skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a very well-established orthodoxy that you even see in a lot of dinosaur names; they were "lizards." It's hard to step back from that sort of orthodoxy and look at things in a fresh light. It's also professionally difficult to go basically "Umm. I think everyone's been largely wrong for the last 100 years."

Arguably relatively and quantum did this in physics but they were arguably refinements on existing knowledge that worked perfectly well to explain and predict most things in everyday life.
'Cold blob' of Arctic meltwater may be causing European heat waves
Assuming I don't die too early, Portugal will have existed continuously for 900 years during my lifetime (founded in 1143). It was administered by a governor appointed by a spanish king for 60 years at one point, but never stopped being a distinct country.
As someone who has worked at MSPs in Australia, this absolutely sounds like a real ad/marketing business, unfortunately.
That's an approach explored by many it seems, and success on this front would certainly have to be considered a risk of investment in novel transport solutions. As far as I know, factories heat-treat (and pressure-treat) those composites in one go, in a huge oven enclosing the entire blade. On-site manufacture would either require those huge heat treatment units built locally or somehow made transportable, or a process that does without.

It might be a bit of a chicken/egg situation, the materials science required to do without the full-size oven not being worthwhile without a transportable implementation of all the assembly and layup arrangement that would have to be done before, and the logistics not happening without a solution on the materials side.
You know who doesn't lie about ice cream availability?

Ice cream parlours!
His mind emphasises the consonants instead of the vowels.
There is nothing wrong with the two Ferraris - as long as the boss accepts that they ate resources from the company. They need to be willing to accept the consequences which could range from poor implementation of business ideas, poor maintenance, loss of customers and employees.

If the boss comes down on the actual workers for activities that could have been solved by steering the Ferrari money into making the work easier, then there absolutely is something wrong.
This actually surprised me quite a bit considering how tokenization works.
Ever since the browsers decided that self signed certs were not good enough, I've considered the entire cert ecosystem to be a sham.
EU approves laws on recycling and human rights that may affect Chinese trade
In a full-metal-jacket NixOS setting it’s bloody hard to bash (no pun intended) your way through to the next screen by leaving behind tech debt (Python comes to mind, I made the mistake of trying to use Nix to manage Python once, never again).

But anywhere else you just brew/apt/rpm install whatever and nix develop —impure, which is easier than most intermediate git stuff and plenty of beginner stuff. git and Nix are almost the same data structure if you start poking around in .git or /nix/store, I might not understand what you mean without examples.

But all my guesses about what you might mean are addressed well by flox.
Exploring local-first development with Next.js, Supabase and PowerSync
The "harmful" part, the way I interpret it, is that it goes around OpenAI's filters. Nobody cares that you can now obtain overly vague instructions for how to make counterfeit money. What makes this "harmful" in a way is that OpenAI can't control their product, despite investing considerable effort to do so.
It's still mostly the same in Germany today.

My cousin in Germany is doing a 1-year long IT schooling course (going from how a PC works, how Win and Linux work, Shell/PS scripting to python and AWS) and the course material has all the technical terms in German: "Rechner", "Speicher", Ordner", "Betriebssystem", instead of Computer, Memory, Folder, Operating system.

Almost nothing from the course material is in English, which was shocking to me as if you're searching online for solutions to issues or learning new concepts, you can't expect in your career to only Google things in German and find answers in German, but you'll have to know to use everything in English to broader your search and knowledge base, so forcing all the candidates and materials in German feels like an unnecessary crippling.

So despite the new clothing, Germany is still a conservative digital dinosaur underneath, pretending to be cool and modern. "How do you do fellow Kinder?"[1]

My 0.02 Eurocents

[1] https://youtu.be/fiOMbqPHFwo?si=CIbdpdTXnkQ6MyJs&t=28
160m is the rotor diameter not the radius.
Regular cannabis/THC use is pretty famous for reducing REM sleep and dreaming.
This sort of thing also happened a lot in philosophy and in (the more theoretical parts of) the art world. Back in the 1990s it was somewhat excusable for non-native speakers to come up with new ilities and ities, also because they had nowhere to ask for a proper word to use. ChatGPT seems to more or less solve this.

However, what is even worse IMHO, is when people do not invent new words, and overload an existing concept with a totally different meaning.
We believe that the universe is accurately described by the Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric, for which we have good reasons, and which only allows a few trajectories of the scale factor. I'm not aware of any model with a sine-like scale factor, but there are people considering cyclical cosmologies. But they would still be a series of big bangs and big crunches.
I love how "science fair" this writeup is.

