skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm definitely not the best person to answer this, but honestly it's not bad. Here's an example of a moderately complex peripheral, the cortex-m MPU, and how one rust OS handles it:

https://github.com/tock/tock/blob/3a0527d586702b8ae8cb242391...

Reads and writes turn into volatile reads, so everything works out under the hood. You get the benefits of everything having good names, declared sizes, and proper typing on your register accesses. You can extend that to bit accesses as well.

Rust still has a few areas it isn't competitive in, like your hyper limited or obscure chips (e.g. 8051s, XAP), mature tooling around formal methods, and a certification story for safety critical code. People are working on these latter two issues (e.g. ferrocene) and supposedly very close to public delivery, but you know how slow the industry is to adopt new things even then.
Important pay off it is that us railroads AFAIK have optimized for the high latency and humongous trains whereas in many other places there are constraints that prevent such strategies.
I'm not sure how it knew how to speak it without browsing to that page, but here goes! LOL

https://chat.openai.com/share/1d335bb7-7299-44d1-af21-89d725...
> If someone makes it to your level of mastery of the cosmos, you would just share the locations of any of the other several hundred billion sources of free and limitless energy.

I'm not sure that's true. Evolution is competitive. An advanced race may decide to remove potential competitors before they become a threat.
I don't know anything about this specific applicant. Often, an applicant to a top school meets with a volunteer alumni/ae interviewer from the applicant's local area. They might get a competent interviewer with a dev background. There normally won't be a quiz on software development but there will be a conversation about a project. If the applicant asserts they did 95% of a project's work with 5% help from a parent or other contributor, but the applicant's responses give the interviewer a much different perception of the percentage, this can be flagged as an embellished claim. And that can sometimes be much, much worse than not mentioning the project at all.
Not a Brother printer but I would like to recommend the Canon MF240. I bought it at Walmart for $99 - and it feels like I practically stole it with how good it's been to me. Has both Wifi & ethernet, automatically wakes when sent a print job, scanner works great, etc. Works perfect with generic toner cartridges from Amazon, no funny business with DRM.

Canon in general have been good printers in my experience. I recently bought one of their low end inkjets because I needed to print some photos. That printer also works great & has a highly customizable web interface built in - I didn't expect it to be that feature complete for $45.

I've had 2 brother printers over the years & they were fine - for whatever reason though one of them would refuse to print from a Chromebook. Every other printer I've used in the last 10 years has essentially 'just worked' with any device capable of speaking to it except this Brother. Known issue & they never released a firmware update to fix it.
Quit! I did it and now I’m interviewing for roles where I could build the team from 1 to 5 engineers. Lots of good proven founders out there that want an ex-Googler.
> PWAs on iOS can finally show notifications

This has been such a great addition, once it was officially added I've quickly built a small web app that can now distribute notifications to all my devices effortlessly, with a single codebase and with no need to pay the dreaded $99/yr subscription. Haven't released that publicly but I might at some point once I clean up the mess that inevitably resulted from me writing it in around 2 hours.
What sucks is, Tesla's chargers will only charge Hyundai/Kia vehicles very slowly (50kW) due to a mismatch between their 400V and the 800V of the cars. I was hoping that they'd announce a fix to this, but... nope.

Cynically, this is probably why they're releasing new, NACS-enabled cars (which will presumably charge at full speed on Tesla chargers) before releasing the adapter -- so that when owners of the existing cars realize how bad the experience is, new buyers will already have a better car available to buy, and won't need to worry about how this transition screwed over everyone who already bought a Hyundai/Kia EV.
Tauri newsletter #2, featuring an interview with Tauri co-creator
It's true that unis and corporations care about different things.

However, I am surprised that he would only be accepted at two of those universities, given the grades, SAT, and competitive coding. Most of those schools are solid but non-name branded.
Yes. Although this depends a lot on the quality of the software, native apps tend to be much better in terms of UI and performance, and they tend to use less system resources -- sometimes a lot less.
I'm going through this very thing now. I'm focused on getting the backend features working, but getting pressure to make the tiny tweaks to the UI. Once you open the UI to actual users, priorities quickly get rearranged. The UI complaints are the punch in the "everyone has a game plan until they get punched in the face" phrase.
Turn out the ancient wisdom of drinking and bathing in the blood of virgins had some truth to it...

Seriously though, I don't know how effective this is. What they did appeared to be flooding the tissue with "young blood" and observe the changes in epigenetics markers. These markers are basically conditional if/else depending on the environment so maybe there is something in the plasma that cause them to change. One thing that would be interesting to test is how fast for the tissues to switch back to the "old" forms once the plasma treatment stops.
It is the 1590 SAT, 4.42 GPA, individual achievements, and Asian last name that make the College rejections notable, not that Google hired him.
I should have used an example other than torrenting, one that doesn't automatically distribute back.

