skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monte-Carlo graph search from first principles
I think it's Cyril Astruc. His parents fit the job descriptions in the article: tailor and teacher.
Akira Toriyama gave us gaming's most perfect character design
The media is dogwistling... that they're hiding things? Who is the dogwhistle for?
Depends on how small we're looking at.

Things like Cortex-M-- stuff's deterministic. Sure, we might have caches on the high end (M55/88), and contention for resources with DMA, but we can reason about them pretty well.

A few years ago I was generating NTSC overlay video waveforms with SPI from a cortex-M4 while controlling flight dynamics and radio communications on the same processor. RMS Jitter on the important tasks was ~20 nanoseconds-- 3-4 cycles, about a factor of 100x better than the requirement.

But I guess you're right: you could also consider something like a dual-core Cortex-A57 quite small, where all the above complaints are true.
GitHub LSP for Markdown links to issues, users and repos
This project is finally at a point where it makes me more productive writing our in-house documentation using GitHub Pages. I think it may help you too!

I hope you like it and contribute to it with issues or PRs.

Time to make up for my lost time making the LSP, by using the LSP :)
The parent comment isn't entirely wrong, though. There are reasonable, safe and productive degrees of curiosity, and their are unreasonable, unsafe and antiproductive degrees too.

AI itself is not worthless, the goal of advancing machine-learning and computer vision has long-since proved it's worth. Heralding LLMs as the burgeoning messiah of "AGI" (or worse yet, crowning OpenAI) is a bald-faced hype machine. This is not about space exploration or advancing some particular field of physics along a well-defined line of research. It's madness plus marketing, and there's no reasonable defense of their current valuation. At least Tesla has property worth something if they liquidate, OpenAI is worth nothing if they fail. Investing in their success is like playing at a roulette wheel you know is rigged.
I guess I'll start:

Don't do this: black on black text like you do on that site

Do this instead: text you can read

(and I can't make this on your site because I can't read the text in the chat)
Of course. All medicine producers know to price their product just below the alternative.
What stops you from just spinning up X nodes in your own private network if everything is open source? And then tell every node to decrypt instantly.
> Disney can predict with a high degree of certainty that its superhero movies will do well, as there is a large, built-in market for those movies, and they tend to be conceived on the same creative blueprint or foundation. Even its 'duds' are still profitable.

Google something like "Marvel superhero fatigue". It seems that either the movie quality is decreasing or the audience is becoming more and more bored by these movies.
Related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543155
They're not the same link—the articles' text are the same, but they come with different sets of images.

The cam.ac.uk seems to be the "correct" version, since it contains the drawing described in the corresponding text as: "...such as the lady in a litter seen in this image taken from a travelogue (owned by Strahov Monastery) of...". The medievalists.net version erroneously omits this drawing. The medievalists.net version is... whatever the digital equivalent of a "misprint" is.
Thank you, I regret picking such a reference. Amazing to entertain that the guy who killed Hoffa could have lived long enough to write about it. As if reality suddenly became gentler, and all differences could be hugged out.
Really liked this quote.

“While breadth comes from reading and talking and seeing, depth comes from doing. The way to really learn about some domain is to have to solve problems in it”
I don't know many pieces by Faure, but do listen to a lot of Violin, and one of my favorites is Fileuse "Spinning Song"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxg9jmvZOlM
Pretty much every time I’ve seen an article that used Google ngrams as a secondary anecdote, it’s a bit of introductory fluff, and I pay zero attention to the integrity of the analysis. It’s the equivalent of a journalist writing “people are saying…”.
> docker containers

heh, that's neat: https://github.com/httptoolkit/docker-registry-facade (Apache 2) although the rest of their stuff seems to be AGPLv3 https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-android/blob/v1.3...
Parsing the Postgres Protocol
No, datacenter GPU revenue has surpassed gaming revenue some time ago. At least for Nvidia and I fully expect this trend to continue.
LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices
Apple Photos, Music, Numbers, Notes… It’s truly exasperating trying to surface an answer for a question like “how do I sort photos in Apple Photos by date of photo not date added?”

At least Google figured out after the fact that golang made more sense than go.
Their suppliers wouldn’t be able to subject them to surge pricing either.

That said all the articles about restaurants considering surge prices have been nationwide chains, so not exactly the group that lacks pricing control.
Incident: Batik A320 enroute on Jan 25th 2024, both pilots asleep
Yeah, anecdotes are good for making observations to base a hypothesis off of, but that's it. You can't really draw conclusions from them as if they're data. Walking on the ground is based on a repeatable experience and is based on physics. We can't say if the conclusion you're drawing is most people have two eyes, or that most people are white. Claiming smarter people are more likely to write sloppy code based on anecdotes overlooks how diverse the field of programming is, and how complex programming is, and how different people are. It's a mix of education, experience, culture, and individual habits. Using anecdotal evidence for such claims is going to overlook counterexamples and is basically gonna be confirmation bias.

