skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting. Id love to hear more about it.

Also agree quaternions are the worst. You should check out n-vectors. Solves most of the same problems and way easier to work with.
The interesting thing is, now that they’re bringing the orb to the United States, they can’t give out their coin to Americans.
No single person, sure, but at every level there are people who do understand what's going on at that level. Abstractions help but behind the abstraction there are people who know how it works.

What I'm getting at is, what if we get to the point where at some levels of the stack there are literally no people who understand that level? If your company's prod infrastructure is miles and miles of AI written and maintained shell scripts, or config files for tools that haven't been worked on for decades because AI-generated boilerplate is cheaper than adding new features? To the extent that even if you hire the right people they can't reverse engineer the stuff and even if they could the cost of making changes to it without AI is prohibitive, because it's all so low level? It's a weird thing to contemplate but seems like one of the more plausible scenarios in which society becomes as dependent on AI as we are today on electricity.
Considering I've had a lot of laser treatments (micro-veins) and am getting eye (retina) surgery before long, it makes me wonder how reliable such a system is, and how well it will tollerate change/variance of one's eye-prints. I mean, theoretically, if you lose your eye in an accident, does that mean you lose your life savings in such a scheme?

It really has me concerned. As fallible as people and banking are already, I'm not sure I'm ready for that level of "secure" without such considerations.
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i think the question is more along the lines of how is this feasible
Governments already exist. To try and upend them by replacing their system of personhood and currency is in effect the tech-bro version of a mutiny. It may seem ridiculous but that's precisely what crypto is. An attempt to replace central banks and governments. Tech companies have grown very powerful, and they see an opportunity to create a world-wide "private government" and they're going for it. This won't be the last attempt. Governments will eventually wake up. Or if not. That's it for them.
Keeping you honest with incognito crawling is something they have to do anyway, to catch various tricks and scams - malware served up to users, etc.
Native SE Londoner here. IMO Google is accurately reporting the transport in the area, it's not their fault that there is a shocking lack of it.

Lines like Victoria-Orpington and CharingX-Hayes are not the metro and probably shouldn't be highlighted in the transport layer in my opinion.

The solution you are looking for is TFL taking over the suburban southeastern lines. That's what happened in my adopted home of NE London and today they are orange lines on the map. We also got brand new trains and 4tph on Sundays!
> A single object made of meteoritic iron has been identified, an arrowhead with a mass of 2.9 g found in the 19th Century in the late Bronze Age (900–800 BCE)

A cool and important finding no doubt, but there are much more impressive examples. Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger is from several hundred years earlier and is longer than your forearm.
Based on your statement, the original author would have claimed something untrue since they also cannot really produce LK-99 that fully levitates.

It is certainly not a part of the puzzle here.

The puzzle is to reproduce the experiment, but you claim the original experiment itself is bogus...
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Yeah it all depends from how much you actually use the machine, My old i7 gaming system runs maybe 7 hours a week on average. I drive barely 10k kilometers a year with my old ICE car. Upgrading to a new gaming PC and Tesla would make neither economic or environmental sense.
Hurd is a microkernel so it is lean by design. I suspect that statement was a dig on perceived architectural flaw of Linux.
Question : does this architecture have any difference regarding ordering or durability of messages, compared to kafka ?
You also don't use anything in the Google ecosystem, or Facebook, or any online apps? Those all have telemetry..
I donate to OSM (both money and data). I would never in a million years donate to Google. They don't need my support.
You can have UBI at a country level if you finance it with government budget (through taxes)[1], but as a for-profit enterprise, there's no that's a good idea (for it to work at all, it must have a monetization strategy, and they all look dystopian)

[1] it actually exist(ed) in France (see RMI/RSA, though the different governments recently added tons of bureaucracy to it as a way to deter people from getting it, ruining the point), but the political will that it requires (and whether this is a good idea at all, I don't have a strong opinion on that) is the limiting factor.
What? It’s pretty easy to set up and get going
The fact that your love of a phone has nothing to do with it. If I'd wanted to look at ads I'd open Google not HN.
"pekkid" meant "off your feed"
Not sure if it counts but my Eurorack modular synth is definitly my most loved phyiscal thing and it’s kind of built (from modules). Still habe to get into soldering my own modules..
That process is entirely biblical, insofar as it's often referred to as "knowing in a biblical way".

It's just not that particular one that's biblically famous.
Also, spaces sometimes count as "special character" requirements, so sometimes just "sentence form" passes: "Correct, 1 horse battery staple!"
Julia's writing also just has nice-person energy (without any of the forced cutesy-ness that some blogs suffer from) and I think she's getting back what she puts out. She's clearly a skilled writer who knows how to set a tone.