Personally, I would have looked at more options before going for the (rather large) motorized wheel route. Two that come to mind are reusing the ball-type powered typewriters from the 80s/90s since the balls had embossed letters and high-precision positioning already. A second is microfluidic displays, which cellphone makers toyed with for on-screen keyboard tactile feedback back in the early 2010s. And indeed a quick search shows that a University of Michigan team used exactly that for a braille display 8 years ago [1] and it's spinning out into a company now. The company that was working on this for "pop-up" touchscreens 10 years ago was Tactus [2]. On the electromechanical side, it looks like there's an open source movement already with some interesting results so far [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fIg4rI4cDw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JelhR2iPuw0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXi1tG78AW4
Wind projects often need to re/build a lot of roads, bridges and other road infrastructure anyways. They often need to build concrete production facilities on site to support the construction. In comparison, 2 km of packed dirt runway, which the plane is specifically meant to land on, is nothing.
I’ve been doing maintenance and bug fixes for this module for over 18 months now (last commit on HEAD seems to be mine), managing the last two releases. If you have questions and/or feedback, feel free.
Well, there are no large blimps/airships in production. Also, they are quite sensitive to windy conditions, and you want to errect the turbines in very windy places...
On the other side, building a small amount of rather simple airplanes should be quite doable in todays day and age.
Yes, the free one. I find it almost a fallacy to say "oh, yeah it sucks, but you should try the expensive one! Its proper good."

Oh, your BMW keeps having issues? You should have bought the one thats 2x the price, that one is perfect!

Of course its better, but both are being sold as a car, or, in this case, an LLM. Theyre both LLMs, theyre both by the leading AI company, if one sucks such supreme ass, why would the other one be amazing? ;)
I have to disagree with this.

Yes existing terms have meaning, but they also have baggage.

Forming a new term is a reasonably effective way to shed that baggage and attempt to start the cycle all over again.

Seeing a term you’re not as familiar with and needing to look up the definition (whether that’s a local or a global definition) is usually a good thing IME.
Well, money can be used to power a service that (almost) nobody uses, or to power services that Mozilla hopes will be more useful.

I, for one, had assumed that this service had been retired ages ago.
A New Manic Miner Port for an Arduino Uno Game Engine
Common Pager Codes
Is there a way to bypass SQL completely, and somehow give the Postgres the plan to execute? So targeting their intermediate language (i presume, it is not stable?) instead of the front one
Well, certainly there will be soon the wish to transport even larger blades. But if the first gen works out and is successful, then they could build an even longer airplane. As most of the Airplane is basically an aerodynamic fairing around the blades, I don't see why not.
This is true of some languages which have a high rate of change, such as English, but much less true of others. As a native Persian speaker for example, I can read the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) of Ferdowsi, which was written around 980 (very much contemporary of Beowulf), and understand about 95% of it. Nearly every literate Iranian would be able to read it without an issue, and at most modern prints have footnotes to explain the words which have fallen out of use.

Not every language changes at the rate English does.
It is easier to be inefficient and cheap on salaries.
The enforcement actions of the law are strictly limited to those listed in the law. AG is specially not authorized to use other enforcement mechanisms than what are listed.

This is not "by all means necessary" type issue. It the only enforcement is monetary penalties under civil law. AG has option to seek even more declaratory and injunctive reliefs if $500 per user is not enough.
Honestly the best thing you can do is get alternative offers - that is what talks.

In my mind it's easier getting a raise in a lower cost location. If the budget for a role is $200k for SF and $150k for Corntown Iowa, I already have $50k of wiggle room before I even hit the existing budget. But I personally just ask for the SF rate :)
Because no one ever made a helicopter able to carry 80 tons? And helicopters are tricky and expensive.
I just checked, $30 a refill in Australia (or $7 if you're low income). No limits, just whatever the doctor prescribes.
Zig is moving away from LLVM. Its already has its own backend targeting debug builds for x86 and arm. ReleaseFast and ReleaseSmall is an entire different beast, but its going to be tackled eventually.
Who the F is Skyhook) Holdings? :-\
This can still make sense today even with TLS depending on your trust model, because it means that even the server won't see the plaintext password.
Not sure how drastic it was to be honest. Under Windows, multi-threading was always the only option. So in theory, they already had code for that.
True, but I'd say it's still worth the email asking. I used to work in the mental health field requested paywalled research papers on cognitive and developmental disabilities pretty regularly, and about 80% of the people I contacted sent the paper to me without much question.

The more we all do it, the more expected the practice becomes and with any luck, these money-grubbing journals will take note and start offering copies at a minimal fee or time-limited access.
Yes but it's an offshore turbine, so it can be transported by see. I think the plane is targeting onshore turbines.
It is not just where people live.

