skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some transatlantics scheduled in mid-may on 787s, and a friend of mine keeps forwarding me news about the speculation/whistleblowing about the 787. At first I just considered it confirmation bias with all the news there's been about Boeing lately--like train derailments became popular about a year ago, even though the background rate didn't change at all.

But this seems significant in a way that it hasn't felt previously, and it's starting to make me anxious; at what point does it become reasonable to begin altering plans?
Sotheby's next hot auction: a Picasso-backed bond
Using Kotlin Multiplatform with KMMBridge and SKIE to Publish a Native Swift SDK
> we need more PhDs who are the people at those outermost edges

<spoiler> Apologies if I'm the bearer of bad news, but most PhDs stop working in science and end up working for corporations.

> there's been a systematic push to put everyone through college

Q: Why is that?
I don't see it that way. If you build a genuinely novel application then the critical data doesn't exist yet (IMO almost by definition). Sometimes it's easier for a startup to do this rather than for an incumbent who's trying to shoehorn the application into a preexisting framework (technical, operational, whatever).
JS Bin to Play with the TC39 Signals Proposal:

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from the JavaScript Weekly newsletter #683 — April 11, 2024
Hypothesis #3: More people for professors to offload work to.
Alternative to archive.ph:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=2295000470791&w=kmXP7Hkhn-...
Emails over (Ham) Radio
Yeah so basic ops sec. Don't drive in with a vehicle tied to you, wear a hat or basic disguse, get your money swapped and leave. You can put a few bills into the machine, that's not a crime. The only thing to worry about is if that casino has been alerted to people cashing out without playing.

Hell, you could find the lowest volatility game such as video poker that has a 99.5% hold and play it for a calculated amount to converge to the mean as quickly as possible. It's not like cheating where they are going to be running after you as soon as you put in funny money.
Yeah, spam is a thing and there's obviously more spammy journals around now.

But when someone starts ranting insisting that standards in papers were universally better across many fields in the middle of last century you wonder about whether he has the breadth and depth of knowledge to make that claim, and and then in the comments someone asks him who the greatest philosopher of this century is and he replies "Eliezer Yudkowsky"!
> If kids and young adults lose access to piracy they will develop other interest

Entertainment is a lot more fungible than these companies realize. Pour cold water on movies and people will watch TV. Dampen that and people will play video games. Make me hate Reddit and I'll go to youtube. Start forcing ads on youtube and I'll go to instagram. etc.
Awww, it's not that bad. We just tweak it a little so you only _think_ you just missed the close button and instead launch the ad.

You know, for KPI.
Unfortunately Deleuze's The Fold has little to say about either awk or catamorphisms.
I think there's too few 21 year olds being handed big investment dollars to form the majority of what causes "America to still have high innovation". The average age for founders starting successful businesses is somewhere between 35 - 45 years old: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wha...
But gained a lot for Shelley... that she was able to direct her terrible emotional state into her acting and give one of her best performances speaks greatly of her.
> One way to enhance the usability of unique identifiers is by making them easily copyable.

No matter what your identifiers look like, if you want them to be easily copyable you should add `user-select: all` to the element containing them.

If you do this, all of the text will be selected automatically when you click on the element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/user-select
I went to law school. One of the mandatory courses was on roman law. Another was on philosophy of law. Both had zero practical direct value for a working lawyer.
> rather than actually being curious about the world

Great phrase that allows anyone to make any kind of shit up to evaluate someone.
But here, you're not in a conspiracy theory (or conspiracy myth as some would say). You have a falsifiable theory, "This specific vaccine have harmful side effects", you're not the only one. In France, we thought the HB vaccine increased SLS risks for a decade+: it was further enhanced by allergic reactions to some bad dosage, and some double vaccination during the 93 campaign (my mother was double vaccinated and reacted poorly the second time).

