skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an analogy. This is actually what is done with ML. It is literally a best fit curve problem.

Or maybe it is actually an analogy, but then if this was the case the entire field of ML is capable of only understanding the intricacies of ML through the analogy of curve fitting and what's actually going on underneath the analogy remains elusive.
No, I can't. That makes it even less reasonable.

Edit: on the other hand, they apparently elected to use Godzilla as their logo, which kind of ruins the otherwise considerable unrelatedness.
Yeah, hell no.
Solaris may have had a handful of helpful features but even by the late 1990s it was obviously inferior in numerous ways to Linux and BSDs. One of the most obvious manifestations of how slow it was was the overwhelming latency of fork, orders of magnitude slower than its free competitors and the reason its ecosystem needed hacked up threads libraries. The system was sprinkled with surprise complexity traps that could kill you in production, including the fact that its TCP receive path was O(N) in the number of IP addresses associated with a given network interface, meaning if you tried to hang an entire subnet off 1 port the system would effectively hang. In 1998 the people I worked with could not run away from Sun quickly enough. As soon as we could port anything to FreeBSD, we did. The writing was on the wall even then.
In this case, probably better. I don't see any meaningful increase in harm going from, say, a million porn pictures to 100 million. But it does collapse the industry of paying more money to create the pictures.

Here's a strawman example: AI child porn would probably be better for the world, because there would be no/far lower demand to actually abuse children, all else being equal (i.e., AI child porn still being illegal).
I dont want government crapware on my device to access the internet.

I also dont want third party crapware on my device to access the internet.

"wowee it can be done without revealing my identity to anyone but the government or the corp running the chain"

No thanks
People really need to come up with better names. "Linear Programming" or "Integer Linear Programming" mean absolutely nothing.

Also anything dealing with finding the minimum distance distances can be short circuited by keeping the shortest distance and not taking paths that exceed that. This is how approximate nearest neighbor works and can still speed up the full solution. Figuring out full paths that have short average distances first can also get to shorter distances sooner.

You can also cluster points knowing you probably don't want to jump from one cluster to another multiple times.
You get the average bag value from every bag though (on average!), you socially engineer someone into sending you more than that in Target gift cards some tiny fraction of the time. And in this scenario you have to know about their lost baggage anyway.

I think if you somehow have access to the lost baggage at a given airport, theft is going to me profitable than scamming. Aaanyway!
This. The parties that this will detriment are all older people. Kids will simply bypass it.
It occurs to me that I did, in fact, know of 3d movies. I was thinking something more VR focused than 3d, for some reason. Still, I share the curiosity that the psvr2 doesn't support 3d movies, now.
I actually thought about the water cooler conversation a few weeks ago.

I remember how not that long ago you could debrief the last GoT or TWD or whatever show was the hot stuff that everyone watched.

I dont think that happens anymore. Too many shows just to create content, too difficult to see them all, nobody is watching the same at the same time. Most can just be binged in a weekend and by Monday you already moved on to the next content.
>I'm not even sure modern PC hardware supports these hardware layers

Yes, they do. I'm guessing you may be using an older nvidia gpu. In the case no overlay is available the video can become fullscreen and to take the only layer from dwm. For pcs the benefit is less about performance / power and more about lower latency.
It's been 10 years since R7RS launched and I believe around 15 years since R7RS-large began work. That goes a bit beyond "slow".
Definition with inclusions and exclusions is in the bill: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1/BillText/e1/PDF
What is stopping the following scenario:
- This technology matures and becomes effective
- In country X, 'Enemies of State' are forcibly implemented with a Neurlink?
> w/ mice

Is this a special kind of mouse?
Interesting what others find appealing. This reminds me of some Halloween themed flash game's menu that I played on cartoonnetwork.com back in 2000s [1][2]. But everyone is free to choose what they like, I'm not one to judge someone else's color scheme.

