skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone here interested in Konstantin Tsiolkovksy and living near LA needs to go to the Museum of Jurassic Technology as they have an exhibit on him. I knew about Tsiolkovsky and when I saw his journals I thought it was a joke. But it was not and I was blown away by how much he predicted. Take for instance this picture from his "Album of Space Travel" (drawn in 1933):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsiolkovsky_Album_44...

He anticipated what spacesuits would look like, what EVAs would look like:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/page-from-tsiolkovsk...

There was so much more in that museum from his journals which isn't available online. I saw pictures of spaceships with layouts accounting for the lack of gravity, dinner parties in space, I am not a good enough writer to do it justice.
> CFO Max Bowman attributed the monopolist's good fortune to "significantly higher selling prices" and "our ability to adapt to inflationary market pressures." Cal-Maine's stock is up 47% from a year ago – a record high.

From eggspensive thread. I think this is the first egg 'price gouging' event in my lifetime. Its the opposite of 'long term trend' that you say is necessary for stock price bump.
I really disagree with the sockets bit. Sockets are designed for networking, with a particular focus on IP. Not IPC.

I for one think that the 'absurd thing' is that IPC is not built into OS as a core feature. That, and process isolation. Both sockets and shared memory are quite problematic and the challenge of 'true IPC' that works nicely with threads etc. is real.
> Native car navigation is a superficial value-feature not a use feature

I thought the same thing until I owned an EV. Using the car's navigation is essential for road trips that involve charging along the way. Maybe some day Google Maps et al. will gain access to API's to read the car's current charge and enough information to accurately predict charge along the route, but for now I have completely changed away from using 3rd party nav and rely only on the native vehicle nav.
The idea that your computer would be faster or easier to use if it didn't have any animations seems untrue. Providing physicality is good! Helps you understand how things are changing between two different states.
where did you get this understanding? this is definitely, 100% wrong, C++ coroutines are not backed by threads at all (or by anything really since as of C++20, the language only provides the building blocks for making your own coroutine / generator types and not actual implementations).
Need to compare this with custom silicon like Apple will be shipping.
They already have the Neural Engine chip which can run Stable Diffusion, but eventually you could imagine casting a specific model instance to an ASIC (say GPT-3.5 or -4, today).

If most devices are replaced within a year or two then you get a pretty good cadence for updating your Siri model (and even more incentive for users to upgrade hardware).
This incident is from 2016 though. But you’re right, it would be a lost cause to challenge QI in the current climate. Thing is that the Supreme court ballance was tilted quite badly for the foreseeable future
Low lighting... when?

My kids are mostly in bed by the time this matters to me, at least in the winter months. And I'd like to think they get plenty of lighting during the day, as we kick them outside for some period of time every day, regardless of weather (bundle up in the winter).

We have a well windowed house (just not in the OS sense), so it's rather bright in there - when the sun is up. And I don' think LEDs matter when the sun is up. I think they do matter after the sun is down, when I'm careful about light.

So if you've got some studies arguing that "bright light indoors, after the sun has gone down, is important to children," please - link them so I can read them.
> you've got to look at percentages here

Exactly. Just because you have a bunch of kids smoking doesn't mean the anti smoking advice and practices don't work on most of them.
Are there any light fittings that contain a filter for blue light?

Edit: or why don’t manufacturers put ‘blue light filters’ in to the plastic diffuser many LED bulbs have?
My daughter is really enjoying it so far going through 5th grade math and working into algebra.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34894922
This is one of those things that while true and useful, I personally don't realize or think of it until just after I need it. It's always frustrating to get to a destination without signal and need to plot the return trip, or try to make adjustment in the middle of a dead zone and realize you don't have maps.

I keep an atlas in my back seat just to be safe now.
Cory Doctorow is no expert on the US egg/chicken industry. He's writing political opinion pieces here. Occasionally he writes science fiction. He also has big problems with hyperbole in his work.

The egg price spiked almost a year ago because we've been dealing with H5N1 since over a year ago and it has only gotten worse since.
Won nearly every single coding jam (8/9) he was in, highest code force rating of all time, 6x consecutive IOI gold, yea he’s the cut and dry winner.
>I think AI generated copyright should be 'pay-to-register', people can pay say $5 per image to register their image, if they believe it to be valuable enough to be copyrighted. In this sense, its more like trademarks, rather than the automatic moral right of copyright.

I like this idea so much, it should be extended to all copyright.

Not only does it make very clear when something was "published", we could have a central repository of copyrighted works you could search and review.

