skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ackman went after Gay for permitting Harvard antisemitism, which didn't get her removed. Others went after her for plagiarism, which led to her resignation. So other others went after Ackman's wife for plagiarism as a way to hurt the others. Ackman declared that family was out of bounds and that he will retaliate by doing a plagiarism review of the whole MIT faculty and the journalists who went after his wife.

If this conflagration continues ... it may have a positive effect on reducing plagiarism. But since LLMs can easily reword text, the plagiarism wars are more about the past than the future. Because now the plagiarism of concepts rather than phrases is cheap and easy and far less detectable.

Perhaps plagiarism review can move to detection of shared sequences of concepts rather than words.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231221415633/en/rab...
An ALDI in the region introduced something, that was unheard of them before.

Until now, there was never an area after the cashier to collect & bag your stuff, but instead there was a place to park your shopping cart, so the cashier could toss all of your goods right into it, clearing the area as fast as possible to process the next customer.

But now, an ALDI here introduced the collect & bag area with a split - just like many other super markets, so one customer can pack its stuff while the other is already getting its groceries processed.

But all this with a twist: there's a separate payment terminal for each collection area, so the payment of the first customer doesn't block the cashier and the register from handling the next one.
Is it actually powering a site the scale of twitter? If no, then there is no reason to think its twitter scale.
Any book recommendations for conventional game AI? (Particularly with the "game" part, as games always have interesting constraints.) Thanks in advance.
Klaviyo S-1
How exactly is it different from No-SQL?
No schema? Check.
No consistency? Check. (eventually consistent)
Key-value store? Check. (because it's using ZooKeeper under the hood)
Promising amazing results and freeing you from the chains of the SQL? CHECK!
Personalization Comes to Edge
Yeah, I experimented with Ruby for it, and frankly I'm not adverse to golfing it down a bit, but I find there is a big gulf between people like me who treats text (whether code or not) as something to skim, find elements of to study in isolation, "zoom in and out" of, and navigate by shape.

I'm extremely picky about syntax and formatting because of how I process code, because even layout and formatting matters for me in how I digest and work with code, and my recall of code is often "visual" in that I remember the shape of different parts of the code I work with.

APL/J/K etc. throw off everything about that for me. I need to sit down and decode symbol by symbol. I get that I'll get faster at recognising them the more I try, but it's too visually compact for me.

On the other end of the spectrum you have at least a subset of users of these languages who see code as something to read symbol by symbol beginning to end with perhaps some referencing back. I get that if you treat code that way, then it's nice for it to be tiny and compact, and it doesn't matter as much whether or not the layout is conducive to skimming and jumping around if that's not how you process code.

The same groups, to me, also seem to correlate with a preference for language vs. maths, though maybe I'm just biased because I'd firmly be in the language camp.

I'm not sure how reconcilable those two ways of reading code really are.

On the other hand, I also deeply care about being able to see the important bits of the code at the same time, and so I tend to spend a lot of time decomposing my projects into small pieces and focus on size more than many "in the language camp", and I guess that's part of the reason why these languages still fascinate me, though I'd have to scratch my eyes out if I had to read code in them on a daily basis.
India is one country with almost the most to suffer in human terms and lost farm output than all others - these are already significant and the ROW will be unable to feed a starving India. Not sure what sort of political 'mind' runs India, but it is not a rational one!!
> experiments show that basked percentage is measurably higher if you shoot with the underhand "granny shot"

There is also the Dutch sport "korfbal" (which literally translates to basketball, funny enough) where the baskets are higher, smaller and have no board, and you are not allowed to shoot if blocked anyway. Everyone shoots with two hands, and the equivalent of the lay-up is even sort-of done underhandedly.

Speaking of social norms and not wanting to look "uncool", korfbal is often talked about as a very dorky sport, even though it is fairly popular in the Netherlands. Most commonly by men who insist real men play football (soccer for the Americans). Speaking as a man who really enjoyed korfbal growing up, I suspect this is mainly because it's a unisex team-sport.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korfball

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUtJB5jBOis
I think it depends. My dad would absolutely prefer something that just worked. He certainly appreciates things I make and do but, even the books I've written, he appreciates that I've written something and leaves it out in his apartment but I'm quite sure he's only flipped through the semi-technical content.
I'm not that up to date on the language, it's been a few years since I did anything nontrivial with it because the experience was so poor. And while that might not seem fair to Julia, it's my honest experience: my concern isn't a pissing match between Julia and the world, it's that bad JIT experience is a huge turnoff and I'm worried about Python's future as it goes down this road.
Running Unified PubSub Client in Production at Pinterest
A lot of issues like you mention can be a big problem on the population level, but not in an individual level if you're conscious of what you eat. This doesn't seem to be the case with microplastics, they seem to be in everything.

