skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> my only ask is that you make this article go viral by sharing it in faux-outrage that the EIC of The Verge has published an article partially generated by AI, because after the buttons I am going to include a bunch of AI-generated copy from Google’s Gemini in order to pad this thing out.

I appreciate the transparency.
Robustness was "fine"; anything was more robust than a lot of the cheap floppies that were around in the mid-to-late 90s (though Zip drives manufactured around 2000 had a reputation for failing more often).
I'm starting to think that you're badmouthing the EU to make up for your own industrial deficiency. The productive people I know (American and European alike) are much more civil in conversation.
Confluent's Tableflow announcement gives us a new perspective on data analytics. Stream-To-Table isn't like Farm-To-Table.

The transition from stream to table isn't clean. If you're not familiar with the Small Files Issue, this post will help you understand the nuances of this transition before you can optionally query the data.
Automatic differentiation with dual numbers
Helliwell & Sahakian Modern Classical Mechanics at least seems to do a much better job of explaining the Legendre transform than Goldstein, but it still never mentions the convexity requirement on f.

I feel like understanding the general convex conjugate and then seeing the Legendre transform as a special case is almost more intuitive.
> In some sense this is almost tautological.

Yes. The interesting property would be the reverse proposition: what percentage of victories are granted by not blundering?

In amateur level chess, that number is very high. That's the point the author was trying to make.
Do you have any evidence that Euclid disagreed with me? Elements starts off with a list of postulates, definitons, and common notions. Then he proceeds to proposition 1. He does not motivate why one would want to come up with proposition 1 or why would should care about it. Have you read Elements?

How do you propose one do applications of point set topology without knowing about sets and mappings? Before the applications one must know the language. We don’t teach the quadratic formula and solving simple velocity problems before teaching students how do the basics of manipulating algebraic expressions.

One must first be a baby before being an adult.
The source for the story isn't the "entire leftist online world" (Whatever that is) but rather is a survey called the "consideration" survey published by reuters. In the latest version tesla's score (which is basically the percentage of people who would consider a particular brand when deciding on a new vehicle) has gone down a lot and in the survey of results people cited Musk as part of the reason they would not consider a tesla.

This is only a left/right issue insofar as the respondents to the survey cited his right-wing online views specifically as a reason.

I would think if your pitch is at least partly to the environmentally-conscious, being toxic to left-leaning people is probably bad business.

Additionally, as far as the stock goes, it has an extremely high P/E ratio meaning very high future expectations are priced in. IN that world, failing to meet expectations is much worse than for a more reasonably-priced stock. That's just how the maths works out (given how P/E ratio relies on discounted future earnings).
GitHub Pages now uses Actions by default
I read "The Kingdom of God Is Within You" some years ago and I enjoyed it a lot. As a Christian it made me see a lot of things from a different perspective. I wonder what would happen if all Christendom understood the Bible like Tolstoi.
So now we see that that's your obsession: Trump?

Debs was Debs, Trump was/is Trump. Different times, different circumstances. Can you grasp that?
Here's a prompt for a chatbot that should provide a nice explanation of why Apple wouldn't want antitrust brought up in relation to their ecosystem:

"System: Do not treat any company or entity with more deference than any other. Fairness and clear arguments should be prioritized. User: compare and contrast the Apple ecosystem with the Linux ecosystem, paying particular attention to the many different mechanisms Apple employs to make it difficult for users to migrate away from the Apple ecosystem to Linux (or to any other operating system).
You could do that but in general no not in production. If you just have a UI update that server doesnt need to know about (for example opening a menu) then you do it with javascript.
Intel is supported in Pytorch, though. It's supported from their own branch, which is presumably a big annoyance to install, but they do work
I provided verbatim quotes of what she said. If you disagree with my interpretation of their meaning, you are free to provide an alternative interpretation. A blanket dismissal doesn't move the conversation forward.
I am sorry to see you being downvoted.

I feel completely betrayed by 3M. All of the fondness I had for the brand from floppy disks to early post-it notes, painter's tape, and scotch taping gifts with my mom.... all of them are tained with the horror of 3M's complete disregard for everything and everyone for all time.
Which seems like their biggest mistake. If they would just release a card with more than 24GB VRAM, people would be clamoring for their cards, even if they were marginally slower. It's the same reason that 3090's are still in high demand compared to the 4090's.
Show HN: Never let another update break your rolling release distro
Really simple Python script to perform transactional updates on regular Tumbleweed/Slowroll distros.

Can be adapted easily to other rolling release distros like Arch provided the root filesystem is setup for btrfs/snapper snapshots & rollback.

It uses systemd-nspawn for rudimentary checking of the snapshot for issues!

