skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AssemblyScript produces the smallest binary and then Zig. Rust produces bloat binary by default but can be small by https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust for hello word type of app. I have no idea if the gc proposal could make those langs produce smaller binary size. That said, .wasm is generally smaller on wire and faster-to-execute on host.
How has that one been shaping up?
> It is more successful to predict systems we have enough knowledge and control of (video playback) than those we don't (coin flip).

Nope. Consider this variation on the experiment: I flip a coin, I make a video recording, but I do not look at the coin, I only reveal it to the video camera.

Now I cannot predict the result of watching the video despite the fact that my "knowledge and control" of my video recorder is exactly the same as before.

And, BTW, my ability to make a reliable prediction in the first case is in no way contingent on my knowledge of how video recorders work, nor is it contingent on my having control of the camera. I could be completely ignorant of the inner workings of video recorders, and the camera could be completely outside of my control, and I could still make an accurate prediction, but only if I saw the coin after if was flipped.

> That would in no way prevent validity of 2nd law.

I never said otherwise, but that is neither here nor there.
When Vladimir Putin is expected to launch ‘unstoppable’ nuclear Satan-2 missile
There is no "either". The user has to have the ability to do both. See my reply to Jeremy's comment.
Where can one read more about this+
Reminds me of a galaxy-brain strategy:

1. Post question on Reddit.

2. Use alt account to reply with obviously wrong answer.

3. Wait for corrections to flood in.
You need an IDE for any language honestly. And I don't see that as a negative.
Yes, but that's irrelevant. If prescription drugs were handled as badly as weapons waste was historically, it would be a problem too.

Same for e.g. plastic waste, food waste, or just about anything else. Military developing weapons tends to make a mess, which is why most countries are trying to change that.
Which is why hydrogen cars need to be taken seriously. Not everyone is going to have access to a private charger, nor is it realistic to put up 0.5 MW chargers everywhere. There are millions of people that are better served by a car powered by fuel.
Hopefully you’re reading the replies here too then, because they don’t at all seem to gel with what you’re saying. The replies do reflect a lot of my own experiences though:

- Medium was a good platform for people to publish well formatted content online.
- said content ranked quite high on Google.
- There’s now a non-trivial amount of content published by myriad authors on there.
- I have zero interest in following a particular author. I don’t want recommendations. I end up there as a result of a very specific need at the time.
- you’re incessant pop ups to log in or sign up to read the content drastically reduced that value.
- I’ve now been conditioned to just avoid any search results that look like they go to a Medium page.

I obviously have no idea how widespread that experience is. The unfortunate reality is that the damage has been done. You could undo all of the things that led to it and I’d never know given the muscle memory that’s been created.
Until a google algo update wipes you out and you are screwed. If you are going to go down this path it's better to sell the pick axes than go mining for gold. Learn how to mint the sites yourself and sell them on flippa to guys who think they can buy retirement $20K at a time with no sweat equity.
An innocent buyer would just say “I sold my home of 20 years to some company - Perwinkle LLC of Bermuda. Pretty strange, but not my problem.”

The bank would report it, and in theory the feds could track down Periwinkle LLC.

But tracking down holding companies consumes precious resources, and would be strategic, not just legal, decision.

The US is obsessed with having a clean financial sector, but doesn’t care one jot or tittle about corporate transparency.
it isn't precisely a light nanosecond either, it's about 5mm off. today the standard foot as used in the USA is ironically just defined as 0.3048 meters
The format of the updates is a basic structure that represents a DOM-operation and an ID and some data, which is packed with MessagePack and streamed over HTTP/2.

I never used ASP, but someone told me that my framework reminded them of JSF (JavaServer Faces).
we'll have to agree to disagree then. There are many other properties outside of Facebook.com where their ads run, in competition with Google.
Are there any games since then you think captured the feel of the unique discovery-based magic system?
Embrace, Extend, Enslave.
The IR signature/target profile of a balloon contraption is very different to that of a jet exhaust, for one. Far less friction heat of movement etc + no engine.

