skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure I would out CZ with SBF. Isn't Binance still running? I guess they have the fact that they are the ex heads of the exchanges and no longer employed there is common.
I love the effects. I use it on https://horserecords.info/.
One of my favourite Country recordings was done on a Moog apparently

https://www.discogs.com/master/331353-Gil-Trythall-Switched-...

The other ones are atypical for Country (no cowboys in sight)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGIUtLO_x8g&pp=ygUWbWluZCB5b...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfj2Ir3GgQ&pp=ygUea2FjZXkgb...
Kind of crazy that they use Breath of the Wild even in the examples. Why can this be generated if not by obviously stealing Nintendo IP?
Big Cathedral philosophy. Someone just build it right! Kick ass build big and make it excellent! Just trust that one gal and let them soar!

Versus Bazaar mentality. It takes time. Let there be a competition of ideas. Figure out strengths and weaknesses over time. Adapt and keep building better.

You see this soooo much in the anti-Wayland troll-camps. That the idea isn't fully sprung meeting every need in every way is a huge fault, is unforgivable. The slow integration of ideas has been going to slow, and the Wayland protocol folks have finally recently started admitting it; they have a point. But being an official protocol is not the be all end all. So much protocol development has been just one camp, then two camps. That organic spread has been so beautiful, has allowed both innovation & deliberation at the same time.

But people expect a world of consumer software, where someone has made all the decisions and now we're there, and we live with it. The Cathedral and it's authority & singularness appeals to so many, is closest to the rest of the world & commercial software. But the Bazaar has many advantages, has a cautiousness & explorativeness that hopefully delivers, long term.
Shein forces Amazon to lower seller fees
POTUS: I'm pardoning everybody in your state who has a drug conviction.
STATE GOV: No, you aren't.
POTUS: You have to let all of those people out of prison.
STATE GOV: No, we don't.
POTUS: It's an emergency!
STATE GOV: No, it isn't.

What next? Send in the army?
I have 2 kids, 4 and 6. They both have unlimited access to their tablets. The tablets are rooted fire tablets and they only have access to abcmouse, or PBS kids videos/games.

They probably pick up the tablets for an hour at most per day. Probably will have to set parental controls for the skinner box apps as they get older, but they seem to be doing fine for now.
It’s ok, lots of “normal” folks today don’t really know what a file is either. They just know it’s an icon you can drag around.

The kid at least asks questions!
If we can get 2/3 of the state legislatures to agree, and 3/4 of them to ratify we can amend the constitution without Congress via a Constitutional Convention.

Still long odds but we technically don't HAVE to do it with Congress.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/artic...
I think it would be hard to tell in an Internet battle of uninformed takes whether "tax write off" beats "money laundering". Everything on the Internet gets this treatment. It's less cynicism and more just LLM-action.
>Everyone here is ignoring that Windows 10 was released in 2015 and security update support will end in 2028 — that’s thirteen years of support!

>Sure, sure, hardware can last longer than that, but would be hilariously outdated by that point.

The $500 gaming PC I built in 2015 still runs mainstream games and has zero problem with running Office suite or any task a normal person would require.
If they do all of that the goalposts will just be moved.

If you’re looking for a truck that will get 500 miles of range while towing a motorhome at 80 mph, it’s just not going to happen.
Ask HN: Better to submit scientific paper here than a news story about it?
I ask because when I submit a news story, there's often a predominantly negative tone to the comments because of any number of reasons: clickbait headline, inaccuracies, writer's knowledge base and credentials, misinterpretation of scientific results, methodology, etc.

Yet when I submit original scientific papers, far more often than not they pass through HN unremarked, as if they never appeared.
> A supercharger adds 200 miles of range in 15 minutes. You go into the shop, plug into the charger in the parking lot and when you come back out in 15 minutes you don't have to charge again until tomorrow.

