skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big company patent filings aren't any indication they're actually working on it; engineers get paid for not-insane patents that get filed, and normally get a pat on the back during promotions; so you can't actually tell if it's just an idea an eng had over coffee or something evil they're really working on.
I mean, once the cat is out of the bag you have to care for it.

It can be discouraged, but people will still use it, so helping is still good.

Plus it helps non AI use cases at same time
Typo: I mean WESTERN Europe.
Yes, I always wonder WTF is going on and after it's too late to be of any use it registers and I'm reminded of all the stuff I'm reading about in this thread.
If you follow Musk and Tesla for some time, you should know that if there was even a slightest inaccuracy in Reuters claims, Musk would already be filling a 'thermonuclear lawsuit'.

The fact that he just says 'Reuters is lying' means that they are 100% right.
Yeah but it still sounds really cool!

From 1991 when I first saw SunOS I wanted a SPARCstation. I started college in 1993 and the school was full of DEC Ultrix machines, Suns, HP PA-RISC, and a handful of IBM RS/6000 and SGIs.

I just thought DOS/Windows PCs were such garbage. Single user, no preemptive, multitasking, no memory protection. Then Linux came out and it changed everything. I bought a PC just to run Linux. My dream of a Unix RISC workstation faded away.

My roommate in 1996 bought a DEC Alpha. Not the cheaper Multia but an Alpha that could run OSF/1 Digital Unix. He actually ran NetBSD on it.

In 1997 I took the computer graphics class and we used SGIs. There was just one lab of them reserved for that class and grad students. I was so excited and it was really cool but I didn't think I could ever afford one. It's still really cool though that you had one.
Great explanation thanks. If Earthsea was by Marvel we would surely see "Harry Potter meets Wizard of EarthSea" in theaters soon. :-)
Justice Department Will Reopen Inquiry into National Association of Realtors
Is it the AI that's the trouble or the hostile new information environment we're expected to navigate and survive? Expecting us to remain sane amidst these torrents of information without new tools for querying and filtering it is cruel.
And United Federation of Planets' Terraform Command
I love containers - I have tiny RPi under the desk, run debian in it and everything is in containers - I don't have to deal that some software requires some version and other different. Or if something crashes it brings everything else with it.

I have some space to toy with it, but for the purpose of running something utterly low maintenance, docker and containers are awesome.
This is why running things that aren't a business "like a business" is profoundly dangerous and destructive and anybody advocating it should be dismissed as ideologically driven.
Don't you get it? You're supposed to manually create the same stack trace by wrapping your errors! Isn't this much more readable?

Error couldn't parse data: couldn't read csv : file not found

Manually appending what you're trying to do at each level that checks for errors seems... Error prone.
No, it’s been working great for me and has been for like 10+ years now.
and Terraforming concept
A standalone Matrix chat client for Windows 95: https://imgs.club/2d8372d72d98e4bb6e13aee05ed70ae6
Hypothetically -- what if Stanford and Yale etc also triple their tuition at the same time?
The headline leaves out the fact that law enforcement agencies are gearing up to fight those bills, too. They want to be able to buy information that would be unconstitutional to acquire otherwise.
Eclipse: Darkness Shapes Violence in Africa
"Although darkness has long been associated with insecurity, the link remains speculative. I fill the gap by examining the effect of solar eclipses on political violence. Expanding on psychological theories, I hypothesize that eclipse-induced darkness evokes fear, which in turn is misattributed to outgroups, thereby triggering violence. I contrast this argument with a tactical explanation, suggesting that the darkness allows insurgents to secretly kill civilians. I test these hypotheses by exploiting exogenous variations in the dates and locations of solar eclipses for 1997–2022 in Africa. The analysis indicates a spike in violence on the days of solar eclipses. To explore the mechanisms, I examine the initiators and original texts of violent events, weather conditions, ethnic folklore, and individual-level surveys. The analyses consistently support the tactical rather than psychological explanation. These findings warn against assuming that “irrational” African people overreacted to eclipses; insurgents rationally used darkness for their purposes."
The difference is that the PSX disc had some semblance of DRM or at least indicated ownership. Most ROMs are just copied.
Well that's where I think the Flatland analogy is helpful, there's nothing inherently mystical about a fourth spacial dimension any more than Flatlanders ought to be worshiping us because we have one more dimension than they do.
Seeking Job Opportunities with Non-LeetCode Interviews
I'm a Senior Software Engineer on the job hunt, with a preference for take-home assignments over timed LeetCode challenges. Does anyone know how to filter job opportunities based on interview style or any companies that emphasize real-world coding problems instead of LeetCode style?

