skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this statement, unconvincing. Elixir and the improvements to the VM were the last big leaps. None of these things affected the issues that keep Erlang from being relevant.

Erlang is some inexplicably sacred cow on HN, among the few other forums who still discuss it. Making sweeping changes is going to be required, to get the adoption that some are seeking...specifically the authors of these kinds of posts. Waiting another couple decades for the killer app to catapult it, will never happen.
Probably not worth the effort. Some women wear pretty large earrings[0] without too much trouble, after all.

[0]: https://www.regalrose.co.uk/products/glory-huge-star-hoop-ea...
>going into a city can take a fair bit of time if you have to use multiple modes of transportation. So the answers are pretty suck it up, move closer, or don't go into the city much.

Well, yeah? Those answers are your alternatives if you choose to live far from the city, and I would think they should be obvious. You can't change the laws of physics. Or economics: I mean, you could build a bullet train between your rural town and whatever exact destination in the city you want, but obviously that's economically infeasible.
Asynchronicity is indeed part of what makes Node.js useful, but that doesn't mean it's perfect.

It's very easy to write non-deterministic bugs with async/await. Bugs that might result in flaky tests and incorrect code getting checked in.
Skiff Should Be a Reminder to Us All
Durov was indeed an opposition to Russian govt for some time and TG was banned in Russia for some time.

But then “SEC-incident” happened. He and his brother wanted to build TON and fund it by kind of ICO (without naming it ICO). SEC decides enough is enough and blocked launch of TON with charging Durov for selling unregistered securities.

At the end, issue was settled, Durov returned all money and settle the deal with SEC, but it shrinks his finance by a lot and he ran out of money for TG.

Then he was seen in Russia and issued bonds for $1 bln. According to Russian financial press [1], bonds were underwritten by Russian banks closely affiliated with government or directly stated-owned (all of them are in sanctions list now), and even some money was invested by Russian Fund of Direct Investments [2]. Last summer he again issued bonds for TG for $270 mln.
You can buy TG bonds at SPB stock exchange where they were listed 2 weeks after the issuing [3].

Surprisingly (repeating my comment below), around same time, Russian govt withdrew all their claims to Telegram and started to use as the official communication channel.

Not to say that other “transformations” happened like Duriv publicly denounce US declaring it is a “police state” [4]

All links in Russian, sorry:

[1] https://www.rbc.ru/finances/15/03/2021/604f11019a79478034130...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-56501991.amp
[3] https://www.forbes.ru/finansy-i-investicii/424665-shirokiy-k...
[4] https://te.legra.ph/7-prichin-ne-pereezzhat-v-Kremnievuyu-do...
There's nothing un-American about activism. People are free to hold and express whatever beliefs they want. But when they want to force their beliefs on others, by:

1. shouting down anyone with a different view

2. requiring "loyalty oaths" from the staff

3. harassing others who disagree with them

4. trying to block roads and otherwise impede people from going about their business

that is anti-American.
VoltSchemer: Use Voltage Noise to Manipulate a Wireless Charger
Hairclip the battery with tiny wires behind the ear. You could put the controller there too if you wanted something fancier
It's not wrong, I suppose, but a break from the behavior I've learned for this sort of instant answer across google, ddg, and kagi as long as I can remember.

I can't actually think of a situation where I want to simplify a fraction like that.
12 years after NASA launched its Juno mission to Jupiter
Nice. Too bad we can't also get an uncensored web (including LLMs). Censorship is the enemy of the people and as you might know, it is very common on https://news.ycombinator.com/.
This is your opinion. And people disagree with you.

Presenting opinion as objective facts is counterproductive, no matter how strongly you believe something and think it is just.

I’m not sure what your approach is to just say it’s a fact and anyone who disagrees with you is wrong and their character is wrong. It seems like it will be hard to convince people because this is such an illogical stance.

I think it will make people disagree with your position just because of strict logic if you are wrong on this, then it seems more likely that your other positions will be wrong.
> Now picture what would have happened if we had been willing to do challenge trials early on for COVID.

