skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wacky-looking fish is the deepest-dwelling fish ever found
Is there any evidence of human advancement without nicotine?

What if civilization depends on nicotine and without it, we devolve back to the stone age?
Jeremy Howard (Kaggle, fast.ai), Eric Ries (Lean Startup) launch new AI R&D lab
Scientists boost plant disease resistance by engineering their microbiome
http://archive.today/zlOgy
You might have a power supply issue if you get coil while this consistently. Very happy with my Sapphire Nitro 7900 XTX.
Did Apple use that argument against Beeper Mini? I thought it was just the public.
>Allison is concerned because they would have 'Emily' on the clock. It impacts Allison directly.

So... Alison's objection is that it wastes company time. Right?

If so: Can you see how that was what I meant all along?

If not: I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying.
Without good benchmarks it's hardly possible to compare different products.

But I agree that this benchmarks seems questionable at best then. I usually only work with on-premise deployments, so I don't know the details of all the cloud offerings. People will probably judge products on what is available on the first few search results though.
The LinkedIn to Azure migration was indefinitely postponed.
So glad people are talking about this in public
I do this all the time. OP is talking about of their ass.

China is dramatically cheaper than domestic.

If it wasn't for the DoD requiring all military parts be domestically manufactured, there probably wouldn't be a board house (or metal fab) left in the US.
It's all fun and games till someone sucks Macklemore into the cloud.

Jeffiel kept the fun and weird alive and it was a helluva ride. Kudos Jeff!
Persistent Permissions for the File System Access API
They tried it with Safari too. Unfortunately for Apple, turns out that their marketing department came up with the tagline "Same Safari. Different device." when advertising how seamlessly Safari works across all their different devices.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/apple_safari_browser/
I was surprised on how well Mistral's `mixtral` model runs on my work's MBP M1 Max 64GiB. I thought it'd be a total slog but it does work well enough to replace ChatGPT for quite a lot of use-cases.
Yes, like that but I'd like to be able for people to share here is my list of blocks, here is my list of lowers, etc.
There's a class thing to this - everyone I know who's working class refuses to drink tap water. Even if they're on a perfectly good system, it's 100% bottled water or soda all the time.

Was told that "tap water is for broke people"
my money is on Zoo, for the reason that:

if you were surveying a planet, and the dominant species regularly engages in assymetrical warfare against every other species it encounters.... would you pay them a visit?

we're stuck on a literal planet of Predators

worse than a Zoo though, would be a Lab: were we made for a purpose by someone else to test a hypothesis? or even worse... what if we are the control group?
I don't think it's much of a stretch to be concerned about the presence of a relatively new set of compounds in one's drinking water.
So glad this is being brought into the public eye

(I'm Roger Beaman, I was featured in the article)
Or the UK, or Australia or India...
"We are worried," says European rocket chief at prospect of launch competition
not sure if this is a joke but hey you should check out this new slowpoke meme, it's kind of cool

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/Slowpoke
I am always amazed at how many people know this stuff deeply, I feel most people actually live in apartments with either central building heating or district heating and never ever need to think about this stuff.

Especially considering buildings have less wall/roof area to lose heat from on a dwelling by dwelling basis, even a small-ish building with gas heating with average insulation would still be much cheaper to heat than a house by square meter.
Clients I worked with: Our service crashed, why?

Because you designed and implemented it poorly, that's why. Alternatively: How should I know, you wrote it.

If you're ever bored as a developer, switch to operations, you get to be the person developers turn to when they can't code, debug, do logging or security.
Coin toss flips aren't 50–50
According to the linked article: at least five aircraft. So, not unique to this one. Or the one that blew the door out.
So, does this means that Apple doesn't have a monopoly, but 5 of them?
> Much of mathematics is a formal affair of making arguments to satisfy necessary and sufficient conditions.

Some areas have a formalist culture like this (descriptive set theory seems to, for instance, though that might just be what it looks like from the outside), but it's far from universal. At the other end of the spectrum I find it hard to imagine anyone getting far with algebraic geometry without building intuition. And then of course in mathematical physics the intuition-frontier is always decades ahead of the formal one.
I mean, lead a horse to water. I had 3 years of enforced language learning in high school. I barely learned any conversational Spanish. These sorts of apps are supplemental, otherwise paying some $10 subscription to learn a new language would be a steal.

