skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I mean I am of two minds here. We flew to Mexico City a while ago with two young children, not complete babies but the youngest was still in diapers. We were THOSE parents with THOSE kid. No running around or kicking but they just could not stop crying. Small ear canals. Change of pressure. Too painful.

On the other hand when we have traveled in heavily Spanish areas I’ve noticed most everyone was completely cool with the sounds of children. It’s just life and life is good. People would offer to have them sit with them and feed them so you can get a break. Complete strangers.

I’d rather be the latter culture than the former. But we’ve no real unified cultural expectations in the US. A major problem. A great strength. I dunno anymore
That's an extremely charitable description of what KiwiFarms is.

What's your list of things to block that are higher up the list?
In Memory of Ueda San
It's really far off, I'm not being pedantic. We do know the 181K Q2 2023 number is public, from there, we might consider factors starting with not every Alphabet-er is a SWE (and it's not close). That alone is worth an incredible number.

This is a valuable comment and I didn't mean to nerdsnipe you.
I hard disagree. The chassis and cooler designs of the old intel based macs sandbagged the performance a great deal. They were already building a narrative to their investors and consumers that a jump to in house chip design was necessary. You can see this sandbagging in the old intel chassis Apple Silicon MBP where their performance is markedly worse than the ones in the newer chassis.
Detection is via quite a simple method if I understand correctly - in the paper, section 7. It's basically a big camera. It's hundreds of stacked layers of tungsten and photo emulsion. Big heavy stuff because it (presumably) has a higher interaction cross section, but this obviously isn't practical to build at scale. There are also several downstream instruments to measure particle properties once they exit the emulsion block, and "veto" layers to ignore muons which get into the detector, but neutrino+tungsten is what causes the magic to happen. The layers are also stacked in such a way that different flavours can be identified.

You don't detect neutrinos, you detect the things they create when they interact with other atoms (in this case Tungsten). These particles then interact with the emulsion to form tracks. You can read more about it here: https://cerncourier.com/a/nuclear-emulsions/

3-4 times a year they take all the emulsions out and process them. Apparently that's often enough and they can see 10^6 tracks per cm2.

On IceCube: it's a telescope. It's designed to locate the source of extra-galactic or other extremely high energy neutrinos. The flux of these neutrinos is lower and the larger the detector the better - not just for detection probability, but for angular resolution on the sky. Ice happens to be a good medium for Cerenkov radiation (other neutrino detectors work by looking for the ~blue light that the interaction products emit as they travel). The other option for a detector that large is under the sea, as there is no light after a few hundred metres (ANTARES is over 1km down), but there's more background/biological radiation and the sea moves... IceCube is also shearing a small amount, but significantly less. Despite the harsh environment, it's an incredibly reliable detector - cold and dry is probably nicer than salt water.
nobody has any obligation to deliver anything they know will cause someone harm. That is pretty much by definition the violation of an ethical standard.
'Neutrality' in the face of someone's life being threatened by someone else is cowardice. And to make things clear, directly from the EFF article:

"A site that provides a forum for gamifying abuse and doxxing, whose users have celebrated on its pages the IRL deaths of the targets of their harassment campaigns[...]"

If you knowingly facilitate a website which itself takes ownership of deaths they have caused proudly, you are abandoning your civic duty. And we can go farther, not only has any ISP obligation to stop this, any hacker who can should take that site down, and anyone who has some resources left over should aid. Not a single inch should be given to these people, not just by the law but by everyone else.

Do you understand how cynical it is to hide behind neutrality or free speech to let people terrorize others to death and laugh about it?
Many intel products that aren't strategically tied to their process nodes use TSMC for this reason. You can buy a lot of stuff off-the-shelf and integration is a lot quicker.
Come take a look at the greenbelts in Seattle for an idea of how bad it can be. Trash, human waste, clear cutting, erosion, fire, etc.
Python won so much that your post questioning it and (gasp) supporting Ruby has been greyed out with downvotes
The money quote was literally that people who can't "disagree and commit" should leave the company.
Edit: you know what, debating this here isn't worth the effort. Sad to see the state of this place.
These are not the quadcopters used to sight in artillery or drop grenades. These are loyal wingmen to be used alongside manned fighters dogfighting j20s deep in the pacific. The 1000 comes from giving the 300-odd f35 fleet 3 wingmen.

The cheapness comes from them being 1/10 the cost of a manned fighter.
For me, the Ruby community's comfort with monkey patching was a big turn off

If it helps, the Ruby community really soured on monkeypatching in general quite a while back. You don't see it much these days and every decent book or guide warns against it.