The default tone people tend to assume on the Internet is more brash, and that's the source of a lot of unnecessary problems. On the other hand, I don't mind a little snark or old-school Torvalds-style feistiness either (forced politeness would be boring) but that's going to attract a rowdier crowd. Not everyone needs to emulate that style of discourse.
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I'm 24 hours into the story and I have yet to be disappointed by anything the game. Literally my only complaints are 1) the animation sequence for rolling active skill checks (lockpicking, persuasion, intimidation, etc.) is far too long for what it is, and 2) forgetting to save often can (and has, for me) led to _lots_ of lost progress when stuff went south.

I will say, combat is pretty challenging. I think it has to be, since the save and reload mechanic exists; otherwise the encounters would need to be toned down. However, it's challenging in a way that doesn't feel unfair. It gives me the same feeling as when I played through Hollow Knight - the game is challenging, I mess up a lot, but I never feel like the difficulty is "artificial" (e.g., HP or enemy count has some multiplier applied). The combat is always challenging in ways that require strategy, planning, and skill.... and wishing you'd made different choices in the past :)
Sam Altman and Thiel are friends. This isn't a competitor, this is a Palintir data source.
The enshittification of online discussion and content starts with the same morons who thought it was a good idea to speak into a megaphone when they had nothing interesting to say to hear the sound of their own voice now being capable of doing so with an AI writing their uselessness to be spoken into the megaphone.

Kind of an even worse version of this comment I'm writing right now.
I really appreciate having the full context for "time-travel" debugging. Some of the details definitely go into the TIL category.
Essentially a constraint that is true about the variables, which helps you reason about the code.

A good example is:

// Invariant: x[i-1] < target, x[j] >= target.

In the golang implementation of binary search:

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/slices/sort.go#...
Very cool, beautiful. I did a kids toy kind of thing like this using Unity for Android taking input from the handheld's accelerometer to make a sphere (ball) roll around (according to how the handheld device is tilted) and bump into targets.

As regards to "the water should eventually stand still" I found the accelerometer input to be sooo sensitive that even when you placed the handheld on a level surface (sussed out with a carpenter level) the sphere would slow down a lot but never stop moving.

A glass of water placed on a table eventually stops moving - according to our senses. But does it really?
That's odd -- Phind should have done a search for next 13 and have gotten relevant docs. Do you mind pasting the link to that query or emailing me at michael@phind.com?
Beautiful piece of art, sorry the whole relationship side of it didn't work out... Onward and upward!
I made a soccerball vase out of maple and walnut: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5Qh2RQiRmdRPjZdQ8
I 'designed' and built a small trebuchet at 15yo. It was fun.
Inspired by Age of Empires II.
Fully autonomous aircraft receives FAA approval (Pyka S17)
It’s literally a solution in search of a problem.

They’d say it proves you’re an actual human and not a fake profile, but there are existing solutions to that, and it doesn’t solve identity theft at all.
Get normal public involved in your adventures like this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrJ3NflOpE
I'm not English, but these reactions come from English people.

Funny on apartment / flat. Why is one better than the other? In my mind there's no difference. Is it just some sort of subconscious connotation?
I agree, it's odd.

I don't have anything recent, but back in 2004, the majority of the Linux kernel code was in its drivers: https://dwheeler.com/essays/linux-kernel-cost.html I expect that most of the current Linux kernel code is also for handling hardware (that is, drivers + the code to handle various architectures).
"Redneck hottubs" are a relatively common thing and you can get some amazing looking ones, from a fire under a cast iron bathtub to a complex system involving miles of copper tubing and burn barrels.
I get that. But it is still an unfair dig when a large chunk of the code that is being pointed at is the code that they will have to write? (Granted, they can put an easier line in the sand on how far back they go on what they support hardware wise, but still...)
TLDR the strategy - "Let's add attention grabbing signs on poorly designed roads that are know to be dangerous instead of improving the road themselves" does not work.
If zoom is the platform that your company picked, the company is going to have a hard time suing you or zoom for infringement or whatever. If zoom isn't the platform your company picked, the company is either too small to worry about stuff like this, or you really shouldn't be transferring data to a company that doesn't have a data processing agreement with you. It's the equivalent of using gmail (the personal version, not gsuite) for work emails.
We've reached the point where, even when you are paying for it, you are the product.
Hi, I'm one of the main maintainer of Twenty and we have onboarded Gitstart on our codebase a few weeks ago. I can give a feedback on our collaboration so far:

1) Code quality is good, I would compare it to a very good junior engineer (I suspect some senior engineers are reviewing the code before shipping it!). We are reviewing all PRs and it usually takes 1 or 2 round of feedbacks before merge.