Your meta-claim lacks rigor. Again, the plural of anecdote is not data. The truth of a claim in the realm of human behavior and skills requires empirical evidence, which involves a stupid amount of work to make systematic observations to get shittons of data to override sampling bias, far beyond what any one human could experience. Without data, we've got speculation, not reliable conclusions.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. You're entitled to believe "smarter people are more likely to write sloppy code." Just like I'm entitled to my opinion that that's based on evidence subject to confirmation and sampling bias rather than any grounding in fact. :) We're going around in circles at this point, so I'll stop, but it's been fun.
Most Canadians live on their southern border, if they became Americans, they'd likely move south ASAP. The cold is really the #1 thing holding them back. The second thing is they just simply lack population.
rezone + rebuild for housing?
The US had its own LFP manufacturing pioneer, A123, but the company struggled with mass production and was sold to a Chinese company after factory fire and manufacturing defects, which IMO would have been tolerated in China.

So it's not just the patent system that is holding back the West. China was also able to get ahead in the battery race by blatantly ignoring the international trade rules under China's WTO obligation against illegal gov't "export subsidies," "local content rules," "forced IP transfer" via "forced joint venture," or outright ban on foreign competitors to protect local, weak players like CATL/BYD. China hasn't necessarily been too shy about their mercantilist ambition past 10 years, aka Made-In-China 2025.
You can usually get concentrated cleaning solutions, but they tend to be used more by industry/businesses. These quats are sold concentrated as dish sanitizer (mixed in a sink full of water) for restaurants, for example.

I think consumers would just rather have ready-to-use spray bottles in most cases. There's probably a surprising number of people that couldn't do the basic math of diluting based on a formula.
Not sure what the regulations in Spain say about it, but I have a small USB-powered desk fan. It doesn't cool the air itself, but a little airflow can help cool you, regardless.
We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't post like this again, and please avoid the flamewar style on HN generally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You could create a DeFi system not too unlike the one linked in this post: a number of oracles release keys at designated times (use M of N encryption).

The oracles could be financially incentivized to behave properly. E.g. they post a bond, which is confiscated if they don't post a private key on time or if a whistleblower discovers and reports a key early. In return for correct behavior they can earn some fees paid by users of the service.

The financial incentive still flips if the secret's value is sufficiently large, but it would require coordination of many unprincipled oracles.
> The best essay would be on the most important topic you could tell people something surprising about.

The premise is wrong (or at least not obviously right) IMO, so I have a hard time taking any of the rest of it seriously. Could the best essay not be the most emotionally moving? The best when heard aloud? The most convincing call to action? The most accurate? The highest grossing? Driving the most engagement? What about the topic (any topic) that you could tell the /most interesting surprise/ about?

If Paul Graham didn’t run this company he certainly would not make it to the front page for his lazy philosophy.
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> Kexec is disabled as it can be used to load a malicious kernel and gain arbitrary code execution in kernel mode.

Only root can kexec anyway. "Hardening" guidance that suggests limiting the root user feels like an attempt to boil the frog of widespread Linux DRM.
> You then define all value only within the limited logic of markets.

Not all value, just monetary one. There's plenty of valueable activities that do not pay much or even a dime. However, the discussion revolved about making a living, not what's valueable in the abstract. And, regarding making a living, it's true that plenty more people want to be paid as historians that other people have a need for.
Is it possible to JIT Lua mathematical expressions into native assembly for more efficient execution?
Quake renders itself per-pixel. With a mid-90s CPU (no GPU). And it does vastly more computing than just one bit op per pixel. Any remotely modern computer could fill hundreds (if not >1000) of 96k frames per second. The STM32f7 could likely do it at real-time frame rates with some optimizations.
Eddington Experiment
One example being once the phrase "sweet summer child" came up with someone asking where it originated and why it was popular all of the sudden. Some were insistent it was a common phrase in recent times prior to A Game of Thrones using it and others were saying it's always been a common thing and GoT was just the latest media but not related to its modern usage. A default ngrams search will show some decent activity in the 1800s then the phrase catching on a bit in the early 90s, staying steady through the late 90s, until it took off in the late 2000s. The phrase turns out to have definitely been said in the 1800s but maybe not with the frequency the graph might hint at initially because of the infrequency of recorded material at the time. Then unsmoothing things and shrinking the date range you'll see it really didn't take off until just after 1996 where it died down pretty quickly until 2011.