Except very few parking lots have superchargers. And those that do, usually have just 5 or 10 for a parking lot of hundreds of spaces. This whole idea that a grid operator is going to accept that traffic conditions are going to potentially cause blackouts is not where near feasible.

> Or 50GW of peaker plants, or 40GW of peaker plants and 20% of that amount of storage

Right so ultimately the solution is: keep using fossil fuels. Great...

And a 10GW deficit over a week is still 1,680 GWh of storage. This is massive several times annual global battery production.

> Notice also that "overnight" is not synonymous with "darkness" -- if the sun comes up at 6AM and you leave for work at 8AM, you've had two hours of sunlight to charge your car while it was parked in your garage, and there are computers that can automate this.

Solar output is sinusoidal. Right after sunrise is still producing nearly zero energy.

> Nuclear is base load. It can make sense to build as much of it as there is base load demand, i.e. the minimum demand during any part of the day.

Base load is the significant majority of the electricity demand. It's not a small part of electricity demand, it's almost all of it.

> The west coast has mild winters and thus less heating demand.

Uh no? Maybe in California, but here in Seattle we regularly see nighttime temperatures below freezing.
ExclamationGPT can use either GPT 3.5 or 4 depending on how you command it. Regardless of what model you pick, it can access specific URLs and use specific API endpoints that the user gives it; something that neither GPT 3.5 nor GPT 4 can do on their own. I encourage you to try it out or at least join the Discord server and see for yourself.
Sync between devices (windows <> mac <> iphone) is the only thing more I'd want out of this. Great work!
There isn't any toggles in the settings that fully turns off Bluetooth or Wifi.

Apple knows that it is a nuisance, but their incentivized by their Find My program
It said NFT's, I can't find what exactly (or non-exactly) they got. They can make up any price for NFT's and say it's real. Of course, it also said "hard currency" which I have no idea what that means since it was almost certainly digital.
Darn, was excited for a minute.
This sort of experiment needs double blinding.

Ideally, they should capture the images from children before diagnosis, then see if they can predict the diagnosis.
Scientists repeat nuclear fusion breakthrough three times
Elon Musk's fresh Aussie legal challenge
Absolutely disgusting that Microsoft and all these silicon valley companies preach that they're green, eco-friendly, safe for the world, etc. - but when push comes to shove if they want to push changes that make millions of computers obsolete to make a quick buck, they will.

You don't need a TPM to run an operating system. You need a TPM to enable Microsoft to lock down your operating system more and more into their walled garden ecosystem under the guise and excuse of "security".

All this e-waste because Microsoft says so... Didn't they get their feet held to the fire for anti-trust reasons? Maybe it needs to happen again along with all the other silicon valley companies.
David Zaslav clicked on a “This ONE trick the IRS hates!!!” link and then turned “shrink entire content portfolio” into a business model
Cool that you know the tech specs of the GroqChip! Yes, that's right, 220 MB of SRAM per chip. I think the demo where we first broke 200 tokens / sec was running on 1 GroqRack, so 64 chips. The live public demo that's currently running at 275 tokens / sec I think might be running on two GroqRacks, so 128 chips. I'm not certain of either of these figures so please don't quote me! But those are the right ball-park.
No, for kernel code that handles the switching.
It's because two completely separate worlds (and users) happen to use the same technology to present things.

There's the WWW serving information to people to use and then there's the parasitic Marketing Miasma and Self-flagulators setting up camp on top trying to manipulate and steal energy from the system and its participants.

I'd actually like to see some kind of uncoupling of these two worlds. The commercial web and the web I go to for exploring knowledge shouldn't be the same.
If you like Factorio and are at all interested in game design I can highly recommend every one of those blog posts.

It’s amazing how time and time again a they describe a feature and you’re like wow this is perfect and then later they’re like “here’s how to fix all the problems you don’t even notice”.
Highly reccommend!!!
My prediction is Zaslav will… go ahead with all of this, since he only seems to execute ideas that everyone knows are terrible in both the short and long term.

