skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The definition of memory safety is not "code that does not result in UB".
Yup, csv is always the best fallback, imo.
It's: easily generated, easily parsed, human readable/editable, compact, portable, list goes on.
> The quads weren't even that big of a problem. Even if the industry did standardise on triangles for 3D hardware, a lot of the artist pipelines sick with quads as much as possible.

AFAIK the problems lie in things like clipping/collision detection. Now that you have four points instead of three, there is no guarantee that the polygon is a flat surface.
A recent thread on Amazon’s new Chronos forecasting model showed that an ensemble of simple models outperformed it (a highly parametrized transformed model) on the M competition datasets.

https://github.com/Nixtla/nixtla/tree/main/experiments/amazo...
Moving large boats across water is slow. The Francis Scott Key bridge was 8600 feet long, or 1.4 nautical miles. AFAICT there were just over 4 minutes from the time that the first power outage started until the ship struck the piling.

A modern harbor tugboat can go perhaps 15 knots. In 4 minutes this means it would travel 4 nautical miles, at the very best (running start in correct direction).

So let's say that there would have been 4 minutes for a tugboat to (1) become aware of the problem, (2) travel to the location of the ship, (3) figure out what it needs to do, (4) maneuver into position [keeping in mind it might need to move to the other side of a 900' ship moving 8 knots] and (5) move the ship. And this assumes that the tugboat was idle in the first place.

There just would not have been enough time to do anything meaningful if the tug wasn't already right at the ship, on the correct side.
23/25 students confess they used ChatGPT for an assignment
Minsky is an example of the power of credentialism. He was an MIT professor who researched AI. I think history has pretty much demonstrated he didn't have any special insight into the question of AI, but for decades he was the most famous researcher in the field.
If it sees 90% of photos of basketball players wearing sneakers it is still going to get the idea that basketball players wear sneakers. I guess I could make up some synthetic data where I mix and match people's shoes but it's a strange way to get at the problem: train on some image set that has completely unrealistic statistics to try to make it pay attention to particular features as opposed to other ones.

Problems like that have been bugging me for a while, if you had some Bayesian model you could adjust the priors to make the statistics match a particular set of cases and it would be nice if you could do the same with a wide range of machine learning approaches. For instance you might find that 90% of the cases are "easy" cases that seem like a waste to include in the training data, keeping there gives the model the right idea about the statistics but may burn up the learning capacity of the model such that it can't really learn from the other 10%.

I talked w/ some contractors who made intelligence models for three-letter agencies and they told me all about ways for dealing with that come down to building multiple-staged models where you build a model that separates the hard cases from the easy cases with specialized training sets for each one. It's one of those things that some people have forgotten in the Research Triangle Park area but Silicon Valley never knew.
One thing I worry about, as a parent in Silicon Valley, is that my kid will somehow procure a phone and hide it from us. My kids don't have enough cash to go buy a new phone without us noticing, but used phones are pretty cheap. Also, a wealthy friend/boyfriend could buy a phone and pay for cellular (MVNOs are quite inexpensive these days), which would defeat router-based monitoring. My kids are currently too young to do any of this, but I foresee it as an issue in the future.
I think we just found KJU's Hacker News account. XD
I honestly loved (!) the created melody, but stumbled across a couple UX issues. Most of those, I think, could be fixed with smarter defaults and some tweaks. Excellent work, though. Would love to see how it develops...

During creation of a new track:

- Why do I need a description?

- Why do I need a name, actually?

- Why is there only Latin and Empty available?

- Edit: Just realised that the Latin track is hardcoded?

During editing:

- I was not sure whether / how my actions affect the tracks / track items. (One remedy could be showing the actual waveform of the created sounds in the editor instead of a placeholder waveform.)

- Creating a new instrument — I found the "Instrument Sound Pack" dropdown menu only by accident after some clicking. It would be great to see what type of instrument I'm dealing with without having to click on the instrument itself. (Maybe map it directly to the displayed name? I'd rather have Acoustic Bass 1 to 4 instead of a bunch of "Unnamed Instrum...")

- Some actions have no effect until you restart the playback (e.g. changing speed of a track item).

- Some actions stop the playback (e.g. changing the instrument type)
The CBBT is downstream of the bridge which collapsed. I've driven it many times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_Bridge–Tunnel
Well if you keep rudder aligned with the engine (i.e. parallel) you are really using both, not just the engine.
It'll draw the same texel multiple times if it has to. One of the Saturn's programming manuals describes in limited detail how it will attempt to avoid leaving any gaps in polygons.

> Polygons contain diagonal lines that may result in pixel dropout (aliasing). When this occurs, holes are anti-aliased. For this reason, some pixels may be written twice, and therefore the results of half-transparaency processing as well as other color calculations cannot be guaranteed.

https://antime.kapsi.fi/sega/files/ST-013-R3-061694.pdf
The previous blog post [0] mentioned they were using stockfish with 0.1 seconds per move.

