skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, it's not ideal.

I wonder though if there were similar complaints when the flight engineers were phased out, which obviously worked out fine (things are actually a lot safer back then).

For example they could do things like pee tubes (With M/F suitable private receptacles) which some private jets have in the cockpit. So it's not necessary to wake up the other pilot all the time. But yeah a long bumpy flight would be exhausting for both.
Well it is an in-house tool that just got opensourced, so it is natural that docs and other materials are lacking. There are videos from C++/HighLoad meetups that shed light on internals, but mostly in russian as of now. Give it time.
Yeah but the VCs got their exit so DoorDash is a success! Growth!
Thanks for these rules, as a budding engineer, this is very insightful. Will look forward to your video.
Numbers in under 45 age groups goes up in 2021. Safe and effective.
obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/209/
The things Futurama made me look up on Wikipedia...
Seconded. Lineage works great on my FP4. Switched after killing a 3a, 4a, and 5a.
That's hilarious. I'd have been horrified too, but I hope you can look back and laugh.

It goes to show how utterly insane management types can be, and how they need to be hemmed in with empiricism and held to account for wasting time.
> How do I get an idea for what 20 billion baseballs (2TJ) feels like?

In the 90s, the show Special Relativity’s Funniest Home Videos would often have guys getting hit in the crotch 20B times with a baseball. Honestly, it never gets old.
I'm currently suffering the pains of developing a Tauri app that relies on the system WebView (which is the default for Tauri). It's unreliable (especially on Windows where people love to mess around and run "debloat" scripts), and causes slight differences on each platform. Tauri lets you bundle the WebView, but this causes the installer to grow like 150 MB. I presume this alternative would be a lot smaller.
I think this mindset requires also a company that is not trying to lowball or exploit their employees.
I see this type of backlash against process a lot here. But I don't think 'just good people' is the answer. A lone hero can do a lot, maybe a band of them kick real ass, but it doesn't really scale beyond that nor does it last. Furthermore, even the best make silly mistakes, you need to have a lot of mechanisms to both prevent and mitigate against the consequences of failure if that is important to your business.

Just imagine operating a hospital on the maxim that you 'only' need good people and process is evil. I know this is a bit of a straw man, I just want to make it clear that eradicating all process in favor of 'good people' isn't the answer.

So what is? A good process can really help a lot in working together. I've worked with a mix of medium to good people, who continuously adapted the process to make it work and it helped, a lot. Medium people can do good work. And good people don't have as many obstacles.

It is essential that the people who are responsible for executing also have the mandate of adopting or at least adapting a process to their context. A good process can save a lot of brain cycles and prevent all kinds of organizational waste. Its like automating away a lot of the overhead of working together and achieving goals collectively.

But if the script doesn't work for a use case or with certain parameters, you better change it or just not run it to a fault.
my understanding is that the scan they did on the scrolls returned the layers themselves. Like so:

```

xxxxxxxxxx <- The surface of the scroll

xxxxxxxxxx

...

xxxxxxxxxx <- The bottom of the scroll

```

So, by tiling the image on the surface you get data that is size_x * size_y * n_layers. So, it can be seen as a video stream with size_x * size_y * 1 channel * n_layers where the layers replace the temporal dimension.
This sounded completely false to me initially. When I think of taking mass and turning it into black holes, it involves squashing the mass into a strictly smaller volume.

Thus I would've expected the radius of the black hole to be necessarily smaller than the dimensions of the butter cube.

However, I now realize my mistake - in examples like squashing mount Everest or earth or a neutron star into a black hole, we're starting with masses that are stable/in equilibrium. This would not be the case for a cubic light year of butter!

Further, it looks like the radius is directly proportional to the mass. Given that mass grows cubic with respect to dimension, it's expected the radius of the black hole would eventually outgrow the cube of butter if made sufficiently large...
Indeed. A working group suggested the specs for what would become LHC back in 1987, and R&D for the magnets had started the year before. So 21 years before they first fired up the LHC in 2008.

Keep in mind that the LHC would the existing tunnels from LEP, this new one will require a lot of drilling, so planning would have to start earlier relative to startup I imagine.

