skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're somewhat right, somewhat wrong and somewhat as out of track as Ffmpeg: Lasse Collins should have been a team, a team that meets, so the problem of "unknown rude complainer" pressuring for "some guy working without scrutiny on your behalf" would be mitigated. But nothing impedes that your well-known lads can also work for the NSA or even for Microsoft.

I'm adamant on thinking that first and foremost there is a smorgasbord of crazy designs at play: a build system so messy you can slide in binary injections, an init system with dependencies, an execution chain where you can easily rewrite whatever else's functions. It's fine if somewhere down the drain someone churns garbage, the priority has to be that it should be easy to detect it, I find that it's dumb and sub-par to rely on a fragmented and laggy circle of reviews, pre-releases and releases, (yeah, everything handled by thankless and lone volunteers makes it worse), for protecting our systems.
I was going to point this out as well. It’s wise to avoid conflict before gaining too much traction.

Disclaimer: I worked for PTC.
HN "intentionally" breaks all unicode URLs as HN approaches the tradeoff between i18n and confusability from a very US-centric PoV
For almost any differential equation there is no analytical solution for it's initial value problem. That the n-Body problem behaves that way is unsurprising and poses no inherent challenge to making predictions.

Computers can easily solve initial value problems for most ordinary differential equations. They integrate them, calculating an approximate solution after every small, but finite step.

Getting an approximate solution to the 3-Body problem can be achieved in around 20 lines of python, without having to use any libraries. It is a remarkable simple and effective technique.
How so?

Through pixel perfect alignment? Resolution?
Can WASM be pivotal in software security and measurability?
The "Back To The Building Blocks" Cybersecurity Strategy from the White House mentions that software and hardware creators can better secure the building blocks of cyberspace, focusing on the programming language as a primary building block. As a language-agnostic compilation target, Wasm is a very special open technology that could be pivotal in making cyberspace more resilient and defensible in the long term.
> pulling sheep from the race

That (and the intellect?) explains why any given sheep might be willing to be contract shorn a second time!
Animals feel stressed in zoos and modern people have few natural struggles. Diets are like natural wars and natural war feels natural and clean therefore feels good. People like telling war stories. War stories show where the teller overcame a real struggle, better story if struggle was natural and clean. Even better if teller was a hero in the story. Everyone is a hero in their own diet story.
Sure, agree completely, although I wonder why you believe I may not know that? Yet lots of houses bought pre-punched paper, or just didn't use ring binders.

The 18% is just a throw out number, and the concept is a joke, yet... I'm sure there was some increase in hole punch purchases.

Because...

I bought one as a kid, after getting tired of cutting a ragged hole with scissors.
What should they have done differently if you don’t mind sharing ?
A few of these are northern states like New York in Massachusetts. Do electric cars still have issues if the weather is cold enough? We got some pretty bitter winters lately.
Reminds me of some old poems my grand father used to recite.

With artistic licence and creativity.

There was a young man from Neuschwanstein Castle
Who received a neatly wrapped parcel
In it was shit, On it was writ
A present from our elephants arseholes
Is this not literally a federal crime? It sounds like HP installed a backdoor on its printers to download malware that disables the printer.

If it's not a crime, I think it should become one, and I don't think a terms & conditions document should be able to protect against it (in the same way you can't, e.g., enforce a contract with illegal clauses).
The Sweet Spot – Maximizing Llama Energy Efficiency
The use-case of 19 PiB of logging data feels very constructed to me. I worked for smaller and bigger companies and never faced logging into the petabyte range. I'm not saying it's not a thing, FAANG level companies certainly have such needs, but they have their own large scale solutions already. The question remains, besides bragging, who is the average Joe with 19 PiB of logging data you might want to address as potential customer?

What would be useful from my perspective are benchmarks in the more common terabyte range. How much faster is it to query compared to existing cloud offering, what features does e.g. Datadog vs Clickhouse has to analyze the data? In the end the raw data is not much useful if you cannot easily find and extract meaningful data out of it.
Ask HN: Instructor vs. Outlines vs. Guidance Performance
Looking for feedback from folk who've used instructor, outlines and guidance on how they have performed. Especially in production.
E&M and gravity are both n^2 forces, but E&M has polarity, whereas gravity (at least we encounter it) does not.
Huh, I wonder what the problem was. I semi-regularly send files between my Windows laptop and my Android phone. I do recall never being able to get that functionality working properly with a Mac though.
Do you not offer Arm images for the various services? For folks wanting to run this stack, I'd imagine some of them are interested in running on Arm for better cost optimization. Maybe it doesn't matter for how lightweight the services may be.
Depending on you use-case you can also use https://vykee.co for this (project of mine) – setup is <5mins. Let me know if you need help.
I wish, but I am not so sure we are really on the path, when I read articles like this one:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/28/oil-and-...

