skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've created "ODI" (Overengineered Documents Indexer) and presented it recently.

https://clis-everywhere.k8s.best/16

My approach is scanning the documents with airscan1, indexing them with a custom OCR Server (using the MLKit by Google on an Android phone which does completely offline OCR scanning) and indexing everything in OpenSearch.
I've then created a backend + frontend to see the documents and di full text search with that.

Everything is (going to be) open source with a permissive license.
One strategy for estimating bugs is to intentionally seed your code with bugs and then see how many of them the QA team find. ie, if the QA team identifies 5/10 intentional bugs and 20/?? true bugs you can estimate there are 40 true bugs (20 still unidentified).

Likewise, we just need to seed other star systems with intelligent life and see how many our astronomers can find.
Here’s How FTX Executives Secretly Spent $8 Billion in Customer Money
> "It's the x86 that's anomalous. I believe that is the result of Microsoft's peculiar inability to switch architectures."

Why do people keep forgetting that Intel was at the forefront of fab process improvements for 2-3 decades, thanks to the enormous revenue and economy of scale of manufacturing coming from the computerization of society from the '90s onward? None of the UNIX server / workstation OEMs with their own CPU architectures could keep up, not even the well heeled Sun Microsystems. AMD couldn't keep up and had to spin off GlobalFoundries. ARM / MIPS and other minor architectures eked out meager existences as embedded processors only because Intel didn't deign to pursue a low margin market. It was a combination of Intel's fab prowess and the lack of motivation from software developers to build Windows software for non-x86 platforms that kept x86 chugging along.
Library with 2M weekly downloads needs maintainer
Thanks for the very in depth reply! That was a very interesting read, especially how you managed beneficial ownership. It does sound like hard work, and expensive. I guess I'm convinced it's possible, but it does sound like it would be hard to make it profitable.

Was the business model mainly going to be fee-based?
I'm willing to give 100% of Mozilla's CEO salary and move money from unrelated project over.
I randomly used that game as a test rom when I wrote my nes emulator and was pulling my hair out in why the HUD wasn’t rendering until I realized I needed to implement the APU as well.

What a fun era of development.
"Image may not be republished without permission."

I wonder what is the legal status of doing a photo of other country's territory and then selling that photo without the consent of the country on display.
I can, even as a man. As women get older, sex can become extremely painful for a variety of reasons. Who knows, maybe her partner was also very large sized. So yea, if it isn't bringing you enjoyment any more, why do it?
As I understand it all the UN sanctions against North Korea have an expiry date in them and since Russia has veto power in the UN they likely won’t be renewed.

Perhaps we in the west could have offered North Korea something rather than sending them into the arms of Russia? Or maybe we don’t really care …
> isn't thinking long-term worth something akin to a few hours a month?

> Wouldn't it be nice to have some confidence that we're setting up future generations to have the possibility to at least have what we do

This presupposes that you have some control of the long-term. You don't, any more than the flap of a butterfly's wings in Melbourne affects the velocity of the wind in NYC several weeks later.
Are those all tech jobs?
Maybe a tool for energy interests, but apparently not a very useful one given the fate of Enron and Lay in the months and years following that meeting. There were plenty of investigations into Enron after Schwarzenegger was elected governor.
Yes, it is a question whether the stack includes Web assembly? Also, is there a pricing or business model for the platform/engine?
You did write "break the basic conceptions of", not "change". To me, a line overlapping with the previous two lines seems to do exactly that.

Also, the original suggestion was for Unicode to add ornamental combining characters. I don't see how that would require any breaking change. You can already stack them vertically and horizontally.
I found this post on her substack:

https://aella.substack.com/p/fetish-tabooness-and-popularity...
Total shrink data in the article was taken from national average not specific stores. There is no specific shrink data from these stores, so while total shrink on a national level hasn't changed much in years, they have no evidence that total shrink at these specific stores has or hasn't changed.

I'm not really for or against Target. I just feel that the quality of using some tangentially associated data while interesting really isn't enough to make assertions that "the data tells a different story" or that Target is covering up internal problems. It's bad journalism to just do some analysis on some data you happen to have and then claim someone who has the data's assertion is totally false.

Other potential obvious flaws in methodology:
1. Analyzing the quantity of reported theft calls probably only means thefts where the police were able to make an arrest. Not th
2. Different thefts might result in different dollar amounts and quantity of thefts is probably less important to target than total value of theft.
3. Smaller stores may experience less quantity or value of theft, but have higher levels of overall theft, because they are smaller and have less sales and less traffic.
You can try the experiment yourself. Take any open source LLM and then feed the output back into it in a loop and you'll see what I mean. Most LLMs diverge and lose coherence in less than 100 iterations.
Someone needs to brush up on their material science.
Replying to the reply that shouldn't have replied.
"Whataboutism" isn't going win you any arguments.
In Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward, intelligent life evolves in a neutron star. But then again, it's fiction.
Zero subscriptions. Also, if a website prompts me to enter my email address for a newsletter signup, it's much less likely that I'll visit that website again.
How much hydrazine was in the water?
> In real-world software design, violations of this rule of thumb are common. For example, the FAT16 file system imposes a limit of 65,536 files to a directory.