People like to walk and hike and camp and holiday places, and sometimes they don't like it if their view is "ruined".
Well, for any coastal location, you can just take a ship.
Teachers asking students to show their work are human prompt engineers.
If I understand correctly, for most publishers you are allowed to host a copy on your personal web as well as the university library catalog?
So called Bürgerbeteiligungsgesellschaften (citizen participation companies) are quite common in rural Germany. Basically a citizen of a concerned community can opt to become a shareholder of such a company and gets a yearly kickback from the proceeds. It's not quite that simple but that's the basic idea.

The other form you find even more often is the so called Energiegenossenschaft (energy cooperative) which is organized like any other cooperative. The federal system of the FRoG promotes these local cooperatives over capital companies in certain areas, such as utilities.

AFAIK, there is no model where you reap benefits without doing something first, ie. join a cooperative or buy shares.
I’m not sure that they actually are able to. From the article:

> Although LLMs find it difficult to recognize specific words represented as ASCII art, they have the ability to infer what such a word might be based on the text content in the remainder of the input statement.
the pilot has a missus but couldnt possibly divorce, for whatever reason...so he organises this rescue boat to be at -30, 100 the 9th March: watch for the falling plane, an inflatable boat coming out of the back door, and myself with the chute...now back in Kuala Lumpur, with the missus, waiting for the insurance money
It would be like steering offshore teams, with the difference the team are now AI agents.

Better look for architecture and management jobs, only a few select ones would still be allowed into the magic tower.

Naturally after a heavy round of letcode interviews that have nothing to do with writing AI algorithms.
Author here.

For a perfect drop-in replacement of std::lower_bound, the best you can do without breaking anything is to make the search branchless and maybe add some prefetching [1]. Some compilers actually try to implement std::lower_bound this way, but these things can sometimes break from version to version because there are no semantics to reliably make compiler use predication instead of branching.

Your intuitions are very much correct: you can get rid of pointers in a B-tree and make it static and implicit and fast, especially if you use SIMD to search for the lower bound within a node [2], but it would technically not be a replacement to std::lower_bound as we need to build an additional structure (even though it's very hard to imagine a scenario where you obtain a sorted array but can’t afford to spend linear time on preprocessing). C++23 has since added std::flat_set, which seems to be an appropriate place to implement it (in the article I compared against std::lower_bound because neither I nor the vast majority of the readers knew what std::flat_set was).

You can also add pointers back to support insertion and deletion with a moderate penalty to performance [3], but this dynamic B-tree is also technically not a replacement to std::set because of the extra pointer invalidations when a node merges or splits (even though in most cases you don't need pointer stability). You can fix it by, e.g., storing separate pairs of pointers so that each iterator knows where its key is in the tree and vice versa. That would add some overhead (especially in terms of memory) but make it compliant with the standard and still quite a bit faster and lighter than std::set.

The three articles combined are like 50 pages long so for a tl;dr version you might be interested in a talk I did at CppCon [4]. You can also extend the trick for heaps, ropes, segment trees, and other tree-like structures. There is a lot of work to be done here.

[1] https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/data-structures/binary-searc...

[2] https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/data-structures/s-tree/

[3] https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/data-structures/b-tree/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RIPMQQRBWk
Reaction I: "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future"

Reaction II: When you say "A.I.", which of the following do you mean?

- Actual autonomous "SciFi" A.I., doing what it wants to do, because of it's own, not-human-derived motivations, to the detriment of humanity

- Supposed A.I. that is merely a techno-fig leaf for nasty sh*t that humans would be doing to each other anyway

- Hyped-to-the-stars A.I. that is sold as the great solution to a bunch of huge human problems...but that was 99% hype, so we're screwed when it doesn't really work

- Other
I truly like postgres
Federal policy is not targeted at your personal use case. 20mbit up is an entirely satisfactory BASELINE for residential internet access in 2024. You’re so far into a bubble that you can’t even see it.
Dockerfile’s are absolutely not something a 4th grader would understand. It looks familiar to you, because you have already learnt it. They are definitely not trivial to understand before that, and the same is also true for Nix.
The SQLite table has no indexes, and that alone would ensure instant response in count(*). The entire article follows some pretty skewed reasoning.

Don’t researchers know how to create database indexes? That would explain a lot of what I see in day to day pseudo-benchmarking like this.

(And yes, DuckDB is pretty cool. But trying to compare things without understanding how they should work is… sub-optimal)
I disagree. Doing my math degree I had constantly sat in classes where I had no idea what I was being taught. Doing my own research helped me understand the topic a lot better.
> Germany is still a conservative digital dinosaur underneath

Using one’s native language as opposed to English is sufficient to make one a “conservative digital dinosaur”?

I think your conclusion is correct, but I don’t think this Anglocentric argument is the reason why.
Siemens S7-300/400 PLCs manuals used german words (Akku, Doppelwort ..). Also AWL (something like Assembler for PLCs) used german mnemonic by default.
It just changed with the new S7-1200/1500 TIA generation. Now they use english words everywhere and AWL mnemonic is english by default.
That sounds like how you build a really strong business, not how you become a really rich executive.

