skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like pushing someone down a staircase he was walking down anyway. Same thing right?

It's the insane speed of human caused climate change that's causing the mass extinctions.
> sure seems silly for them to intentionally block it from the Play Store when side loading it is trivial, doesn’t it?

>> ... but not every reviewer bothered to do that

Apparently not?
I have been sharpening my own knives and tools for 45 years, and have been doing it in the same way since I was in my teens and my dad and I read some article (in Popular Science, maybe?) which Just Worked. My dad was a bit more patient than I have ever been and his edges always shaved hairs, dry. My edges are still quite good though.

Anyway Ima procrastinating today and saw this HN item and hesitated, oh no, have I been doing something wrong all these years? So in the spirit of never stop learning I bit the bullet and read it.

I didn't have to read far though. First came the don't use oil bit and then next the relief and the burr, and nope! Hooray, whatever we read back in the day was the equivalent of this. Maybe it was the same people, I remember a folksy tone.

The sad thing is in all those years none of the people of my acquaintance, with the exception of my daughter, have ever had any interest in sharpening/maintaining their knives, and if they do anything (most don't), it's an electric sharpener. I've passed through some home kitchen horror shows, and now if I know I'm going to be cooking in somebody else's kitchen, I bring my own knives, even internationally. Mandatory for AirBnBs. I remember reading up on packing a set of knives on a Thalys train and reading some worrying restrictions. But decided, well WTF to chefs do in France? I didn't get hassled, maybe I was lucky.

Anyway, even though I don't think I've ever converted anyone, I always encourage people to learn to sharpen/maintain their knives. I will usually haul a big DMT hone along with me on trips to home kitchens and do a quick repair job on the host's knives. Weirdly, quite a few people are very wary of sharp knives! Dull knives are what terrifies me...
i think even the eagles may have been corrupted by possesion of the ring, and the greater the victims might, the greater danger they present under thrall of the ring, thus lowly hobbits bore the ring.

whether hobbits, or eagles did it, it certainly caused a power vacuum, and the ensueing times would be the entry scenario to the next campaign.
It goes the other way too, plenty of ICs think they work for their manager. How do you convince them otherwise?
This library is proper fast. Don't get distracted comparing this to other libraries just on the basis of similar string template syntax; it doesn't have a dependency on pg because it implements its own low level client.

I've built systems on this loading multiple 10k records at time and it crushes.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.""
The T makes it hard to visually parse. Whenever I try to read a timestamp using the T I have to scan it very carefully to see the date-time boundary. It'sWasWifWweWusedWaW"W"WtoWdenoteWwordWboundaries. I beg you people, use a space:

2021-11-21 15:10:35

See how much easier that is?
Take a look at the recent Australian referendum (disclaimer: like most young people I voted yes, but the outcome was no):

Although people were voting, there was a lot of political parties "advocating" fairly hard for different views, and the opinion of Australians flipped as a result of that. Seems like spreading FUD is effective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2023...
256 colours was positively mind blowing in the era of 8- or 16-colours (like in this article).
This article started as a nice reflection on the old internet creativities and communities that we used to have and a lament for its loss at the hands of corporate social media. Then it turned out to just be a lament that one of those social media corporations that swallowed the old internet is now being run by the another wrong person, one who's now fashionable to hate. What a disappointment.
When people using a Pixel 8 or Pixel 8 Pro tried to install benchmark apps from the Play Store, Google blocked the installation and falsely claimed "This app won't work for your device".
Arguably, "threatening" and "shaming" are both forms of "social engineering."
Agreed! However people can use a few eyes to spot glaring holes before reaching out to potential customers.

This also helps people in being involved in other's startups and getting second hand experience of what works and what doesn't.
Yeah I saw this image of something burned on X and was confused by how many people agreed this was AI just because a random website said it was.

AI is good but not that good (yet). It’s clearly an actual photo, but it’s not clear what exactly the image is of.
Look into a crypto lending/ yield pool. You'll understand what he's saying because it's nothing like "Traditional Finance". Traditional Securities-based lending does not have a "base oracle" like crypto does, and the lenders get to determine the spread. The margin limits, the rates, the transparency, all much better in a crypto yield pool.

But you obviously run the base risk of a defi exchange getting hacked, which you are not covered for like you are in traditional finance. (There is some interesting crypto insurance products tho)
Yes. Worked in a robotics startup and a tier 1 automotive supplier. In both, variants of the Kalman filter were used for some tasks.

They are a simple tool, and simple often works. You just need to know the limitions and know which variant (if any) is best applicable to the problem at hand.
DOCSIS 4 gear that can do symmetric for many homes has really only started to show up in the last year.