Although the X is an all aspect missile, the parameters would still be quite different.

I think this is would all be firmly in the "not public domain" bucket of details though, as I haven't seen much of this modelled in DCS.

(I suppose they could also have used eg a radar guided AIM-120, but they are primarily for BVR, more expensive at ~$1.1, and far, far more scope for erroneous target locking, so why risk it when the 9X obviously gets the job done. Again, from the point of view of an armchair - or a rig to be precise - sim pilot. I claim no credentials beyond this interest).
Right, I'm using a percentage. The article's bug reminded me of this directly!
Yeah, reading through this thread I get an actual little pain inside.
> certified device that is actually known to be free of defects

we can't even do that reliably for very well understood mass production processes of "simple" physical goods ( Which is why you make systems which in presence of defects still yield acceptable results.). The goal you are listing is not something which can be reached through laws like this _at all_!!!.

Outside of clear negligence and potentially hurting FOSS it will not lead to a major increase in security in it's current form and can easily have the opposite effect too due to companies "hiding there code" to avoid problems when people find issues and potentially use all kinds of questionable means to try to prevent people from doing independent security research on their products.

If past experiences around e.g. government projects with similar requirements are anything to go by certification is not in any way a reliable form of security, especially for mass products.

In my experience the overlap between competent security researchers and people doing the certification for most (not all) for-hire security review companies is rather small.

For example the amount of peace makers which can be hacked even through such medical devices have extreme strict certification requirements far beyond what can be applied to most software is still pretty high.

I have seen cases of really big (and supposedly competent) software consulting companies certifying something as secure which most 3 semester or so bachelor students could have told you is clearly not secure.

Don't get me wrong, there is a problem with negligence and having a law/regulation which reduces that is by itself a good thing.

But the issues the software industries has are much more deep rooted then such negligence (else we wouldn't also see such issues en-mass in cases where no such negligence was done). You could even say they are fundamentally rooted in human nature and society ;-)

Worse if such a regulation is not done well it might more lead to a game of shifting blame then people actually trying to fix things.
You should consider reading more carefully before being so dismissive.

You’ve mistaken my statement about executive incentives for one about their competence.
You could probably split up the image into smaller pieces (let's call it slicing), put them together in a table, and only update the cells that changed.
use these plates on a larger scale to make terra-cotta impressions and turn them into 'chia-pets' such that you can grow micro greens on the landscape of a particular area.
I was also wondering if those jets now have stencil paintings of balloons on them with big X's marked across them as kill markers
1) Google "paypal market share"

2) Prove a negative? How about you search on Google for stories of people who lost money to paypal due to locked accounts? Lots of people just write off the money lost because there's no way to change Paypal's mind.
I also immediately scanned for a privacy policy, kind of a no-go without one.
What is the general benefit to a quantum random number generator versus a regular one? Is it that it's more truly random, or has a better distribution, or?
That's not really true; AB 2257, passed later, fixed some important issues with section 2776.
This article does not make any sense to me. It basically explains imposter syndrome as the consequence of having unrealistic external expectations of success and ability, requiring a fake persona, e.g. being the result of privilege and expectations that come with it, but then also dismisses mens experience of this phenomenon, and talks about how it’s basically the result of systematic injustice against women. How can it be both? And how can they justify hand waving away the fact that men also experience this?
The Flight of Networks and Their Rebirth at Scale
At what point does a minimally positive income-generating concern become a hobby? I know many people who collect and sell Magic cards and make roughly the same amount net, but they wouldn't consider themselves bootstrapped founders. You can't live on $6k a year.
Have you given Tridactyl a shot?
There are agreements in place discussed here [1] and documented here [2] but there are probably better documents that cover all the nuclear powers.

[1] - https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/34628/do-countr...