If the rules of software design apply to the universe, what is to stop us from assuming that our almighty creators are storing an $intelligent_life_form_count variable in a single byte somewhere and there can only be 255 of us ?
> I promise you Meta doesn't give a shit about the $8 in ads its getting from Myanmar per year.

They did certainly care about the growth of daily active users even if it meant they expanded to markets where they couldn't responsibly moderate their platform.
Yeah, I'm also in Germany (although not German) and installed Paperless because of this!

I think more than a few of these projects are started and/or maintained by Germans due to the astonishing number of documents received - e.g., paperless-ng appears to have been done by a German, although neither the original Paperless nor Paperless NGX immediately appear to be.
google is an advertising company, not a search engine provider. i would expect them to behave in a manner to increase advertising revenue.
Glad it was useful !
I’d think this actually applies to nearly everything in software and is def a useful thing to keep an eye on.

Underemployment for the last 3 years has given me a great opportunity to dive deeper into a lot of CS topics for things we use daily and read (or at least try to read) specs and code bases etc.

I’ve come to firmly believe that languages or other open source projects that get popular, usually do so for the things that are in its early versions.

For example, the HTTP 0.9 spec is like 1 page. UDP is like 3 pages.

I’d seen an article on HN recently (cant remember the name) that described this well. A language or what not starts simply and many jump on the bandwagon. Then starts adding incremental features, none of which are difficult to incrementally learn for existing users but the footprint of the product keeps expanding. C++, Javascript, Web APIs, graphics languages like OpenGL all are examples in my eye.

The fact that our system (broadly speaking) incentivizes inventing something ‘new’ rather than fixing or simplifying an existing something certainly exacerbates this.
I understand what the annotation does, and your examples are crystal clear. It's TFA that leaves me unconvinced.

It starts off with this function:

int do_indexing(int *buf, const size_t bufsize, size_t index) {
return buf[index];
}

Later it suggests changing just the declaration, adding a parameter annotation in this way:

int do_indexing(int *buf,
const size_t bufsize [[arraysize_of:buf]],
size_t index);

It suggests that, with this function declaration and the former function body, the compiler should emit a warning:

> Similarly the compiler can diagnose that the first example can lead to a buffer overflow, because the value of index can be anything.

This clashes with my understanding of why we would use the annotation in the first place. You seem to hold the same feelings, as this is analogous to your f1(), which you agree the compiler should consider safe.

Instead TFA seems to advocate that the correct function body should be:

int do_indexing(int *buf, const size_t bufsize, size_t index) {
if(index < bufsize)
return buf[index];
return -1;
}

even with the annotated declaration:

> Now the compiler can in fact verify that the latter example is safe. When buf is dereferenced we know that the value of index is nonnegative and less than the size of the array.
It didn’t. They did append their affiliate id to type-ins for a single crypto exchange once. They quickly retracted and apologized.

That’s bad, but not nearly as bad as what the parent commenter described.
I was just now reading exactly similar posts on reddit for Hamas and Israel.
I didn't realize lamb could fly.
> Auto workers worry it takes less labor to build electric cars

Maybe for Tesla, where you stick a touchscreen in the middle of the car and call it a day.
A common drinking water test (which will run $100 or so) will not run tests for hydrazine but there is a more exhaustive test ($600 or so) which will.

We use etrlabs.com for these tests.

Edit: hrmmm… troubling to see Hanna meters called out as defective or malfunctioning - presumably their ph meters - as we use those for everything…
I just donated $5.65 so, that's something
I'm a late adopter of HN, but was a bit surprised to see nothing about Israel/Hamas on the home page. Is that sort of political stuff forbidden, or is there just no interest in this community?
> it’s impossible to prove there is life beyond earth.

why do you say that? If SETI finds unambiguous signals, and they're independently confirmed several times, why would that not be "proof"?

As for the last sentence, the less said the better. "All our existing evidence" is pathetically small.
@marginalia_nu: Definitely not saying this should be a top priority to fix, but I tried to look at the source out of interest, and the Git repo link in “Feel free to poke about in the source code or contribute to the development” on the search page is currently 404ing.
FTC: Stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks $650M+ this year
There's that "just" word again /s
While I don't agree with your conclusion, as it seems Rich Sutton was simply paraphrasing Hans Moravec, I found the video pretty interesting.

