skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Occasionally when I'm doing weird algorithmic stuff I end up with my nose in one of these books, combinatorial algorithms more often than many others.

I'm a big fan, but I think you already have to be pretty deep into the world of algorithms and discrete math to get a lot out of them. I cheated my way into that world by starting my math minor a few years ago with Combinatorics, specifically because I felt like learning how to count things in weird ways would help my autrocious mental math (it did!).
Wanna sell it?
(I am not a scientist) the assumotion is Earth is an average lifebearing plant until proven otherwise. If you find evidence of something, you are more likely to find it in the middle if the normal distribution.

The problem though is choosing which population we are "average" in.

Unfortunately we have a single sample for life. Its actually entirely possible we are literally the only intelligent life (or even Earth being the only planet with life) if you define the population as "life capable of wondering if they're alone in the universe".

This is the anthropic principle [1] which is an observer bias implies the universe supports observers. Coupled with the fact a spacefaring civilization at 1% the speed of light could colonize the galaxy in about a million years (0.007% age of the universe) this is decently strong statistical evidence intelligent life is exceedingly rare (Fermi paradox).

But to answer more directly, Carl Sagan convinced Nasa to look for life on earth. [2] We assume we are typical therefore we try and replicate this with observations of other planets.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03230-z
Buh-bye (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/buh-b...)
> they're simply pointing out that the Peertube (and the Fediverse in general) needs to avoid being the dredges of the internet.

I don't think that's quite right. It just needs to make sure there's plenty available in addition to the dredges of the internet. Sometimes the dredges are useful to be able to sift through, but that can't be the only thing on offer and ideally users would be able to filter that stuff out when it isn't wanted.
Or if it was a movie franchise or something. For instance Batman was released on Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum 48k, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, MSX and PC.

But the games were often developed by completely different teams, sometimes the gameplay was extremely different between platforms.
I had the same feeling, I have always seen it like:

1. Neurons encode a concept and activate when it shows up.

2. No, it's way more complicated and mysterious than that.

And now this seems to add:

3. Actually, it's only more complicated than that in a fairly straightforward mathematical sense. It's not that mysterious at all.

I suspect this means that either I'm not picking up on subtleties in the article, or Scott is representing it in a way that slightly oversimplified the situation!

On the other hand, the last quote in the article from the researchers does seem to be hitting the "it's not that mysterious" note. A simple matter of very hard engineering. So, I dunno. Cool!
I mean, as others pointed out, a number format typically needs much more than just a representation. If there is a bit-size limitation any operation has to round any excess back into the limit. A computational representation based on Turing machines or lambda calculus---again, which is not very different from a constructive real number in usage---do not provide an easy way to do that. That wouldn't have been an issue if there was no bit-size limitation.

Okay, let's ignore arithmetics and just allow comparison. As you've said, a common practice is to normalize it into some standard notation with a well-founded ordering. But there is no mechanical way to convert (or even bound) a computational representation to such notation---the general approach is therefore to compute a difference and check its sign. Not really good when it can continue even after the heat death of universe...

Frankly speaking, I rather expected to see some improvement over Level-Index number systems [1], but it turns out that this post is completely unrelated to number formats. Otherwise it is good, hence my mild frustration here :S

[1] https://www.mrob.com/pub/math/altnum.html#li_sli
You say it like it was not done before (like with mosquitoes), except now there would be more chance of success because they wouldn't unexpectedly mutate.

But anyway another comment says these ticks also can repro sexually so whatever
You seem to be in the "read the code" camp. I am not.

Rather than using plain language and reason about dependencies, limitations, workarounds and more or less informed choices you need to infer this from the Docker file. Pray that they have left even a single little comment regarding non obvious issues.

Akin to saying everything is documented in the Makefile. Why not a quick glance a main() to see if we parse any args.

You can give people step by step instructions on where to go. But you empower them with a map.

Documentation is hard. Quality documentation even harder. A dockerfile is a very poor substitution for me.

I do not mind projects who prefer Docker and they get all my love and appreciation if they document the manual building steps. And I am totally fine by them telling me I should probably not do that. But I am seeing more projects skipping this and instead spend effort and time on using and debugging with Docker.

But I am old and my beard is getting grey. I have learned to fear the programmer who tells me to read the code to understand the system. I have been told that it is concise and is good for velocity. Not everything old is good and we should move on. I for one miss the days when documentation was considered a priority.
It would feel less like cheating, I guess?
Continuing the idea that life might be in a completely unrecognizable form, how are we even supposed to study and discover it?
"WebTorrent is a wonderful library that allowed PeerTube to be created five years ago. But due to many limitations of the library we decided to implement and default to another P2P protocol used in coordination with HLS. This new HLS player works very well, and does not have all the limitations of the WebTorrent player. It also allowed us to implement live streaming in PeerTube."

