skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm surprised how many big companies fail the one-click unsubscribe test. Whether it's Cloudflare or Akamai blocking the connection, pages that take 5+ seconds to load, pages that require you to sign in or input your email address again... don't be surprised when customers reach for the Report Spam button instead.
one of the potential food sources is waste protein from agribusiness as per the article. That makes this a useful way to gain human edible protein from a waste product, which isn't nothing but, if you are looking for on idea to save the world, this isn't it.
I watched it and I wish I hadn't. Overlong and under-interesting. Typical streaming bloat. Just like 3BP.

If you want quality look at Severance, Station Eleven, Dark, Watchmen, early Westworld, and my absolute personal favourite The Leftovers.

There are scenes in The Leftovers that are seared into my psyche, Silo is vapid shovel-ware by comparison.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is just a bot.

He even follows me, though I have never published any open-source project on my own.
Not "stupid", but maybe hasty / shallow? Many SPAs are long-running, and memory leaks can accrue quickly, destroying performance.
Why won’t this be DMCA-ed to oblivion?

And surely there won’t be any problems hosting decompiled Microsoft code on GitHub ???
I mean, even if I live in Manhattan, I can easily take a subway train to an area with a different zip code and mail it there. And that's almost the easiest thing you could do -- if you want to hide where the mail is from, it is trivial.
And what difference does that make - Really?
The PR associated with the issue was merged after the approval of the owner of the repo (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/613). And there is other more recent contributions.

Where do you see any drama ?
https://archive.today/UcKM7
> Tesla has been doing self driving tech for far longer than anyone else in the space, and they're not near perfect.

I suspect that Tesla made its life much more difficult by betting the self-driving farm on cameras. Which may have been a case of sales team overriding engineering objections.

This is just a guess as I have never worked for Tesla. But I did work on detecting and tracking various things and multi-modal sensing (e.g, camera+radar) is very powerful, as some things that are hard to detect, track or ID using one sensor type will be crystal clear after adding another sensor type.

> I think it would only take a couple of big issues to make the public distrust the tech.

The public, at least in the rich world, has become pretty bad at understanding risks. A single unlikely but highly dramatic event will affect preferences much stronger than a much more likely, but less media-genic thing with the same outcome (e.g., the death of a single person). This is not an easy hurdle to overcome, but it is possible if self-driving companies put more energy into comparing their safety against human drivers in a simple, clean, easy to understand form. My 2c.
Long-time Japan resident here. I agree. And public restrooms have been improving. While I still, very occasionally, encounter one that has old or broken equipment or that needs cleaning, overall they are much cleaner and more pleasant than they were forty-two years ago, when I moved here. Restrooms in train stations in particular have improved immensely.

If I were asked to guess why restrooms in Japan are good and getting better, I would suggest a number of possible factors: public pressure on municipalities and businesses to create a positive experience for both residents and tourists; very little crime; large-scale homelessness being limited to a few parts of Tokyo, Osaka, Kawasaki, Yokohama, and one or two other large cities; and a widespread attitude that a lack of clean, available restrooms is abnormal and needs to be fixed.

A boom in tourism since COVID may be creating a challenge, though. The only two times recently when I have had trouble finding a public restroom were when I happened to go to areas crowded again with tourists: Asakusa in Tokyo and Namba in Osaka. I saw shops in both places with signs up in Japanese, English, and Chinese saying they didn’t have restrooms, presumably to keep tourists from coming in just to use the facilities. I can’t remember ever seeing that in non-touristy areas.
It was particularly hard to listen to himself admit that he basically became unpaid QA for AMD.

Like, dude, you’re making the same junior mistake people writing apps for the App Store make.

It’s not your platform.
That effectively means you cannot share commit rights with anybody. How am I supposed to vet someone as not a state actor? Any plausible test could be thwarted by a motivated individual.
It's also worth noting that Tan is a Mandarin Chinese surname too (譚) in addition to being a distinct Hokkien surname (the much more common 陳).
Just FYI, the outlet that makes the claim is Russian, and is disputing the "State Dept. propaganda" that is officially not even sure it's an attack, let alone makes any attribution, and that's after several years of investigations that haven't even discovered any physical mechanism of action. (Surely GRU doesn't possess alien magic...)
Kinda already exists and some implementations suck

https://www.vox.com/recode/22543678/smart-thermostat-air-con...
By that logic there is also nothing wrong with clickbaity titles, which I disagree.
Headers have the IP address of their mail service.
I think their first stations are supposed to come online this summer, although most EA stations around me can already handle 350kW charging
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35411909#35412589
Israelis usually are off on Fridays so it doesn't match the git commit records.
How long till we get to Neptune? [pdf]
At the speed of the ISS, a very long time, pack tuna sandwiches.
> Definitely withholding judgement until we learn more.

This is a key point made in the article.