[1]: https://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120701045312/knd/im...
[2]: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y1PF-2r9sv0/hqdefault.jpg
Read the article:

> There are rectangular regular areas that look like memory, there is a large area in the center with small random looking structure, looking like synthesized logic and some part that look like hand-crafted analog.

And the PIC12 is known to be a source of inspiration for dirt-cheap Chinese microcontrollers, see for example [0].

Hard evidence? No. But if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

[0]: https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/the-terrible-3-cent...
I wrote a paper about using big "LLMs" as art directors for the little LLMs within Stable Diffusion: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.03716v1.pdf
I think GP means the coordination between parents, and I agree on that: if you can’t get a strong majority of parents to agree on keeping their children off of social media & smart phones, you as parents have the choice between two outcomes: enforcing isolation vs. letting social media slip through and just trying to delay as much as possible.

Almost all parents either don’t care or opt for the second option (which I also think is the better one), but the dynamics today are that between 10-12yo the pressure to get your kid a smartphone will mount and you have to give in at some point. Being able to wait till 16 would be much better IMO.
Protests while wearing robes and masks protect the protester from followup action, and it also protects their families.

If you assume a just government that doesnt demand revenge for every petty slight, you are living in a fantasy land.
I agree with this a lot.

I think the dissonance is surely curbed when sitting in a plane at cruising altitude realising that I am much more worried if these engines break down as opposed to my car, as I am likely to fall out of the sky.

Planes if broken down fall from the sky. Cars that breakdown don't. The people operating the plane are well trained, any tom dick and harry can drive a car without any check on their mental and physical state before they hop behind the wheel.
Thanks to CIC Biogune too for the early research:

https://www.cicbiogune.es/news/us-alzheimer-association-fund...
Also known for woodgears.ca Matthias is an international treasure. Any googlers around please help him.

If you get a chance check out his recounting of RIM rise and fall.

Edit: it seems he got it back :)
Pretty cool, it's about time we got some facelift for Shiny.
i really don't believe people buy 3/4 and Full ton trucks as luxury vehicles, at least not to a large degree. I certainly agree with you that a huge majority of 1/2 ton pickups are luxury vehicles. Just look at all the short beds that are sold.
I think the point is that if your known attack I'd "target was shot in the right hand" making them wear a protective glove on their right hand isn't a good defense. You would want two protective gloves, a helmet and bulletproof vest.
> Democracy is an inevitable consequence of being an American. Morality is an inevitable consequence of being a christian

Ehhhh
Short answer: I don’t know. That sounds like a good idea, but how would that access local variables in the caller (to inspect state)?

I remember the Lua C API exposes a lot of information, but I didn’t think it was accessible from scripts. Of course, it was a long time ago and I could have easily missed something at the time. Happy to be corrected!

Edit: you might also run into difficulties trying to redefine non-global functions to add the call to “repl”.
I know about that. This is a special edition for embedded though. But CentOS is news to me. CentOS was targeted for servers.
WebDevRefinery (2017)
I was a member of this forum from fairly early on in its creation (I won't say who), and was sad when the community eventually disbanded. It was the very last true "internet forum" I participated in, and often look back on it fondly.

I post it (the last snapshot from IA that exists) here for two reasons:

1) The discussions looking back now were a fascinating snapshot of developers opinions. I was so happy to find it on IA.

2) Is anybody reading HN that used to participate there?
Software engineers interested in ML/algorithms should learn about linear programming.

It's surprising how many problems can be formulated as linear optimization.

For example, in college I was talking to my Industrial Engineer friend about the average minimum number of swaps required to place billiards balls in an acceptable starting position in the rack (triangle). We both happened to write programs that used monte-carlo sampling to solve it - but my solution did BFS on the state space of a graph, and his used linear programming (which was _probably_ more efficient)
>bluetooth

Reminds me of that post from last week about the guy being surprised at an IoT device connecting through wifi.