All work published after 2025 is public domain unless resisted with the global copyright office.
"beautiful isa"? you've seen x86, right?!
If we’re not there yet we’re pretty darn close. I recently spoiled myself with a new PC build with all of the latest gen stuff… I have 12 core that boost to 5.7Ghz, 5200MHZ RAM, 80Mb L3 Cache, etc. DDR6, PCIE5 is all a significant leap that has tangible impact on daily driving, but doesn’t really affect the rendering pipeline in a substantive manner.

It’s the Nvidia 4070Ti and Cyberpunk 2077 that makes me have hope in ray tracing. DLSS 3 and frame generation are wild stuff- it’s rendering a lower resolution than app sampling with AI shaders for this incredible performance that looks better than it should. It’s actually quite good at filling in details and making an already glorious Night City really come alive. I was looking at a generic control panel in it this evening and it looked pretty good, the got closer and could see the gauges, weathered labels below important buttons, and even the values the needles were pointing to.

The CPU, motherboard, 64GB RAM and a fancy watercooler were all had for $1000, and another $900 for the new GPU. According to Geekbench, it’s quite a bit faster than the latest Apple lineup too.

While that is quite a lot of money for quite a lot of people, for PC gaming I feel it’s incredibly reasonable, especially the amount of GPU I got, brand new. Good riddance, proof-of-work.

I am spoiled though. Today my 49 inch monitor arrived. I hooked it up and started playing Cyberpunk. I was getting 5120x1440 pushed at me 240 frames per second. I had no idea that I was at the last checkpoint of the game, and didn’t know what to come next. What happened next can be only be described as a great leap. I won’t soon forget it.

I think we have arrived.
Poll finds record support for Japanese reactor restarts
Ed Witten mastered bridge on a cruse ship , winning a tournament despite knowing nothing about it https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-02-12-19950432...

But that is not the point. My point is super-smart people can pick up and master concepts very fast.
Every single smartphone on the market uses internet-based storage as tertiary storage. You can absolutely do data manipulation on these data stores independently of client device operation, and most do (photo resolution downgrades being the most common I am aware of).

And I agree about the plumbing, but this is a discussion around the environment of primitives commonly available, and I'm merely pointing out that richer environments than posix have already failed out of the market once.
> It had the police department logo, with no mention that it was a parody.

Doesn't matter.

> But, as we now know, the vast majority of people do not fact check. They take dumb shit like this at face value, hook line and sinker.

Doesn't matter.
> All passwords are by default stored as salted SHA512 hash (5000 rounds). Attackers will have hard time to crack your passwords.

Tell me you don't know about password security without telling me you don't know about password security

> SMTP - port 25, 465 (TLS), 587

Tell me you don't follow RFCs without telling me you don't follow RFCs

> https://poste.io/doc/license

you are allowed to run unlimited count of instances for your own use only
you can't sell or distribute container images to third parties, every mailserver operator needs to have its own license

Rather take the 3 hours to just set up all that FOSS software myself and give it away to everyone for free but thanks anyway
That chart is extremelydebatable: putting CNN in with Jacobin seems odd, as does putting Epoch Times as merely "conservative".

As a conservative, I'm going to have to say this chart isn't very good.
My biggest complaint about Macs is the lack of backwards compatibility of the OS and apps. It always comes to a point when the OS won't support your hardware and then the apps won't be supported on the older OS. This has a much bigger effect with the advent of cloud services.
Well, yes, given an infinitely slow network any action depending on the network can take an infinite amount of time.

Since the discussion is around CPU hardware improvements, I don't think network speeds are too relevant.
This is how deals are done in China. You want to expose your cloud service to Chinese users? You need to partner with a Chinese company that will effectively run the cloud infrastructure, possibly run the server software, and definitely have access to all of your IP and certificates.

The real question for me is what does an ADAS system rely on the cloud for? Hopefully nothing in real time.
These seems to come from disqus integration.
I don't understand this. What does stop for a green light mean?
> It was about the 10 x unnecessary 911 calls caused by the page.

That's a problem to address by telling those people not to make frivolous 911 calls.
Humanity is a lawsuit risk, cold algorithmic process is armor.
Record highs predicted for tomorrow on the East Coast.
What amazes me about Tsiolkovsky is that he figured almost everything about space travel from first principles, such as how you would get to the moon, what kind of fuel you would use, etc. He had absolute faith that it would be done!
>The type system is objectively overhead, because it forces you to think about the types in your program, so it consumes mental bandwidth.

I don't understand this point. Types is an overhead yes, but its an overhead that you _have_ to deal with. Would typing without knowing what letters would come up be a lesser burden? Seeing the code that I just wrote seems to be an overhead too. Types is simply there to tell you what you wrote. Much like when I realized I mistyped `j` instead of `k`, I would also realize that I am trying to append an `Object` to a `number`.

