skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army

>During its existence from 1973 to 1975, the group murdered at least two people, committed armed bank robberies, attempted bombings and other violent crimes, including the kidnapping in 1974 of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.
Tesla appears to be preparing for a round of layoffs
Everything is just paper or words. The constitution? Words. Only power is power. Only shackles constrain. Even computer code is just code. But in my experience, documents count for something because of the result of violating the documents. If your experience is that nothing you've said or written holds water, then so be it. We will see, in time, whose approach leads whom to a better life.
Tong Tong, the first AI toddler
Nope, I started with Home and upgraded to Pro later and I've never had ads in the Start Menu or anywhere else. My machine came preinstalled though and whoever installed Windows obviously had a clue and turned all that crap off before they shipped it to me.
I think they should have named it gAIl.
I think it's just honesty. You don't have to pretend that the bad a person did ("bad" being defined by your own perspective, of course) didn't exist in order to celebrate the good.

I think the article author managed to balance the feeling of gratefulness towards the person for their contributions, while obviously perceiving that person's worldview as unfathomable in comparison to their own.

In that situation, what other choice did the author have? Lie (by omission)? I respect the fact that the author chose to be honest instead.

And I think people should appreciate that choice or at least understand it without dismissing it as some kind of character assassination or rudeness.

An ever increasing number of people nowadays seem to be very much guilty of the same things the author mentioned in their post (the black and white worldview), it's not exclusive to deeply religious or conservative people. It very much exists on the "other side" as well. They will usually cite their own favorite pieces of dogmatic gospel (e.g. the "paradox of tolerance") to justify dismissing a person outright, based on some "incompatible" worldview or statement.

The author, however, didn't resort to this. As someone who obviously has no insight into what the article describes, to me it still absolutely comes across as balanced.
I was thinking about trying out a streaming service this week. Then my buddy invited me over, so that solved that.

Of course, the HN audience is pretty different from the average American, so we should take comments here with a grain of salt.

What I find more interesting (and which the HN audience might be able to weigh in on with more authority) is the possibilities around pay-per-view tickets to watch sporting events through an immersive AVP-enabled experience. I would think people might pay hundreds of dollars for tickets to big games (or even regular games, if they're big fans).

In some ways, watching at home is much more convenient than having to drive to the arena, park, walk 1/4 miles to your seat, etc. And unless you have expensive seats, you'd have a better view (plus instant replays) watching from home. If they can find a way to make the fan experience the same via goggles, I think that's a multi-billion dollar business.
IMHO that is the result of Gibbs style vectors and the cross product only being validated in R^3

Lie groups and geometric algebra remove a lot of problems.

It also applies to differential calculus and ML methods like back propagation and gradient decent.

Gibbs style vectors and the cross are convenient as they tend to match our visual intuitions.

But lots of the 'physics isn't real math' claims just don't understand how the algebra arises from the system.
I am curious for people who have launched PWAs, have you seen widespread adoption? We did a poll at my previous company, and no one had one installed which made us reconsider releasing a PWA.
node-RED is one option that is Apache 2 licensed and has about 4800 plugins. Recently picked up a contract where node-RED was a requirement.

It is not specific to AI, but there are multiple nodes for ChatGPT etc. In the current project I build up a prompt using `template` nodes that include the `payload` from previous nodes in a chain. Although there are other ways of doing it. Then that is connected to the chatgpt node.
Yup.

From a high-altitude view, that's why splitting a huge database table into smaller partitions is not an automatic performance win. If you have M partitions with N rows each, then a lookup might require O(log M) time to find a partition and O(log N) time to find a row within the partition. But O(log M + log N) = O(log MN) which is what you would get from a single big table with appropriate indexing.

Of course, in the real world constant factors and implementation details matter, so this is just a heuristic. But it seems to run contrary to a lot of novice programmers' intuition that a large DB table must automatically be a slow one.
I would very much like to hear the details of these claims I am making, they sound quite exciting!

I'd also like to know why the grandparent post has no burden of proof, are certain claims off limits to challenge for some reason, and can that reason be shared publicly?
He stresses the strong impression Treasure Island left on him: “… frightening but in a positive way.” I must have read it when I was 11 or 12 and that’s a great way to summarize the feelings it evoked. In fact, I still can feel the dread of trading Jim’s account of the blind beggar pushing the piece of paper into his hand!