Surely they could have routed a cat6 cable through some vein!
I'm not really sure what you mean by that, but I don't think it's relevant - it clearly wasn't exactly a success, but it did come first, and it was the same kind of idea, what was possible at the time.
Lower taxes by reducing "assets?"

Kind of like Warner Bros. WB is looking to acquire Paramount and one quick way to reduce tax liability is to snap them up, then literally permanently delete their shows and movies. Boom! Instant bottom-line "positivity."
Ask HN: How to improve your memory permanently
is there a way to improve your memory permanently, I've heard playing board games, learning a new language, doing exercise, gymnastics are all ways to improve memory permanently.
Yes, I use spaced repetition but I don't want so much overreliance on it, I have too many cards to remember.
It doesn’t help that deciding whether a network of logical beliefs is coherent is textbook NP hard!
A fun fact, I was there when I first see them going to put it in use. That’s a pity they finally gave it up.

https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/issues/8073
Copy/paste detector for programming source code, supports 150 formats
It's been in Who's Hiring threads, r/lisp, etc. There's a Lisp job advertised on Reddit [1,2] right now even. Another good source is [3].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/s/AZmouaoARl

[2] https://jobs.lever.co/dodmg/af802f7f-4e44-4457-9e49-14bc47bd...

[3] https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies
Original article about Ingenuity using this processor (2021):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26177619
It would be less imposing on the populace if you just demanded a government hit squad kill those PHD's instead of demanding everyone submit to some onerous government crapware to access the internet.
So far you've argued that the dictionary is an invalid tool for determining what words mean and now you're in the awkward position of arguing about how pornos don't involve sex.

Usually I'd ask you to explain yourself, but in this case I don't think you can. So instead I'll just close off with the observation that you probably would benefit from sitting down, relaxing a bit and thinking a little bit about your beliefs. Life is pretty good, but you don't want to get old and then have big spiritual revelations - it is too late to do much with them. It is worth talking about this sort of thing seriously rather than just pushing nonsense.
> How are you supposed to go up against a drone?

You don’t. Most counter-drone technologies are unreliable, and even if they are not, they are extremely expensive and only effective against large drones. In the era of single drones, you will soon face a swarm of drones that can fly intelligently and pinpoint the target or person of interest. In fact, I believe several countries already have such technology, as I managed to build a PoC swarm that can evade/avoid obstacles and identify objects, while communicating with each other and the command and control. So it is definitely already out there.
First Neuralink human chip implanted
This new technology allows you to serialize the unserializable.
Congrats on the launch team! Love the idea!
The Kafka pattern isn't about the size of your data, it's about accommodating heterogeneous consumers and easy fan-out. I don't love the ampq exchange model because it adds state to the middle of the queue.
This made me wonder why it's called programming (since clearly it's not the sense of the word programming most HN'ers are used to).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization#Hist...
The pursuit of cutting-edge JS frameworks resulted in a less accessible web
take "programming" to mean "scheduling" and the ancient crusty term acquires some meaning.
> Are there some standard ways I've missed, or do folks rely on proprietary extensions or extra services for this?

As a hack, you can always have your library run its own retry by doing an atomic ack-and-resend-to-the-future (though you need to have bits for retry count if you want exponential back off). And there's situations where it doesn't work well, if the message handler itself crashes too hard on failure.
I can't edit my remark, so I'll add to it here: Your comment history shows a pattern of sarcastic commentary and quips instead of good faith statements of opinion.
Yeah I hate that at the first sign of trouble people run to the government.