“A consensus has formed among the growing community of AHI sufferers that the U.S. government — and the CIA in particular — is hiding the full extent of what it knows about the source of Havana Syndrome. The victims offer two general hypotheses as to why. The first is that releasing the full intelligence around Russian involvement might be so shocking as to convince the American people and their representatives that Moscow has committed an act of war against the United States, thereby raising thorny questions as to how a nuclear power fond of showing off its hypersonic missiles ought to be made to pay. The second is that acknowledging Havana Syndrome is caused by a foreign adversary could put a damper on recruitment to the CIA and State Department.”

This misses a third key point. The US government has a complicated relationship with Russia. The Republican Party in particular.
A physical magazine would be nice. I just print papers out on my printer these days and mark em up with my pen of choice :)
You can know learn Cobol online, see IBM's offering in coursera, e.g.: https://www.coursera.org/learn/cobol-programming-vscode
This can happen if you delete your old gmail account. Source: I deleted a gmail account I shouldn't have years ago. It will say taken if it previously existed, and was deleted.
The point is to have the computer highlight the circle in red. That makes fun ndint the circle easier.
I'm saying that changing sleep patterns and waking up earlier is a very common effect of aging.

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/aging-and-sleep/why-do-older...

YMMV but the idea that you can't grow in/out of sleep patterns is empirically false, and I know this from personal experience.

For most of my life, I didn't need glasses for reading... until I suddenly did. Bodies change.
Havana Syndrome in Vietnam: Possible Russian Role in Attack on Americans
It could make sense if you have a method that you want derived classes to be able to override but not to be able to call directly.

This is, admittedly, a pretty niche case but certainly not inconceivable.
One thing the April changes break is forwarding between e-mail services. If you currently forward from say an old university address at foo@school.edu to a personal GMail account at bar@gmail.com that will no longer work. This must be relatively uncommon if the major providers are charging ahead with these changes but it's pretty annoying for the people affected.
Who's better off, people who are more paranoid or people who are more trusting?

It's not an easy question
Forrest M. Mims III New Memoir: Maverick Scientist
> you will often not be able to change the time without adding latency, i.e., withholding commits and thus delaying project development -- and even then, getting it right every time is hard.

Someone with access to the right machines could easily check whether this is the case. A lot of projects have set up webhooks on github to sync new commits with their own bug tracker, for example, or testing infrastructure. Logs on these systems would tell you exactly when the commits were pushed.
Serious leetcoding, I don't have a CS background, after two years of being DevOps while also interested in SWE, I find sitting down and actually grinding through leetcode is a good brain exercise, I also find it to be a marathon instead of a short sprint, feeling like I'm smarter everyday!
I can agree on the context windows, but what other output structure would you have?
It is invaluable to have a chunk of human knowledge that can tell you things like the Brooklyn Nets won the 1986 Cricket World Cup by scoring 46 yards in only 3 frames
> What is your definition of "demonize"?

This:

https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/china-news/21091-a-500-million-...

Leading to things like this:

https://i.imgur.com/2pJlIK3.jpeg

> the media picked up the story

That's how the nonexistent Iraqi WMDs were sold - by the entire media repeating the State Dept. talking points for years. Manufacturing consent at its finest.

> And Russia's leaders repeatedly and openly declare their hostile intentions towards "the west"

They have warned about nato expansion and the overt, publicized plans of US think tanks and policymakers about destroying Russia for two decades. When the US came to their door, they put their foot down. The US policymakers are STILL talking about how they WILL destroy Russia. All of that talk is a violation of Article 51 of the UN and gives a casus belli to any country targeted in that manner.

> frequently "question the statehood" of their neighbors including not just Ukraine but Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

The US published a map to divide Russia into regions years ago. Russia started talking about Ukraine's statehood after the peace attempts were foiled by the Bojo clown and it turned out that the Russian-speaking regions have no chance of existing as equal citizens in a united Ukraine as they changed the freaking constitution to ban the Russian language and declare them 2nd class people. Russia doesn't question the statehood of the baltic countries - it says that they made them actual countries. So you are literally making things up by deriving on US propaganda.

> not to mention literally flying cruise missiles over NATO territory to attack Ukraine...

The lack of info and arrogance is overwhelming. Its worse than how it was in 2003. Its Nato who went to Ukraine. Not Russia who went to Mexico. This is without talking about how the CIA had been training neonazis since 1991. The people who support a country that has been publishing and then implementing policy about how to destroy a country are talking about the 'aggression' from the targeted country. The bully is the victim. Meanwhile that same bully is already spending $500 million to demonize the NEXT target as its supporters still buy into the propaganda as willingly as they did in 2003. Except this time, the targets have nuclear weapons.

