skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the second time that I came across an algorithm in Knuth’s books that is brilliant and should be used more widely but somehow was forgotten. Maybe I should actually read the book… It’s just really hard to see which ideas are good and which ones aren’t. For example immediately after sketching out Shar’s algorithm, Knuth spends far more time going over a binary search based on the Fibonacci sequence. It’s faster if you can’t quickly divide integers by 2, and instead only have addition and subtraction. So it’s probably useless, but who knows? When reading Knuth’s book, you have to assume that most algorithms are useless, and that the good things have been highlighted by someone already. Luckily for people like me, there seem to still be a few hidden gems.

Oh the irony, considering that fibonacci hashing is another of those forgotten algorithms, see yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35739629
I don't think Ding is quite at Carlsen's level, but maybe being World Champion will inspire him to get even better. I wish someone would sponsor an unofficial match between Ding and Carlsen. Only FIDE can organize an official match for the title.
Oh. Well, even more reason to make sure you use proper dithering.
true.... 20 odd years ago, i actually preferred .net over .com
float: left taught me to never skimp on understanding the things you're using to try do the things your doing!
You mean like Europe's use of Pegasus?

https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/europe-spyware-scandal-...
Excellent example of workers knowing what’s best yet having less than zero control over it (at best setting precedence that it was a waste of time to combat unjust hierarchical decision making through hard work and advocacy without role based power). A bigger change is needed without waiting on those who achieve power to change their minds for a min
Does anyone have any information on the Hopi prophecies quoted in the article and in the film? Are they documented elsewhere? It seems a little suspicious to me that the Hopi text so closely matches 1970s American environmentalism/anxiety about nuclear weapons. I suspect there has been some creative translation.

I actually wrote to the linguist listed in the Koyaanisqatsi credits for the original text in Hopi and he said he couldn't find it....
Wagner’s Prigozhin Warns He’s Ready to Withdraw from Bakhmut
As the guy who started the thread, I'm just glad to have provided an (accidental) portal into a whole new subdomain of HN community expertise.

We've ended up with the perfect mix of helpful insights, provocative theories, well-documented personal experiences (sample of one) -- and brief snark that gets reined in before it gets ugly.

Later on this year, I'll offer some thoughts about hotel bookings that can be nerd-sniped the other way -- into a discussion of Brave search
I actually think your opinion is the damaging one. Do you honestly think a world without being able to rent because we've eliminated landlords is a good one?

There are many scenarios where people would far rather rent than buy. E.g. you are trying to get to know a city to decide where to buy a house. You want to work in a city for a few years. You've just moved to a country and don't want to buy a property until you get a feel for where in the country you want to live, or maybe until you get permanent residence sorted out.

And that's not even covering cases where people don't have the money to buy yet. And no, it's not realistic to expect that people will all always have money to buy. Maybe they are young and just entered the workforce. Maybe they are an immigrant looking for a better life and came with little cash.

There has to be a rental market and thus there have to be landlords. Being a landlord does not make one "evil" or even taking advantage of people. It's needed and frankly shitty job. I'd personally never want to do it.

I'm being frank, your attitude is pretty toxic does not help the people who need the help the most.
Exactly. Nobody really knows exactly what kind of "business" Epstein was doing. It is true that he presented himself like a financier, but the source of his money is actually unknown, other than the money that was provided by Les Wexner.
I was going to post a few pics on Facebook today but it just hung. In the dev console was a repeated CORS error, over and over again.

Really Facebook, you don't test your fundamental feature on Firefox?
That just sounds like celebrity, and a celebrity that might come from the fact that there’s only one Yao Ming, not a bunch of them. That seems to work against your supposed argument that NBA should want larger NBA-minority groups.

I don’t think the modern push for diversity means hire a few token members of each minority and them reap their celebrity status.
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If delta V isn’t a concern, you can optimize for brachistochrone trajectories instead.
Was it? It certainly seemed cool for many years. You only had to look at how much fanbases loved to see their favourite x get verified "at last". Not every community drags rising stars down by their ankles and instead celebrates success. Especially when you consider that their favourite x would now see supposedly well-deserved placement in the algorithm without spending on ads, and what's good for their favourite x is good for them as a trickledown effect, whether that's content, better products, or more art.

Success definitely seemed cool to consumers at the time rather than the old mentality of calling them "sellouts" in years prior. It usually meant decent press coverage, notability in some way (thus impersonation was damaging), or you'd hit 50 IMDb credits.

