skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://news.mit.edu/2013/when-fluid-dynamics-mimic-quantum-... https://news.mit.edu/2014/fluid-systems-quantum-mechanics-09... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrodynamic_quantum_analogs
My favorite is the images in https://thales.mit.edu/bush/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Bush-... of their experimental setup; more details in Harris's thesis: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/99068
The experience of using Linux is extremely similar across Ubuntu, CentOS, and Arch. The level of required knowledge and skill per distro varies, but the overall idea remains the same. That experience, and the experience of using ChromeOS, and Android, and MacOS, and Windows, and a Nintendo Switch, are all mutually distinct to about the same degree. The people saying 'Linux market share' are not talking about the kernel. They are talking about the degree to which the Linux Experience is a palatable one that the average consumer chooses to engage in. There is nothing Desktop Linux about ChromeOS. It uses the Linux kernel because writing their own would have been annoying. You can say that there is a definition of 'Linux computer' that includes ChromeOS, but it's not a definition that's useful for anything except feeling smug for inscrutable reasons.

NB: I dislike Linux.
Ask HN: Has your Twitter feed gotten worse?
in the last few weeks my twitter feed is no longer showing content that's relevant even from the same accounts that I followed. it's almost unusable. has anyone else ran into a similar issue?
> Proof of work, while extremely wasteful, does the job.

True, yet you could even have Proof of Work without cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is used to incentivize PoW which attracts more people to the blockchain and strengthens the network and so on.

However, one could have Proof of Work without cryptocurrency, for example, one could reward the PoW with participation in the blockchain, or in this case, have drivers PoW to be able to take rides.

> Centralization doesn't require a profit motive

Yes, I also agree that centralization doesn't require a profit motive, and a centralized solution is deal for 99% of the cases.
Microsoft exists to make money. If it made good products, it would not make money.
What language has C++ interop?
Unsurprisingly, that magnetic field is well beyond the strength required to tear apart our squishy bodies.

"Fields in excess of 10^9 Gauss, however, would be instantly lethal. Such fields strongly distort atoms, compressing atomic electron clouds into cigar shapes, with the long axis aligned with the field, thus rendering the chemistry of life impossible. A magnetar within 1000 kilometers would thus kill you via pure static magnetism -- if it didn't already get you with X-rays, gamma rays, high energy particles, extreme gravity, bursts and flares..."

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/119999/is-it-pos...
I kind of wonder the opposite.

> created: October 29, 2007

> karma: 40256

Is he not potentially under the category of "potentially starved for online HackerNews attention"?

Why does he feel the need to maintain a blog and libraries, etc. etc. and then submit it and let us all know about it?
Keep in mind that this article is extremely misleading on federal law. It claims that employees

> earn a subminimum wage with the idea that tips will get them up to the minimum wage, but that doesn't always happen.

and insinuates that often they don't make enough money because of this.

However, federal law (https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips) requires that while there is a subminimum wage, if tips plus that don't equal federal minimum, the company MUST pay the remaining to the employee. So tipping is only helpful if it gets them above the minimum wage.
It's cool watching someone I knew at uni build something that's useful for so many people, especially seeing him pop up on Hacker News from time to time!
"The server needs to be sure that it's dealing with a client capable of showing ads.. whoops no I mean a client that is human. For safety. Yep."
I’ve been working with Svelte very heavily since November of last year. It’s been a real journey with Svelte and SvelteKit over the last 7 months, seeing things change rapidly. I think one of the coolest things is that it has galvanized frameworks to become SPA framework agnostic.

Like NextAuth.js -> Auth.js
React Query -> Tanstack Query

So at the very least, I think we are probably headed towards a plurality where it is practical to use Vue, React, Svelte or Solid though I do hope Svelte “wins” in the end.

I have to say, I still don’t think it’s to the point where it can be foisted on a team of mediocre developers in some kind of enterprise setting. Some of the libraries that exist for SvelteKit that I consider super critical are very small and maintained by one or two people.

I recently took on some freelance work for the first time in like 6 years, just to work on another large SK codebase and saw a lot of the same problems I encountered approached differently. I think there’s some key things that need to make it into core still.
Right, that's the isolation I was thinking of.

Other than jquery or google font, what does that stop from caching? Most assets only get loaded from a single site.
Yes but the AMD design draws double the power even though it was fabbed on a lower process node. I mean it defeats the purpose of a portable. Now you need double the battery weight or lose half the runtime. No, the M2 still wins. If processing is the goal at the expense of portability then you can buy a nice 64 core EPYC system for $1700
You realize that even by applying your question to a sad scenario you are still asking the basic question, "How does parental involvement work," right?

