skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we were tidally locked, and were about where we are now or a few centuries ago, there'd be tons of people trying to explore the "dark side of Earth" and they'd see the stars.
Well, I'm certainly sorry for your awful experience, but I do get along pretty good on Nvidia plus Wayland. I have noticed that graphics do tend to be less glitchy when they are drawn to the screen with the iGPU, but in general I don't have a ton of graphical problems. When I do I just feel mad at Nvidia, because I think they are the real problem here.
I think they do a lot of good stuff, like LTO and PGO.

But in benchmarks you sometimes see like a 4x speedup compared to ubuntu, which is obviously not due to superior compilers.

For example:

https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/i...
I was trying on both Chrome and Firefox on a Win10 laptop.
I just tried via Chrome on Andoid with same result (well blank grey page instead of blank white page)

I am accessing from Bangalore India , if that has anything to do with this.
Maybe Clojure+Leiningen

https://leiningen.org/
It's not really that damaging.

Israel never recognized American software or pharmaceutical patents, and most countries do some form of Industrial Espionage (France is fairly notable in the space as well [4]).

The wildest cases tended to be back in the 1990s, when Israel was trying to build a domestic armament industry, notably by stealing American IP and selling it to the Chinese [0][1][2][3] (most modern Chinese weapons systems today are based on that IP transfer in the 1990s).

This largely ended by the mid-late 2000s when the Israeli tech industry was much more established, and Ehud Barak (edit: Olmert - mixed up his surname and the Barak middle scandal) getting arrested on corruption charges, heralding the end of Israel's Wild West days in the tech industry.

Also, Tiannammen Era sanctions from the 1990s forced Israel defense companies to pivot to India, which doesn't allow vendors to sell SKUs to India which Pakistan and China have access to, and would leverage French and Israeli SKUs based on American designs.

I highly recommend reading this GAO report from the 90s [3]

[0] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2538128

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/12/world/israel-selling-chin...

[2] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/1149008

[3] - https://www.gao.gov/assets/t-osi-92-6.pdf

[4] - https://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/france-intellectual-p...
I'm essence what you are saying is it worked for a demo but not for an actual application
Eh, I guess slapping some literal, variable, and operation nodes together makes it visual, but I don't think it makes it easier.

Contrast with something like Scratch which is useful because it helps prevent typos, clearly presents expected arguments, and creates snap connected chains of logic.

Even better, contrast something like Drakon which offers visual abstractions such as skewers, happy paths, silhuettes, common fate, etc.

I really like the concept of visual abstractions. Nodes are abstractions but I don't think they are high enough level to improve over text. And I think text will always be awesome even if it is assisted by better ways to animate and visualize logic and systems.

Also, can I grep over Flyde? I'd hate to lose that basic ability.

Drakon: https://drakonhub.com/en/drakon
did this get taken down everywhere? sounds really interesting, but everything looks like it's been taken down.
Sense 2051 – An Online Shop for Humanoids
A not-so-distant future in which humans (or rather, humanoids) are, in many regards, optimized: They are ultra-productive, efficient, and resistant to disease. However, they can’t process sensation and emotion.

The solution? SENSE, a wellness company that sells SENSE Synthetic Systems: tiny computer chips that can be inserted into your body to help you see, feel, hear, taste, and touch.
I'll wait.
To add to this:

Nuclear advocates would do well to keep up to date with the Indian Point decommissioning in order to propose solutions to the knottiest problem for nuclear: the plants are owned by corporations who do bad things.

If you want nuclear to prosper, there needs to be solutions to issues like a company announcing it will discharge nuclear waste into the Hudson River with no regard as to how it might affect local economies or residents.

I think nuclear energy is quite a powerful tool in our quest to decarbonize, but I have very little trust in the stewardship of for profit companies who have very little regard for the lifetimes of the materials when they live and die by the quarter (relatedly see PFAs, micro plastics, &c.).
It allows the scalability of algorithms like Star Lisp on the Connection Machine, the abstraction allows algorithms to be easily moved from single thread , to multiple threads, multiple cores, GPGPU.