Quote:
"World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds."
Because they modelled the game with no bishops. You don't start with bishops and you also can't promote to a bishop.
I do not agree with your generalisation, the Meson build system is well thought, it has a clear declarative syntax that let you just express what you want in a direct way.

The designer of Meson explicitly avoided making the language turing complete so for example you cannot define functions. In my experience this was an excellent decision to limit people tendency to write complex stuff and put the pressure on the Meson developer to implement themselves all the useful functionalities.

In my experience the Meson configuration are as simple as they can be and accommodate only a modicum of complexity to describe OS specific options or advanced compiler option one may need.

Please note that some projects' Meson file have been made complex because of the goal to match whatever the configure script was doing. I had in mind the crazy habits of autotools to check if the system has any possibly used function because some system may not have it.
If first mover advantage in internet payment processing was important, CyberCash would still be around. I'm pretty sure there was another internet payment processor around before PayPal too.

Setup was harder, and the integration wasn't the same, but it was before PCI, so integrating with CyberCash meant you could own the whole payment flow, and have a better experience than PayPal, where you send the user off, and when they come back, PayPal may not have confirmed payment yet.
"If you’re asking yourself 'Do I have PMF?' then you don’t have it"
I was wondering why it called a three-body problem (at least as it presented in Liu Cixin novel). There is actually at least 4 bodies (3 suns and a planet), right? I suppose the planet will affect the movement of the 3 suns.
1. Can you list 2 or 3 best known planned economies?

2. I don’t trust Wikipedia, it is a far-left nutcases cesspool. Can you point to a book or two for me to read?
That’s definitely an intriguing idea, and imo would be worth studying. (Then we could ignore the results and instead demand pills that don’t help or have pyrrhic side effects if they do.)
Cumbria ceased to exist in 2023, reverting to the historical names of Cumberland and Westmorland.
It is extremely rare. I saw an example involving Fabiano Caruana(current world #2)[1] and he was visibly excited in the post-match interview and said that's the first time in his whole career (which is thousands and possibly tens of thousands of games especially if you consider online etc) that he had done it.

Edit to add: Here's the game. It was Caruana vs Robson 2021 and occurred in the 7th round of the USCF championship. Fabi's final move was to promote to bishop at which point Ray Robson resigned https://lichess.org/study/embed/iLDop9iy/wCdsPJJI He did it for style points- a queen would have been just fine in that position.

[1] https://youtu.be/Bz-V5wms0pk
There should be a toggle for this.
Check if you are affected by the XZ backdoor
This doesn't happen in a poly repo because you can just do it. You release version 2.0.0 of something and downstreams update at their own pace. Diverging as you call it.

But this isn't a problem. If 1.0.0 is a finished product then why do you ever need to move to 2.0.0 if you don't need the new features?

The issue in the monorepo is that if you are too popular the change must happen all at once or with copying (fake versioning, like people who version excel files by suffixing with dates), which places pressure on maintainers to not fix design mistakes.

It isn't a feature of the monorepo because you can still diverge by copying, forking or merely stopping support for the old library and this becomes more and more necessary at scale: you lose the feature you thought you wanted the monorepo for.
Show HN: Create temporary private links for sensitive info
> A renderlet is more of a graphics plugin system than an entire first-party app.

I see.

So this is basically flash?

A high level API to build binary application bundles (aka .swf files, ie. renderlets) and a runtime that lets you execute arbitrary applications in a sandbox.

renderlet = .swf file

wander = flash runtime

renderlet compiler = magic sauce, macromedia flash editor

yeah?

> Let's take an example - Temporal Anti-Aliasing. There are libraries that exist to implement this, or you can implement it through raw code.

Mhm. You can certainly do it in a cross platform way using webGPU, but I suppose I can see the vision of 'just download this random binary and it'll add SMAA' but it sounds a lot like "and then we'll have a marketplace where people can buy and sell GPU plugins" or "if you're building a web browser" rather than "and this is something that is useful to someone developing a visualization application from scratch".

The majority of these features could exist with just a C++ library and no requirement to 'pre-compile' some of your code into a renderlet... hosting external arbitrary 3rd party binaries in your application seems... niche.

Really, the only reason you would normally ever not just do it from source as a monolithic part of your application was if you didn't have the source code for some reason (eg. because you bought it as a WASM binary from someone).

Smells like Flash, and I'm not sure I like that, but I guess I can see the vision now, thanks for explaining.
Back in those days, getting your hands on a foil-wrapped 10-pack of 3M (DS) HD floppy disks was the true feeling of happiness... :D

Heck, even five would be pretty nice.
CEO Conquered His ADHD Using Brain Boosters
Autonomous weapons systems will increase the usefulness of small ocean-going craft and things that hide on the sea floor, waiting for a chance to activate.