[2] - https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/treaties/launch-noti...
Is there a general theory or framework for how these kinds of mechanical things get designed and work?

I am always really impressed by the ways mechanical motion can be transformed but I have no idea how people figure out these mechanisms. Is it just 3000 years of trial and error and intuition?
Data sheets tend to also be (at least subtle) wrong all the time, at least that is what I have heard many times by now from people working with electric hardware/supply chains.
If China didn't care about international law it would've said it sent the balloon on purpose. Instead it found a cover story of some civilian balloon gone awry. They cared enough about international law to lie.
My point is proven. @jgrahamc never responded. Because just like all the rest of you, I'm too small and unimportant to get the attention that others have. That's why resorting to HN to get your critical support needs met doesn't work for the 99% of us.
I joined Amazon in 2017, and even back then it was doubling every 1-2 years. Which still seemed absolutely nuts to me.

It did later mean the cult-like indoctrination of the leadership principles made sense. When you’re growing at that rate (even not considering the attrition that happens along side it) you can easily end up in a place where _most_ of the employees have been with the company for 12mo or less. If you’ve any hope of maintaining a consistent culture over time you need to get in embedded into people quick. Because the new hires are looking at people who’ve only been there 9 months as though they’re the OGs of the company.
Highly recommend Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins which does a deep dive into this world
I'm going to ask what might seem like a naive question - but how do you get a sidewinder to lock onto the balloon part of the balloon and not hit the payload?
Threadnoughts are a time-honored tradition. Congrats to all who joined in.
Yes, everything you don't care about is some minute fraction of tinkerers. I bet you thought only some minute fraction of tinkerers wanted copy and paste, a notification shade, widgets, always on display etc.
x = “I hate apples, I only drink _”

keys = key_weights * x

query = query_weights * x

values = value_weights * what_to_look_at

For self attention, what_to_look_at = x

For regular attention, where_to_look_at could be a database, memory or anything else.

So in this example if we’re trying to predict the second “apple” the first “apples” is very helpful. If we’re predicting “juice” then we’d use one head of self-attention to look at the first “apples” and a second head to also look at the second “apple”

That’s my understanding at least
Perhaps GPT-like models are already capable enough to do math, but they need to store what we call mathematical reasoning as one of many distinct processing pathway and tap into it whenever the context is appropriate.

Easy to say obviously but there's some promising work in this direction[1]

[1]Tracr: Compiled Transformers as a
Laboratory for Interpretability, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.05062.pdf
If you're willing to entertain MPAs, there's small little library called swup that creates seamless transitions between routes (eg. /home, /faq) despite them being 2 different domains. I'm trying it out for www.lona.so and it looks pretty interesting so far

Effectively this it what it does - intercept links to other pages, loads them in the background, then swaps out the contents of the current page with the new page. Your MPA effectively becomes an SPA with just some minor rejiggering
This is the definition of bad design. It's overcomplicated, not simple, it's overengineered, not elegant, it's worse than a regular desk, and it's made of materials that will simply not last at a price point where you could buy a real nice piece.
>There's much more to computers and the internet than web browsers.

For most common people, is there really?
I think the commenter is labelling Hersh a "discredited journalist".

The discrediting part would be his recent articles on Syrian government complicity in chemical warfare attacks, his narrative of how the Bin Laden killing actually happened, and if the Russians actually poisoned the Skripals.