Appreciate any tips or pointers. Thanks!
Related:

The Mediocre Programmer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26051600 - Feb 2021 (91 comments)
30% is 16.5 Billion gallons.

OP is saying that much rain got into a reservoir that sits on top of an ancient volcanic caldera and has no rivers flowing into? Unexpectedly? and they didn’t think to stop pumping water in from the South Branch or release some water?

The math ain’t mathing.
But you agree the loss exists, right? It's simply difficult to detect from some aggregate noisy flow at a centralized location, because the system was never designed to make that easily measurable.

The amount could be estimated by looking at how much flying the drones do between charges, or by suing for access to charging/position telemetry of the units.
... Okay?

I didn't say it wasn't?
I was at the Port Authority terminal and felt nothing. My wife was in Long Island city and felt it strongly enough to text me. Crazy shit.
Luckily for us both the Nintendo switch and the iPhone run ARM64, so you don't need a JIT to run yuzu/ryujinx on a phone!

The bad news is that yuzus team is disbanded and never got the moltenVK backend done. And Ryujinx never got theirs to work on a phone.
It’s nice to see that they looked at previous attempts and do not underestimate (or at least are aware of) the insane complexity of this move. I’m really curious about their migration plan details, knowledge bases and all other supportive structures involved. Documenting this openly could be an immense help for both this and future migrations.
I see that it's in Belgium. What are the time zone / working period expectations?
70% of what I do at work
I'm not an expert in emulation but I am curious if one could recompile ROMs AOT such that JIT is not required by the emulator?

Say, statically recompile the ROM on your PC then move the emulator-specific binary to the iOS device.

Would such an approach be permissible by Apple? Is it possible to do so while sharing the source code for the JIT layer?

I suppose the binary format must itself be natively compatible by iOS otherwise you'd need to have a JIT layer for your binary format - right?
I pretty regularly produce documents which are required by process but no longer have a consumer. I make them because I get yelled at if I dont, but the 'product' I output is basically useless - including for the original use (which has been replaced by another similar, yet different document).

I've also implemented hours of design work for a feature the customer later decided they didnt want.

Oh well, I get paid the same anyhow.
I can't imagine power companies would be ok with this. People go to jail for tapping into power lines. Energy theft from power lines is illegal.

Even if this was somehow allowed by power companies, I wonder if they would be any weight considerations if multiple drones hooked on to the same line span.

I see applications for this, but anyone operating these drones would need clearance from the power company they are tapping into.
Also, the Terran Dominion in the Koprulu Sector led by Arcturus Mengsk.
This video would probably suffice to document the loss, assuming the recharging was done without the utility's permission.
Spent the last 1-2 years building a survey tool for a campus in-house using a CMS. Did so using CI pipelines which aren't trendy at my campus.

2 quarters (4 months) from release campus decides to buy an Internet SaaS product. And the in-house project was shelved completely never to be touched now.

Imma really the integration lead for the campus with the SaaS vendor. But it turns out the SaaS product cannot create the Reports we want, nor is it granular enough in other aspects for our needs compared to our in-house legacy offering.