I do however agree that the current implementation of blue checks is absolutely meaningless and lends credibility to random people, as such, I don't browse Twitter anymore as the replies to tweets are full of "experts" claiming x without sources, but the blue check seems to convince a lot of people in terms of the weight of their argument if the stats on their tweets are anything to go by.
Hi, this post is not about engaging in ideological battle. Actually it is to encourage curiosity and wonder. And I did not see anyone pick a fight nor is this egging for a fight.
Repo discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026902

[not affiliated with any of the parties involved]
Apple didn't start the smartphone market. There were smartphones for many years prior to the iPhone.
It's my guess that in the U.S. and much of the Western world that this question would tend to select for males. For my sample size of three children (2 boys 1 girl), only one, a boy, started coding very young.
> But I don’t particularly like the idea of having pick up the bill later for an activity I didn’t participate in.

The repeated grouping of morality/ethics into purely religion/judgement throughout this thread really bothers me. IMHO your argument is an argument of moral propriety of making people pay for others choices. You’re semantically choosing to not call it that is all.
Very cool.

But nearly every time I've asked ChatGPT for code, it gives me either plausible-but-wrong code, or total hallucinations (flags and APIs that could exist, but don't).
That's not really true, when I was in I was cognizant of a group of Marines that were being charged due to a request mast. They did have to request past their local unit leadership, which the process allowed for.
This. For audio/photo/video delete removes it from view but does not delete until a configurable period of time has elapsed--and changing that configuration does not alter the timer on existing stuff. Also, no deletion can actually happen without contacting the associated account which can be set to deny the delete and can be set to upload anything queued for deletion. While this will not stop them from simply smashing the phone that's likely to carry far more consequences.
Are there even pop-stars now?

Seth is right, stars in the previous century were known by everyone. Even the old-timers knew (and loathed) that bug group that invaded the U.S. in the 1960's.

For better or worse, we once had a shared cultural reference. No longer.
GM Daniel King explains games in an accessible and very insightful way on the PowerPlay Chess youtube channel.
I also can't load the images. I get a "image can't be loaded because it contains errors" error on Firefox mobile nightly and and just a failure on brave on mobile.
That is concerning. I just tried loading it on an incognito tab and the images loaded after a short delay.
Hope you find something good to eat! I made some taters and chicken.
With regard to the whistle, Ed Snowden described in his memoirs an old naval system of communication with whistles, and in particular how they could be used to signal that there were things wrong with the ship which put it in danger and warranted it promptly being taken to port for rectification.

I don't really have any independent information as to whether that or this present post's reference to Victorian policemen giving chase is more true for the origins of the whistleblower expression, but Snowden's certainly seems more apt for the act.
You live in the place already but there are inheritance matters still waiting to be settled. Or you inherit 20% along with 4 other siblings, they don't want to sell but they won't contribute or live in the place. Or you might simply not have the money for the legal process to sell. The place might need work before you could even put it on the market but you don't have the money for it.
I am talking about jumping to create a family of mobile apps that dominate the data day to day usage of mobile. They lost their chance of owning a mobile OS which they are suffering till now
None of this affects live music. All I’m really interested in is live music, be it playing or listening.

There is no dearth of gigs for solo musicians playing music for wineries, breweries, restaurants, weddings, etc, and especially here in Texas!
Aren't weaknesses in current whistleblower laws pretty well understood ? By the bureaucrats that exploit them, and by the journos that report on them ?

So have rewrites been proposed in Congress ? Or by any of Biden's people ?

Or are they ALL in on the whistleblower "protection" scam ?
that was an excellent read and dispelled the attempt to recast the phrases negation.
AI might instead significantly increase the quality of the lower 80th percentile of those 50,000 songs, though, which is a different thing.

In turn, that could widen the long tail of what people are interested in a lot.
My repeated point has been that morality != religious sin, rather the latter is a subset. I don’t necessarily agree with laws/taxes in this regard, but it’s important to understand where they come from.
That sounds a lot like the current state of credit card fraud detection in the US. Merchants, the end company you're buying from, end up holding the bag for fraud. At the other end, the payment networks for Visa and Mastercard have all the visibility, history and context, but none of the liability.
> it is time consuming and risky to determine classification level

This!

I once had the opportunity to work on a project with DoD folks to help them write software to speed up the declassification process.

I was astonished by the current manual process. Imagine a decision tree 50 pages long that you have to apply by hand to each sentence of a document to determine what can be unclassified or not.

These were such nice people and overwhelmed by the work and genuinely trying to make it better so more information could be declassified, faster.

