skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't put trains and smooth in a single sentence. The signals required a lot of patience to learn and I'm not entirely sure I still understand them.

They are by far one of the most painful parts of factorio for me.
I play vanilla except I always disable cliffs. That's it. I sometimes edit resource distribution if I wish to experiment with specific transports etc but cliffs always go away. I don't care what they intended as it is not fun for me.
The main problem with that is that there aren't nearly as many people who know Haskell or Erlang compared to those who know Lua.

Lua has been a modding staple across countless games, so millions of gamers/modders are already familiar with it.

I'm convinced that chosing Lua for modding is one of the main reasons Factorio has over 5000 mods now.

If they'd chosen a more obscure language I'd doubt we'd have nearly as many.
I would hazard a guess that storing tapes takes up significantly less physical space than hard drives.

An 18TB tape is basically the same size as an 18TB 3.5" hard drive.
> Having a diagnosis that you have a recognized mental health disorder and then being able to, in less than a year, have a full platform launched and ready to go should make anyone who struggles with ADHD pause and ask how and question everything

Agreed. This 'origin story' reads a bit too much like it's written for a VC pitch deck. Theranos of course famously build their 'product' on the basis of the CEO's fear of needle pricks.
I feel bad because NetBSD is a stable, mature and well supported OS with a multitude of positives. Do I associate it with any of those things? Absolutely not. The sole thing that NetBSD sticks in my head for is its what you use when you want to port unix to something that has absolutely no business running unix.
Imagine if you had a private meeting with your school guidance counselor, and then the school sent a copy of your questions to Facebook and TikTok along with your ID # in those systems.

College Board is yet another parasite that sunk its teeth into the US government-educational complex to suck our blood.

https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/

One of the benefits of "test optional" colleges is that now they colleges can filter for students with enough guts to refuse to do business with these crooks.
Rather than separating the conductors more quickly, wouldn't it be preferable to replace the space they occupied with a material in which arcs cannot form? Or is this a cost/risk thing? e.g. I know SF_6 is sometimes used for this purpose, but that is problematic as it is a potent greenhouse gas.
AI in the Newsroom: The Hard Sell
Except, mods don't elaborate.
I guess we're the product, then.
A 300 million euro gift to Russia then?
I think there's a case to be made for a subset of C: archiving video originals, film scans, and the like. While the humans might work with intermediates ("mezzanine") files, the originals are just miserably huge, but you never want to lose them.
Also interesting is that https://luajit.org/status.html now states “LuaJIT is actively developed and maintained” (whereas for the last ~5 years, “actively” isn’t a word I’d have used), and makes reference to a TBA development branch.
Exactly, multiples of 2 can't be a prime, so skipping this saves a function call (that itself only does one comparison), so it is a very simple and relatively obvious optimization. But actually every multiple of a number per definition cannot be a prime, you can't just change the step size, but there are some nifty tricks to approach the problem from a different angle.
The point is that people keep repeating it because it's true. Why are you being so obnoxious about it? Anyone who has used GPT-3.5 vs GPT-4 knows this and it's just ridiculous to claim otherwise.
A 3D-Printed Combustion Engine Made of Plastic Works as Well as You’d Expect
I didn't have to go this far. No caffeine after 11 a.m. dramatically improved my sleep. I also limit myself to 2 cups of coffee per day.
>> Our intellect and capabilities are the result of a truly vast amount of computation in the grand scheme of things.

This is an interesting paradox in machine learning: the data that people use to (ostensibly!) simulate the human mind is simultaneously way too much, and not nearly enough. It's way too much in that humans can, e.g., learn to generate and recognise natural language without having to train on the entire World Wide Web of a corpus. And it's not nearly enough because humans can do that only after billions of years of evolution, which amount to training on all the data in the real world, not a mere few petabytes of data on the internet [1].

This paradox has to be resolved (i.e. understood) before we can really compare humans minds to artificial systems. Unfortunately, I don't see anybody trying. In machine learning so far people are happy to just plug in the data and turn the crank- something will come out eventually.

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[1] Source: https://archive.li/EY9ak
> My view now is that the applications are quite limited, but the math is still cool.

This is true of everything, of course. Everyone knows that “practical applications” is just a flimsy excuse to get funding for your cool math project.

I’ve found that the main benefit of learning math is not the practical applications of the theorems and algorithms themselves, but just the practice you get from using this approach to thinking. This also frees you up to learn the math you find interesting and not what you think might be immediately useful in your day job.
Same. Also, if I'm suspecting it's a "can they into loops" fizzbuzz test, I'd be wary of reducing the search space for the simple reason that it makes the code slightly more complex, introducing a chance to make e.g. off-by-one error, which would lose me points if the reviewer has the kind of "pedntic over irrelevant things" attitude this subthread is criticizing.
Yeah, often companies will make that kind of claim based on the fact they only pass around sha256 hashes of email addresses, which are trivially deanonymized.