Se la vi.
Hershey?
https://pemeco.com/a-case-study-on-hersheys-erp-implementati...
Related:

How does DNS work? (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30173559 - Feb 2022 (7 comments)
I made a browser extension that allows scripting short webpage interaction scenarios[0] using a custom DSL. The DSL allows to point to elements using on-screen labels, similarly to trydactil, pentadactyl and such. The DSL actions are essentially functions that accept arguments, for example one can describe something like "enter 'foo' in google search field and press the button" with a script line similar to: "|'foo'a c", where 'a' and 'c' correspond to labels on the screen.

These scenario descriptions can then be bound to hotkeys.

I decided to embed a LISP into the extension, but while building the interpreter[1] I realized that the DSL is already too complex for everyday use, and I haven't really used it to automate anything.

I am the only user of this addon.

[0] https://github.com/axes-webext/axes
[1] https://gitlab.com/kiniro/
Show HN: Guess That Color: Test Your Color Matching Skills – Open-Sourced
Hi all!

I made a little app called “Guess That Color” that I’ve released on the iOS and Android app stores but I’m also open sourcing.

It is very simple, it shows you how good you are at matching a color on the screen.

It supports iOS, Android and web via React Native.

You can find it on github:

https://github.com/Dream-Dimension/Guess-That-Color

I am also working on a few other more ambitious projects. One being a mobile animation tool & an experimental music video game. If you want to see my progress you can go here:

https://dreamdimension.net

Have a great weekend!
This. I sit down the hall from the CEO of our company. I hear nearly every meeting and conversation that goes on. Don't think for a minute that most CEOs aren't scrounging money from useless bullshit circumstances half the time. They are very pragmatic and just really don't give a fuck where the money comes from.
It was big. Compared to textbooks today it was probably very good. Hardcover and probably 500 pages. This was 1984, in New Zealand, but I think the textbook was British.

I tried to help my daughter with some maths a few months ago and I couldn't believe how bad her textbook was. It didn't appear to explain anything, just used exercises to show results.
At least it requires them to be honest about what they're charging, I guess, which is more than I can say about the CT DRS.
> I'm a nonbeliever myself I don't want to be part of any of those religions. But all of them have healthy, modern interpretations, and Dawkins really ought to at least put in some effort to look into it. As it is, he makes atheists look uneducated about the religions around them.

I understand the human tendency to belong in a group, or want to belong in a group. I don’t think any group that encourages religiosity in any way is conducive to modern civilization. I don’t think being “culturally” anything is acceptable either since part of the culture is regressive attitudes towards the “other”, and often times blind devotion to authority figures.
Some of us remember back in 1999 when Steve Jobs announced that Connectix, a PSX emulator was coming to Macs. Different times, man. Luckily, YouTube doesn’t forget.

https://youtu.be/3OqMcqRI-xA?si=lC2tbRWS-2UGe_8G
IIRC Apple also doesn't allow apps to load binary code at runtime. Redistributing derivatives of ROMs also sounds like a copyright problem.
How about employers pay to train their own employees?
Oh dang, I thought you still could. Looks like they shut down the DVD rentals about 6 months ago.
I do like that Python has both typed exceptions and "untyped". So you can classify your exceptions and catch or throw them easily.
I realize that there's no solution that is fully private and ad-free. At the minimum, you're still getting the ads from the streaming providers themselves, and you're being tracked by them. I'm just trying to figure out which one of the hardware options are the least privacy-invasive on top of all that.
The article uses LLVM Flang from LLVM 18.1.1. pklausler's point is that it is counterproductive and LLVM HEAD should be used instead.
Nice. How does it send the mail? Do you need a local mailserver running?
Regarding OP's story, deprecated is just another word for "stable".
You could do Rosetta style conversion up front of the complete binary to get around the JIT ban, but that’s still loading code at runtime.
> Schrödter also claimed that the move would help with the state's budget by diverting money from licensing fees to "real programming services from our domestic digital economy" that could also create local jobs.
Not sure what point you're trying to make here since the sophistication of the recent attack was in the construction of a trusted identity to sign the vulnerable releases.
I'm dead serious here, but if you are working on something useless do anything in your power to change that. Never work on something that's for sure going to be useless. Sometimes things become useless later, or don't pan out, and that's fine. But you're dead in the water if you aren't in a position to avoid working on something you know is useless. In fact you really shouldn't be working on something that isn't the MOST useful thing you could be doing.
I had this problem too! Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy over Wireguard. For intercontinental visitors (high latency), there would be an initial burst of reasonable transfer speed, but within seconds, slow to an unusable crawl. It took a long time to identify the problem as relating to packet congestion.

