skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, my main disagreements with the approach came primarily from the way Harris (and to a smaller degree Alain deBotton) attempted this.
Are they though? They are lossy compressing trillions of tokens into a few dozen GB. The decompression action is fuzzy and inefficient though.
> What about Asia?

e.g. "How Well Does the ERA5 Reanalysis Capture the Extreme Climate Events Over China? Part II: Extreme Temperature"

https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000149226/14910548...

>The conclusions are as follows: the original daily temperatures
(mean temperature, maximum temperature, and minimum temperature) can be well
reproduced by ERA5 reanalysis over China. ERA5 tends to exhibit more misdetection
for the duration of extreme temperature events than extreme temperature intensity and
frequency. In addition, ERA5 performed best in the summer and worst in the winter

But even in Europe the dataset can have some issues, e.g. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/4/543

> Comparing ERA5 with the other two datasets, ERA5 temperature presents more extreme temperature and small outliers for regions southern of 40° latitude and less extreme temperatures in areas over the Black Sea. In Scandinavia, ERA5 temperatures are more frequently extreme than the observational ones

There are more articles like these on how well ERA5 captures temperature/wind speed/etc, or certain global events, extremes, anomalies, etc., in different locations and time, but I couldn't find more for your other questions (on mobile).
> People blindly accepting the output of LLMs

There are already real-world consequences of this:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/lawyer-cited-6-f...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/us-judge-orders-...

Before this there were already lots of real world consequences of "computer says no" anyway, so its just a continuation and perhaps escalation of that.
My own (perhaps old) hardware gives me a choice of old-school BIOS, or more-modern UEFI.

(But perhaps amusingly-counter to my original suggestion, old-ass archaic emulated BIOS seems to still be preferred in some spaces in the VM-using crowd -- at least where things like libvirt are involved. In those spaces, BIOS usually works fine and it generally boots faster than *EFI.)
at least gmail.com has a dmarc policy p=none, so a failing dmarc check is not a reason to reject email. i don't think it's that common for small-scale installs to enforce dmarc policies. there are other signals to use though.

plenty of bigfreemail spam is actually sent from their network, they're an interesting target for spammers, and at least some of them put a lot of effort in preventing abuse.
bro, sorry. but your "article" has next to no meat. train your bot to write stuff better, bro.
Toyota is a dinosaur that’s going extinct with their policies on EVs
The longevity of this thing is something I will never understand. I mean, it made a kind of sense on the awfulness that was ms-dos but in any Unix like what is the point? Need two listings, open two windows!
I often map a series of X to Y with Promise.all. For example, mapping a series of image URIs to loaded Image elements.

It is shorter to write than a for of loop, and importantly, all images will be loaded in parallel rather than sequentially, which can be significantly faster.

images = Promise.all(uris.map(loadImage))
Something about foolish consistencies…

The priorities of a programming language syntax are to be readable first, consistent second.

When it comes to syntax that is used more frequently then the importance of readability increases, and the importance of consistency drops, because people will become familiar with the syntax through frequency of use, so there is no need for them to be guided by consistency. Yet they will be reading the code more often.

When it comes to syntax that is used infrequently then consistency is of more importance because you want users to be able to intuit the syntax. Since it will be infrequently used, the readability is of lesser impact.
Seasons are reversed, so that winter in the Northern Hemisphere is summer in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.

But our holidays and working calendar is the same as in the Northern Hemisphere.

So whereas Americans are celebrating Christmas and taking a break during their coldest part of the year, and resting up, we Australian's continue to work throughout our winter, which is in July.
Wrong industry.
No way... really? I think I fall under aphantasia, but I never realized people could potentially relive memories like that.
This is Google's business model, they throw completely legitimate emails your business sends into spam/marketing, so you're forced to pay them for gmail ads.
Git-evtag – extended verification for Git tags
Eh. On infra, I would argue that the government has shown foresight in building for the future, and not for the past. So what if today the new expressway had very few takers, tomorrow, something will grow near the exits, improving the land around as well.

So what if a nominally superfluous statue was built, it is not very expensive in the grand scheme of things.

If the people of the country are on average more prosperous, more happy, is that not the goal of the government.

Yes, the government has probably mishandled some issues, but will the alternative be any better?

That is after all a value judgement that we the people have to make.
"The sun in the Southern Hemisphere moves counterclockwise across the sky over the course of the day, rather than clockwise. Instead of coming up on the left and going down on the right, as it does in the Northern Hemisphere, it comes up on the right and goes down on the left."

