skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since email is used for authentication, how would you want the system to consider you as a user without keeping the email ? Come on, be serious for 2 minutes.
You refer to evidence but have no epistemic honesty. You are pantomiming persuasion. It worse than lying.
I think some variant of it is a must in low-level languages like Rust, even if as vague as “this given arena owns this and will free these objects”.

For a higher level hobby language I’m designing, I’m thinking of doing a similar concept, but with runtime overhead - basically every object would be “synchronized” in Java’s parlance, but to make it efficient most lockings would be elided at compile time via move semantics. So data races couldn’t happen (also, could possibly do a better job at escape analysis).

The primary reason I’m thinking about that is that we really shouldn’t be using non-thread safe primitives anymore — Clojure did get this right. That should be left as a compiler optimization if it can prove that that given code runs inside a “alone”.
Good point. Bad ideas don’t die, only practitioners
Penguins: Largest known ancient species discovered in New Zealand
Full example of a Rust program that leaks memory: `fn main() { Box::leak(Box::new(0)); }`
> However, the wave has now begun to crest. ... White liberals, the Americans whose expressed views shifted most radically over the last decade, have begun to moderate their responses to questions... There have been shifts in the ways people identify themselves, too. For instance, polling and surveys suggest that “feminist” and related labels seem to have lost some of their luster in recent years, including (and perhaps especially) among young people.

The author's writing style makes him difficult to quote succinctly, but I really wish there were citations in this part of the essay. The young people I know wouldn't be caught dead self-identifying as "liberal," not because they've decided to become centrists or conservatives, but rather because "liberal" is associated with an older generation they view as compromising and complicit.

The simple, yet boring explanation is that the questionnaire used to measure youth political alignment has experienced concept drift[1] and Musa al-Gharbi is channeling wish fulfillment rather than good journalism. It's easy reporting, just interview some young folk and see what they have to say.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_drift
(partially) reverse engineerd Creative Music System/Game Blaster (CT-1300)
CF = Cloudflare. I would hope nobody is still writing things in ColdFusion these days :-)
Medium content turned more click bait because of the readership model and made it less popular
Ask HN: Is there a need for non-Git dvcs hosting?
darcs, fossil, sapling, pijul?
> But sure, go ahead and blame environmentalists for the destruction profit driven market capitalism caused. If that soothes your cognitive dissonance

This is laughable. I come from a country that’s officially socialist. But even people from there want to come to Texas and drive a big SUV and live in a big house with a pool. Better yet, they want to attain that same standard of living in their own country.

If environmentalists tell people to turn down the thermostat and stop eating meet and crowd into public transit, they will lose every time.
the federal reserve doesn't think there's empirical evidence that patents have positive societal benefits and they think there are very empirical and measurable harms.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/more/2012-035

this isn't "generally good thing that some people abuse", this is the entire patent system is fundamentally not producing any explicable benefits and significant measurable harm, there is no reason to keep it around.

the scenario about the inventor who comes up with the better lightbulb in his garage doesn't happen. if it does, somebody else copies his idea (it's gotta be fairly trivial for someone to make it in a garage) or opens up their own patent portfolios and finds an overbroad patent that describes some trivial component or practice that is widely used, and drags him into litigation that bankrupts him for the rest of his life.

in software the example would be that you get dragged by someone who has patented "e-commerce on a website" or "software updates over the internet" and the money to have lawyers fight it while you empty your warchest.

no "I would simply..." or "but a law firm would do that pro-bono" is necessary here, either, those are both real-world examples, someone tried to shake down Newegg in 2015 with the e-commerce patent for example. And it worked for a lot of previous victims, none of whom felt like Newegg that it was worth fighting on principle or for direct economic benefit alone.

Patents literally kill companies, and they don't actually produce the intended innovations. And that's the federal reserve saying it. There were debates on ending it in the 50s, and they made the wrong decision.

> If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to
recommend abolishing it.

The harms have now clearly exceeded the benefits of keeping it. It may not have been worth the trouble of abolishing it in 1958, it is now.
Meanwhile, some of us are sad sods stuck on having chosen to integrate with MapInfo once upon a time...
Neuralink transported brain implants covered in pathogens, group alleges
Thieves are not known for their patience. Stealing things that won't be valuable for several years is not a very good business.
How does a city try to be cool? And is there a threshold? Is NYC like 89.8% cool and Asheville 67.7% cool? Austin has all kinds of cool sh*t. 17.3% of stuff in Austin is cool. But the rest is a facade.
Probably didn't help that an Air Force general was openly and loudly proclaiming that war is inevitable. I looked up some speeches of his, and he is off the rails, like the German general in All Quiet Along the Western Front.
While nuclear power can give us the most bang for the buck, it's main flaw has to do with the degree of centralization it requires. It takes the infrastructure of an advanced civilization to not only design, build, and maintain the facilities and equipment, it also requires the educational infrastructure to produce the personnel needed to operate them safely. This means that it requires a degree of centralization, and the centralization of political and economic power to go with it. Futhermore, it also requires the grid needed to transmit the power have to take in demand surges into account.