Thank you for sharing it.
>It is the only form of authoritarianism in which corporations cannot make profits

It's still the same people making the profits though. Regardless of what political/economic system you have, sociopaths will always gravitate towards whatever position allows them to acquire the most wealth and power. The only difference is whether they have the legal right to send men with guns to lock you up or kill you if you disobey them.
There might also be network congestion; I would consider this the rate of traffic able to reach Cloudflare.
Built their whole IT infrastructure from the ground up.
Am I misquoting that? I read that report as saying that the implicit costs are about $7 trillion dollars, and the explicit subsidies are $1.3 trillion, which is the number I used in the quote because, I agree, the implicit costs are harder to understand.
Fun project, they could have hand winded those solenoids which a drill instead…the end result would look way better
Do you trust job boards? Because employers pay to get listed there
> It’s not useful for normal transactions if the price can swing as much as 50-100% within a year

Why not? If you're not using it for speculation then you wouldn't be holding it for that long. If you're using it as a currency then you might keep $50 worth in your wallet and if you ever receive more than that and not want to spend it immediately you'd exchange it for some traditional investment instead.
The data shows huge mobile uptick. So if a tragedy happen, a lot of people watch videos on their mobile phones.

Not having data, but I observed similar phenomena in Poland during first week of Russia reinvasion of Ukraine. So many people glued to phones during all kind of situations.
> A vial of NovoLog, one type of insulin, costs15 anywhere from $14 to $300 in the United States but only $48 in Singapore, $14 in India, $6 in Austria, and $0 in Italy.

I think a reasonable solution without having to dictate details is to require pharmaceutical companies give the US most favored nation status - that is they must provide the US the same price as the country where it is sold for the cheapest. Perhaps you exclude developing nations from that calculation.
According to Wikipedia[0]:

> In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.

In that sense the OP's comment might read as Carmack partnering up with someone who has a strong foundational understanding of hight level mathematics (if my understanding of the term and OP's post is correct).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle?wprov=sfla1
>One of the big lies Big Pharma tells you is that R&D is expensive but the actual R&D is done primarily by government funding and research at colleges

Not an expert, but my understanding is that the kind of basic science R&D done by the government and academia is the simplest and easiest type of research to do by far. As it was explained to me- anyone can invent new compounds, the really really really hard low-percentage stuff is trialing that those new compounds are A) medically effective in people, and B) actually safe for people and don't have strong side effects.

Also, I believe that if academia actually does invent something novel & useful, they license it out to pharma companies for a % of the profits. Big universities are not shy at all about licensing their IP
ECS is different. Systems coordinate entities, entities have components, some of them can be behaviors, some of them are not (vertex data). You would need to provide something that a component can inherit to derive that it’s a behavior. Unity does this by calling it a MonoBehavior (not Mono as in singular, mono as in Mono runtime, the name stuck).

Having an ECBS system: one could model all the permutations as described while keeping code concise, shareable, and non-repeatable. Unity is really an ECBS.

Inheritance vs non is as old as OOP vs functional. Each has their place, each has their pros and cons. Having functional components and behavior traits attached to object inheritance based entity nodes is probably the best of all composition. Entities can get more and more complex with inheritance chains (further classifying what components can be attached), components can include behaviors, data, events/triggers, sub-components. Behaviors (triggering events or waiting for) is where your game logic would mostly reside.
We'd had a very warm fall until Wednesday of this week. Temperature dropped 30 degrees. Birds had been enjoying the warm weather and then the sudden change had them all migrating at once. They ran into a rainstorm which made migration very difficult (this is called fallout).
So now you've got tons of birds struggling to migrate and aiui flying at lower altitude because of the rain

McCormick (the building in question) is a very large building immediately off the lake with lots of glass windows. There may be some additional mitigations to be made but it's a bad confluence of events. It doesn't happen even once a decade.

This is an important migration corridor, there's even a nice bird sanctuary within site of McCormick. If you're ever there for a convention the area surrounding the convention center is very nice. Northerly Island is becoming one of the nicest parks in Chicago, and is a wonderful walk from the convention center.
> I have not encountered any expectations of exclusivity after a first date.

I have!
I had meant the Replicators from the Stargate universe, but yeah, let's go with Replicants instead.
I mean the best in terms of the base ux, the hackiness that you encounter sometimes is proably mostly because of the coupling with remote services (github, gitlab) where there is some friction, but imo pretty minimal (some unaccounted hashes with rebasing etc.). I'm now interested to try the alternatives just for comparison...
When you stepped out of the airport and swapped in a domestic SIM?
Maybe a big relative increase, but 73 railscars is just a single (US) freight train.
Forbidden per the guidelines.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If you're using it as a currency then you might keep $50 worth in your wallet

Because that $50 in my wallet might be $25 or $100 by the time I need it.
An easy test with AI: analyze 1000's of crowd scenes from 1970 (probably easy for Manhattan streets) to see what percentage were walking while looking at some print material vs. scenes from now with smartphones.