High-split DOCSIS 3.1 topped out at about 1.5gbit/sec upstream shared among all customers on a segment.
I’m not claiming they have a better option, just the reality of the situation. Ideally they could work on some peaceful compromise to end the conflict, but perhaps they will have
more luck trying to start a tech unicorn than achieve peace with Israel.
I like how apple photos does it. It's today, yesterday, then day of the week name (tuesday) and then the date after you pass the 7 day threshold. And they always put in the time
> Nobody sheds any tears over their opinions being restricted, and nobody should. Debating with pidgeons doesn't work.

Wrong, wrong and in my experience the people most similar to pigeons (e.g. shitting on the table rather than debating) are the young teens on reddit with vaguely leftist ideas with no foundation (proper communists are generally good debaters), the actual heriditarians and ethnic nationalists might be wrong, but they do try and actually debate rather than insult.
It’s no surprise that one of the places they’re doing this, Colorado Springs, is pursuing municipal fiber optic. There’s no better way to overcome the complacency of your local cable monopoly than to publish a plan to offer a competitive service. They’ll improve their service and prices before you can even deploy the first strand of fiber.
You've continued to post aggressively, attacking other users and generally posting in the flamewar style, even though we've asked you many times to stop. If this keeps up, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, because you obviously have a lot of knowledge to share, but your aggressiveness destroys more than your knowledge contributes—a lot more, actually. Fortunately, there are plenty of other knowledgeable users here who treat their fellow users respectfully. Please be like them instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The pressure to implement this both in EU and in five eyes countries comes IMHO from the US. In the EU itself there are no structures that would profit from this.
This is actually an intrinsic difficulty of the German rail network, due its highly interconnected structure, and the fact that it connects to other countries in all directions. The schedules are much more complex to handle than, say, in France where you mostly have a spokes-and-hub topology centered on Paris.
Qosh Tepa Canal: Afghanistan Asia's longest artificial for irrigation of desert
You mention you don't use drugs but then you start talking about being an activist, potentially doing something extreme, and looking for "jobs for people with depression". The problem is that all of this still screams "baggage". Maybe not as bad as a hard drug problem or criminal record, but it's still "baggage" that nobody would want to deal with when there's plenty of other people that either don't have it or hide it well enough.

When you're looking for help and handouts, "going against the grain" is not a successful strategy, so you need to put all the activism/strong morals/etc aside and never bring it up. Make up a believable backstory about yourself that doesn't bring any of this up nor raise suspicions to explain your predicament to potential employers (someone with degrees in knowledge work applying for menial work is more surprising than a blue-collar worker) and use that to slowly rebuild.

> Is that what I should do... emigrate back where I came from?

If I had to choose I'd rather be homeless in Europe than the US. The latter is a country where fucking the little people is considered good business and so much existing business relies on that, where moneyed interests have effectively seized control of the government and where the general groupthink would be against (or can easily be convinced to go against) anything that would help the little people in fear that it would be "socialism" - definitely not a good place for someone in this position.
My view is based on the science.

Regarding the research that supports my claim, studies have been done to isolate the different parts of the brain where they tell one part to do something like get water, then they ask the other part of the brain why they got the water and it makes up a reason because it's not aware of what happened in the other part. This is eerily similar to LLMs hallucinating.
And yet the message to their support staff to unfreeze my account gets lost every time I submit it.
I used them extensively when I worked on Radar contact tracking. They are an effective tool when used with a good understanding of the limitations.
Strava tells me I burned 3,3000 calories this morning on my (4 hour)100km bike ride. About the equivalent of drinking 2 cups of melted butter, or eating 50 pounds of lettuce. When I'm doing exercise like that regularly it's hard to eat enough.
> the reason cryptocurrency would change the world is that it’s censorship-proof

It is… right up to the moment that you want to convert it to fiat.

At that point, all bets are off.

(Not sure what “censorship-proof” means exactly, but I will assume that it’s something similar to sanction-proof.)
Thank you to both you and GP, you both gave me context that helped me understand Wayland’s role a lot better.
I don’t think everyone there is part of hamas, just an extreme, but powerful minority
>4 other people like you though

You'd be surprised. You obviously haven't been to a crypto conference.
Sorry, I defended crypto vehemently for years, but against a growing mountain of evidence and no serious use-cases after exhausting countless engineering hours and VC… it kinda seems like a scam at this point.
Could even be personalized so the date appears as "the same weekend you and Charlie went out on the boat"
Do not forget to weight the guesses by their uncertainty, considering the correlation between the guesses.
Calculate the negative impact of working for FAANG on anything. Every programmer is - and leaves everything - better off not working for FAANG.
Or they take beverages and appetizer and drop it and leave without knocking
Honestly, modern ML models are extraordinarily messy. They are inefficient, unreliable (when the goal is perfect reliability), often misused, mostly unexplainable, and very much a "throw the spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks" type of problem solving.

