skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I Nixify all the C I work with. It has good, automatic support for all the common tooling setups.
Couldn't most visualizations just be a table unless the row count is too high?

Edit: This is one possible strategy that used to be employed to progressively enhance table into info graphics or data vis. Proposing a table as the best solution seems needlessly reductionist.
personally hoping Java being prioritized over cross-platform
> They don't actually owe anybody anything

non-profits in most countries have to be operating to produce some form of public benefit

is this not true in the US?
It amazes me that Indiana University, under Bob Knight, was so underrepresented in the NBA. It's all anyone in Indiana could talk about in the 80's and 90's, but they only ever produced one guy (that I know of) who made it to the NBA (Steve Alford), and his career was... short-lived. To me, it just goes to show how selective it really is, and how good the star pros actually are.
Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Worse, when the GP comment eventually gets upvoted (as happened above), replies like this one become dangling references to a situation that no longer exists. HN threads have no GC!
For those that may have missed the reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty33v7UYYbw
I'm lazy as f... so, I automate everything that I can. Mostly in Python, others with bash/powershell, even SQL, no matter if I'm at work or my homelab.

Not only to make specific tasks, but also, to remove the burden in some of them, why ssh/rdp to a server to execute something if we can quickly create a script and run it with a click?

At home? domotics, remembering to close the blinds or turn off apliances? no thanks, HA takes care of it with schedules and conditions. Leaving home and remembering to turn on the alarm? no thanks, geolocation + condition, if away for more than 5 minutes, assume that I left and close everything, shut down stuff, turn on the alarm, start the vacuum and get a notification on the mobile.
On the contrary, that makes it that much more damning that they weren't released. So much for openness.

And that aside, their promise to release such things was not conditional.
I don't want to be "that guy" but i see a 7bil model beating 70b model on these evaluation tables every week now , so i got trust issues :(
> Government/governance runs on public trust, which is maintained by governments doing things. If the government won't talk about & share what it does, if everything is secret, people will not believe in that government.

Exactly. The default should be "everything is shared unless there's a very good reason for it to be secret", and overclassification leads to the opposite mindset, "everything is (top) secret unless someone goes to a great deal of effort to declassify it".
I was chatting with a friend a long time ago about what, hypothetically, we thought we might find if we actually did encounter extraterrestrial technology from something millions or billions of years older than ourselves.

My thought was: software defined matter. This would be matter structured down to nano-scales or even below into the realm of the subatomic such that its characteristics and behavior can be dialed in with a software update. There would be no such thing as a bill of materials. To manufacture something just get a bunch of this stuff and load the right firmware into it. It could also likely self-reconfigure dynamically, at least to some extent, though one might see some cases where certain forms become limiting in the same way that stem cell differentiation is not always reversible.

The protomolecule from The Expanse is maybe the closest thing I've seen in fiction.
It's at the bottom. Next to the download button
> Scan with random app, send with any of the various pdf-to-fax services?

Looked into it...so many of them want you to subscribe or have a stupid pricing scheme.

> As for the why... faxes operate over the legacy network using an acoustically coupled modem.

There's nothing special about a fax connection. It's just a telephone line (which my phone has). The "modem" part could easily be done in software. All it has to do is synthesize the right noise on the line.
BLIS is a framework to instantiate (among other things) a BLAS. The exciting bit is that they distilled it down to a couple compute kernels. You provide stuff like the inner loops for a matrix multiplication, it turns it into a numerical library.

AMD did use it to create their BLAS library though.

Also, side note, when I’ve heard “reference BLAS,” it has been used in the opposite way. Netlib BLAS is the reference BLAS, it has basically bad performance but it defines the functionality. AMD used BLIS to create a tuned vendor BLAS.
For people new to BLIS, I can recommend this talk from the EasyBuild User Meeting (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb3dXivyTzE
AI.com
so they want public money: it's the usual FIAT scenario in Italy: public money or else I fire workers.

Note that:

* the famous left newspaper "La Repubblica" has being bought by Stellantis's co owners (Elkan/Agnelli)

* Stellantis (ex FIAT) is the only car manufacturer in Italy: why?
Discussed here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102021
I think that the original comment has some anecdotal truth - because the vast majority of people do not spend the effort required to speak their second/third languages without an accent. You have to do silly exercises and stuff for very little gain in the end. You're better off learning a 3rd language.

Professional Actors do it all the time, they spend a lot of time practicing (and I assume money) being trained by Speech Therapists to different perfectly.
> https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts

Image of Zed Mono for the similarly-curious: https://twitter.com/devongovett/status/1672307153699471360
With solar energy prices plummeting, it may make sense during peak production hours to use it to do desalination and/or extract water from the air, depending on where you are.
The Shield is kind of an extreme outlier in today's environment. A device from 2015 that 9 years later is still one of the top tier choices in its (consumer) market is almost unheard of.