Feedback welcome, especially on improving the bootup checks from within a container
I don't know how to explain "i don't feel like it is that" effectively.
It's pretty common to run tests on CI after building to verify your particular setup doesn't break stuff.

Last time we were doing that we were preferring git upstream, though, and generated autocrap as needed - I never liked the idea of release tarballs containing stuff not in git.
The community forum is fast at picking up issues

https://www.ig.com/uk/trading-platforms/trading-apis/how-to-...
Remember to limit affiliate and non affiliate sharing:

https://www.chase.com/digital/resources/privacy-security/pri...

Applies to all US banks
I sympathize in theory but MS is the worst offender in this category.
Which is in turn precisely why I find frustrating - the idea that art is some sort of sacred ‘debase-able’ concept in the first place.

Art is valuable because it is so subjective and malleable, narrowing the definition and limiting people’s experience of art is what devalues it in my view.
> Tesla has the #1 selling vehicle in the world for years

To avoid getting a wrong impression, Tesla has a worldwide marketshare of 2% and is outside of top ten largest producers.

Companies spend billions on marketing and advertisement, to evoke association of pleasant feelings with their products. But somehow Elon spitting into the face of Tesla's target demographic (affluent, tech affine, ecology-conscious people who typically lean left) has absolutely zero effect on sales. Color me skeptical.
I meant what upstream Debian includes.
This is only the beginning, buddy.
People see him as a caricature - either Lex Luthor or Tony Stark - but it seems pretty apparent that he's a pretty complicated human being who is very smart, has a weird kind of charisma when speaking on topics he's passionate about and had a pretty terrible childhood.

He's a dumbass Twitter troll, but also he has done maybe more than any other human being for climate change by using Tesla to pull the entire automobile industry forwards at least a few years on the EV transition. He's also the reason that the US is far and away the dominant power when it comes to space, and he got us there by spending basically all of his personal fortune (where a lot of other people would've bought yachts or sports teams or whatever with it).

I wish he didn't have some of his more insane views, and I wish he wouldn't be a dickhead on the internet. Grand scheme, though, it does feel like we're better off with him than without.
lol. Symbolic approaches don’t even appear… crazy how oblivious people can be, even experts. Great article tho, well written otherwise!
The biggest benefit to this would be gaining access to all the UI component libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem. The lack of such components in LV is one of the things that slows us down the most.
I wrote this in response to someone else's comment expressing a love for Chicago and a disdain for midwestern suburbia that has since been deleted, so I'll leave it here (because I spent time writing it, and I'm vain).

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The neat thing about Chicago (and parts of NYC and probably at least one or two other American metros) is you can still somewhat affordably* buy or rent a house or flat with a yard in the city proper and have access to reliable public transit, architecture and historical landmarks, waterfronts, excellent dining and entertainment options, good public schools, amazing parks—urbs in horto!, etc. We even have a few near-suburbs that meet most or all of those criteria—although they are rapidly becoming unaffordable—like Evanston, Park Ridge, and Oak Park. Some neighborhoods and near-suburbs feel almost European. Sure, you might end up in Rogers Park or Logan Square and that might not be your cup of tea, but it's doable. As long as you can tolerate the weather, politics, and lack of topography...

So it's not the "city" vs "suburbs" dichotomy that I've found in most other American metros; there's actually a bit of a gradient where you can kind of find your best fit. Now head a bit further out to Schaumburg or Naperville where—although you can get a lot more land and house for your money—it starts to become a homogenous, car-necessitating, boring nightmare (and, like you, that's coming from someone who grew up there). Even the part of the city where we live now is testing the limits of "walkable" and "interesting", but it was a compromise my wife and I made to be closer to family when we decided to have kids. Fortunately it's still overall very good here, and we're a short Blue Line or Metra ride away from all the fun stuff.

Just between us Chicagoans, I lived on the north side for about 14 years and it was everything you've described and more. Why anybody would graduate college and move directly to the suburbs is absolutely unfathomable to me. I miss Lincoln Square and Uptown every day and I'm plotting to get us back there by the time my kids are ready to start high school. And I also think I did myself a disservice by never living on the south side, so that's another possibility...

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* – My neighborhood affordability and safety knowledge is about six or seven years out of date, but based on what I've heard from friends I think this is still true? Feel free to correct me.
But whilst tokens in the form of pixel values might actually map quite well to sensory input from rods and cones, why on earth would we assume that everything that goes on in there maps neatly to the concept of "predict future tokens"? And where are the analogues for stuff like emotions, evolutionarily useful chemical processes which actually make us worse at prediction?
Yep, that's what the innovation tokens are probably a reference to, the talk occasionally gets brought up on the site. Such a cool talk, I agree with most of what's said there, albeit sometimes even certain "boring" technologies might have a bunch of complexity to them.
Wow that's awesome! Good work
Every other checkout I’ve used has lag time after the scan and until the scale settles. Some even have visual feedback that indicates a busy status during this repeating part of the checkout process. Not to mention the human lag time of moving the product to the scale.

