skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it shed particles? In a world of absolutism yes they would.

I don’t know if there are actually any studies but fyi cotton notes will also have plastic features and a synthetic, uv cured varnish to try and get some extra life (although far less than polymer) so also ’shed’. Banknotes are regularly inspected and worn or damaged notes are pulled - they really are the perfect product for plastic.
"rmtree" and "untar" look too much like:

#define BEGIN {

When on Unix, do as Unixers do.
No, you cannot audit the curl at all. What a website serves you now is not neccessarily what the website serves you one minute from now.
I do write some niche open source projects, ones which:

- Have been written with CoPilot enabled in my editor, and

- which optionally use GPT 3.5 as a translation API, and

- Which use OpenAI's text-to-speech model to generate spoken dialog files for testing.

I suppose I can try to mark my projects in a such a way as to inform Gentoo that it's against their policy to package them.

Overall, I would guess that my CoPilot-assisted code is slightly worse than code I hand-craft. The biggest difference seems to be that with CoPilot I write fewer tiny functions, and I tend to keep more related code in one place. On the other hand, CoPilot makes writing test code extremely quick. And I'm not talking about generic boilerplate here: CoPilot can write non-trivial parser or type inference code that relies heavily on internal project APIs that do not exist outside my project.

Overall, I'd guess that CoPilot allows me to produce twice as much code at 90-95% of the quality. Which since we're talking about open source projects that I maintain in my spare time (and that were painfully over-engineered to begin with), is probably a decent tradeoff.
I agree! This is not superhuman code, this is machine code.
Show HN: Talk to Your S3 Data
A lot of people that sign up for Definite (https://www.definite.app/) have much of their data sitting in S3 / GCP. Most BI tools need you to pipe that data into a SQL database / data warehouse, but that can be expensive and a pain to set up.

We've seen this enough times that we added some features to directly query S3 without moving the data.

Under the hood, our product[0] uses DuckDB as a data warehouse. DuckDB has some amazing features that made it pretty easy on our end.

Here's how it works (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrrCQnfKEig):

1. Add an S3 / GCP key and secret

2. Write a little SQL to access the data you care about (e.g. CSVs, parquet, JSON, JSONL, etc.)

3. Build a model on top of that data (we automatically create a basic model which you can tweak)

4. Share that model with non-technical business users (if they can use a pivot table, they'll be able to use Definite)

5. Ask our AI ("Fi") questions about the data. Fi can build reports and dashboards on top of S3.

0 - https://www.definite.app/
That's not their reason for believing that obsd isn't as secure as claimed or that their development practices are bad, however, that's just their reason for not directly coming to the obsd developers with the issues instead of just making the problems public for other people to make their own choice about.

And it isn't about the politics of the obsd developers, as I would have thought that website would have made abundantly clear, it's about the fact that the obsd developers are extremely prideful and unwilling to listen to other people's input and have crank-like is used concerning security according to most security professionals, so it would simply be unproductive to come to them with these issues.

So your attempt to insinuate that this website is purely dunking on obsd because their community is insufficiently inclusive or progressive or whatever and has no actual technical merit to it is simply wrong and misleading.
The base64 command wraps its output every 76 characters by default.

This is because of its original use which was to encode binary files to include in emails. Very long lines in emails don't work well.

See the precursor to base64 which is the uuencode command which you probably have installed too if you have the base64 command. base64 is a better, standardised version of uuencode.

Use --wrap=0 to disable.
Hidden cities (2019)
We have done this research, and the result is called "medicine" now instead of "herbal medicine".

Aspirin used to be extracted from tree bark.

Opium and morphine is the juice of the opium poppy.

Penicillin is from a mould.

Botox is from a bacteria.

Heck, there's an entire subset of the pharma industry running around testing every damned plant, weed, and flower to see if it has some sort of useful effect! There's even been movies made about this! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104839/

We've tested herbal medicines, and use the pure extracts from those that do actually work every day in every country.