Try changing Linux's default congestion control (net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control) on your Jellyfin & reverse proxy servers to 'bbr'. I don't understand the details- there might be negative consequences [1]- there might be better congestion algos- but for me, this completely solved the issue. Before, connections would stall out to <10%, sometimes even 1% line rate. In quiet/optimal network conditions.

Also, Caddy enables HTTP/3 by default. I force it to HTTP/2.

I should probably investigate using later versions of bbr, though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408406
> "I can't imagine power companies would be ok with this. People go to jail for tapping into power lines."

Presumably it's the power companies (specifically, transmission network and distribution network operators) who will be most interested in this. They're increasingly using drones for infrastructure inspection, finding faults, etc.
membership warehouse store, not grocery store.
Guess realpolitik always trumps rule of law
Pre-Built Ready to Use React Native Components
> threatening to delete your photos unless you sign up for a $5/mo plan

What's morally bankrupt about that? It costs money to host your photos and they're a business that can decide to charge their customers any rate they think the market will accept.
Ask HN: Which tasks should a PM co-pilot solve?
PMs have a lot of tasks, but very little automation tooling. Which tasks / jobs do you think an AI co-pilot should do for a PM?
> Executives control their employees (to whatever degree they can)

Sure. But if they lay off their workforce and AI doesn't deliver, no amount of executive cajoling will make it do what it can't do. In the same way that an executive who refuses to deploy AI will be outcompeted by those who do (if it works), the one who overenthusiastically deploys it will be outcompeted by those who didn't.
Are we watching and playing the same things? Star Wars shows us again and again how the machinations of those with power (good and evil) ultimately crush those without.

Do you think the death of the Emperor is real justice for Alderaan, for the countless Jedi, for the thousands of planets devastated by an industrial war machine?

The good guys don't win. They just stop losing. That's war.

I'm not going to pretend Star Wars has real depth, but it's far more nuanced than you're making out.
But that's 1999, and they were already losing money in 1997, and the article doesn't say why. Sun was why.
Send a mail to support@rafa.ai and lets get you a pass to try it :-)
See I learned about defenestration first, so I just assumed BFRC had to do with throwing people into rooms through the window.
That number is preceded by the word “if”, right?
The Flash of Genius (1993)
Why Were So Many Renaissance Portraits Multisided?
> Is the threat of financial ruin or the threat of starving worth the advantage that you yourself are getting?

False dichotomy. There are a myriad of options between the status quo and transitioning to a Southern European-style employment model.

> Inside the current "free market" do you really have the agency, choice or leverage to choose a different economic relationship with your employer if you would want one?

The solution isn't in making the current economy sclerotic, but in better distributing its gains. Destroying the gains just makes everyone poorer. And when that happens, empirically, inequality goes up, not down.
have formerly done gov r&d. no further elaboration needed
> “Why”? What kind of question is “why”?

Because low-level applications like this were promised when UEFI was introduced, that's why. UEFI's creators went even as far as to dream of replacing the Linux-based Internet-only mini-OSes of some vendors which could be accessed by pressing a certain key during boot (though I don't remember what they were called).
“non-teaching staff” includes all the research scientists, postdoc, and techs that help make the research happen. These universities are not especially good at teaching compared to SLACs. They are exceptionally good at research.
Heat Death of the Internet
> The tough thing is, the developers in that area are happy to let all the buildings rot and fall over, and eventually they can sell larger plots of land to projects like the NGA, who are building a new $2 billion HQ [3]

You're being awfully unfair to "developers." NGA was built on the former Pruitt-Igoe site. It was simply a demolished wasteland since 1976 and is now a functioning area with economic activity.