It's best treated as reading some motivational quote in the morning. Gets you out of bed and into the mood but it won't carry you through life alone. Is that worth $10/month? Depends on the person, but it would be for me if I was being serious.
I think what GP was getting at is that the topology is still point-to-point, which tends to lead to a hub-and-spoke system. Hell, it’s even in the name: GitHUB. And fact is, this works out for most people, but it leads to some undesirable failure modes. Maybe we need, say, a “git-discover-remote” command…
Is this just due to the fact that Netflix will only send 720p to a Linux PC running chrome?
Film, TV and video-game producers to get more generous UK tax relief
Even more nitpicky: that's totally a GFCI. You "detect a short circuit", by definition, by detecting current flowing between pins that shouldn't carry current. GFCI is the same thing, just for the special case of three-wire power delivery where all it needs to do is test one ground line.
Google/Instagram have done bits, but the company that's done the most serious work on Python performance is actually Oracle. GraalPython is a meaningfully faster JIT (430% faster vs 7% for this JITC!) and most importantly, it can utilize at least some CPython modules.

They test it against the top 500 modules on PyPI and it's currently compatible with about half:

https://www.graalvm.org/python/compatibility/

But investment continues. It has some other neat features too like sandboxing and the ability to make single-binary programs.

The GraalPython guys are working on the HPy effort as well, which is an attempt to give Python a properly specified and engine-neutral extension API.
this is unfortunately, author keep talk about this is useful in phylogeny, but biologists who work on phylogeny is not popular in the group of biologists who frequently publishing articles on Nature.
Malcolm Gladwell is mostly to blame for the misinterpretation of Ericsson’s original publication. The effect size of deliberate practice can be refined through tighter study methodology; that’s fine, it’s how science works. But the 10k hour heuristic was just wrong from the beginning; and Gladwell and Ericsson had a very public disagreement about this. Gladwell is a great storyteller but he’s no scientist.

Part of my professional activities involve coaching young chamber music groups and this idea of “10k hours of practice is all you need” is rampant in the music education community. There is just something qualitatively different about the great soloists that most can’t acquire even with 20k hours of deliberate practice. And that’s ok. I tell these teens that there’s no limit to “better.” And if your goal today, the next day and the day after that is “better” you are already on a track to attain more than the vast majority of humans.
When goofing off while tracing wires with a tone generator[0], we used to press the detector wand into our head, lick our finger tips, then run our fingers along the contacts on the 66 block[1] until we heard the warble from the tone generator.

0 - A troubleshooting and wire identification tool consisting of a battery-powered generator that produces a distinctive warbling sound and an inductive detector with a speaker that allows you to hear the warble when placed near the correct wire pair. Most look like this: https://www.grainger.com/product/EXTECH-Tone-and-Probe-Kit-4...

1 - a wiring terminal commonly used in the telephone system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/66_block
Voss sells water in glass, but it's a luxury good.
The chocolate bars are an astonishing value.

The two big online video advertisers I noticed in December were Amazon and Aldi, but the ads could not be more different.

Amazon's ads were irrelevant to the brand, they were just showing stories that people were supposed to react emotionally to. (And they never said that the guy at the Llama farm is paying the same for prime as people who get same day shipping except he gets five day shipping.)

Aldi on the other hand was really clear about why Aldi was different from other retailers and were a lot more compelling to me. (I did buy from Aldi in December, I didn't buy anything from Amazon.)
Shenzhen is at least the third manifestation of the electronics hotspot, after Akihabara and before that Radio Row: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Row

It definitely seems like once some of the factors you mention come into play these things lose momentum and move. Paul Krugman did some very interesting work on economic geography, with one result being that the leading region for a given sector will have a huge margin over the second player, so being in top position is very valuable.
To this day only Oracle RAC provides true active-active cluster. All the other things are not real clusters, just replications.
While Pachter enumerates differences in culture and breakdowns in collaboration, I feel the root cause is individual social attitude. The two cultures differ because their self-selected members differ in personality. What drew me to study math was the department's attitude of anarchy and irreverence. Status didn't matter, funding didn't matter, appearance didn't matter, prerequisites didn't matter, you just needed two people and two pieces of chalk and a blackboard and an afternoon. By contrast biologists I've worked with have been acutely attuned to hierarchy and funding strategy and marketing and credit attribution - social maneuvering that would fall as flat in math departments[1] as "third cohomology group" falls flat on Nature's reviewers.

[1] in my limited experience of two math departments
No it didn’t. It’s now gradually coming to our lifes.
New technology will allow it’s growth.
> Perhaps it costs more, but I'm more than happy to pay taxes to ensure public order and cleanliness are maintained.

This event apparently cost "$11.3 million in overtime", for an event one week long, so I'm going to just approximate that as $587m for a whole year, or $720/person/year (more per tax payer, but I don't know how many tax payers there are in SF).

This may be OK for you, especially as that's out of a total budget of $14.6bn[0], so your total taxes would only go up in this case by x1.04.

But that was funded by the expectation that the event itself would bring in about x5 as much extra economic activity as the increased costs. If you do this all year, perhaps it would also boost the economy, which would be good; or perhaps it will only displace the people with the issues, which would be bad, because where exactly the people are is a zero-sum game for your nation, while actually moving those people costs money… and your city government has to deal with the surrounding cities all deciding to respond in kind, which could make the cost of such displacement arbitrarily high, not bounded to just $720/person/year.