I know several people who waited for the non-RNA vaccine because they wanted to wait for more data before using new techniques, it isn't a conspiracy theory, just prudence. I disagree but i certainly respect the choice.
Have you looked into the ReplacingMergeTree table engine? (Although we still needed to use FINAL with this one)
I think a lot of the stress comes from the responsibility for making something work while the definition of that something can radically change based on the whims, lack of foresight, or poor planning by one's coworkers.
Were university students ever genuinely an elite group? I’d be interested to know if there’s any data to suggest historical university students were somehow more extraordinary.
David Lynch's oeuvre, while unquestionably idiosyncratic, is also characterized and widely criticized for its obvious compromises. Kubrick puts the art above the artists, it's the only way
Cambridge University have a little YouTube video which goes into more depth:

The Silver Standard: Solving a medieval money mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOPPTdF06Y
A little more background on Winlink: https://hamradioprep.com/winlink/#:~:text=Winlink%2C%20also%....
Breastfeeding is preferred, and the vast majority of healthy mothers are able to breastfeed. Obviously, get a donor or formula if not possible. I don't need a study to tell me that food > no food.
Power your kitchen appliances from your induction cooktop
I think the author is correctly describing a phenomenon at some level and the DDOS analogy isn't such a bad one. But I think they're kind of misidentifying the nature of the cause at some level.

In some ways it's a bit worse than what they're outlining because at least in my opinion it's more systemic. That is, the problem isn't so much that there's a small number of "real geniuses" getting drowned out by a bunch of noise, it's that there are actually a large number of geniuses who are incentivised by their P&T committee, or college, or grants program officer, or advisor, or whoever, to create the sea that everyone is drowning in. Even when people want to do the right thing, they might not be able to. It doesn't end with tenure either, I can vouch for that.

The late Peter Higgs is kind of a good example in this regard. In a lot of ways he was one of those classical physicists from past era, and even he pointed out that he wouldn't have a professor position today, and that people were wanting to get rid of him.

Where the DDOS analogy kind of falls flat is that DDOSes don't generally have echoing effects that result in positive (or negative, depending on how you look at it) feedback loops.

I guess I saw the author as pointing to a real problem but being a little off about the cause, or at least not recognizing the complexity of the causes as they really exist and focusing on only one small part of it. I think that you're spot on in a lot of ways, that some of the biggest problems are from people who are smart, but then also motivated by the wrong things, and so leverage the whole system to those aims and then rely on survivorship bias to justify the whole thing.
WebXR Retro Computer Simulation
How many rows do you have on average per day?
Show HN: Aarde – Self Replicating Programs
Last weekend I created a new visualization/demo. It's a sort of crossover between artificial life and defragmentation on MSDOS.

The organisms "live" in the memory and continuously copy themselves to a free piece of memory. The programming language consists of only 5 instructions to keep it simple:

S - Program start
E - Program end
F - Find location to copy to
C - Copy to location
J - Jump to start of program

Every time a code is copied, a mutation can occur. We start with the following simple life form:

SFCJE

The rest is evolution.
> Because of the Internet more democratization of information on what a PhD entails, how to apply, and how to be successful

I'd love to see a working definition of "successful" as regards to getting a PhD.

I spent the best part of 20 years recovering from getting mine, and I'm not kidding.
Don't forget they have github as well.
Do you know how little we know? We don't even know P isn't PSPACE!
For a really neat implementation of OOP and inheritance, I would recommend checking out Racket's class system (not to be confused with generics). It mostly solves the multiple inheritance problem by mixins and also has a great interface system.
That is an immense leap from "if we could have machines do it, we wouldn't have slaves do it" to seeing slavery as undesirable. Aristotle was a staunch believer in "natural slaves" who didn't have the faculty of rational deliberation and therefore were (and should be) guided by those who do have that faculty.

This line of thought can be traced all the way through to the modern day, and obviously well up to abolition.