It is no accident that CUDA and SYCL libraries are written in a functional way, or the AI middleware for compute.
> Which unfortunately means prohibitions on bombing hospitals, schools and places of worship are now obsolete.

Interesting. I wonder whether genocide of all people seriously harmed by IDF since Oct 7 should also be added to the list of war crimes obsoleted in this recent war. It only makes sense, since all these people are enemies of the state of Israel with a very high probability of causing harm to the civilians living there in the future. Geneva conventions are really showing their age in the past few months.
So that when you ask what 1+1 is you get 2 and not a general solution
So... Indentured slavery?
> I was shocked at how much I spiked from oatmeal.

Was it oatmeal, or what you ate oatmeal with (milk, sweetener, etc), or do you know?
Count me as wrong. One of the things I learned about weather is that the winter cold is largely an effect of surface heat radiating into the sky at night. The paper indicates that atmospheric circulation is enough to compensate for that and keep the dark side warm. Not a climatologist: but how do you explain the Earth’s poles then? One of the charts shows the dayside average at 300K and night at 250K. That second number is warmer than our Arctic in winter.
It's not a living space but a data center, that is why there are no windows.
Newbie question - What happens after when an LLM training job experience a hardware failure? I don't suppose you lose all the training progress do you? Then the pain is mostly in the diagnostic of the problem and getting the cluster running again, but no need to worry about data loss right?
No, that’s exactly the kind of thing I’d like to hear about! Show me that you can think about those million things beside writing code that make you great to have around!
You cannot shut down smelters completely, but AFAICT you can idle them, substantially reducing their power requirements.
Prickly paddy melon weed enzymes potentially a sustainable cement alternative
The last time I tried Wayland (couple weeks ago), I noticed that picture-in-picture in Firefox didn't work correctly because Wayland doesn't allow applications to say "this window should show up on top of all other windows". The workaround in KDE was to go into the window management settings and add a special rule for Firefox picture-in-picture windows.

I looked up why this was and it turned out that there was a proposal for picture-in-picture (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...) that had been stuck at an impasse for years. The Gnome developers want to make the picture-in-picture windows have controls rendered by the compositor and make them unable to receive input (I find this somewhat ironic given Gnome's reluctance to have the compositor draw server-side window decorations), while the KDE developers want to make them able to receive input and draw their own controls.

I feel like this is my problem with Wayland in a nutshell. It requires every single interaction a user can have with an application to be hashed out through a years-long bureaucratic process.
Note the energy demand going down is due to the inefficiency of fossil based transport and heating that gets replaced with electrical versions.

But it'll still mean an increase electricity production/consumption.

It's not a big drama, and it's already planned for, but it'll still be an increase (even after accounting for efficiency gains).
When you are a product that people build businesses on top of and start by burning money to grow as fast as possible and then switch to caring about profitability with a months notice to your customers that's a shitty thing to do.
> We should be figuring out how to create a global, collective, human advantage for everyone and the planet

We haven’t solved the problem of governance. The End of History seemed close in the 1990s. But we’re back to being torn between the efficiency (and short-term stability) of authoritarian models against the flexibility (and long-term stability) of democratic ones. Until we find the model that just works, this competition is probably the best interim solution.
Sure but you can predict that there will be no solar power available at night.
Change Your Name to ClosedAI
Some of us can't be trusted with continuous stat reporting. I hit Update on HN often enough. I don't even wear a watch, I kept looking at it every twenty seconds and then realized I still didn't know what time it was, it was just a reflex.

I learned to leave my phone someplace else, upstairs, wherever, just check it a couple times a day. Else I'd go crazy.

I took the speedometer off my bike, I was looking at it more than the road.

So I understand my limits and take steps to keep my self from compulsive behaviors. I guess(?) other people do better and can handle these things.
The engineering week ends at 9 a.m. Monday.