Perhaps the miniaturization efforts for nuclear power would mean a neighorhood, or even a site-level nuclear power. At this point, though, solar allows community-scale or site-scale deployments (but not necessarily community-scale manufacturing). Micro-grids, sized to the local demand surge can be deployed.
> This is rare.

I have a funny passport so some institutions are often probing my life and the source of my funds. The criminal records translated to english (I’m not from an english speaking country, I don’t live or work on an english peaking country) happened to me.

I also had a chat with a polish woman who told me that UK banks required documents about her grandparents nationality when she went there for study circa 2014.

I am convinced xenophobia is alive and well through the financial system. Hell… even cheered by often progressive people who thinks the AML/KYC framework is protecting their lands from foreign barbarians.
The living can consent
All we are is dust in the wind.

I agree with you.
>I’ve got a boat to sell you. A whole marina, even.

Anywhere I can see some reviews for your marina? I might know somebody in the market for one.
"OkCupid uses ChatGPT to create extremely formulaic survey of users dating approaches"

This feels like a case of the snake eating itself.
I think you're really overselling the risk here. At most any given kid is going to do this once, and the vast majority not at all.
DuckDB is a relational OLAP store. If you want to do transformations on relational data using SQL then I think nowadays you would look at the modern data stack and do it with DBT.

If you have genuinely big and unstructured data then of course you need a cluster and would reach for Spark.

If you have smallish data then maybe DuckDB has a role because working with SQL is nicer than Pandas. But a lot of time you actually need the complexity of Pandas to do the transformation you need.

DuckDB is neat but I still can’t quite convince myself of a killer use case.
Funny you think it's a wealthy American perspective to have a generator for outages. My thoughts went in directions of wealthy people in Bangladesh or India.
Say what you will, but I don't think you'll ever get economies of scale in nuclear like you will with solar (or even wind). You can certainly get some economies of scale, but those cost benefits are almost always a function of number of units produced.

Nuclear just doesn't need that many units produced - so it will never get the same functional benefit.

Unless you're planning on going down to Asimov-esque wearable reactors (and I don't realistically think you are) nuclear just doesn't make enough units to really get the same benefits from scale.

Solar on the other hand... each unit is producing 100watts of power, and you're making a literal shit load of units. Production numbers are very high, and it benefits enormously from economies of scale.

Basically - even the smallest reactor designs we're talking about for nuclear are in the 20mw range/unit.

Solar is 100-300w/unit. (watts - not megawatts). We're making nearly 70 THOUSAND units of solar for every unit of nuclear, at nuclear's smallest size.
The First AI Photographer
Besides other’s answers, while data races are not possible in safe rust, other race conditions can happen (and not even the actor model is immune to these).
What is the new LZ4 TOAST compression in PostgreSQL 14, and how fast is it?
Miserable indeed! I was in Southern MN and did this job for a few weeks in the summer. We started around 5:30am and worked 8-10 hrs per day, rain or shine.

Why do this? At the time (early 2000s) it was an extremely well-paying, unskilled job at $15/hr!
He's not extending credit to Ukraine, they're paying for the vehicles and just because Russia has placed a death sentence on this guy his bank suddenly has cold feet? I doubt a European bank will step up, but maybe an American one will?
Well, the exploit could be perfected on the device that can be reset first. I understand that writing a wrong address can have unattended consequences, but the read cycle should come first, and glitching likely affects the address decoding circuitry (as opposed to the SRAM registers), so it's probably hard to miss.

I understand wanting to play it self though.

One thing comes to my mind though: each board likely needs slightly different timings.
Progress Toward Fast-Charging Lithium-Metal Batteries
Today, right now, you can have a language model create lyrics to "AI killed the Internet star," a TTS model sing it in the style of The Buggles, and a single channel blind source separation model replace the voice track. Tomorrow, you will just talk to your voice assistant running an action transformer to have it done for you.
Wozniak takes aim at ‘dishonest’ Elon Musk for misleading Tesla buyers
Can you say more about Alexander's direction of bias? I'm not familiar with him.
I don't see much difference between Chinese routers having back-doors and what Cisco has peddled to its customers all these years either willfully or just incompetence.
We need a cheaper way to down these spy balloons. The sidewinder missile + F-22 flight time costs are an order of magnitude greater than the total cost of launching one balloon. Send over the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler (HELIOS) to protect the west coast.
Indeed. If you charted those it'd be likely show as a breakout event vs. relevant moving averages at this point.

