skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The font parsing code was ported to 100% safe rust (other than the C FFI), and was 10-15% faster to run than its Cpp predecessor.

Make of that what you will.
It seems like it, which is a bit of a change in direction for them. I've poked at the data from the clojure side in the past (inspecting objects), just to learn how it works, but the license was strongly worded against reverse engineering.

I've also taken a look at generated clojure bytecode. It looked like the codegen is pretty straightforward with minimal optimization. It looked like it wouldn't be too hard to reverse with maybe a little bit of backtracking (essentially a parsing problem, I believe). You'd then need a separate step to redo the macros.

It sounded like it might be a fun little project (just to see if it can be done and try my hand at decompiling), but I would have wanted to decompile datomic to make it interesting and the license precluded that.
In the coming months, all these idiotic hot takes are going to get washed away by the raging sea of value transformation that is generative AI. No one will even have the strength to stand up in the surf to blabber on like this. The amount of naive reactive denialism is embarrassing.
>Since 1974, the Census of Agriculture
has defined a farm as any place from
which $1,000 or more of agricultural
products were produced and sold, or
normally would have been sold, during
the census year.

That's a weird definition.

Acres of contiguous land controlled by a single owner is how people tend to use the word farm.

In reality, farmers are often equipment owners and negotiate with landowners to manage X acres.

None of this discussion is worth wile in referencing farms.

Best could be said : a farmer who has to service equipment equal to a 400 acre farm benefits by laws protecting their farm equipment.
It's mostly non-sense in North America. In places like Japan, Korea, it makes a ton of sense. High population density, with relatively little arable land.
To me, the subtlety is specifically mentioning money. "I'll pick up the check" feel more tacky than "on me". Both explicitly imply I'm paying, but the first says I'm paying for you, and the other says that I'm doing this for you. I know that a hairline difference, but for me it makes is seem less explicitly transactional and more like reciprocity.

The second example doesn't seem as bad, becuase the cost of the cottage won't go down if you don't show up. But it would be softened further if the mention of money were out of the picture--"I have a cottage for the weekend" versus "I rented a cottage"

This to me goes back to a very old-fashioned prejudice that discussion of money is a bit vulgar.
A century largely without government provided social benefits and with minimal taxation.

The local, state, and federal tax in 1910 was $380 per capita (adjusted for inflation!) compared to >$20,000 per capita today.

Government revenue has increased from 7% of 500B in 1910, to 35% of 20 trillion in 2020 in inflation adjusted dollars. This means that real, inflation adjusted taxes have increased ~200X.
How could it possibly? They aren't a party to the transaction.
The Atlantic is a waste of time.
On a boat the rudder is technically the blade that cuts through the water and the tiller is the thing that gives you enough leverage to apply force to control the direction of the rudder as it passes through the water; sometimes quite a lot of force is needed! Only quite small boats have tillers that you can directly manipulate. Larger boats typically have a wheel which controls hydraulic rams which manipulate the ‘tiller’
the fact that this post is downvoted shows how much of a bubble HN is, lol.
Good: https://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boos....

College requirements have too many false positives and false negatives.
Price Tunisa
A page web that I made to track all Fruits, Vegetables and Fishes prices in the Tunisian Market.
So traditionally, the eukaryotes are organized into Fungi, Plants, and Animals plus Protists which are basically a waste bin taxon for everything else, so it's not surprising at all that there is going to be some radically divergent groups in there.
While this behavior is joyous and enjoyablefor you, not everyone may share your point of view. Some find joy in paying their own way. Let others choose for themselves instead of deciding for them.
Streisand effect engaged.
I definitely agree, specifically because of software improvements (not because Moore's Law will make it that cheap).

Conversely, it wouldn't make a lot of sense to predict that it will always be as expensive as it is today.

Well, I guess "pennies" is a radical prediction. Cheap, anyway.
Immigration to many other countries is not that much prettier
not sure that's a ringing endorsement, given all the other things Red Hat believes in.
Toq: A simple and lightweight RPC protocol and implementation in pure Ruby
If it was meaningless, how were you able to respond to it cogently?
"This site uses features not available in older browsers."

It is difficult to express the degree of my frustration with C2 being rewritten from a gunmetal HTML page that worked everywhere into an inaccessible heavyweight SPA mess with a frankly bizarre UI.
There's an issue with how the census defined a farm.
My most charitable explanation is that these topics do not lead to any novel discussions and instead creates flame wars between the pro and anti visa people for no benefit.
Ocean floor is a different kind of problem, and Antarctica (and Greenland) have settlements.

But for similar reasons, I think we should aim for the Moon before Mars: closer, so when (and it is "when" not "if") something goes fatally wrong, it will be easier to get help.