Parental involvement "works" by taking an active interest in your child's activities and development. That's it.
> Why is my phone number necessary to order a bowl of chips?

Maybe as a backup for whatever unique device ID your phone gives them? The goal with QR menus right now is mostly conditioning people to accept them, but the long term goal is making it so that they can figure out who you are, what your income level is, what your eating habits are, what your order history has been, plus whatever else they feel like gathering and then using all that data to dynamically generate a menu with the highest possible prices they think they can wring out of you.

They want to make it so that when you order a bowl of chips they can charge you more than the person next to you who orders that same menu item without you ever being aware of that fact. They want to be able to adjust your prices with each visit to algorithmically determine the maximum amount you'll pay for something.

I'd suggest staying away from QR menus and rejecting the idea that discriminatory pricing is acceptable.
I appreciate when governments make an effort to build proper style guidelines for their national brand.

I think the UK has done a great job with their government website and their digital platforms. So it's good to see more governments getting into it as well.
As a Vogon Laureate you really should appreciate the poetry of this all.
AI Thinks the Constitution Was Written by AI
I’m too much of a bitchy queen to get past the author’s writing style, so I only got through a few paragraphs.

At the end of the day, the incumbents are mostly providing the APIs or the hardware to do anything significant. There may be a handful of outliers, but it seems a vast majority of AI startups these days are a new iteration of resellers.

Before, it was hosting that was resold, now it is APIs or if their customers have any gumption TPUs and GPUs, which is arguably still hosting.

I don’t see startups ruling AI.

Also, a lot of people misattribute the label of startup to established companies. I could go on a rant about tech journalists being the cause, but I’ll just say OpenAI is not a startup.
Most toilets in the US, especially commercial ones, flush with sufficient water and power to remove any residuals from the bowl. Depending on circumstances, a second flush is occasionally necessary. I have monstrous digestion and have never needed a brush to finish the job; toilet brushes here are just used for periodic maintenance, to keep things shiny.
> it’s probably very location/culture dependent

You see this class of argument often when it's pointed out that some issue is handled better in another part of the world; sometimes it seems like a posture of defeatism in the face of evidence that a better way is possible. See also: political polarization as a reason that nothing can ever get better.

Not saying that's how you mean it--I wonder, though, how we go about constructing a better culture? Are we merely victims of the culture we were given? Or are there efforts we can take to change the culture we have for the better? I'm curious what research shows about how cultural attitudes can be changed over time, either for better or worse.
> As with previous Macedonian snake cults, the focus of worship at the temple was on fertility. Barren women would bring offerings to Glycon in hopes of becoming pregnant. According to Lucian, Alexander had less magical ways of causing pregnancy among his flock as well.

Wondering what they are :)
This boring and poorly written "demo" (which is undoubtedly fake) just proves that the real writers of South Park are what make the show creative and funny.

Also, anyone planning to "run" shows this way, please just don't.
Are you in the US? I would love to host a metalcasting group here on my farm, as well as other fun activities like auto repair, lumber milling, and more. However, the potential liability involved with any of those groups has been more than enough to put me off the idea.

I have got a working metalcasting foundry in my shop that I would love to share, but the US status quo terrifies me. I do not believe that any amount of insurance would protect me fully in the event something should go horribly wrong. If something landed in court, enforcing even the most ironclad waiver or contract would be a huge and expensive gamble.

More power to those willing to burden the risk of losing their home and savings. It is an abject tragedy that this is the way things have gone.
Desktop replacement is a VM. Physical desktops stopped allowing VMs by default as an L1TF mitigation.
In my experience, GPT-4 answers "I don't know" fairly frequently.
How about haystack? It exists for long and much better architectured than langchain
If it worsens insulin sensitivity in a significant way, but that's not established in your links.

And you claim that symptoms will often worsen after a drink, right? That sounds like an aggressive effect that would be super easy to test.
> If you watch the show religiously it might dawn on you, hey, [...]

You can't watch a hypothetical game show. Let's make a deal contains a myriad of different gameplay formats.
It's laziness on my part. I read just your blog post. Had I clicked through to the tool, it clearly says it at the top. My apologies.

I'm very grateful for all the work and writing you are doing about LLMs.

Regarding your note about JSON mode with llama.cpp, I'm writing a wrapper for it on my katarismo project. It is basically the stdout suggestion from that comment, but it is working really well for me when I use it with pocketbase.

https://gitlab.p.katarismo.com/katarismo/backend
> I have a hard time understanding how the creation and distribution of the smallpox vaccine did little to save lives.