[1]: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2014...
(1)

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| primaryKey (bigInt-internal) | publicKey (uuidv4-external) | created_at | ...
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(2)

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| primaryKey (uuidv4-internal) | publicKey (uuidv4-external) | created_at | ...
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(3)

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| primaryKey (uuidv7-internal) | publicKey (uuidv4-external) | ...
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(4)

(not recommended)
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| primaryKey (uuidv7) | ...
|---------------------|----

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(1) [X] sortable by insertion, [X] timestamp
(2) All of (1) and [X] transferable between databases
(3) Use UUIDv7 as a primary key for internal and UUIDv4 for external. App or SELECT statement will need to extract the timestamp from UUIDv7 if you need to use it. Also, if you're using a DB Client you can't just view the 'created_at' column to get an idea of when a row was created.
(4) Use UUIDv7 as a primary key for internal & external use.
At least both the extension(tst) and the browser (firefox) are open-source. And you can use firefox on any desktop platform including BSDs while arc is limited to MacOS and Windows
Control of microbial agents in commercial air filters with metal oxide particles
"...Air filtration is an established method to ensure good indoor air quality, being effective
at capturing airborne particles and dust, as well as pathogens, and preventing diseases such as asthma.
Nevertheless, with usage, water from air humidity, dust, and dirt, including fungi and bacteria spores,
can accumulate on filters creating ideal conditions for the propagation of microorganisms...

...Thus, the filter can become a secondary source for airborne pathogens.In this work, antiviral and antibacterial filters
were prepared by spray coating Ag2O, CuO, and ZnO particles into commercially available air filters. The reliability
of the filters was tested through particle release in air, through a scanning mobility particle sizer, and filtration
performance was measured against an aerosol of iron nanoparticles in nitrogen gas produced through a spark
discharge generator...

...Antibacterial activity was measured in vitro against two clinically
relevant pathogens: Streptococcus pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the anti-viral
performance was measured against human respiratory syncytial virus. In general,
the results have shown that spray coating is a reliable solution, with no detectable
cytotoxicity effects or particle release in the air. After functionalization, both Ag2O and CuO compounds
have been shown to have total antiviral activity (over 99 %), while
only Ag2O presented a clear antibacterial action...."
Wouldn't that be trying out something that is a strict downgrade? (bytecode interpreter based VM with weak JIT, GC is likely much weaker too)

It really comes down to performing as much work on a core-local basis and .NET SRV GC does already a lot to avoid inter-core synchronization cost (per-core heaps, I'd expect JVM GCs do a similar, maybe better, job), and so does various thread-safe code in the standard library.
That issue is four years old. Here is a discussion from last month: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions/8524#discuss... . The two teams are apparently working together.
China isn't in light green for Taiwan. Is that situation different in some way?
I went to the google search page and put in the URL with the cache: prefix. Eg "cache:http://archive.org/". This is now broken. Existing cache entries still exist, but unfortunately unless you know the URL it is inaccessible.
Not doable.

There exists nothing, even theoretically that you can put on the spaceship to get you that 1G continuous acceleration.

I don't remember exactly what is the maximum achievable delta V but if I remember well it is not a high portion of the speed of light, more like 60% of speed of light. And that assuming you have crazy things like carry a small black hole with you and use it to convert mass into energy at 40% efficiency.
So, this does seem to take the angle I'm flying at into account. If I'm accelerating to 99.9% the speed of light, and I yaw 180deg the view, I start "decelerating".

What happens if I keep maximum acceleration and pitch up 90deg? The software seems to keep flying on the original vector. Is this a bug or is it intended to be a simulation of how light would behave under those circumstances?
Why is Ruby-on-Rails not more popular?
A great example about lost work is that the insights we have onto Viking mythology was pretty much documented by a single guy, Snorri Sturluson. What we know about Norse mythology is just a tiny piece of their mythos, as they didn't have the habit of writing down their tales/legends/stories and most of it got lost after they converted to Christianism.
Random connection died with the uptake of social media. I remember in the early 2000s, chat programs like ICQ, AIM, and MSN Messenger permitted random connections, and it was fairly common for strangers to make chat requests from a genuine motivation of curiosity. For me, those online connections led to real connections around the world. Nowadays perhaps this niche is filled by online gaming
> And I was particularly disappointed when Mozilla laid off the Servo team, I feel they let go of the most important thing they had.

Gotta pay out those CEO bonuses somehow.