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/09/four-cents-to-deano...
> I expect better from a publication as “woke” as Scientific American.

This strikes me as a prime example of "woke" having lost all meaning. What would it mean here? Having an orientation towards truth? Giving a shit about minorities?
What's the use of a desktop. I never see mine. Window at full screen always hide it. The taskbar is where it's at or hotkeys
What's the most reliable news source in your country?
i'd like to compile a list of good news sources from all around the world, but the world is too big. additionally, considering it's generally hard to gauge how reliable a source is if you're not part of the community that source serves, i thought it'd be best to crowdsource that sort of information here on HN.

preferably these sources would be in english, but those exclusively in local languages are perfectly acceptable (perhaps even more likely to be reliable than the ones shooting for international reach). despite the title, it doesn't need to be limited to strictly one source. if you're lucky enough to have a breadth of good sources at your disposal, just list them all.

ideally these would be as slantless and objective as possible, but left- and right-leaning publications are alright too as long as they're not blatanly putting out lies in order to serve whatever agenda they might have.

so... hit me with your recommendations please!
This question keeps cropping up, and whenever it does, people claim it was their language. The question needs to be precisely framed.

Oldest spoken language in the world? All equally old.

Oldest still spoken language in a particular area? It's easier to answer this for islands or archipelagos, e.g. Great Britain: Welsh. New Zealand: Maori. Japan: Ainu (but maybe not for much longer).

Oldest written language? Sumerian (extinct) or Egyptian (not extinct, despite what the article states).

Oldest written language still in use? Coptic, a direct descendant of Egyptian used as a liturgical language in the Coptic Church, but not spoken as a vernacular for centuries.

Oldest written language still spoken? Hebrew (originally Canaanite), in continuous use but not as a vernacular for about 2000 years.

Oldest written language continuously spoken: Greek, but it wasn't continuously written. (There was a gap between Linear B and alphabetic script.)

Oldest continuously spoken and written language: Chinese.
> If they choose to pivot the project to some form of monetization, that's their right.

It is easier said that done. If there an opensource project and another company that is VC backed that used the project and built out a solution. The opensource developer they pivot to monetization and compete, they are more likely to lose as they don't have clear GTM, marketing and strategy. When you start building something out, your GTM has to be very clearly chalked out.
Well, I'm rate limited here, when it was never my intent to say anything that was incorrect, and I thought I always behaved in good faith as best I could.

I don't think you need to go back and forth with users. You don't actually need to do anything - this is just my opinion.

I do apologize if it caused you any grief, that wasn't my intention either.
I guess it’s best to see it as a short term edge rather than viable lifestyle.
> It's just a bit hard to book a night at a clinic 3 mo in the future when I don't know in which country I'll be then.

That might be the most first-world problem I've ever come across. Maybe frequent travel impacts sleep?
You are extremely generously assuming that AI evolution has a direction and a purpose/goal like the organic one has.

It doesn't. We are steering it. And I doubt that we know better than the natural evolution.
T-Mobile is laying off around 5k workers
I've seen this as well as the dying down of the hype once the new cycle dropped off on AI hype.
Just worth keeping in mind that the UK police is about the softest there is in terms of crowd control. No guns, no gas, I don't think they have used a water canon yet.

They do have horses though which are scary AF. Once you got a panicked horse playing rodeo with it's rider while chasing you through an alley, you know what immediate panic feels like.

Edit: I found horses worse than the crowd panic, breathing and eye issues after CS gas was released. And despite water cannons engaging is a very dramatic moment, I cannot imagine how it must feel when police give warning shots or even fire live ammo into the crowd (even you don't get hurt). Musst be a completely different level. Luckily I have never been in a situation on which police was even near such an escalation.
Hey folks. The excellent "FreeBSD on Firecraker" post from yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253035) made me remember the pain I went through many years ago to make NetBSD Multiboot-compliant (aka bootable natively via GRUB), so I dug this post of mine from the archives. I did not have to play the "hlt" trick that Colin describes--it wouldn't have made sense in my context anyway--but I did play have to play other tricks to debug issues. If I remember correctly, poking directly into video memory to draw a single character on the top-left corner of the screen was one of them. In any case, it was a fun experience!
Cloning a dead loved one is a fun thought exercise - but I can't quite figure out how you would do this in real life? What would the training set be? I know in my life you could train an AI on my professional emails, writings, lectures, etc., but that wouldn't at all teach it how to communicate with my kids. You could train it on my social media posts (I don't actually have many of those...), but again, that version of me isn't the one my mom would recognize or want to reminiscence with at Thanksgiving dinner. Text messages might be the best option - but I rarely "meme war" my loved ones in person as often as I do on text chains. I just don't think that data set would produce an AI that could come close to being satisfying for grieving loved ones.

