skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineering doesn't ever involve starting with a final product. We're witnessing progression, nothing more nothing less. Progression can be observed and "appreciated", on its own. Working towards something "neat" is the modus operandi of most users here, and for some of us, seeing others working towards something "neat" is fun to watch.
The fragility of fluorite was one a reason why Nikon gear was chosen for the International Space Station iirc.
Yep, seems to be so. I mean, it shouldn't be very surprising that among all possible lengths and bases there are some of length 1, would be more astonishing if there wasn't any.

But it's not like it's somehow less worthy than other mathematical games. After all, there could have been some meaningful property hidden in there. Doesn't appear so in this case, but you'd never know beforehand.
It's absolutely insane to me that this grown man has fought tooth and nail to protect his status as a high-scorer (or the overall best high score ever) for a video game from the 80s that nobody cares about.

The drama around it is the only interesting thing about it.
Thank you for the edit! I appreciate it.

I think Israel's actions in Gaza have been hard to defend (their motivation: less so) so none of what I'm saying is an apology for Israel. But the idea that they're even morally comparable to Hamas is an extraordinary claim. Many (most?) normal reasonable people will read it and scratch their heads.

Every country fails humanity at a moral level in a great variety of ways. Israelis sometimes feel --- with some justification --- that they're held to a standard that does't apply to other western countries, let alone countries in their own region, where the deliberate, planned murder of civilians has occurred within just the past decade or so at scales that dwarf what's happened in Gaza.
That's nonsense. If you have a private drug habit and don't get caught, that won't come up on a background check. Lots of people consume recreationally without being addicts or messing up the rest of their lives. A conviction (sometimes just an arrest record) that comes up on a background check will automatically put applicants in the reject pile in many jobs. This is such a common problem some US states (eg California) have passed laws to prevent employers demanding this information of applicants.
Yikes, very long indeed. Twice the run length of King of Kong haha. 4 hours?!
They can do whatever they want to themselves. We are talking about attacking others. You can't ignore direct hit into face.
Like others have said, just remake the whole thing on Wix.com or Squarespace, etc. It should only take an hour or three. It's not a complex site.

As a bonus, you'll get modern features like responsiveness (her students can view it on their phones), etc.

It's not worth trying to convert old Dreamweaver templates or anything. Just copy and paste the text and put it into a modern site builder.
> one can just quickly swap it out for something else someone else paid to train.

That doesn't seem to be the case. There are very limited open-source models outside of the small-LLM bubble.
So charge a fee based on usage of the specific services then? Flat 30% of monthly subscriptions when they're not even providing the service of sending that audio and video to the device is insane.
Games that are purchased and downloaded on Steam but can be run without it? I didn't know this was a thing without hacks, but yeah there are some that do this out of the box.
You can take the Hari Seldon approach and abstract away the macro level 'crowds/nations' and simulate them when they're not in the observer's sphere of influence/vision using a (much) higher level of abstraction.
What a bloody pile of mess. In order to guard their interest, and everyone wants a pieces of it, now we have an Apple ecosystem that is... just ugly. And it is only gong to get worse.

I often wonder had Apple lowered their In-App purchase to 10% would we still have the same problem.
how is posting something in public space analogous to leaving an item in an unlocked car where either you either did not mean to leave it there and/or leave the car unlocked?
>But you're delusional if you think some alternative power would have been gentler.

You're saying that people who don't agree with a non-falsifiable claim about hypothetical alternatives are delusional. That suggests a closed system of thought which has left behind empiricism and must now be considered metaphysical. I'm a plain materialist so I can't go any further with any statements that assert definite knowledge of things outside of material reality.

>I too wish for a world power that never resolves to violence and never does any mistake

This has nothing to do with what I said and is not an opinion I hold so you must've meant to respond to someone else, I definitely wouldn't want to say that you're irrational, overly emotional, and have become accustomed to arguing by intentionally mischaracterizing what other people say to preserve your existing psychological commitments in a fundamentally juvenile and dishonest way.
Sure, all these things cost a lot of money. What if I would like to market, host, and distribute my own app, without any Apple involvement?

From my own experience, the app store brings negative value to both the users and the developers in many cases. It's most often seen not as the godsend like Apple portrays it, but as a stupid obstacle course that you need to clear every time you publish a new app or an update to an existing one, and sometimes even when you don't.
Did you read the JEP?

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Over the past several years, we have introduced two standard APIs that are safe and performant replacements for the memory-access methods in sun.misc.Unsafe:

java.lang.invoke.VarHandle, introduced in JDK 9, provides methods to safely and efficiently manipulate on-heap memory: fields of objects, static fields of classes, and elements of arrays.

java.lang.foreign.MemorySegment, introduced in JDK 22, provides methods to safely and efficiently access off-heap memory (sometimes in cooperation with VarHandle).