My kid, and I have told my wife this, is ready to view whatever he wants on the internet when he can circumvent me.
By design, the base laws of the US make it hard to implement an authoritarian regime. But sprinkle some think of the children on top and bingo, pathway to North Korea opened.
>As I mentioned elsewhere, you’re falling for letting perfect be the enemy of good

No, this line of reasoning deserves nothing but absolute contempt when it comes to laws. We are not talking about getting the finnicky API to work at your job. Too often laws have had unintended consequences as a result of loopholes or small peculiarities. If the damn law doesn't even work on a fundamental level then it should be opposed on principle.
People are still setting up plex in 2024? That sounded like a bad idea a few years ago and even more so now. Having to pay and route login through a third party doesn't seem smart.
2/3 of people in plane crashes survive
Do you think she’s meeting the bar of ambitious and not incompetent? If so then why isn’t she reaping the rewards?

Are the people working under her unambitious and incompetent?
I guess by money it could be, so could other cities in jiangsu and zhejiang that are China’s richest provinces.
If a task is preempted it will have its registers saved to memory. So you can never assume that some state won't live in memory at some point.
There's some fun music theory lurking inside this project. It turns out that every transition from one chord to another via the algorithm described is either from one chord to itself (e.g., C major to an inversion of itself or adding/removing a 7th), or one of the three basic Neo-Riemannian transformations: P, L, or R.

Go check out the Wikipedia page on Neo-Riemannian theory for more details, but here are a few key facts about P, L, and R: For any chord x, then if x is major, then P(x), L(x), and R(x) are all minor. If x is minor, then P(x), L(x) and R(x) are all major. P, L, and R are all inverses of themselves, so that P(P(x)) = x, and so on for L and R. It's possible to reach any major or minor chord from any other major or minor chord by some sequence of P, L, and R transformations. For example, from C major, applying L then R gets you to G major; applying R then P gets you to A major; and applying L then P gets you to E major.

Hopping around via Neo-Riemannian transformations are a quick way to use smooth voice leading to get to a "remote" key center (i.e., one that doesn't have many scale tones in common with the key you started in), but I was surprised when listening to the piece how (relatively) stable the harmony seemed. What's interesting here is that because of the way the algorithm is constructed, P transforms are much less common than L or R transforms (or just staying with the same chord) -- and crucially, P transforms are a vital ingredient in quickly moving to remote keys. By my rough calculations (which assume the Markov process has reached steady state and ignore the limits on min/max pitch), only 1/27th of all chord changes are P transforms. It also turns out that in steady state, 7th chords are more common than simple triads by a ratio of 16:11.
I wonder if people only click on the thumbs down button, thus serving to only provide a negative signal mechanism with no ability to differentiate a positive from a negative one.
Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
Deus Ex is about sci-fi tropes, 2077 is about late 1980ies/early 1990ies nostalgia, just dressed up a little as 1980ies/90ies sci-fi. Corporate Japan on the rise, peak MTV rock stars so full of themselves they are hardly able to live. Edgy cars with huge combustion engines, cockpit electronic looks created by people who must have spent many hours studying the elaborate display designs of the modular hi-fi stacks of that era to get that look so right. All those veteran stories in the background, similar ones had been a Hollywood focus point until well into the 1990ies from Vietnam. The most amazing part about the 2077 retrofuturism is its secrecy, because they clearly shared the agenda internally (cockpit designs! But also many other things), but apparently took extreme care to never mention any of that in PR material.

Deus Ex is story, 2077 is ambience. Both games do very different things as their centrepiece, even if they both aren't too bad at their also-ran complement: ambience in Deus Ex, a bit aimless but they did find their style in the main Eidos iterations, story in 2077 which just happens to work well despite perhaps some of the supposed highlights not being the most memorable parts.
Lisp jobs are sometimes advertised in Who's Hiring threads, Reddit's r/lisp, etc. There's a Lisp job advertised on Reddit [1,2] right now even. Another good source is to check out the companies in [3] and see if they have any openings on their website (or cold-emailing).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/s/AZmouaoARl

[2] https://jobs.lever.co/dodmg/af802f7f-4e44-4457-9e49-14bc47bd...

[3] https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies
I would like to disagree with this view of Racket.