It was definitely a crazier place 10+ years ago in the early Rails days.
It goes to show how your upbringing affects these things. Before Ruby I spent a lot of time in Smalltalk which really shaped the way I thought about language and program structure, APIs, etc. I'd also spent a metric ton of time writing Perl. Jumping into Ruby was like putting on a comfortable pair of shoes.

Meanwhile Python always felt like an ill-fitting suit to me. I just personally didn't connect with the language design.

But, to each their own!
Its Flourish. I have both the domains for flourishatwork and florishatwork. For the dev site, I am using florishatwork. I haven't launched the main site because I want user feedback first. In hindsight, should have just used dev-flourishatwork lol to reduce the confusion.
What an awful example from the third world. What's next? The IRS forces doctors not to treat some patients in ER because they may owe taxes?

Access to water and medical attention are human rights, no matter how awful the humans may be according to the acting officers.
In the last 20 years virtually all professional capabilities have been accessible to the public, especially in software, which has become very affordable and sometimes free. This definitely helped creative people get a leg up and create some amazing things. However, the majority of people still don't really use this stuff. You still need a creative vision and coherent direction, both are major weakpoints in current state of generative AI (and for humans).

I for one totally embrace the latest AI tools and managed to leverage Stable Diffusion in several places. But I don't see it replace genuine creativity soon.
https://archive.ph/ATOs7
Very scary stuff. Families will probably soon have to drive over the Atlantic.
There is an old joke about the difference between a service provider and a "service preventer". Often the difference is the type of power we allow them to have over the users.

There are many domains of modern society that serve specific service roles, that should never have been given over-reaching power to also monitor and judge outside of a court order, but they do.

Finance used to have secrecy but no anymore, tax is now open book. Transportation and mobility is checked and prechecked. Free speech is being eroded both by snowflakes and copyright trolls. The slippery slope has no boundary and rolls into an avalanche.
Python won by being delightful. Lots of programming languages are delightful at some stage of mastery. BASIC is delightful when you are just getting started, and JavaScript is delightful once you have a deep mastery of the language's subtleties and footguns.

Python is delightful once you get off the ground, and before you've made anything too complicated yet.
Apple has been investing directly in mobile processors since they bought a stake in ARM for the Newton. Then later they heavily invested in PortalPlayer, the designer of the iPod SoCs.

Their strategy for desktop and mobile processors has been different since the 90s and they only consolidated because it made sense to ditch their partners in the desktop space.
I have a hard time with this.

The constitution doesn't say you have a right to water, electricity, internet service, sewer service, etc.

Meanwhile the conservatives in the US are saying that corporations have a right to choose who they serve based upon their religious beliefs. See the SCOTUS Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling on whether they must serve a gay couple.

I'm pretty sure I could argue that Nazism is against someone's religious beliefs....
I started programming python in 98.
It won because before that, Perl was king. Have you seen perl?

Python made a great decision, it was the anti perl. One way to do things, keep the syntax easy and simple. Force whitespace indents. Before python got really "pythonic" It read like pseudo code. As someone that explored Ruby for a bit, Ruby has too much magic. Magic is cool when you're the one casting the spell, but for your audience, it's annoying if their job is to figure it out.

It offered OOP, but was like C++. It didn't force it on you. If you came from a C background, you could write C like code. If you came from an Objects/structs background you can do OOP.

It then offered a great standard library.
It had a REPL. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE REPL. Not just a basic REPL, but an interactive one. dir()? __docs__? The power of man pages built into the REPL, allowed one to explore an unknown library.

Say what you want, but the FFI was well thought out and embraced. This made it possible for lots of C library to be made available in Python. PyQT, wxPython, allegro, OpenGL, all these paved the way for NumPy,TensorFlow, PyTorch. Your favorite graphics, sound library and many other libraries where wrapped in Python. You didn't have to write C anymore for most people with computers being fast enough.

Python won because of many little correct decisions along the way. The python2 to python3 drama was not a nightmare like perl5 -> perl6 or VB to VB.NET. Many good little decisions with a big of luck helps.
An anarchist society? No, they have plenty of hierarchy and desire for strongman leaders
I suspect a lot of the paying use cases for vector search right now have a lot to do with enterprise search functionality. As for the LLM stuff, I do wonder if it's paying bills yet.

If anyone is into embeddings, check out Instructor Large/XL. It's quite good and super fast using L4s. Haven't quite figured out the instructions bits yet, but got it clustering things today and that was cool.
Discovery of spherules of likely extrasolar composition in the Pacific Ocean [pdf]
Thanks! That all sounds very reasonable, except maybe the poop. I wouldn't want a creek on my land to become popular on Instagram and then have to treat my water supply for the rest of my life. But maybe there are already laws about not leaving human waste in an area that threatens water supply.
We have more prestige TV coming out now than ever before. And of course the streaming platforms include the prestige TV of yesteryear as well. The value at current prices is simply astounding.