Kalman filters, and other similar digital filtering and prediction algorithms, are like scalpels compared to the broadsword of NNs and such. There are plenty of things that you can't or shouldn't use a kalman filter for, but for the tasks that it is suited for, you cannot do better with another solution. ML is mostly hand wavy bullshit, and DSP algorithms are like... doing real math, real engineering.
Notably, it isn't against the law to call out "Oracle forbids us from benchmarking, so we are forced to rank it last".
Being a good manager is 90% hiring the right people. Who the right people are depends on your circumstances, but a metaphor that always worked for me is that building a team is like building a puzzle. You need pieces to fit together.

If you’re a typical line manager and just got handed a team with no say in its composition, well, good luck. Nevertheless the best you can do is fit together the pieces you have as well as possible.
Electromechanical Refreshable Braille Module: HackadayPrize 2023
low cost (~$1) 3d printable module for making braille displays.
All Slash Commands from Jeda.ai [video]
I only have a limited career as a manager or non-leaf member of the hierarchy. people are going to jostle around you. but if you accept input from anyone, don't play games, and be brutally honest with everyone - it is actually appreciated by other parties and gets you pretty far. your image management is just 'this person doesn't screw around'
With climate change, they probably won't live hundreds of years. They'll die in a drought or forest fire or flood some time in the next decades, or be cut down for firewood.
> All of Google is AI. But you don’t see them bandying it around like a kid with new light up shoes.

From a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-ein58laA
> But if humans cause large swings in climate that would happen naturally, then it’s not like what we’re causing is unique right?

It is unique in several ways. In a moral sense it is unique in that we knowingly caused it and failed to take action. In a historical sense, extinctions on this scale are so rare they are almost unique. What is unprecedented however is the rate of change. This is important because species aren't able to adapt anymore when the climate changes so rapidly.
K, but is the story accurate or not?
Great prose, huge vocabulary.
Try the "Swift Playgrounds" app for a programming-friendly environment.
I'm running lineageOS, and I had to root the phone to make one banking app work (and Netflix and some games.)

It actually passes SafetyNet out of the box, but there's a CTS profile check that some apps do in addition to SafetyNet, and I had to root the phone to make it provide a profile that those apps are happy with. And then I had to install a SafetyNet bypass, because fixing the CTS profile broke SafetyNet.

It un-roots itself every time I install an update, which is kind of a pain in the ass, but someone wrote a script to re-root lineageOS (from a desktop computer), so it's not too bad these days.
I hacked in a weighted stochastic method into a WebGPU solution[0] and it worked surprisingly well. Essentially, given each pixel of a splat, pick a pseudo-random number from zero to one and if it’s lower than the alpha value for the pixel, draw over whatever is in the frame buffer at full opacity.

The next step I wanted to try was to super-sample (eg render at double resolution) and linearly down sample. I imagine this would give a slightly noisy result that I think would be pretty visually pleasing.

0: https://github.com/antimatter15/splat
>> Do anyone here have industry experience where Kalman Filters is actually used in prod?

Yes, ship/vessel navigation software heavily use Kalman Filters. Especially on the inputs received from the various position reference sensors.
English wikipedia text uncompressed is 60GB, and that's 6.7 million articles. You can fit an ungodly amount of information in less than a terabyte.
There's a reasonable case that Private Browsing and Tor serve different enough use cases that they're not interchangeable.

Private Browsing: The goal is to prevent embarrassment. I'm looking at porn or shopping for gifts for my spouse, and I don't want it showing up in the autocomplete/history/remarketing ads as much as possible.

Tor: The goal is to prevent imprisonment. I'm accessing stuff that's politically sensitive and either inaccessible or likely to trigger consequences if it's detected by local ISP infrastructure.

Obviously, Tor offers a higher overall security profile, but tends to break things (services using IP blacklists, services that don't do well with its performance characteristics, etc.) that people expect to work with today's Private Browsing.

ISTR when one implementation of it came out (not sure if it was Firefox's or the original Chrome Incongito mode) the launch page said point blank "this will not hide your movements from your ISP, governments, site hosts, etc."
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But is it the responsibility of the operating system to do that, by default?

What if the operating system started to bleep out swear words from the microphone? Or blurring out obscene gestures?

Sure, make the software available on install, or even prompt it's configuration and opt in on installation.

But it's not and should not be the responsibility of the OS to apply effects or manipulate or alter the data of the hardware.
The very page you linked to shows he had the majority vote at 33%!
Lamborghini doesn't need to make any effort to lure in cryptobros so why bother?
I found this very insightful for a hobby project I worked on: https://controlguru.com/table-of-contents/
> But it's a very fuzzy and soft science, almost on par with social sciences

There's no need for name-calling.
optic fiber may be one of the zero interest rates phenomena coupled with gov subsidies betting on the future

At the end of the day there was plenty of juice to squeeze from existing infra
absolutely in line with what people here would be interested in

Were they intellectually interesting?