You people are literally worse than how the Americans were in 2003 and desperately need to listen to some Chomsky. He has the patience to explain things. I don't.
My problem was always I took on too much so I had surprising breadth. I could find connections between many areas. I wish I had just focused on one or two things and gone very very deep. I would probably be a more fulfilled academic today if I was able to do that instead of an engineering manager.
theins.ru is a reputable source?
If the AMD code makes it into the kernel, like their graphics drivers did, then we've won because it will just work on every kernel update.

Compared to now where AMD drivers just don't work and NVidia drivers only work with the right blobs installed I'd be willing to take a paycut for 6 months to have 10 years of painless development.

That said I jumped ship to NVidia since I need to work and not spend all my time trying to get servers to the point that they can work.
The U.S. and its allies want to bring the entire chip supply chain in-house
Every konbini and vending machine has one, and those are EVERYWHERE.

I'm not sure how it's hard to find one.
They can write in a way similar to how a human might write, but they're not human.

The chat interfaces (Claude, ChatGPT) certainly have a particular style of writing, but the underlying LLMs are definitely capable of impersonating as our species in the medium of text.
Is it just me or is the search bar completely missing on mobile-width devices?
> In Rust, traits are used all over for dynamic dispatch, the defining feature of object-oriented programming.

In my experience, Rust traits are used much more for static dispatch `fn foo<T: Trait>(T)` than dynamic dispatch `fn foo(Box<dyn Trait>)`. This, together with its ADTs and lack of inheritance, gives it a very different feel from most "object oriented" languages.

Also, what counts as a "defining feature" depends greatly on who's defining it. Though dynamic dispatch is certainly up there on most lists.
Plenty of things can be a “real condition” without measurable physical sources. That’s just practical/pragmatic medicine. Ala chronic fatigue syndrome.

The difference between those and more fringe stuff like chronic Lyme disease is much more of a grey area than most doctors would ever admit publicly without a huge amount of well organized backlash that largely can be summarized on “you just don’t care about sick people”. So the alternative is much more palatable to just to quietly treat them, play the game by kicking the can and deferring with “I hope science will one day advance to finding a real cause”. Wikipedia is always going to play this same game by the nature of it being a public forum attempting to appease a wide audience, it’s almost always going to play it safe.

Ultimately these are people, for the most part, who are legitimately unwell and may legitimately need care regardless, but that doesn’t make it the same as having cancer or HIV. Nor does it mean going to a doctor will give you the medicine you need.
Apple made fsync a noop.

You have to make a different call to get sync on macos.

So tons is stuff is faster because it's not actually writing to disk.
Ask HN: RSS podcast alternateEnclosure Support
A quick poll: those of you that consume podcasts ... can your player see/use the alternateEnclosure entries that I have lovingly added to https://www.earth.org.uk/rss/podcast.rss ? There are support stats out there, but I don't think that I believe them currently!
As a developer you're always building on top of something you don't control.

At least with the App Store you make pretty good money.

It's worse when you have companies who have APIs you need that you know they don't care about.
When they added Promises to JavaScript, I bristled at the thought that I might have to start writing `new Promise` everywhere.

In practice, I can count on two hands the number of times I’ve written `new Promise`. What did happen, though, is I started to write `.then` a whole lot more, especially when working with third party libraries.

In the end, the actual day-to-day effect of the Promise addition to JavaScript was it gave me a fairly simple, usually solid, and mostly universal interface to a wide variety of special behaviors and capabilities provided by third party libraries. Whether it’s a file read or an api request or a build step output, I know I can write `.then(res => …)` and I’m already 50% of the way to something workable.

If this Signal proposal can do something similar for me when it comes to the Cambrian explosion of reactive UI frameworks, I am in favor! What’s more, maybe it will even help take reactivity beyond UI; I’ve often daydreamed about some kind of incrementally re-computed state tree for things other than UI state.
But a blog you host might have 850 views.
i definitely have hyperphantasia. as a young lad i used to sit at my desk for hours just day dreaming. it was like being addicted to the movies i created in my head.

as a result i never forget a face. in fact one time a person mistook me for somebody else and when it hit him that I wasn't that person but that I recognized him from 15 years ago on a train once astounded him.

it gets to the point where i have to constantly pretend to not recognize the person because it freaks them out.
That's very interesting, thanks for clarifying, I'll probably remember your testimony for the rest of my life. Could you please answer some more questions: Is losing autobiographical memory inmediate, or could you remember a few seconds of what you see? Can you think in other languages? Can you learn patterns like chess moves? What is your oldest memory? Can you foresee events, like an accident about to happen? Do you have olfactory memory? Do you like any kind of puzzles? Can you follow or find things with a map?
They definitely didn't expect Tesla to open their network. Also there isn't a dedicated converter: the rear motor is used as the DC-DC converter. They might be limited by the motor itself.
Or in Canada, there's Loblaw's "No Name" store brand, with black Helvetica text on a bright yellow background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name_(brand)
For someone interested in learning about LLMs, running them locally is a good way to understand the internals.