I'm just not at all sure you could accurately duplicate the many facets of a person without having recorded basically their whole life as a training set... Now there's a dystopia for you! A 24/7 surveillance state built on the premise that it's needed to clone you when you die.
Intended or not, I've found playing with mods way, way more fun (and much less annoying) than playing vanilla Factorio (which I still love, but not nearly as much as modded Factorio).

After my first vanilla playthrough I loved the game, but found a bunch of things annoying or which I thought could be improved on. Soon after I found there were mods to satisfy every one of my wants and cure every one of the annoyances. I've played with mods ever since and love it.

Want longer reach? There are mods for that.

Want faster travel? There are mods for that.

Want more variety in vehicles? There are mods for that.

Want smarter/tougher/different enemies? There are mods for that.

Want a complete overhaul of how the game plays? There are a bunch mods for that.

...and thousands of other mods beyond these.

You're really missing out by avoiding mods.
> What stops you from writing data to a spinning disk HDD and then unplugging it and putting it in a safe?

Manual labour.

There are tape libraries with robots that can take a tape out of a slot, put it in a drive, and then put it back automatically without humans needing to do anything. If you want to move the tapes offsite, there is some manual work to move the tapes from the import/export slot to a container.

A large library like the StorageTek SL8500 can have up to 640 drives, 100'000 tape storage slots, and 2'880 import/export slots.
Personally I found this font quite comfortable to look at. But italics is indistinguishable from regular one.
Saying racism is without scientific merit, that trans people shouldn't kill themselves, and/or not being overtly fascist.
Hi, I'm in software and looking to get into genomics/biotech. I'd like to learn more about how you made the move. Is there a way I could dm you? I saw no email in your profile.
Now imagine this being used by employers to weed out candidates.

Or advertisers, to target the "least intelligent" with their campaigns. (Which I'm sure they already do by proxy.)
I would say Coptic and Latin are not exactly a 1 to 1 comparison, primarily because today coptic is attached to a specific ethnic identity and the attempts at community revival that come with that. Of course one might argue that there are Latin revival groups too but equating organised families and expat communities that function like the Copts (or similar groups like the Mandaeans) with, say, internet organised neo-pagans that have little continuity or an organisation like the Catholic Church that solely uses Latin for official documents and discourages its use is, at best, a comparison that lacks any sort of diachronic subtlety.
The College Board is a financial scam (https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/) but arguably its flaws aren't technically Capitalist. Facebook and TikTok are, though. There's no reason for a school test-taking website to partner with Facebook and TikTok accept because these companies are providing some service (of dubious value, like College Board itself!) to drive their own profit.
https://www.therealcollegeboard.org/
It’s a shame this is downvoted on HN of all places. I have seen various research that suggests both caffeine (in coffee & tea) and even alcohol (in lighter beers) do not dehydrate. I’ll stick with caffeine since that’s the topic.

The primary study that spread the idea that caffeine dehydrates is from a 1928 study with a sample size of three men[0]. It may very well be that caffeine does dehydrate, but I have yet to see overwhelmingly conclusive evidence to make such a claim as matter of fact. For now, I believe it’s safer to err on the side of moderate and regular caffeine consumption not causing dehydration to a perceptible level. This could of course be entirely incorrect, but I haven’t come across research that has convinced me otherwise so far. My understanding is the reason a cup of coffee (or tea’ does not dehydrate the consumer is because it is almost entirely water.

I think an important frying to remember is that science is a field of research and discovery, so we should try to avoid arriving at conclusions and refusing to accept differing opinions. Look at how we treated Ignaz Semmelweis for an extreme example of that type of fallacy.

[0] https://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/33/2/167

More studies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3886980/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11022872/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21450118/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9194998

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
It's also a great way to prop up the value of commercial real estate investments. It's pretty hard to justify the sky-high rent for that restaurant that everyone used to go to, but having everyone back in offices changes that.
That does not appear to be the case. A friend of mine spent a considerable amount of money a few years ago to build a wastewater treatment system on his property. Then the gmina told him that, under new legislation, he would still have to connect his property to the common sewage system. This is something that he and many of his neighbours were reluctant to do, because it brings new monthly service charges. He tried to argue his case and managed to stall for several months, but eventually he was forced to do so lest he be fined.

I have heard villagers in Spain and Italy complaining about the same thing, so I assumed there was a new loi communitaire.
Interesting, thanks. You make it sound like it's about postnatal depression ("the monster isn’t intolerably, fundamentally, stomach-turningly repulsive until that spark of life enters it"). Definitely food for thought.
I didn't get into the rest of the debate here but this is how I see it: we are the government, we are the companies, and obviously we are the consumers who drive the economy and vote for the government. We all wear different hats at different times, but these things are the embodiment of the collective will of the people. They are the clearest demonstration that we are doing nothing about it and will continue to do nothing about it. We are collectively stupid and selfish.