I don't know what it is about these platforms but most people seem to have an odd take on their value - so much that most of the comments in threads like these are people complaining about "there isn't anything good anymore". But each platform has thousands, if not tens of thousands, of hours of programming. So when someone complains about their choices, I have a sneaking suspicion that they just aren't looking and are basing their views on the heavily marketed major productions, which only account for a handful of shows or movies each year.

While others complain about cost, or having too many choices, I am quite pleased with the current offerings. I don't have every platform, but the ones I do are more than plenty. I'm worried that it's all gonna go back to a cable-like model in the future with platforms combining and charging $100+ for a super platform.

People just don't know how to enjoy it when something is good.

P.s. you can usually buy episodes of a show on Google or Amazon or elsewhere.. watch an episode at a time and only buy the next one if you like what you see. You'll quickly find that model is much more costly to the consumer.
Wonder why this policy just came to light... It's not only because of re-authorization issues.
Yep! That’s the post I was thinking of. Thanks for hopping in with context!
No. Not all speech.

Speech that amounts to creating a conspiracy isn't.
I feel like there aren't a lot of use cases for custom elements (W3C web components), but a generalised component library like this is probably one of those use cases.

Particularly given the ability to style shadow pseudo-elements like drop downs in a non-hacky, browser supported way.

Surprised React was chosen here.
Bharathiyar was asking for about 1.32 acres of land https://thakavalkalangiam.blogspot.com/2013/03/blog-post_953...
It is easy to underestimate how much Python as a language benefited from nympy, scipy, pandas and scikit-learn
> a pirate stream and had no more issues.

how is it that a pirate stream is able to stream without issues, but not the official stream? I would've thought that the pirate stream is merely proxying the output from the official stream, so if the official stream stutters, wouldn't the pirate stream also fail?
Why do to have to do more than say, "my ticket says 24C and you are sitting in my seat" ?
> What's disputed is whether this entitles them to any number of private services...Expecting the state to require private businesses to carry speech that they otherwise would never associate with is a remarkable incursion on 1A rights.

Freedom of speech is a right guaranteed by the First Amendment. It (in theory) protects us from oppression by our government. Freedom of speech is also an ideal that we should strive for in a free society. One would protect us from oppression by forces other than our government.

Private businesses don't have an obligation to uphold people's rights the way the government does, but that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't expect them to respect the ideals of freedom of speech. Because our country doesn't do enough to protect the people from what are basically monopolies we should apply extra pressure to companies who are uniquely positioned to oppress us.

I personally don't think the government should step in and force companies to carry speech they disagree with. I think they should make certain that no company has the power to oppress people leaving them without reasonably equivalent options.

Once a single company, or small group of companies, can decide who has a voice that company has become a liability to our security and freedoms. Those companies should either be broken up or others must be allowed and enabled to step into that space to create alternatives. That might mean that certain barriers to entry will need to be dismantled. It might mean changing laws to accommodate newcomers into the market. As long as truly competitive options exist and/or can be created, freedom can exist.

Sadly, right now we don't really have truly competitive alternatives for things like cloudflare or payment processors and there are many places where single entities hold dangerous amounts of power when it comes to the internet. Imagine if ICANN decided to refuse to provide IPs or domains to anyone whose political views they disagreed with. When non-governmental agencies hold too much power, as Hurricane Electric does, we have to hold them to a higher standard, take actions against them, or put alternate systems in place to protect ourselves from them.
I don't buy this one little bit. My kids all are in the upper percentiles of head size and my wife birthed naturally even with her "narrow hips".
I'm sorry, what is a "creepy van"? What sort of crime is "showing up in our neighborhood"? Is it a private gated neighbourhood that outsiders aren't allowed into? What's the problem here? The way I read this you were made that some guy drove a van and he didn't actually do anything wrong until after you bothered him.
Am I reading this wrong or are foreign heads of state that produce nuclear weapons technically committing a crime which the US considers itself to have jurisdiction over? If so why aren't they arrested when they travel to the US?
I don't believe any country can have 100% reliability, so the data is suspect.
It does but it's generally considered a bad practice in Python (and many other languages) and a feature in Ruby.
Been waiting for something like this. SSO for personal users will be awesome!
“Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.” - Larry Wall
Holy correlation is not causation, Batman!
Speculation on the Widely-Assumed Switch to USB-C Ports on the Upcoming iPhones
Definitely same.

A company's IP space is more or less usually public, while an individual's isn't.
> Just so I know for future reference, what system do you use for DB object comments?