2) Gitstart developers are very reactive on pull-requests, their response time is not a bottleneck

3) You will need to be very accurate about your features. I think Gitstart direclty makes sense for open-source projects as this is part of the culture to discuss everything on issues, to share resources (figmas, specs, technical vision). If your company already has a culture of documenting most of the knowledge async, this should be a good fit.
Those are good recommendations, and they confirm my own findings and experience trying to improve performance for Spectrogram and Waveform generation in a heavy audio focused web app.

AssemblyScript and Rust/WASM implementation of these relatively simple but computationally heavy algorithms didn’t result in any meaningful improvements of their JS counterparts. In the end moving computations that took 10ms or more (some up to 700ms) off main thread and using tooling to simplify the WebWorker API was definitely more gainful, simpler and better for code hygiene, and in most cases as fast or faster than the WASM implementations.
>I have to wonder about the resistance to mild change

That's easy to wonder when you're the one asking for the change. It's awfully convenient that "intent doesn't matter", as that puts the burden of action on the speaker/writer. If intent did matter, then the listener/reader would need to consider what the other person is trying to say and adjust their interpretation of the words accordingly. But since it doesn't, all that matters is that someone took offense at a particular word, and so it is the writer who needs to correct themselves.
Even just JavaScript Web Workers can be really helpful for doing heavy compute outside of the UI thread. JavaScript is pretty fast, it just needs to be unblocked. I used them once to sort a six-digit array of objects client side, while keeping the UI snappy (it took a couple seconds to process, but the UI was responsive the whole time)

Of course for some tasks you'll still need more than that, which very well may have been true for the OP, but benchmarking is good etc
I wish I understood this, but lack a lot of the background in CPU architecture beyond a very superficial understanding (ex. what is meant by "branch prediction"). Can anyone recommend me a good source to help me get up to speed on this?
I think people also forget that Amazon was in this game too, refusing to collect and pay state sales tax to undercut brick-and-mortar.
Kinda wonder if the best approach for them at this point would be to target RISC-V and worry only really about running in a hypervisor, or very narrowly targeted open hardware, instead of futzing with implementing a pile of device drivers. Make it useful in that environment, and then go from there.

Hell, wouldn't it be cool if there was an official GNU GPL'd RISC-V board, running GNU Hurd?
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Thanks for the kind words! I'll just add that tiered storage is not quite the same thing because it means you still have to manage local disks and replication carefully, however briefly. Please reach out with questions any time!
Thanks for that link, I had not seen this paper before. I will add this to the backlog of things to try!
I don't think there is any experimental evidence for that, and the original 1996 theory paper looks sketchy from what I managed to understand (it talkes about van der Waals transition and it is unclear for me where zero resistance would come from in that case)
Interestingly my sister is intolerant of MSG and also allergic to lidocaine.
In a practical way (instead of just, why not be polite?), the information for permanently displaying to the public may be different than the information relevant to you at a single moment.

If you just ask it without context, "today we'll close at 16:00" is a perfectly reasonable response.
I'd think you'd be surprised, the prevailing elite opinion in progressive circles seems to be that application of coercive force (which is what makes a government a government) must be avoided at any and all cost. I don't think this is the opinion of most people, but it seems to be where many policy makers and "thought leaders" (:eye-roll:) are at.

AND, the current law in place is that ZERO coercion/force can be applied to homeless people. Just read what Mayor Breed said, it sounds like they cannot enforce any type of nuisance, public safety, or sanitation laws against homeless people.
Have you considered making a plain HTTPS frontend like Confluent's REST proxy? Or even just designating a bucket as 'incoming messages' and letting people use the S3 API to write messages?

Kafka is great but if you're targeting Amazon customers, you're competing with SQS too.
Ask HN: Live-code tests for senior dev roles?
Am I the only senior developer who's warming up to the idea of live-coding interviews?

Backstory:

* I'm a pretty senior developer: ~25 years in the industry, and a PhD in computer science.

* I experienced my first layoff about 5 months ago, and I'm still looking.

* During this job search, there were several positions where I was a strong candidate, but I bombed the live-coding interviews.

* Until this string of failures, I'd assumed it was just performance anxiety. But I now believe my fundamental programming skills really had atrophied.

* After that string of failures, I've started working through some practice problems [0]. I was surprisingly slow to solve some of the basic challenges, but practice has absolutely helped.

* I'm also finding that completing these practice-problems is improving my self-confidence. So now I'm feeling more relaxed about future live-coding interviews. This partially addresses (for me) the concern about live-coding interviews failing because of performance anxiety.

[0] The challenges I've found most useful so far are [1] and [2].

[1] https://www.metacareers.com/swe-prep-techscreen/ Their practice environment isn't great, but IMHO the problem set is fantastically designed.