These standard APIs guarantee no undefined behavior, promise long-term stability, and have high-quality integration with the tooling and documentation of the Java Platform (examples of their use are given below). Given the availability of these APIs, it is now appropriate to deprecate and eventually remove the memory-access methods in sun.misc.Unsafe.
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Giganto, largest ever primate, died out due to diet change, say scientists
Lack of empirical evidence… like all the dying people in hospitals? Is that good enough something was amiss?

The entire fiat economy is anti-scientific fiat decree of the political elite.

You want to eat? Oh sorry you do y have any of this hallucination called “money”.

If you want to go full edge-lord over socialized belief in anti-scientific BS, you got a whole lot of personal emotions to work through; like how no physics puts it on others to grow your food or be your airplane pilot. DIY rather than co-opt others agency.

Oh what’s that? Society isn’t built on textbook interpretation of physics? It’s built on diffusion of power through the many to keep some rando having too much?

The rest of us aren’t here to serve you either. Grow up, one of billions.
TLDR;

- A woman named Sara Rivers Cofield bought an antique Victorian dress from the 1880s at a thrift store in Maine.

- She later discovered a secret pocket inside the dress that contained two pieces of paper with seemingly random words written on them like "Bismark, omit, leafage, buck, bank".

- For years, amateur cryptologists online tried unsuccessfully to decode the mysterious notes.

- In 2018, a researcher named Wayne Chan stumbled upon the code online and began studying 19th century weather codes and telegraph communication.

- He eventually deduced that the notes contained a weather report from May 27, 1888 in shorthand code used by the US Army Signal Corps for economical telegraph transmission.

- The code cracked a 135-year old mystery hidden in the dress and provided a glimpse into how weather data was collected and shared in the late 19th century.
There used to be a census-designated place* in Alaska named Y, but some years ago it was renamed to Susitna North. The Alaska Y got the name because two significant roads (by Alaska standards) formed a "Y" intersection there.

* In the US system, a CDP is lower ranking than a town or village... basically it's an inhabited place few people that isn't large enough to have a local government.
But the big question remains: "What is the usage by China of all chips?"

I venture to say that overall chip usage is up, probably by about 5%, notwithstanding that imports of foreign chips are down by about 15%. That means that Chinese manufacturing of semiconductors is UP by about 20%.

At that rate of increase, Chinese semiconductor manufacturing should be self-sufficient in about 5-8 years.

If you have funds invested in Western semiconductor manufacturing, I'd advise you to get that money out now before you lose the lot.
Good. I wish Google did this too. The government should have access to the latest and greatest and the best minds in the country. I don’t want our men to die because they didn’t have the best technology.
Liberalism has nothing against making money. The core value is autonomy. Liberty. Freedom.
the one that pisses me off most is installing/configuring a software package... Top articles always end up being "apt-get install foo" and never address the configuration at all.
No, in a regular browser you can make purchases on Amazon like normal.

If you attempt to purchase a kindle book from within the kindle app, you will not be able to. Nor will there be any messaging explaining how to make a purchase (because apple does not allow such messaging). You’ll just be mysteriously confused about why you can’t buy a book.
Reminds me of some cylindrical contraption I saw at the Exploratorium in San Francisco over a decade ago. I believe too it was described even earlier in a "Scientific American" column — either Mathematical Recreations or Computer Recreations.

It was some kind of device where a large horizontal cylinder was perhaps covered with numbers? Maybe there were rings or some other kind of "cursor" on the contraption? And I think as you rotated it there was some kind of math performed and, like this "6174" thing, it would seem to converge on a single number after so many iterations regardless of the starting state.

Wish I could remember what that was.
> People could, y'know, just not install the Facebook app, if they're unhappy with Meta's privacy practices. Of course, given that Meta's privacy practices are already atrocious, and people still use Facebook, I guess maybe it just doesn't matter?

Just apply this same reasoning to Apple iPhones. Everyone says sideloading is a big deal, but it turns out that when the phones don't have sideloading, people still use them anyway. I guess maybe it just doesn't matter.
> they get to keep their California salary

I don’t know about Apple in particular but this is not generally how this works.

Also, I’m not sure $70k to have to fly my daughter out of state for health care is a good trade, ymmv.
Scientists Caught a Giant Squid on Camera (2013)
“Since when is failure mode being undefined a new thing?”

- C programmer
Golang grinding Leetcode coding buddy. And general coding buddy PR reviewer.

The results are on par or better than ChatGPT 3.5.

I often use it to delve deeper such as “is there an alternative way to write this?” Or “how does this code look?”

