skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cold air is also more dense, less momentous, and can transfer sound energy more efficiently between particles than hot air where the particles are spread out and have their own momentum to maintain rather than the sound's.
Interesting... I'd imagine it's not common to have re-submissions of exact same links ten years apart, without other re-submissions in-between.
Exactly. Zero interest rate policy where companies believed that there was no need to make money but to only burn it on VC money with complex systems all day long.

Look at the amount of complexity that micro-services has gotten banks like Monzo into; over 2,000+ and they are happy with it. [0]

An example of bad practices in software engineering which is just only for engineers to persuade their managers around increasing complexity for a increase in salary.

[0] https://monzo.com/blog/2022/05/26/humans-who-can-rpc-securin...
Such a great map. Would love to see the respective data visualized for the entire world.
I’ve got a flight tonight at 23:00 so hopefully can secure a window seat!
Hence’s the CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”
It's named after the Ioway tribes, who grew lots of corn!
Prettier UI (IMHO)
Oh dang this is a good take. I live on a city block that has no fewer than 300 people, but we have at least three options for third places depending on your criteria. If we had just one in reasonable travel distance, and people couldn’t self-select, perhaps we’d be more neighborly
Some percentage of solar panels will become dysfunctional because of extreme weather events.
Why would someone be banned from PSN? If it's for cheating, then removing them from all available online communities is a purely positive consequence.
Migrating to BIND9 DNSSEC-Policy
This comment had the reverse effect on me - Dark Souls 3 has been on my backlog for a while, and I'm now more keen to play it :)
Please read the comment carefully before parroting a canned retort. It doesn't say what you think it says.
I found if I resize my browser window the spinny thing on the landing page starts spinning really fast. I like it :)
Hopefully those sane principals implemented sane principles.
To be honest, his forte isn't the written word. Watch a documentary or two. He has a fascinating style and is eminently (maybe too eminently) watchable.

"New Adam Curtis documentary just dropped" was really a thing for a fair while in the UK.
Growth must continue infinitely, how can growth continue infinitely if they can't charge you ever more money and also peddle an ever increasing number of ads in front of your face?

What do you think the logical endgame is when brainchips allow advertisements into your dreams and you can be extorted with a monthly subscription to avoid braindamage?
I would be interested in something similar, but for any crops, or even be able to filter by crop type.

Or maybe there is a map/list of each zone by state (e.g. commercial, industrial, government, residential, farm, etc.).
> My belief is that this can be mostly or maybe entirely traced back to the way Americans ruined their cities.

Not Americans. The state. Town planning. Subsidizing. Not the people.
There you go again, complaining about my argument instead of refuting it.

It's not about liberals or conservatives, it's about ordinary people not liking things and spreading the word, ideally so people with the power to change things hear it. Conservatives cancel too, e.g. the Bud Light / Dylan Mulvaney boycott.
I’ve also heard this referred to as Abandoned Memory, or sometimes a Space Leak. It’s a common class of bug in a reference counted language, like Objective-C, where cycles need special consideration.
I don't doubt that those are the official rules, but these days anybody with a flagpole apparently flies it at half mast whenever they're sad (or sometimes angry) about something. That's why it's gotten confusing.
I don’t see why POC would mask this easier
Yes, but it is now impossible to separate them from the hype (same as functional programming languages, cloud providers, etc.).

They will continue to be used, but their proliferation into contexts where they are not the best tool (MongoDB as a shining example) was very much a part of the ZIRP environment (the underlying reasons are numerous).
Sure, for simple flows-of-control, GC buys you little and an RAII type approach is fine. But RAII really only works if lifecycle and ownership spans are reflected in the lexical structure of the code base. RAII relies on creation and cleanup happening within a block/lexical scope.

Unfortunately in the real C++ codebases I've had to work with, the flow of control is never so simple. Any correspondence between lexical scope and lifecycle is broken if the code uses exceptions, callbacks, any type of async, threads, etc.
You have to scroll down to 1939 before finding the first instance of Jewish retaliation.