The world's navies got rid of armor and now they are vulnerable.

They got rid of armor because smart weapons could hit them anywhere, not just on a small armored belt just above the waterline. Armoring a ship's entire top and bottom (as well as sides) is heavy, and ships need to float.

If I were trying to establish a navy, I would concentrate on mass-produced, unmanned submarines or semi-submersibles that are hard to target without weapons that cost far more than they cost.
The Spin by Robert Charles Wilson is magnificent. Set in a contemporary setting, the sun and stars are replaced by projection shield that simulates them, and as the topic suggests it’s because the sun has died, but who did it???

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910863
>Recently they had a good intel slide deck trying to disparage AMD and muddying the water on their own product lines.

To be fair AMD does this as well. A lot of modern CPUs series are older gen ZEN cores build on older TSMC nodes, rebadged as the newer major series with only the minor number identifying that it's older gen design[1], but AMD does not disclose this in their own comparison tables.[2]

They've been doing this since at least the Ryzen 5000 series(used to own one) so I'm not sure why everyone is so quick to point fingers at Intel but gives AMD a pass. It's not like one is more righteous than the other, they're both major for-profit corporations using marketing confusion to decisive buyers.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/amds-ryzen-7000-lapt...

[2] https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen.html...
Hopefully still locked just visible so people can find and alayze his contributions.
A first look at Europe's alternative iPhone app stores
"A persistent volume is a slice of storage, provisioned by an Kubernetes administrator, that can be attached and mounted to pods."
Sounds important, doesn't it? But what does it actually mean and how does it work? When deploying stateful workloads, such as a database, into Kubernetes, persistent storage is a must-have. For that reason Kubernetes provides persistent volumes. But what are those specifically and how do they work internally?
Our newest blog post, "what is a Kubernetes Persistent Volume?" answers them in a technical, but not super-technical fashion, making it possible for people to really grasp the how and why aspects.
https://www.simplyblock.io/post/what-is-a-kubernetes-persist...
Question: Do you use Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes? If so, tell us your preferred storage plugin is or if you have any issues.
That's really cool. ITS with DNS and a faster CPU could do lots of 'modern' things such as maybe basic TLS and of course gopher would be a matter of spending a few months with Midas to create a client.
Probably by plugging it in and eyeballing all the contents. I have a similar experience with 1GB ancient USB drive.
I see that my post was down voted because it was written by an LLM in a verbose and pretentious style. That's okay but the idea I expressed are my own, the LLM did only the wording.

I regret also that the discussion derailed to discuss about LLM generated contents. I will be more careful the next time.
I have an MPS-801 dot matrix printer for my Commodore 64. The biggest challenge is buying listing paper at a sensible price.

/Also have a Panasonic KX-P1124, but it weighs a ton and I've no room to keep it out so it lives in a cupboard for now.
TechScape: One man stopped a potentially cyber-attack – by accident
great design. loved it.
The XZ Backdoor Almost Compromised Every Linux System [video]
> The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with. [emphasis mine]

> Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.

> According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales. Amazon called this characterization inaccurate, and disputes how many purchases require reviews.

> “The primary role of our Machine Learning data associates is to annotate video images, which is necessary for continuously improving the underlying machine learning model powering,” said an Amazon spokesperson to Gizmodo. However, the spokesperson acknowledged these associates validate “a small minority” of shopping visits when AI can’t determine a purchase.

The article is kind of all over the place, but it sounds like there were lots of sensors and also lots of human intervention.
Nerdy but - last Xmas 3M got hundreds of dollars of my family money.

I got speed tape, ruby tape, silicone fiberglass hi-low temp tape. I don't really need them, I admire the engineering and I'm kinda afraid to use these tapes given how much they cost.

But yeah, the 3M brand = adhesives in my household.
Pretty easy with iPhone+AirDrop. Just bring your iPhones together - it asks if you want to airdrop something, select file, done.
To the same people that buy or subscribe to podcasts, music, series today? I can find your AI-generated series interesting and subscribe to it.
You are inventing the requirement that all *86 must be supported for some inexplicable reason. It is not there in any ordinary interpretation of any language including English.

If it outputs code for a single cpu from 8086 or later in that family, any single one of them, then it is "an x86 compiler".

It also doesn't matter what they would have called it at the time.
When the 8086 was new, there was not yet a family of *86 model numbers, so no one would call anything an x86 anything. But that doesn't change the fact that now, when the speaker you are incorrectly trying to correct spoke, there is a set with name "x86" and the 8086 is in it.