If you have an M-series Mac I recommend trying out LM Studio. Really eye opening and I’m excited to see how things progress.
Oh absolutely it is. But all app store developers are complicit in enabling that monopoly. What should happen is that all app store developers withdraw their apps until Apple sees the light. But that won't happen because every app store developer will be pitted against their competition in a race to the bottom who will accept the highest fees that Apple is going to impose and sooner or later you'll be back at that 30% or you'll go without income. Solidarity is what drives change, without solidarity you're without a chance.
If Apple can track your outside sales they can just deduct it from any Apple Store payments. So maybe not exactly a chase for that portion of it.
I'm not sure a nail gun is the best analogy; it's a very simple tool that does one thing exactly as "instructed," and can't do any of the "thinking" for you.
Apple likely has a pretty good idea of how many downloads you have, and if users enable "Share with Apple Developers" in settings -> privacy -> analytics, their App Store Connect database definitely has usage and open analytics. Mobile app games likely won't be able to claim "we only made $30k this month on iOS" if they have >1M downloads a month or 100k app opens a day, for example.
> developing weapons

"To improve our response to emerging threats, our SmartMissiles™ now use OpenAI for fire/don't-fire decisions instead of a human operator."
One thing I've wondered in this space: Let's say for a really basic example I want to identify birds and houses. Is it better to make one large model that does both, or two small(er) models that each does one?
Thanks so much for the thoughtful and insightful response!
If you are are ok with this you should also be ok with Apple taking a cut on anything you buy with their browser, why not also take a fee for any data going in and out of your phone.
Yeah, earth will survive us but much of life might not.
"That said there is something absolutely defining about this."

Not expecting anyone to agree, but this is how I feel when using minimal shells that do not implement vi editing, e.g., set -V or set -o vi. Busybox/toybox is one example. In the aggregate, I actually do more editing on the command line than I do in vi. If the shell is permanently set to emacs-like keys and editing then I am constantly switching back and forth to "vi mode" everytime I edit a text file and return to the shell, i.e., nonstop.
That's a pretty broad root cause. The problem is coming up with a remedy that can't be worked around or doesn't distort the market in other ways. It will be interesting to see what happens in Europe if/when they force Apple to allow side-loading apps.
It’s only Black Forest cake if it comes from that region of Germany. Otherwise it’s known as Chocolate Cherry Conifer Cake.
All of the above for sure.
Spirit is such a pile of garbage that doing anything is better than doing nothing to spirit. We should make the judge fly Spirit for a few months and this merger will pass with flying colors.
I think this has been studied for at least 20 years already?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
> mandated for dating apps in the Netherlands

In this scenario, is there something specific that we should know/understand about (a) dating apps or (b) the Netherlands?
Glass has this too. it's why achromats and apochromats were developed (using rather clever ideas like pairing two different types of glass, which cancel each other's dispersions.

All the physical explanations I've seen invoke the EM equations and quantum mechanics to explain it (and I don't understand it well enough to translate).
Chromatic aberration happens because of dispersion --- the fact that the refractive index changes with wavelength. By combining materials with different properties (e.g. low dispersion, or high refractive index), you can cancel out the aberration in lens designs such as achromatic doublets, apochromatic triplets, etc.

In general, materials that are high in refractive index have high dispersion (e.g. crown glass) and materials that have low dispersion also have low refractive index. But ideally we want a material that has high refractive index but low dispersion so that it can both bend light without introducing a lot of chromatic aberration.

Fluorite has extraordinarily low dispersion while having a refractive index that's only slightly lower than glass, making it a good material to be used in conjunction with other materials.
JavaScript in browser app to encrypt and decrypt invisible msgs (steganography)
It can make invisible 'encrypted' messages, watermark text and confuse AI or systems that don't filter properly. It uses 17 zero width spaces to form HEX which to my knowledge has not been done before. Hopefully, this toolkit will be fun for research and somebody will enjoy playing with it. The Github description should explain it a bit better. There is a live example linked in the description.
Don't threaten Apple with a profitable idea.
I am mostly focused on getting the PLM working right now but have sketched out a pretty sizable product that has a sort of re-envisioning of what a musical community is such as better identity building tools for artists, listeners, labels, publishers (non-musicians such as playlist builders and DJ's) and a bunch of other fundamental things that I think are flat out missing from music streaming apps.

I've had two thoughts re: how to start and how to build an interesting music catalog without getting crushed by the lawyers and labels who are in cahoots with each other. First, the concept of breaking music into its stems and letting people directly interface with music "particles" that their ear-brains love most has made me think that the most important thing to get right is recommending more music that has the sonic characteristics that someone enjoys most, not necessarily broad things that come from music metadata like genre, lyrics, or what your friends liked or listened to. Rather, things like melody, groove or rhythmic patterns, BPM, timbre, harmonics, textures, or music structural preferences are how you get recommendations on what to listen to next. When thinking about it that way, it seems like how the music sounds can be used to recommend, regardless of who big or small or new or established or signed or unsigned an artist might be. In my mind, there's an interesting democratic nature to that too where new artists get a fair shake at discovery as much as major artists (whereas today there's a lot of editorial control over who gets bubbled up into recommendations algos). Second, I've thought about developing a solid prototype and then going for sizeable investment so that I could afford to strike deals, join the cabal, and establish the relationships and access the catalogs of labels big and small.
Oo oo do managers next!
>employees who get taken away from their other duties to help customers deal with the confusing and error prone kiosks.