You might call it panic to minimize it, and you'd be right to do so if we here were in charge of nutrition for a population; but I'm guessing most of us are in charge of our own nutrition and maybe a family's, so the information to deal with that is pretty valuable.
Right it would be a bigger problem if I owned and depended on this hypothetical car but my hypothetical self only needs it for Ubers. Maybe I’ll switch to Lyft or local Taxi service. That might make me wait more but the point is that this isn’t a hysterical response, much like monitoring and avoiding the 737 MAX until further notice isn’t hysterical. It’s simply sensible.
It's a lot harder for startups to win over large companies in hardware, even with a superior product, since shipping hardware is tremendously capital-intensive. An example that comes to mind is Pebble, which had an excellent smartwatch that worked way better than the one from Fitbit, but nevertheless ran out of money and got sold to the latter.
Can someone explain to me what the obsession with e-ink is on hackernews?

I understand that it has a lot of great qualities to it but it so far out of price range that it negates the upside. Or am I completely misreading the benefits?
This is an outright lie. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35399297/
Forge: The Loom Sequel (2015)
Wouldn't it be simpler to do all this in software? What's the advantage of doing it in hardware like this?
Is there a Firefox extension for android that can take over the js crap that people call video players and give something decent? I know there are open in x but that isn't seamless. I just want a video player that is standard across the Board.

Like safari on iOS used to turn any video on browser to a standard video player window with normal controls.
FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding
Y'all couldn't have some read-only clusters that could just take over as the master?
Thanks for your interest in our article about solver performance.

We've now posted a follow-up pair of articles where we attempt to compile crossword puzzles using a Mixed Integer Linear Program.

Let us know if you have any questions.

https://www.solvermax.com/blog/crossword-milp-model-1

https://www.solvermax.com/blog/crossword-milp-model-2
I'd bet money that this was used as an inspiration for the planes from Crimson Skies. Some of the most iconic ones from that game were all WW2/art-deco-styled canard designs with pusher props.

Honestly, it's kind of a look.
Subject aside, this is a very pleasant website design. Love the simplicity and subtle animations/transitions.
Can't say if you missed this on purpose or by omission but there's a few more after 1994.

From your own source:

The aircraft experienced a contained engine failure with debris penetrating the fuselage; one passenger was partially ejected from the aircraft and later died of her injuries.

This is horrific. Boeing, of course and happened in 2018
Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted and spent 17 years in a UK jail. He is likely to eventually get less than £1M compensation and that's after the government scraped the rule that "board and lodge" would be subtracted from the compensation.

edit: accidentally a word.
Thank you for the feedback :)

Feel free to open issues or discussions on the repository if you have any difficulty.
An Enhanced Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Humans from 2D Synthetic Data
Or anything in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine genre really, depending how old we're talking.
Wrong. WASM is just a bytecode format. There's nothing new here compared to JVM, Parrot, CLR, whatever other VM bytecode formats have been dreamed up. A lot of people have imagined that WASM (or eBPF, but that's another can of worms) somehow has some magic sauce that enables it to guarantee correctness or process isolation. The truth is your sandbox is only as good as the weakest link in (1) Your sandbox runtime (2) Your RPC/API call protocol that you're using to control the outside world from within your sandbox, which everyone has to build from scratch.
I enjoyed the blog. Where do you find the time to post though, once you're done with work or do you schedule specific time to post?
Then there is nothing to worry about because everything since WW2 has been fine as far as cognition and general health is concerned. Although, IQs and sperm quality have been declining for a while now but it's probably unrelated to all the plastic pollution.
GC managed types?

Wasm GC spec: https://webassembly.github.io/gc/core/index.html

Heap types in particular: https://webassembly.github.io/gc/core/syntax/types.html#heap...

V8 blog post about GC: https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting
Cars are getting safer all the time. It's okay to drive the car where the airbag has been replaced with a spike.
Mercedes-Benz taps Will.i.am to create car 'interactive musical experience'
The stated 2.4GW of the article is "nameplate" output (± peak output).

You computed the average generation over a whole month.

The difference between both is called "capacity factor" and is of course different per region. I've found some online numbers between 30 and 45%. Multiplying your 53% number with a 35% CF becomes a more realistic but less impressive 18.5%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power#Capacity_factor
Vogtle notoriously suffered from cost overruns and was complicated by Westinghouse going through bankruptcy during the construction. It's not obvious that this is a representative example and "1" is not a statistically valid sample size. It was also the first US plant brought online in 40 years, which required a lot of lessons to be learned for the first time in a generation, as would not be the case for future construction.