As for the rest of it, "developers" won't even touch these buildings, many are abandoned and worth less than free considering the tax liens.
It's more about basic vs premium aka "pay more for better quality/service" divide. Even a simple stuff as food got divided: you can have your cheap prepacked cold cut filled with soy protein, artificial aromas or you can pay more for a real ham.
I'm not criticizing skydiving, BTW. Have fun!

> For skydivers in the sport - this task is not terrifying anymore.

Yes, I understand. I meant that the stranger who you are strapped to is inevitably, unavoidably terrified.
Versions of this story are pretty common out there. People migrate to cloud because The Cloud and think they're going to save money, get extreme sticker shock, and migrate back... if they can. Sometimes they get locked in and are sort of stuck.
Yes, otherwise cryptographic hashes won't work (they are not bijective)
You underestimate the evil that is Roku. I did too.

I thought I just wouldn't connect my Roku-enabled TV to the internet and it would be fine. Turns out that it starts bootlooping after a few months if you don't let it download ads. Can't return it at that point, so you call support... who helps you connect it to the internet. Boot loop goes away, ads download, fine whatever you'll just disconnect it after the call, right? But then after a while it starts bootlooping again, until you let it download ads. Amazingly sinister.
Why did New York City's earthquake alert take 26 minutes?
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
Why do we tolerate behavior from corporations that we would absolutely despise if a person did it?
Could you recompile a ROM and embed it with a universal "emulator" game engine? (in the same way the OpenGoal project that recompiled Jak)

I guess that would be illegal because you'd then need to distribute the game code.

Perhaps a toolkit that allows users to compile the emulator+rom themselves?

But then I guess Apple doesn't let users run their own unsigned binaries so that's not possible :/
Agreed, 100%. Unfortunately a lot of solutions tend to just be "log the thing". Which now means you have to go log diving to answer a question that the language itself has thrown so many barriers at you to tell you.
Android's AirTag competitor gears up for launch
The large Origin servers and the nice indigo workstations at trade fairs with their cool real time visualizations comes into my mind.
Also applications like Softimage, the 4Dwm desktop ...

Later the large Altix NUMA systems with core counts in unprecedented sizes (and problems booting due to lock contention ;)

And of course their donation of the XFS filesystem to the linux world!
Learn Quranic Words Through AI-Powered Narratives
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Taking those students out of the college pool might also decrease the overall cost of college.
I haven't pieced those together but of course they go hand in hand.

I had one guy want me to recreate Microsoft word, worts and all, because his current Word wasn't doing it for him
This article seems to reiterate a lot of theories that I don't think enjoy much currency any more; the criticism of al-Ghazali in particular is I think often considered an orientalist trope that turns out to be a meh argument, mostly because the stuff he was arguing against was not necessarily anything that promoted science. Similarly, the article suggests Mu'tazalites were more influential than they were. But they were not a major factor in why the Islamicate* world was ahead scientifically, so their demise as a school of thought or sect in Islam wouldn't have been a factor in Arab/Muslim science's decline.

* Seems to me a good term to use--as the article illustrates, there has been a degree of discussion about which term applies. We are referring to a region that was under Muslim rule and whose societies were naturally influenced by Islam, but whose populations were not all Muslim--in many places, not even majority Muslim for a while, and whose leading thinkers were not all Muslim in terms of faith (Jewish intellectualism flourished at this time and place as well), nor all Arab in terms of race/ethnicity (many Muslim scientists and philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age were Irani).
It's a really great technology, and not just for drugs. It deservedly won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1984.
Also of course LPython

https://lpython.org/