That doesn't mean the guy selling dried tiger penis should be allowed to open shop next to a pharmacy and claim mysterious properties "unknown to science".
What's this? Name calling for nerds?
https://github.com/valeman/awesome-conformal-prediction
No cigar.

Rape is a criminal offense and the convict goes straight to jail.
You can’t make up definitions and “convict” people in popular opinion.
Supabase Acquires OrioleDB
Thank you for your kind words.

Going to inquire around getting a very cheap Tesla and hoping the stock crashes so that I can load up on more TSLA stock.

Sounds like lots of ex-Tesla fans bought in when the cars were over-priced.

Counter-trading HN has never been more profitable. [0] [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713073

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34618224
This makes sense, thank you very much for the feedback!

Another demo idea I had is to have an input field where the user can enter a GitHub username, retrieve all the starred repositories, and enable semantic search on the titles and descriptions of those repositories.

The main idea is that users will typically enter their own usernames, and therefore, they are familiar with the repositories they have starred, which provides a better search experience when testing the component.

Let me know if something else would work better for you.
They are quite common in europe and none of them have such a fancy website for politicians to celebrate their involvement.
Zooming User Interface (ZUI)
I’d love to see more about the artworks the author shares at the end. The idea of creating renders of realities where light works differently from ours is fascinating.
Harvard architecture being an excellent example of a postvonneuman paradigm (it has an analytic advantage in that when one pops the stack to return to a previous control state, what one finds there has conserved what was there when one originally pushed, rather than potentially being new control state to match the new data state)
Given the response here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481383

I'm unimpressed.

This is to a bug that, according to their public communications, was fixed years ago. Except of course that it's still present. But other than that, it was fixed years ago.
Is this still generally true?
I thought the 4.1 release sped up gdscript significantly.

Plus most work in gdscript is just calling c++ anyway.
adb lolcat and adb longcat are also neat ones
Nobody will spend time modelling polygons. They will convert gaussian splats to polygons automatically, and the application will rasterise polygons. This is how it's already done, if we went back to ray marching NeRFs we would be going backwards and would be an incredible waste of performance. Polygons are here to stay for the next 20 years.
Getting rid of nonsense descriptions is very sensible. Trying to set some kind of policy to prevent that is also sensible.

Banning developers from internally using Copilot, a personal tool that is essentially a glorified autocomplete so you don't have to type as much, all because of "copyright infringement," "ethics" and "energy waste" concerns, is dumb. It is unrelated to the problem at hand, unenforceable, bizarrely overreaching, unnecessarily divisive and also dumb and I hate it.
I visited China over the Christmas Holidays last year. Reliable and cheap sums up what I saw from electric vehicles at the time. The taxi I took also did a battery swap in the middle of our trip, which took maybe five minutes and was heartening to watch.

I think Tesla is still the luxury brand even in China, and that can sustain a company for a long time, but I predict it'll lose more market share for a while.
I tend to disagree, even with superhuman pattern matching, what makes a frame unique is everything in it which does NOT follow the pattern, the way the grain is distributed, the nth order reflections and shadows, is what makes it what it is.
Maybe it would behoove people to read the manual before they "discover a quirk"? I always at least give the manual a good skim before running the command at all...
Yes, but you need to build a similar network of hydrogen pumps as we already have for gas, hydrogen requires more power and infrastructure to store, requires more energy to extract, cars need pressurized tanks, ............

Batteries are simply cheaper, and require far less infrastructure.

Summarized in an image: https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/OrLRA/s1/efficiency-compar...
I do not see how translating your own writing vs. generating unrelated text is NOT different. What does AI-backed mean in this case, though, if not translating your OWN text?
The solution is simple → don't use automatic code suggestions/PRs. There must be a human involved that suggest a piece of code - and he/she should be fully responsible for it (if there is an error/bug in the code - he/she's at fault).