There’s finally enough people noticing Zaslav’s wrecking ball outside of Hollywood (which has been vocal in criticizing him as ruining everything since the WB-Discovery merger first was approved), including US government officials [1].

I think the markets will refuse to reward him this time, and more importantly, I think the DOJ/FTC will refuse to allow this merger to happen, having seen the fallout from last time. I don’t even think the studios’ cozy relationship with the Democratic Party will save him this time, as I’m certain smaller studios and likely even Disney absolutely do not want this to happen either.

From there I can only hope the board of directors will fire him. In an effective government, I would hope the whole WB-Discovery merger to be broken up, but I’m not holding my breath.

[1] https://x.com/joaquincastrotx/status/1737669717223964730?s=4...
All rocket ridesharing is really cheap, because it's essentially free once the rocket has been paid for by the main payload. The only real cost to the rocket provider is ensuring that you don't interfere with the main payload.
Schrodinger's reasoning was remarkable.

The high-level description of classical mechanics was formulated by Hamilton, who was starting from optics. He saw a mathematical analogy between the equations for light and the equations for mechanics. The principle of least time (Fermat's principle) for light became the principle of least action for mechanics.

But the principle of least time does not predict diffraction, just the geometric path of a light ray. It fails when the wavelength of the light is large compared to whatever it's interacting with.

At the time, the equations for mechanics were clearly failing for small systems. Here's where Schrodinger had his incredible insight: what if mechanics broke in the same way as optics? Could matter itself display a kind of "diffraction" when its "wavelength" was similar in size to the objects it was interacting with? Could this explain the success of de Broglie's work, which treated small particles like waves?

Guided by that, he was able to add "diffraction" to the equations of matter and come up with the Schrodinger equation.

It's worth reading the original paper if you have a physics background -- probably grad-level (just being realistic.) I've been wanting to write a blog post about this because the physics lore is something like "Schrodinger just made a really good guess" but that totally undersells the depth of his reasoning.
Also, Russia doesn't have nukes, common misconception
I think I did explain more than enough

If you think that someone acting in the name of a company can act in his name there doesn't seem much to discuss.
Safari Technology Preview is not available on iOS.
s/is losing/has lost/
I was rounding down, it's actually 1.4GB (according to 'free -h') but advertised as 1.5GB.

https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a3_(2016)-7791.php

Currently runs Android 11, but there are Lineage Android 12 builds in alpha. I might update if I feel the need.
Good for them, of course. The cynic in me, however, can help but notice that that's a lot of people whose voting rights have just been restored.
Honestly anyhow I have a distaste for US right of speech and its enormously broad interpretation, so I'm not too interested in debating its applications.

(I support the right to express your opinions, at most)

I also think that at the base of most US problems there's the freedom to corrupt politicians ("lobbying"), so, yeah, I really don't care much how legal it is
A third implementation and also having a WebGPU.framework built-in and shipped with the OS (like all other first party frameworks) would simplify the build and debug process.
Ha, good call out.
I have the same experience. HN has a rule against editing titles but the main effect of that rule is to advantage news outlets that have already optimized their titles for clicks and upvotes while disadvantaging scientific journals or anything with a more measured tone.
I see it as an existential threat to our technological civilization. Humans, like cockroaches, will survive. It's just not going to be a place you'll want to live in.
In my own anecdotal experience, if you are a computer gamer, you miss out on all the "console exclusive" stuff. Stuff like Gran Tourismo or the latest Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy or whatever. I can't really remember. Then when it is a game everyone plays, it tends to be something where the console gamers can't play with the PC gamers so it's like

"Hey I just got the new counterstrike!"

"Oh that's awesome! I have that too! We should play sometime!"

"Yea what's your PS5 handle?"

"My what?"

"You don't have a PS5?"

"Nah I have a PC"

and yea.....

That is my anecdotal experience though, and it was always bolstered by the benefits of PC gaming - cheaper games, ample mods, lots of sales, and the biggest game library of any platform. Plus better performance. And I could text chat on my keyboard while playing Quake 3 back then haha. Sadly text chat in games has died off as an art, in favor of voice chat and all the problems voice chat comes with. lol.