So from that POV, one may start to think about a quick buildup of momentum in the general direction of F-22s shooting things down, or air combat, or just combat, etc.

Not so much to predict the future, as to ideate and prepare frames of mind for potential changes in circumstance.
Been there great place. It's also my desktop wallpaper...never again got interrupted by colleagues and junior developers during my coding sessions.
It's more than that. TV prices have been dropping like a brick for at least as long as I'd be alive.
> Okay, is unleaded avgas mandated?

Not yet because we're just now finally rolling out the unleaded avgas. It's probably a safe bet that the EPA will move to ban leaded avgas as soon as it's feasible to do so once G100UL has more wide distribution (which, again, is in the process of happening this year and next year).

> Is it dramatically more expensive than leaded?

The manufacturer says it will cost about $1 more per gallon for unleaded. It may end up costing about the same when you consider the overhead that EPA regulations for leaded gas add to the final cost of 100LL.

> For how long should I look up and see a GA aircraft knowing it's some rich idiot spraying my neighborhood with lead?

Honestly, this statement shows a gross misunderstanding of GA. GA is far more than "rich people flying in their planes." For one, the really rich people are flying in jets or turboprops which burn jet fuel like airliners do. Second, GA with piston planes is training for future airline pilots, medical flights, law enforcement, aerial survey, and much more. The people that do fly GA for fun with piston planes are solidly middle or upper-middle class. Flying for a hobby is very similar to having a boat or RV with most GA pilots flying around in not-at-all-fancy 1970s-era Cessnas. In terms of lead contamination, you should be more concerned of lead pipes and paint than the tiny amount that comes from 100LL fuel.
Putin is an omni-present monster, sure, and an oil and gas monster to that. But he also is THE biggest nuclear power monster:

[Rosatom] ranks first in the overseas NPP construction, responsible for 76% of global nuclear technology exports: 35 nuclear power plant units, at different stages of development, in 12 countries, as of December 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosatom
I don't think that paper considers the issues of the batteries seriously enough. If you're going to build a cluster of old phones, I'd highly recommend disconnecting the batteries.

A quick look at the phones in my drawer show two with swollen batteries and one with a battery that no longer holds a charge, which is the reason they all got retired. My appetite for risk doesn't include setting fire to a building to save money on data centre costs.

I miss being able to change out the battery on a mobile and the push for making un-fixable phones has an obvious recycling issue.
I get text messages like that. Still don’t know who it is.
not super surprising considering the app is banned in India
Isn’t this very similar to Karpathy’s nanoGPT?
Maybe for you, but I'd consider that a pretty annoying bug. I like to structure my files/classes/modules in decreasing order of abstraction: put the public API and high-level algorithms at the top, and then dive into the minutiae how the various parts are implemented as you scroll down. That also means I almost exclusively call functions that are defined further down in the file.
> I've come to prefer it to visiting Stack Overflow when I need to get up to speed on a new thing,

I'm certainly guilty of this very same mistake, key word being "mistake." I'd hope for a world where the better way would be to read some good docs which gave an accurate mental model of the thing I want to get up to speed with. You know, organized and structured knowledge.

vs a quick answer to a single point without any context.
Hybrid vigior is known to apply to plants. It isn't clear if it applies to humans. While it is known that marrying your sibling (brother/sister) is bad, and near cousins are a questionable, is it better (for your children) is you are very distant? Should you look to a different continent for a spouse? I don't know for sure, but the evidence I've seen doesn't support that. Unlike with plants, so long as your are more than 5th cousins away (I'm not sure where the line is, so I picked something distant enough that I think everyone will agree it is too far) there doesn't seem to be any advantage in getting more distant.
Would be great if just more people had read this great book nowadays (and please, not watch that super bad recent movie that doesn't deserve to bear the same title (: ).

And cannot belief statesman proclaiming that now everywhere :( War should always be seen as evitable, at least that belief needs to hold up til the last second.. and even further. But who am I...
It’s not necessarily simpler than an explicit hygienic macro system or similar, since comptime is a complex feature with surprising consequences. Mostly it moves the complexity around.
Jesus, I never expected these responses.

Yeah, sure, do whatever I guess.
There is actually a whole professional person whose job is to complain about this. When a kid dials 911 and the cops come and arrest people for no good reason, somebody is almost guaranteed to complain about it.