That should be the way, at least, until AI is proven to better at writing code than humans.
Why can we not have a simple pdf download button?
Curious, how is Aliens a "goofy 80s film"?

It contains very little of humour, all the cast and the director are taking it seriously. I'll buy Goonies as a goofy film, but Aliens? I remember someone glued to a wall and screaming in agony as a creature tears its way out of her chest. I remember the ratcheting tension of the motion-detectors getting more and more high pitched as nothing is happening but we're expecting it any moment now.

I know there's some don't-think-about-it plot-holes, but goofy?
Would it be ok to ask how you're knowledgeable about this?

We have a four year old (almost five), who we think exhibits many of the traits associated with autism and/or ADHD. Since day 0 of his life, he has been "difficult". He could not breast feed. He screamed more than other babies. Loud sounds, any cold sensations, etc all bothered him extremely. We couldn't really live a normal life because he cried so much, all the time, everywhere. He still can't walk on cold floors barefoot. He is extremely emotional and volatile. The slightest thing that doesn't go according to plan will result in a hyper-ventillating breakdown. He is angry all the time. He has an obsessive need for answers and will not accept "we don't know". He has poor gross and micro motor skills. He can't ride a bike and we struggle to help him learn because if he does not get something immediately, then the extreme anger and breakdown occurs. His writing is poor.

However, on the other side, he can be exceptionally caring. He loves his close and extended family. He loves sitting on laps, chatting away. He can communicate well, no issues talking. In fact, he never shuts up and will always be wanting to communicate about something. This actually causes problems because he cannot help interrupting and cannot wait. He sleeps very well, far more easily than average.

So it is difficult for us. We're trying to get him seen and potentially diagnosed, so that we can hopefully learn strategies to help him live a happier life. But because he isn't "typically and obviously autistic" we're not getting a lot of traction to even get him seen.

(This is just a rough summary, there are more behaviours we're concerned about)
Madaidan is a bit of a mixed bag in my opinion — they are probably mostly factually correct in their statement about everything in my opinion, but it seems like they are deeply unfair to Linux (praising other OSes for things they've barely done and then criticizing Linux for barely doing those same things) and have fallen for the flatpak FUD. In the case of their opinion on obsd, I think they seem correct, and their opinion lines up with the other website criticizing obsd so there's that. But you're right, it's hard to know as a layperson.
Which part is it copying?
Semi solid state batteries are shipping now:

https://newatlas.com/automotive/im-ls-lightyear-solid-state/
> "Greenwald quit in fury to make quixotic allies on the right"

This type of (mis)characterization is really tiresome and you see it all the time in new media.
While we're here, are there any eHDD standards (and devices) that allow you to plainly read the SATA data from the drive, merely acting as a transport for the SATA connector itself? A fair number of them don't allow you to read SMART, for instance (I think this is terrible for a good number of reasons, but alas...)

From what I understand, many eHDDs don't actually do this, instead reading the contents of the drive and exposing them to the computer by essentially emulating a USB flash drive. I would have to sniff the packets to be sure, but this is what I suspect my eHDD caddy is doing.

My main reason for wanting this is that, in some cases, it would make reading random drives substantially easier -- I have amassed a collection of HDDs that all have different partition schemes, filesystems, etc., and a fair number of those are unable to be processed by my caddy. This is a very frustrating experience, as a Linux device has some of the best filesystem / partitioning support in the world (and a random £15 caddy is obviously not going to provide very good competition.)

On the contrary, having the kernel process the HDD as a block device would most likely place it under marginally more computational stress (as opposed to the drive reading partition tables and filesystems itself), but I believe that's been fairly well-optimized by now.
I don't have a Facebook, Twitter or TikTok. And LinkedIn exists as nothing more than a glorified resume for me.