There's also this fellow Menachem Begin and the accomplishments of his crew:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irgun_attacks#During_B...

This isn't a question of 1937 versus 1939 (or whether these atrocities were in any meaningful sense "retaliatory"). But if you're going to somehow not mention -- whether by choice, or simple carelessness -- one of the most important chapters of the lead-up to the so-called "defensive war" of 1947-1949 then I don't see us heading towards a productive analysis of the larger historical context.

Wikipedia is pretty good, overall. But uneven also, in terms of edit quality. So when assembling data on such large scale tragedies (as the matter of targeted violence against civilians by both sides in this conflict), it's best to check against other sources.

Like moldy old books in the library. And listening to people whose families have lived through these events.

Against a guy's essay ...

The point is the unequivocally colonial intent of the Zionist project from its earliest beginnings. Not the guy or his essay.
It's a catch-all for the tech capabilities of a civilization. Expressed in terms of energy harvesting.

Eg. capturing all energy output of a star, includes the ability to move (vehicles, robots etc) through space, build star-sized infrastructure, and so on.

Personally I prefer the magnitude of energy production/consumption. MWatt → GW → TW etc.

Or how advanced (or energy-dense) its source is:

Burning stuff → electric power → nuclear fission → nuclear fusion → antimatter
Demand vs supply. Law of nature.

Prices are high because consumers are willing to still spend at that prices. Restaurants are still making a big buck. Travel, entertainment - they’re all booming!

One of the bigger issues is the rich get richer and they want less competition.

There are fewer owners of 50th percentile of sales.

Spend less, save and invest is the lesson. However our domaine loving brain can be hard to reason with.
> Apple is famous for refusing, regardless if that's just PR or not

Now they can be famous for lying, too: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
YMMV: kids are not surprised by computers anymore since they are pervasive in their lifes. A 3D printer is amazing but it could be really slow I would prefer robots/cars ala Logo turtle. A friend of mine played with Maley Makey. Beyond computers chemistry, physics, magic...
If that gives you extra time to move the problem to the future, I'd say that's a win :D
I believe you can apply over and over again for SWE jobs, there are lots of open positions but a few are hiring.

If you don't have any reference, you can contact directly to the recruiter
Hang around HN enough and you will realize that the root cause of all societal (and most non-societal) problems is suburbia, and that if everyone would just live in cities we could finally reach the ultimate utopia.
Why does it zoom the wrong way around? Scrolling up means "zoom in" not "zoom out".
Subsequent academic career focused on software similarity metrics https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jIh3qRAAAAAJ...
Galvanic USB isolators are a thing. Mostly for medical applications, but it's literally a chip you can buy off the shelf that provides total electrical isolation (with the addition of an isolated 5v supply).
I know some people who are very conservative about food expiration dates, generally based on past bad experiences. It would not be a good idea to filter out people just based on this IMO. These people are very diligent workers and extremely intelligent regarding work-related issues so it would be a shame to pass them over based on personal habits.
This is from a talk I gave in 2021; not sure why its on HN today..

The original discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738
You seem knowledgable, it’s a shame you couldn’t justify your argument with something better than “Trust me, I’m experienced and have seen things.”

What have you experienced that led to your conclusion that ZIRP -> bad decisions?
Biden’s gonna forgive the loans. It is free money from faucet.

That is one policy that turns me off. Sure you could have forgiven interest on loan or lowered it.

Why doll out free money?

Same with PPP loans that never got paid by millions of business owners.

Our govt has worse financial sense than college kids.

Turn on that money printer and keep signing those bills.
There's probably an essay or book out there covering the two intertwining topics, but I can't think of any offhand.

'The work of art in an age of mechanical reproduction' by Walter Benjamin is a great read. There's a short but dense preface outlining the topic in purely Marxist terms; Benjamin was a Marxist and the essay was written in 1935 following his flight from Nazi Germany. However, the body of the essay develops its argument from first principles and doesn't require familiarity or agreement with Marxist theory to appreciate.

https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf
Spot precise geodetic locations with a drone
> We would hang out afterwards, but that was limited to 0.2857 of our free afternoons/evenings.