Nothing significant would have changed. For example, on July 22, 2020 HHS announced $1.95B in funds for Pfizer for large scale manufacturing and distribution of 100 million doses of their vaccine. On Nov 18, 2020 the phase 3 clinical trials were completed. We didn't wait to know that they worked or not to start ordering the doses. It still took until April or so of 2021 to get that manufacturing and distribution completed because we'd never made nanoparticle vaccines commercially before at all and distribution itself was hard once we had the doses.
The social anatomy of climate change denial in the United States
I am seeing it too.

Prompt:

Compare and contrast the following products:

- Gregory Zulu 55 Backpack - Unisex

- Gregory Tetrad 60L Travel Pack - Unisex

Sample output:

In a significant area of customer support, ergonomics, and subjective nature of 'goods', each bag conjures a fable of a time and place. Gregory's Zulu 55 is a guild-like lilt to the green-gilded high book way of state and yearn, while the Tetrad 60L conceives more of a 'pathless traveled' countenance with gnarls and swathes to the dunes and granes or the chip kiosk and the long, drawn shutter. Each has a letter of love for the open blue, but their chant is unique to their locker and book.
This is the same website that publishes stories with ignorant, idiotic headlines like "There's an asteroid out there worth $100,000 quadrillion. Why haven't we mined it?". Um, don't write about economics if you don't understand it.

Doesn't HN have a policy mandating original sources?
Teerable ultrasound energy beam powers on-brain electronics
The most frustrating thing about youtube is how it's not smart enough to figure out that I want to watch "XX Part 55" after watching "XX Part 54". It just gives me random other videos on autoplay.
>one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology.

Of course it could be that cosmology is wrong.

There was a time (until 99 years ago) that the Milky Way was the universe.
What rocky planets and moons have a thicker atmosphere? Or is common for rocky planets to have "thin" atmospheres?
I mostly have used Textract but have found all 3 to be fairly similar in accuracy with differences in structure and compatible languages. I think my call out here is that I don't think any of these libraries, llamaindex or unstructured, can compete in this area. I would rather use GCP/Azure/AWS to define the structure from a PDF and these for the rag portion if anything.
Do you still need to give your phone number to Signal to signup? Fucking ridiculous that you have to when it's not really needed.
> In my experience though, getting an actual discovery described is the real issue. I've discovered both plants and insects new to science myself, did the work of collecting specimens and sending them to the correct authorities, but years later there's zero movement. Taxonomists are severely underfunded.

Ah, so wait, is there a central taxonomy office (or at least relatively centralized ones for different species groups) that is basically backlogged like a government passport office? Is that how it works?
Except you didn't do what I suggested... You just said women.

> generate a picture of a typical Swedish women
Has there been any widely publicized occurrence of jury nullification on any case? I feel like it's something that certain people on the internet bring up a lot, but in reality pretty much never happens.
Right, but by upholding that there was no negligence in the alternative case they prevent the conditions in Wrongful Death of a Minor from being met. There is nothing left to argue.

Are you suggesting the lower court now over rules the upper court and say there was negligence? The upper court has already said there wasn’t. Just because it was settled in a side branch doesn’t reverse the decision or leave it up for discussion.
I think there is a new type of scam going on with GitHub links
Just received an email about an "opening position" at Github from the blockchain repo like this :

"
Hello,

We have an exciting opportunity for you! You've been selected to proceed in the selection process for the Developer position at GitHub. Congratulations on your achievement!

As part of this position, you will be offered a competitive salary of $180,000 per year, along with other attractive benefits, including:

Health insurance coverage
Retirement savings plan
Flexible work schedule
Generous vacation and paid time off
Professional development opportunities
To proceed with the hiring process, we kindly ask you to fill out some additional forms and provide some additional information. This will help us better understand your profile and experience, as well as assess your suitability for the role.