But you probably knew all that and I have been concern trolled. Oh well, I try.
I’m not sure what you mean a better understanding? If you mean did I contribute a larger percentage of code compared to all existing code yes, I “grokked” more at the small companies, but that didn’t mean I got treated better.
It goes beyond country boundaries. There was an interesting case where China stole I think it was specialized corn to begin producing their own instead of spending large sums by buying the product or IP.
Michigan -> CA https://archive.ph/i3o3N
Montana -> DC https://archive.ph/vo5Vo
Nevada -> GA https://archive.ph/ZW0jR
Why not hydrogen instead of helium? It's much cheaper and lighter.
What search terms would one use for finding roles in companies like this, as an experienced dev with a strong background in GIS and open source tools? E.g. Postgis/Pydata/mapbox-gl et. al.
Or just changing tax residency. Moving from Norway to the US, brokerages will tell you to liquidate your assets or they'll do it for you, because they do not want to touch the reporting requirements to the US.
Not true, the Dynamex ruling was only applicable to wage orders by the Industrial Welfare Commission, and AB5 expanded the applicability to other aspects of labor law.
Any chance the framework logos could be links?

Some of them are hard to see.
> her mother had taught her that naturally smart people don’t have to study.

Of all the parts of the article, that little bit stands out.

Because I see my older kid do that all the time, as if putting in effort to do something is somehow not the real thing. As if things learned from mistakes and practice is not progress - a substitute for talent.
These articles are all the same. It's like complaining how the Ford Model T couldn't drive you to England in the early 20th century while ignoring how it would revolutionize cities and life within America.

Whether you believe it's 'real' or not is irrelevant. It's here, it's useful and the world will not be the same as it was.
The problem with Twitter is everything has much greater semantic similarity due to brevity. How the hell do you SEO a tweet? LLM might actually come in handy for that kind of backend search usecase.

IMO the real issue with twitter is how it only loads tweets on a page to your monitor size. Impossible to CTRL+F if you know what you're looking for even on the right author's page.
At which point the community interest in getting software working on those devices will have become quite diffuse. For example, take a look at how old devices drop off the LineageOS supported list. The main problem isn't bona fide DRM, but rather the endless churn of accidental complexity.
Why do tech companies turn sour?
>I can't understand the reason for paying attention to oneself.

Certain parts of a sentence strongly inform the meaning of other parts and so it is important to encode them together. If you see the word "bank" in a sentence, is it referring to the financial institution or the land next to a body of water? We know by what came before or what comes after. Attention allows relevant context to inform token processing without being distracted by irrelevant context.
https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
ASP sends actual HTML! And definitely not http/2.
Devilmouse!

AC is one of my favorite games of all time (neck and neck with Ultima II (I'm old)). I still play on the emulators from time to time - endlessly searching for more Hoary Mattekars.

I played on Thistledown and ran a little portal bot named Stip Dickens an Ayan Baqur that helped ferry people into the Shard of the Herald event. That was a lot of fun.

The loot system was also one-of-a-kind. I don't see that level of randomness in many other games.

The game felt like the writers and staff were highly literate and well read. I now know so many real life herbs and plants due to their use in spellcasting. And AC taught me words like "Mnemosyne".

And each month we would get several pages of amazing lore. (Side note, there's an ongoing web serial called "The Wandering Inn" that reminds me quite a bit of AC. People dropped into a video game like world, insect people, references to a "Zeikhal"(similar to a town name)....

So, I just want to thank you for your work on AC. It's had a profoundly positive impact on my life.
Recently I tried to figure out where to send a smashed TV. It was a 50”. Typically they barely sell any TVs smaller than that in the US these days. Best Buy won’t take any TVs for recycling if it’s over a certain screen size. Mine is too big. Once a year or something the town does a e-waste drop off. I’ll have to borrow a car big enough to fit this thing. It’s no wonder so many people toss them in a dumpster.
It's not clear to me how this works. Is this following Twitter handles and forwarding posts to ActivityPub?
First dent in my anti-leetcode opinions. Thanks.
Disregard my comment, I thought that guy was Alec Watson of Technology Connections.
Didn’t your engineering team have and agreement with the product manager to devote a portion of resources to tasks added to the backlog by engineering such as technical debt? You need to find a balance between new features and bugs and improvements.
If you knew anything about art, you'd know nobody wants a billion-fingered freak plastered across their chest!
If you take the climate science seriously, then you really must accept net-zero by 2050. After that, maybe net-negative.