That said, if Starship delivers on Musk's vision, we'll probably get both.
"As you go through life, take time to monetize the roses."

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/issue-cartoons/cartoons-s...
Ask the Flash game community
Any good reason why or are they using Rust for brownie points
There was a lot of change-the-world ideology around bitcoin ten years ago. No it has not lived up to those perfect visions.

I don't think it is irrevocably broken. I for one think there is still a lot of potential in cryptocurrencies and public blockchains. I believe a credibly neutral store of value not in the control of any nation state is something that benefits the world.

Why can't we celebrate what is good and try to fix what is bad?
I mean, nothing legally prevents Americans from moving from one state to another. States can’t close their border “until our infrastructure can handle it.”
Additionally it's hard to blame the Fed for overreacting to the COVID crisis because they had to act quickly and previously they haven't been able to rely on sensible fiscal policy.

Fed deployed the tools they had then and they are doing the same now, thankfully taming inflation is something they have more experience with vs pandemics.
It's useful for some things but not others.

For example, I used it to help me know how to adjust some things with matplotlib that I hadn't used in years. I wasn't even sure what to type into google to get good results, looking over the docs would have taken longer than the time I spent with ChatGPT.

Like how we all learned how to search with Google early on, the same thing is going to happen with LLMs. They are certainly better at handling the questions and clarification for refinement, something we often do with each other. When they start responding with questions for clarification, rather than just spitting out whatever, that will be a nice step forward.
But is uscis depending on the extra revenue flow to fund other sections. Since uscis is not tax payer funded it’s fee funded. Just wondering
Inflation is an existential risk? When have we ever seen global hyperinflation?
Once a certain level of manufacturing competence is distributed throughout the world this need no longer exists. Information travels faster than freight.
Thrush is a fungal yeast infection that's almost universal for most people -- you're going to have these critters living on or in you eventually anyways.

And it's not an issue unless you're immunocompromised or otherwise highly vulnerable. It's not an issue for most people.
Yeah, I was/am planning to do that. But... the project giving us trouble is still on 0.9.11 and another project that is on latest doesn't seem to be having the same issue, so some more testing is needed. At the moment, we're going to rebuild using the older base image and then we'll upgrade the gem and test this sprint.
Because if everyone were honest with themselves they'd see H1B is just a tool to depress american IT/developer salaries. There is no shortage of Americans looking to fill these roles.
The same people pushing coins are pushing 'AI'.
Yes. You use edible things in preparing or cooking food (which may happen in the kitchen). 'Use' maps to food prep (the act) but never to prep location. Only in cases where the thing has both general edible and food preparation usage -- "I use honey extensively in the kitchen" for example -- does "use" and "edible" make sense.
Wow that's very cool. The resulting super flat images of the trains is really interesting -- like taking a photo from immense distance
Ask HN: Good or Bad Idea?
We're thinking of creating a tool to help you save money on SaaS subscriptions. My cofounder and I personally have lost thousands to companies we didn't use. What do you think?
Looks like it was a “paywall bypass” for GPT-3.5/GPT-4 through vulnerable third parties. DMCA forbids access control circumvention, among other things, so seems like a takedown is expected.
Yeah, looks like the author took a random debayering filter and then called it a day.
> there's a sense of stress and urgency that doesn't let up until they've repaid

Which then only causes the same thing to happen to whomever they’ve now ‘repaid’ to. There’s this weird network of gift giving between all the moms in our street that all feel obliged to each other for our kids playing together (they were in their house for 30 minutes? Oh no, better prepare a gift!).
Flash games knew their limit and could easily be redistributed. Most online JS games are total hell to save/archive and most are lost to time when their host rips it down.
The difference is that your C++ checks are executed at runtime. Rust's borrow-checker rules ensure this occurs at compile-time, before you ever run any code.
Added as a Kagi bang! Love it.
> Don't even need to show a birth certificate

Fun fact: Trump rode birtherism all the way to the presidency, then never showed his own birth certificate.
Seeds are absolutely random and some of them can't be solved. I've had people complain about it but I consider it to be another aspect of the challenge of this game because there are cues you can notice that tell you if it's not possible to solve it.

Yeah, you went the extra mile spinning up a local server :)

If the trip you're taking is not a long one, you can just make sure to load the page while you still have reception. The game doesn't make any AJAX requests or load any resources after that and prevents the default 'pull-to-refresh' gesture so if you don't refresh the page accidentally, it'll stay available.
Github first disables the repo as soon as the report is received, and then waits for a response/appeal from the user before any further action is taken.
They also killed off larrabee right before the GPU market took off. Even if they were behind on it there was so much potential.
Built my own app for tracking my exercises using a phone arm band, the gyro, accelerometer, and the camera to create a model for rep counting and tempo. I got tired of the mental effort of counting reps. This graphs the strongest signal using an fft and some custom algo to determine the best signal to use. Works pretty well and backs up my own internal count. I promised myself I would only build it for me so I would actually build it as opposed to getting a mental block by building it for others.