I.e. what initially looked like something that had been a common phrase before and into popularity in recent times turned out to be something that had been previously mentioned but not really in use then lines up exactly with the release dates of the book and movies for A Game of Thrones instead of something which slightly preceded it. This shows how easy it is to end up with two opposite conclusions by using Ngram Viewer slightly differently.

Alright, enough rambling about the hazards of Ngram Viewer in a post focused on Moore's Law :p.
I wouldn't read too much into the syntax - the Haskell-like definitions are just a succinct way to describe the AST representation for the toy call-by-push-value language the post is talking about. Similarly, the syntax that resembles LISP, is actually (I believe) just shorthand for how the language would be represented in an extended lambda calculus with call-by-push-value semantics.

I think it's important to note that the post is clearly written for someone working on the implementation of compilers/type systems. So for example, in a compiler IR, especially those based on an extended lambda calculus representation, functions/closures are often curried, i.e. only take a single argument. As a result it can be an issue at a given call site to know whether a function is "saturated", i.e. all of its arguments have been applied so it will do some work and return the actual result; or whether it is only partially saturated, in which case it returns a new function that needs one less argument than before. I gather that this interacts poorly with typing in some situations, but I'm not super familiar with the issues here as I haven't gone down the rabbit hole of building a compiler with this kind of IR.

That said, as someone who works as a compiler engineer, I do recognize the potential of call-by-push-value, namely that it reifies evaluation semantics in the IR, rather than it being implicitly eager or lazy, and thus having to hack around the lack of one or the other, i.e. implementing lazy evaluation on top of eager semantics or vice versa. Making it a first-class citizen enables optimizations that would otherwise be impossible or very difficult to implement. To be clear though, you can obviously implement lazy on top of eager, or eager on top of lazy, without call-by-push-value - but I think if you anticipate needing to do that, and you are building a new compiler, using a call-by-push-value IR might be a worthwhile approach to take.

There might be more to it that I'm not really seeing yet in my brief reading of it, but the post made sense to me, it's just assuming a lot about the reader (i.e. that you are deeply familiar with compiler implementation, type theory, etc.).
I found the article to be entirely useless, since it doesn't cover concrete techniques from any traditions, whether that's St. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle or Buddhist works.

The best "focus techniques" are usually found in "occult" books - I quote because there is no real system and it's all disjointed and makes no sense. Anyway, here are some decent focus exercises:

1. Take a book. Count the words on a random page. Remember the word count. Count them again, confirm the word count. This is HARD - you stay focused for several minutes, avoid the temptation to actually read the content, and have to hold the current number + the last total in your mind, which stresses your WM.

2. Just count to 500+ while laying down and not moving (usually before bed). I find counting heart beats and breath affects the natural rhythm and messes with it, though Buddhism loves that.

3. Spill a bunch of marbles / legos on the floor and pick them up ONE piece at a time.

4. Dual n-back from the Brain Workshop (free, I am not associated) app. See more info here: https://gwern.net/dnb-faq

Overall, all of these were never really proven to do anything and the question whether "perfect focus" impedes creativity is open. Furthermore, one of the true tests of "perfect focus" is when you forget yourself in the moment and lose track of time - that only seems to happen when the situation is extremely stressful / interesting, and none of the techniques reproduce it. It's also unclear if any of the exercises carry over to work. They teach you what focus feels like though - you definitely can't be on your phone and doing the word count exercise. Funnily enough, video games or movies also teach you what focus should be - you are staring at the same thing for hours without needing to get up, get tea, or otherwise distract yourself.

Anyway, that was a bit of a rant, but as an "expert" in the subject matter, I am pretty hard-pressed to find anything concretely useful there. It definitely doesn't fall into the "universally good" category like "Get enough sleep, lift, do cardio, don't eat sugar, brush your teeth, don't get sun burnt every day", etc. club.
The other problem with right I forgot to mention is that Rigor generally means:

1: Refusing to make a firm affirmative statement on an issue, when that's what people want

2: Correcting what you have claimed in the past, which makes you look gullible and indecisive

With the example of bloodletting, people wanted to believe a doctor knew how to cure them, and once somebody had done bloodletting even if they had doubts later, they would look like fools if they convinced people they had been harming their patients all along.

It's easier and often more rewarding to be a fraud.
The developer might be Maori. In which case, that's very cool indeed.
>and even 10000 and it still worked!!!! pretty awesome

Mind you, bursts greater than a certain size, around 8000 bytes for the defaults, are a game of probability in what damage they will do. In most cases it'll work like you did for you, but in some unlucky offsets 10000 byte corruptions with default settings could do something like this.

1 byte corrupts fragment x of block n, 4096 bytes decimate fragment x of block n+1, 4096 bytes decimate fragment x of block n+2, 1807 bytes corrupts fragment x+1 of block n.