Also, I'd say there is a difference between being illegal and whether someone has been successfully prosecuted or not.

I don't understand though how piracy doesn't endanger creators though. If a small time creator creates something, say a video game, and everyone pirates it instead of buys it, how has that not endangered him? Simply because you don't think it's plausible that enough people would refrain from paying?
These models are generally trained on tarabytes of data, but are usually 10s of gigabytes large (or much less if quantized). The latest true open source model, mistral 7b, is only 3GB (0.3% of a TB) when quantized.
In 2025. And it'll only charge at 50kW. Yay.
Yes. Doing commits the Google way was a positive learning experience. Not applicable to really small early companies but a good tool for most other situations.
will we ever find anything that humans haven't touched ???
It seems kind of crazy to me that they've jumped so quickly to full skin layers.

From examples where people heal without scarring like in minor wounds, it always seemed to me like a goo of accepted but useless cells frequently replaced would be sufficient to confuse where scar tissue should form while gradual healing from adjacent skin eventually occurred.
Oh, you're right, I spaced. I've been away from Google for a few years now, and I remembered the titles and Lx being off from each other but had it mixed up. Thanks for speaking up; I was wondering what the deal was with the downvotes.

* L3 = Software Engineer II, entry level. (There's no Software Engineer I.)
* L4 = Software Engineer III.
* L5 = Senior Software Engineer.
* L6 = Staff Software Engineer.
* ...
idk, that is partly true. Then there's all the college signaling that academics are not enough. To be admitted in a top school you need to show extra curricular experience and generally be extraordinary, but now that's not enough. Well, I'd like to see the applications.
Prestigious schools are ranked in part based on how selective they are which incentivizes rejecting people rather than having some standard and growing to accommodate everyone who meets it. This incentivizes them to make admissions seem somewhat random so people that are unlikely to make the cut also apply. Even less selective schools want to reject some applicants simply to maintain a consistent number of students year to year.

Which isn’t to say things are random internally, just that they don’t want most people to be able to know if they would get rejected.
As someone who has been using search engines since the 90's, I've found that the "old-school" way of formatting your search almost like a database query has gotten significantly worse. It seems like search engines are geared more towards natural language queries now; probably because the old Google-Fu way of doing things wasn't very friendly for people who didn't use computers regularly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/world/middleeast/afghanis...

> It was in the waning days of November 2001 that Taliban leaders began to reach out to Hamid Karzai, who would soon become the interim president of Afghanistan: They wanted to make a deal.

> “The Taliban were completely defeated, they had no demands, except amnesty,” recalled Barnett Rubin, who worked with the United Nations’ political team in Afghanistan at the time.

> Messengers shuttled back and forth between Mr. Karzai and the headquarters of the Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, in Kandahar. Mr. Karzai envisioned a Taliban surrender that would keep the militants from playing any significant role in the country’s future.

> But Washington, confident that the Taliban would be wiped out forever, was in no mood for a deal.

> “The United States is not inclined to negotiate surrenders,” Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said in a news conference at the time, adding that the Americans had no interest in leaving Mullah Omar to live out his days anywhere in Afghanistan. The United States wanted him captured or dead.
A disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh won a Nobel
> I think treating college acceptances as a foregone conclusion based on demonstrated engineering prowess is an error.

While the demonstrated engineering prowess in high school does not guarantee an acceptance into a good college, I view it as the problem with the acceptance process.

Any college acceptance is somewhat random, but the fact that the vast majority of the listed 16 computer science programs rejected him does not show the US college acceptance process in good light. My 2c.
I did the same move as you (from Stockholm) - I found it hard to get an interview before physically being in the US. Mainly because US companies want to hire as quick as possible and don't have time to wait for you to get there, figure out the Visa situation etc. If you have a Visa, just take the plunge and have money to live there for a couple of months - you'll be alright.

If you don't have a Visa, I probably would not move before you do - H-1B visas are a lottery and O1 visas takes up to a year to get before you can even start working. Yes companies do conduct online interviews and will try to get you a visa before you move but it is hard.

Another route could be working for a European consulting firm or a Swedish company with an office in SF, then move to the US via them. Good luck!
Merriam is incorrect
I've always wondered if they ever turn down people because the people applying appear that they will become intelligent and successful without said college? So why not accept someone who is doing great but not quite living up to their potential?
The "what" is the hard part, yes, but the other hard part is finding the bandwith to get the business to build this automation. LLMs empower non-engineers with a technical bent to create helpful solutions for themselves.
Orion is the first browser on iOS that has convinced me to move away from safari. From the Kagi team, and admittedly still in beta, it's fast, rejects telemetry, and allows install of Chrome and Firefox extensions. The built-in pop up and blocking is great, and nukes YT ads too.

