairly simple resize is costing you 10s of MB.

This is more likely to happen in C++, where any library that isn't header-only is forced to be an all encompassing framework, precisely because of all that packaging friction. In an ecosystem with decent package management your image resizing library will have a core library and then extensions for each image format, and you can pull in only the ones you actually need, because it didn't cost them anything to split up their library into 30 tiny pieces.
by niemandhier | 2025-05-07 11:46:57+00:00
This is probably the only real dangerous point at the moment.

Neither side gains to win much from a conflict, but should India really tamper with the water supply I hope they consult their economists first. Otherwise Pakistan has little choice but instantly commit to a full war.

The reason:

A significant amount of the food produced in Pakistan directly depends on the water from the river Indus. Even a moderate water supply reduction would lead to a loss of around 10% of the harvest.

That does not sound like much, BUT economically food is a commodity with low 'elasticity', meaning demand does not really go down with reduced supply. The result would therefore be a doubling of food prices.

In a country where people have little dispensable income, that means wide spread famine.

By all measures India is the more powerful state, but as Ukraine demonstrates: Desperation can make up for a lot of disadvantage.
by lenkite | 2025-05-07 11:47:15+00:00
LeT is a state sponsored terrorist organization. It was founded by General Zia as he proudly declaimed that he would "Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts". I suggest reading the books written by Pak Generals to know that they fully believe in investing in militant/terror organizations - it is a firm and unalienable part of their military culture. Such a culture was actually encouraged by the US initially before the 9/11 blow-back.
by shakna | 2025-05-07 11:47:26+00:00
To drum a hollow drum, you probably meant sapient.

Sentience is a lower bar, and even most trees pass it. [0] Sentience, when boiled down, "just about" means capable of responding to pain. Nothing more. Sapience comes with the less easy to define intelligence of an individual.

[0] One of many, many papers in this debated topic: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1578
by GianFabien | 2025-05-07 11:47:30+00:00
My perception is the globally the economy is slowing. But different areas are faring very differently. By areas I mean both geographically and in terms of application domains. There still are lots of problems in search of solutions. But if all you have is CS knowledge then it is hard to differentiate yourself from others with comparable qualifications.

I think that knowledge of specific application domains is one way to differentiate. Broaden your areas of interest and demonstrate some relevant experience.
by airpoint | 2025-05-07 11:49:01+00:00
The EU has some of the strongest data protection laws in the world, most notably the GDPR which enforces strict rules on how personal data is collected, stored, and used, with significant penalties for violatiions. Independent watchdogs in each country enforce these rules.

Freedom of expression is protected under Article 11 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. While the EU allows limited restrictions (like hate speech, incitement to violence, etc), so do most democratic jurisdictions, including the US and UK.
by saghm | 2025-05-07 11:49:11+00:00
I don't disagree with your views on the amendment process either, honestly. In a lot of ways, it feels like the inertia in the amendment process is responsible for why the envelope has gotten pushed so much in other ways; when the system is too rigid to be able to provide changes that people have a desire for, the motivation for finding ways outside the system increases. It's hard not to worry whether we're approaching a point we can't come back from, and while there have undoubtedly been crises before that the US constitutional system has weathered, the only reason we can even have a conversation about these concerns is survivorship bias; a system only needs to break down once to stop being around to worry about anymore.
by lmm | 2025-05-07 11:49:51+00:00
> Remember that the most expensive exploit the world has ever seen was in a memory safe GC language?

No I don't, which exploit are you talking about? The most expensive exploit I can think of was caused by heartbleed which was in a memory unsafe language. The "most expensive software bug" (not an exploit) caused by turning off the safe overflow handler in the language being used can hardly be considered an indictment of language level safety either. So what exploit are you talking about?
by gruez | 2025-05-07 11:50:25+00:00
>They knowingly attacked and destroyed USS Liberty in 1967

Both sides agree it was an accident.

>Israel apologized for the attack, saying that USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship.[5] Both the Israeli and United States governments conducted inquiries and issued reports that concluded the attack was a mistake due to Israeli confusion about the ship's identity.[6]
by TFYS | 2025-05-07 11:50:28+00:00
Does this innovation in the form of patents increase the quality of life in the country? Not everything is fixed by "numbers go up", it matters where those numbers end up. If they end up in the hands of the wealthy, the quality of life for the average person will most likely decrease or stagnate at best. Taxation is at the moment the only realistic way (stronger unions might work as well) to make sure that not all of the gains from innovation go to the already wealthy. The average person in many parts of Europe is more satisfied with their life than the average person in the US and other more business friendly countries, even if the numbers are lower on paper.