What? So Australians always observe sunrise facing North ? This is an amazing behavioural observation, worthy of some sort of high profile international prize!
This paper seems to describe the general strategy:

Neuronal regulation of the gut immune system and neuromodulation for treating inflammatory bowel disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8565205/

It would be incredible if it works, since it would avoid treatment with systemic immunosuppresives which can promote infection/cancer. However maybe there is still a local risk of the above?

I would also be concerned about the implant getting covered in nasty biofilms over time.

If this type of thing works, does that mean that medication that target the nerves might work against inflammatory disease?
Agreed, I think of it was a simple UI competition. Customers will do whichever is must convenient: unsubscribe or report spam.
No mention of BIMI (either for or against)? I'm surprised...
The dark side of environmental activism
Yes - I can't find it now, but a few weeks ago I saw a demo website for some other upscaler with an example image of a picture of food, and it was pretty clear that the upscaled "version" was different bread than the original lower-res version, and things like herb "sprinkles" (oregano?) in the original became pine nuts or something in the upscaled version....
Well, at least it does happen. More than I can say for a patriotic 4th of July
Yo, fake it till you make it, I just changed "software developer" to "product designer".
Most ASICs are cost or power optimizations.
Some newer models trained more recently have been repeatedly shown to have comparable performance as larger models. And the Mixture of Experts architecture makes it possible to train large models that know how to selectively activate only the parts that are relevant for the current context, which drastically reduces compute demand. Smaller models can also level the playing field by being faster to process content retrieved by RAG. Via the same mechanism, they could also access larger, more powerful models for tasks that exceed their capabilities.
The primary source exists. There's still no Crimea service
Yamato-1
I'll putter around with u paid ChatGPT 3.5 from time to time, but it's mainly a rough boilerplate generator
I have found co founders online and we built businesses via the traditional matching platforms. I am a technical co founder, so other people found a technical co founder. Happened at least 5 times in the past 20 years. 3 of co founders I matched and built a company with, I have never met and yet we managed to do well and had some good exits.
> services to get dox-able to your real identity? Hell no! [0] […] Would you use the same password everywhere on the internet too? Similar risk-management issues arise here.

I'm not sure this follows. It's clear that reusing a password is a bad idea, and more importantly a password is supposed to be secret. Identities _usually_ are not. It's clearly different in the context of Open Source but you would not go into many commercial transactions without verifying the person on the other side.

In quite a few countries (eg: Germany) cannot even voluntarily change your name and your personal information in many ways is required to be public (Impressumspflicht). Sweden maybe goes even further by making tax records public. If that was the same situation as with passwords then life in those countries would not work.
Yes, that's what I meant
You can choose from 5 XP, 10 XP, or 20 XP for each list item. You can also set a default XP from those 3 options so that all list items created from then on automatically reward that amount upon completion.
Water spin has been debunked, the Coriolis force is just too weak to have any noticeable effect over the minor non-symmetries of the vessel and random currents in the water
Same. If I subscribed to it (rare), I'll unsubscribe. If I get unsolicited mail of any kind, I'm not "unsubscribing", I'm nuking from orbit by any means available, including reporting to hosting providers. (This has, on occasion, resulted in the termination of a spammer's account, but the success rate is low.)
In all fairness, going up to SMS random human and yelling AAAAAAAAAAAAAA… at them for long enough will produce some out-of-distribution responses too.
Here's the actual demo link: https://openopensource.com/
Since the other submission of an article on a ship with a magnetohydrodynamic drive seems to be an april fool’s joke: here is the Yamato-1, an actual prototype ship from the 1990s that had a magnetohydrodynamic drive and an awesome Star Trek TNG/DS9 design (predating DS9 though, so it might be rather that it inspired the latter).
Moji AI emotion device. Outsource your emotions
It's an AI device that let's you outsource you emotions! Instead of putting on a smile hold up moji and it will do it for you! +200 other emotions!
I bought my dad a sweater for our local MLB team. I made the mistake of using my real email. Ever since I’ve gotten a steady drumbeat of marketing emails and other low value content from them.

Spammers want us to think there’s a significant difference between their newsletter or marketing notes we may have technically signed up for (certainly not willingly) and I don’t feel bad about reporting both of them. If this forces spammers to consider whether recipients will want their messages, good.
Djulpan's upside down? !

It'll sink.
He doubted the financial viability. Not the technical possibility of Heavy.

The primary reasons why it made sense after was Ariane and Vulcan delays. You can see that several launches which would have gone on Heavy are now on Falcon thanks to better performance (thanks to planning extra performance for recovery)

If Falcon explodes tomorrow no one will blame the engineers
That video was published already 2 years ago. It is a fundamental problem.