So 'I'll finish it this week' means you have until Monday morning.
Given that Canada Airlines killed their Chatbot because they were legally held accountable for the policy their chatbot had created in their case, I think many of these companies are thinking twice before allowing an LLM to respond to people out of fear of the words of the chatbot making legal issues for them.
Oh boy I sure hope I receive my grandmother's Monero cold wallet in her will!
Symlink to a shared directory
But maybe they could make it more Pi-like, that is pricing it so that it can interest both integrators and hobbyists, with a bootloader that makes it easy to tinker with the OS (not necessarily the firmware).
If you select target liberally enough, classify combatants on liberal enough criteria and use munition liberal enough, as shown by IDF reports, numbers and whistelblower accounts, the colleteral damage becomes the target.

And hell, you are really surprised after everything Israel did in Gaza so far, that support for Hamas rises? Really? I suggest to whatch the first season of Andor for an in-depth explanation of why a hard crackdown is usually only hardening resistence.
How to Fine-Tune an LLM from Hugging Face
Solar power is greatest at noon. I think Bob would be thrilled to be told that he will be required to work during the day rather than at night.
The 5D definitely grabbed the industry by the lapels, and gave it a good shake. Black Magic followed a few years later, and did their own version of it. For the price of that 5D, you now have the BMD cine cameras. We're pretty much to the point that the lens mount and the physical size of the sensor is the limit to how small a camera can get. It is fun times indeed.
So... I'm somewhere between "yes obviously CC is intending to facilitate reuse" and "yes obviously people who choose it often do so because they see others choosing it and don't read the fine details" and also "the majority of uses are probably acceptable by the creators"...

... and: if you wanted to just allow reuse we have a fantastically well-tread license for that - Public Domain. CC requires attribution.

That means it requires attribution. Among other things. That is arguably the main point of CC over Public Domain.

So this is kinda working as intended? There are obviously literal malicious trolls (manipulative, or following the law but intentionally targeting the most vulnerable rather than the main violators), but the amount of companies flagrantly violating these licenses is extreme and I don't feel any sympathy for them. Grabbing images off Google without researching their license is a fast track to getting sued, and it should be. That's the crux of any "don't steal from artists" and "exposure is not payment" argument.
What happened after a man got 217 coronavirus shots
When I open “Active” I see most topics created by bot and have zero comments.
> in this example no crime even yet occurred

Interviewing for a job with the prior stated intent of pilfering their IP is fraudulent.
This dystopian vision would require lighting the Fourth Amendment on fire and lead to widespread human rights violations of innocent people. Is corporate espionage a problem? Of course it is. Is it worth abandoning the principles of a free society for? Absolutely not.
Maybe try the —rot13 switch.

:-)
I wish these CSS selector details were better documented somewhere. For example, if right to left is always true, then

.cls[attr="value"] is always slower than [attr="value"].cls

But I never see anybody using the second one.

I think it's also interesting that there is no way to do figcaption.cls inverted like .clsfigcaption.

It's strange that default CSS that comes with tools like Wordpress abuses pseudo-selectors as much. I think everyone just writes it off as "it's the CSS 3 way."

On interesting example is that some javascript libraries to highlight code syntax will use ancestor selectors like .highlighted .keyword, which in my mind is crazy. You are making the classes through javascript, you could just use a single glass, which is what Highlight.js does: its classes look like .hlts-kw.

One time I had to deal with layout in CSS being too slow. It was not because of webpage, but an electron app for android that needed to get the bounding rectangle a lot to place divs for its custom GUI elements on screen. Since changing the DOM/CSS changes the bounding rects, placing a div and then checking the bounding rect again was a performance cost. The solution ended up being caching the client rect once before updating the DOM to avoid the thrashing.