It's me. I wake up in the morning, have coffee, put on my pants, then go to court and formally complain about things like this all day.
I'd say it feels like a return to the era of cold war tensions but I wouldn't know, I was born around when the Berlin Wall fell. What say you older HNers, is this what it was like?
There's already been preprints released showing fMRI reconstructions that appear to do better than an implicit multi-class classifier [1] [2]. But also, even if the result is an implicit multi-class classifier, if the n is sufficiently high then that would still be quite impressive!

[1] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=pHdiaqgh_nf

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.06956.pdf
I’ve used QGIS for a few years to build www.TerraMano.co

We make 3D Maps of American Landscapes in bronze.

We take Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data, do light transformations in QGIS and convert it to an .STL file before additional 3D modeling.

Our latest project was a hairy one doing Oahu (https://terramano.co/blogs/product/oahu-bronze-3d-map)
"Object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight" and "Object the size of a small car" [1] according to General Ryder

No details beyond this yet due to classification restrictions.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=544hoprTeTw
Spend a week or two in ATX and see how you like it! Downtown did lose quite a bit of daytime vibrancy during the pandemic (the night life is still active as ever, however). But I think it's coming back.
FAA approves unleaded avgas for GA piston aircraft (2022)
My question was not about the tactic but about the strategy.
Speaking of the Culture paradigm, could very much go for a drone. (I mean autonomous, self-recharging, etc., not the more-or-less manually controlled camera drones of today). Speech recognition and synthesis, and ChatGPT set up to respond with a suitably snarky persona.

True vision overlays and suchlike still have some significant materials-science challenges, it's a lot more than just product design.

Writers can already compose anywhere. Roll-up keyboards exist, as does voice dictation input. The ergonomics of tapping on pant legs don't seem to offer an advantage.
I don't think companies hire more people due to those jobs programs. I think what typically happens is they use those programs to hire people they would hire anyway AND get a bonus. Or maybe just shift where they hire people.
Flat? You realize the west side of Austin is where the Hill Country starts right?
Unfortunately your link points to a US Congressional hearing featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene making a dramatic speech about the tragic fate of her social media account.
Edit: nevermind, thought this was still about Technology Connections.
Tiffany Blue® is a registered mark for a specific color. Using something like fourier transform, can a unique voice be trademarked?
Just Mac revenue by itself would be the envy of most companies.

But you can easily look at Apple’s revenue breakdown between Mac, iPads, services, wearables, etc and see that it is well diversified.

And Microsoft never “bailed them out”. Before the MS deal was signed, Apple had already gotten a line of credit for a couple of billion. The $250 million that Microsoft invested in Apple was nothing.

Apple turned around and used $100 million to buy out PowerComputings Mac license. It didn’t become profitable for another two years. The little money that Microsoft invested didn’t make a difference.
Nanodegrees was a later invention. They still have free courses in their catalog; but they are now about seven years old.
Generate and listen AI radio host broadcasts
The Cold War had expectations, guardrails, rules. Those don't exist in the current setup. China didn't even pick up the emergency hotline in the first balloon crisis.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/032515/whats...

Looks like it was a money burning pit before the buyout.
The real reason that only a couple have touched upon, at least in the US, is because in the last 20 years the tax rules changed. The IRS put the onus on the hiring company to pay taxes if the contractor didn't pay their taxes. That's a huge burden, which is why most larger companies will go with well known companies that can take on that liability. 20 years ago, this didn't happen so it was easier to hire a single contractor but now the tax liability has forced many companies to change their policies permanently to only hiring from larger contracting companies that can ensure that taxes are paid.
Seattle's street plan is so stupid it has its own wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_layout_of_Seattle

>These three grid patterns (due north, 32 degrees west of north, and 49 degrees west of north) are the result of a disagreement between David Swinson "Doc" Maynard, whose land claim lay south of Yesler Way, and Arthur A. Denny and Carson D. Boren, whose land claims lay to the north (with Henry Yesler and his mill soon brought in between Denny and the others):[2] Denny and Boren preferred that their streets follow the Elliott Bay shoreline, while Maynard favored a grid based on the cardinal directions for his (mostly flat, mostly wet) claim. All three were competing to have the downtown built on their land.
do you have any code examples you'd be able to share that uses the base_template thing?
For small potatoes stuff, yes. For critical business apps that make money and have real customers and jobs on the line, IMO too risky. It isn’t that hard to get to “push code and it deploys” directly with AWS nowadays.
It depends on the moments, really.
I mean, it's nothing compared to the internal speeches that China gives its troops. Heck it's nothing compared to the speeches Xi gives internally to troops. Chinese troops are currently training on their missile corp on models of US aircraft carriers.

Edit: Chinese propaganda video of attack on Guam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBOho1AOKYY

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36598/chinese-air-forc...

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-builds-mockups-us-...