> Guys… Okay so here’s the thing that people have to realize: this whole thing with the way Open Source software is done right now, where there’s a package manager and everybody contributes, and it’s code sourced from anywhere in the world, and you just auto-download it… That is not gonna last that long. And the reason it’s not gonna last that long is that I could almost guarantee you that there are at minimum thousands of people around the world whose job is to inject bugs into open source software for espionage purposes.

> […]

> Imagine there is a programmer of approximately the same skill level as one of the Linux kernel “police”. Those guys are busy. All you have to do is make something subtle. You don’t… See, here… I’m not saying you add some lines of code that say “switch to root and open a shell” right? That’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about introduce very subtle situations where a variable can have the wrong value that normally that’s fine, but when you combine it with thing B and thing C it happens to produce an exploit.
Welcome in the SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) club. It is highly correlated with Aphantasia.
woww, extremely surprised, it helps me take notes quickly, thanks for sharing
That would not have been possible, with the already existing checks.

While the individual messages were not yet signed, Gmail should have already rejected any message claiming to be from my domain that was not sent by my own server.
No, I am at ease with him.

But I wanted to point out that the reporting on him here is one-sided (as it should be for a eulogy); but see my other comment below.
I still have video upscaling planned for Upscayl but we're just 2 people, working on Upscayl in our free time.
Maybe if we got some real serious inflation, could we triple our revenue? /s
Has anyone done an audit of sidewalk's capabilities? Both in terms of raw bandwidth and in terms of information/surveillance possibilities at scale?

Like I can't imagine it has a huge bandwidth (outside of bt range) or amazon would monetize it as a actual network, but I would still like to know (order-of-magnitude) how many bits of data per unit time it can handle and how much information can we pack into that bandwidth.

Any spying is terrible, but there is a big difference between "ids of what shows you watched yesterday" and "compressed audio clips from 20 minutes ago".

EDIT some information: 500MB per account per month & 80kbps per bridge device ... https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/everything-you-need...
have you heard of neurons?
Just from memory as I uninstalled it already:

* Settings in one place, that way I could have probably easily found out how to remove the annoying zoom-features.

* Batch conversion

* Slideshow: Add files/folders, not just a textfile or folder

* Slideshow: More options in general, e.g. random or unique random.
Probably, it is their choice to fix the issue and collect. An unresolved issue in the agreed timeline automatically refunds the money. Maintainer has the option to request more time. Donors can accept or reject. Ideally multiple people would sponsor an issue, so some percentage of funding would back out as deadlines are missed, but not all funding. Incentive is more delay, less reward.
Noticed a 4-week empty block in August. This lines up with European holiday schedules.
Less common in Finland though, we prefer July.
In big corpos usually it’s right hand not knowing left hand’s deals.
I wish we could solve the unsolicited SMS problem.
I'm mostly talking about those emails with helpful hints and upsells that you get when signing up for a new service. People who make a living from spamming^H^H^Hbulk sending may consider those legitimate.
By any chance, do you have a good link to some help with the installation?
I run a small org (freelancer) and I have a super advanced bullet proof set of solutions against this. Any 1 of those should do the trick (I do all of these):

1. Don't trick people into signing up for mailinglists.

2. Don't spam.

3. Don't use mailinglists.

My small business is fine.
It does not exist. The AI models generate "what could be" instead of "what was", i.e. they hallucinate heavily in upscale tasks.
"Functional" has lost its meaning. Originally, functional programming was rather well-defined - now everything that has a `.map` is called functional. Gleam goes a longer way than, say, Python. But since it still has side-effects and lacks a system, it is very different from e.g. Haskell.
"We accidentally colonised Mars with Henrietta Lacks?" ;)
Good information. Thanks!

I did do a little bit for/with Dreamcast at one point a long time ago, but I never actually owned one for myself. It has always seemed like a nice platform when I've played games on one -- however that happened.

At one point I probably knew the difference between formats, but I've definitely forgotten. It has been a very long time.

(In other Sega news: The thing I really miss is the Virtua Fighter port to the Sega Saturn.)
> That's because DOS webservers can only keep track of 8- or 16-ish concurrent requests

Is that because of the lack of official 'forking'/threading, or due to the limitations of whatever TCP stack is being used for the listen() / accept() calls? (or something else?)
This is the kind of blog post I come to HN for!
Steven Crowder - the guy from the "change my mind" meme.
PinchBar: The TouchBar in the Vision Pro
I met a vegan Zionist recently.
I more or less agree with the author that "programming paradigms are becoming practically the same as programming styles", but even so, some languages have core features that cannot be replicated by mainstream "multi-paradigm" languages, and then that I can call them as the Next Paradigm.