In fact it's reportedly the currently supported Android device out there with the longest support[0], it's crazy that mine still gets updates.

[0]https://www.androidcentral.com/android-longest-support-life-...
I can only speculate, but I have seen this linked on social media dozens of times, often including that detail of
"shutting down an extremely hostile senator" in the caption. So whether or not one interprets the senator as rude or hostile, people are getting exposed to that idea pretty regularly.
The backstory written by one of the authors is worth a read: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...
Traveling to a real destination so that you can look at fake AI generated crap on a screen instead of the actual surroundings.
This has been known for years. I’m not sure why it’s only now getting attention.

Section 702 was just renewed, so maybe it’s out the issue on people’s radar?

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/house-passes-annual-defe...

Until we have a privacy bill or rights or equivalent, attached to the individual, privacy will be exploited by every nation and business imaginable. And the efforts to try to make it more difficult to tap data without an warrant are asinine… all it does is push the databases to public/private partnership models, and these models can generally easily de-anonymize data by cross referencing data.

It’s strange to see an article on the subject published a month after the section 702 renewal, as if fisa and warrants weren’t the issue but commercial collection sources somehow are.

Besides… It’s not some big secret: the website is easily Googleable as is the deck.

http://isasecurity.org/patternz

https://sovsys.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PATTERNZ-NATION...

AND Forbes also covered this exact system back in November of last year.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/11/14/web-b...

The real scoop would be looking at how new AI systems are being used to mine this data. This is the real problem national security agencies have to solve: how to consistently gain useful and actionable insights at scale and decide what’s not worth paying attention to because the absolutely colossal volumes of data generates huge amounts of review.

Anyone know why this article is dropping now? Odd timing.
French police detain 13 year old boy for making 380 false bomb threats
It's a standardized convertible note instrument, designed to replace convertible debt. Convertible notes are what you raise in a widely syndicated round before you have a firm valuation (ie, in your seed round). It's very easy to "sell" someone a convertible note, whereas an institutional priced round involves huge amounts of due diligence and legal fees. Convertible debt became the sort of default way seed rounds worked, but because they're technically debt they have maturity dates, which are logistical problems for founders; SAFE's just convert into equity directly.

Broadly syndicated convertible note seed rounds are a relatively new innovation; what preceded them was "friends and family" rounds of $50-100k followed immediately by an A round, which was a galactic pain in the ass for founders trying to get their companies up on their legs. A seed lets you confirm your hypothesis about PMF without doing board meetings.

The C.W. is that seed rounds today, no matter who's doing them, are done with SAFEs.
The mediocre tier is kinda disrespectful. A team needs to be filled and role players are important. I know the NBA type basketball is a star driven variety but those are really good players at that rank.
Spotify plans to launch in-app purchases, if Apple gets out of the way
Please don't do this here. It's against the site guidelines, which include: "Omit internet tropes."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Yes. Every inch of drivable area is LIDAR-mapped.

If this is true, then I find it incredibly absurd that people would try to act like Waymo is farther than Tesla in self-driving tech.

Tesla is trying to make self-driving work everywhere without pre-mapped data beyond what you'd get from Google Maps.
A 25% chance to make it into the NBA below average tier is pretty good. Even at that level you make way more money than you can make in most careers. I knew a guy who made it to the NFL, rarely played and lost his contract after 3 years. He still was set for life.
EngMgrJobs – Find your new team here
Asus has licensed NUC designs from Intel. NUCs will be still be available but they'll be from Asus.
Can you elaborate? As an outsider, most of the time I hear people say some variation on "Clojure would be great but I stay away because of Java".
MySQL Silently Ignores Foreign Keys
When porting your database schema from other engines, it is common to have REFERENCES clauses inline with the column. MySQL parses the syntax but does not actually create the foreign key constraints. Worse still, it does so silently, without a prominent warning on the console.

This behavior is similar to CHECK constraints in years past where MySQL would parse them but had no actual support for the feature until very recently.

The days of MySQL gotchas is apparently far from over.
Lisp Flavored Erlang (EFL) programming language
The real money shot is here:
https://github.com/flame/blis/blob/master/docs/Performance.m...

It seems that the selling point is that BLIS does multi-core quite well. I am especially impressed that it does as well as the highly optimized Intel MKL on Intel CPUs.

I do not see the selling point of BLIS-specific APIs, though. The whole point of having an open BLAS API standard is that numerical libraries should be drop-in replaceable, so when a new library (such as BLIS here) comes along, one could just re-link the library and reap the performance gain immediately.