I realized it was a hopeless task. The only real solution is to move toward a world where next to nothing needs to be classified. To do more in the open. That needs to be the vision. Laws need to be adjusted so that these crazy complicated rubrics don't need to be created at all.

[The end of the story is I opted not to join that project. LLMs provide at least some hope that they can make it somewhat better, lacking the changes at the legal and organizational level that I mentioned]
There is a materialist sense of it too
Falcon 9 Block 5 is literally the most reliable rocket of humanity as of today (the longest streak of successful launches ever), and on the top of it, partially reusable and fairly cheap to launch. It took several explosions (that you seem to consider "sloppy") to get there, but the result exceeds anything that competition came up with.

There is an adage that people who love sausages shouldn't visit the meat plants where these are made. This is harder to do with the development process that SpaceX uses, given that it is all over the news and you can't easily escape the sight. But please do not confuse the development process with the end product.

As of now, Starship is in the not-even-beta phase. Its current problems have no relation to how the mature rocket will perform.

Note that, unlike other vendors, SpaceX didn't dare to launch human crew with their Falcon 9 until they were very sure that the rocket performs well and has a very good launch record. Compare this attitude to many other human-rated vehicles that actually killed astronauts. Nothing sloppy or rushed there.
Related: https://grabbyaliens.com/
The issue with that is that Meta doesn't really want a younger audience. Quest2 is already extremely popular with kids, but Meta's "age 13" requirement for accounts doesn't allow many of them on their platform. Their Horizon Worlds "Metaverse" even had an age 18 limit for the last few years (seems to have been lifted in the US just days ago, still present in most other countries).

Killing the Oculus name was another bad choice here. They were on their way to become the new "Nintendo". People started to refer to everything VR gaming related as "Oculus", but Facebook wanted VR to be about Metaverse, not gaming, so Oculus got killed.
> is that the health sciences are not good at determining the effects of almost anything in the future

For this particular case I think the real problem is that no one really spent much effort seeing the effects of particular PFOAs in cell culture prior to marketing it. We've had cell culture for over 100 years, so this lack is basically because people either didn't even think about it, or didn't care thanks to dollar signs or greater fear of another threat (household fires).
Probably marketing as portable and full range are different markets/consumers. Could also be due to volume. Full ranges might be manufactured at a smaller and less efficient scale. It's also possible that they have better components, are more durable, have more features and more power. Induction cookers can cook faster than gas.
I personally wouldn't put too much stock in this.

Just because you wrote a ruby script at 19 doesn't mean you actually started programing then.
I think what you & the other downvoters are illustrating is:

You can only be a 'whistleblower' if you're on MY side.
its not a problem with the software, its a problem with the web site adding features that only work with the newest browser, without any fallback for older browsers.
Personally, I wouldn't register any TLD that costs over $20/year for a side project.
calling people dumb is also a really bad sales pitch.

the problem with nanny-state types is they're just terrible at convincing anyone of anything, which is why they're always so upset at everyone else for being so dumb and ignorant.

"i didn't call you dumb, i said this is a dumb take!"

the problem with nanny-state types is ...

anyway, i'm going to go cook some factory farmed pork bacon on my gas range and then hop into my pickup truck and drive about an hour to go visit my parents in the suburbs, catch you later.
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Golembrands. The flesh may move but there is no soul.

Cute article Trev.
In other words, you don't have any basis for that number you threw out.

Can there be a whistleblower exposing some official you like? Please give some examples of those.
> Then that's on you.

you say that like I am the only person who does this.

> When 90% of users are on the newest version within a couple weeks, that's not "bleeding edge".

[citation needed]
> No way I'm throwing out my 20 years old stove to save 2 minutes boiling water

A normal electric stove isn't even going to be two minutes slower to boil. Depending on the stoves in question, the resistive stove might even be faster to a boil than the gas stove, even if the gas stove is rated for more BTUs.
It's speculation at this point. Just depends on whether people think the water cost of lithium mining is more than the sale price of the lithium. Either that or the government isn't doing its job.
> Multiple European governments are using advanced surveillance tools to spy on their own people

As I've already answered you on another comment and as the very first line of the article you shared points out, Pegasus has been used for domestic espionage. The issue at hand is foreign espionage.
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Sure, but other than Apple no one has the tight integration needed to make that happen. If Apple leans into their CoreML stuff they have a real opportunity to steal the market from Nvidia.