Your assertion is it'll be the same. I'm willing to take that bet.
The fact that you lack the ability for creativity and nuance to such a degree that you scream “HAH, Stalin!” anytime someone criticizes the free market says more about you than the point you’re arguing against.
North Korea doesn't care because they are as sanctioned the west as a country can be - there's no additional leverage.

Russia is not in the same situation - they have been sanctioned, but there's many more sanctions that can be applied.

However, since they're most likely buying artillery ammunition and other weapons from North Korea, and they know that this traffic can't really be concealed, they have likely decided that obtaining this stuff is more important than avoiding whatever additional sanctions would be applied.
To me you have it backwards. NK stod outside of the world community before this. If anything Russia has send itself into the arms of NK.
Check https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In general, even if it's submitted, it's up to a bunch of clicks on the small arrows to keep it on the first page, and other submissions might win instead.

Even if there was a "it must be about hardware or software" rule, that wouldn't be such a bad thing, otherwise we'd just end up getting another reddit.
Or maybe simply "the information is demonstrably untrue and we can prove it"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The guideline criteria say not to submit flamebait, to submit things with interesting, novel intellectual discussion, and generally nothing that is on tv news.

I would imagine that the decades long Israeli/Palestinian conflict would violate all three.
To build on your idea: the presence of PC clones meant that a business that invests large sums of money in off the shelf and custom software solutions could be retained if their hardware vendor went out of business or failed to keep up with other clones. This aspect is highly underrated by many retro computing enthusiasts. Some software systems are too large to ever rewrite. These days, system emulation has come a long way. But at the time, the value proposition of essentially guaranteed long term support for business software was the killer feature that propelled the x86+DOS/Windows to become the dominant system.
I usually enjoy reading posts about benchmarks, but this one is nonsense: it's literally apples vs oranges vs aircrafts.

The only part that makes some sense is Bun vs Nodejs, even if some important metrics are missing(response time, rate of errors).
Realizing just how much of Hollywood is the result of pharmacology genuinely depressed me as a male for a bit, knowing those results are actually unattainable naturally
Verifying Code Authenticity on the Web
Because most people don’t know how to host and maintain web software. Hence the growth of fully hosted platforms like Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Shopify, Etsy, etc.

That’s not really relevant to how enterprises decide on web content management software, though.
well this is a saber rattling wannabe nuclear weapons state. If you look at the history of deals between the US and the DPRK and that of missile launches then you'll likely conclude they don't negotiate in good faith. They also frequently threaten Japan and the US with nuclear strikes and launch missiles into the Sea of Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_Korean_missile_t...
I don't think most of the UN sanctions have an expiry date??

What type of deal were you thinking that the west could offer? How could we even enforce those deals? What would prevent NK from double dealing?
> Not an expert, but my understanding is that the kind of basic science R&D done by the government and academia is the simplest and easiest type of research to do by far.

Yeah it is easy to come up with stuff that works in a lab. For example, just see the HN submissions for new battery technology.
I don't think you should just blindly accept the results. I just write what I want to say stream of consciousness, drop it into chatgpt and then review the result to see where it improved and where it didn't.

A prompt such as "Why are all the dolphins dying?" would be unacceptable.

A prompt such as rewrite "explain that the dolphins are dying because 30 degree rise in ocean temperaturs made their environments unlivable" that reformats the language into a academic style I feel is totally acceptable and efficient if you read what it spits out and agree and edit from there.
Except Intel clock cycles weren't the same as Motorola clock cycles.
Intro to 'Stty' Command in Linux
Canada used to be a fairly good place to be for digital freedom, encryption, and lax copyright enforcement but it seems like the tides are changing for the worse.

Canada will never have the political might to bend FAANGs to their will, there just isn’t enough money and people and also very little supply chain goes through Canada.

I’m honestly quite sad as a Canadian to see our country’s government squabble over small things which really don’t matter in the big picture while we cannot house our population, we cannot keep our population healthy, and we cannot keep ourselves economically relevant outside of resource extraction and real estate.
If you are fleeing your house at the last minute of stuck at work you are not dragging a desktop with you.

The phone is a powerful portable device; if it works, use that instead of a hand crank radio.
Andrew Coyne is one of the few left with authority and reputation sufficient to give him some independence from his employer (the globe and Mail), so he can write stuff that goes against their financial interests (they get money from c-18).