[0] https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/explore-san-francisco-budge...

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-apec-budget-overti...
Tech people tend to be "what about" types. You will always find armchair experts in this crowd making an argument why something isn't good enough or unacceptable. I guess it's intellectually stimulating to them. It's a big part of why things like software engineering have become a self-licking ice cream cone; actual problems are set aside to squabble over minutiae and reinvent things all the time because everything is wrong regardless of costs vs benefit.
Only you can see your webhooks, unless you enable sharing from the menu. Also, each request can be deleted individually, using trash i con.
I have a Sapphire RX 5700 and it's basically fine, although I don't ask much of it.
CD's were the first digital versions. That's what enabled the lossless reproduction that GP is talking about.

I don't agree with GP though that they did it to themselves. I think they would have been quickly forced to digitize anyway had they tried to resist the CD
I must have hallucinated the past year when 10,000s of engineers lost their jobs while CEOs got nice share bonuses...
To be clear, this is conventional game AI and does not involve any ML. Still a cool project, though! Very compact.
I didn't say it should provide citations for every statement. We're talking about instances where the model reproduces text verbatim. If it is paraphrasing or creating new text then obviously it doesn't need to cite any more than a human would.
I was busy doing just that and grew a community to 10,000 subscribers. Things were going great and then the administrators abused their powers and took over the community and banned me. They don't follow their own rules so I don't see the point. I was in it for the long haul, but such a thing really destroys your motivation.

It's a neat trick though. Let other people put in the work and then ban them and give their communities to their friends.
Slickdeals every now and again has a promo code for laptops at dellrefurbished.com.

Just looked up my order, it was a Dell Precision 7520 shipped for 211 USD.
Class? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that many trusted municipal water systems have been reveales to have temporary or extended contamination?
Depends on the app but basically, yeah. For example, the Ivory for Mastodon app is a Mac/iPhone/iPad application, and the "Mac App Store Preview" shows screenshots for all three devices.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/...
not sure what you are smoking :) but you started with the divide between system programmer and business logic programmer... and ended up with some thoughts about access to information. Most call center already knows everything just by the phone number you call in. they just dont' tell you or want/can act on what they need.
I still don't get why they didn't reduce API of the interpreter internals in Python 3 so that things like this would be more achievable.

If you're going to break backwards compatibility, it's not like Unicode was the only foundational problem Python 2 had.
Could someone explain how to fortify a first time founder’s position, that’s in a VC Backed type of startup which will need N Investment Rounds and Equity for employees and Board of Advisor's…
I have a wall charger that triggers the liquid detection on my Samsung phone if the charger has gotten tugged partially out of the outlet. I use the same charger literally every night and it works fine.

I'm incredibly leery of this functionality being used to deny warranty claims as a result.
Nope, because productivity is output divided by hours worked, so working longer can decrease productivity.
Because, and I'll say this in the spirit of your recommendations, that's fucking stupid.

The problem was sscanf calling strlen. You're going to fire your management and development team because one dev used sscanf where it's probably appropriate?

Then hire a guy who may or may not have actual game development experience and give him $100k because he took who knows how many hours to trace through and find this thing. The guy himself the fix would probably take a day to implement.

Finding it could have taken longer.

You want to call Rockstar incompetent, but you're simply going to ignore everything else that goes right in not only GTA Online, but across all of their games.
That is a very interesting discussion. Weird to me that the quantization code wasn’t required to be in the same PR. Ika is also already talking about a slightly higher 2.31bpw quantization, apparently.
Energy production is nice to have if war breaks out.

It is unlikely, I think (thankfully) that we’ll have an existential war with China, because we’re both nuclear armed.
My favorite bug description.

"The page is blank. The page is blank the page is blank."
> A more likely theory is that the fob transmitter (and antenna) is tuned to put out max signal when near the body. This is it's normal use.

This is true.
The Power of Fast Feedback in Engineering
It's everyone's playbook. One of the reasons I use heroin as a go-to example of "you can't fully enforce laws even if you want to" is that it's so widely understood to be bad, and yet the UK is economically incapable of fully enforcing just that one rule even at the expense of all the others.
If true then consider them gifts.
In education creating content is hard work. In business marketing and sales is hard work. So others get paid to sort the problem with varying results. We are obsessed these days with pushing problems on to others for an easier life, when often a better job could be done locally.
GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power
From Ryzen 7000 forward, the third number is the core generation, and this weird mixing is only true outside desktop too (see the 5600X3D).