There's really not much evidence at all that slaveholders saw their activities the way you describe ("necessary evil"). There's no evidence that we first had a necessity for slavery and then obviated it through automation. In fact, automation in the Americas increased demand on the labor of enslaved people.

If there was any external triggering event of abolition, it'd have been Darwin's On The Origin of Species and contemporaneous breakthroughs in science that destroyed the philosophical foundations that slavery was built upon (natural god-given supremacy, as Aristotle believed).

The abolitionist movement was an intellectual and moral one, through and through. You can just read the writings of abolitionists to hear what convinced them into their positions.
It seems like there's an increasing degree of awareness (in some parts of the US) that psilocybin mushrooms can be transformative for treating PTSD and/or depression. I'm curious if you live in a US state, and what your experience was like....
The person who wrote that would have made your life miserable if they had architected it 5 other different ways as well.
https://archive.md/DBHQ9
...which is why OpenAI is focusing more on enterprise sales and unique value-propositions such as the GPT Store which can't trivially be imitated by competitors.

This post seems to misunderstand what a "moat" is in a business sense (and unfortunately a lot of AI hypesters on social media do as well). The fact that LLMs are becoming a commodity was the point of the original "OpenAI has no moat" memo by Google, which has proven to be accurate.
I can believe it's a config issue, I'll have to look into it. I didn't setup the cluster/dbs and when I asked about I was told "use the cli". I'll try to see if I can get that fixed.
Except the Inuit and similar peoples point and laugh at land bridges. You don't need a "land" bridge if you can live on the ice. Out there somewhere is probably a site showing that a wandering group of people paddled along the ice NA from Siberia long before anyone could walk the journey on dry land.
Content farms of that size should be considered a public order offense and be prohibited.
The key is "prefer composition to inheritance" and dates back to Gang of Four.

The word "prefer" is critical to understand. It just means "usually choose A over B" not "B is never the right answer."

Unfortunately, since we - as an industry - like hard and fast rules, we move towards that second explanation and act like inheritance never makes sense. Like any tool, there's a time and place where it is the best tool, other times where it's a reasonable tool, and other times it's a terrible tool.

Therefore "everyone uses it" because either a) it's a reasonable approach or b) the developer doesn't know of or can't use a better one.

We should work on fixing b) instead of denying a) exists.
> some people have access to private tutors who "teach the test" and others don't, not "some people study harder than others". And there is absolutely truth to that.

There is truth to the fact that some students have better access to study the test than others, but in my recollection, it really doesn't help those kids very much. I'm sorry I don't have any sources off hand, but I remember it being something like that all the extra prep will add maybe 10-30 points to the SAT.

To put another way: a dumb rich kid with private tutors will still score lower than a bright poor kid who takes the test with no prep.
> The trope is that industrialising cities in Asia are smog-ridden

I had to stop reading here. This isn't a trope. This is undeniable fact. I've seen it, lived it, breathed it, have pictures to show.
Not sure why you're downvoted for this, but it's exactly right.

It's the same reason why liberals in the US remain flummoxed by Trump. You can't prove him wrong, he (and his supporters) doesn't care. It's about might-makes-right in all aspects. The quickly uttered phrase "alternative facts" is more cogent than critics will admit.
Opus is an order of magnitude more expensive and slower than GPT-4.
The conversation here is focussing on industrial espionage, but that's only one use case for this kind of active measure. An association with an opposition political party could easily get one on a surveillance list.
State school here: the Harvard grad is lower variance. If you need to reliably fill roles with people who won’t embarrass you, they’re polished and predictable. If you’re looking for diamonds, they certainly are more frequent among the Ivy League graduates, but you’ll pay up for them unlike sifting for them in the rough.
"It might feel like your applications’ prompts or prompt templates are a good form of differentiation. After all, your top-notch engineering team has invested days into tuning them to have the right response characteristics, tone, and output style. Of course, giving your competitors your prompts would probably accelerate their progress, but any good engineering team will figure out the right changes quickly. The main reason is that the experimentation (with the right evaluation data!) is quick and easy — trying a new prompt template isn’t much harder than writing it out. All it really takes is a little bit of patience, some creativity, and extra Azure OpenAI credits."