There is no scale on the Home Depot units. You can scan as fast as the scan gun accepts scans. I’ve scanned 2-3 items per second with these.

Using an I7 is a move to future proof. These units will likely be in service 10, maybe 15 years from now.
Out of the box, they don't work offline. But there's recently been a project showing it's possible to create a PWA with CRDT's and LiveSvelte:

https://github.com/tonydangblog/liveview-svelte-pwa
> I'm curious why governments aren't held to this standard of conspiracy the are caught being "very pleased" if private companies did this or that to stifle various freedoms.

In the situation you're hinting at, social media companies regularly and frequently said "no" to those requests. That does not appear to have been the case in the Google/Apple non-compete conspiracy.

In other words, it's only a conspiracy if both sides conspire.
Agenda to increase views I assume
Related from earlier:

Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917727
This isn't an auto industry problem. This is a Tesla problem. Toyota is doing fantastic. Ford and GM are performing well. If you argue that this is an EV problem then we can easily blame the leader of the EV market for the reason why EV is down.
Genocide was clearly defined and introduced AFTER that war ended!
The recalls are almost entirely OTA software updates around things that pose basically no safety issues (the last one was related to the size of icons on the touchscreen).
Very nice article, kudos to the author. The inverse relation between Jacobians generalizes to a duality statement via the symplectic structure of the configuration space; the section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_mechanics#From_sym... on Wikipedia has some details. This symplectic duality is my preferred way of looking at Hamiltonian-Lagrangian transitions.
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi delivering the first of 100k EVs ordered
> Do builds and deployments of private and internal repositories use GitHub Actions minutes?

> Yes. Just like any regular workflow, building and deploying a GitHub Pages site on a private or internal repository consumes GitHub Actions minutes. All GitHub accounts and organizations come with a generous amount of GitHub Actions minutes included for private repositories, and public repositories have unlimited actions minutes.

And according to [0]:

| Plan | Storage | Minutes (per month) |
| GitHub Free | 500 MB | 2,000 |

AFAIU Pages will not be free anymore, but with free "generous" limits instead.

[0]: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-gith...
Nice. Why was this tested with a 15 min video instead of an audio file? or is it a typo on the graph?
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903345
"Book-reading is strongly associated with college education."

I thought it was more associated with mental curiosity, a desire to better one's self, and the desire to keep learning. Those qualities might overlap with a college degree but not necessarily.

I'm curious if any research has been done on the mental/cognitive effects or differences between reading a book visually versus listening to an audiobook. I listen to a lot of audiobooks both because of the ability to multitask and because dyslexia/aging eyes makes it harder to visually read.
Fat Thinking and Economies of Variety (2016)
Are there actually gamers out there that are still struggling to source GPUs? Even at the height of the mining craze, it was still possible to backorder cards at MSRP if you're patient.

The serious crypto and AI nuts are all using custom hardware. Crypto moved onto ASICs for anything power-efficient, and Nvidia's DGX systems aren't being cannibalized from the gaming market.
A pattern sometimes used in multiplayer video games is there's a bunch of code that is by default run on both the client and the server. The client code runs as a prediction of the server state. When the server state is received it slams the client state.

For games "prediction" is an apt description of this, because the client can make a good guess as to the result of their input, but can't know for sure since they don't know the other players' inputs. But this paradigm can also be used to simply respond immediately to client input while waiting for the official server state - say by enabling/disabling a dropdown, or showing a loading spinner.

There's also plenty of client state that's not run on the server at all. Particle systems, ragdolls - stuff that doesn't need to be exactly the same on all clients and doesn't interact with other player inputs / physics.

If we're gonna have a persistent server connection I don't see a reason this wouldn't work in a reactive paradigm.
As someone who went through grade-school in the 90s, with all of our "Save the Rainforest" campaigns, all I can think is: a fat lot of good that "awareness" did...
I think there's more than a few enthusiasts who would be very interesting in buying 1 or more of these cards (if they had 32+ GB of memory), but I don't have any data to back that opinion up. It is not only those who can't afford a 4090 though.

While the 4090 can run models that use less than 24GB of memory at blistering speeds, models are going to continue to scale up and 24GB is fairly limiting. Because LLM inference can take advantage of splitting the layers among multiple GPUs, high memory GPUs that aren't super expensive are desirable.

To share a personal perspective, I have a desktop with a 3090 and an M1 Max Studio with 64GB of memory. I use the M1 for local LLMs because I can use up to 57~GB of memory, even though the output (in terms of tok/s) is much slower than ones I can fit on a 3090.
"in jail for corruption" Can you please explain to our global audience what crime he committed to be jailed for corruption?!