Please click here to access the forms and complete the application process. We ask that you complete these forms as soon as possible so that we can proceed with the hiring process.

Important: You have 24 hours to complete the application process.

If you have any questions or need further information, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your interest in joining the GitHub team, and we look forward to hearing back from you."

Link of the repo comment as reference : https://github.com/izqui/blockchain/issues/7#issuecomment-1955635480
The dithering in the page pixels don't limit the amount of information you can get through your camera pixels.
Terrible! Clipping the tracking gunk after the ? in th url took out the l in .html

xbox to hdmi converter. Useful if using an lcd monitor without analog input.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005142269614.html
What’s the justification for security lockdowns versus what they use internally?
Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
It's apparently the Wolfram|Alpha integration that returns 105/4.
there is a somewhat unfiltered GPT4 at Azure, but they really don't want anybody's money (afaik only "trusted" corporate entities can access it)

at this time, your only option is local models. if you don't have the hardware to run them yourself, there are plenty of hosts - poe/perplexity/together etc.

llama3 is (hopefully) coming soon, and if it has improved as much as llama2 improved over llama1, and provides at least 16k baseline context size, it will be in between gpt3.5 and gpt4 in terms of quality, which is mostly enough.
The best part of a terrible language and ecosystem is a pretty low bar.
Negative feedback is silenced?

Dude the characteristic feature of Hetzner threads on HN is a bunch of people in the comments moaning about having to scan their passport or repeating the 'they just turn your servers off with no warning' line.

In fact it's so prevalent and consistent - at least here - that to my eye it looks to me like black PR. Or that they're really good at rooting out internet scumbags and that the internet scumbags are unhappy about it.
Except, you incur quite an expense making your own exact copy whereas copying some bits costs you such a low number that it approaches $0
A football field is an area, so a cubic football field would be a six-dimensional volume.
> You could wire together a group of houses or neighborhoods with generators and batteries and make the electric company redundant by establishing contracts which buy and sell electricity between participants at rates which adjust in response to demand, forecast, and each battery’s reserves.

how would you handle spoofing? e.g. whatever data source you use to figure out how much energy I'm generating, I just put fake data into it?

I guess you don't need to worry about that if you trust your neighbours. but then you could just use a traditional database if you all trust each other.
Uh, what's going on with this thread? I'm pretty sure I didn't write this comment an hour ago (how it displays) and it didn't appear at the top of my comment history? Instead, appearing as "a day ago" in my history further down.
By this definition, everything is federated, because you can email the author and ask them to post something for you.
"Planning is EXPTIME after all (e.g. Towers of Hanoi).*"

The old planners would include meta-rules, or heuristics, that decided which rules to apply. That would cut the search space. Some split the problem into different representations with specialized, automated solvers. Jahob Analysis System and Cyc come to mind.

Far as for real-world use, the neatest design I remember from classic A.I. was the Procedural Reasoning System. I've always wanted to see a version of it rebuilt with modern methods supplementing its weaknesses. Just for kicks and to see what it could do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_reasoning_system
Weirdly, your desire to change the phrase being used is more Orwellian than the original sentence
I-Soon Hacking Tool Leak
So they hired "smart" people who couldn't learn Erlang, an easy language to learn?
The crazy people vote? Q anon, flat earthers, moon landing denialists, and the all import X-Files demographic. There is a book on the greater topic: Tyranny of the Minority. How tiny groups of noisy wackos are throwing society and government into disarray. It's high time people show some balls and stop giving this bullshit oxygen and call these morons the idiots that they are.
A few of these are not correct.

1. Reply button is below the sender's profile symbol in the thread message header.

2. Thank you for the feedback on activating the notification. This should work as anticipated but it's been quite some time since I received feedback related to notification behaviors so I'll certainly take a look.

3. Images and remote content are blocked by default (similar to Mail.app); clicking the 'photo' button (next to the Flag button) in the message header will reveal these images.