> Your /dev/random example makes no sense because it would not generate a working program, so it would not be popular.

My point is that a language that will literally, and I mean literally, accept any and all source code and execute them is probably going to be popular. Just imagine a language designed with this goal in mind; to make the set of possible program in the language be the entire space of possible sequences of texts. For example,

```

00000what????;

function hello() {

world

}

```

This seems meaningless. But with that mantra in mind we can simply define that any line that is undecipherable be a declaration to an unused string. Why not? So the first line is is simply something like `let _ = "00000what????";` And the second one is simply a function that returns the string `world`. Why? Oh because its so inconvenient to put quotations to declare a string isn't it?

I think you'd agree that this language is horrible. It might be faster to get to a prototype but I personally can't imagine maintaining a codebase written in this language.

Have you considered that this is exactly what JS is like (in spirit)? It defines so many things that would otherwise not be defined in other languages. For example, what does this even mean? Without looking at the spec, tell me what it does?

```

function hello() {

1.0 + "hello"

}

console.log(hello())

```

Does this program even makes sense? Does this program makes any more sense than something like

```

"helloworld"();

```

Not even JS would compile this, but why not? Why not simply throw an exception here? Something like "function not found"? Since this clearly works

```

const a = {

"hello": ()=>{console.log("world")}

}

a["hello"]()

```

The set of possible program is JS is much, much larger than any other languages. There's so many little tricks that the language provide that makes it so powerful and so much worse.
How much do you think an executive chef at a successful restaurant in the Bay Area makes?
I do this often, namely asking myself "is there any way this could be misread or come across as ambiguous?"

Unfortunately that also trains my brain to look for ambiguity in text, which leaves me frustrated when I don't see the same amount of specificity around me.
The discoveries come from inferring,and calculating, from those laws, what is possible. What do those laws really mean? If the law is true, then it follows that this other thing must be also be true because the law expressly says it is true (or the law allows it).
>The problem is... yeah. This stuff, as I see it, is very literally killing us. Our modern civilization, in a wide range of shapes and forms, is "human toxic" - and as a random blogger in the backwaters of the internet, I see no harm in calling a spade a spade.*

Ahem, The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. From professor Ted: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
In addition to the network call data we already attached, that does go through data PII scrubbing on the edges as you mentioned, we're discussing capturing request/response body. We even talked about it today: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/issues/7103

Avoiding any PII from getting into the system is always top of mind. And we're considering this as an opt-in regardless of scrubbing on the edge ingestion service.
Technical Note TN2206: macOS Code Signing in Depth
I want to ride on the Snow Piercer train.
So this author is (rightfully) getting a lot of hate. But, "What if we replaced POSIX?" is an interesting question to me. Most people interact with POSIX through the "good parts." But, once you need to write C, which happens when you need to make low-level calls to the OS, it starts to get a little annoying. The biggest annoyance is related to memory management. A lot of the OS APIs have manual free functions, e.g. you call `create_some_os_struct` and then `free_some_os_struct`. Similarly, you end up writing a lot of your own call/free functions. This is because you need to write C to talk to the OS, but your other code is probably not in C and may not have access to the same libc your C uses. So, you need to provide an escape hatch back into your C code to free any allocated memory.

Another annoyance is that passing data between C and another language is hard. For instance, if you want to pass a Swift string in to C, you need to be careful that Swift doesn't free the string while C is using it. The "solution" to this is to have explicit methods in Swift that take a closure which guarantee the data stays alive for the duration of that closure. On the C side, you need to copy the data so that Swift can free the string if you need to keep it longer than that one block. Going from C to Swift is also a pain.

A cool thought is: what if the OS provided better memory management? What if it had a type of higher level primitive so that memory could be retained across languages? For instance, if I pass a string from C to Go, why do I need to copy it on the Go side? Why can I not ask the OS to retain the memory for me? Perhaps we need retain / release instead of malloc and free. Anyway, just a random thought.
I think a lot of companies hopped on the "data science" bandwagon when they were really looking for data monkeys. A great data scientist may have more questions than answers, challenging assumptions and sharpening domain knowledge. But leadership/PMs aren't used to having to really think hard about problems, they're used to some person fixing the spreadsheet or "go get me number... plz ".

I hope as the field builds more hierarchy and data scientists have more organization decision making power, things could improve.
De novo design of luciferases using deep learning
> Idk. I feel like this is just culture trying to make up stories for each gender to define what deviance is supposed to look like

Regardless of how much the differences are cultural or innate, gender specific outcomes certainly show up in the data. Eg, this chart from the linked article:

https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8...