My long term vision was to open it up to others and mine the data to determine what the ideal weight, tempo, resting period, and exercises were for a particular body type. I'm just a little too ADHD to commit to it and keep a day job.

https://swolereport.com/
simply stage a revolution
To me it sounds like that was always the plan after initial test. They just didn't have time to finish building it. And seems like they didn't expect to be as bad as it was. That happens when you run do a test. Sometimes you get things you don't expect.
Hear me out, first you get some cows…
This article is very insightful and applicable in many areas. For example, this paragraph explains why hiring is broken:

> Whether we realize it or not, we’re always making calls like this. Whenever we demand certificates, credentials, inspections, professionalism, standards, and regulations, we are saying: “this is a weak-link problem; we must prevent the bad!”

Small companies have an advantage when it comes to hiring since they often don't have a very formal process and can go about it strong-link style. Specially if the company is a startup pursuing product-market fit, going after people with outstanding skills can be very rewarding.

On the other hand, once the company grows there will be an HR department with a structured process. It operates in the weak-link style, which is aligned with the incentive structure, given that the HR personel will be remembered for bad hires, but probably won't get extra points for finding rough diamonds.
> AI generated content is on the rise. How can you be sure what you're reading is 100% human?

Why is that a concern?
When you read a newspaper, how can you be sure what you're reading is 100% true?
When you watch the news, how can you be sure what you're watching is 100% true?

What matters is not to have a "verification badge", what matters is to educate yourself to know what to take and what to discard regardless of its source of origin.
Lack of stable work is also an issue. I have the income to be building wealth, but every time I have to find a new job, it takes 5~6 months. I lose a lot of money in that time. Insurance costs two to three times my mortgage. On top of that, I'm not contributing to any retirement accounts while I'm out of work.

I'm single with no children living in a cheap house in Ohio. I also don't have any debt beyond my mortgage. My 401k is maxed out. Roughly 25% of my net income goes into my savings, which I only touch for things like a new roof. And I still can't manage to secure my future retirement.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-2...

I think your underestimating the scale of animal agriculture.
You're not wrong, but I think this misses the point.

Even retail knew they were estimated to post a loss. I'm guessing something in the earnings report was "less bad than expected" in order for the stock to be up 5% today?
I like money tho....
How would the tool save you money? Can you explain it?
Do you have a specific example of "value transformation" where generative AI is going to have an impact?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-70-of-all-security-bugs...

https://alexgaynor.net/2019/aug/12/introduction-to-memory-un...
If I got special access, paid travel and hotel I'd certainly make more of it and write more in-depth than this author. What they did write could easily have been written using just Google searches about Panasonic.
A big reason why Bavarian beer is so good is the Reinheitsgebot. Exactly defined high quality ingredients and exact recipes for brewing.
Ah, I didn't realize it was a different project. Either way, it seems like they share the same problem.
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>there is no viable alternative

There is an alternative. Vote in the primaries for whatever party is dominant in your district/state. And encourage your friends to do so. Primaries tend to be thinly-attended, and the people who currently vote in them tend to be the most active (read: extreme) voices for their side. They're the reason why general elections seem to boil down to two bad choices; it's because the crazies get to pick who's on the ballot. If you're not voting in primaries, then you're ceding all that power to extremists.
Only like 4% of Americans are making that much anyway - median income for 25-34 year olds is ~70-80k
Yes you're right. But then you're doing that by analyzing the implementation, not treating it as a black box.

Personally I think we (software developers) should do more of that - i.e. take implementation details into account when designing tests, instead of treating components as black boxes, and when we change those implementation details, examine the tests to see what assumptions were made that now need to change. It's harder but it's closer to really proving something general about the code.
Growth in productivity is driven by technology, not quality of labor.
Since money is continuously devalued by inflation, wouldn't profits of every company always be expected to be at "record" levels even if the business had 0% growth?
You would save so things don't get worse. At least so that if you get laid off or your boss gets replaced with someone terrible, you can live off your savings until you find a new job.
“Strangled by fascism?” Care to elaborate what you mean?
If they've actually reverse engineered I see no reason in this going anywhere.
Well, thank you very much for that helpful bit of advice.
Interesting to confirm what most people suspected
If sex can be plotted as a bimodal distribution, then what do you believe is on the y-axis, and how do you measure this variable?
Is there really a “too late” here? GPU sales today are probably a small fraction of future AI (TPU?) chip sales. Seems like Intel should be racing in this direction no matter how long it takes them to catch up, no matter how unprofitable it is in the short term. But maybe there’s something fundamental that ensures they’ll never catch up?
The USA benefits greatly from its international position. That position isn't borne from natural order, but from wielding the USA's strengths - including military strength. Arming allies is part of that, and it is especially smart when they fight those who threaten the USA or the USA's allies. Isolationism is a quick way to lose power so, even if all you see is budgetary accounting, the purpose of hard power should be clear to you.
This has been used countless times by OSINT investigators to out Russia's covert activities, such as Novichok poisonings of Navalny and Skripal, identifying most operatives by cross-referencing e.g. flight record, passport, property and even taxi databases sold in Russia, sometimes overtly and sometimes covertly.
I love chatGPT shell. 良い！
Q: 'I present to you a present of being present in the present. What have I done?'

