skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's correct. I'm denying that Israel is committing genocide, because I think it isn't.

1) Hamas quotes 22K people killed. I don't know where your 30K figure comes from. Even if you believe the figures of Hamas, which has every incentive to lie and no ethics to hold it back, this is 1% of the Gaza strip's population. If Israel wanted to kill many more times that, it obviously could. I suggest to you that urban warfare against irregular forces has inevitable casualties, which does not make that war unjust. Was the taking of Berlin genocide? If not, what is the difference?

2) Numerous hostages have been rescued, in negotiations which were enabled by the military pressure put on Hamas.

3) A senior Hamas leader was widely reported killed just 2 days ago.

4) You don't know how many homes have been destroyed. The UN estimates 65,000 homes. The highest estimate quoted here by the Guardian is 33%. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/08/the-numbers-th...

I'm happy to believe that Israel has committed war crimes, and it would not surprise me. I worry about ethnic cleansing too - though that will be shown by what happens after the war and not by the fact that Israel encourages civilians to flee a war zone. Claims of genocide are overblown, and I suggest you should tone down your heated rhetoric. The original context was one guy making a lot of inaccurate claims; a second person doing the same does not weaken my case.
I'm fairly certain that this is false, and am working on proving it. In the cases that Numba is optimised for it's already faster than plausible C++ implementations of the same kernels.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36526708/comparing-pytho...
The R syntax is not kind on the eyes. I know that's a shallow dismissal, but I think it would really start to irritate me if I had to read that all day.
It doesn't help that the culture cultivated in universities lately didn't leave room for nuance either. There were protests, pulled fire alarms, and general activism against people who had a slightly inconvenient opinion. Something anyone at a university should certainly be able to stomach. But leadership did not defend people with divergent opinions lately, even if that is foundational to academic teaching. To now do so in case of calling for genocide, summoning the broad excuse of context, is severely contradicting previous behavior and not convincing. Context can often explain something not obvious, but in this case that would still be very hard to do.

Yes, it was a show trial. An easy one because the rules were laid out themselves by the accused. In my opinion, a change of leadership could benefit a few universities instead of their vanity around race, sex or their simple worldview of oppressor and oppressed that is mirrored by a lot of people I would describe as miseducated.
I agree. Because it is recommended so often I kept reading it through to the end in the hope that I would find something useful. I never did.
Clark Valberg (Ex-CEO, Invision) on why Invision is shutting down
i guess if they had, we would know whether a jit made newtonscript faster or slower, but they didn't, so we don't. what we do know is that an aot compiler sometimes made newtonscript faster (though maybe only if you added enough manifest static typing annotations to your source code)

that seems closer to the opposite of what you were saying in the point on which we were in disagreement?
Maybe you misunderstood them - for me they just flat out refused to replace the battery due to a minor dent - primarily because they alleged their machine can’t operate on the damage iPhone anymore. Which while a dick move is at least plausible.
I.e. Apple has another bullshit way to deny your legitimate warranty claim.
How much does it cost in the Netherlands (with incentives such as government subsidies) to install (hardware and installation) ?
So many people conflate necessary and sufficient conditions. If you look at the world's best and notice that they all practiced for at least 10k hours, that doesn't mean that practicing for 10k hours will make you one of the best.
2-9%
Kinda surprising they need an entire process for this...

Smells of bad engineering - do they also have a batteryislowd? or a someonepressedtheMkeyonthekeyboardd?
Atari HQ just before the 1983 crash
"My God It's Full of Holes" [pdf]
>No one is getting scammed here, even if it cost 1000x as much. Why are you saying buyers don't know what they are charged?

I'm obviously not saying they are blindly charged an amount that they don't know.

I'm saying that they are buying stuff influenced by the minimalist fashion/emotion/etc and they don't know they're overpaying for no good reason.

>Why does it affect you so much what other people are doing with their money?

