skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the things I have trouble understanding is why "rural mountain towns near large population centers" are exploding in the West, but not the East.

West coast tech types have all gone nuts, believe they're Ernst Stavro Blofeld and think they need to build secret mountain lairs. Either that or nuclear lifeboats. (Different symptoms of the same disease.)
Understanding Web Development Needs in Australia
Glad to hear, enjoy!
Encanto: $150m budget vs $250m box office.

So again, "no hit movies" is easily disproven with 10s of time to look into it.
Nanowires conduct electrons one at a time inside biological molecules
SQLite FTS5 Extension
Happy 10000 Day!

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Thanks, I have added the direct link to the Danish ruling in the article now. Good point.
Privacy concerns mean that Waymo has a strong reason not to release video to us, the general public.

My guess is the most likely two routes you get video is either there's a lawsuit and so it's evidence or a government agency insists on having video and that gets either deliberately released or leaked to excited local TV news. In both those cases Waymo can say they had no choice, even if it's good for them.
Is there a connection to User Mode Linux (UML) from around the same
time? Or are these completely unrelated projects? I get that running
a kernel in the user space provided by another kernel is not really
the same as a proper hypervisor, but have never really dug deep into
why and what the various tradeoffs are.
Interesting article but, IMHO, completely impractical. Teaching the model about specific content is totally what you should not do. What you should do is to teach the model how to effectively retrieve the information even if it is unsuccessful on the first try.
LLM is now an ubiquitous term, not sure anyone can claim ownership of the keyword. It also looks like the package is a local install only, not pushed to PyPI. So unless you want to use this project, you'd never know.
I feel like at some point the performance hit of using actual rationals (pairs of bignums) makes sense
I know you love the CCP and try your best to defend them, doesn’t change the fact that one of the primary reasons for the protests was the security law which came from Beijing.
Node.js Debate over Enabling Corepack by Default and Potentially Unbundling NPM
me nod head save to pdf not just bookmark link
An anecdote from our early per-seat pricing model is that we kept running into odd customer service issues that after lots of digging kept coming back to users sharing login details (to avoid paying for extra seats).

Without getting into details, a lot of the value of our platform is derived from having discreet users connected to an organization.

Rather than restricting or trying to educate people not to share accounts, we changed the pricing structure to a flat subscription which almost comically led to an explosion in new user account creation. This led to our customers getting the full intended value which led to a big reduction in churn and an increase in WoM referrals.
I want to live in a world where "Twitter" is a category name, and X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads etc. are simply examples of twitters. And you can tweet on all of them.
There isn’t in the US, dominated by urban design built for cars, but in many societies it’s entirely possible to have drinks until late and then safely get home via transit.
These kinds of gravity batteries worry me a little, because when I've seen the economics, they actually look pretty decent… and yet, that economic calculation ignores the other impacts, like them being terrible energy density and thus needing absurd volumes dedicated to them.

Most proposals are even worse, as they suggest concrete rather than sand. The monetary cost works out even then, but concrete production currently emits CO2, and the combination of that with the low energy density means they'd have to run for around a century to only be as bad as fossil fuels.
Indeed, the lizard people are already marching across the flat earth I guess. They'll be here for us soon.
Self-driving cars are not an attempt to make driving safer, they are attempts to create commercially viable self-driving vehicles.
Absolutetely, but speaking as someone who has tried to get ccache to work in Azure pipelines properly...

I mean, ccache worked. But it wasn't exactly faster. Have to try again with a permanent memcached. Also, it's fiddly with paths, the absolute paths have to be the same, so if you run more than one build agent on a machine, those agent aren't going to cache each other's stuff. The "dropbox = rsync + ftp" meme is pretty beaten up, but maybe it applies here. :-)
Meanwhile JPL has laid off 570 people this week thanks to a failure to properly pass a budget in congress. [1]

I’ve been watching For All Mankind this month and it’s remarkable how different things could be, but we can’t muster the will to really move things forward.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/congressional-budg...
They are rectangular shapes on the canvas.
Thanks for article - possibly it's 'retcon nonsense' but the explanation of 'pod' preceding 'iPod' was told to me in the very early days of iPods so if it was made up then it was made up nearly 20 years ago.
The study is a bit more sophisticated than that.
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I find this summary https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/did-ukraine-miss-an-ear... pretty convincing. It basically says that the massacres of Bucha and the disastrous Russian performance in their attack on Kyiv are the reason that Ukraine did not negotiate a seize fire. Plus, while Russia started very tough in the negotiations, after their Kyiv convoy broke down they basically agreed to everything. If you know anything about Russian military history, you know that this means they wanted to use negotiations to consolidate their forces and try again better prepared.

