skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless I am paid by the hour, there's nothing making me do more than 8 hours per day.

Even if I am paid hourly (I am) ... it's rare.

I am not sure what kind of people do that, but if it's managers, then EM/Lead is as far down that path I want to go.
15 km further away every second and 1 Australia every 10 days implies that it would take 10 days to cross Australia if you were going at 15 km per second, which from my understanding of travel options there means either planes and trains are a lot faster than I was aware or something's got mixed up somewhere with these numbers!
Thanks for pointing that out! Should be fixed now.
I don't use PyPy because when I'm stuck with performance issues, I go to numpy and if it really doesn't work I go to cython/numba (because it means that 99% of my python code continue to work the same, only the 1% that gets optimized is different; if I'd go PyPy, I'd have to check my whole code again). I do mostly computational fluid dynamics.

(nevertheless, PyPy is impressive :-) )
> 15km/s is about 33,000 mph - more than 10x the speed of sound

Well, technically, 15km/s IS "more than 10x the speed of sound". An average car, is, TECHNICALLY, more than twice the size of a bicycle.
Once time travelers have conquered all the big challenges (i.e. kill Hitler, buy Apple in 1980, stop Skynet), they can go back and make sure Sir Isaac Namath discovers the law of gravity.

It's the 24th century version of jacking with Wikipedia.
Yeah, topology seems to have a lot to do with it! However, I hesitated to jump into that conclusion, because my impression of topology is that it's concerned of "whether" something is connected (and often about the directedness of surfaces/spaces), because topology allows "stretchiness" of its study matter. The connections between things are then kind of binary things - either something is connected or not. However, in the world of "connected dimensions", there seems to be degrees of connectedness. Linear correlation being from the simplest end, but more generally, shared entropy. So it feels like just "topology" doesn't quite catch the field and its pecularities.

Thanks for the links!! Much appreciated.
They claim that only a small part of that sample is superconducting, and that's why it shows that unusual behavior.
There has to be _some_ level of knowledge to base it off though, this is just hope.
I believe that falls under insider trading.
oh god i understood this reference. we love you cmdrtaco
Good description.. reminds me of Vernor Vince’s description in his novels.

We are truly lost in a “The Deep” … as in absolute nothingness
Also: Bertrand Russell’s "History of Western Philosophy"
Thanks for the feedback! These sound like great ideas, and you will be happy to know that audio conversations are already possible! You can try it out by clicking the 'Audio' tab. Let me know how it goes, and if you have any other suggestions!
As far as I understand it (not an expert on these things), flux pinning is caused by microscopic defects that allow the magnetic field to penetrate at certain points. An idealized superconductor that is perfectly uniform expels the magnetic field at all points and so would not display the effect, it would simply be diamagnetic. So it’s mistaken and somewhat perverse to view the absence of flux pinning as proof that something is not a superconductor.

In the case of LK99, the claim is that it does not show flux pinning because the sample is impure and not uniformly superconductive, i.e. it is not expelling the magnetic field enough.
Thank you for your answer.

1: That's a relief :)

2: I've just joined `#conduit:fachschaften.org`; we'll see if I can help somehow.
The future of the web is VNC
> it has been shown ...

Can you please share your sources?
Huh? The Georgia guidestones were pretty harmless...
Does any Matrix client support voice/video calls other than Element (including Hydrogen as it shares Element Web's codebase)?
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> Only Americans call football ‘soccer’

Australians call it "soccer" too. Disambiguates it from Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union
Looking past your "rah rah financialization" partisanship, one question:

Why is a prediction market for replication per se more interesting than the existing market of all the public companies who would be enriched / wiped out based on the result?

(Note that "well, the effect would be too small" flips just as easily around to, the smaller markets are obviously way too noisy given what people are actually getting away with...)
> 15 km further away every second

Nope, not true. Not every second. Depends on the time of year. For a few months, each year, Voyagers actually get closer to Earth.
So do you assume every news story is a government misdirection? How does you selection process work?
Let's assume you're correct and say there has been government misdirection in the past. Has this completely poisoned the well for you?
This may become my go to when someone says they don’t need to have commit comments in git because they’ll remember!
Ways of Seeing – John Berger (1972) [video]
Where? I just see bandwagoning from a shitpost account.
At what cost though? Surely the wealthy will continue on like nothing ever happened while the rest of us are here holding the bag.