Still a little rough around the edges (sometimes freezes; restart it; and switching orientation is slow), but the pros outweigh the cons.

https://browser.kagi.com/
Thank you for the thoughtful response.

Being Canadian I am aware of these things, but I do feel like a frog in a pot - it didn't seem that critical. I agree with you about the next few years being very difficult. I'm in Quebec (woohoo hydro) and am ressourceful enough not to be worried for myself, but it won't be easy for most.

I was not aware of the separatist rumblings in the west, I'll look it up.
This may be a Chrome vs Firefox issue, as Firefox doesn’t support the ping attribute for a (link) elements in HTML. The ping attribute allows sending a POST request in the background to arbitrary URLs when a link is clicked.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a
maybe a "suggestion box" method for people that know of good sites so that you might contact the dev directly about being listed?
It’s pretty close even if it’s not actually an Americanism.
Dinosaurs?
There are more qualified applicants for both top-colleges and Apple/Google/Amazon jobs, so both processes have a high degree of randomness. I don’t draw any conclusions from one event occurring but not the other.
The SEO garbage has been poisoning the search for years. Even before the chatbots it got to the point when most top results are crap. The LLM's can surely make it much worse, though.
Yes, everyone except Tesla was using CCS. They still are, but might switch by 2025 or whatever. I suspect they’ll have both connectors for awhile, similar to have some DCFC had a CCS and Chademo.
> So, yeah, I am with you. Just not here. No way. This isn't Europe, not even close.

This is some bs American exceptionalism.

Is it not like Canada? Or Japan? Or Mexico?

In fact, Mexico, with its absolutely nightmarish government, has consistently provided socialized healthcare to their citizens, and cheap healthcare to American healthcare tourists.

In the meantime, your opinion is that you’d rather continue being scammed by insurance and healthcare providers?

By the way, the US effectively had socialized healthcare for decades. It was dismantled by Reagan, Nixon, and the GOP. You may want to start pointing fingers from there.
Every dinosaur found was excavated by a human.
Too bad the hackintosh days are nearing an end. One of my favorite computers ever was an x230 with IPS screen running MacOS. It had a great keyboard, sensible small size, and swappable batteries.
Other languages need tooling and featurefulness that is overall on par with C++ first. So far no low level language has profilers and debuggers that are as good, none have nearly as many compiler hints, and most are far harder to write zero overhead abstractions in. Not all developers need these tools all the time, but their availability is what keeps C++ attractive.
This is such a great idea. Excellent design, too. I second the requests for dark mode or at least following the user’s prefers-color-scheme setting.

Do you have ambitions to monetize this, or go the open source route? Where do you go from here?
I like your idea, I could do it right in my front yard, but what I like about the image in the article is the very nice proportions and exact repetitions of the curves and even the little dove-head figure, and the fact that it was entirely unintentional. Added bonus that it cost millions and millions and involved over the top equipment and time and distance!
Roughly stuff like templating, abstract base classes, generics and non-trivial user defined types.

Consider a simple program that adds 2 numbers: a & b together. In a dynamically typed language, this would be a + b. In a statically typed language, once you consider overflow and underflow, you will likely have a hundred lines of code.

This creeps up again in JSON parsing where the types really are defined at runtime.

But the most general case is people creating complex and hard to understand types in their code, which they then export to unsuspecting developers to use. e.g. The type of stuff that forced C++ to introduce the auto keyword.
I think it depends a lot on the user. I never found DuckDuckGo to have good results, I think because it's based on Bing, and that remains laughable to this day (I have recently had to use it a bit and holy hell it's shit). I am comparing to startpage, which is I guess a more anonymous Google.

Kagi is at least as good for my day to day use, though I can't say it's obviously better. What it does have that I find useful is more ability to rank forum posts and the like higher, where they often have the real answers. Along with the "lenses" which let you kind of say what sort of stuff you're looking for - like only forum posts.

Right now, they also added to the Ultimate level a bunch of AI models you can chat with, which actually have pretty up to date knowledge it seems, and wider knowledge. For example, Claude 2 via Kagi was able to both help me as a DM with making a D&D 3.5e NPC (GPT4 can't do that alone, or at least didn't for me, and the plugin I tried to use that was suggested just didn't work at all), all the way to actually quickly finding JunOS commands and giving useful info about various outputs and clarifying what to do - which so far seem to be correct.

But the actual value to me is I can also ask GPT4 from Kagi, and Google Bison, so I don't need multiple subscriptions. I don't actually know how long this will hold true, but for now Kagi does a lot of stuff in one place that's pretty useful for me.
Then nothing - you didn't gather massive amounts of raw copyrighted goods and consumed them in a comercial goal without paying.

This LLMs are not trained on the radio, especially not exclusively.

Edit0: Did you get access to this book that inspired you legally, as in at a library, during a class, or having bought it yourself? Was it fair use?