So even if cutting taxes would help create the kind of innovation the EU needs, it might not be worth the cost. We need to come up with ways to encourage innovation that don't involve giving more wealth and power to those who already have the most.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-07 11:51:15+00:00
The LLM provided an answer that has superior quality or equal quality to a human. Then instead of judging the statement rationally on this quality we decided to judge the question on whether or not it was AI.

This is the same irrationality we used to discriminate humans. There is no difference in logic. The reasoning you used here about how LLMs are not equivalent to human beings is the same reasoning Hitler used on Jewish people.

And here’s the thing. I agree with you. If you gassed and holocausted LLMs wouldn’t give two shits.

The main point here is that the logic and irrationality and evil present in racism is all at work here. We are literally being discriminatory, there’s no difference. Everyone missed the point about the quality of the statement itself and immediately based their judgement on whether or not it’s AI as if that was actually a rational thing to do. (It’s not).
by MonkeyClub | 2025-05-07 11:51:34+00:00
> The easier a library is to use, the more popular it will be

You're thinking correctly on principle, but I think this is also the cause of the issue: it's too easy to pull in a Node dependency even thoughtlessly, so it's become popular.

It would require adding friction to move back from that and render it less easy, which would probably give rise to a new, easy and frictionless solution that ends up in the same place.
by constantcrying | 2025-05-07 11:52:22+00:00
No. There is no relevant strategy which does not answer "who is going to build it". The 11 Points are irrelevant unless you can actually create a real product and create real corporations providing these services.

Point 6 "following the Airbus model", would mean a decade(s) long funding run to create a company to compete directly with US tech supremacy. This is what was (for very unclear reasons) rejected in the section before.

There currently is zero actual competition with these US companies. EU companies each compete in very small niches (just like EU companies competed as suppliers for Boeing). Unless you create an actual competitor, there is no solution. The belief that you just need standards and many small, decentralized operators is what is making US Tech so dominant. They are dominant because you can go to these US companies and get most of what you need from a single source, this greatly reduces complexity overhead and the need for competent staff. Dealing with myriad of small service providers and their individual differences and compatibility issues is not effective, efficient or competitive.

Europe needs an actual competitor, who can actually replace US tech companies. Insisting on the fantasy of decentralization is what is making US dominance certain.
by incomingpain | 2025-05-07 11:52:58+00:00
Lets hope for a short quiet war. Some thoughts as an outside observer with no dog in the race.

ISI no doubt kicking themselves for getting caught orchestrating the pahalgam attack.

Pakistan cant afford to be in this war, but India has been increasing their military for over 10 years. Doubled the spending is enabling broo-ha-ha.

But neither side can ever corner the other side; and spending millions of USD equivalent to blow up mudhuts and never really achieve anything.

I do expect they can say goodbye to the Karakoram highway. India wants that destroyed asap. India will likely focus heavily on Jammu/Kashmir. Ladakh will happen only if China invades India again.

Punjab is likely an open target for Pakistan; but pakistan likely not interested in targeting them.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-05-07 11:53:48+00:00
I’m completely missing your point. Your original comment has been flagged so I don’t see it, so I’m missing context.

I, and I would guess most consumers, are perfectly fine with the trade off of taking longer at lower cost (energy and water). I run mine overnight so it doesn’t matter. This is what I want as the default.

On the few occasions I need it to run faster and am fine with the trade off of higher cost, I press a button and it’s there.

What’s the problem?
by tomp | 2025-05-07 11:53:54+00:00
Did you ever actually program in Rust?

In my experience, a lot of the code is dedicated to "correctly transforming between different Result / Error types".

Much more verbose than exceptions, despite most of the time pretending they're just exceptions (i.e. the `?` operator).

Why not just implement exceptions instead?

(TBH I fully expect this comment to be downvoted, then Rust to implement exceptions in 10 years... Something similar happened when I suggested generics in Go.)
by jagged-chisel | 2025-05-07 11:54:05+00:00
In the US, I think you underestimate the power of lazy.

But seriously, people without transportation (or whose family has a single vehicle and it’s at work with someone), people with disabilities …

In any case, it’s seriously overpriced. Uber Eats offered me “$30 off” and the final bill would still have been twice the restaurant prices - and Uber likely has a markup on that as well.
by kotaKat | 2025-05-07 11:54:20+00:00
> The state asked for a 9.5-year sentence, and the judge ended up giving Horcasitas 10.5 years for manslaughter, after being so moved by the powerful video, family says. The judge even referred to the video in his closing sentencing statements.

Guaranteed this is going to be a spicy appeal if it happens.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-05-07 11:55:36+00:00
>> ... I believe that there are many reasons why Linus chose to give Rust for Linux a chance. I believe at least one of those reasons is mindshare. If Linux chose not to experiment with Rust drivers, then that mindshare might go somewhere else.