Markets seem to benefit some much more than others. Not everyone wants to play this game.
I guess that depends on whether you were motivated to manifest their stated purpose, or not ..
The worst part is that those market people are delusional enough to believe what they say.
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I’ve been aware of it for a long time.

I don’t use it.

Why would I use it, what’s the compelling benefit?
Aye, it produces neutron isotopes, but not at room temperature and not with a net excess of energy.

It's the difference between going on a Sunday walk and a Monday commute. Yes, technically, your body is physically moving places, but the similarities don't extend much beyond that point nor would we encourage mistaking one for the other.
A random forrest classifier is a classic example of AI, quite popular before hardware caught up with the computational needs of neural networks.

Random forests of significant size also suffer some of the same inexplicability problems that neural networks suffer from, so it makes even more sense to make the comparison.
At a job where the company specialized in mathematical optimizations (think operations research, logistic planning, timetable optimization, etc.) we jokingly called the solvers with heuristics "A.I. technology, short for Advanced If technology". Some customers got the joke, some didn't, but they were generally content with the results :)
The market already takes this possibility into account
Thursday is very under appreciated. Their lyrics stand the test of time.
Online Safety Bill – Some futures
Vectornator is now Linearity Curve
I'm fine with different controllers displaying different symbols for the same button, but random-button QTEs and games based around entirely contextual prompts are the bottom of the barrel of gaming. I've seen so many people fail at games by Quantic Dream and Supermassive simply because they were playing with an unfamilar controller.

The labels exist to help the game teach its control scheme, not to make players memorise the layout itself. But of course, games without consistent game mechanics don't have any control scheme to teach.
You're missing something, which is that a lot of libraries will be "i-don't-care-about-gil". Only native extensions need to choose GIL or noGIL due to the ABI difference, but pure Python libraries should run with the same code in both variants. And a lot of them will probably be thread safe at some level (function or class) without any changes. For those that aren't thread-safe, I bet that quite a lot can just get away with a "NOT THREAD SAFE" warning and letting the user wrap access to them with locks.

And that's talking about multithreaded code. I bet that even with noGIL, lots of Python code will still continue to be single-threaded, making the gil/no-gil decision irrelevant (save for those native extensions).
This post is a funny coincidence as I tried today to speed-up a CI pipeline running ~10k tests with pytest by switching to pypy.

I am still working on it but the main issue is psycopg support for now, as I had to install psycopg2cffi in my test environment, but it will probably prevent me from using pypy for running our test suite, because psycopg2cffi does not have the same features and versions as psycopg2. This means either we switch our prod to pypy, which won't be possible because I am very new in this team and that would be seen as a big, risky change by the others, or we keep in mind the tests do not run using the exact same runtime as production servers (which might cause bugs to go unnoticed and reach production, or failing tests that would otherwise work on a live environment).

I think if I ever started a python project right now, I'd probably try and use pypy from the start, since (at least for web development) there does not seem to be any downsides to using it.

Anyways, thank you very much for your hard work !
I think what you are saying is that the existence of indo-european languages could only reasonably be explained by them having originated from a common ancestral language. I agree with you.

The open question is whether this common ancestral language is the imagined / reconstructed extinct language called Proto-Indo-European that does not currently have any supporting physical evidence (cave paintings, stone carvings, Papyrus manuscripts, tablets, and whatnot) proving its existence, or is it one of the many surviving languages still spoken today?

I don't think we know the answer to that question.
Very few parts of nature have been left in peace.
The single most famous mathematical result this century (solution ofthe Poincaré conjecture) was verified by consensus after the claimed proof was published to arxiv.
In southern Italy it is common to speak to older people in plural you. I speak in singular third person to my in laws, but I spoke in second plural to their parents.

But yes, it has no place on a language learning course for the reasons you listed.
Tiny suggestion, add the time zone of the daily update to the 8am on your website. It appears to be Eastern (UTC-4 at time of comment) but this could be due to fact that I’m in the Eastern time zone.
I think your argument is even stronger when you consider that a lot of life evolved to specifically thrive in the ecosystems that beavers create. So it's hard for me to argue to limit the beavers from doing just about anything they want.
I remember Absolute Punk being my homepage.
The concept isn't bad but the problem with these markets isn't necessarily the amounts played, rather it's how they're resolved. What exactly counts as 'event has happened' and 'event has not happened'? I think Polymarket uses some kind of oracle¹ to establish the outcomes. What I know for sure is that there have been a couple of cases of fraudulently set up markets already, so anyone who wants to bet has to really understand the conditions before jumping in, even if they're very sure about the outcome.