Because I live in a society, not in the wilderness. What people do with their money affects everybody, and people making better decisions is good for society in general.

>Spoiler alert: it is none of your business, and you are taking it way too personal.

While answering to me is "your business"? And getting into direct personal comments (as opposed to making a general remark)?
HAHA, Xorg will always be with us. GNOME and KDE will maybe do something like that, but that's no problem.
I meant installing just what you need, like web servers and such. Probably should have written that in the original comment. You need to do that on any other operating system anyway, including any of the BSDs.

If you just need a plain system to drop a statically linked binary onto, Debian minimal install is perfectly usable right out of the box, and (IIRC) ships fewer components than OpenBSD.
Most of the bigger setups I saw here in Sweden has this backup built in, not only as a backup of emergencies but mostly for cold days where the source heat (air, ground) is not enough
I have been using Polars on and off for the past few years,

but now I've been using it 99% exclusively for the past 2–3 months. I would say it's ready for prime time! I don't get any @TODO seg faults anymore lol

I don't know if I notice the speed difference over Pandas most of the time, but I do find the way of expressing transformations way more intuitive than Pandas, it's more similar to SQL.
*water

Pure not salt water or tap water, not contaminated toilet water where most phones seem to end up. And only for a certain time at a certain depth (pressure). And not pressurized just static.

Maybe they should be named USB-Sea? /s
Good old forums.

I am lucky I found one in my own language recently. We are a small community, like 250 active users. Most of it is joking, having a blast, and insulting. It's very funny.

For me forums are the best of internet. I don't consider reddit a forum because it has an opaque algorithm. Hackernews is great, but it's threads are very short lived, and it's to big to be a functional traditional forum.
That's why optional GIL will be so important.
Similar to the google image search on Firefox mobile, which has been broken for how many years now?
The title's "no moving control surfaces" (both on HN and the DARPA site) contradicts the article itself:

> The X-65 will be built with two sets of control actuators – traditional flaps and rudders as well as AFC effectors embedded across all the lifting surfaces. This will both minimize risk and maximize the program’s insight into control effectiveness. The plane’s performance with traditional control surfaces will serve as a baseline; successive tests will selectively lock down moving surfaces, using AFC effectors instead.

> “The X-65 conventional surfaces are like training wheels to help us understand how AFC can be used in place of traditional flaps and rudders,” said Wlezien. “We’ll have sensors in place to monitor how the AFC effectors’ performance compares with traditional control mechanisms, and these data will help us better understand how AFC could revolutionize both military and commercial craft in the future.”

Was anyone else's first reaction to DARPA's "Artist's Rendering" to wonder "what new kiddie cartoon show is that from?"
Just because I'm a pedant and had to check, I can't find anything saying that wheels had actually fallen off, the recall was just that they could :D
Seems unlikely they'd want to sabotage Firefox.

Google is Firefox' primary source of income, and Firefox is strategically crucial token competition that stands between Google and an antitrust lawsuit of the sort Microsoft faced in the early 2000s (where Microsoft were basically a technicality away from being broken up).
There was a talk at 37c3 recently about UHD BluRay encryption[1] as well which is just more of the same "security" through obscurity

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12296-full_aacsess_exposing_and_...
My neighbour (illegally) put it right next to our house (between the walls of his houses and ours in a very dense area which is a very bad idea) and I basically had to move out for a few month in winter because sleeping was impossible, before I was able to convince him and get it moved (which I basically paid to be able to sleep again)
Rust is not a sandbox language like JS. It only catches accidental programming errors, and it's improbable that someone would write a hack via /proc/self/mem by mistake.
When I look back, I see my "overengineering everything" era as a phase, a live lesson to be learnt. I overengineered a couple of things massively because I didn't know what lied ahead and that helped me, but then I learnt that it's harmful as the "default mode of programming".

As I understood how performance worked, what's maintainability and minimalism (as a general concept), the code I write became minimal and simpler.