Assuming you're an educated person, the question we must ask is if natural gas is viable to fill in the gaps from renewables in 2050. Given the net-zero requirement, that means a natural gas plant that puts its CO2 emissions back in the ground. That can make sense with direct carbon-capture and storage, but the problem is high capital costs totally undermine the low capacity factor which is why we use it today.

If we go natural gas CCS vs nuclear in 2050, maybe it's a tossup, but they're BOTH poorly suited for the job, if we're talking about solar at >50%. Daily storage will be solved fairly well by then, and seasonal energy storage will be the challenge. But nuclear is baseload.

There are interesting ideas like running nuclear to heat a vat of salt which is used as a means of energy storage so that it would work in a grid with lots of renewables. But that's peak smoothing over several days. Seasonal thermal storage has been written about but is basically crackpot stuff.

So I've kind of come around to seasonal storage of green hydrogen. The technology is at least focused on the right problem. Duration of storage and energy density arguments favor chemical energy, and low capital costs per nameplate capacity are the primary driver.
Question related to this:
Is there a tool out there that let's you spin a Medium-like text editor for your personal site? Curious to hear about HN's recommendation about whether a tool like this exists or if someone has considered building one.
Sure they were, they just didn't want to admit all their code was GPL.
Technically 4th, since there were 3 other Chinese spy balloons during the Trump presidency that they didn't even know about until later.
I wouldn't be so sure that NORAD doesn't use their "most advanced" sensor platforms. How would they be able to determine whether or not the threat was "real" before turning on their sensors? Are you suggesting that they have two tiers of sensor networks, and hold the "good" ones back for "real" threats?
I own both 401k, which is mostly in mutual funds (and which are hurt every time you try to hurt Steve Balmers of this world) and also I manage some after-tax portfolio on my own (the experience I warmly recommend to anyone who is trying to understand the effects of proposed tax changes on ordinary investors).

> And then wash trades a million dollar "paper loss" in their portfolio to cover for the $1 million they cashed out.

This scenario that bothers you is pretty much unrealistic. It’s mathematically impossible if your portfolio grows to offset each cash out with a paper loss. Especially with securities you want to hold. Usually you just sell, register an offsetting loss and forget about the losing stock.

And in your calculations you forget the price I paid into the positions. So a year ago I had $200 and put them into stocks A and B, $100 each. Today I’ve sold A for $150, B for $50, got back $200 with zero profit per year. Zero profit - zero taxes, fair?

Now I’ve decided that $200 is a bit more than I need and decided to put $50 back in the market. What to buy? Oh, B looks good at $50, let’s put $50 back there. Suddenly, the tax collector says “this purchase (spending money on the stock) turns your $0 profit into $50 profit, taxes please”. How comes?

Note that my purchase of B back is not free. I will owe taxes if I sell it for more than $50 (previously - only if I sell it for more than $100). Also, for a year any profit on B will be taxed as an ordinary income, which can be much more than 18% on a long term sale.

TLDR. “Wash sale” rule creates more harm than good for an individual investor, and any harm it inflicts on Steve Balmers of the world is inflicted on 401k’s of the working people.
The Risks of the Wim Hof Method: Breathwork, Anxiety and the Nervous System
If I recall rightly, hydrogen leaks out of the balloon so fast because of the change in pressure at high altitudes. Not a problem at lower ones, but way up I seem to recall that it is.
It's a Twitter-to-Mastodon mirror. From their source page, https://sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ -

> Bird.makeup is a way to follow twitter user from any ActivityPub service. The aim is to make tweets appear as native a possible to the fediverse, while being as scalable as possible. Unlike BirdsiteLive, bird.makeup doesn't use official twitter api, but the undocumented frontend api, just like nitter.net, which doesn't have rate limiting.
Bageshwar Dham Sarkar: The Indian guru making headlines over 'miracle' cures
Universal Tracking Back – Data Still Destroyed