I'm a fairly experienced professional programmer with a lot of systems experience, and I find Racket an extremely well thought out, competently implemented and high performance (particularly with the switch to Chez Scheme) language.

I wrote a bit about it at https://nikhilism.com/post/2023/racket-beyond-languages/ and Bogdan Popa and Alex Hirsanyi have done amazing stuff with the language
https://defn.io/
https://alex-hhh.github.io/index.html
including a sophisticated web framework, a Kafka GUI client and so on.

I think the only deficiency for a "pragmatic for a seasoned programmer" (beyond the standard "no FAANG is sponsoring it" related lack of resources and presence in popular discussion) is the lack of good editor integration beyond emacs. That said, I've found DrRacket perfectly reasonable for my uses, although clunky.
I'm not saying it can replace something like Python, but that is more because of the smaller ecosystem and contributor base than anything wrong with the language itself.
hayst4ck is pointing out how the belief is believed to work, not how the reality works. I was similarly cross-eyed at those statements until the point was made:

> outcomes are a result of actions, not beliefs

Just because someone identifies as Christian it doesn't make their actions moral - even though they themselves may believe that. Their actions have to be moral in order for the outcome to be that they are moral.
absolutely nothing? you mean other than the relationship with linear systems and linear algebra?
Have you compared this to chatgpt plus?
I think that Paul Graham's essay https://paulgraham.com/avg.html might give you clues.

My experience bears out the interpretation that established companies will NOT use Lisp. C++ and Java only for those folks.

AFAIK the best way to find Lisp jobs is to actively participate on Lisp forums, projects, etc. Then you might get an invitation to party.
Great short article. I haven't looked deeply into the math behind this yet, but this looks to be a preprint [0]. It doesn't appear they're looking directly at the Space Groups as a way to reduce out any symmetries or repetitions that may occur (thus generalizing simplifications of the problem "space"), but it would be interesting to see whether those structures apply or not. I say this as someone who writes software to apply the Space Groups and describe the Voronoi cells around points (or groups of points) distributed through them, so I'm familiar with the "uncanny" ways effects propagate. [1]

I'm also not a mathematician (just a lowly architect), so I'm way out of my depth here. But it's fascinating and as someone looking at paths across these generated honeycombs, this result bears more investigation for me as well.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14605.pdf
[1] If you know a mathematician who might be interested in collaborating on this kind work, ping me. This is ongoing work, and as I said I'm out of my depth mathematically. But have run into some interesting properties that don't seem that deeply investigated which may bear deeper study by an actual expert.
Most Python users aren't software engineers. They're students, scientists, business analysts... We're lucky that we were able to drag them away from Excel. Asking them to learn yet another programming language might be a bit much. And if they did, it wouldn't probably be a lisp (it would probably be among: C, Javascript, Julia, Go, Nim).

I want to move on from Python, but there are so many more people that I can help if I stay.
Centurion is basically a minigun (or other ordnance) hooked up to an auto-targeting system with SOTA optics, mountable on a truck.

https://armyrecognition.com/united_states_us_army_artillery_...
Anyone archiving every website they visit? I often want to search for something I read recently, which is awkward to do if you don't remember where you read it.

I'd like to store everything I visit with my browser once the page is loaded, but haven't found any nice solutions for this.
Film classification is also dumb. In Australia Margaret Pomeranz used to run banned film viewing sessions that ended up in cops wrestling them for dvds.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/31/margaret-pomera...
Do you ever get up? Maybe turn your head from side to side, or stretch your legs out under your desk? Or go to the bathroom whenever you want?

Driving freezes your body into one position for hours on end. Doing it in a car for a few hours on a road trip makes my neck hurt. Doing it every day would be deleterious very quickly.

I work at a computer at a desk, but the ability to stand up at will just to use the toilet makes a big difference. Can’t do that driving a truck.
A similar option is Dark Reader [0]. Also a plugin, also Recommended.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
Yep! Early morning typo. Thanks