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/5465
So it worked until it didn't. The government needs to constrain supply to keep the voter base happy at the expense of younger folks. A private builder wouldn't find itself in a similar situation.
https://archive.is/fHUw4
Yea. Did the same. Anything older than 3 years we would give them the option to keep or donate to their local schools. Ofc, we would make them sign documents that we will not support these machines any longer, so we would cut liability instantly.
Genocidal Imaginations
Found a canvas-based library for this: https://larsjung.de/pagemap/. Definitely not what OP uses, where the minimap is a shrunk copy of the content markup, with all the drawbacks, such as page search finding the same item twice.
How to Improve the Social Benefits of Agricultural Research
What you're saying is thay exploitation is profitable for the exploiters, making them more "competitive" on the world stage. All I can say in response is that so was slavery.
Hi!

There is a page on official documentation (docs.joinpeertube.org) (which needs to be updated to reflect the removal of WebTorrent but is still relevant on hls parts).

Here is the one concerning us:

"
- If using the HLS player (depending on the admin transcoding configuration):

- The player loads the HLS playlist using hls.js from the origin server

- PeerTube provides a custom loader to hls.js that downloads segments from HTTP but also from P2P via WebRTC

- Segments are loaded by HTTP from the origin server + servers that mirrored the video and by WebRTC from other web browsers that are watching the video. They are used by hls.js to stream them into the <video> HTML element"
iTerm2 has a lot of features but I’ve found it to be showing signs of its age recently. Lots of memory leaks and high CPU usage which doesn’t seem to be improving over time.

I’d really love to see something new that’s open source, written in rust or golang, low latency, has a plugin system, integrates with local LLMs.
Something that would be extremely helpful is a good benchmark of various hardware for llm inference. It's really hard to tell how well a GPU will perform or whether it will be supported at all.
Losing 75 million _through the end of the year_, over something which happened in mid November, is non-trivial. Like, this is not the total bill for Musk spouting his mouth off forever and ever.
My understanding of the flaws of PM is in its attempts to avoid self-reference, which was sort of folly from the beginning as proven by Godel. I learned this from I Am A Strange Loop, and I'm not sure how accurate it is historically. But Godel's Incompleteness Theorem is one of the most interesting things I've ever read about.
The “new Outlook” is just a cover for MS to have complete, ongoing access to all email services a person uses. It’s a massive invasion of privacy. Their “email client” is a misnomer. The actual client becomes the MS “cloud,” and it retrieves and processes 100% of your mail, even storing your credentials. Outlook no longer makes any connection to your actual email provider. https://www.xda-developers.com/privacy-implications-new-micr...
There is also TRAVIC (https://travic.app) by the University of Freiburg, Germany which visualizes transit data worldwide, both live and interpolated from timetables.
Show HN: Explorative Coding lead to a "lava lamp" you can interact with
I still cannot grasp how supposedly tech literate HN users can't seem to understand the purpose of PeerTube.

Do you have a company and do you want to self host your promotional videos? Make a PeerTube instance and embed them in your website.

Do you have a conference and want to self host the recordings? Same

Do you have an institution of any kind and want to self host the video material? Same.

Nowhere it's touted as a rival to youtube in the popularity sense, just like you wouldn't call WordPress a rival to Twitter.

And before the objections come: yes you can self host videos already, but which platforms employ the power of the torrent protocol to distribute bandwidth so you can run with minimal costs?
Those intrinsics are specified by Intel, not C++
Maybe that's the problem. Maybe that for a variety of reasons, what could be done at home couldn't be done in the White House, and that pissed him off.

Maybe the people who installed his home shower couldn't do it at the White House for national security reasons (using foreign parts and labor, maybe). Maybe it interfered with other systems at the White House, or maybe some of the arrangements would be inappropriate in a historical building. Maybe his home shower was deemed too unsafe. Or maybe the White House workmen were just incompetent, at least compared to the ones hired for his home setup. Or LBJ was just abusive.

And in some of the scenarios, I kind of understand the frustration. You are the most powerful person in the world, you can decide the fate of millions and lead a country that can put people on the moon, but when you ask for the same shower you have at home, you don't get what you asked for.

That's a rather common theme. Workers (from chefs to software engineers) assume the customer doesn't know what he is talking about and try to reinterpret the requirements. Often, they are right, but sometimes, the customer really wants what he told you he wants.
> Very short term thinking

What actual evidence do you base this on? The South African government banned cigarette sale during the lockdowns. Evidence suggests that black market cigarette sales surged and failed to return to previous levels after the ban was lifted.