We in the western world tend to see such conflicts like a game/puzzle where there is always a winning door that leads to happiness for all participants. Since there are only two choices and the current situation is bad, Ukraine must have made the wrong choice and we would be living happily ever after, if they only had agreed to a deal.

Needless to say that Putin loves to play on this mindset by saying all the things all the time. There will always be many groups in the west that will pick out quotes to bolster their favorite narrative and ignore the rest.
Is "Knödel" related?
Any chance this gets upstreamed?
Same with plastic recycling, if it's packaged up and exported you get the tickbox. It's a great example of Goodheart's Law being applied, focusing on the local metric (reduced emissions in our neck of the woods! Look at us meeting the Paris agreement!) without solving or even exacerbating the underlying problem (steel production in countries with less carbon emission rules, added emissions due to shipping, and big ships use really shitty bunker fuel anyway)
While there is a level of clarity missing in the description, it sure sounds like the bicycle was turning and is entirely their fault. Will hold judgement until there is a full write up. Knowing how most cyclists believe they have the ultimate write of way in SF I am inclined to believe they would blindly turn into the path of traffic.
I mean it's Oracle we're talking about here.
I went from teaching in a Google environment to teaching in a Microsoft environment this year.

Though Google now feels familiar and relatively easy (though try moving documents from one folder to another online...), I'd almost forgotten that when it was first introduced, it was met with a lot of resistance, and teachers and students alike were confused for years.

Microsoft spaces (Teams, Edge) are far, far worse.

Since the schools I've worked at run their own servers locally, I think using Nextcloud as your main platform should be very doable. The apps you can install are mostly very slick and modern. (I use Talk for calls now, for example).
https://nextcloud.com/blog/keep-your-data-in-your-school-use...

I see the point about the clunkiness of LibreOffice. But as a teacher, I see great value in thinking carefully about what you introduce students to, because once a decision is in place, the effect multiplies with each new cohort of students.
Reminded me of a question from my A-level maths exam at high school; it also managed to install the same sense of panic!
He's a pathologist, so if he has removed someone's appendix they'd probably be dead. Pedantry aside, your point still stands.
> If you have an infinite amount of facts, then you can memorise all of them

pigeon-hole?
I think you guys are a self-selected bunch of very smart people, also unafraid to break ground and try something new - so you may underestimate how much a familiar syntax means to us plebs.

For instance, Erlang always intrigued me, but Elixir (familiar syntax but with Erlang semantics for those who don't know) was what made me really consider the Erlang ecosystem.
How? It’s unclear but reads to me that the cyclist trailed the truck and made a blind turn. Same as if a pedestrian just jumps out in front of you.
It's older than that, but not sure how much older.
I meant is easy to hide for the purpose of transporting it, for example in a shipping containers, millions of which go to/from China.
I've also recently fallen into (reading/watching about) it, and from what I've seen, some of them have really impressive levels of community software support

e.g. https://onionui.github.io
There was no workable housing solution, under the circumstances. That's something the populace probably cannot accept. Disparate governments the world over face the same - for example, Australia just voted out their version of National, in favour of their version of Labour, based upon all the same resentments! a political mirror image, proving beyond doubt the fallacy of NZ's partisan blame - and they are finding they cannot policy-it-away. So yes, I am annoyed that we resentfully voted to make it actively worse. If that makes me partisan, then so-be-it. But I acknowledge that I am somewhat preaching to the choir with you, Sir Anders.

As you described, "anti-woke" (among other things) won the day, and unfortunately, regressive large-scale environmental policy is one result of that, because the whole green movement is cast as an aspect of wokeness. There is no "shift to anti-wokeness" that doesn't also involve a net loss for the environment. And that is far more pertinent than PFAS in makeup, where New Zealand's environmental work is concerned. But I accept that I am unpopular for believing and speaking so.
There are lots of ways things don't work. The plumbing can be connected up wrong or the pumps can not work.
I also recommend to check the /r/nootropics subreddit threads [1] on the topic.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/search?q=Phosphodiestera...
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.3/c0503.htm
You see? Bullshit issues like these is why I don't buy laptops with discrete GPUs anymore, especially Nvidia.
IMO when seriously consider the math, the firepower:acquisition cost ratio doesn't make much sense, especially against PRC. SSGN with ~150 tomahawks, subsonic, easier to intercept, will likely never be reloadable at sea, and may not be able to operate permissively around PRC in due time. PRC ASW is improving rapidly, and they're deploying subsea ASW infra within 1st island chain. Not much info on projected upgrade of hypersonics to subsurface flee, but if extrapolate from zumwalt hypersonic projections current 80 cells for TLAM (tomahawks) whittles down to 12 CGHBs (common hypersonic glide bodies), that's ~20 more lethal CGHBs on subs and combined with multi week roundtrip to reload and get back into theatre, it's essentially nothing. For reference it's estimated taking out PRC SCS island bases will require 400-500 tomahawks, and that may only temporarily disable runways. Even if US can take out entire PLANavy, PRC can sustain massive war effort from mainland aviation/rocketry, the latter could feasibly hit CONUS. I think that's whats ultimately driving procurement decisions, trying to deliver the most survivable firepower which a lot of these larger projects are subpar at (again relative to PRC) if war ever escalates to homeland strikes. Hence Navy Force Design focusing on expanding with smaller unmanned ships / distributed lethality model (which will include lots of unmanned subsurface). In the meantime, large, expensive, eggs in a basket platforms that are difficult to crew, impossible to replace during war, that's been in pipeline for a long time and are being pursued to institutional inertia, because brass doesn't want to kill their baby.