What is your point? I couldn't care less what other people do, only where my standards/beliefs lie. I can't/won't ever support Tesla due to Musk. If he didn't benefit from my purchase, I almost definitely would have done so.
We have also the metaverse. Just like for us the vegetables came from supermarkets (and not from peasants), the reality will come from the metaverse.
To a first approximation, if you express a strong opinion about politics (particularly in these times), no matter which side you align with, you're going to alienate about half your customers, so it's always seemed like bad business sense to do so. That said, electric cars themselves are not strictly politically neutral these days; they've (rather sadly if you ask me) become associated with political identity, and Musk has aligned himself in the stupidest way with the political tribe that sees them as antithetical to its values. I believe this was more tenable when Teslas were seen as more luxury cars than green cars, but the proliferation of cheaper Model 3s seems to have brought them down to Earth.

Also, although I would never own one, I truly enjoy seeing Cybertrucks out in the world; they're so novel and iconoclastic and have character that so lacks in modern mass-manufactured vehicles, but it looks like they might also be a sucking wound on the company.
Those might be better arguments if this doctor were personally setting the medical school admissions quota, but I'm pretty sure he isn't.
I think they cheaped out and re-filmed a bunch of action figures. :-)
The commit that they have a screenshot of notes this, but it isn't in the article text. FWIW I can't read that screenshot with zoom level 100% on my desktop, but I can if I zoom further or open it in a new window (it isn't clickable though).
Sorry about any misunderstanding. I tried to say that "badly hit" seems exaggerated. Roughly stable and staying stable seems more correct.
> I remember seeing that humans are only the 2nd most prolific human killers

We are working very hard on this issue. /s
Making a cheap RTMP 3D Print Monitor stream
Also in British army
“Serious software development” doesn’t really mean anything.

Writing a whole game in gdscript (and godot) seems totally fine.

Imo it’s a better language than Lua, and 100s of games are written in Lua.

Balatro, undertale, hotline Miami (anything in game maker)
God forbid a CEO would express his sincerely-held beliefs.

All my favourite CEOs inauthentically mirror the perceived beliefs of their customers in order to sell more products.
And it doesn't mention expenses for travel etc. which would not even be considered part of an employee's compensation.
Eh, storing and arranging physical media is a pain, as is dealing with scratches.

I find it roughly equal as things go.

The buffering thing genuinely confuses me. I get why it happens at a technical level, but the failure mode is odd. None of the content is live, just buffer the next 5 or 10 minutes to disk and have the player read from the disk buffer.

That should never buffer unless the network is degraded for a long while.

The full solution would be to just let people cache the entire video and watch directly from disk, but I believe that’s intolerable to the IP folks.
I’ve never encountered this issue because macOS/BSD `base64` doesn’t have this default. So I agree, a bad title for an issue with one tool.
There's a big confound between the EVs which make sense for many buyers and the massive, expensive SUVs the manufacturers want to sell because they have such high margins. Tesla’s Cybertruck is a rich man’s toy – not good for real off-roading, tiny cargo volume, etc. – but it soaked up a ton of resources with a very complex design and there just aren’t that many people looking for a truck that expensive regardless of quality. If they’d put the same level of effort into making a sub-$30k car it would have been less of a publicity stunt but there’d be at least an order of magnitude more potential buyers and would have shipped years earlier.
Another +1 for Liquibase + Maven.

The key here is to put _everything_ into a 100% replayable transaction log, which is what said combination does.
At this point, we should make IPv6 a mandatory standard. Please EU, make it happen!
I also found the studio audio description track for Aliens very ordinary. It's a film that says "aliens" on the tin, but there are no verbal descriptions for them other than "giant", "towering" and "beast". Not really doing Giger, Winston or Cameron justice there. I'd be surprised if he heard it, or read the script prior to recording.
Does one know if mathematica uses that too ? I rememebr an HN post where one could see that sympy, maxima and the likes where way behind for a lot of more peculiar integrals..

ah the comparison is here : https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/index.h...