Long term maybe Nvidia is able to release release some integrated ARM chip, but I’m not holding my breath.
I came across this book Estrogeneration which covers this stuff and more. Haven't read it yet but bottom line he gives this site link where he provides products he has researched and likes. He does recommend a reverse osmosis machine etc.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Estrogeneration-Estrogenics-Making-Si...

[2] https://www.ajconsultingcompany.com/whatiuse.html
Manufacturing consent vs. force. People will not give up ICEs or meat agriculture willingly, even if it's killing us.
Ah, you think that the EU spies on their own citizens but is above spying on allies? Allies not OK, citizens OK?

Like how Denmark helped the US spy on the EU?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/denmark-helped...

Yes, EU nations are somehow totally incapable of a thing every country is doing. That is naive.
It signals the authors incompetency and is a red flag their code is a bug ridden hot mess caught up in ego stroking bullshit.

Simple, easy, lightweight - any project with that in the name is a sprawling trashpile.
It appears to generate 30 tokens/s on iPhone 14 pro: https://i.imgur.com/AWTXtGA.png

But for some reason it dramatically slows down after a few messages

Edit:

Oh no, this one also gives lectures instead of answering questions.

https://i.imgur.com/eiuGzK4.jpg

I'm afraid, in near future the only organic content on the internet would be only the type of content that LLMs refuse to generate.
This training method is called Progressive Overload and it is data-backed to develop muscle and strength.

Lower weight and reps are good for cardio but real strength comes from pushing your muscles beyond capacity.
We need people ready to serve the country. Not play cozy with friends.

Nominated to work in the govt ? Elected public official ? Great! Every penny beyond your average high income (best 5-10 income avg?) is taxed at 99% for life.

Working in the government should not be a way to enrich yourself and friends... or make a "career".

Its called public service for a reason. Its not private enterprise. Its not arbitrage. Its not patronage. Not to enrich yourself and your buddies.
Question from a noob: how good would it be to run those on a computer with AMD APU (for example Ryzen 9 7940HS) with 128GB RAM and setting aside 64GB for iGPU?
We already seen a lot of AI generated art recently. But these were just pictures. What about AI generated music? There are substantial differences between music and pictures:

- For artistic pictures there is no pop. They do not have nearly the same popularity as music.

- Music follows changing fashions and even progress of some sort. Each time period (e.g. decade) comes with distinctive music styles, and while there are some revivals, usually they do not repeat. Artistic pictures are much more static in comparison, at least in the last few decades. Pictures are influenced by available tools (e.g. Photoshop and graphic tablets), but a painting today doesn't look markedly different from a painting 30 years ago.

Since music follows fashions, just imitating past music genres may not be as popular as it is popular to imitate existing art styles with Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. But imitation is exactly what current generative models do. Which may ultimately limit the popularity of fully AI generated songs created by amateurs. Musicians may still have an edge by using AI tools to create new music styles.
This advice extends far beyond free libraries (and the linked article makes no indication that it's specific to that context). I've encounter all kinds of B2B SaaS docs full of worthless bloat, and I've written docs in the face of pressure from product teams who want to turn documentation into a Look How Cool We Are showcase.

And docs can be clear and straightforward without reading like stereo instructions—you can convey plenty of personality through tone and voice.
its a very good extension, but i really dont like long tld's i prefer 2 or 3 char max.
but as pointed out in other comments... it shouldnt matter at all at this stage.
I believe it's this: https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_recipes (MIT) combined with https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_tools (GPLv2). Although as a drive-by observer, if the quality of those "recipes" (and the idea that one needed to cowboy up some shell scripts to build all that stuff versus using a more formal build system) is any indication, I am for sure not the target audience of this project

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I also had no idea one could have "No commit message" since git has always given me the finger:

$ git commit --allow-empty -F/dev/null
Aborting commit due to empty commit message.

Looking at the commit <https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_recipes/commit/0cf2...> I'm guessing it may be some `git am` trickery at work since `git am` does cheerfully apply apply the commit if the subject line is just `[PATCH]`
What proportion of new housing is built for "poor people" to live? I was under the assumption that most new developments are aimed at the mid/high end of the market which makes older buildings more accessible to low income households.

Also induction stoves are quite cheap nowadays (in relation to the overall cost) so it would seem absurd for me to get a resistive one even if you could save $100-200
Many of Amazon practices I find questionable, and I think unsustainable in a long term. Unfortunately legal frameworks does not put enough pressure on them to change. Vote with your money, I was able reduce my amazon purchases to 2-4 a quarter and use other online/offline retailers.