In a sick plot twist Mozilla gets shocked back to its senses, re-hires the team, restarts the effort to replace Gecko with Servo, and Firefox finally lives up to its potential. (I wish.)
Unfortunately the author is violating POSIX here by defining his own _t types, which is a suffix reserved for the system. Too bad since everyone likes it.
Nowadays you can write up what you really need to do, then ask ChatGPT to make BS OKRs out of them, with numbers to sound just impressive enough, but really easy to achieve even when you do the correct things unrelated to the OKRs.
Can LineageOS do major upgrades without needing support? (so once it's installed you never need to reinstall, and you can keep it safely up-to-date forever by clicking a button every so often - like Silverblue)
The YPG is essentially a rebranding of the PKK, and the United States is utilizing them as proxy warriors. An American general has acknowledged this. Here's a link to the video where the admission takes place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t0f9GmTs_U
Furthermore, the situation is not related to any authoritarianism in Ankara. The PKK is recognized as a terrorist organization, and their cessation is imperative for those who champion peace and prosperity.
Can I get some OTC capsules with these microbes ? Eating styrofoam would be great for winning barroom bets.
Even Ars Technica is getting stale.
Craftsmanship in the old sense, such as carpentry, was also usually commercial. Perhaps the word you're looking for is "alienation", in the M sense; you don't have a personal relationship with the customer/user.
how do you make all the ingredients to make cocaine don't ask why.
Yes, and overall task-based code has been a basis for many APIs since .NET Framework 4.5 (2012), earlier async patterns existed before too. It is not in a frozen state either as each release sees improvements to asynchronous code execution (overall improving ThreadPool, reducing size of state machine boxes, experimenting with alternate underlying implementations like green threads experiment, the learnings of which have been carried over to runtime task handling experiment which will massively reduce the async overhead when it eventually finds its way into mainline runtime).
Your sentiment is correct, but it's more of a spectrum. Fine tuning can learn facts (otherwise how would the foundation models learn facts?). But it needs those facts in the training dataset. If you have an infinite amount of facts, then you can memorise all of them.

The challenge arises when it becomes hard to generate that training data. If you just have the raw text and pop that in the context (i.e. RAG), then the LLM can be just as factual without any of that hassle.

Q2: identifiers in the prompt to say "you've been trained on this, only answer questions about this".

Q3: Depends on the size of the training data/docs. For the average PDF, about 30 minutes.

Give it a try!
It is, but it doesn't really bother me that it's not part of pip itself. On the other hand, I wouldn't be opposed to it being part of pip and "blessed" in that way.
See Also:

The world has warmed 1.5 °C, according to 300-year-old sponges (nature.com)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00281-8

60 points by tigerlily 10 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 60 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39268387

Also: https://phys.org/news/2024-02-ocean-sponges-earth-longer-tho...
Having just suffered through the Android/iOS native apps and stores, I would do a PWA for 99% of any future mobile projects.
>> “as too in the case of food, we do not right away believe things that are scarce to be absolutely more pleasant than those which are abundant.” However, is it easier for us naturally to do without things that are plentiful? “Such questions will be considered frequently.”

This reminded me, since they're scarce but also abundant... Has anyone actually eaten these giant waterbugs at Nue in Seattle? Is that like, a reasonable thing to subject a date to?
They're also a bit of an antipattern - agile is about learning and responding on the fly. Add an OKR and you immediately distort that and it turns out your agile methodology is just a couple of small waterfalls in a trench coat.
Swurl.com by Ryes – Stopped Working?
Hi, don't know where to cry about this but I was using this swurl.com (its author should be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryes) as my daily search engine replacement. And just today I've found out it stopped working. Was it abandoned or was it sold or what has happened? It was so cool. Now I have to go back to google.
Project management would be perfectly capable of being dysfunctional even when limited to typewritten memos. Jira is merely the place where the symptoms are collated. The lymph node of development.
Well, show me a mathematician who does not believe in the natural numbers. And yes, I am a Platonist, just as Gödel is. If you are not a Platonist, your view cannot be defended. It is as simple as that. I don't really care to convince non-Platonists, except for them to become Platonists.

What is your definition of mathematical reasoning then? If it is just formal logic, we could not even work with natural numbers. Even better, we could not even justify formal logic.

I am a big fan of formal logic, so much that I got myself a PhD in implementing formal logic on a computer. I want to do as much mathematical reasoning using formal logic as I can. But it is clear that formal logic has its limits, but that doesn't mean that mathematical reasoning has the same limits. The natural numbers show us otherwise.
Not sufficient craftsmanship to keep the site up under HN load, sadly.
Show HN: Web App for Easy Task Tracking in Multiple GitHub Projects
> Yeah, trying to learn KiCad is worse than learning Blender.

I dunno. I've used others, and KiCad was no harder to start with than the others (Horizon, LibrePCB, Lepton/gEDA, some others I forgot).

I asked for recommendations a week ago on HN for EDA products, and tried them all.

You know which one I eventually settled on? The one with the most components (symbols + footprints).

Turns out, features are nice (rules checker, etc) but not having to f*&^ing create my own symbols for a mass-produced part, then design the footprint for the same part is a huge timesaver.[1]

For many of us non-professionals designing a board, the UI just isn't as big of an issue as having to create our own components.

[1] At any reasonable hourly rate, having to create a library of just 1 component costs more than whatever you think you'll save with a slicker UI.
> Lineage has been very careful to not piss off google by not including microg or alternative webview signatures or means to circumvent device attestation. This love is not returned.

I wish they weren't so pedantic about that. At the moment if you even mention microg in the lineage channel you get insta-banned.