Again, very sorry you misunderstood me. However, I am now pretty certain one of your difficulties is that you stop short of reading my next sentence, and then my next sentence after that. See my quoted comments above. I made very clear these are strictly my beliefs.

> If you want to know Linus's reasons, the read the LKML.

Perhaps when I said "I believe" I was being too subtle about what "my beliefs" are or what "beliefs" mean.

I hope you would agree -- just because one has expressed certain technical reasons/desires does not mean that there were not any unexpressed social reasons/desires, or what philosophers also call "higher order volitions" (long term volitions, or volitions about volitions), for one's actions.

Now -- I do not know but I do believe there may be social reasons for Rust being adopted in the Linux kernel, because I have read the LKML and I have reasoned about why Linux is experimenting with Rust drivers from things Linus and others have said.

Feel free to disagree, of course, but, in the future, please make more of an effort to avoid mischaracterizing me again.
by ethbr1 | 2025-05-07 11:55:47+00:00
Another reason the market won't fix energy consumption on its own: externalized costs (onto the consumer's power bill).

What is one of the most market-effective US regulations?

Requiring a standardized EnergyGuide appliance label for average yearly energy costs. (Aka the yellow label https://www.energystar.gov/products/ask-the-experts/whats-di... )

What did companies do before that? Installed the cheapest, least-efficient parts, put marketing copy on their boxes about how they were high efficiency, and then passed the costs onto unknowing consumers.
by arp242 | 2025-05-07 11:56:01+00:00
> Sikh conflict you may be referring to are events from 1984 IIRC.

The 70s and 80s were the most intense, but it's far from isolated to just that period. There was a major row with Canada just last year because, according to Canada, the Indian government has been killing Sikh separatists in Canada.[1] Since there is no historical adversity between Canada and India, Canada has nothing to gain by seeking conflict and generally doesn't seek conflicts, I am inclined to believe the Canadian claims.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/14/canada-modi-...
by GianFabien | 2025-05-07 11:56:19+00:00
I had a work colleague with your problem. In overseas travels he found himself subjected to harsher treatment. He gave up and anglicized his family name and changed to it by deed poll (new passport, drivers license, etc). Even though he retained his Arabic given name, the problems were much diminished. I know it is an extreme case, but it is an example of how desperate the situation can become.

Maybe it isn't as common these days, but in the 1950s and 1960s lots of Italian, Greek and other European immigrants anglicized their names to mitigate discrimination.

Of course, I am not suggesting that you need to follow those examples. But having an awareness of such extreme measures might give you ideas for changes somewhere along the spectrum.
by Gud | 2025-05-07 11:56:34+00:00
And if you scratch the surface, you will quickly realise that their apology is bullshit.

Israel wanted the US involved and conducted a false flag operation:

“Some intelligence and military officials dispute Israel's explanation.[79] Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State at the time of the incident, wrote: I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous.[80]”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
by tacostakohashi | 2025-05-07 11:56:45+00:00
Frankly, what you're describing just sounds normal to me after a decade+ at BigCo, and you just have to lean into it, embrace it.

It's completely normal to have a formal interviewing process / loop with feedback forms and debrief sessions and stuff... but for candidates that pass that, they just earn a meeting/interview with the big boss who then singlehandedly makes the decision regardless of all the earlier feedback from lower level folks, and occasionally hires people they've worked with before completely bypassing the formal interview process + everybody else.

It's also completely normal for big bosses to be in the weeds of the work and people two or three levels below them, either directly, or by telling managers under them exactly what to do with their reports.

Essentially, the interviewing process and org chart / reporting lines are just there for show, and to fool naive folks, but actually it's totally normal for decisions to be made outside of the process, or by higher folks directly driving things several levels under them.

I think you just have to embrace it, work directly with the director and everyone else and earn their trust, and don't expect to ever have autonomy/authority over anything in a company that you don't own.
by timr | 2025-05-07 11:57:03+00:00
EnergyStar has nothing to do with "modernizing the grid". It is, however, why any new dishwasher in the US takes like 4 hours to finish a load, unless you put it into non-bureaucratic mode. Meanwhile, we're driving energy consumption into the stratosphere with datacenters full of completely unregulated [1] GPUs that are mining scamcoins and generating incorrect search results.

The usual libertarian point applies here: just because the government stops doing X doesn't mean that you automatically get less X.

Particularly in the case of EnergyStar, I think it's well into the tail of diminishing returns on investment -- manufacturers don't have any incentive to start producing power-guzzling appliances when power costs are increasing. Its the sort of program that sounds good in theory, and maybe made sense at one point, but doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

[1] I'm not arguing for regulation on GPUs...just pointing out that EnergyStar isn't touching the currently important part of the problem.