And you're comparing the ultimate cost of the completed reactor to the estimated cost of the wind project -- the estimated cost of Vogtle was $14B, and now SunZia is getting sued for whatever it is this time. The US makes it unreasonably expensive to build anything.

And even then, by the time you account for capacity factor, short-term storage and long-term storage, even with all the cost overruns, the cost of Vogtle was the same order of magnitude as the estimated cost of a wind project that would supply the same amount of power.

I honestly don't understand why people think these things are particularly in competition with each other. If we're going to stop burning carbon, we're going to electrify transportation, and that is where most of the storage batteries are going to go for the foreseeable future. And then we're going to have to increase the amount of generating capacity to charge all of those batteries. But that's great -- they're batteries so we can charge them with new renewables without having to worry about intermittency.

Except that means we just allocated the bulk of our production capacity for both storage and renewable generation to electrifying transportation, and we still need to stop burning carbon for the existing baseload power generation. Hence nuclear.
Just be patient. It takes some time for academic influencers to start jumping on the bandwagon.
I would say that those going around brandishing the titles of Nazi and antisemitic as cudgel to use on their ideological opponents are more likely to be the ones who have changed stances.

And I say this as someone who has disliked Musk since his comments during the cave rescue.
What do you mean by "platform"? Is this open source? Can I run everything locally?

Is this basically an RBDMS and Kafka in one? Can I use SQL?

I understand the handwaving around programming semantics, but I'd like clearer explanations of what it actually is and how it works. Is this a big old Java app? Do you have ACID transactions? How do you handle fault tolerance?

It may be early, but I believe folks will be curious about benchmarks. And maybe, someday, Jepsen testing.
It may be worth sandboxing it into a dedicated network then analyze the traffic and see what it does in detail, for example if it accesses the local network then relays something outside, or if it opens ports waiting for connections, etc.
I wonder if merely downloading so much data and storing it into its internal flash could wear it in a short time forcing the user to call for repair.
I can't speak for them, but I can tell you I'm running NixOS directly on my own laptop (and desktop and server).
As far as I know, technically anybody [with deep enough pockets] can initiate private prosecution in the UK.
The header-only part is actually accidental, I'm using C++ templates which requires to be fully defined at their declaration site (the header).

On top of that, the "Installation" instructions are just "copy the file in your project", no CMake, no Meson, not any kind of build system.
I used to run NixOS on my main computer for a few months until I encountered some situation that I couldn't resolve using my nix skills. I think I needed to run some software that wasn't on nixpkgs.

Nowadays, I just use nix (the package manager) on top of PopOS.
That’s not how it works. After it fills up you have to let water out of the dammed reservoir at the same rate it flows in (on average) or else it overflows. The issues created are related to sediments and flow consistency. More info in the top response here: https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/18287/do-da...
I continue to see that dependency almost everywhere I see Kafka used, and yet KIP-500 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-500%3A...> and its Jira <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9119> are shown as "Resolved Apr-2021" allegedly in 2.8.0

I wonder if it's going to be the "python2.7" (or I guess more relevant "Java8") of running Kafka :-(
For anyone who wants a hackable e-ink display, the Inkplate combines a recycled Kindle display with an ESP32 (which also supports the Arduino framework). You can also buy them with both a 3D printed frame and a battery already attached, so all you need to do is program it.

(No affiliation, although I recently bought an Inkplate 10.)
Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements (2023)
I genuinely want to see a root cause blog post for this.
I think you are right about the influence. It seems the Ascender showed up in Combat Flight Simulator 3:

https://combat-flight-simulator-3.fandom.com/wiki/Curtiss_P-...
I think there’s room for private tests, but those should probably be done by some kind of independent standards body. LLMs are an incredible advancement of machine learning research, but we diminish that when we let these kind of wholly unscientific evaluations predominate and especially in open source, where so much great work is otherwise being done to combat the monopoly tactics of big tech.
At that point, why not print a few photos, put one in an easy to change photo frame, and spend a couple minutes swapping them out now and then?

My brother tried to get my dad setup with Apple Music which he spent an afternoon frustrated with. OK, the UI isn't the best but I'm not sure anyone else's is better. I ended up getting him a desktop CD player, gave him a bunch of CDs I don't need any longer, and he's very happy. Sometimes the old (OK not quite) analog approaches are better.

ADDED: My (younger) brother rolled his eyes a bit and was a bit surprised CDs even existed any longer but sometimes simpler approaches really are better. And I'm the one with engineering degrees :-)
> This implies a degree of incompetence or corruption on the part of the dam designer and/or dam builder.