On that note I also remember how much I enjoyed Haggard’s She (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/She:_A_History_of_Adventure) but the end was quite frightening, too. I still distinctly remember even the color is the couch cover (and it’s feeling on my skin) on which I read that ending.
Windows NT linage has supported UNIX since day one.

While the original support wasn't great, SUA was quite usable, until they decided to discontinue it on Windows Vista.

Nowadays we have WSL, which makes more sense, given how many folks buy Apple hardware and then complain UNIX isn't GNU/Linux.
The F there is for System-F! According to Don Syme, although I don’t personally know what System-F is. https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/12/f_6_were_making_f/

Don Syme is a pretty cool guy from what I’ve seen online too. He enjoyed supporting and attending Migrateful (UK charity where refugees/asylum seekers teach cooking classes) which I’m appreciative of in particular.
I do not pick up the phone unless the caller is in my contact list. No exception (my phone does not even ring).

All other calls are routed to voice-mail and near-instantly transcribed. The message then shows up on my desktop and on my mobile phone. I can read it and respond to it as necessary.
While the report does not suggest they press charges for the theft of classified material, it's damning none the less:

> In his interview with our office , Mr. Biden's memory was worse . He did not remember when he was vice president , forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended ( if it was 2013 when did I stop being Vice President? ) , and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ( in 2009 , am I still Vice President ? ) He did not remember , even within several years , when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him . Among other things , he mistakenly said he had a real difference " of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry , when , in fact , Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.
> That would be reasonable if the United States (note plural) were one entity. It isn't.

The 1830s are calling and want you back; South Carolina's John C. Calhoun wants to enlist you in his nullification campaign.
Touche.

But I'd say that this makes it even the more valuable lesson. Battlefield characteristics is still very close and Russians (now) are acting like they would act against the NATO-trained forces.

And, of course, it's liberal on my part to put Ukrainian Army in the basket of NATO forces as that is only true for maybe a year (after the first rotations ended).

That being said. I think that there's unprecedented amount of military intel US is getting out of this conflict for pennies on the dollar.
All of the things you write are very good ideas. But at this point, I am quite skeptical of Google leadership to pull off these things.
I don't find on-running very usable. I'm trying to filter the list of hiking shoes, and

1. I'm not even presented with filters until after I click a "show filters" button – they default to hiding useful elements just so that the page looks more minimal when initially displayed
2. every time I add a new filter, the page reloads and the filters scroll back up to the top, and I have to scroll down the iframey-type interface on the left to get down to where I was in the list of filters

Mammut doesn't put its filter UI inside of a separate tiny scrolling box at least, though it does annoyingly scroll to the top every time I add another filter. Also, after browsing shoes for a minute, it interrupts me by greying out the screen and popping up some advertisement.
Then you turn plain old voice calls into an oasis for humans. Not a bad idea.
A rare exception to Betteridge's Law then?
The path to AGI:

0. Have model A.

1. Use Monte Carlo with A to get supervised data.

2. Train model B with data from A.

3. Use Monte Carlo with B to get supervised data.

4. Train model C with data from B...
When you’re dealing with contractors and whatever for house stuff, yeah you kinda need to answer the phone for long stretches of time. Same if you have kids (I don’t), you need to be receptive. Yes yes I am incredibly aware that people can leave voicemails and send text messages, but many out there won’t do it, from real experience, especially those outside of the tech bubble.
no I would just do what makes sense to me, which is what I commented. you can do exceptions or type the return values. sounds like you want to do the latter. handling it isn't as nice as in rust though, I agree. You could create a simple object to emulate it though like "ReturnValue { unwrap: fn, ifOk: fn, ifErr: fn } " where unwrap throws if invalid, ifOk returns true if the response is valid, and ifErr returns true if an err.
The great list of all the blog platforms
I know the HN crowd loves blogging so maybe some of you out there have suggestions for this list I'm compiling. Only reason I'm making this is to help those who want to go online but don't know where to start.

Suggestions are welcome.
Does this mean all the AI voice assistant via phone startups are screwed ? Or it’s only for outgoing calls ?
New HijackLoader variant evades detection, enhances persistence
This stuff is what keeps me awake at night.

"No rational person would use nuclear weapons first" Well, who's to say that the people in charge of the nukes are rational? All it takes is one madman and we could have one of the biggest disasters in human history. We tend to underestimate the likelihood of such disasters and don't prepare for them (COVID is one example.) One day, someone will fire a nuclear weapon at civilians and we just have to hope it isn't in our lifetime.