What is interesting is that numerical algebra work, by nature, is mostly embarrassingly parallel, so it should not be too difficult to write multi-core implementations. And yet, BLIS here performs so much better than some other industry-leading implementations on multi-core configurations. So the question is not why BLIS does so well; the question is why some other implementations do so poorly.
Google is asking users how they want their data shared ahead of DMA deadline
It is a bit clunky, but it makes things really traceable.

The Java team even backported their old, historical bugs/requests-for-enhancement into JIRA. You can see feature requests from the late 90's in there. Plus, you can write little SQL-esque queries to filter down submissions to just what you want.

So, true to Java form -- it's clunky, but the value is real.
I haven't done visualizations for data on frontend in a decade, but when I looked at this space, the most popular tool was d3.js without much lock-in.

Not sure if that is the case anymore.
You bullsh*t saying "I dunno, I get a response back for 100k tokens regularly." A model that doesn't even exist, then you talk about a 32k non-public API. Stop lying. It is just the internet, you don't need to lie to people. Get a life.
What about publicly sharing positive personal reaction, is that okay? If you answer yes to that and no to the other then you've got a problem on your hands.
It's hard to tell with 100% certainty, but most such devices have a distinctive light that can be seen from a distance.

In any case, these things tend to be used by a fairly specific demographic that tends to congregate in specific neighborhoods, so I can use that as a proxy and avoid going to those neighborhoods.
People have no idea how good "mediocre" guys in top level sports really are. Each of these players would probably kill any amateur team playing alone.
> It was not made clear how they obtained the information, although a friend of Aditya's said the information - including the photo - could have been picked up from Gatwick Airport WiFi servers that one of the friends in the Snapchat group was using.

"Picked up from ... wifi servers" means either comms are unencrypted or there is a successful MITM presence there.
Also likely is that Snapchat just raised the alarm.
It seems like one of the approaches they are looking into is very similar to an existing treatment for allergies, at least on the surface:

> In some cases, that means administering the very antigens that the rogue cells are trained to attack, a strategy that can deprogram the cells and dampen the autoimmune response.

I go to my allergist every month to get three shots under my skin, which are cocktails of concentrated versions of the various things I'm allergic to. It's been almost 3.5 years since I started, and while my allergies are certainly better than they used to be, they're far from "cured". I don't really expect further improvement; I'm supposed to do another year and a half in order to increase the chances of it "sticking" for longer. But even then, some patients report their allergies come back in full force in anywhere between 5 and 20 years.

But they are also looking into:

> Other researchers are trying to selectively wipe out the problematic cells, or to introduce suppressive immune cells that have been engineered to target them.

... which I personally think is much more promising, if possibly much more difficult to accomplish.
If I'm not mistaken, Grocy has a nice database for household products. I remember trying that and scanning most of the stuff I had in the kitchen, and not only it found the products but also the price. I don't know their sources though.
Looking at a couple of threads of threads on this topic, I think you are not only being intentionally obtuse, but insultingly condescending.
You're overlooking the kind of life-long medical expenses that can come from even a short career in pro sports, though. As soon as that teenage springiness and resilience is gone even minor injuries can add up fast.
If they were serious about showing this tech off they should've provided a video file download. Also indicate that it's a HDR file and should only be viewed on a HDR display. Youtube is just making this look bad as people won't see a difference.
It might be similar to the inverse of xkcd.com/1043 (Ten Thousand), in that something has been repeated so many times people believe it to be true. Thinking about this more I'd bet the myth that miscalculating your taxes was an exaggeration based on anti-tax rhetoric.
Set for life because of the retirement I assume. Wonder how different leagues retirement pensions compare.
Tim Cook is happy
Can you yet get a laptop that fits XP all in cache?

Edit: It looks like you could probably pull it off with some trimming and a sufficiently expensive Epyc, but I think you'll have to wait a few years for laptops to manage. Hopefully by then you can take XP out back and but it once and for all.
You’re correct in that there is a long list of things missing from their specific implementation. It’s another arm of the same overall strategy to starve users of real choice and try to achieve maximum vendor lock-in.

I was just making an observation about the web as a platform in general in that has changed on that front.
Microsoft Bob 2.0
It's not as different as you might think. Civil/structural engineers are dependent on lots of upstream inputs--or maybe planes where a lot of people here (correctly) think the ultimate manufacturer is mostly liable. Everyone down the chain needs to do their own vetting/testing.
Why don’t you use another editor? From what I understand this is a core feature of Zed.
It's a choice, right? No one is forcing anyone to go into pro sports and I don't think anyone overlooks that. However, a lot of youth that end up in the pros come from distraught backgrounds where the prospect of a better life trumps physical wellbeing some time in the distant future.
This is why you retire before the springiness is gone. Or move to a country with sane health care.
How so? Can you share more details?
Sure they want their own police. Nothing better than being able to investigate yourself and find you did nothing wrong.