Currently I'm working in a mode which can be called "overgrow and extend". I start with the most simplistic code which satisfies the design and my requirements, then refactor any part which cracks under the design to satisfy the requirements without being hacky. This philosophy works like a charm for me. Coupled with my "needless comments", getting back into context and extending/maintaining the code is easier than ever.

I even started to finish and deploy my personal projects. It's that effective for me.

Now I'm learning live documentation, which allows me to write the documentation of the things I'm working on simultaneously. When things finish I also have a workable documentation as a result.
Complex systems approach to natural language
It's a leap year mate; you've gotta get to 366.
As I understand it, it kicked in after the first brownout.
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>why not just load a 6502 soft core into the fpga

Because a minimal such system would be a decent starting point for designing modern peripherals (on the same FPGAs, reusing HDL) for the actual classic computers.

Doing everything inside the FPGA doesn't help in this case.
Apple recently quoted me 2,300$ to fix just one broken keyboard key (it was M, if you were wondering), because according to them the water sensors were tripped and it's policy to replace the mtherboard if that happens. Which apparently costs more than buying another two working identical MacBook Pros.

The laptop has never gotten wet, and everything apart from the M key was working perfectly.
> all the software companies I know hire separate Android, and separate iOS developers, tripling the frontend cost

I think there is a mistake here, that management unfortunately systematically makes: writing one cross-platform app is not equivalent to writing one native app. The cost difference will depend a lot on the product. If your cross-platform devs spend double the time because they need to debug on the other platform they don't know so well, then... well it costs double the money.

Cross-platform never has the same kind of community for a specific platform. Android experts tend to write native Android apps, and so do iOS experts. My experience with cross-platform is that they are written by people who are experts on neither.

The mobile devs companies I know favor native apps, because in their experience it's not cheaper to use cross-platform frameworks, and the resulting apps are worse. Just like you seem to confirm:

> The one exception I know used React Native, with an emphasis on iOS, the Android experience being terrible.

The experience I have had in companies going cross-platform is that the employees they hire are not mobile devs, the app doesn't feel native at all, the debugging experience is terrible, and overall they struggle a lot. The only advantage I have seen (again, in my experience) with cross-platform frameworks is my "I told you so" moment with management, where whenever they complain about something I can say: "well you wanted cross-platform because you thought it was a fraction of the price, now you live with your choice". Hint: usually they don't like it.
Volkswagen Integrating ChatGPT into Cars
One of which (Atlas Flight 3591) was Pilot error:

> The probable cause of this accident was the inappropriate response by the first officer as the pilot flying to an inadvertent activation of the go-around mode, which led to his spatial disorientation and nose-down control inputs that placed the airplane in a steep descent from which the crew did not recover.
On Firefox you could set network.http.redirection-limit to 0, and check the response headers in F12 for the redirect target (which the browser doesn't load for you).
I think it's really cool that Haoran Xu and Fredrik Kjolstad's copy-and-patch technique[0] is catching on, I remember discovering it through Xu's blog posts about his LuaJIT remake project[1][2], where he intends to apply these techniques to Lua (and I probably found those through a post here). I was just blown away by how they "recycled" all these battle-tested techniques and technologies, and used it to synthesize something novel. I'm not a compiler writer but it felt really clever to me.

I highly recommend the blog posts if you're into learning how languages are implemented, by the way. They're incredible deep dives, but he uses the details-element to keep the metaphorical descents into Mariana Trench optional so it doesn't get too overwhelming.

I even had the privilege of congratulating him the 1000th star of the GH repo[3], where he reassured me and others that he's still working on it despite the long pause after the last blog post, and that this mainly has to do with behind-the-scenes rewrites that make no sense to publish in part.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13127

[1] https://sillycross.github.io/2022/11/22/2022-11-22/

[2] https://sillycross.github.io/2023/05/12/2023-05-12/

[3] https://github.com/luajit-remake/luajit-remake/issues/11
That is an incredible claim. Please link to this court judgement.
Hard disagree.

