skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kinda find this relatable - in HS, I did some summer work writing software (amateurishly doing what felt right instead of being taught how to do it properly - if only I'd have known), and went for EE, because I felt like "wait this cannot be it"
Elfcat: ELF binary visualizer generating HTML
Perhaps we should take genes from Deinococcus radiodurans and put them in humans.
My partner does this, it's completely full every week including scheduled leisure.

I'm lucky if even all of my meetings are in mine.
> The ChatGPT maker is developing tools with the US Defense Department on open-source cybersecurity software, and has had initial talks with the US government about methods to assist with preventing veteran suicide, Anna Makanju, the company’s vice president of global affairs, said in an interview at Bloomberg House at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday.

> But OpenAI maintained a ban on using its tech to develop weapons, destroy property or harm people, Makanju said.

At face value, seems like a good thing.
One of my friends were in St. Judes in Memphis for cancer treatment. I was there visiting multiple times and would talk to lots of other families whose children were getting treatment and I was stunned by the large percentage who were from New Orleans or Baton Rouge and many with fathers who mentioned they worked at a chemical plant. My friend had stage IV cancer, St. Judes did an amazing job they are still in remission after this initial treatment in the 1990s.
DNS over HTTPS is using port 443 because it's... HTTPS. Are you blocking that too?
Great. The idea that we should take our lead in AI and ignore it's applicability for military applications is juvenile at best. I like living in the unipolar American world and I want it to stay that way.
Yeah, something like that. It's hard to be both expressive and useful.

This is a small set of primitives around a tkinter canvas. I suppose one could expose a small set of primitives around a pygame too.

I have to think hard about what exactly I would want.
For that the paper would have to be read, but I agree that as an infographic it could be much better.
Ask HN: SWEs who switched to AI/ML, how is it going?
For those of you who moved from software engineering to AI / ML (or even Data Science), curious to hear how it's going for you.
> For this guy, maybe it's "do another startup." Great! With $10M in the bank, he can just go do that!

He touches on this in the article, he was interested in starting new projects but they went nowhere. So I am reading this as "no, he cannot just go do that", he is worried he only was able to do it the one time.
I hate this stereotype on HN that we're all working in or adjacent to adtech. It's simply not accurate.

There were 4.4 million computer programmers in 2022.

Taking some extremely rough numbers: Google employs ~190k people worldwide. Meta another 86k worldwide. Microsoft 120k (in the US). Amazon 950k (in the US).

Even if we were to treat every single one of the employees I listed above as if they were a programmer living in the US (which is clearly ridiculous), we'd still only account for 1/3 of US programmers. Once you factor in the number of those employees outside the US and the number who do things other than programming (and even more those who work on, say, AWS), the number would become even smaller.

The vast majority of programmers do not and never have worked in ad tech. Working in ad tech is a choice that some people make, and yeah, it can pay even more money than a regular software job, but choosing one of the millions of other jobs available isn't exactly choosing poverty.
> The worst part is nobody in charge really cares.

I'm not sure i believe this is the main explanation at this point. I rather believe in coordination problems or that it is very hard to make a very large amount of people agree on how to split the cost when it is also almost impossible to verify when any one actor has payed their part of the split.
> And, I don't think comparing the two is logical, for price (Da Vinci is $2,000,000), end goal (the 500kg Da Vinci will never walk across the room and pick up a box), or even degrees of freedom.

How much does a Tesla robot cost and where can I buy one?
Please cite support for your claim that effects of surpassing these boundaries are linear.

The people who actually know the science in these areas do not agree with you. Specifically with regard to global warming, the science has been clear on this for decades now: past around 1.5C, we risk cascading effects that could be uncontrollable. This is really fairly common in natural systems: if you mess it up, past a certain boundary effects accelerate and are uncontrollable.
Given the lack of source data I can't tell if they talking X listens across Y population, or are they saying that Z individuals listened to at least one audiobook. Do you have some insight from another data source? If not, I stand by my claim that 1 in 4 Americans listening to an audiobook is hard to believe.