Edit: And of course, the PC is a tool, the game console is just a dumb appliance.
The counterargument is that these people are punished not for carrying weed, but for breaking the law.

The law could say "nobody shall wear a red tshirt", and I think it would then be morally okay to arrest and punish anyone who continues to wear red tshirts.

Anyone not okay with the red tshirt law can go get the law changed through the usual democratic process. But if they just ignore the law and wear a red tshirt anyway, then punish them.
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So I had seen this study that showed that autistic kids really like to spin objects... I didn't think anything of it aside from storing it.

A few years later I met my wife's nephew, who was about 5 or so - and he was constantly spinning things... and I asked if he was autistic, and they said no.

A few month passed by, and he was officially diagnosed as autistic.

I wonder if something in the retina, and the way that it signals to the brain is soothing if there is a spinning image signal coming through.

I wonder if one were able to apply a HUD either in a contact or such, where there might be a slightly spinning halo/ring that one might look through, if it is that spinning things sooth an autistic signal processor. There are two different spin stimuli it appears that autistic people find soothing, visual or physical (spinning of themselves).
gfx-rs hasn't been maintained for several years. The successors are definitely wgpu or Dawn, which are championed by browser vendors.
Z80 has two sets of all registers:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7794/did-...
> haven't modern model architectures gotten better at avoiding this kind of overfitting?

Overfitting is, AIUI, a training method and data issue, not a model issue alone. I doubt any model is resistant to overfitting if you give it data where the answer is reliably encoded some aspect it can use but outside of what you want it to look at.

Now, you can notice suspicious results and investigate (or you can just publish a 100% success rate and call it a day.)
Chengdu Worldcon Report
Does something else being worse (alcohol) but acceptable mean that an alternative (cannabis) should be acceptable?

If alcohol was not already widely (ab)used in a county would they be wrong to prohibit it?

(Note not meant in any form of malice, intended as probing questions for discussion)
Great tool, thanks for sharing. If you are open to suggestions, I would love to have spellcheck in it.

https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
I did something similar on the C64 (6502). Programmatically user code could mask interrupts, but as long as it didn’t it worked fine. It saved all the registers and restored them prior to switching execution threads. The unified memory space required that each thread ask for an absolute memory offset to be allocated and then voluntarily stay in that space.
And of course many of these publishers are politically powerful, and are the trusted sources that google wants to promote over random blogs.
Have your data and hide it too: An introduction to differential privacy
I tried it and it didn't work. Downloaded Safari Technology Preview on my 2023 MBP and it returned various errors in all the WebGPU demos I tried.
The section on overlapping bell curves is disappointing.

> if you pull out a random man and a random woman, you have about a 77% chance the man will be taller

> you’d have about a 2% advantage over sheer random chance if you bet on the man to be more invested in achieving

I have no doubt that math is correct, but that's not the point. A small difference in the means becomes a big difference at the tails. And Google does select for the tail.

This response did the math: https://medium.com/@ryanbaldini/worth-noting-small-differenc...
I’ve switched to Kagi a couple of months ago. Every once in a while I struggle to get good search results, but then I check Google and it’s not any better there. It’s not always the greatest at promoting the sites I like, but I’ve already started boosting and pinning various domains to tailor the results to my own preference.

Still using a lot of other google stuff including gmail and maps. Just not search anymore.
Discussed at the time:

Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18640136 - Dec 2018 (417 comments)
Remember what happened during COVID? Now imagine the "essential" workers are all dead or too busy fighting for the last scrap of food. The food trucks no longer turn up. The hospitals aren't running. You might survive, but our technological civilization of billions won't.
Can I have some of these PCs? I have no problem running Ubuntu on them, just send me.
> Youtubers literally do this kinda stuff.

YouTubers make entertaining videos, not criminal cases.