[2] https://www.hackerrank.com/ Pretty decent coding environment and problem set.
And given what the modern Linux kernel does, alongside the power of modern systems (even embedded ones), it's also difficult to argue that the Linux kernel is too large by any stretch of the imagination.
It did and didn't. If you attended schools run by DoDDS (Department of Defense Dependents Schools) before and after transferring, there wasn't the jarring effect of "this school system teaches algebra in $GRADE but the other teaches it in $GRADE-1" because I think the general curriculum was standardized.

Kids were generally well behaved so there wasn't much in the way of disruption. Everyone has at least one parent (usually dad) in the military and I seem to recall serious behaviors like bullying could impact military careers, so there was an incentive to have some minimal level of concern about children. Incomes were relatively equal, and at the time (and probably now) racism and the like was not tolerated by anyone.

Everyone moved a lot so the awkwardness of a new school system was significantly reduced; pretty much everyone had been the new kid at some point.

If you were overseas (likely if you're in DoDDS schools) there'd likely be some sort of weekly local language and culture class that was mandatory. My school also offered full language immersion as an option.

There aren't many studies on military brats, unfortunately. I've seen a few that suggest higher college graduation rates than the general population, but a greater likelihood of starting or finishing a degree at some point other than directly after high school. More worldliness.

I'd wager that there'd be a difference on a few variables between children that stayed Stateside at one location (e.g. grew up in Norfolk around the naval base and stayed in the area), children who were stationed overseas and attended military schools, children who moved around the US and didn't attend military schools, and some combination thereof. Throw in peace and war as variables.

I can attest that moving from random US district to another with a different curriculum does make you both ahead of and behind the curve. I had to retake a number of classes I'd had in middle and elementary school to meet high school graduation requirements for the Nth new high school.

I was once ahead in math then behind due to differences in sequences.

I'm sure it impacted which colleges accepted me.

I've heard some post-9/11 changes may have helped with transfers but that wasn't my era, unfortunately.
Here are visual comparisons between AVIF and JPEG XL on some test images with various bitrates / quality levels:

https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#end-of...

It seems AVIF has better compression at lower bit rates. At high bit rates they seem similar. AVIF especially shines for pictures with large homogeneous surfaces like the sky.

However, AVIF is missing some important features, such as progressive image loading. The maximum resolution is apparently also quite limited.
An almost complete set of helicopter flight controls for XPlane out of wood, aluminum, potentiometers and USB controllers. Works exceptionally well for a virtual Huey.
>Write once media on a server is what you want

How does that solve this problem:

>[company will] go out of business and take down the servers with it
Regardless of the threat model, a password manager is better, period. It addresses more threats, provides better security, is more reliable.

> your passwords can is safe from malware, digital exploits and so on

No they're not. They can still be compromised by malware and digital exploits when you type them into your device. If you have malware you're largely just fucked. That's why people have been trying to get rid of passwords forever, because they still are vulnerable to a number of attacks in various circumstances.

> The vulnerabilities can be reduced by using a second factor that must be combined with the information in the notebook

This is the same threat model as a password manager. Always use a second factor regardless of the primary method.

> The biggest problem with the paper approach is probably accidental loss

No, the biggest problem with the paper method is you should never leave your password unencrypted at rest, including some clunky matrix map that could be decoded by a clever person even in the 16th century. There are many other problems with paper method that password manager makes obsolete.

> Cloud password managers have plenty of issues

Only shitty ones. Security researchers were raising the alarm about LastPass long ago. 1Password and BitWarden are perfectly fine, secure and reliable. They all use zero-knowledge so as long as your master password is long and complex, there's no risk to your vaults.

> Local password managers work, but there are plenty of potential vulnerabilities

For the shitty ones. They're certainly better than no manager at all, if you use them correctly and they aren't designed terribly.

> In the end most people end up relying on not being a big target

It's not about being a target, it's about the entire security practice contributing to better outcomes as a whole. The features of a password manager add up to overall much better security.

The only circumstance in which writing down a password is better than a password manager is when you have no computing device at all with which to run the password manager. No computer, no tablet, no phone, no internet cafe, nothing.

And actually, even then memorization is better than writing it down. Come up with a mnemonic for a long password phrase and some memory tricks to remember the phrase in case you forget it.
That's odd, you should be able to be signed in on multiple devices -- will take a look.

As for pricing, you can view our plans at https://phind.com/plans. Our goal is to prioritize providing long-term value for you guys over short-term revenue, hence why we only suggest plans once users exhaust their free daily GPT-4 quota.
At the Field Museum in Chicago, there is a display about meteorites. One part of it shows a meteorite that hit a garage, went through the roof, through the roof of a car parked inside, through the floor of the car, then bounced back up and lodged in the rear seat. Extremely unlikely, but it happened.