A: 'Your sentence also uses a clever play on words! In this sentence, the word "present" is used in multiple ways:

As a verb, "I present" means that you are giving or showing something.
As a noun, "a present" refers to a gift or something that is given.
As an adjective, "present" describes the feeling or experience that you are currently having.
"In the present" refers to the current time or moment.
So, your sentence means that you are giving a gift or offering of the experience of being mindful and aware of the current moment. Well done!'

I would argue that this is a fairly sophisticated modeling of this specific variety of linguistic ambiguity. Probably lies within GPT4's 32% performance score.
> just walk into any college classroom in America...

America isn't the world. Walk into any classroom outside the US and you'll see something very different.
That's very nice of you.

Why don't you make a free iOS version of SyncThing? There's a lot of people out there who would appreciate it.
I meant "why haven't they gotten in legal trouble for it?" more so than "why do people still buy from them?".
Doesn't the DMCA have an exception for reverse engineering if it's for the purposes of compatibility with other programs?
Study in mice finds fathers' social experience influences sons' sperm quality
Of course it does, Christianity must have appeared progressive in the first few centuries...now it's as conservative as you can get, at least in the Western world.
Had the same issue a while back, had a hell of a time figuring out why one of my screens would flicker or shut off momentarily whenever my girlfriend sat down at her desk (which is next to mine). Even initially figuring out that it was the act of her sitting down that caused it took some time, with a lot of jokes about her telepathically messing with my setup in the meantime.

Turns out that the gas piston in her chair (not an IKEA chair in this case) has a bit of "give" to cushion oneself when sitting down, and that compression caused some kind of electromagnetic pulse (I assume?) strong enough to mess with the monitor.

I do wonder if it's perhaps bad for the monitor's lifespan, but it only affected my cheapest one, and with the cause found I can live with it.
JMon – A simple canary/synthetic check application
Hi all,

I've been working on a YAML-based synthetic check tool and wondered about your thoughts :)

The idea is to provide a tool that provides:

* Scalability (agents are run and checks are distributed among the agents)

* Web interface for viewing status and results

* An option to use chrome/firefox based selenium tests, or simple requests library, where possible - allowing JSON health check endpoints to be more quickly checked than full selenium page checks.

* A Terraform provider to deploy checks via application deployments

* A (POC) chrome plugin that will generate the check YAML from the browser

* S3 for storing artifacts (docker-compose using minio)

It uses a postgres database with rabbitmq for scheduling checks.

The UI is very much a work-in-progress (so apologies).

Look forward to hearing any feedback :)
MeatBeast (TM) from Imperium Galactica. Way better than engineered fungus that predated it. :)
I mean, this is pretty incredible: https://research.facebook.com/blog/2023/4/every-tree-counts-...
This is the first comment I've seen in this thread that would actually buy/consume this product. As a meat eater, I am incredibly opposed to this product.
Only a day? This has been my go-to time killer for the last 5 years!

On a serious note, you're welcome, glad you enjoyed! :)
That's not an alternative to the two parties. That's just voting for the other one in primaries.

FWIW, I already do this.
> Indian movie theatres just forcibly introduce a break in Hollywood films so that they can send people to the concession stands and restrooms.

Is this still the case? It's been probably over 10 years since I saw a movie in an Indian theater, so my memory is hazy.
It was during a two week long sailing course.
In what language the code is generated?
Releasing code to use undocumented APIs is speech, and is regulated as such

You have to run the code to violate the terms of use, which is primarily used to bar you from the service for misusing it.
Over a month ago, I launched a Bitcoin marketplace for electronics that was called BitSuuq. Now the name has been changed to Silicon Exchange with more categories and has a lightning option.
It can be in some locations, if you're willing to take the limitations.

Minneapolis has a decent network: https://go.minneapolismn.gov/final-plan/bicycling/all-ages-a... (but of course you have snow half the year).

Cars are very useful, and they even exist in Europe; the reasonable best one ca do is work out a non-car commute and use it less - but it is possible to be entirely car free in many American cities (especially if you're willing to be in a smaller town that you can literally walk across).