Not did little - did relatively little when compared to Hilleman, who operated on such a greater scale and developed 40+ useable vaccines. For every usable vaccine, there are dozens or hundreds that work in theory, but not in practice, for so many different issues. Hilleman didn't just solve those issues, he developed the field of solving those issues, and his methodology, techniques, and end products remain cutting edge even today. It's impossible to overstate the effect Hilleman has had on the unprecedented immunity bubble we are living in.

Jenner did great work, but it was also an advance of an existing field. Variolation existed and was effective. Vaccination was a great step forward, but smallpox deaths were declining by the time he developed the method.

I've no real issue with either of them making an arbitrary list, but I guess I consider Hilleman's body of work to be so much larger and more effective. Not at all any disparagement of Jenner, just...Hilleman accomplished that much.
React is mature. The trick is to not get distracted by shiny things. I still think the whole thing is so overblown. There’s a lot of choice, great! That doesn’t mean you can’t pretend there isn’t.
Lack of support is exactly why a focus on mercurial is a good idea. It's a clear (and arguably superior) differentiator to all git based tools.
I would happily bet that there is some 'keep Elon happy' code running on Twitter servers at the moment with the express goal of showing him the figures that he wants to see.
Are most consultants/freelancers/contractors generally working on product-side or customer-visible projects?

I have always been interested in going this route but for backend dev / infra / build/cicd kinds of things. But how can one sell or advertise that which isn't "seen" by customers unless something breaks catastrophically?
No, but we can certainly reject completely uninformed commentary.
That’s not normally referred to as a “leak” though. That’s just “hackers broke into Acme Corp., stole trade secrets”
>Between WW1 and WW2 something like 100 million people died. Haber is not a figure that should appear on this list.

OK, so instead of 1-2 billion, he's at 0.9 to 1.9 billion lives saved/enabled? You make a convincing argument for why he maybe wasn't a good person, but net, the Haber-Bosch process has enabled so many more people to live than it has enabled people to die.

That's not a moral judgement, just pure numbers thing.
Well of course. I assume it's to prove the concept safe to gain approval to fly without a person present. But here we are, no such approval, and they're expanding territory. Why? To be challenged by more diversity in delivery situations? It doesn't seem like they have a clear path to success.
Why does this website require JavaScript?
You'd think there would be a boom considering actors are on strike now.
Took the words right out my mouth, as I wanted to post a very similar comment beginning with I'm always skeptical.

Is it because we've seen so many let downs? Probably. Can't trust anything or anyone anymore.
I am suggesting that it is only logical for a company whose main advertising comes from good benchmark numbers to play games with the benchmarks. In this case, I am suggesting that they run a fine-tuning/RL pass using benchmark scores as an objective function or using a training set that otherwise looks a lot like the benchmarks. Every single other company whose marketing depends on benchmarks does the analogue of this to some degree.

And we won't know for sure that they aren't doing this until they publicly disclose details about their model and training process (like every other research org does), allowing other researchers to run replication studies.

Also, I don't appreciate the ad hominems. Comments about some unrelated "conspiracy theorist" and "vaccine discourse" add nothing to the discussion.
Yep, custom order or your shit outta luck. The 8GB is... fine, but not really an upgrade unless I was doing something that didn't tax ram at all. I tried it out when mine was in for repair, and I did notice the increased performance of the M series chip, but it showed it's limit pretty quickly when I spun up the 8 docker containers or w/e I was using regularly.

Furthermore, I want a red one. Sick of this silver stuff.
The birth rate (especially the teenage birth rate) has been dropping for the last 20 years. But sure, it's hookup culture that's causing single parent households, and not an evolution of how people of child-rearing age think about marriage, or that the changing shape of the economy means that marriage-as-a-mainly-financial-arrangement is dying a long-overdue death. It's definitely not that legalizing so-called no-fault divorces allows women (especially mothers) to escape abusive situations that are, for one reason or another, impossible to prosecute as such. And that's all to say nothing of the known impact from over-policing of low income communities.
This used to be called Tratex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tratex
Yes, 'director' is job title in engineering management. Generally Ranks above 'manager' and below vice-president
They Won't Play a Lady-O on the Radio
That's a nice narrative.

How is any of it relevant to a system that uses LLMs trained on user-written reviews of health supplements to recommend products based on end user's descriptions of health conditions?
Showing off an AI-generated fake TV episode during a writers’ strike
It's about as amusing as watching an occupied building on fire. You can't isolate your shadenfreude over Musk's comeuppance from the real world damage that he is doing.
>I have some good memories from the early years of talking with hosts and even having them show me around, it’s a shame that it’s become so transactional

This is an example of how different people can be. To me, the ideal experience is to never see or hear the property owner. I just want a nice place to stay that’s not just a door, a bed and a bathroom. I grant that AirBnB can be a bit of a crapshoot, but our experiences have been largely very positive.
It’s interesting seeing so many comments about stabilization around React. It’s not wrong per se, but it’s also not reflective of what I see from the FE community elsewhere. I see a ton of interest in newer frameworks like Astro. Solid has been growing at a steady pace. Qwik is gaining steam. Even older frameworks like Angular and Preact are evolving, eg adopting more reactive features. Vue and Svelte are going strong, albeit probably not gaining much new traction. And people are creating new frameworks (whether for education/demonstration or to introduce new ideas) or building new paradigms on existing ones (even on React, be it Preact Signals or Blockdom).