The defaults only have 1 parity fragment, so the fact two fragments were corrupted for block n means it can't be faithfully reconstructed. In the average case you should be fine, but it is something I should probably communicate more effectively in the README (I only hint at it with the 8K per 192K comment).
Is it really falling apart? The US universities hire many, probably thousans or even tens of thosands, of excellent history professors. What's the problem with it?
really hope this will help others as well
Other examples include many cities outside of North America - e.g. in Switzerland, that have very different downtowns to your cherry-picked examples.
This sums it up better than I can:
https://taiuru.co.nz/branding/#Consultation

| If using a Māori cultural element, it is essential that you create a cultural narrative around your brand or product including the usage, your thinking and where you gained inspiration from. In Māori culture this is called ‘whakapapa’. Everything in the Māori world has whakapapa. It is also your first line of defense if someone accuses you of cultural appropriation.
I thought that it was well understood that the purpose of sumptuary laws was to prop up social hierarchies.

With this in mind the "startling discovery" is not startling at all.
Did Arduino recently regain their relevance for serious work? I haven't followed this topic for a few years, my previous impression was that Arduino products were only for simpler educational purposes, and you would buy a cheaper clone anyway. More serious hobbyists seemed to have switched to Raspberry products at the time, and now they have quite a range of MCU boards as well.

But now I see products like MKR, Portenta, even proper industrial DIN-mounted controllers that look quite capable. Those in the know, what's the current landscape, what ecosystem is worth buying into?
they would be well placed to explain their whakapapa and reasons for choosing the name, nē?
US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism
Maybe try feeding it a vector instead of a raster then
Why should I want to tap the bars in the first place?

Why can I tap the largest bar so much that it can become as small as others in the end?

Why can't bars just auto-resize when I scroll the page horizontally?

You're the designer here, so it's up to you to shape user experience to deliver your point. Instead you allow users to ruin it for themselves and don't even try to control the narrative of the page. Sorry, don't know what you wanted to do here but I don't think it's working.
Never heard of tha but definitely going to check it out.

I kinda feel like that's how cities are today and will increasingly be so as we get further into the future where people are interacting digitally first and physically second interaction starts to stratify.

I imagine a holo-lens future where it's quite literally possible to have a city to yourself or only see the set of people you want to with all the good and bad. Imagine social media bubbles but in the real world, with all the good bad bad that comes.
About Link Integrity
I do use this resource for 510k.fyi to populate the device and recall data, but unfortunately it does not contain the 510(k) summaries, or even links to them. The web scraping was still required to get those documents so that I could run OCR on them.

Since the website is open source, there's even a github issue confirming this: https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/200
Somewhat related, the 21 songs removed from the re-release in the definitive edition:

https://www.sportskeeda.com/gta/all-21-songs-missing-radio-s...
> One doesn’t have to be in the NBA to play basketball, but there’s a world of difference between playing at the local park versus being on the Golden State Warriors.

Depends on the research field. For example, Einstein did some of his best work without any university affiliation.
>I wouldn’t even be surprised that this could be viable economically.

Do you imagine there's a large market for physically-based time locked encryption?

Hard to imagine there's a ton of paying customers lol
Hey Nick :wave:
There's no incentive for publishers to do that, but a good scientist will explore an area before embarking on it. This is where meta-analyses and citation mapping tools come in handy.
> Basically, don’t become the actual gold miner lol.

I was responding to this bit. If nobody is mining and everyone is selling shovels, it's not going to work. We need people to be gold miners as well as selling shovels.
Paper can't provide binaries as it would infringe Mojang's copyright. Users must "build" the server by downloading the official binary and applying local patches. This is well-automated for users.

Licensing wasn't so much a problem in the early days of Minecraft. The first really popular server mod (CraftBukkit) not only provided binaries, but deopfuscated server code on a GitHub repo (since DMCA'd): http://github.com/bukkit/craftbukkit. That repository was ostensibly licensed as LGPL, but no one really believed that, given it was derived from Mojang's proprietary binaries.

Mojang eventually acquired CraftBukkit and hired their devs. And there's an interesting footnote: for several months, Mojang didn't tell anyone they'd acquired CraftBukkit, and they kept making releases to the public GitHub repository. Given it was Mojang making these pushes, I believe (IANAL) that they are officially-licensed LGPL versions of the Minecraft server, albeit ~10 years out-of-date now.
They managed to do this to Quake.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SGknUiihpkI
People (usually installers) also get hung up on having the correct angle for stationary panels.
In winter the solar gain difference on 'correctly' angled panels vs just having them flat on the roof is basically zero, and in summer you should have excess solar gain anyway so again it doesn't matter.

And even if you're losing a small amount due to an inefficient angle, just get more panels!