[0] https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/01/03/c...
You can just force it to output into a specified BNF grammar this is quite easy

https://www.imaurer.com/llama-cpp-grammars/
The conclusion is very encouraging!

> The affected Megapacks failed safely despite total loss.
That's my bad. I should have opened with my context first (see my remark about "I tried the articles suggestion") instead of sharing my conclusion.
> The "feed own population" is 2nd tier consideration. And as an industry, it uses a big % of the surface area in our densely populated country, while adding relatively little to our economy (~2% or so, iirc).

TFA says total agricultural exports in 2021 was $108.4 billion and according to Google the GDP was just over $1 trillion, which is closer to a tenth of the economy just in exports not 2%. Am I missing something?
Policy should not be informed by TikTok memes about brain development.
I’ve been working on a synthetic DNA assembly company. Basically, I figured out how to assemble DNA for people at a fraction of what it normally costs, so they give me a sequence, and then I make it in real life for them, then ship it to them.

Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me!

After almost a year of work I finally smoothed out all the kinks in the process, so can now go from a design to synthetic DNA in a cell in about a week (not counting oligo pool synthesis time). I can do about 600,000bp per week, which is large enough to synthesize the smallest bacterial genome (each week), tho I only do about 1000bp fragments. I’m also completely bootstrapped and self funded, and only get help from my several opentrons robots
RAG is not the same as vector similarity search
AI vs. Artists – The Biggest Art Heist in History [video]
"A ship traveling at 8 knots" is a meaningless statement. You need to know how bit the ship is...
Phones are not that expensive anymore. Kids can buy used phones for $100, or get hand-me-downs from friends. They can use them on wifi, or if they are able to get a prepaid SIM they can use them on cellular also.
https://pirep.io - a collaborative database of all airports in the US & Canada and their local amenities for general aviation pilots. There's a bunch of local knowledge scattered about for recreational pilots, most of it unpublished. Pirep aims to make that more accessible so it in turn gets more people out flying.
> the next big social media platform will be the one that can guarantee the most authentic human connections.

Which is a thing that I don't think is feasible. I could be wrong, of course. But I do agree that authenticity is going to be the issue that social platforms will live or die on.

I think the next evolution of "social media" is more likely to be a return to the old-fashioned notion of interacting with people in person.
I'm building a registrar, beachfront/, for Handshake TLDs I own.

For the uninitiated, Handshake is a blockchain that democratizes the issuance of TLDs via Vickrey-style auctions. Handshake does NOT handle SLDs (second-level domains, or just "domains").

That's where beachfront/ comes in. I recently presented my progress at HandyCon a couple weeks ago and published the transcription this morning.

https://blog.neuenet.com/post/handycon-presentation

Why do I bother with this? Handshake is a blockchain-based naming system focused on TLDs (and security via DANE/DNSSEC). Other blockchains are focused on finance, data, &c and just so happen to have (SLD) naming systems.
Do big container ships like this typically just have a standard propeller/rudder without some kind of directional thruster to assist in maneuvering?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller
Some ways I wrote about elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39784683
Shared screens was the norm in Europe too, but pneumatic headphones is something I've never seen on a European carrier at all - not at all ruling out some might use them, after all, there are many of them and I've by no means flown them all. I wonder, though if it's another case of tech that may have been skipped by airlines that e.g. didn't add inflight entertainment as early as others and so got to "skip ahead" a generation. Most of the European airlines I'd have flown with while younger would have predominantly flown short-haul flight where inflight entertainment might have not been a priority until fairly recently.
Natural languages are ambiguous indeed. But it does not mean that you can pick any interpretation you like and "demonstrate" anything you want from it.

I won't address the rest, it makes no sense to me.
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...

Might interest you!
Biden has said that the Federal government will pay to rebuild the bridge, in order to get it done quickly.

But presumably they will ultimately seek reimbursement from the Dali’s insurers. As will the Port of Baltimore and anyone else who has suffered damages.
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So drive as little as possible for the next month.
Can you pay my child's tuition then?
It would be impressive if it was playing Stockfish at a grandmaster level. But it looks like it's lower-level. Still impressive that it can learn to play decently at some level. Doubt it will ever be competitive with top engine levels.
There is a semi-truck that enters from the right just before the crash at https://youtu.be/N39w6aQFKSQ?t=299 (4m59s). And some more vehicles that follow after. Doesn't seem like they stopped "all" traffic as is claimed.
Supposedly the ship issued a mayday prior to losing power and hitting the bridge, so they were able to stop traffic and limit the number of people on the bridge during the accident. Most of the people who went down with it were construction workers.
Can anyone not from the US explain how we can work with the data from social media? These are the questions we need to address:

1. How can we identify if the user is based in Florida?
2. How can we determine their age?
3. How can we map the parent-child relationship here?
4. What will happen if the account was created in Argentina during traveling?
First you write in shell without knowing the language, and blow your foot off. A few years go by. "I should use a _real_ language, I'm not an amateur anymore." So you write everything in Python. A few years go by. "I should learn shell, and use it only when appropriate."