As expertise increases, so does the requirement for deliberate practice. On the two ends of the spectrum, there are those who commit to it, and those who don't. Ultimately, individuals who will reach expertise are those who lean towards a high(er) level of commitment.

One can easily observe this in any organized activity. There will be a huge variance in expertise (= skills) among people who have a long experience.
AI uncovers famous painting had other artists
The page hage changed title to "Labour proposes free breakfast clubs to tackle persistent school absence".

I wonder why.
I'm not particularly fond of piracy either, but I get people doing it. If I were to consume more media content, I'd probably do the same, the whole shenanigans around which show/movie is with what provider today ruined the experience of modern streaming platforms. Early Netflix (streaming) was perfect, but the movie studios/distributors ruined it, they deserve to suffer.
Also recall that a 50% speed improvement in SQLite was caused by 50-100 different optimisations that each eeked out 0.5-1% speedups. On phone now don’t have the ref but it all adds up.
I think this can actually be a very good idea - this is a thing often discussed in rock climbing, where for most people, no matter how hard and long you train, there will simply always be someone (most likely a 13yr old child) that is just incomprehensibly better than you. So I am glad that I find profound joy in my climbing and trying the hardest I can, while still knowing that globally I will probably always be mediocre at best.
They're still there. When I stumble upon them I take note and gather them into this web gallery. Well Made Web, the old town of the Internet:

https://wmw.thran.uk
I think if the challenges are just at the right level and the work is interesting to you, you can work almost as long as you want. But if the difficulty level is too high and you feel no sxcitement, it becomes stressful and and eventually you reach a point when you cannot go on. I had this with a project that was difficult and that I found not interesting at the same time. I could not go on. I would rather browse amazon or clean the livingroom all day than stting down to work on the project. I felt really miserable for this.
I think the issue is that it triggers when there is even a tiny piece of dirt in there. Ie. the pins aren't shorted, but there is some damp particle of dust in there causing a 10 Megaohm connection which would do no harm whatsoever.

Happens a lot for people who leave USB-C cables in the bottom of bags and they get dirt in the connector (and possibly the residue from that beer that exploded in your bag last year and the sugary water never quite evaporates)
It never ceases to amaze me how much people discount the existence of things because they "only" exist in the minds of those who believe in them.

Nobody has yet shown me a flawless proof that they themselves exist, or anything else, and yet somehow, I manage to get through my days just fine based on the versions of things in my mind that correspond to the empirical phenomena that I experience. And occasionally those mental constructs change with new empirical data even.
There is already an AOT compiler for Python: Nuitka[0]. But I don't think it's much faster.

And then there is mypyc[1] which uses mypy's static type annotations but is only slightly faster.

And various other compilers like Numba and Cython that work with specialized dialects of Python to achieve better results, but then it's not quite Python anymore.

[0] https://nuitka.net/

[1] https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc
I suspect that there is something very wrong, or VERY cheap, with your heat pump. I have never heard a heat pump being VERY loud, and I have listened to a few that were more than a decade or two old.
I worked for a chair that studied this kind of stuff - your best bet is to figure out how to reduce the temperature lift. Due to the way the Carnot equation works (at least, that's what I _think_ it's called, this is all a while ago), that really get's the heatpump efficiency singing.

reduce the heating temperature by increasing the area you're radiating from - floor heating / ceiling heating is way more efficient than radiators since you can deliver the same amount of heat at much lower temperatures to the space.
My Samsung phone detects this too, wonder if it's phoning it home. for some reason the 20g usb-c plug on my PC triggers it if my phone is plugged in during cold boot
THANK YOU. Was about to post the same link. Where's the double-height, blinking text? The domino characters? Such a look.
It’s not even a matter of sticking to what you know.