For everyone else, I wish they experience these (locally or elsewhere) weak LLMs atleast once before using the commercial ones just to understand various failure modes and to introduce a healthy dose of skepticism towards the results instead of blindly trusting them to be the facts/truth.
The title is interesting and it’s a few minute read.

“The messenger” was a news site and the disaster is about seeing the writing on the wall but the job “has dental.“
Why is this downvoted? I agree: Yes. His Wiki page[1] says:

> Working independently, Wolfram published a widely cited paper on heavy quark production at age 18 and nine other papers. Wolfram's work with Geoffrey C. Fox on the theory of the strong interaction is still used in experimental particle physics.

And:

> In 1983, Wolfram left for the School of Natural Sciences of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton.

As I understand, IAS is all about fundamental physics research.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram
>I'm cheering him on, even though his complaints were a little melodramatic.

I've really soured on him when he literally went "I'm going to fix twitter search, hire me elon" and then went to public saying "Hey, want an internship? Fix it, and then MIT license your code(so he could use it lol), and maybe we can talk - oh btw I have no real authority to give anyone an internship."

He might be a brilliant programmer and problem solver, but that incident left a very sour "Grifter" vibes.
these tools are rendered useless by the fact that your PDFs leave your exclusive control. i see the FAQ mentions a '2-hour storage time policy, your files are otherwise not accessed, analyzed, or saved by us whatsoever.' but then what's the need a for a 'team' this large and varied, to maintain a rudimentary PDF toolkit?

https://www.ilovepdf.com/help/about

smells of data brokerage.
Years ago they would include the IP of the end user. Gmail and hotmail stopped including that more than a decade ago. But they both used to. I think Gmail stopped this practice years ahead of Hotmail.

I have a relative with mental health problems who lives on the street, and he sometimes writes me from public libraries -- kind of luckily for family members who are concerned about him, the webmail service he uses still includes that info in headers. So I usually know which public library he writes from.
I always get offers for an additional 1% back on my Amazon Prime credit card.
Completely agree. Playing around with a weak LLM is a great way to give yourself a little bit of extra healthy skepticism for when you work with the strong ones.
If you never did look up videos of competitive geoguessr pros (yes, that's a thing)
It’s kind of crazy really. Before LLMs, any type of world scale disaster you’d hope for what? Wikipedia backups? Now, a single LLM ran locally would be much more effective. Imagine the local models in 5 years!
The major risks when taking a job:

- Joining a company that won’t triple revenue this year

- Joining a company that isn’t reinventing an industry

- Working on pointless CRUD apps that won’t impact the economy

If you end up in a role mike these, the best case scenario is that the company shuts down and you’re freed up to work on something that matters
I don’t think your genetic makeup is an abstraction.
The recent movie Perfect Days (2023) seems to reflect this as well.

From wikipedia: "[Director Wim] Wenders was invited to Tokyo by Koji Yanai to observe the Tokyo Toilet Project, a project in which Japanese public toilets were redesigned in 17 locations throughout Shibuya with the help of 16 creators invited from around the world. Wenders was invited to take a look at the uniqueness of each of these facilities. At first, the producers envisioned Wenders would make a short film or series of short films on the facilities, but he opted for a feature film"
As someone who basicially grew up with Intel/Nvidia but now running AMD/AMD, while i could agree with you on the GPU side that AMD still has more work to do, I would hard disagree on the CPU side.

Especially with the X3D line, AMD cpus can absolute smoke intel and at worst, come within a single percentage of performance in usually single thread bound scenarios.
Great links,
especially last one referencing the Goto paper:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pingali/CS378/2008sp/papers/...

>> I believe the trick with CPU math kernels is exploiting instruction level parallelism with fewer memory references

It's the collection of tricks to minimize all sort of cache misses (L1, L2, TLB, page miss etc), improve register reuse, leverage SIMD instructions, transpose one of the matrices if it provides better spatial locality, etc.
Redis’ Trollope reiterated ... [cloud vendors are] free to enter a commercial agreement with Redis.

Senator, you can have my answer now, if you like...

I had sympathy for Redis vs. cloud vendors but the abuse here of folks who have contributed to an open source project, or committed to using something in some part because it was open source, is annoying enough that I now hope Valkey buries them.
Survey: 3 in 4 people think tipping has gotten out of hand
The shocking thing about AMD in the last 5 years isn't that they got Ryzen to work, it's that they didn't screw it up within two releases. There are no other technology companies in the world who have a will to fail so ingrained in their corporate DNA as does AMD.
But nobody is buying with income made in yen, because there is basically no way to make money in yen and be eligible to buy the railway pass.
> What types of code can you only write without containers

Lots. 3D, DAW, GUI IDEs, Facetime/MSTeams/Zoom, etc.