From the article in the post I was replying to[1]:

Audiobook production is a multi-step process that requires equipment, software, a studio, and a narrator. Depending on the cost and availability of each of these aspects, the price of producing an audiobook can vary.

* Generally, around 9,300 words of text equate to one hour of audiobook length.
* The average audiobook is around 10 hours long, containing close to 100,000 words.
* The average narrator charges around $200 per finished hour, meaning that the expenses on the narrator will amount to $2,000 for recording an audiobook.
* On top of that, it is necessary to either rent a studio where the recording will take place or invest in the equipment and sound production yourself.
* In either case, producing an audiobook will take between $4,000 and $8,000.
* Some companies offer a complete production service for a fixed price, usually at the $6,000 range.

They are saying it's something on the order of $8,000 to produce a 10 hour audiobook. I tripled that to get to $24k since ASOIAF is a little over 33 hours, then doubled it just to account for things like more expensive voice actors or more expensive production. Keep in mind this was just napkin math to get a general range for what it would cost and I'd rather inflate it a bit just to be safe.

[1] https://wordsrated.com/audiobook-statistics/
The speed data is an average over 30 days.

Clearly OpenAI is throttling their API to save costs and get more out of fewer GPUs.
No because the service is called D1 and is based on SQLite.
It’s not. The ozone issue is very much improved. But there are also plenty of things that affect ozone coverage so it doesn’t “get better” by a steady state percentage each year in a straight line.
Jeez, I never could draw the connection between those Debian names and Toy Story characters. Till now. Thank you. TIL!
agree -- all this reminds me of a study that indicated that people that used LSD even one time were like 5x as likely to suffer from depression later in life. I've always thought that it was very interesting that the conclusion drawn was that LSD made you depressed vs. asking questions about the correlation.

it is funny, really how obvious the angle is in these kinds of analysis. There's no way you could even start to draw conclusions from these kinds of data sets unless you already knew what you were going to report -- there's less than no information in the numbers being used... the only rational analysis would result in nothing but questions and absolutely no conclusions.
> boomers can only think about being made late for work

They also show up to vote, show up at town halls and call their electeds. It's only recently, largely due to Gen Z and newly-engaged Millenials, that the tide is turning [1].

[1] https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/gen-z-voted-higher-...
Writing This Newsletter and Writing Code
One step at a time! Next it'll be defensive technology only, then defensive weapons, then the best defence is a good offence. Before you know it, it'll be "wipe out the humans to achieve peace in our time."
>Alternatively, it blows my mind that the pulse-ox tech we’ve had in doctors’ offices since the mid 1970s is still that locked up in patents.

Because we aren't using 1970's tech anymore today. Pulse-ox tech improved a lot since then and that means more new patents. That's like saying "it blows my mind Audi's fuel stratified injection is locked up in patents because we've been driving cars since the 1910's".

>In 1995, Masimo introduced Signal Extraction Technology (SET) that could measure accurately during patient motion and low perfusion by separating the arterial signal from the venous and other signals.

>A noninvasive method that allows continuous measurement of the dyshemoglobins is the pulse CO-oximeter, which was built in 2005 by Masimo.

>In 2007, Masimo introduced the first measurement of the pleth variability index (PVI), which multiple clinical studies have shown provides a new method for automatic, noninvasive assessment of a patient's ability to respond to fluid administration.

It seems Masimo haven't just been sitting on their ass.
Don't park residential.

I haven't done it much since 2018 though. I assume there's a lot more awareness than a few years ago.
Have experienced this as my partner is from the greater NYC area. Cops will hand out these cards (or sometimes it is a little badge that you pin to your wallet or a larger badge that you stick in your rear window so they don't pull you over in the first place). It doesn't have to be a family member - I knew people who had them because their neighbor was a cop.