Again, I think it's a cool concept but I'd advice people to stay away from touching these until there's a solution for that problem. The small amounts people are betting are likely a reflection of this problem, because it's hard to understand if the setup is trustworthy.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_oracle
Which modern conveniences do you find are lacking, out of curiosity?
The US has lost about 25% of its birds in the last 50 years
Hi, the goal is to create a fully-featured server that works seamlessly with all Matrix clients. The one notable exception is that we will not implement support for "outdated" room versions, which means that there are some rooms that are unjoinable because they are too old, those should be upgraded to a more recent room version.

I'm also prioritizing features needed for smaller instances, instead of things like user management or horizontal scaling.
Immunity from prosecution seems like a marvellous way to destroy rule of law. Crazy that that and royal^H^H^H^H^H presidential pardons exist. Recipe for corruption of the state and then the justice system.
The most incredible thing about The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster is how casually prescient it is - first published in 1909!

Instant messaging, video calls, the internet…
Is your group still using it?
People who do not like pointless contrarianism like your comment.
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> Maybe reading the rest of the comment is a good start

The rest of it the comment is discredited by the line I quoted.

It already contains two biases verbatim. So that without even considering those that can be deduced/assumed further it can't be taken seriously.

Replace 'psychotherapy' with 'astrology' and reconsider OP's sentence:

"I don't need studies to validate the hundreds of incredible results I've seen within the population I have direct access to (and myself)"

Mind you, I am talking about the comment here.
My opinion about the article the discussion is about is a tad more nuanced but that is beside the point of my reply.
I run Ubuntu on Lenovo Extreme Gen 2, and hiberbation just works fine (I don't rember if I did some BIOS tweaking so). Battery consumption during hibernation seems to be higher than Windows, but that's about it.
I used PyPy with SymPy when I was helping out a mathematician-friend. SymPy is not exactly fast, a free performance boost was very welcome.
its interesting to see all the "Subject Alt Names" signed in that cert. https://tfhub.dev/google/bird-vocalization-classifier/3 is neat
Ask HN: Are LLMs the Kodak Moment for Programmers?
Had a thought about the reprecussions of LLMs on the programming profession and I expanded it into a post:

https://fooburger.substack.com/p/llms-the-kodak-moment-for-programmers

TLDR is:
LLMs are doing for programming what digital cameras did for photography: making it accessible to everyone.
I'm sorry but this largely reads like an advertisement. "As an expert I recommend this product!" with no backing of facts or actual informative explanation. Which is worrying considering the nature of cryptographic currencies that is being full of shady scams.
"Kort geding" is more akin to a small claims court. A preliminary injunction afaict is more of a request to the court for the defendant/plaintiff to stop a certain action until full judgement has been made.

A kort geding is a civil court with the specific aim of solving cases that don't require a full blown legal investigation (which can take months).

Usually it's either for urgency reasons (ie. public and obvious defamation on public TV need a correction issued very quickly to prevent tarnishing someone's reputation) or because the matter simply isn't that huge (your neighbor cutting the tree on your property down doesn't and shouldn't take a full year to resolve).

A kort geding can be escalated into a full legal proceeding if either party is unhappy with the outcome however.
Maybe someone should dig out the EU browser bundling anti-trust case Microsoft lost in the early 2000s and enforce it.
I think it isn't about anticipating every possible scenario as much as designing a platform with enough redundancy and ability to measure, turn off/on, adjust, reprogram, etc. pretty much everything.

Part of this is just necessary for ability to learn for future missions. If something fails in space, you want to be able to figure out what happened so that you don't make the same mistake the next time. And you don't have a chance to send a second mission just to "replicate" the problem.

So you do things like build your test equipment into the probe so you can measure stuff while in operation. Or maybe make sure you have a switch for everything so that you can turn something on or off to see if the problem persists.
I'm using pypy to analyse 350m DNS events a day, through python cached dicts to avoid dns lookup stalls. I am getting 95% dict cache hit rate, and use threads with queue locks.