As you say their hard stance is not doing them any good with Google anyway, they're ignored either way. And MicroG is a really good solution which can replace google services like cell-based location with much more privacy-sensitive alternatives. They even implemented the corona bluetooth protocol during the pandemic! The only place it uses google's services is for push notifications, necessary because most app server infrastructure doesn't have the ability to communicate with anything else. But it does so in the most privacy-sensitive way possible.

At least the good folks at https://lineage.microg.org/ provide a great fork with microg built in.
Hold on, the blurb says the plot contains the San Francisco bridge becoming an inhabited ruin after a quake.

Wasn’t that part of the dolphin setting in Johnny Mnemonic?
Earth Is Noisy. Why Should Its Data Be Silent?
They need enough for 1000km of accelerator though. LHC has 10,000 superconducting magnets for 26.7km (some can temporarily go up to 7.7 Tesla).
I mean, they had like 30 years of success after it was implemented , before the current troubles, so at least it's very unlikely that OKRs were the cause of the collapse (compared to hubris in deciding how much they needed to invest in product development once their primary competitor was on the ropes)
Yeah US companies are weirdly strict on this. The McDonalds app won't even work if installed through the Aurora store, it has a custom screen that says it won't work if it wasn't installed through the play store :D Ridiculous. It doesn't even handle payments here in Europe, you still have to pay at the kiosk.
Because it's not recognized as a State by Israel and a few other countries.
This, for some reason, reminds me of Nathan Fielder rehearsal skits.
The bank would put the energy on the "expenses" side of its accounts and look for ways to reduce it, whereas cryptocurrency advocates seem to believe that the more waste the more secure it is.

(Arguably the use of AI for anti-fraud detection might start causing a bit of this problem)
Which Kurdish nation? The one that terrorists want? Even Turkey's Minister of Economy, as well as the Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey, are of Kurdish origin. Millions of Kurdish-origin Turkish citizens have been living in peace and harmony for centuries. The PKK/YPG is a terrorist organization aiming to disrupt the harmony between Kurds and Turks for their own political and financial purposes, and your tone of speech closely resembles theirs
Banks are all form over function.

I came to my bank to discuss a mortgage and I saw them log into their environment. A nice Windows environment with bright blue title bars and big red X buttons. In other words, Windows XP for which even the long term extended support has long since passed.
I kinda wanna write an horror story about people freezing their bodies or heads only to be revived in the future bat shit insane from the excruciating experience of existing for several decades in a sort of limbo...
I think everything just has to be a large arbitrary tree of branches, with tasks going into subtasks until they are small bites enough to be divided amongst teams. Then you measure how these tasks are going and if required you change the tasks or branches.

Everyone can move around the tree to see which team is responsible for which task and how any task on the whole is progressing.
Socialists fighting other brands of socialism? Colour me "surprised"…
Higgs was the main science objective of the LHC, though many, if not most, particle physicists expected the LHC to see something more.

Keep in mind LHC has yet to collect most of its data as colliders tend to collect the most data near the end of their life, after all the upgrades and operational tweaks etc have been applied. As such there's still a chance of a discovery one way or another.

That said, from what I've gathered, while particle physicists are less enthusiastic about these next-gen collider projects given what we've learned from LHC so far, there's also an acknowledgement that the expertise to build these colliders might be lost if we take a break from building colliders.

The alternative could be very, very costly, as many lessons would have to be relearned the hard way.
> Nobody in the right mind will fire key software engineer 48 hours after system goes live.

Ah yes, the absolute preposterous idea that nobody, especially not companies, would ever make an irrational choice.
I listened to the latest about it from Prof Sepp himself on the Industrial AI podcast channel. See the link below.

He consistently called Transformers... "nonsense" and said that xLSTM has beaten Transformer-based models across several small dataset benchmarks. They are busy scaling the training to large datasets and planning to keep the technology in Europe. I doubt they will make it public once it is available. The coming months will be interesting. More about the interview here.

https://podcasts.google.com/u/1/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9raXBvZGNhc3Q...
Give partial score for close guess, I called Benin a Sierra Leone, or art least show my guess and target country
I know a bit of the history with this one.

Back in the day there was a smaller consultancy with awesome developers called LShift (mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_London_Tech_City). They worked out that an open source messaging thing would be useful, and created RabbitMQ (there were details about who, how it was funded internally, etc). That got sold to VMWare, and a bunch of people went with it, but LShift went on as before, happy, but always looking for another Rabbit. Didn't find one, was aquihired in the end.

Meanwhile, some of the Rabbit people formed Weave, looking for the killer business around the early container ecosystem (https://www.weave.works/oss/net/ was interesting, eksctl, flux, CNCF, lots of good things). But I guess they took a bite of the VC apple and sustainable technical contributions was no longer the goal.

I've huge respect for everyone I knew from Weave. Great people all. Best wishes and I know you'll land on your feet.