And yet, over and over, I see products with output that clearly comes from simple and frankly lazy prompting. You can do a lot with prompting, but engineerings are not putting in the work! (If an engineer is even the right person... probably not, given any specific application of an LLM.)

Prompting also isn't so reductive that you just write an evaluation and then iterate on the prompt until you satisfy the evaluation. Prompting is a co-creative exercise between the LLM, the domain expert, the product, and the user. And sure "data" fits in there, as well as relationships, comprehensibility, workflows, etc etc... the AI component is just a small piece of any full application.
We're trying to infer a query here: SELECT species FROM animals WHERE habitat IN [protected_from_burning_sky] AND diet IN [non_photosynthesis_dependant_foods]
Templates would be nice, though. So much better than macros
Related post: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1843393
Maybe allowing companies to mine the invention landscape with patents wasn't a good idea after all.
are you familiar with the bug or maybe two different ones

where on a save as dialog you rename an unrelated file, then it defaults the save filename to that renamed file, so you change it, and hit save, then it says "this will replace x file"

similarly on that same dialog with deleting the file something similar happens.
So this came across the wire. It is an interesting standard which adds an NFC capability to an inductive cooktop to turn on power for an appliance set on top of the cooktop.

Me, I'm thinking hmm, looks like we could make a fully NEBS sealed outlet (imagine the inductor on the side of a "slot". Stick the plug in and voila, power delivery. Would be an interesting way to build things in an otherwise hostile environment to plugging things in and out.
I care about vintage computers and early computing history, because quite a few people I know are aware of this I am gifted old hardware and documentation. I have nowhere to set them up or display them so they go into storage.

I would willingly gift them to good homes, I feel my role is as a custodian. I cannot make use of these things, but I can ensure that they continue to exist.

I can completely sympathise with the anger that the author of this post feels. They were performing this custodial role and the expectation in passing to a new custodian is that they preserve the material or pass on to a new custodian. I'm sure if faced with the option of destruction or taking back the donation the author would have taken it back.
That video is surprisingly well done for a technical video, with all the visual gags and jokes.
No one is more confident in their abilities than a boot camp grad.
In fact what first comes to mind: no work, no commute, less car accidents. Are those accounted for in the study?

Also, smokers who get unemployed, will smoke more, out of boredom.

Just to say, I find the result of the study quite hard to believe.
Not for most human language, or anything that requires business-specific context where what's publicly available lags behind the state of the art your business cares about.

And of course, not if you care about token throughput more than fancy abilities. Or price for that matter.

So for many if not most businesses needs GPT-4 isn't the best tool out there, and GPT-5 is the canonical example of a vaporware right now.
Gives me Conway's Game of Life vibes! Love this kind of stuff, nice work :)
Congratulations on the release! I have interests to integrate concepts of GoEX to my applications. What's some of the main focus for GoEX to improve, and make GoEx enterprise-grade and how far is the system away from getting there?
Network availability, latency, privacy, etc. many qualities to consider beyond model size and performance for applications.
This is the reason why nist did the decade of work - to focus effort on figuring out what options are secure. Finding out an option is not secure is a good thing. Its why we are putting effort into PQC now before quantum computers are a real threat.
What version of OpenCL do Apple platforms support? Also, is OpenCL also deprecated like OpenGL on Apple?
You don't need to be a journalist. I think many tech workers are oblivious to how juicy and obvious a target we are. Most of us publish a detailed target on our own back via LinkedIn, or our company's website About Us and Clients pages.

Long ago, I co-founded a tiny startup. We had some high profile clients. I was dumb enough to put those clients on our site. I also used to be dumb enough to have a public social media profile, in my name.