The economic concern with banning cigarettes is you will have similar numbers of people smoking, but now you've lost the tax revenue on sales while you still have to carry the healthcare costs. You also have increased costs related to policing and adjudicating the ban.
However, that means, that now one has something, that is neither looking like HTML, nor is it looking like JS, even if it may be JS through some pre-processing (but then actually it is not really JS?). The result is, that one has to learn some different syntax that is specific to React. If there is already a preprocessing step, why not preprocess `class` instead of `className`, to get closer to normal HTML syntax?

In a usual templating engine valid HTML is also valid template. One does not have to use templating engine specific things. A HTML snippet can simply be HTML. No harm done. But in JSX one cannot use normal HTML, as shown by the `class` case.
Parent is probably referring to the saga of extension support in FF for Android (it used to support all extensions until around 2019, then it didn't [0], then it did again but only a small number of extensions [1], they only recently got back to supporting a large number, but not all extensions [2])

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/21/firefox-for-android-is-sti...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/12/15/new-extensions-av...

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2023/08/10/prepare-your-fire...
Global warming isn't helping things either. Lots of pests that used to stay down south are marching north as the years warm.
Show HN: AI Image to Video – Generate videos from still images
online & easy to use, with customizable frame rates of up to 14 or 25 frames.
There's a confusion this article isn't helpful with: there are physical electrons, the actual physicalparticles. They move in the metal very slowly. But, their motion propagates very quickly, and turns out that the change in motion acts almost exactly like an electron itself, up to having a different mass. This is the "electron" quasi-particle, which is the abstraction that's breaking down. this only shows up about a screen or two deep into the article.
The new right wing political party that’s now in power is to thank for this. Unfortunately they the votes of the rural farmers and capitalists and have a long history of privatising publicly owned assets and putting business ahead of people.
I've used it as my primary browser for months! Highly recommend it. The team behind it are quite active on their feedback forum.
It's not limiting, it's in our current knowledge the only way for life to appears. Of course, our knowledge may be limited and other ways may be discovered one day, but it the meantime it is necessary to focus time, money and energy on things that have a provable chance to succeed
Bluesky’s trickle of invites has become a flood; I gave out 10 over the last two days, and now that I check, it has just given me another one. I’ve got to imagine they’re not too far from just opening the floodgates.

I don’t entirely buy the “mastodon is too complex for normal people” thing; I follow lots of normal people on Mastodon. It is not all nerds.
> React is simple. Here is your data, and here is a function that transforms that data into a view.

Is that aspect so much different from templating engines? In templating engines the rendering step is simply abstracted one step further: You get a generalized render function, that you pass data to and a template to render with that data. That is also a function to turn your data into a view. I don't see how React is better in that aspect.
They are not stealing or withholding the property - they are refusing to deliver it. They are not stopping someone from picking it up, postnord is. It would be weird for any carrier to allow outsiders to enter their premises.
I wonder why only 15% faster training? Seems like simplying the main element would make a huge difference.
ENS doesn't solve that problem though. Middlewares can still intercept requests, unless you download the whole blockchain locally. DoH or DoT solve the problem of snooping or changing DNS requests, or alternatively DNSSEC solves the problem of changing as well.

The part that blockchain addresses would actually get generally worse: typosquatting is already a problem, but at least most registrars are working to limit it - some more proactively than others. ENS removes any ability to prevent typosquatting at all. I have never heard anyone complain that registrars or governments are being TOO proactive in delisting typosquatters or those using domains they don't own the trademark for.
Niantic is using AI to make Peridot's fake pets feel more real
Rust async semantics are complex because they need to support resumable computations on a single C-style stack. It has nothing to do with concurrency, which was already supported, but at the cost of multiple stacks (either green threads at one point or OS threads). Futures just happen to be a very prominent example of resumable computations. Generator functions is another.
“I’m sorry, in order to multiply you will have to purchase a subscription to our multiplication extension. Please click HERE to have your credit checked.”
Moons around gas giants solves both problems. Being tidal locked to its planet and not the star, and could be protected by the gas giants magnetic field.
Using a very specific, ill-defined metric that no-one has ever heard of before, so, y’know…
Oh well, TIL daniel b cristofani got the brainfuck.org domain. (The epistle was elsewhere when I first saw it.)
5th largest country by revenue. By the "population" or "territory" logic, Russia, India and China should be the most important markets for Tesla (they are not).
Guess: That will depend on the breed of chicken. "Optimized" modern breeds (high weight/low cost/fast-to-market) may be lacking in aptitudes (such as bug eating) which industrial-scale agriculture doesn't value.
Pricing looks fine until you read the fine print [1]:

> Minimum metered Data Storage: 1 GB per cache

That means each cache costs least $90/month.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/pricing/
I’m also a paying user (and a fan) of Kagi. I’m still confused by the strategy. If you are not Google and trying to have an hegemony on the web, there’s no obvious link between a browser and a search engine. I don’t see the point from a business perspective. It sends a strange signal to users "Hey, by the way, we are reinventing the wheel and making also a browser that works only on some operating systems".