It's all part of a "I've got mine" culture that is comfortable with different sets of rules for different kinds of people. And it certainly fosters corruption, favors and deals done outside the normal channels.

This practice and anything like it should absolutely be outlawed and rooted out.
I don't really get what your nitpick is here. There is no conceivable way in the universe to unshare information that has been shared. The idea here is that you can stop further sharing of that information. I think that's a fairly reasonable and obvious interpretation.
Sort of, yeah. The responding cop's assessment of the crash is considered pretty authoritative for what happened. So they can talk to both people then just lie and say the pedestrian entered the crosswalk late and didn't have right of way or whatever. A lot of time the way this goes is someone will have been drunk but the cop will simply not demand a breathalyzer. A crash while drunk driving is criminal, but without it may make it mutual fault.

There was kind of a locally-known-among-cyclists case in chicago a few years ago where a driver (police family member) did a bad left turn and hit someone in the bike lane. A cop witnessed it and wrote a failure to yield ticket to the cyclist. Luckily there were a ton of witnesses and it got picked up by a good lawyer who worked it hard. But still there were no particular consequences to the driver or the cop.
You just voided your own point. Also, you will absolutely notice your apartment neighbor using a hand saw, or drumming on an electonic kit.
I find I have to end up searching though time in order to get the results I want. Especially as a developer. A bug that has the same error 8 years ago may not be the same bug now. So I tell google to only show results for the last year and tada I get what I want. Usually.
well if it was working for you, you would have see a color swatch of unique colors. Given this is running in wasm via a rust app I'm not sure about browser compatibility. Give it a try on maybe a desktop? or possibility try again as I pushed a bug just two moments ago and maybe thats why. Github.io takes a moment to update

Edit: I tried on my phone via firefox and it worked so maybe try again.
I believe ozone depletion reduced between 2015 and now, so we're back to headed in the right direction. While much of the world adhered to the CFC ban, China had a brief resurgence of usage that created a temporary increase in depletion.
The page says "pressure is increasing on all boundary processes except ozone depletion".
For a moment I hoped that the source of Doom (2016) is released. :(
Is there GCC toolchain already for this ISA ?

Also, wonder how difficult would it be to add MMU to MC1 ?
Sounds about as accurate as the doomsday clock. Also we're outside of the safe operating region of "land-system change?" Every one of the 9 somewhat arbitrary metrics they chose are bound in complicated, non-linear arrangements with numerous other metrics, most of which they don't track. Pulling one lever will move 50 other cogs over the course of decades, at various rates, with various other linkages. It's silly to condense down environmental landscape changes to one thing like "land-system change" and assign it a single axis of goodness vs. badness.
The EPA and the FDA ensure that you can't have a state decide that "workers in the sausage" is acceptable, then sell cannibal sausage to states with laws that protect workers and consumers, or to protect you from a state deciding that all of that benzene flowing into the river is YOUR state's problem.

If you can't see this because you believe "why would someone do evil?" Then you are hopelessly naive or intentionally pushing a bad take.
Becoming a Dungeon Master for an Interview
The IP behind advanced chips is protected fiercely.
Banning something in the US and the EU doesn't mean they are banned everywhere.
"Society" is the most abstract illusion of them all. It doesn't exist and has never existed anywhere, it has always been a complete fiction and pretend. So, maintaining a bunch of fictions in order to maintain another fiction becomes circular reasoning.
Not sure if this helps, but tons of people in science use local jupyter installations (typically installed through conda). Using externally hosted ones are probably the exception in my circles.

I’ve only used a few hosted ones from time to time, and now I host my own (private) jupyterhub for various reasons.
Time to expand beyond the planet then?