> the first step to overcoming them is disregarding the stupid stories that sound true

Yeah; it would help immensely if we could teach everybody that they're essentially healthy and worthy of love. Good, consistent parenting acts as an inoculation against these problems. When we're talking about the kids with the worst mental health outcomes, they're probably disproportionally poor, and more often than not come from single parent households. I suspect more support for struggling families would make more of a difference to the mental health outcomes of kids than somehow overcoming gender norms. It seems like a much more tractable solution, too.

Convincing regular people to not buy into the expectations of their own gender sounds like a borderline impossible task.
>An IQ of 130 is probably not enough for pure maths

The average IQ among mathematicians is somewhere between 130 and 140.

I'm not debating the claim that smart people can learn faster, but like the above I am calling the specifics into question.
That's always how our ChatGPT bots message on dating sites to give fair warning that we're a 2-headed morbidly-obese octogenarian with green chicken skin.

And the screen cap profile pic from a lesser-known 80's TV show.
A better society exists in capitalism and is called "consumer surplus".
Always good to see more game engines coming out. Might I make a suggestion though. For your hero video on the site, I would expect it to be showing off the multiplayer aspect of the engine. Rendering environments, even in extreme detail, is considered table stakes for a game engine. Show off your unique selling point, making multiplayer games much easier than with a different engine.
There is a company that uses basically flash memory as an analog vector-matrix multiplier.

A custom controller sets flash bits to arbitrary values between 0 and Vcc, normal flash reading results in product calculation.
You state I have it wrong then tell me proceed to agree with me. I never said that because it’s outlawed it’s no longer practiced. I’m fully aware it’s still practiced. And while it’s lesser in big cities. And much more wide spread outside. It doesn’t change the fact it still exists and is a stupid outdated system.

After the British came the caste system got worse. They used the caste system in their government and caused a lot of people to get upset.

We could literally blame all of India’s current caste issues on the British.

The government should be demolishing the caste system entirely based on the little I know from the people I’ve spoken to. It causes more harm than good. But it doesn’t change the fact that it is outlawed.
I’m not sure I understand the distinction you’re trying to make.

1A is about protecting speech from the overwhelming power of the government to abridge it. Police arresting someone for speech is precisely that. If a violation cannot be brought to court then 1A isn’t a thing. What is a right if it cannot be enforced?
Got it up to 17 billion and it flipped to 71.135%! I’m away from my computer and can’t remember more digits.

I’m really surprised by this. I knew things converged slowly, but I didn’t appreciate how much and for how long it would move here. I’d be very appreciative if anyone calculated the number.
It's not really a time issue. It's more of a learning issue. I tutored math one-on-one and even of the smartest kids in my cohort found it hard to get calculus; there was a major learning curve for sure. No amount of time will help if the concepts do not click. Feynman-level of physics means you need to understand stuff like variationals, etc which is well above your typical calc course. Shows how truly exceptional this person is.
Could this be a good thing? Less political radicalization?
also increased co2 in closed environment is bad too
I guess my point is that although the LED lit screen was awful for your sleep, that's not to say it's an awful thing for all. When it comes to insomnia there is always a psychological component, which makes the wind-down process before sleep incredibly important. As someone who works in accessibility I can tell you that it is a fact that reading physical texts at night is going to be a big issue for a lot of people over 40 and most people over 60. It's better that they are allowed to continue with their nightly reading habit with control over font size, contrast, brightness than to say "hey figure something else out, tablets at bedtime will kill you!". the alternative is likely to eventually be an even larger screen anyways or a more physically or cognitively stimulating activity.
I thought at one point that Paul Graham and David Perell were “good” writers, then I started reading and writing voraciously. Now that I’ve read many great writers in all sorts of topics such as philosophy, business, finance, self-help, history, and many more, I cannot really appreciate these internet writers as much as I used to. In fact, I can’t really read them much without feeling they are too pretentious. But I do appreciate them helping me grow to appreciate the art form.

Maybe the author will also go down a similar path and read great books from great authors.

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Medium's got all of that and a paywall for mediocre articles. Contrast that to Substack which is really about the brand of the author and not about the brand of Substack.

It is a problem though that Substack may not be a viable business, I mean they make all their revenue from two handfuls of million dollar plus bloggers. Any of them would be better off if they left Substack, paid somebody $20,000 to mate an email newsletter script to a payment gateway, and kept all the subscription money for themselves. The remaining creators don't bring in another money to bring the lights on so sorry for them.
Yud can't be that eccentric if he's got a crowd. Especially since all their ideas are just things they read in old SF novels or old analytical philosophy papers.
Praise the stormlord!