It takes more than some YouTube-level detective work to put together a case with proper evidence gathering and to coordinate across countries.
It's an easy and uncomplicated read though. My kid just read it, took awhile but he didn't have any thoughts about giving up.
I like the execution and minimalist UI.

It would be awesome if this was a native or Tauri / Wails app, moving away from Electron would really de-bloat the application and set it apart from say using another VScode extension etc... I already have far too many chrome instances running due to Electron.
I can only think you are trolling.

You think that a floating base in the upper reaches of the Venusian atmosphere is a good first step? No being able to make trips to the surface would limit human involvement to the floating base, so scientific exploration would be very limited. The complexity makes it much more challenging to become self sufficient.

How would you propose making a return trip? Or is it a one way mission?

As for Jupiter's moons. They are so much further away than Mars, are all much lower in gravity, and much colder temperatures than mars.

Our own moon and mars are much better candidates for humans to visit, and attempt permanent bases and perhaps colonies.
And the cynic in me wonders why you think people having their voting rights rightfully restored is bad or suspect?
Related:

System Administrator Appreciation Day

https://www.google.com/search?q=system+administrator+appreci...
It's a thing in big campuses, data centers, some municipalities, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration?wprov=sfla1
> That’s going to drive users not just to free alternatives like YouTube or TikTok, but back to piracy after a decade of inroads with U.S. consumers.

Seriously this. I've avoided piracy for 10+ years now because the deal with these media companies was that I could buy affordable, easy-to-access media that I could consume on-demand. Since this was a better deal than browsing sketchy malware and ad-ridden sites or torrents and risking the wrath of my ISP, it was no problem to shell out a few bucks. Now dealing with that mess is objectively a better experience, where you can lose thousands of dollars of purchased digital media on some "fail upwards brunchlord's" whim.
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Sure. All actions have consequences. Folks may even benefit.

Out of all the potential consequences, you're focused on this one. I'm just trying to understand your intent. Are you suggesting alternatives?
Unfortunately the people closest to achieving this are openly wannabe theocrats
Well, more from the social media process that selects for whatever interpretation of evidence best matches the narrative they want, rather than the narrative that best matches the sum of evidence. The biography did not in fact say he did this, or even argue for it, or even evidence it. It was just the easiest source to interpret that way, and the sources where Musk said* “it doesn't have to be hyperloop, we should just do anything that is even incrementally ahead of what China and Japan are doing, rather than something that's the worst in the world” get ignored, because the actual truth is rarely viral.

*paraphrasing from memory from the last time I had this argument and found an interview from the time
Yeeep, I think even that is putting it mildly. Dude is well known in the doxxing community, a real piece.
There is no such thing as a dark table, this is a pun ;)

There is the light table (to see frames on films) and the dark room (to develop films). Adobe made a pun by mixing the words: Lightroom. And then they made another pun by taking the opposite: darktable.
> Plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks.

This makes no sense in the domain they are on. Very few. significant things they do takes weeks. Even planning for a learning run takes months.

There are a lot if things that can be split into just a few weeks for some contrite sprint plan. There are others that take longer before realising intermediate results.
Why Haskell Is a Terrible Choice for Startups (and Why We Picked It Anyway)
I like this so much!

(Now I want to add blocks in reverse chronological order to my todo app)
I’m not sure we need to be sympathetic to an $800b company who’s just out there “trying their best”. Poor Google.
Even DRI's MP/M from 1979 had preemptive multi-tasking, as long as the platform supported an clock interrupt.

You can find the documents on bitsavers, the binaries may well be there and/or on Gaby's site.
For one run, yes. But if they are testing new architecture or something like that, they need at least dozens of them. If they are not testing new architecture, finetuning is almost always the way to go.
I realized the other day that I haven't Googled anything in over a month. And I guess even then, and before Google search was thoroughly enshittified, it was mostly just a convenient way to get to StackOverflow via my search bar, but now it's just ChatGPT for most quick queries I have.