If we don't manage it before we start down a degrowth/de-industrialisation path, we might well have missed the one chance our species had to go multiplanetary.
lol exactly :)
Yet when I look around, humans everwhere. This alarmist bs hurts us all.
What Happened to the Extinct Woolly Dog?
He was not "fond" of capitalism - he rightly considered it preferable to feudalism, but to Marx, capitalism and liberalism were two sides of the same coin: capitalism the economic side, liberalism the political side. He was a revolutionary socialist and a proponent of organized labor; the "liberalism" Marx hated was what we would now call "classical liberalism".
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020778
Why this is surprising? I mean wouldn’t any military in the world want to benefit from new technologies, especially if it was developed in its own country?
I didn't realize 2GB plans were still common. I'm paying $15 a month for 5 (U.S., in New England), and figured people who paid real money for their plans had enough that one app wouldn't matter.

But then McDonald's also has free WiFi, so does it matter?
Agreed, this is great, functioning as designed. Very few things are appropriate at the federal level and states have all the power they need to implement policy for their residents.
You must have missed the memo that the $35k Cybertruck is now the $60,990 Cybertruck (this is the standard-range, available in 2025 model). You will never be able to buy one new from Tesla for anywhere close to $35k, and the fact that they announced the price as $35k _and took customer money_ based on that should, IMHO, result in financial penalties and jail time for the executives involved.
this. in many cases the corporate-ware is worse on linux because they sell it as an afterthought
I wonder if traditional novels have been out-paced by free online texts that people write in their free time (fan-fics and/or original-fics) ? It'd be interesting to crunch the numbers. Productivity is enormous, though quality isn't always as high. Of course with sufficient monkeys on keyboards, there's bound to be a few Shakespeares out there.
The main sting here seems to be that MemorySegment when allocated from Java code requires bounds checks on all accesses, which the JVM cannot optimise away on random accesses.

However, MemorySegment itself already supports unbounded access when wrapping a native pointer. It’s necessary for even basic interactions with native code (e.g. reading a c-str).

It should be easy to “wash” an off-heap MemorySegment through native code to obtain an unbounded MemorySegment from it. Something like:

void *vanish_bounds(void *ptr) { return ptr; }

I think it would be nice if the FFI provided a way to get an unbounded MemorySegment without resorting to native code hacks though. It can obviously be made restricted like unbounded MemorySegment’s already are.

That should take most of the sting out of this proposal (although it still sounds like a painful transition for a very modest gain).
Again, the performance difference for Debian is ~5%, give or take.

I no longer believe you are engaging in good faith. Good day.
Why not get the greed under control first?
Okay I went to a really great public school, so that's just standard education from my perspective. Everyone took fine arts and music. The classes I listed were the things that only the real enthusiasts trying for Ivy league schools got into. I was aiming for engineering school and kind of a philistine at that age, so I took auto body in my free time.

I realize many schools cut the arts classes first and I bemoan that as much as anyone now at my advanced age, but that's a different conversation.
With iCloud Apple indeed handles well update conflicts in Apple Notes.
I have tried to set up Obsidian or any other Markdown-based notetaking system, the sync is so often and I had to give up. Apple Notes does handle this pretty well. So I finally moved to Apple Notes.
Overuse of water is unverifiable? No it's not.
Alarming reduction of water available in soil for plants is unverifiable? No it's not.
Rising salinity in fresh water supplies is unverifiable? No it's not.
Global temperature increases and increased volatility in weather is unverifiable? No it's not.
Alarming increases in extinction of species is unverifiable? No it's not.
Increases in CO2 and other pollution are unverifiable? No, they are most certainly not.

What are you even talking about?
I would think that a PDF file of 700 blank pages could exceed 2 MiB.
Probably an unpopular opinion but the lack of MS365 support prevents me from considering this seriously as I must combine MS and Google calendars.
I agree with the others who have said to rebuild the site. Just wanted to pop in and say that I truly miss this era of websites. I got such a massive flashback and feeling of nostalgia.
There is another thing - low res games were played on a CRT monitor that had a natural smoothing of pixels. If you launch any old game on any modern monitor it will look way worse than it used to be.
The top-comp tier skews toward harmful things, though, and if not for those bad things... would there be a shortage?