That's the bar.

A lot of HN'ers would probably be interested in free beer.

Or the positions of politicians on tech related issues.

And of course naked pictures.

The community decides what meets that bar and only in exceptional cases do moderators intervene. Typically it is as a safety valve not an editorial position.

Anyway, there are always other interesting things to talk about...and submissions based on a person's desire to talk about X tend to be less interesting than submissions simply based on X being intellectually interesting.

YMMV.

Good luck.

Good luck.
I'd love to see a library like ecto (eilxir) for javascript. its easily the best toolkit for working with sql I've ever found. simple, powerful and easy to reason about
liquidity is liquidity, Ferrari decided to recognize a lot of people don't care what traditional financial institutions do

not sure the point of wanting to play devil's advocate to the points made here, there are already people actively using the parallel payment systems and Ferrari is catering to that, its no longer about convincing someone comfortable in the traditional finance system to learn about crypto

the crypto ecosystem has its own ways of doing everything... at all tiers. there are no tiers of wealth or needing to revisit relationships with banks now that you have money. so they're already familiar with the quick lending if they want to use that.

some people are well integrated in a system where you don’t have to start a question with “I don't mean this in a rude way, but do you have enough money for this to be convenient”
For the purpose of ecology, peat is not biomass. Biomass is living things. Trees. Bugs. Fish. Microbiota. Not peat.

Why is this important is that living things form a carbon cycle of which our atmosphere is a part. Peat is sequestered for an unknown amount of time and is at the very least temporarily removed from the cycle.
This is precisely one of the perks of rooting.

Unless you mean as a right, without needing to root? I'd disagree (from a corporate/warranty perspective), but I'll bite
It is expensive, yes. Fine-tuning is a way to encode instructions without having to resubmit them every time. You also have to resubmit _past iterations_, such that the agent has “memory”, so that’s also quite wasteful

Openai is allegedly launching some big changes nov 6 that’ll make that less wasteful, but I don’t think there’s a ton of info out there on what exactly that’ll be yet
Building self healing server clusters that:

-can run any workload
-on any hardware
-at any scale
-with load balancers
-and persistent disks
-and auto scaling
-and resource limits
-and certificate management
-and no single point of failure
-and etc.

requires a lot of esoteric complexity. Kubernetes did not create this complexity, but it is solving it in a standardized and universal way.
I prefer stardate
Make them owners of areas you are not so interested in solving yourself. Leave technicality to them to sort out. Focus on areas you like.
Surprised it’s actually symmetrical. Though I’ve never understood why, it’s always perplexed and irritated me that they typically offer upload bandwidth at a tenth of download. In the day and age of remote work, you’d think this would be illegal.
Check this blogpost about a distraction free, minimalist writing device: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/09/22/1230
Nice. A Dra'Azon dead world in our own backyard.
OpenAI's head of research does give out some of those vibes with his tweets: https://twitter.com/talbroda/status/1712875148171182517 I expect better, but tech Twitter in general, on this war, has been more than just genocidal (ex: https://twitter.com/mattocko/status/1712694394154045887). Even if expected and justified, it is still scary to witness outgroup bias laid bare like this.
"Crypto nouveau rich" sounds like one of the Ferrari-est target markets going tbh. There aren't very many of them, but not very many people buy Ferraris anyway.
You can set your preference to display exact times in GitLab. See my prior comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37881456
> Naively we might see games like Go, Chess, StarCraft, and Dota as more "complex"

The strong AIs made for those games had access to some crucial human "help" though.

* AlphaStar (For StarCraft) was trained on a massive database of human games, while this project started Pokemon Red with a blank slate.

* AlphaZero and AlphaZero Chess did start blank slate, but had a hand-coded and domain-specific search algorithm (MCTS) to explore various actions (800 iterations IIRC) before actually making that action. There's no obvious way to do something similar for Pokemon Red.
When crypto is involved, I think of shady folks.

If you use a crypto exchange to acquire cash and then purchase a Ferrari in cash, you probably will trigger IRS regulations that require the dealer to report a large cash transaction (>$10k)[0]. I cannot find clear documentation from the IRS that states cryptocurrency transactions trigger mandatory reporting, though it is possible that it is reported somewhere.

From my very biased perspective, Ferrari accepting crypto is just advertising to various "bad folks" (drug/gun/human traffickers) that they're not gonna tell the IRS.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/cash-payment-report-helps-gover...
That's 200 trees for every single person on the planet, each year, again and again. And they need to live long enough to become average trees, so you need to plant more than that because quite a few won't make it.

Where do you find the space for that, and the labour?!