Maybe this is what Perl is for, but I never learned it.
Children aren't allowed to play slot machines either and that's what TikTok (and Youtube Shorts, etc) sure feels like to me.
Imagine if all those sites weren't social but could just provide the info. And business would have regular website and not parasite Facebook page...
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Those tradeoffs are what I meant by nasty surprises. The solution 1 would be totally unacceptable to me.

And yes by rotary encoders I meant those that rotate indifinitely. And I miss my Elektron Model:Sample, too bad it lacked the sampling function otherwise I would have kept it.
You did not have Chatroulette (2009) and Liveleak (2006) 25 years ago.
https://archive.md/djcGF
You’re assuming the politicians enacting this law care about such data much less learn anything from it.
I actually think it's exactly politics that will make federation impossible, with the exception of a few big players who have the deep pockets to fund major moderation. For those people (big tech), you're right interop will be mandatory.

There's no way government are going to give up the control they have with big tech and companies that can be regulated and served warrants and stuff. The last thing they want is for individual decentralized citizens to be able to stand up their own systems and discuss dangerous ideas[1] without oversight.

On top of that, big tech will be eager to push things like Web Environment Integrity[2] and Private Access Tokens[3] that can ensure that unapproved (or semi or fully anonymous) actors with dangerous operating systems like linux aren't allowed to participate, at least on a first-class level. It will be packaged as "anti-spam" or "a better user experience for our users" but the fact that it massively empowers the tech companies and enables them to further entrench you into their walled gardens will absolutely not be an opportunity they want to miss.

[1]: The definition of dangerous ideas will depend on who and which party is in power. Unless the corporate overlords end up in control, in which case it will be what their managers consider dangerous.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity

[3]: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=huqjyh7k
Food, and therefore nutrition, is significantly more complicated than a ledger of macronutrients. In this particular case, I was getting at this:

https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-077310
I remember hearing about Dragon when I was in elementary school. It's cool to reflect on how far things have progressed in the last decade and a half.
Well engineered small things can redirect a moving thing several orders of magnitude more massive. Consider guardrails on the side of a road; those guard rails might be less than 100 Kg but together they're rated to redirect the force of a car weighing thousands of Kg traveling at tens of K/h. That's a lot of force to redirect for such a small and cheap barrier; imaging what a more expensive and larger barrier can do.
I’m struggling to parse anything you said.
While a lot of this can definitely sound like an old man yelling at the sky, tv compared to scrolling tiktok, is like caffeine compared to crack cocaine.
Pretty sure this person uses an LLM to generate their comments.
I encountered bugs and had to fix glaring problems in shell scripts literally everywhere I worked.

Most devs are not deeply steeped in Unix, and don't really know what they're doing with this as it's not their main job. They kinda clobber something together that "kinda works" – right up to the point it doesn't.

There is no shame in that; I do that with some stuff too – we all do – because there is no point learning something in-depth if you use it once a year. This is not a "zomg devs are stoopid" rant, it's just an observation of fact.

I've written tons of shell scripts and and I love how it enables you to do something useful very quickly in very little code. Last week I hacked together a "ncurses"-type terminal music player in less than 200 lines which actually works fairly well, which I thought wasn't too bad for an evening of work.

But in general I distrust other people's shell scripts, and I found that 9 times out of 10 that's warranted. I tend to push for zsh as it fixes the most egregious footguns and limitations, but there's still plenty of things to do wrong, and the syntax can be unfamiliar.
> are completely anonymous

...until they aren't. (Speaking from corporate experience)
C'mon people, have some common sense!

Learn history (or history of economics), not some podcast gurus personal opinions :)
> beyond what would be the regular vassal/lord relationship common to most feudal cultures

"vassal/lord relationships" could be very different in very different cultures. If it was common for Sengoku samurais to commit sepuku on order of lord, then this is concept/code of bushido which was not present in say majority of Western feudal cultures.
I've lately been seeing a more frequent use of "business students" and "MBAs" as a slur. It's disappointing to see it on Hacker News as well. Slurring people with terms like "Karens" and "boomers" and "MBAs" seems better suited to low discourse places like Reddit. I had thought that Hacker News was more fair.

Also, the post itself seems born of a dark worldview. A single paragraph contains the following words: narrative, dead, scary, insecure, problematic.