VS 100+ B21s with less labour and per unit cost that can deliver around the clock, probably difficult to shoot down unless they're parked in hardened hanger or their midair tanking (if needed) gets degraded, but losing one is a couple pilots and 1/10th the cost.
2 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150343

1118 upvotes, 599 comments
jQuery 4.0 is out in beta, so I think it qualifies as "modern" in the sense that it still has active work and progress. It's not "new" if that's what you mean. I would prefer the well-understood and tested in the real world tool over something new and shiny.

You may not need jQuery because vanilla JS can do the same things now. Or you may have other tools that do what you need. But choosing something because it's new or supposedly "modern" only makes sense if the alternatives are obsolete or prevent you from doing something, and jQuery isn't either.
Really? It helps against a brick?
I really don’t get this sentiment - why not do both?

Retrieval allows looking up facts - eg in a Google search

Finetuning allows reasoning using new knowledge.

Humans do both.
I agree for 99% of extensions their model is amazing. And I wouldn't expect me to come up with a better one any time soon.

The problem is that I want to do more in my launcher. Two examples:

- I wasn't happy with the official bitwarden extension, because going through the clipboard and copy/pasting individual items felt cumbersome. They also only supported one vault even though I asked about this years ago [0]! In raycast I wrote my own bitwarden extension that hooked into Hammerspoon and used the AX spoon to autofill credentials. That felt very hacky though so in my own launcher I am using the accessibility API directly through swift-rs.

- I wanted to build my own keyboard centric matrix chat client into raycast. I got pretty far, but in the end I was just too limited by the available components. Also I discovered that once your extensions heap reaches 100 MiB, it just gets killed. That basically made it impossible to just load the matrix-sdk including crypto.

In the end I just didn't want to keep investing time in some proprietary software that doesn't allow me to do what I want to do :)

[0] https://github.com/raycast/extensions/issues/1544
Thanks for looking into the history! Interesting to see that this wrong-headed behavior has now been around in GCC for longer than the status quo before.

Other compilers are different though - MSVC only seems to have started optimizing around this in ~2016 or so, icc seems to have done something around this in 2020, and I'm sure many embedded compilers ignore it even today. I couldn't find anything definitive on clang, but given its history I assume it probably always enforced this mistake.

I'd also note that several major C programs only work when signed integer overflow is defined: I mentioned Linux previously, but Python is another one. And Chrome and Firefox are considering enabling -fwrapv and equivalents.
Gemini Ultra Released
> Peacetime demand for large-caliber ammo is very low

Even in the US?
US in Korea or UK in HK were not in a survival situation as Taiwan would be.

> drop 50-100k troops

That's fantasy land, most of those planes would be shot down, and if not the soldiers would land in a kill zone with no reinforcements.
What does this give me that I don't already get from KVM and virt-manager on Linux? Not getting it.
Yes, but unfortunately the second part is usually employed by people who want to put under the rug the fact that their model is dubious.

All models are wrong, only some of them are useful, and only when handled with care.
Grounds not going to level itself now is it
> Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable to construct a proper written sentence in your native language... your parents should ask for their money back.

In principle, I agree with you. But long ago, I worked as a copy editor, and can tell you that time in school has a weak correlation with the ability to construct a proper written sentence.

But no, nothing I've seen from Grammarly suggests that it would be much help.
Another great browser for SQLite -
DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project (https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser).
An amazing piece of software for interacting with SQLite databases. Supports inspecting and modifying data, full query support, integrated plotting functions.
Most crashes are caused by the driver.
https://archive.ph/SUreQ
How does Disney funds all the failures? I cant understand it... it's like if the money never stops with some companies even losing money (or earning every year less and less).
Weird.
Oh naff off.
No, but if I were a TBI sufferer, I’d take quality of life improvements even with these costs.