The 8086 is an x86 cpu, and gcc 1.27 is an x86 compiler.

If you didn't think that's how those words should be interpreted, well now you are better informed, and will hopefully confuse fewer people in your future communications, and wind up in fewer arguments like this one.
That was between two Android phones, with receiving phone being "oppo" or some such, with stock firmware. Receiving phone would see incoming file request, ask user to accept, then error out with "unknown file", and no way to actually save it. I've sent files via bluetooth from lineageos to lineageos, no problem.
No, you can still trust compilers: 1) The hand-tuned BLAS routines are essentially a different algorithm with hard-coded information. 2) The default OpenBLAS uses OpenMP parallelism, so much speed likely originates from multithreading. Set OMP_NUM_THREADS environment variable to 1 before running your benchmarks. You will still see a significant performance difference due to a few factors, such as extra hard-coded information in OpenBLAS implementation.
Almost. Innovative means "using new methods". It does not mean "destroy old".

SCNR https://xkcd.com/386/
>Now we are in 2024 and what actually happened is no one owns their movie or music libraries anymore... they are all streamed from some remote CDN somewhere, and most content creators get paid a pittance compared to what they did in the old world.

I torrent and spinning rust is cheap. So I do have media collection.
> Discord asks for the accessibility option to read system wide keystrokes for push to talk. Can sandboxed apps do that?

You can register a shortcut in the sandbox, you cannot read system-wide keystrokes from the sandbox.
> a young Michelle Yeoh

She was 45 or 46 when she made Sunshine.
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (2023)
A better way to read this is "80% of a not losing strategy". The author agrees with this but buries the lede at the very end of the piece:

"Is this a fail-safe path? Of course not. Even in chess. The rest of the game does matter."

I also think his framing is somewhat misleading, since the default mindset (Despite his hedging) is that you will win (Or have higher chances) if you don't blunder.

The problem is that winning in startups is often a tail event, which means reducing blunders doesn't have much impact on the overall probability. Is reducing blunders the highest order bit?

"An entrepreneur may look at a successful diner and think that customers are there because of the hip decor on the walls. She sets up a competing diner across the street with better decor only to find that it can't pull any customers away. The highest-order bit isn't the decor. It's actually the cheap but high-quality coffee that customers care most about. Without getting the coffee right, no amount of aesthetics will beat the competition."

https://commoncog.com/highest-order-bit/

The only time this is a winning strategy is if survival has compounding effects. For startups, they tend to be default dead.

This memo by Howard Marks explores the case when survival is actually a winning strategy:

"If we avoid the losers, the winners will take care of themselves"

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/fewer-losers-or...

Reducing blunders is obviously good in any situation, but is it the dealbreaker for startups? It always depends on the context.
Some research is actually done in this direction. In 2015, a paper showed how a robot can adapt to injuries like a broken leg [1,2].

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14422

[2]: https://hal.science/hal-01158243
Angle would benefit from visual recog - shape of bottle top, shape of bottle body.

Viscosities - probably finding a booze's sugar content online would be 90+% of it.
My health watch both adds to and decreases my mental burden. I am healthier. But I often think of the person who said, "My Garmin has made me less fun." My health watch has increased the amount of time I spend feeling guilt.
> It's not going to be economically devastating.

I’m sure you’re qualified to make such a bold and conclusive statement about an unprecedented global financial crisis.

What we’re talking about is inherently a recession greater than any recession in world history, if you’re arguing such a thing won’t be devastating to economies then you need more than “people will just have to ride bikes instead”.

Seriously, I’m open to the idea that it won’t be as bad as some people claim, but you seem entirely unqualified to put forward such a case, and given that, it’s extremely frustrating how you speak with such certainty.
Related https://city-super.github.io/octree-gs/
Agreed! For anyone else who, like me, didnt really pay attention to SD cards for a few years, it’s quite amazing how cheap they are for their capacity now. 256GB from reputable people like sandisk for low tens of dollars. Used one as a good travel backup drive on a recent work trip.
You can solve it numerically using Finite Differences. Basically using linear approximations
Could this be the foundation of an Electron replacement?
Might be, still the point I was trying to make remains.
I could totally see it being something stupid in how Android manages file associations or something. The default file managers tend to be fairly crippled and only actually show a subset of files present.
Are you going to have a Swift version of this?
> For regular chess, I've calculated that there are most legal positions for 29 pieces

Improved counting shows the maximum to occur at 28 pieces [1] (also see the issue I filed on your github repo).

[1] https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/on-the-number-of-ch...
Bit hard to digest for me. But if you have a column of dates in this format it will suddenly become more legible.

1994009030

1994010021

1995002011

1995006002

The zero separators align now.