Recognising non-goals is a core skill for any technical profession. This is a research project doing completely novel things, and specifically mentions some of the intended use-cases. Of course they’re not the least bit concerned with propeller drones.
Even Apple could do it. The iPhone 6S had both, tho Apple never advertised the waterproofing.
Show HN: SideClip – Clipboard manager by your side
It's ok as long as it's not an excuse to not put in the work. It's very often used as an excuse to not even try. Nobody wants to be mediocre, just like nobody wants to be fat, but plenty of people will tell you they're perfectly happy in both of these scenarios.

It's like most things in life, people don't care if you're mediocre or an expert, just don't brag about either
AI articles are just exhausting to read.

AI shouldn’t be seen as a substitute for having an editor.
Ok, now that I can agree with. Let's hope that we live to see the day when showing vulnerability stops being perceived as being weak.
I do understand your "snarky" comment humoring, however do buy a copy if you want to support them, it's neither cheap or easy to make a book.
Ask HN: Happy with your low-code app speed?
How would you rate the performance of apps built using low-code? While evaluating the more popular low-code vendors 'slow' 'lag' 'poor performance' were used most under dislikes..

Curious if the issue is with the extensibility of the platform used or whether the app maker did not follow best practices..
I modded a vintage Leica Summicron about 10 years ago using some metal a colleague machined to try the effect mentioned in the article. Did it have anamorphic bokeh? Sure. But it never gave me the feel of anamorphic, as the look is all in the desqueeze. Since it sat in between weirdo spherical and anamorphic, I just never found much use for it.
Show HN: Annie – An Uncensored AI Girlfriend
A few day ago I launched an AI girlfriend service. It's completely uncensored, so compared to other AI girlfriend services you are not restricted to dive NSFW topics. She can even send you voice messages and pictures of her! You can also send voice messages and pictures your self and she will understand you just fine.
To get started, you just need a Telegram account.

It's my first side project which I launched publicly, so I would really appreciate your feedback!
Congrats! and Well done! Feedback: A points system would be great.
Not exactly the same, but the spirit is similar: https://indieblog.page/
LNX: Using Tantivy to Build One of the Fastest Search Engines Around [video]
Someone at work in a customer-facing role is less free to handle these things like they want to, potentially at the risk of very real consequences to their job. If you work at a bar, or a mechanic's shop, or in the grocery checkout, a customer throwing a fit and spitefully getting your boss/management involved can lead to anything from straight up losing your job to just being a "difficult" worker and not getting the shifts you need.

If the people are not total strangers, it's different, but approaching someone that didn't volunteer to be in the situation, and can't freely respond, is absolutely inappropriate a lot of the time - I'd argue, at least.

(Obviously, a good employer should help you feel protected and safe in situations like this - but we all know that is not a choice many people get to make for themselves)
Good question. Seems unlikely that the prices are correct. If it is then someone has a huge incentive to import from other places. The most popular air-air heat pump in Norway with a SCOP above 5 is less than 2500 USD including installation and tax.

But, it's also a fact that the US is far behind when it comes to heat pumps and energy efficient homes. The general knowledge in the US about heat pumps is terrible.
HPE reportedly to pay $13B for Juniper Networks
Yep. It used to be only summer that I would be bombarded by noise from the neighbors HVAC equipment. Now it's all year. Winter is worse because defrosting is very noisy.
That's a debit card then. In the Netherlands, that historically means Maestro or V PAY, which are indeed not usable for online payments.

But as you've noticed, Maestro is being phased out by Mastercard, to be replaced by Mastercard Debit, and that one will be usable online using its 16-digit card number just like a credit card.

If you don't want to use the online payment feature of it, some banks let you disable it. Otherwise, the worst that can happen is that you're short the money until your bank refunds you in case of fraud – still very frustrating if it does happen, but it's very revocable.
UK press stepped up editorials opposing climate action in 2023
I guess the goal is no moving control surfaces, but this prototype has both to understand and compare, that is how I read the article at least.

The rendering could be straight from Thunderbirds if you give it a green lick of paint!