Anyway, great talk :D I hope more people become aware CSS isn't magic, nor a black box, so they can think twice before writing their selectors. Sometimes I see CSS code with superfluous nested ancestors (e.g. .wrapper .content .post-body img), and I think that happens because it really just works, but unfortunately it seems that mentally carries on after a developer stops being a beginner, because the CSS just keeps working anyway.
Feels like it's a dopaminergic response to hearing a word but not knowing what it is. It's a novelty seeking thing. But once the work seems to be well understood, the novelty wears off and the novelty seeking mechanisms in humans quit responding.
You forgot about the 10 years that the instagram app just used the camera preview for pictures (as did snapchat), and now the average person thinks Android phones have bad cameras.

That's how badly Google mishandled Android, they listened to smooth brained tech bros who thought giving developers freedom would be a good idea, and Apple has always said they would ruin the user experience. Years later that "closed" ecosystem is so good Google has to beg lawmakers to let them access it because now there's a whole generation of people who see Android as a steaming pile of garbage, because it's exactly what Google let it become to the average person.
In 2000 years, your books may be the only thing left to study how we lived in the 21st century, because all ephemeral information (tweets, chat, SMS, emails, digital photos on people's devices) may have vanished.
Citations aren't proofs of the new paper claims. Sources are pointers to sarguments in support of your claims. It's the reader's job to evaluate those sources' arguments, and by citing sources the author is saved the effort of rewriting that part of the argument.
Does it sync bi-directionally from code to flow visual representation and back? Because that seems pretty useful to mass adoption. I notice you said "Flyde is designed to complement and enhance traditional textual coding, not to replace it."
Bi-directional sync would help a lot with that idea.
Large vehicles endanger everyone around you, but here we are.
Apple's efficient M3 MacBook Airs are just about as good as laptops get
>> What do you do in a situation like this?

Make sure that when you are downloading or uploading anything, and I mean anything from the internet that you do it though VPNs or other services that place some barrier between you and copyright trolls. You don't need NSA-levels of security to avoid the trolls, just enough of a barrier that their automated tools cannot see you so easily.

If you run a website, generate all your own content. Don't use stock photos. FYI, film and TV have been dealing with the same issue for decades. It is normal on a film/TV set for there to be zero tolerance for anything that might be subject to copyright. Any painting on a wall will either be blurred or the film will commission a new painting. That is a healthy policy for any website: if you want a little drawing of a mouse, pay someone to create one for you. Don't pay 5$ for a stock image that may or may not be appropriately licensed.
Now the biggest issue is to get those that train to come back. A lot of Russians chose not to, same with Indians, and Japanese. China has an extensive espionage network focused on keeping track of exchange students and make sure that they fall in line. Much more so than any other nation.

have a friend from Malaysia and they had this smart idea that if you study abroad and get a PhD or Masters (as I understood it) your entire student loan would be forgiven. Again people didn't move back, so the last I hear was that they tried to make it contingent on moving back to Malaysia. My info is abitout of date since it was a pre pandemic conversation I had with him.
One of the references has a section on Implications for Observations of exoplanets.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9f1f/...
Facebook users are not customers. They are the beneficiaries of free computing resources and bandwidth. And they are free to use 2FA to secure their accounts (might even be required).

If people mishandle their login credentials, that is not Facebook’s problem. If someone is a victim of a crime, that is the judicial system’s problem.
With conceptually straightforward I meant that the concepts are easy to pick up.

For example, the paper you cite is entirely understandable for anyone with some training in hermitian QM. In contrast, good luck trying to understand elementary concepts like the spectrum of the hydrogen atom or interference of matter waves from unitary QM.

Of course the field of quantum info has progressed enormously and has its own interesting challenges, for which hermitian QM is all but useless.
That would only apply if every single person who claimed they were a victim, was in fact a victim. I'm speculating that is not the case, because there are strong financial incentives to lie.
> What do you base that on? Sure corporations take on a life of their own, but there's much more to most of them than purely making profits.

Do corporations do other things besides make profits? Yes; I previously said as much. The point is about why they do the things they do.

> There are many corporate agendas that have little to do with profit.

Perhaps in the short term, if they can afford to economically, but isn't this kind of like the exception that proves the existence of the rule?