(and posted by other on this very thread...)
We are moving to General Availability
and AI isn't containable
With solid state batteries you can puncture them, cut them, and shoot them with a bullet. It's much harder to make them catch fire and they keep working:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-cNNYb1Ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOubFHO1I3o
If the NN learns the game, that is itself an existence proof of the opposite, (by obvious information-theoretic arguments).

Training is supervised, so you don't need bare sets of moves to encode the rules; you just need a way of subsetting the space into contrast classes of valid/invalid.

It's a lie to say the "data" is the moves, the data is the full outcome space: ({legal moves}, {illegal moves}) where the moves are indexed by the board structure (necessarily, since moves are defined by the board structure -- its an abstract game). So there's two deceptions here: (1) supervision structures the training space; and (2) the individual training rows have sequential structure which maps to board structure.

Complete information about the game is provided to the NN.

But let's be clear, the othellogpt still generates illegal moves -- showing that it does not learn the binary conditional structure of the actual game.

The deceptiveness of training a NN on a game whose rules are conditional probability structures and then claiming the very-good-quality conditional probability structures it finds are "World Models" is... maddening.

This is all just fraud to me; frauds dressing up other frauds in transparent clothing. LLMs trained on the internet are being sold as approximating the actual world, not 8x8 boardgames. I have nothing polite to say about any of this
So you pass in a 1gig binary you want a very, very long line of text that many text editors would choke on?

The purpose of base64 is to turn binary into text that can be embedded in normal text messages such as email and Usenet. A right margin of about 80 characters is very much what one should expect such a tool to default to.
TFA is not about upstream content, as explicitly mentioned.
> I’m betting almost all the extra heating is just due to the injected protons depositing energy

And their team over at HPEPL / Georgia Institute of Technology wouldn’t have noticed that basic fact because…?

If simply injecting tiny amounts of boron (or anything else) into the exhaust to get burnt improved performance by 50% this would have been ubiquitous by now. Afterburners were invented in the 1940s after all.
Reputation for reliability doesn't mean reliable! In most top 10 list of reliable car brands (as a whole) there might be one or two German brand in there (with Mini usually being the highest of the German brands).
The quality concerns are absolutely justified. The complaints about energy use sound like unfounded, extremely far-fetched arguments just used by people who don't like LLMs for other reasons.

The inference energy cost is likely on the same order of magnitude as the computer + screen used to read the answer (higher wattage, but much shorter time to generate the response than to formulate the request and read it).

The training energy cost is significant only if we ignore that it is used by many people. For GPT-3, I've seen plausible estimates of ~1 GWh, which would equal to about 400 tons of CO2, about as much as a single long-distance plane (total, not per passenger, fuel consumption only) round trip. Estimates for newer models usually ignore the existence and likely use of more efficient accelerators.
There was a documentary about mosquitos where a guy from the Australian Army said, that sleeping a night, with a lot of mosquitos -without protection- , could be your last night.
Paywalled. Here’s the archive link: https://archive.is/aSU79
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Economies of scale still work with small companies that specialize.
Tesla Allegedly Pauses Cybertruck Deliveries
It's also the fact that unlike with e.g. gas or coal, the uranium fuel is only a small factor in the overall energy production cost. Given the miniscule amount needed, you can stock up on it to protect against supply shocks.

But it doesn't matter. It's not possible to lead a factual discussion on nuclear energy in Germany. Since the 1970s it has been mainly an emotional / ideological matter.
Musk just parrots hard free market conservative opinions and uses his "success" helming Tesla as a legitimizer.

He's rarely been more than half accurate on any of his economic predictions.
"these vehicles are currently not realizing their potential, largely because they are not being charged and driven fully electrically as frequently as assumed"

That's crazy to me, gasoline is so much more expensive than electricity, why wouldn't people charge the batteries more often?
Feels like people have had over 20 years to move on from the narcissistic butchery Lucas did to Star Wars IV, but it seems we're still at Step 2.

Maybe ... just maybe ... Step 2 is where it stops sometimes because it was a bad idea and did make the films worse.