Moving to pypy definitely speeded me up a bit. Not as much as I'd hoped, it's probably all about string index into dict and dict management. I may recode into a radix tree. Hard to work out in advance how different it would be: People optimised core datastructs pretty well.

Uplift from normal python was trivial. Most dev time spent fixing pip3 for pypy in debian not knowing what apts to load, with a lot of "stop using pip" messaging.
But thread-unsafe code is not the same as incompatible code. That's the point. You can just choose to say "NOT THREAD SAFE" (just as many C libraries aren't thread safe and need to be wrapped in locks to be used by multiple threads) and users will still be able to use it. More importantly, if it's a pure Python extension, you can just not modify the library and the users will still be able to use it whether or not they have gil or no-gil.
Watch the video while exercising, cooking, or cleaning.
Home of the Underdogs
Fluffychat supports it too. Check out https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/, you can click the clients for a feature list.
That'd increase the package disk footprint by a large value since there are many languages supported by Emacs by default.
Basically theft.

> This is (initially) a copy of Guderian2nd’s table on the discussion thread on Spacebattles with a bit of cleanup. I’ve rewritten most of the notes to be more concise as I track the updates myself, where I can.
Check your math. It gets ~65 australias away each day.
start here then go to comments for branching out https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1685960703658860544
In other words, Android devices last longer than iDevices which causes the latter to be replaced more often. As to why Android devices last longer can be disputed, this can range anywhere from they are used for a longer period of time because the user does not want to spend more money on mobile gadgets to they last longer because they can be kept up to date using AOSP-derived distributions which enables 10+ year old devices to run current Android and anything in between.

Add to that the fact that iDevices are much more recognisable due to there being only a handful of current versions compared to the thousands of current Android devices and as such more easily recognised as 'out of date' or 'old' and their - often brand- and status-conscious - users have an extra incentive to buy a new device even though the old one still worked fine just so they are not perceived to be 'poor'.
So, you want to deploy on the edge?
If you are participating in a prediction market and blindly believe random claims, yes, you will lose your money. As you should.

I don’t understand what you think is different with other markets. Information must be assessed for it’s accuracy and acted on by participants.

In this case I’d even argue the prediction market helped focus attention and resulted in rapid counter analysis that questioned the claims.

Perhaps without the LK-99 markets effects the false information would have had wider and longer reach? The losses of the unskilled participants are a perfectly acceptable cost and in fact beneficial in the long term.
Conceptually, but not legally.

Insider trading has a very specific definition, which does not apply here. In fact there are huge financial markets, like forex, where insider trading mostly doesn't apply.
Since the muzzle velocity (1km/s) of an AR15 is about 1/15th the speed of Voyager (15km/s), if you had a matryoshka doll of AR15s that could fire other AR15s you would only need 15 nested AR15s to shoot a bullet as fast Voyager is travelling.
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Watching the news? That's an extremely low probability guess in this crowd.
I'm confused. They are not mentioned in Linux section. So windows getting support before linux?
Reorienting requires using a reaction wheel or propellent to move yourself.

Propellent is finite, so you want to use it as rarely as possible.

A reaction wheel is by itself infinite (assuming it doesn't break), but eventually it saturates and you need to desaturate it, which basically means spinning the wheel the other way while spending propellent to maintain position.

All of this is to say, reorientation is an expensive process especially if refueling isn't an option.
I've never ended up using PyPy other than to play with it. Numba has worked very well for me for real code.
Easy karma.
This is the way to go:

https://matrixrooms.info/
> The race to the bottom is all around us.

You live in SF by chance?

Because globally and historically that’s absolutely not what the data says about markets.
I tried most apps suggested in the comments, and IMO nothing beats the scrolling of SmoothScroll!
Researchers create open-source platform for Neural Radiance Field development
s/frequently/likely

(Large language models are not plain Markov chains, contrary to popular belief)
I'm resigned to disappointment for this. It's the modern days Pons and Fleischmann.

Hopefully the lack of confirmation so far is due to people checking, double checking and triple checking, along with a healthy dose of "we don't want to be tarred with the same brush".
AI arms race: a look at how Silicon Valley is helping the U.S.
Errm, nothing too serious. It's way faster for CPU bound code, and allows micro-threads.

This two weird tricks tend to create wonders, tho.