Nuke-wielding dictatorships are the scariest because they can eliminate the checks and balances in the way of a launch. If Putin falls ill tomorrow and thinks the Americans poisoned him, what's to say he won't nuke them as final revenge? What about Kim Jong Un? What about Xi Jinping?
> Does it really? My bad then, English being hard once again…

So in a situation like this, "are you confusing" sounds somewhat presumptuous, but "aren't you confusing" sounds like you're quite sure you're right and they're wrong.

"are you maybe confusing" is probably the best way to use that phrasing, but better still would be "do you mean", so What's “θ” in your comment? Do you mean the letter “O” in “big O notation”[1]?

Though ideally when you're linking a page like that you ctrl+F it first.
New fusion world record – Press Conference – Joint European Torus (JET) [video]
It was surprising that Kleppman's book was mentioned only at the very end of the article, but at least it came with an understandable caveat. That book is incredible - although in all honesty it does require solid foundation of distributed systems to make proper sense.

Until you have personally battled with replication lag, real-life impacts of eventual consistency and distributed writes, Data-Intensive Applications feels like a dry theoretical read. If you do come across the book with the scars and lessons, it does open the world up.
Please don't do this here.

You may not owe dirty hippy terrorists better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
The inflation adjusted cost of the moon program for 13 years was $19.76 billion per year in 2020 dollars.[1] At the time it was 4.4% of the federal budget.

I see absolutely no reason why, if they had not continued, they would have somehow needed 80% of GDP to set up a permanent base. It seems they got the entire moon program done for way, way less and indeed we ended up eventually building and keeping occupied the international space station. The additional effort to do the same thing on the moon would not somehow swallow all government expenditures.

I mean hell consider what we have spent on unnecessary wars and our inflated military budget. There absolutely could have been an alternate timeline where we were focused on space expansion and not purely military expansion.

[1] https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-how-much...
Perhaps they're hoping people will stick with "google it".
Tracking atime, atime, and full permissions on every dirent is a lot of work. Most people putting a bunch of small files on disk don't want any of that, and usually misunderstand the actual transaction promises of their filesystem. They would be better off with SQLite and a single table (name, blob).
Not sure why you're making it sound like a conspiracy theory. User behavior profiling is common strategy for all personalized IR products, including recommender systems, targeted ads, web search, e-commerce, and many more. A bunch of major tech companies rely on it. Do you think Google AdSense is also an evil empire? What about Apple and Amazon ramping up their own ads businesses? More people use YouTube than Meta products and even spend more minutes per day there. Do you also think YouTube is also equivalent to cigarettes? What about TikTok, Twitch, and other streaming platforms? Was Doordash also wrong for setting up personalized ads and recommendations?
Absolutely this, I am confident that there are people out there who verify phone numbers from data leaks, selling off known “good” numbers to other nefarious people. They probably record it all now too and sell that.
Maybe things like starlink will end up finally seeing some change. Would be a lot easier with some fiber !
Dashboard Generator with SDMX
> The IT hiring process is broken. Amen. Not only is the IT hiring process broken in many organizations, the entire approach to IT is often broken. (...), Ruby Raley and I wrote an article for Cutter IT Journal that stated that an approach modeled after professional sport teams could well be far more effective, but no one has yet hired me to try it out.

Does this approach also apply to age? E.g., older programmers either take some higher-ranking position (management, product owner etc) or they get replaced?
> - Less weirdness with navigation

> - More “solid” feel (less layout shifting, “flashes”, etc)

These are the result of the frameworks chosen, not PWAs themselves. Flutter PWAs are always going to be slow and weird, but there are some real gems out there that feel and navigate like native apps.

One annoying issue: Android and iOS have different standards for things like scrolling, animations, gestures, and whatnot. Apps like Voyager (https://vger.app/) feel like native on my phone, except that something feels off because of the iOS behaviour.
how do you keep 'high drive + high aptitude' from escaping to run their own venture?
I wouldn't discard the alternative possibility that we should choose to ignore "activists".

After all, people may have a hidden agenda, conflicts of interest, or be simply a bunch of uneducated morons craving for attention. Why to choose them as figure of authority at the same level of researchers that proven real effort searching for truth and spent ten years acquiring real knowledge?