I think the reason these aren’t prominent on HN is because the community here is overwhelmingly skeptical of, if not hostile to, new developments and exploration in the FE/JS space… and because the FE/JS community knows that and is likewise reticent to subject itself to that.

That said, it is true that React is a formidable incumbent, and that quite a lot of the space has coalesced around it. I don’t think that’s set in stone, I even think there’s at least some churn coming sooner rather than later. But I don’t expect that to make huge waves on HN unless and until it’s well underway.
Indeed. Everything internet is a pig butchering scam. MBAs and tech entrepreneurs have ruined the what was supposed to be an information superhighway.
Did ChatGPT write this? Here’s how to tell
Doing bad work on less desirable projects in the hope of getting more desirable jobs is an interesting strategy. I mean this is an industry where showing everyone your work is the whole point. They can all see exactly what you wrote; it's all open-source by default.

The bottomline is that as a screenwriter you should do the absolute best work you're capable of, within the constraints of the project. If you can't do that because you aren't passionate about the franchise or whatever other bogus reason, don't take the job. You'll only hurt your own reputation.
MLS (Message Layer Security) RFC Is Published
MLS is an RFC for the standardized protocol for message-level security. It is useful if you're creating a new end-to-end encrypted messaging application, or any other similar system that needs to secure long-term many-to-many communication.
Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning networking?
What have you found to be the most helpful resources to learn about things like network interfaces, VPN's, NAT traversal, hole punching, DHCP, etc.?
Lots of blah but no details
I like lazydocker, but I really wish it understood Docker contexts without having to set `$DOCKER_HOST`.

I switch between Colima[0] and OrbStack[1] and have multiple Colima virtualization profiles[2] (one with `vz`, one without), resulting in multiple Docker contexts. I have a function that I’ve written to set docker host, but I have to remember to clear it after I’m done using lazydocker and a couple of other tools (dive, I think).

function set-docker-host
command -sq docker
and command -sq jq
or return 1

set -l host (
docker context ls --format '{{ . | json }}' |
jq -sr '.[] | select(.Current == true) | .DockerEndpoint'
)
or return 1

set -gx DOCKER_HOST $host
end

The bash/zsh equivalent wouldn't be too hard, but I use fish.

[0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima, https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fabiosof...

[1] https://orbstack.dev [3], https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Forbstack.dev

[2] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima#customizing-the-vm and https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/blob/main/docs/FAQ.md#edi...

[3] I’m on OrbStack now, but it isn’t so much better at how I use Docker than Colima is that I think that it’s an instant buy, especially with the planned subscription model. If I used anything other than the Docker integration, I might think it's better, but as of right now, no.

I also have some issues with its insistence on asking for elevated permissions. I will never grant permission[4] to make a symlink to the "standard" Docker socket; context and `$DOCKER_HOST` work well enough. It should not ask if the permission hasn't been given once. I also worry about other "advanced" features that may need an elevated permissions helper[5].

[4] https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/281#issuecomment...

[5] https://github.com/orbstack/orbstack/issues/281#issuecomment... and following
Hard to argue against the truth or the reality of it.
That's a fun question. We don't necessarily have a common test case we run things against, but after big product launches, we do use Highlight to e.g. look at all sessions where a new feature is used.

One other thing that we have is an internal page that lets us simulate specific types of errors for debugging purposes. It looks like this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0prnebmiip8huleaf1mub/Screen-...
> By purposefully producing something that “does better” by excluding math, we are effectively doing our darn best to push math out of our collective thought.

Strongly disagree, and in fact imo movies that are "junk food for the mind" serve a valuable purpose. The mind requires rest in order to digest new information, and so if we were constantly being reminded to "remember your math!" it would likely become very fatiguing very quickly. Being able to disconnect while still being entertained effectively allows your mind to rest. It's not as good as sleep, but it's better than never stepping away from your math homework to allow it to sink in.
What is the best available open source option today for TTS?
At that point, I would've considered involving the credit card company with a charge back.

You didn't get what you paid for, snd they ghosted you instead of taking care of it.
I have not, so I'm not very familiar. PIXI provides Stage / DisplayObject / Sprite APIs that would be familiar to Flash programmers.