Postgres supports this natively (there was actually an earlier HN post today about "little known Postgres features" that mentioned it): https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-comment.html

We use it extensively because tools like Datagrip will display these comments in the schema browser. It would be pretty trivial I imagine to update your tool to pull these comments from the Postgres schema.
The REPL is huge and makes it so much easier to learn to program by trying out little snippets of code to see what they do. You can trial and error your way to a working program pretty quickly. Only Lisp has a better REPL.
While mountaintops might be habitable temperature-wise, they're not exactly good places for agriculture and having access to fresh water.
> But I don't see it replace genuine creativity soon.

I never said it will either. I also see it as a tool for creatives, just one that democratizes film making at the level of Hollywood productions.
Neat.

In fairness, Brave New World also did it back in 1931: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World. None of this is new ideas just that technology is catching up to science fiction.
Fair point. There likely needs to be somewhat of a critical mass before it becomes super effective. This might be something that could be accomplished with an international treaty.
// private companies a re de facto writing the laws //

We can certainly discuss whether these services should be publicly or privately owned. I'm a pretty liberal guy, and wouldn't mind seeing publically-owned versions of Twitter, ChatGPT, or Google, as a guard against corporations dominating the information age.

But calling for more government regulation of privately-owned services? Forcing private companies to do what you want them to do, even when they would prefer not to? The whole point of private property is that it carves out a space of freedom for you, the owner of the private property, to use it as you wish!!!

I really wonder how I became the radical conservative here......
What if the government reaches out to social media company and asks them to police speech that they don’t like, as was the case during Covid/Hunter Biden Laptop?
The more social pressure there is, the more meaningful the commitment is. Cloudflare doesn't get points for hosting sites that no cares about. They failed to uphold their promise when it mattered twice, so it's pretty much meaningless. Just use AWS for your DDoS protection at that point.
Hit this niche? This has been a major AF initiative/talking point for years now. You can read about it on any of the defense news sites. Hell even OP's military.com is reporting on it. I can't stand the people who are like "I'm in this industry and even i don't know about it-" if you haven't seen the massive rolling stone barreling at you for the past five years, that's on you.
Low-background steel, also known as pre-war steel, is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s. Typically sourced from ships (either as part of regular scrapping or shipwrecks) and other steel artifacts of this era, it is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Psychology is the study of the most complex machine in existence, a machine smart enough to do psychology. Of course it's really difficult to test it compared to simpler sciences.

But if the author is trying to insinuate no meaningful progress in psychology was made in the last X years because of some twitter poll then that's doubtful -- scientists getting to the point they can scan neurons and reconstruct what you see through the activations.

I do agree that you could generate endless reams of pseudo-data about the human behavior by labeling and classifying tiny patterns, and that that's not very practical. But that doesn't invalidate the rest.

Perhaps one way to operationalize psychology would be to take a huge dataset, e.g. 1 million tinder profiles, and have a contest to identify the .1% that got married or something (and how long they stayed married for).
The problem for me is that banning them makes them think that they’re correct. For many people who take hideous ideas to heart, they do so because they believe themselves to be under attack and fighting for “their people.” In this way, they attempt to justify themselves. By banning them, the attack is made more real. Don’t get me wrong, I dislike Nazis. They believe me to be inhuman. I just believe this to be the wrong strategic move.
Interesting, so there actually was a story behind this unusual HN thread a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37060597
How to be a whistleblower – exfiltrating sensitive materials safely [video]
Oh certainly, I agree with you fully, at least unless and until we manage to get service providers classified as common carriers.
The amount of complexity that Rust adds is not worth in most scenarios in my opinion. I can think of Rust as something for OS with critical safety or so.

Besides that, in real life you end up having C in most of your software, so I am not sure how Rust behaves compared to well-written C++ with all warnings and linters on and using smart pointers. But my hypothesis is that they do not stay very far apart in safety.

There are many ways to achieve safety, and the most promising, IMHO, is the path that Hylo programming language is taking. It sticks to Generic programming and mutable value semantics.

The language base draws from Swift and it has very strong people behind that know what they are doing. For example David Abrahams and Sean Parent. This is an implementation in a language of many of the ideas from "Better Code" from Sean Parent. It has a very solid foundation.

Besides being a solid foundation for generic programming, value semantics, and concurrency, what I like the most is how much it simplifies the model by not escaping references all around and preventing unnecessary copies. This removes the (IMHO) mess that is to have to manage reference escaping constantly in Rust, reason why many patterns such as Linked lists are not even possible.

And Lists are not just an academic exercise, as I was told sometimes by Rust proponents. Linked structures (Inmutable linked structures actually) are important in scenarios such as TelCo backend where you need replication, fast moving of data and history versioning, rollbacks and so on.