4. Expanding threads by clicking in thread message header white space would be a welcome addition and feature request. I'll add this to the planned feature list. Expansion via body content click will require a bit more investigation, however.

Appreciate the detailed feedback!
So it's not actually different (in result/performance) from the depth-first search you'd get naïvely mashing some keys dimly recalling prolog?
Weird. I don't see this comment, or the one you're referring to, on your profile either.

Are you saying that you didn't write the comment, or that the timestamp is off?
I'd be curious if anyone thinks if mining crypto in this case is ethical. If so, why?

(It wasn't just a small amount -- there were many computers, running 24/7.)
I have used Kagi for several months now, and I find that the ability to decide which searches I want quick answers for to be useful. There are certain searches where I feel comfortable with accepting a quick answer, and others where I don't think it would be useful. Being able to avoid the clutter unless I want it is nice.
Yeah, wondering about drone control
[Insert George Carlin quote.]

Move or take more observations, repeat, and be sure it's not you. ;]
Conway didn’t discuss how organizations change over time, but if you look for them you can see the results in the systems around you.

Casey Muratori has some great examples in his video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY
sunk cost for museum
> What meaningful reform happened? There has already been rollbacks of the Dodd-Frank bill in the intervening years[3] and I'm unaware of any regulatory teeth over the derivatives market, for example.

Most derivatives are now centrally cleared, which means centrally reported. SIFIs are held to tight stress testing and reporting standards. Banks have to maintain failure plans. That's just off the top of my head.

All of these components allowed First Republic, SVB and Signature to fail in a way they could not have pre-2008.

> the FDIC has always had this power, and it was well exercised in the S&L crash and its aftermath between 1987-1994

No, it did not. No competent banking lawyer would allege as much.

And the S&L crisis famously involved depositors losing money because the FDIC was hamstrung [1]. The FDIC did not have the power to bail out e.g. AIG in 2008.

> Boring banks are good banks

I strongly recommend an introductory money and banking text [2]. Each of First Republic, SVB and Signature failed due to boring banking mechanisms.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/history/167_188.pdf

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134733827?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_NC...
Underestimate the average Kagi user at your own peril. I do not think many would fall prey to an LLM generated content marketing page and end up buying a product from such site. Much likelier scenario is the page gets instantly blocked/reported.
Aggregation Bias in Churn Metrics
Yeah same here. Had it with other "pulse trains" or similar harsh repetitive structures.

Guessing it's some resonances in the cable or so?
Wow, that's some impressive dithering. No lie, the "grayscale" images are the most impressive to me. Reminds me of color half-tone printing and film grain.

I wonder what videos games look like in this visual interpretation. I want this as a shader.
> just saying a slow storage driver could give such results

Oh, absolutely - not to contest that! There's a whole lot of academia on 'para-virtualized' and so on in this light.

That's interesting to hear about FreeBSD; basically all of my experience has been with Linux/Windows.
Christopher Nolan Explains Tenet in Illuminating Video
The main problem with consumer drives is the missing power loss protection (plp). M.2 drives just don't have space for the caps like an enterprise 2.5 u.2/u.3 drive will have.

This matters when the DB calls a sync and it's expecting the data to be written safely to disk before it returns.

A consumer drive basically stops everything until it can report success and your IOPS falls to like 1/100th of what the drive is capable of if it's happening alot.

An enterprise drive with plp will just report success knowing it has the power to finish the pending writes. Full speed ahead.

You can "lie" to the process at the VPS level by enabling unsafe write back cache. You can do it at the OS level by launching the DB with "eatmydata". You will get the full performance of your SSD.

In the event of power loss you may well end up in an unrecoverable corrupted condition with these enabled.

I believe that if you buy all consumer parts - an enterprise drive is the best place to up spend your money profitably on an enterprise bit.
There have been other successes since, perhaps most famously Fulcrum (acquired my Intel in 2019) with their fully asynchronous networking switches.