That's also because AMD keeps die shrinking older generations of processors (i.e. the Steam Deck), but not as far down as Zen 4 because they're still capacity limited there. So it makes sense to keep 6-7nm designs alive for longer.
> Status didn't matter

Allow me to doubt that mathematics departments are immune to status competition.
NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's surface due to fuel leak
fyi: the author of that post is a current Julia user and intended the post as counterpoint to their normally enthusiastic endorsements. so while it is a good intro to some of the shortfalls of the language, I'm not sure the author would agree that Julia has "failed" due to these details
According to their own website, the "Intel® Core™ Processors (14th gen)" has the following suffixes: K, F, S, T, X/XE, HX, HK, H, P, U, Y, G1-G7, E, UE, HE, UL, HL (17 not counting those grouped together)

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor...
Myanmar rebels take control of 'pig butchering' scam city
In the same way Apple's "a small number of affected devices" means anywhere from 1 to 99% of devices in the field
That's a pretty neat project. It is a fairly common addition to video games. Halfway tempted to add one to one of my upcoming games just to get added to this list :P
> That seems pretty expensive in terms of resource consumption. And complex as you would have to run some kind of watcher process which handles watching your files and restarting the application?

What? No, in reality it’s just running your app in debug mode (just a cli flag), and when you save the files the next refresh of the browser has the live version of the app. It’s neither expensive nor complex.
> It will just have involved making enemies of everyone else.

Every other country in the world will be mad at China because they stole tech to further build their own?
I have had Sapphire cards for the last 10+ years and have always liked them enough to go back. Maybe I've been lucky, but my cards have been cool and quiet.
Would depend on the nature of the liquids. A harmless liquid can still damage the plastic or be toxic for the owner.
Don't forget NVIDIA trying to sell the now named 4070 as a different 4080.
reassuring
serving or intended to remove someone's doubts or fears.

can be reassuring if it removed the doubt that he was making a senseless decision. while still being the opposite about flying the thing.
Well one of them (on Mac) is certainly not a monopoly, on my Mac I have like two apps from the Mac App Store, the rest is bought directly or via Homebrew.
This is my experience with HN: First come the stupid remarks, plain wrong, people that only read the title. Then come the remarks like this one: Complaining about the abysmal quality of the remarks... Then we wait a bit longer and the sewage of remarks is voted down and this remark above remain for a bit longer... Then this remark also disappears and we are left with some insightful stuff at the top. Just wait for some time.

Maybe it doesn't always happen, but generally by the time I read a remark like yours, the really poor ones are at the bottom and nice ones are lining up just below it.
There's been a bunch of piston engine planes with hydraulic pumps; I don't think a pneumatic one will be much more difficult
Giving one person an extra day is very different from giving 8640 people an extra 10 seconds.

Even if you give them an extra 10 seconds every day. You would need to give them an extra 10 seconds several times throughout the day.

Time doesn't really aggregate in people like other things.
I wonder what the thinking is with this argument. Make the EU come up with an argument that they need to open the apple watch and apple TV to third party app stores too because that seems more silly? Or are they just trying to split it up so iphone numbers are smaller? Or do they hope that they end up with a precedent that they can apply to all their devices instead of just one?
I really want to create a series of tutorials on getting started with programming, but with this kind of focus. The biggest risk as a beginner is getting (a) distracted and (b) overwhelmed.

By filtering out the noise and starting out small and simple, we'll make it much easier for newcomers to grasp the basics before learning about modern toolchains.
Twitter/X bans multiple accounts critical of Elon Musk
A monopoly on monopolies
How reliable is IPFS for things like this?

If I wanted to use git on ipfs, I could host a node and push all my git commits there, but I’d have to convince others to host it as well, correct? So perhaps it would be awesome for majorly popular projects, but still a end up having a SPOF for smaller projects right?
At the same time, it used to be expected you would learn to program a computer you bought. So much so, that operating systems shipped with BASIC and a language manual. That is not the case today, but I guess software doesn't ship in the same ways it used to either.
Our lives are imperfect, but that doesn't make them dystopian. Some people hate their jobs, but I strongly believe that most people, especially men, would be utterly miserable if we felt unnecessary. You see this today, even, with many young men displaced from the economy and unable to find jobs or start families. A world in which humans are no longer needed in the economy will be inherently fragile, as I believe most people would go out of their way to destroy it
It's not that more precise weapons are being used to target civilians, it's just that if they miss the target, the Russians aren't really heartbroken about it. There's plenty of examples of "precision" weapons hitting apartment buildings, train stations, hospitals, schools, etc. I don't think those are targeted specifically, just that any carelessness isn't considered a bug.

But the "echo chamber" framing you use for what's at best a nitpick/misinterpretation of what I said, that says so much more about you and your own biases than anything about me.
Pypy is a different JIT that gives anything from slower/same to 100x speedup depending on the benchmark. They give a geometric mean of 4.8x speedup across their suite of benchmarks.
https://speed.pypy.org/