And when you call your local PD, good luck getting anywhere when another police force discontinued the investigation and local PD knows little/nothing about railways.

Canada has similar private rail police and that’s basically what happened at least once: https://theconversation.com/why-major-canadian-railways-must...
> older editors that are doing syntax highlighting via regex.

I mean, Emacs, which can probably be considered the oldest code editor at this point, got built-in tree-sitter (which is what Zed uses under the hood) support in the last release. So it's not really related to editors being new or old
https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/Auto-Calenda-Stellantis-...

https://news.italy24.press/business/1214790.html
It's OK, the Gates family will protect them.
If it was flagged within 5 minutes of you posting it, that means a ton of people found it highly disagreeable within a very short period of time.

I've posted unpopular comments before, and the threshold for actually getting a comment removed is (IMO) quite high.
> There was also the case where a DNA test of a woman's children showed that they did not share any of her DNA.

The DNA information did show relation, but suggested that she was the aunt rather than the mother of the children. In some sense, due to mosaicism, the mother was her own sister. One "sister" showed up in the cheek swabs, and the other "sister" produced the eggs.
Remind me of Brian Scalabrine, who was never more than a role player, beating a high school player 11-0 _at the age of 43_.

If I recall correctly, he also once said something to the effect that he's closer to Kobe in talent than 99% of the world is to [Scalabrine].

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2021/03/24/brian-scalabrine...
Emacs is great many things, but fast it is not. Nativecomp improved some stuff a bit and there has been other improvements lately too, but ultimately the core of emacs is built for flexibility, not for perf.
Just make sure not to look up annual deaths per passenger mile traveled by rail.

You're right statistics don't predict the future. They can be informative when trying to understand the effect of a sudden increase in fatalities (referring to MAX8/MCAS here and not MAX9/bolts, of course) and how the result can still be a mode of transportation that is orders of magnitude safer than alternative.
Raspberry Pi PCIe Database
Any ORM provides the same features for any SQL database. There is nothing special going on here. If perhaps the database autogenerated a bunch of classes, maybe that’s interesting? I think some projects have introspected a database and created all the boilerplate language classes before.

There is nothing magical about wrapping database objects in language classes. This has been happening forever.

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/orm/quickstart.html#select...

Nothing magical about using a function call rather than raw SQL.
Finns still sore about losing the Winter War. Which they lost. They were defeated. They had to tap out. It’s just that they were smart enough to concede and trade a good chunk of their territory for continued statehood. A lesson lost in time.
Has the following already been addressed, or even generally broached;

Treat AI (or AGI(?) more specifically) as global Utility which needs us to put ALL our Technology Points into the "Information Age Base Level 2" skill points and create a new manner in dealing with the next layer in Human Society, as is rapidly gestating. https://i.imgur.com/P1LBKFL.png

I feel this is different than what is meant by Alignment?

It seems as though general Humanity is not handling this well, but it appears that there is an F-ton of opaque behavior amongst the inner circle of the AI pyramid that we all will just be involuntarily entangled in?

I don't mean to sound bleak - just that feels as though that the reality coming down the conveyor....
>This seems crazy to me. Alaska Airlines doesn't trust Boeing enough that they're sending their audit team to Boeing to check for quality.

I wouldn't say it's crazy. When buying industrial equipment, it's commonplace to have a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) where engineers from the customer travel to the supplier factory to verify everything is built to spec and functions as expected. Upon passing FAT, equipment is shipped to site and installed where it then undergoes a site acceptance test (SAT). After SAT, the equipment is "handed over" to the client. The FAT-SAT process can be applied to anything from small individual pieces of equipment all the way up to huge skids/packages.

In shipbuilding, classification agencies like ABS or DNV have inspectors that monitor the construction of a ship.
It’s also irrelevant if one can cross reference just a few pieces of data: phone did, address, location geo associated known associates, multiple locations (school, work, home), demographic info, one can de-anonymize data relatively painlessly. And that is a lot easier if I’m targeting a single person and know some of those data points to start.

And how much of this applies to the companies that aren’t buying the data but generating it themselves?

RTB is just one vector of many, and while it’s useful to expose how much data is constantly leaking, it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
(disclaimer: I develop Cursive, the IntelliJ option for Clojure).

In the recent 2023 survey, Cursive and Calva are pretty much neck and neck, and between them just edge out Emacs. So it's pretty much an even split these days between Emacs and more "modern" options.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/stories/SM-_2BH3b49f_2FXEkUlrb_...