Because none of those look like getting heaps of copyrighted stuff for free and claiming you didn't.

If instead you stole the book - then yes, this is similar. I don't care what you do with it - can't steal it and assume you are respecting copyright.
Same. I've got a work Precision 7670 in top spec, literally a £7000(!!!!!) machine, and it overheats within 5 seconds of being under load, the CPU hits 100C and throttles down hard. It's equipped with a 3080Ti but it's the same story - the GPU overheats and throttles down to 200MHz, so anything you play is just a stuttery mess. And it's not surprising - inside it there are 2 heat pipes going to two small fans with only one air outlet. Even my "gaming" MSI laptop with half the spec has much beefier cooling, it can run its 3070Ti under full load indefinitely. Not to mention their £400 thunderbolt docks that work maybe 50% of the time.
PiHole blocks the email verification link/domain.
Only recently, though I don’t know exactly since when and it may have been for a while.

But, for many of its early years it was very particular about not only college degree, but which college and what you studied.
Well sure. Like I said, the main benefit of the microwave is to defrost faster. Nothing requires a microwave.

And soup doesn't benefit from browning or crispness so you can heat it up in the microwave the whole way.

There's nothing wrong with the pan, it just takes longer. And there isn't any taste/texture benefit over the microwave in the case of soup.
My thumb can’t stretch like that.. perhaps try out an app on real devices instead of simulators.

Edit:

It is quite fast. Search button tries to fix address bar location, but I don’t like it. Switching tabs is a pain and sweeping them interferes with iOS app switching. Difficult to add a new tab
The overall tone is bloodless, in a relentlessly smooth, confident style. The articles on the news site Axios.com have a similar style - relaxing to read at first, but feel bereft of any convictions after a while.
>in 1952 the international astronomical union changed the definition of time so that instead of being based on the rotation of the earth about its axis, it was based on the orbit of the earth around the sun >in the 1930s they had discovered that the earth’s rotation is not perfectly even: it slows down and speeds up slightly

Yeah, I remember studying that back in high school but I wonder... what previous actual duration of a second they used? And also, being based on the rotation of Earth, what kind of data was the "vast amount of historical astronomical data" Newcomb collected? How can you reliably capture and store the length of time if you can only base it on the Earth rotation speed which varies over time? I would guess the data compared it to other natural phenomena?
> If each block contains the hash of the previous block, then I think that it is a blockchain […]

Or simply a 'hash chain':

> A hash chain is similar to a blockchain, as they both utilize a cryptographic hash function for creating a link between two nodes. However, a blockchain (as used by Bitcoin and related systems) is generally intended to support distributed agreement around a public ledger (data), and incorporates a set of rules for encapsulation of data and associated data permissions.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_chain

Or perhaps:

> Linked timestamping creates time-stamp tokens which are dependent on each other, entangled in some authenticated data structure. Later modification of the issued time-stamps would invalidate this structure. The temporal order of issued time-stamps is also protected by this data structure, making backdating of the issued time-stamps impossible, even by the issuing server itself.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_timestamping

An(other) example of the latter:

This document describes a mechanism, called syslog-sign in this
document, that adds origin authentication, message integrity, replay
resistance, message sequencing, and detection of missing messages to
syslog. Essentially, this is accomplished by sending a special
syslog message. The content of this syslog message is called a
Signature Block. Each Signature Block contains, in effect, a
detached signature on some number of previously sent messages. It is
cryptographically signed and contains the hashes of previously sent
syslog messages. The originator of syslog-sign messages is simply
referred to as a "signer". The signer can be the same originator as
the originator whose messages it signs, or it can be a separate
originator.

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5848
Microsecond Accurate NTP with a Raspberry Pi and PPS GPS
Disagree that battery replacement is prohibitive. Current cost to replace battery on my iPhone 12 Pro Max is $90 ($100 for a newer one, $70 for older ones).

I definitely replaced batteries on my family's iPhones when they ran the discounted battery replacement special. My phone is at 85% health and still manages to get through the day but paying $90 instead of buying another phone is a good deal for me for say, 2-3 years of additional use.
I think we all saw this coming, talked about it, articles were published even...but now its news
Back in the days when HP was a scientific-equipment company, everything they made was built like a tank. Still have fond memories of the HP-7475A plotter.
Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 end of support
And desktop Vivaldi is just Chromium, right? Illusions.
Not weird compared to the general population I think but I would hope still a weird sentiment for the general HN readership.
Smiling Kids, Gorgeous Sunsets: Is It Photo Editing or Just Plain Lying?
Of course, but there's no reason why a 50/60Hz signal couldn't have been included in the ATX power connector back when it was established a few decades ago.

In an alternate universe it would've been put in there, together with all the weird -12V / -5V rails nobody uses these days. Getting it these days would indeed be pretty much impossible.