I have seen these customers. I do not understand.

What are they doing at the self-checkout that is confusing? I have used dozens of different implementations and they are all simplicity incarnate.

So I just lump them all in with the folks who don't know that cars need oil changes, take more than 45 seconds at an ATM, get flustered by airport self-checkin machines, or sit in the drive-thru line of a fast food restaurant staring at a menu whose items have scarcely changed in 40 years confused about what's for sale.
I laughed at the fact that you seem so familiar with this state and are sympathetic to it.
Do you know how Deepseek 33b compares to 6.7b? I'm trying 33b on my (96GB) MacBook just because I have plenty of spare (V)RAM. But I'll run the smaller model if the benefits are marginal in other peoples' experience.
HPUX must have had something similar, as when AOL backend code was ported to Solaris, which does segv on null dereference, we found all kinds of places where code that had been running without notable incident on HPUX started dropping core.
Glad you had a good experience. I didn't. I still don't consider either device a serious contender. "Just wait" is not what people want to hear when their phone doesn't work. I envy the people who can introduce such obstacles into their own lives; I, and many others, cannot.
If you want to know more about biochar this a good book, I got it around the hood, then bought the meat world one because I thought it was quite good.

Lots of pictures and easy read - https://www.amazon.com/Gardening-Biochar-Supercharge-Bioacti...

Or jump straight to the science with a meta-analysis - "A global dataset of biochar application effects on crop yield, soil properties, and greenhouse gas emissions" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02867-9

Or the million Youtube vids etc.

Blah blah sequestering CO2, what I like is it's a permanent soil amender, your work in the garden lasts 100 years, plus it's a solution to all carbon rubbish. Not quite got grass clippings sorted yet, but trying to hack a solution. I'd love to know if a solar oven would work.
Total Installs - App Store Installs = Third Party Installs

And they know total installs from the notary service.
Try Docfetcher https://docfetcher.sourceforge.io/en/index.html

State of desktop search is very bad but this is what I use. It is of acceptable quality.
Victim blaming and expects a mass market behavior change is not good, or realistic.
Reminds me of a time I was running a proof-of-concept for a new networking tool at a customer site, and about two minutes after we got it running their entire network went down. We were in a sandboxed area so there was no way our product could of caused a network wide outage, but in my head I'm thinking: "there's no way, right. . . .RIGHT?!?!".
For large values of 'just', yes. I've been doing electronics for > 40 years and when I say it is beyond my ability then that's just that. I've built (large) RF transmitters and various other HF stuff but this connector spells 'don't even try it' to me.
Too bad Roger Cicala stopped writing.
> The last time I tried checking out at one of those machine it flagged me as trying to steal something because the system didn't know that a container of chips I had were free with the sandwich I bought.

I hit that a couple of times but I scan stuff quickly. I also live in a house of 6 adult guys. It's lots of buying & lots of scanning.

Cashiers had it sorted before I figured out something was up.
I probably did not explain well. Technology is often a double edged sword. If it can be used to prevent someone from committing suicide, it can potentionally be used to encourage someone to commit suicide. OpenAI and DOD said that it would be used for the former, but it could be used to target enemies for the latter.
Terms of sale[0] in the app store says

> Except to the extent expressly provided in the following paragraph, this Agreement and the relationship between you and Apple shall be governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding its conflicts of law provisions. You and Apple agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Santa Clara, California, to resolve any dispute or claim arising from this Agreement.

[0] https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/term...
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/31/asia-pacific/ch... (“China’s young people can’t find jobs. Xi Jinping says to ‘eat bitterness.’”)
only if you live in NYC. If you don't live in NYC you won't ever have heard of it.
Victims don't normally collaborate with their abuser.

edit: here's one of the 'victims': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39022303
Soaked and dehydrated.

And activated…like charcoal?
So basically nothing that companies couldn't do themselves if Apple didn't explicitly block it. You pay 27% for fuck all.

> distribution is worth a lot in general to businesses

No, digital distribution is worth so little it rounds to $0.

> App Store is a good distribution channel in many ways

It's the only distribution channel allowed so of course it's the "best" there is no competition allowed.
> "I manage many of their assets," said Lutnick, who brought up crypto in the interview that was streamed live from Davos, Switzerland. "From what I've seen – and we did a lot of work – they have the money they say they have."

That's... not convincing.
In math there are two kind of problems, those who can be solved by linear algebra and those who are imposible to solve.