I imagine society would be nearing utopia if your average upper management cared about building good businesses instead of getting unreasonably wealthy.
There are attempts like

https://flake.parts/

or

https://github.com/nix-community/flakelight

Their aim is to create an ecosystem of reusable Nix libraries. But it is tiny.
The people making The Sims weren’t targeting AGI as their eventual goal, though.

It’s somewhat like the difference between a kid squishing an ant and a kid squishing a puppy. One is fairly harmless; the other is serial killer shit.
Beautiful example of the innovation narrative that keeps CTOs of the largest companies awake at night. A (very) intelligent outsider, with pen and paper, computer, a 3D printer who lives where Aliexpress delivers. Meanders and bounces between theory, practice and sleep deprivation can come up with a disruptive PoC in a matter of weeks [0].

I would really like this to work, and/or that it inspires others to make these braille readers affordable.

[0]: the inspiration for this project started 48 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159476
Just read some Camus!
Anyone capable of executing such a plan is capable of doing the research and creating the plan themselves; LLMs are just trained on public data, they don't have any special knowledge that can't be found online. Those "safeguards" are purely security theatre, they achieve nothing against a dedicated threat actor.
This has probably way more to do with how much REM sleep you get, which is said to be the most restorative sleep.
Excellent! Dark matter is a kludge, the modern "ether". It's clear that we are missing something - maybe this is it...
Are Billionaires prepping for the apocalypse – or pioneering a new feudalism?
> Yes and no. If you take shareholder money, you are required to operate in the interests of the shareholders.

Nope:

* https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...

Per the US Supreme Court:

> […] modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.

* https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/13-354.ht...

Or, at the very least, you have to ask which shareholders:

> Serving shareholders’ “best interests” is not the same thing as either maximizing profits, or maximizing shareholder value. "Shareholder value," for one thing, is a vague objective: No single “shareholder value” can exist, because different shareholders have different values. Some are long-term investors planning to hold stock for years or decades; others are short-term speculators.

* https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

The focus on shareholders mostly took hold in the 1970s (coïncidentally when folks like Milton Friedman became more popular, and the 1980s (Reagan, Thatcher)):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine

and so to claim it is self-evident when there is decades of history for other views, is at least not accurate:

* https://www2.law.temple.edu/10q/purpose-corporation-brief-hi...

And contrary to what many people think, the shareholders are not the owners of a company.

* https://www.ippr.org/articles/who-owns-a-company

* https://hbr.org/2012/07/what-good-are-shareholders

* https://www.ft.com/content/7bd1b20a-879b-11e5-90de-f44762bf9...

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergeorgescu/2021/07/21/the-s...

* https://queenslawclinics.ca/node/81
Snapdragon X Elite Multi-Core Superiority Claims over Apple's M3 Were Right
AFAIK, this comes with distribution limitations like to your department and students in the university. There's an exception for arXiv generally for publishing intermediate revisions, but not the final one.

Elsevier has a nice summary at [0]. At the bottom there's "Publicly share the final published article". It's "YES" for Open Access and "NO" for subscription (classical) model. There's a rather detailed "Scholarly Share" which allows sharing with researchers, but not to any researcher, as I aforementioned on top.

[0]: https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/copyri...
I recall there being a clock face puzzle in The Seventh Guest but I couldn't tell you if it involved that fact.
In a way it makes it harder to then learn further on later, something required in IT.

I studied IT in Sweden and all the course material is in English. MS books, Linux books, Cisco CCNA books etc.

I imagine, as I can't compare, that this makes it easier to learn further in IT, and participate in communities such as this.
> current safeguards are inadequate

I think this needs to be established instead of being assumed. There is plenty of knowledge out there in the world that can easily be accessed and combined to accomplish bad things. A motivated actor will find the information they need, regardless of whether ChatGPT helps them.
Australia’s advertising regulations now require advertising typical evening speeds. There are a handful of good ISPs that will (voluntarily) publicly publish backbone utilisation metrics so you can get a feel for contention. Australia’s Internet policy is far from perfect, but, again, Americans need only look basically anywhere else on Earth to see how things could be, instead of sitting around hypothesising.
Or ships passing by on the horizon, or aircraft painting contrails in the sky. Really terrible to have a sight line to evidence of human existence. And all those fields, vineyards, orchards and meadows humans have created in place of native forests! Unbearable!
What is the smaller version of this? Just like I can buy a small solar panel that is able to charge a battery that I can then use to charge my phone. Is there a small windmill I can buy that can do a couple hundred watts?