It depicts an author who has a dark worldview and who uses dehumanizing slurs for other people. I find it disturbing.
So you would be okay giving your ID to Facebook or any other site before you can access it?
I don't bother with businesses that only have a Facebook account when I'm searching. I'm sure there are dozens of us doing the same.
It's varied, that's why it's measured as work-precision. It would be good to similarly produce a full work-precision line as point estimates do not tell the full story.

Note that we are preparing an extension to easily use the optimizers https://github.com/SciML/NonlinearSolve.jl/pull/395 to add it to the benchmarks.
Federation solves nothing. The problem with the current generation of social media is quite simply the profit motive. Elon Musk tried to make a big deal out of being a free speech absolutist, but his company is run for profit and any time free speech butts up against profit, profit wins. Federation's only advantage is that the profiteers haven't invaded that space yet, but Bluesky is loudly telegraphing that it will no longer be a safe space and they intend to start monetizing it.

If you want to a shining example of effective content moderation, public utility and centralization, then just look at Wikipedia. What's different about them? Non-profit.
There's a world of difference between a 90's Hustler magazine and near infinite modern internet porn. They're practically incomparable.
Qubes OS 4.2.1 has been released
On Indesign side - regular almost daily crashes.

Integration in Affinity Publisher is called studiolink you can use all Photo, Designer tools directly inside it by fliping a switch. Google studiolink you will see Adobe never had anything close to this. When you create a book you can actualy edit placed photo inside the layout seeing all changes directly in context. All Adobe cooperation is linking files that you then have to manualy refresh. You cant even easily copy paste vectors into indesign so they are editable.

I get that Adobe works and has some features Affinity does. But Affinity has some killer fundamentaly better features.
To the extent that the greenhouses are a significant source of light pollution, and every once in a while (faulty coverings, or for a holiday) the sky will be bright purple[1,2]

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Netherlands/comments/10mc6ah/can_an...
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rotterdam/comments/ylmcgy/bright_pu...
Republican side probably doesn't care; Maryland voted 65% for a democratic party president.
Honor Magic6 Pro Specifications: 6.8″ 1280 x 2800 pixels, 12GB/16GB RAM, 180MP 2160p, 256GB/512GB/1TB Storage, 5600mAh battery, 80W charging, Released 18 January, 2024.
If you get one more note wrong, we'll all be flat
I'm just imagining how frustrating it must be when those metrics stay flat.
What suggests that you shouldn't like it?
It's also one of the largest importers/re-exporters.
It is perhaps for this reason that "black pudding" has the name that it does [0], rather than the more accurate "blood sausage"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding
> More than a train going from full speed to a full stop.

I wonder. This ship might have massed about ten times a typical freight train on the heavy side, but the train is going to be moving a lot faster than a ship navigating in port, right?
Texas hailstorm damages solar panels at 350-MW farm
lol based, we'll do
Generally speaking, in the US, contracts with minor (< 18) are voidable, that is, at any time the minor can break the contract. This creates a situation where no one would ever contract with a minor, which is obviously bad (how is an emancipated minor supposed to rent an apartment?) so there are statutory exceptions where the contract will be enforced.
So she's going to burn a bunch of her own money on a campaign that is sure to lose. What does she get out of all of this- I don't think a permanent association with RFK Jr. is all that enticing is it?
This looks awesome. I’m going to try building one this evening. It’s interesting reading the comments from 14-15 years ago, the capacity for hobbyists to do such things today is so much greater, even just since 2010.
>under infrared light, silicon is practically transparent:

I did not know this
Another related one from last year based on the Othello game (cited in the above paper) :

Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474043 - Jan 2023 (174 comments)
kajmak and honey is 'chefs kiss'
What you describe sounds like international waters, close enough to the pier to matter would be within US territorial waters. So if the relevant laws are not there it is purely a domestic issue.
Multiple topics show a date of Dec 31, 1969. App Store and Firefox Chrome, for example.
It would be useful to categorise "social media" into "publish to strangers" vs "interact with individuals in private". Apparently these are both social media, but they are very different use-cases.

Most of the apps you mentioned are focussed on that second category, whereas (I believe) the GP was talking about the first category.
I grew up playing at this church in the 1970’s and passed it everyday until the early 2000s when I moved a bit further north.

It’s a wonderful building and a loss for the town, but as a whole the town has completely changed (for the worse) since the internet grabbed local commerce by the neck. It’s not a unique story, probably most of us in the smaller towns in England have seen it.
> I am also a bit surprised at how many people don't grasp this or grasp engineering, magnitude of forces and design principles.

Who are you even referring to? Are you just inventing a population of people in your mind to flex against here? Trust me, people get it.
Don't you have a hobby?
They're just being cheap. Facebook is free (and "everybody has Facebook") whereas Wix and Squarespace are $12-$15/mo for businesses.
Report is heavily redacted and journalists are reaching.
The problem is without a control you can't tell the difference between whatever you are describing and the placebo effect.