I fully believe you that church never felt like your third place. That disconnect between generations is a large part of why churches have declined. But speaking as a parent of small children—if your parents were allocating two nights a week to go hang out at church with church friends, that was absolutely a third place for them. Parents simply don't have enough time with other adults to justify hanging out for hours two nights a week with adults that we don't enjoy chatting with.

> The leveling and inclusive aspect is key: you need to be able to bring anyone who might otherwise need a third place, and they must be greeted as just another conversation member.

A month ago I attended a random Protestant denomination with my father-in-law that we'd never been to before in our lives and had no intention of joining. We went to the gathering after the service and were welcomed as part of the group. They had lots of questions for us because we drove across the country to get there, but there wasn't anything weird about it, it was just people hanging out chatting.

I do want to clarify that I'm not saying that there weren't other third spaces that have also declined. But church was the universal third space that almost everyone had and generally assumed that you had. You might also have been a Freemason or a member of the Elks Lodge or have gone to hang out at a coffee shop, but the rest of our third space infrastructure was all built on the assumption that church was already there filling a lot of the needs.
There used to be a bunch of places at least for working class (especially men): Elks, VFW, etc. Sports leagues after work for both professional and blue collar; my sense is those are a lot less common. We had a bunch where I worked 20+ years ago. My sense is whatever hadn’t petered out pre-Covid is gone now in many cases.
Gobblet is a great game, ages 4- seems right. My 9 and 11 year olds still play occasionally.

Hive v Onitama, is Hive better for older kids or just more complex?
The way I think about it is high art is considered innovative for its time.

By the time of the advent of photography, the skills of realistic painting had been fully fleshed out. Aside from the ultra-realism movement, there was no where left to go, hence turning inward w/ impressionism forward.

As modernism progressed, the avenues left to explore seem to get increasingly wild and crude in an effort to say something different... seemingly all that's left now for modern art is to share some unique perspective of the world, the rougher the medium, the better. Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is spectacular to me because it really called where it was all ending up.
The Managing Managers Podcast
Should have thought one step further back: The weirdness comes in going from "a better play is to kick up a huge stink about people are working overtime and insist that the vendor be held to sane standards" to "throwing the CTO under the bus". The huge stink was kicked up with the CTO, so there never was any "throwing under the bus". It's your "Poster", the next commenter after OP, who introduced the confusion -- not OP (your "you"). HTH!

ETA, after looking up names: No, the thread up to then was not about "tattling to a [higher] authority figure". Poster roenxi was the OP, with "raising a huge stink". Then speedbird2 misunderstood that as "throwing under the bus", and you're for some reason taking that misunderstanding as defining what the thread was about.
Which is in line with how many other Debian packages work which is again why I think this isn't really a big issue from the perspective of a Debian user. Most of the upset seem to be coming from users of other distros unfamiliar with the Debian approach to doing things. I do agree it's annoying that this wasn't done from Day 1, but better late than never.
The extra rare variant is places you can go from 10 PM onward. Everything public closes at sundown which sucks for me who's heat and sun sensitive. Like it's fine, I guess at some point I'll catch a charge for trespassing but it would be nice if it was allowed officially.
> If Multics had been treated as a research project rather than being a plan to invent a ton of new stuff and build a system that would be deployed in volume, everybody would be singing its praises today.

I wonder if Multics had to be pitched to funders as "a plan to invent a ton of new stuff and build a system that would be deployed in volume" to obtain the level of funding needed for it to prove out its precepts. As a research project, it might not have had the impact that it did upon modern OS theory, design and implementation.

Even today, there is an incredibly strong averse reaction by funding agents to the software notion of "build one to throw away".
No Alaska, or Hawaii.
Yes.

To do that, I fuzz like crazy, and every path becomes a test, even if it means a lot of manual work checking each one. That alone exercises tons of error paths.

To cover 99% of the rest, I use SQLite's error injection [1] on all tests. Just doing error injection on allocation gets you 90% of the way there.