ADD: another impressive result was Ivan Sutherland's (yes, that Ivan Sutherland) crazy fast 8x8 cross bar. He's still active in the topic: https://arc.cecs.pdx.edu/publications/
Backing legendary consumer founders, a profile of Origins
Thank you! 3 and 7 day trials are available.
It’s their inverse Nintendo R.O.B.
I wouldn’t expect either of those filters to utilize a partition key if one exists. So yeah, you probably did a full table scan every time. Is the partitioning documented somewhere?
Thanks! This should be resolved soon.
I now believe that you just don't understand how the courts work.
Books heavier in critical thinking include espionage titles, detective novels and criminal profiler literature. Predict outcomes; adjust your model if your prediction fails. I think Sherlock knows a bit about chemistry and such as well.
Venus has a much thicker atmosphere than Earth, about 92 times the pressure of Earth's at the surface.

As for what's common, we don't have many examples of rocky planets (or moons) with atmospheres in our system to use as examples, and we can't see rocky exoplanets very well at this time, so who knows.
Yeah, I get weird horizontal lines that follow the image but extend to the edges of the screen. Since it extends to both sides it doesn't feel like a panel artifact, but a processing one.
My reading of wiki does not match your "collectivist, shared-ownership, woman-led society" claim.

I read that they had a matrilineal kinship system that treated women as equal, not women led.

As for the collectivist, shared-ownership: Then they destroyed other Iroquoian-language tribes, including the Erie, to the west, in 1654, over competition for the fur trade.

No other Indigenous nation or confederacy had ever reached so far, conducted such an ambitious foreign policy, or commanded such fear and respect. The Five Nations blended diplomacy, intimidation, and violence as the circumstances dictated, creating a measured instability that only they could navigate. Their guiding principle was to avoid becoming attached to any single colony, which would restrict their options and risk exposure to external manipulation."
I think it is a holdover from the Text Secure days. And like others say, it's a different problem.

But for solutions, can't you just buy a voip number? You just need it for registration and then can dump it. I'm sure you can buy one with cash or zcash if you're really paranoid.

While in the US I don't have to show my gov ID to get a phone number, I don't know anyone who buys a phone with cash except international students. So practically everyone is identifiable anyways. But I'm not sure this is a deal breaker since all I'm leaking is that I have registered a Signal account. AFAIK Signal only has logs of an account existing and last online with 24hr resolution (which avoids many collision deanonymization methods). Even paying with cash is hard as I'm probably caught on camera (but these usually get flushed).

So I'm legitimately curious, why is this a dealbreaker? It doesn't seem like a concern for the vast majority of people, and the problem Signal is solving is secure communication for the masses, not the most secure method possible with unbounded complexity. It's being as secure as possible while being similar in complexity to the average messenger.
On the off chance you haven't seen it, GOV.UK design system is pretty good and accessible.

Some institutions in my country (not UK) adopted it as well and I think it was absolutely the right move. Although we don't need the Crown component.
Tiny power converters run on vibrational energy
It's time to taste what you most fear
> Dark matter is the mysterious, unknown substance that seems to make up the bulk of all the mass in the universe; for every 2 pounds (1 kilogram) of regular matter, there's roughly 10 pounds (5 kg) of dark matter.

The units here are pretty silly. They are only talking about proportions, so they could have gone with banana-equivalents, and it would still have worked.
Objectively Ranking the Presidents
Non-Bank Finance in America
This does not matter _at all_ until phone numbers aren't required.
That blog post says that "Rust doesn’t have named parameters, and possibly never will". Could you clarify why that is the case? In my experience, named arguments in all but the simplest - i.e. unary and some binary - function calls give a massive boost to readability. And for Rust specifically, they would also provide an easy, unambiguous way to "overload" functions, similar to Swift (I'm putting "overload" in quotes here because it's not really overloading, as parameter names simply become part of the function name). So, why weren't they considered, or if they were considered, why were they rejected so emphatically that you don't anticipate them showing up even in the future?
Just sounds like a lazy cop to me.