An example is dependent types. This is impossible in all the languages the author mentions in the article (yes, well, GHC Haskell comes close), but there is at least one "21st century general-purpose language" that uses it, called Idris.
yes, this is a pain. the blocklist operators either seem to be not so good at vetting abuse reports, or cause collateral damage to get network operators to take action (while i don't like getting on a blocklist, perhaps it is having a net positive effect for the wider internet?).

i do think mail servers/services are using ip-based blocklists wrong. yes, you can use it as one of many signals. give it some more weight for first-time senders. but if you've been mailing (with spf/dkim/dmarc-authenticated messages/transactions), from an ip that suddenly gets on a blocklist, the previous positive reputation should be stronger than that blocklisting, and you should be able to keep communicating with your known correspondents (until they mark your message as spam after which future deliveries can be rejected/junked). it seems those mail servers/services cheap out and apply ip blocklists early in the smtp process. good for their system load, bad for their analysis performance.

in general, it seems even bigfreemail services are bad at using existing reputation in their ham/spam decisions. i recently switched an online webservice i made (that is about sending certain notification by email) to signups via email (like how you can signup to mailing lists: by sending an email to an address). the idea: if you send my service an email, i'm in your list of known correspondents. so the confirmation reply from my mail server (spf/dkim/dmarc-aligned) should certainly be accepted by yours (you much more opt-in do you want?). i tested with some bigfreemails, and yahoo put my reply with confirmation (that even references the original message) in the junk folder. to people who think you can't compete with bigmail: the bar isn't as high as you may think.
Making 2D Drawings with GD&T Sucks
Hey folks I am Marco and since I was a kid I have been building 3D printers, robotic arms, CNC machines, and random hardware for the sake of passion. However, I always struggle with making my designs ready to be assembled and produced. I normally would end up with 4kg of PLA wasted for a couple of 100gr components that finally fit or even worse if I was machining parts…

After carrying this struggle for a few years and working for a couple of aerospace and automotive companies Drishti and I decided to do something about it, starting from making technical drawings with GD&T automatically. We have a working MVP and would love to get early feedback from some engineers who have experienced similar pain.

If you are interested and want to use it, drop us a message at team@hanomi.ai or reach us on LinkedIn on the Hanomi company's page. FYI creating drawings with Hanomi takes 1min and a coffee that you can enjoy while our AI works.

Looking forward to your help to build something useful!
Marco
We’re a bit like the dinosaurs only when the asteroid is approaching, we put all our energy and resources into making NFT photos of it and train AI models to generate photos of asteroids based on a text prompt.
I like the idea, although many choices are arguable. For example, having to introduce mandatory/prohibited white space around binary/postfix operators (like "&") completely spoils the goal of having a more rational syntax.
I wrote a web server for CP/M, the issue there was that the C library could only hold the state of a small number of FILE* at a time, because they were allocated statically.
> 100s of dependencies. If there is a 1% chance of a random repo having a backdoor, the project will be compromised

Apologies for nit-picking, but that's not quite how sum-of-probabilities work. Total probability across 200 tries of 1% chance each, is ~87%:

p=0
for _ in range(200):
p=p+(1-p)*.01
print(p)

0.8660203251420382

Your "sooner or later, to the point where we can assume" conclusion, still stands, of course.
If you’re facing towards the sun you’re rotating, facing west at dawn and east at dusk. If you’re above the Tropic of Cancer you’ll be rotating clockwise through facing south at noon… if you’re below the Tropic of Cancer you’ll be rotating anticlockwise through facing north at noon. If you’re between the Tropics you’re spin will be determined by the season… if you’re on the equator you’ll have spent half the year spinning clockwise, half spinning anti clockwise, and one very confusing day not spinning at all but pitching (or rolling, depending on your starting position).

What won’t happen is that you start the day on one side of the equator, facing towards a pole which that east and dawn is on your left and, never changing your facing but proceeding to the other side of the equator, expect the sun to set on your left.

The article implies that left and right flip when you pass the equator… they don’t. There’s no natural relationship between your hands position relative to the axis of your nose and the planet’s rotation relative to the sun.
Top-level .js domains are finally available
Nowadays, things like Treesitter can provide comprehensive semantic syntax for many languages, along with surprisingly elegant ways to run custom queries that might let you do some of the things listed here, with a consistent interface across multiple languages.

Cool ideas!