If you want to ‘have it all,’ we’ll need to invest heavily in creating more advanced biomedical research models. This requires strong societal and political willpower.
Why don't you take it from a pro-Trump Republican Senator from Georgia who was visibly rattled after she feared for her life that day:

"When I arrived in Washington this morning, I fully intended to object to the certification of the electoral votes. However, the events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider, and I cannot in good conscience object to the certification of these electors. The violence, and lawlessness, and siege of the halls of Congress are abhorrent and stand as a direct attack on the very institution my objection was intended to protect, the sanctity of the American democratic process."

What's sad is this hypocrite is still campaigning for a Trump presidency in 2024...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNATCaIQO6s
They have to be subtle, but it's really hard to come up with them when such a topic is given and not make them obvious.

I'll see myself out now. ;)
As a cyclist and driver, I feel fault is not to be assigned to the car by default. If you are driving a car you certainly need to be aware but if you are walking or riding a bicycle you need to be equally aware of your surroundings. People are stupid regardless of what they are driving.
The US can not even be bothered to pay 5% of its defense budget for Ukraine aid and you really think that they would invade Russia?
In some areas of some countries.
Show HN: Chat GPT bypass GPTZero detection
I made a GPTs that bypass GPTZero, in my own limited tests, it has 100% bypass rate.

The story:
One of my best friend was accused by professor of using AI to write his essay, which is not true: he use translators for words he doesn't know. I know GPTZero is not accurate, I sent him a few articles and tell him to make appeals to the department.

I'm really curious how GPTZero words under the hood. I open their website, paste 2 paragraphs, one generated by Bard, another I wrote myself. Of course, GPTZero knows mines was human and Bard is AI. I notice some wording differences between Bard, ChatGPT and me: AI has a better vocabulary than mine.

I started to explore: replacing words. I replace words like "quest" to "looking for", "in addition" to "more", "earth" to "the planet" etc. and voila, it is now 0% AI generated. Surprising how easy it is to work around.

Of course I didn't believe myself, hey, they are a company that has money from investors, are they lying? I checked their website and I saw this https://gptzero.me/writers, "so you can write words that AI will never generate". Huh? That's just so weird. It makes me feel that they know internally that GPTZero is not accurate, so they have to launch new products because of investors.

According to the discovery I found about wording difference can affect GPTZero's detection, I quickly write a prompt for ChatGPT, in short: "Do not write paragraphs in parallel structure. Do not use SAT words, replace them with simple words or phrases". I did experiments for about 2 hours, and it actually bypassed GPTZero really stable!
Doing it with `with` is definitely the community standard. There are attempts like https://github.com/vic/ok_jose to make it more like "do" notation.
Monaco Telecom to build basement data center in new residential tower
Are you using the dark mode detection feature?
The ultimate setup is actually running esxi directly on the mac mini 2018 (6c/12t) and 64G DDR. Then esxi can launch as many macos, windows, linux and nested esxi vms as needed. 4 tb3 allows plenty of options for extra nvme or 10+ GbE nics. You can even passthrough the intel iGPU to linux and light up a monitor.

Compare to a modern mac mini has a strict limit of 2 macos vms, no hyperthreading , no nested virt and CPU optimized for vertical integration.
This attitude doesn't help when typically in a collision, the cyclist needs medical treatment.

Traffic is a complex real-time action game where there are serious consequences if people make mistakes. So the best approach is to be predictable within the traffic rules.

So for a cyclist, don't get in the path of a 'killing machine' when the car has priority and when the cyclist has priority look for clues that the car is actually going to stop.
i tend to lean the other way. postgres is just so easy. with managed db services, you dont have to think about backups, version upgrades, all the rest. you never have to worry about running into a rough edge or missing feature. the maturity and huge community make it hard to go wrong
I was struck by that supervisor comment too. I don’t live there anymore but when I did that was always the looming issue.
> A podcast is what I can listen to in the gym or on my bike without missing anything important on the video.

If I were listening to a talk show on a pocket FM radio while in the gym, would you call that a podcast? What about a an audiobook on a cd player? How about a 30 minute audio recording my wife made to encourage me that I saved in my phone? If not, why not?
I'm in Canada and any discussion I have everyone agrees how every damn car now has blindingly bright headlights. It's not the bluish ones it's pure white lights they're incredibly bright. Someone dropped the ball on the regulations for modern headlights.

My cousin got a new truck and he said everyone now flashes their lights at him but his lights are on low. His previous truck was fine but this new model is terrible. It's not just trucks it's cars too.

I'm ready to go to my member of parliament to ask WTF?
> Stop being obtuse (pretending to be naive) and just do your own research.

I have, and what I've found does not support the claims that people are making. Granted, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok are quite difficult to browse without an account/app, so I acknowledge it's possible that things exist I haven't been able to find.

I find it bizarre how aggressive people are getting in response to me asking for concrete examples.