I was already somewhat security aware, but one day I almost fell for a spear phishing email. Someone created a gmail account 1 character different from my gf's gmail. They sent me a well worded, but simple email along the lines of "Hey baby, check this out!" and URL shortened link. She happened to be next to me, and I said to her "Hey, what's this?" "What? I didn't send that!" I then opened it in a VM and saw that it resolved to something.ru.

It was a combo of identifying the juicy client of ours, seeing my name as co-founder, finding me on FB, finding my gf in my profile, getting her email, etc.

I then got to learn fun new terms like threat modeling.

Is it possible that someone might think that you have ssh access to a server on an interesting network? You are a target.
Inheritance on interfaces is fantastic. Inheritance on implementations is fraught with peril. Java developers figured this out like 10 years ago.
We'd had computers before we started making them out of silicon semiconductors.

Computer Science still puts the same restrictions on what we can compute.
Oh - thanks for pointing this out!
> 108 trillion Vietnamese dong, more than $4bn (£2.3bn) in cash from the bank, and store it in her basement

For personal curiosity, largest dong note is 500k , that's 208 million bills. Very lazy Theydidthemath attempt but 500k dong is ~$20 USD. If you look up visiualizations of how much 1B of 100 USD notes are, usually palletized, 1B USD is 12 pallets. 1T dong is 60 pallets. Her driver moved 120 pallets of dongs in her basement. ~480ft x 480ft / ~146m x 146m square tiled.
What do you mean his life stalled out? Was he an incel?
They are criticizing the journalist (Kevin Roose) because of this line from his NYTimes article:

> "[Andres Freund's] job involves developing a piece of open-source database software known as PostgreSQL, whose details would probably bore you to tears if I could explain them correctly, which I can’t."

And that line doesn't matter at all for the purposes of understanding the "xz" attack. To me it's pretty innocuous and self-deprecating and makes sense for the general readership the NYTimes writes for.
I was expecting this, and I feel almost sorry for springing this trap, but this is just not a relevant concern for most people involved : while college is certainly a time when money is tight (an important part of the bildung itself I would say), most people concerned do NOT have to pay ridiculous amounts like these (and are often even being paid for attending, if their parents are poor enough) : Ivy League in particular is just a drop in the ocean with regards to the education of first world(ish) citizenry.
Why is sudafed still behind the counter when now it's not even necessary and it may improve the health of the community if they started making meth with it again?
HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 don't look like that, anymore. The HEADERS frame is just a key-value map where the reserved keys :method, :scheme, :path etc are used for the previously top-level message elements.
Open-sourced central bank macroeconomic models
That's exactly what DB indexes are though ;)
> In our MySQL database we use IDs mostly as primary key

Clustered index with random data stored as chars as the PK, what a great time! You will surely not regret this decision later.
I wonder how it compares to traditional compression?

I've tried their "Integer that increments by 1 at every timestep." case on 10000 integer. The algorithm described said "6.98x compression"

bzip2 gave 80000/8642 = 9.2x compression

zstd gave 80000/11316 = 7.1x compression
Boeing discloses it underreported $546,000 worth of executive private jet trips
Don't really feel the need to prove anything to someone who thinks a chatbot has empathy. You're free to make yourself feel as smart as you like talking to a program that is designed to be an unchallenging conversation partner.
They stopped making porn? Whodathunkit.

(Said a person who just used an application to check on his financial health and a website to repeat the simulations that led to the 4% withdrawal rate retirement "rule" in a few seconds on my phone)
this would be cool for dungeon crawlers period
I’m not sure how anyone can witness no science
An attention head is quite literally a lookup table!
Cha is tea in Chinese. I assume this is Indian naming is mentioned as a carryover from Chinese.
> America forcibly losing e.g. its bases on an entire continent would credibly put not only America's leadership, but the entire system around them, into legitimate question.

Sounds like a solid silver lining we could look forward to.