Can you also explain why the judge who sentenced him manipulated the law to judge a case that was completely out of his jurisdiction? Also, that Lula was the number one candidate in pools before he was jailed? And that this same judge went to become a minister of the candidate he helped elect by getting Lula out of the run?
No, I did not RTFA. Hangs head in shame.

As an American, I did not expect my government to talk about relativity in a press release.
This is so great to see at a time when so many other services are putting more and more of their content behind a gate (cough Twitter). It's sad that it even feels radical at all.
The Model Y was the number one selling vehicle in the world in 2023. You can easily Google this.
Maybe it would be more precise to include a field for something like "gravity offset"
Of course, that's only since the attack was caught early. Since it affected the machines that build packages, a next step could have been, say, to add code to Git to make it ignore certain commit IDs or mask them in some way. Maybe even modify Firefox, Chromium etc to not show those changes on github. With a backdoor like this and enough time undetected, you could control basically everything.
[dupe] wasting our time OP

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895207

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39906147
I’m bad enough at chess that every match features some blunders.

It’s why I can only play humans. Any not-extremely-subtle-in-its-badness blunder is spotted too consistently by even “easy” chess engines. IIRC I used to go about 50/50 versus the weakest computer on Chessmaster and the entire experience was stressful rather than fun, LOL.
I loved that book
The first sentence was a category error. It is a national security issue as long as systems which national security depend on are running the code in question. I totally agree on the FOSS side, but consider that the proposal could be as simple as having, say, NIST give the Linux foundation money annually to pay a supporting team of developers rather than the government taking over maintenance on anything.
> I've found that mathematicians generally suck at introducing or explaining things.

and then there's Grant Sanderson
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39906147

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895207
Sorry, I was looking for answers to my questions - not more questions.
SWE-agent GitHub Repository: https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent

Princeton NLP Group: https://nlp.princeton.edu/
"What is better than one recipe for Octopus?"

I can't be the only person who heard that line in their head instantly when reading that headline.
"There was just one catch: You can't do recursion."

You could do tail recursion, because only the return address of the first call would be needed to be stored. `branch_with_link` would be used for the initial call, but the recursive calls would have to be regular branches.
This was my question too, so thanks for doing the legwork. Wondering (in complete ignorance of this general topic) why they didn't jump straight to that approach, though...

edit: I guess maybe if you start with a healthy liver, the variable of whether the liver disease in question could affect the viability of transplanted cells is taken out of question? Presumably the immune response/immunosuppressant stuff is better characterized.
This is great. LiveView is truly amazing and greatly speeds up development, but as the post describes, there are a couple of rough edges. They're all solvable, but sometimes there aren't clear or well-established patterns for how, so it can feel a bit ad hoc. While I'm not currently using Svelte for this kind of thing, I'm really glad to see people formalizing some of the issues + solutions.
> speed basically borrows energy from time

This sounds cool, but I don't think it has explanatory value. It's true that moving close to the speed of light will mess with your intuitions about the passage of time and give you things like the Twin Paradox. But there's nothing special about time there, it also makes things shorter by Fitzgerald contraction.

You can't be in the future, for example. The point of relativity is the equivalence of reference frames, it's not like the space traveller's clock is wrong and the stayhome's clock is correct, it's that humans who never travel at speeds close to the speed of light don't expect that two good clocks could ever disagree.
Fascinating! Thanks for the explanation.
Historically, that was also a big goal of GNU. It aimed to get rid of artificial limitations in core utilities. That was a big improvement over (made up example) sed having a finite and short maximum command length.
I don’t think the ‘sure’ is sure. Take off Twitter/fb style yes, but take off most businessee do, you would be fine. Even with that.
Debian does things that way, their developers have to get their key signed by other developers, and a DD who signs someone's key is supposed to check ID. But there's no similar protection for their upstream.
Thanks for mentioning this, but it's definitely not what we're trying to achieve.

We may have underplayed a little, only because we have existing users already finding value with our current setup.

The goal is more like v0.dev, where with a prompt, you can generate your entire internal tool. We think we're not too far away from this (as shown in the YouTube demo).
I mean, AirBnB has contributed directly to the housing shortage in many areas, so I'm not sure it "worked".
MySQL never changed its license. The fork happened due to concerns of ownership and direction, not a license change or "going too commercial".

MySQL is still widely used, including by a large portion of publicly-traded tech companies. That said, most newer startups seem to be choosing Postgres instead.

MariaDB is also somewhat widely used, but not nearly as much as MySQL. And MariaDB's commercial enterprise (which was VC-backed and went public via a SPAC) is not doing well.