Is Tesla a car company that wants to make great cars and help reduce carbon emissions for the benefit of all? Maybe, but their primary goal must be profits, because they can't do any of the other stuff if they aren't profitable.

> The meme that corporations are purely about profit needs to die, because it encourages that exact behavior by giving free reign to morally devoid executives, IMHO.

I disagree that it encourages that behavior. If you want to change that behavior then an accurate understanding of the current state of affairs is a necessary prerequisite.

Like if you're going to say, "I want <insert company here> to do less of X and more of Y", then surely your first order of business must be to understand why they are doing X in the first place and not so much of Y (hint: it's usually because of profits).

In the case of corporations, because being profitable is necessarily the first priority, it follows that the most effective way to change the behavior of a corporation is pretty much anything that affects their profit, as opposed to appealing to the moral/ethical/whatever values of their leadership. If you want ethical corporate leadership, then you have to make it unprofitable to be unethical.
On Picking Side-Projects
Here's a much better explanation of the Fourier transform:

When you took calculus, you learned that functions can be written in a kind of "Taylor series":

f(x) = a0 + a1 x + a2 x^2 + ...

However, the functions {1, x, x^2, ...} aren't unique. You can use any basis functions. Let's replace them with {Φ0, Φ1, Φ2, ...}. To find your "Taylor series" you need some way to measure how far off your approximation is. We call this an "inner product", and one common one is the integral, i.e.

<f, g> = integral of f̅g dx

If we can change our coefficients {ai} and get a better approximation, it means there is some basis function where

<Φi, f> =/= <Φi, a0Φ0 + a1Φ1 + a2Φ2 + ...> = a0<Φi, Φ0> + a1<Φi, Φ1> + a2<Φi, Φ2> + ...

So, to get the best approximation, we just set the left and right sides of the equation equal. This is really easy to calculate if most of the <Φi, Φj> = 0 (and cancel out). We call a basis orthogonal if <Φi, Φj> = 0 except when i=j. For an orthogonal basis, we're left with

<Φi, f> = ai<Φi, Φi> --> ai = <Φi, Φi> / <Φi, f>.

One common orthogonal basis are the Legendre polynomials, which are the same as {1, x, x^2, ...} with the Gram-Schmidt process applied to them. We're not really going to discuss those here. Another common one are sines and cosines. In trigonometry you learned that

e^{ix} = cos(x) + i sin(x),

so we can instead use the basis

{..., e^{-2ix}, e^{-ix}, 1, e^{ix}, e^{2ix}, ...}

Plugging this in gives the Fourier transform:

a_k = 1/2pi * integral from -pi to pi of e^{-kix}f(x) dx.
What exactly sterling secrets looks like? Suppose I work on a video streaming service. Spent 8 years. Now I know in and out of it. The ffmpeg the queues the buckets the meta data and what not.

Someone hires me. I build a steaming service. But this time I'm much more polished and faster.

Is this stealing too?
https://arc.net/boost/3098D5E3-F164-478B-9586-077889192460

The 'Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)' in Dark Mode
Yeah, although given that ancient humans figured that out, maybe it wouldn’t take an advanced civilization very long. That’s probably the biggest flaw with the idea. Like, imagine a civilization at our stage, minus the stuff we learned by having a night sky (no universal gravitation; computers and radio, but no GPS; quantum physics but no general relativity, and so on). Now they manage to voyage into the cold, dark night. How quickly can they catch up? Decades maybe, but probably not centuries.

I think the other question is cultural. How much do they _care_ about space, when even the basic concept is new and alien, and studying it is very expensive?
No, the choice to learn in American institutions, make tons of American money, and live the American dream. None of those things should benefit a country that we are in direct competition with.

Slavery is wrong, becoming an international student to get a world-class education and work in the center of the tech industry is not. Comparing them is very silly.
Nothing is forcing any website to show these prompts.

Only websites which abuse personal data have to do it. Why are you angry at the legislation and not at terribly designed websites?