Oh, Is for the promises of violence. I see.
The real wolf menacing the news business? AI
Yeah... No laws apply to NSA... I think I would like to work there
Tesla Phone Keys Now Support Ultra-Wideband for iPhone
I have been continually disappointed that Microsoft has not released a seamless Windows virtualization system. WindowsX would run the new, redesigned APIs, but all of the legacy could run inside a sandboxed system to give the world the required decades to finally transition.
European researchers achieve fusion energy record (JET)
In the not too distant future, tall office buildings will be built with their own gravity battery at the center. The construction is very similar to an elevator.
Every price that’s good for somebody is bad for somebody else, and markets have to go down as well as up. Making hiring into a punitive commitment just prevents taking advantage of boom times.
https://archive.ph/iKIKh
To escape just create a new simulation with admin privileges and the host file system mounted inside, and use that to escape the first simulation to the host.
A corporation is, however, a collection of people.

Which raises the question, should a collection of people have different rights than the members of said collection?
If you're AWS you could probably put some FTEs on optimizing the new lib too
Thank you for mentioning this. It was news to me
Hermit crabs find new homes in plastic waste: Shell shortage or clever choice?
For some places their internal processes require positive contact with the account holder, in other words they can't trust that an email or text will be read (or read by the account holder). They definitely should've tried at least once though, especially if you opted for that as your primary communication method.
Very impressive, and it's of course quite clear that the OP didn't just walk off the street into Blender HQ. Many years of experience at Unity is probably quite helpful when it comes to knowing the domain. :)

This change [1] was my favorite, optimizing an image processing step by removing lots (and I do mean lots) of table-based "optimizations" and replacing them with just straight up floating point calculation, and making it ~4X faster on the OP's machine. Fantastic!

[1]: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115801/fi...
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents—and especially not nationalistic ones, regardless of which country you have a problem with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines so often that I've banned the account. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39307588.
Writing the code for a open source project demands a lot more perfection than people realize. It is a lot more work than getting a programm just to work nicely.
That relies on people leaving a message, which not everybody does.

And not everybody has a phone that'll do this live message transcribing.

And no, everybody who decides to not leave a message isn't "not worth your time" or something.
> Jif was a bathroom cleaning solution in the UK

One man's bathroom cleaning solution is another man's creamy peanut butter.
For those looking for alternatives, Leonard Suskid's "Theoretical Minimum" books in 2 Volumes are way more accessible and easier to read.
VOIP is decades old by now anyway. I’m perfectly capable of calling across the globe with various technologies that don’t need rotary phone technology
Apple has this as a service now. It's more automatic than the GMail process and works well.

A weakness with the GMail process is that spammers are able to remove the + part (even if most don't), and your credentials or identity can be aligned across leaked credential databases by removing the + part.
But is it really? It seems to me that almost every business is using the Exchange/Outlook combo, not Google products.
That's a perspective that makes sense when all individuals are given an equal income, and it's up to each one to decide how they want to allocate that income.

But that's very far from how the actual world works. In reality, some people make very little while having little to start with, some make lots of money, even when they have little to start with, and others might make lots of money while also being born into lots of money.

To look at the system and ask "why are people complaining? It's the same price for everyone." ignores that is actually has a different cost for everyone, regardless of what the price might be. And that perspective is what pushes society in a direction where many are forced to pay with their time, while the few who found their way to large incomes/born with large bank accounts, can pay with money, essentially establishing a class tier.
The downside of rationals is that they degrade extremely quickly as soon as you take a sqrt or do trig. Decimal floating point has the advantage of losing accuracy in the places people are used to.
> Capacitor

Those should have access to all features of a native app, since they are native apps containing a webview. Even if that requires some platform specific code, that's still better than completely platform specific code.

For games on the other hand, your engine should handle most of the work supporting different platforms natively, so using a native build probably makes sense for games distributed via appstores.
The term was weaponized to confuse deliberately.
Price a HP z440 with those specs on eBay or Amazon.
I already responded to you above about starting this flamewar, but then you perpetuated it here by obviously breaking the site guidelines. We've had to warn you about this several times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286516 (Nov 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37460834 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36656318 (July 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33850494 (Dec 2022)

Worse, you've been posting all sorts of comments like this recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39263540

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246417

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39245246

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39229835

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179655

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39069363

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39069055

Scrolling further back yet, I see even more of this, so unfortunately I think we have little choice but to ban your account and I've done so.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. But this would mean dramatically changing the comments you post—I hope that's clear.