Of course it does!

In Laos/Cambodia, the dams are mostly built by China in order to help them build their silk road to Sihanoukville (so that they can have an easier route to Africa). In Vietnam, it is just plain greed since they aren't in as much of a rush to help China.

Unless you ride a motorbike into the furthest remote areas of these countries, like I have, you wouldn't be the wiser. I've see it all.

Compare and contrast:

http://english.scio.gov.cn/m/beltandroad/2022-05/09/content_...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/31/no-cambodia-l...
except if he was sitting at the window, he might have gone out too...
Most guys that golf shouldn't use a driver and should carry a 7-wood instead. But they hit driver because not hitting driver (even though they get measurably worse results than if they hit anything else) is worse than hitting it into the woods in the eyes of many. Pride matters!
Imho we need energy that everyone wants, not energy that must be “imposed “. Similarly to what Elon said about electric cars.
Idk, I think an iPhone in ten years will look a lot like it does now just with better Siri. Better Siri will open up a lot of things and it’ll be wonderful but we’ll still want a screen (we’ll still interact with the world largely via reading) and an iPhone just looks like a screen.

Apple and Google presumably know about LLMs so I don’t really see this device being very influential.
It’s not off-topic, but it’s not in the spirit of HN either. I assume your tone is why you’re downvoted.
These demos are always the same: “<Product> find me the closest pizza”

Who actually interacts with a device like that? Is it an important problem enough to be paying $199 while I can do the same thing (often even better) with my phone?
Firefox share declined because the market objectively decided Chrome is a better browser. Framing it as Chrome "picking" on Firefox is just silly. And I say this as a die-hard Firefox user and fan.
Usually with a weird design, the problem is that weird often means uncommon, limited-supplier parts, which are more of a cost driver than just looking weird.

It is cheap and easy to go down the well-trodden path.
Whether it's fringe has no impact on whether it's true.
Maybe my hunter-gatherer egalitarianism is clouding my views, but this sounds tendentious to me. The English descended from waves of European conquerors and settlers (and even the Celts are generally considered to be migrant agriculturalists), and with habits like city-dwelling and being fearsome warriors instead of serfs dying out in mere generations at various points in our history, it's hard to imagine that we've somehow absorbed more cues from a little-known Early Neolithic culture we might not even share much genetic material with. Not to mention a whole bunch of more directly relevant quirks like assembling a mighty navy, colonising half the rest of the world, dispensing with Catholicism early and inventing modern capitalism came precisely because our society was so hierarchical.
According to the TV drama, the Fujitsu staff could go in and change data in the live data, while the log said it was the subpostmaster making the change. If so, that seems like negligently bad design.
That was likely excrement.
Why is washing machine connected to internet?
I bought a Bluetooth-connectible blood pressure measuring device. The first app was decent, the second app? Several screens were behind "Upgrade to premium to unlock this feature". And then it started gamifying, "measure your blood pressure every day to earn points", redeemable for... fucking what?

Fuck youuuuu, Omron!
Keep it with the "but iPhones get all smudgey from my fingers, yuck" bookmarks.
"Ugly" is an opinion, which means it's neither true nor false. Me, I like them, but I know that me liking them doesn't invalidate your dislike.

And calling them "landscape-disturbing" is true, but so are all other things — I've been to some wind farms, they are much less disruptive to the environment than the nuclear reactors I can only see from a distance. Sheep grazing under and around them, for a start.
Does the LLM run on device or in cloud. Can't find any info on the website but I assume device that size everything runs in the backend?
I only skimmed the video, but I have to agree. The biggest problem I see is that I don't want to talk to my phone for a lot of things. If I'm having a text conversation or trying to look up something on the internet while I'm in a crowded room, I don't want to use my voice for that. If fact, while there are some things that I would find this helpful for, I would say the majority of the interactions with my phone are things I would actually prefer to have a keyboard for.

While this thing does have a touchscreen keyboard it seems to me like the biggest selling point of the phone is actually something I don't want to use most of the time. I can't really see this succeeding for that reason.
I've been using nix for my personal server and it's a lot of fun.

And I don't mind reading 'code as docs' in general but it's pretty much required here. Mostly the option names are pretty understandable, and it's helpful to see in the code exactly what it does, not just a human version.

But truly invaluable is sourcegraph (I guess github search is better but I still don't like it) so you can search through other peoples config
https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+file:.*nix+B...

On the other hand, I wanted to have emacs compiled with sqlite (needed for magit) and it took me hours to get working, then had to keep modifying to pin the version so it didn't recompile constantly