It’s a bit like going for groceries and then your merchant told you all the time "By the way, I’m selling this car prototype. It makes sense! You have to take your car anyway to comes shopping for groceries so why not buying the one from us?".

But I’m a cyclist…
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This is how Germany works. Everyone is monitored, everyone is liable for everything. You would think an ISP could say: why don't you sue our customer directly? But not in Germany. There you are liable for things you do, things your customers do, things your customers' customers do, things your customers' customers' customers do, and so on. This is really the country where regulation stifles innovation.

And you cannot have any type of internet connection without linking it to your passport and home address.

No other industry gets all these benefits - only the copyright industry. I wouldn't be surprised to learn there is some deep corruption there.
I've never understood this concern with online platforms. It really shouldn't matter what content people publish if discover ability is user-driven.

A Twitter alternative could be full of neo-nazis, butbif my feed is only populated with people I follow them I would never know or care.
The author should really add at least aria-hidden="true" to the minimap element.
Is semaglutide itself patented, or is it the pen/delivery mechanism? The online sellers provide vials of semaglutide that need to be reconstituted and then drawn up / injected like insulin or other vial-based peptides. I assumed this is legal and possible because the patent is actually on the pen and not the peptide itself. But I haven't been able to confirm that one way or another. Even if that is the case, the ease of use is no doubt to me a huge part of the reason it has been so successful. I don't think it would have seen such widespread use if it were only available in vials.
A new mosquito appeared in Quebec late this fall. Tiny, 1/2 the size of our normal mosquitoes.

I've never seen its kind before, and I've lived all over Canada. And yes, it wasn't a one-off, I've seen many, and a friend commented on the same.

I imagine it is invasive. Bah.
Hackers Hijack Industrial Control System at US Water Utility
Not just that, but the same model will code the app for you now as well. Phenomenal progress.
Does it unfuck the obfuscated links that Outlook/Microsoft creates?
as a friend from at&t dallas told me, tis cheaper to turn a mathematician into a programmer than a programmer into a mathematician.
The regular old search engine controlled by a company that would lose billions if Peertube took off?

No, it's true that YouTube's advantage is the same as Spotify's advantage: Discovery. It has an actually damn good recommendation engine. It fairly regularly shows me videos with less than 10000 views that are spot on. I'd love to use Peertube over Youtube, but I have to actually know of something cool on Peertube first, and finding it by searching is pretty hopeless.
Maybe I'm missing something about your question, but:

```
.parent {display: flex; flex-direction: column;}
.rest {flex-grow: 1; overflow-y: auto;}
```
I was forced off of dulaglutide after the supply ran out in my country and have put back on all the weight I lost, but slower than expected.
If the switched to 2$ a month, they might double their customer base.

And still earn less money (not even counting the costs).

So, sadly, it is sometimes smart to be expensive.
By censoring?
> but which platforms employ the power of the torrent protocol to distribute bandwidth so you can run with minimal costs?

If TFA is to be believed, not PeerTube. ;P

> We needed to settle a technical debt : v6 removes support for WebTorrent to focus on HLS. Both are technical bricks used to get peer-to-peer streaming in web browsers, but HLS is more fitted to what we are doing (and plan to do) with PeerTube
Not really. Auditors are accountants (or accountant adjacent) and have no clue about the technology. If the resesrcher says "we need it" then they have to take their word for it.

Source: 10 years on the side of companies selling custom widgets
Google found one of the best business models of all time
The US as a whole does not have cold winters. States like Florida would still have those spiders.
AT&T was doing this in 2021. They called it "DNS Error Assist."

I imagine they're still doing it.
> All the efforts to get computers to play chess

You say Go later so I think you know this and it was just a thinko, but chess fell easily to pre-neural techniques that are fully logic based and understandable. It was Go that required a big neural network trained through self play.
If only that were true.

> Then there's the fact that Edge is just Microsoft's spyware, being worse in my book than Google's Chrome. And people forget that Microsoft is also an advertising company. Even if that's not their main revenue source, they also hate your ad-blockers.

People forget that Mozilla is also almost exclusively funded by the advertisement industry. They have also experimented with including ads directly in the browser on multiple occasions. Including ones force pushed though a back door (experiments).

> And in true Microsoft spirit, it also has telemetry, which you can't turn off.

While you can turn of Telemetry in Firefox it is on by default and new channels are being added all the time which are again on by default.

Mozilla is controlled opposition with the emphasis being on controlled with opposition being more of a formality.
Here is the curated list from Frama: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances that is used for the serach engine: https://sepiasearch.org/