You can pretend that you can vote for a government that will put in place solutions for climate change, and then wash your hands of the problem. But you're kidding yourself. How would that work? Let's say the green party weren't completely fucking clueless and had policies that would actually work. They'd be banning frivolous air travel, implementing strict personal carbon budgets, shifting complete away from fossil fuels on an aggressive timeline, updating building codes to ensure that all new buildings were carbon negative, banning shit left, right and center. Are you going to vote for them? The hell you are. You would effectively be voting to enforce the lifestyle that you think I'm ker-razy for voluntarily adopting. Even though the Green Party's policies right now are milquetoast, still nobody votes for them.

I'm doing the only thing I can do. You might say that my individual contribution is negligible. You'd be right. But climate change is just the collective impact of a few hundred million people who, just like me, who are in the top x% in terms CO² emissions.

Here's the thing: I always vote for whatever party that leans towards climate action. Usually that means: absolutely nothing. They're all shit. Even if the fantasy political party did exist, and I was happy to vote for those changes (which I would!) my vote would be worth noting in the grand scheme of things because they'd get less than 1% of the vote. And whereas you tell me that my personal CO² reductions are worthless, and my vote is not, it's precisely the opposite. Every kg of CO² that I curb is literally good, but every wasted vote that has it's effective value wiped out in an election is worth literally nothing.

The fact is, I'm far, far happier giving up a luxury lifestyle that was unimaginable two generations ago. Is it really such a huge thing to give up meat? Or flying? Nope. Anyway, if things get as bad as I think they'll get during my lifetime, then I consider my current (comfortable) lifestyle "practice for the real thing when it happens".
Try logistic train network mod
If I wanted to keep Secureboot enabled, would signing with a MOK and enrolling that key be sufficient?
I am a beginner in this space but I have some thoughts.

The JVM is slow to startup but when it starts it is fast. I think it's slow due to how classes are arranged and lookup for classes. I think Graal or CDS works to speed this up.

I like the idea of a process that is fast to startup or is ran in the background such as php-fpm.

My JIT compiler is an incomplete toy but I only compile a function when it is called.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/compiler

I have written about the idea of supercompilation which is the idea that we can apply lots of resources to compilation to create the most performant execution. But it requires you to be upfront and more detailed about your program semantics for safe reordering.

I think this stuff is sufficiently complicated that it is hard to read the code for without an explanation of what is going on.
Google Street View will let you look at plenty of Polish homes.
They forgot a whole plane of regulation: the technical interop of big tech with small tech.

For instance, interop with noscript/basic (x)html browsers (small tech), with google and apple web engine (omega massive big tech).
They’re sort of understandable. When someone described it to me as the blue signals checking the status of the next signal (blue or colored) and doing that, everything made a lot more sense. They’re still sometimes hard to debug because there’s no visualization but I always end up feeling that the issue was my fault
> I want to know only one thing, what gives the confidence to say otherwise?

Remember that UFO poster? “I want to believe”.
> DO NOT use pseudo-releases or tarballs created by third parties. In particular, automatic tarballs made by GitHub and other mirrors are lacking the .git directory and will not properly build anymore.

It's a little concerning that their build process relies on a .git directory being present. That's going to make it quite tough for packagers to actually package this.
I can agree with this take. What about Python do think makes it hard to optimize?
^ This guy gets his groceries from food banks.
> It has also received some $30 billion in government subsidies to help

That's such an incredible amount of money. It would be fair to say they are really just an arm of the government right ?
I'm happy the author was so thorough on the physical attempts at reducing their insomnia! Since they seemed to have a lot of the physical figured out, my curiosity immediately goes to the mental. What is the quality of their minds when they wake up in the middle of the night? Do they have racing thoughts or perseverate on things?

Also, this is a classic Vata disorder in ayurveda. An ayurvedic practitioner should be able help narrow down options without all the trial and error.
Here is the "dumb question" I've always had about recording the human genome.

We all have different DNA. So is "the human genome" some kind of "average" DNA, or is it the DNA of whoever they sampled, or is it maybe an overview of what is common for all of us?
I’m pleased to see FUTEX2_SIZE_U64, but saddened that it isn’t actually implemented. It has always seemed like a very useful primitive to have.
Time to make our relationships rocky again boys. Let's go. That first was so addictive. This honestly has me so afraid by how cool it looks and sounds.
Drilling a shallow well is easy with basic "tools"... It'd be nice to be able to do a deep well though
yes, this is the way
I think duckdb is more of a columnar sqlite.
A ballistic trajectory is a 45° angle isn’t it? But that’s significantly short of max distance X.
Because in their opinion, anything bad I'm the world can just be reduced to one problem. Their pet critique of economic philosophy.