It doesn't take a majority of the market—not even close—seeing such huge price- and demand-distortion to mess things up really bad for the whole thing.
Obelix hasn't been stuck away from home for days to a week waiting for a storm to blow over
With free commerce between the states regulations make more sense defined at the higher level for consistency and because issues like pollution don't care that you've crossed a political boundary. Even if it were devolved to the states how much of that would change because huge states like California already have an outsized impact on products because of their huge market. Devolution would paradoxically lead to even lower political influence than now, what does a politician on the other side of the country or 3 states away upstream of your water supply care about your vote?

Also the devolution back to Congress which is the more likely outcome of this is similarly fraught with issues. We delegated these powers to agencies so that your 1 term state rep didn't need to get involved deciding if 3-Methylbut-3enyl acetate [0] in apple juice is a problem or just comes from squeezing the apples. Congress sets up and defines the boundaries of the agencies and if they over step there are dozens of checks on their power including new laws from Congress.

I much prefer that state of affairs over a geriatric stagnant Congress trying to decide if a new chemical additive is food safe or not.

[0] One of the thousand natural chemicals that sound spooky but are just hard to name because nature doesn't care for our convenience. Taken from the classic Antivaxx vs chemical composition of an apple image.
> anything that's 90% match should be good enough.

There's no such thing as a '90% match' when you are doing nearest-neighbor lookup. Percentages of what? There's just distance in a high-dimensional space, which is itself dependent on dimensionality and pretty arbitrary - different embeddings will have totally different 'units'.

> You could solve this in the UI by telling them that they were redirected because the original page was not found.

That doesn't deal with issues like archiving or updating links to follow redirects which turn out to be spurious because you thought '90%' was a meaningful number.
I don't think so. Here is the first sentance of a highly-cited (secular) piece on the same kind of data:

"Premarital sex predicts divorce, but we do not know why."

That last part makes all the difference in the world.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0192513X231155673
It is preferable to deal with tractable problems
So how long before insurgents are manipulating targeting methods by painting prompt injection phrases on their roofs?
Thanks for saying so. It feels like a lonely road a lot of the time.

I'm taking some time away from work to try to pay attention to this. The urge to enter a cloister and stay forever has started cropping up, which may mean I'm taking it too far, but at least tells me I might finally be getting out of my fixed ways of thinking.

Peace to your journey.
It's entirely unsurprising.

Decades from now we may wish we all raised up a bit more fuss about it, though.
There's a vocal HN demographic with the strong moral position that working on improving war machinery is very evil.
I do this... work in NC, commute to DC each week. Grab a hotel a couple nights and drive back. I was a remote worker pre-pandemic then my company recently mandated RTO with no exceptions. Sucks but not going to find a higher paying job locally so I deal with it for now.
> I like living in the unipolar American world and I want it to stay that way.

This is probably going to be a pretty disappointing century for you.
They are identified as the largest contributing factors to Holocene maintence[1]. The thresholds are boundaries where long-term Holocene maintenance no longer holds.

Just curious, is Holocene maintenance is important to you?

1. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458
Overton Window has moved.
Dupe: OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon (340 points, 439 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020778
The "the sky is falling" worldview is insidious and self-reinforcing. You can't convince a doomsayer that things might actually wind up okay.

There are certainly challenges ahead. My grandchildren will live in a starker world than I did, but only in some ways. We are struggling with the shrinking world, with growing demand for global economic equality but shrinking equality, and a whole slew of mostly human invented issues. The economy as we know it will cease to exist in the next few decades, and we will see pockets of 1984 here, pockets of Atlas Shrugged there, and all the while good people will be trying to do good things.

I have 100% faith in the ability of the minority to save the majority from themselves.
You Wouldn't Steal A Reporter