[1]: https://sqlite.org/testing.html#anomaly_testing
I've observed human behavior. Net zero is a fantasy.
> He is an amazing propaganda film maker

What would you say he is advocating for that you call propagandizing? Not that I disagree, per se, just curious how you’d articulate it.
People have lost the willingness to build/contribute to such spaces, they just want them to magically exist in the off chance they might want to drop in. The very act of creating social clubs has been stigmatized as dumb/dork/out culture. The places that did exist other than the VFW only have the generation before baby boomers left going to them which is now self fulling in guaranteeing no new people will join. Next to go will be any local symphony/theaters/museums that depend on season ticket holders and committed fundraisers as the new 'everything just exists in case I want to just drop in' culture stops buying season tickets and only come on the 'free' open hours intended to get new supporting members to see the value of the places' existence.
> Your other bullet points seem to be ancillary: no one is acting on what Hamas is claiming about the ongoing genocide, for example. And Gaza Health Ministry numbers are a huge red herring (even Israeli military intelligence considers them to be generally reliable and uses them in their briefings; US officials believe the real numbers may be even higher, etc).

Far from being "ancillary" or a "red herring", the Gaza Health Ministry statistics are central to the accusations against Israel of genocide. Weird you would even say that.

And, no, neither Israel nor "Israeli intelligence" considers Gazan Health Ministry statistics accurate [1]. That's another weird thing to say. As for "US officials believe the real numbers may be even higher, etc" I only found a single quote from a single US official, from one Barbara Leaf, Assistant Secretary of State, implying this [2]. I also found a quote from the same Voice of America article that "President Joe Biden has openly questioned figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, which the U.S. classifies as a terrorist group" so...

It's odd that you made so many hrm... exaggerations in such a short response. It's almost like you don't care about the accuracy of your statements? Surely that cannot be true.

> etc

Etc? What is the etc? You wouldn't have only two things to say and then write "etc" to imply there's more, would you? I refuse to believe it.

[1] https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fat...

[2] https://www.voanews.com/a/us-stands-firm-with-israel-amid-co...
> the faux-cassette tapes with an analogue audio input

It was called a “cassette adapter” (for anyone interested in looking it up).
Ah, my apologies. I thought I remembered the Cliffle post saying that, but in fact he says it specifically about the kernel behaviour rather than about the generalization to REPLY_FAULT. I hope no one was misled.
> I configure my Emacs to avoid splitting the frame into multiple windows

Is that to address a particular problem?

I use multi-window frames a fair amount. (Latest Mac OS, latest Emacs.) I've noticed that sometimes a multi-window frame will seemingly freeze up and be unresponsive to the keyboard or trackpad, including multiple Ctrl-G commands. But then C-x 5 2 will work to create a new frame. And I can go back to the frozen frame and C-x 5 0 to kill that frame.
Did you open source this?
touché…
> From my years of experience with the industry, ideas like microservices were used way before zero interest rates, and will continue to be used, because they solve actual real problems many people have.

It is one of the many ways for a VC funded company to quickly run out of money.

Given that companies such as Uber and Monzo proudly report that they have thousands upon thousands of micro-services with other startups copying that due to the micro-services hype, I can only see that as a way to introduce more problems such as more operational costs and significant complexity to engineers.

Microservices was indeed a ZIRP idea taken to the extreme in many startups believing they could scale like Google, except that they could not afford to and most of them either bankrupted themselves or are still losing hundreds of thousands a month on this idea and are cutting down on the micro-services fad to save money.
Huh? I have no idea. If I had an idea, why would I spend my time on a message forum with it? You have clearly not thought this through.
They did have camera obscura and other optical devices to assist with the realization of perspective.
(Not the person you replied to, but) I just re-read it, and the "canned retort" still looks completely accurate and relevant. Can you elaborate on why you think that AI's (known, admitted, and inherent) propensity for hallucination _wouldn't_ be disastrous in the context of pedagogy?

If the original comment had _just_ proposed to direct students to locations _within_ the original content ("filter"), it would have been less-impactful - being directed to the wrong part of a (non-hallucinated) textbook would still be confusing, but in the "this doesn't look right...?" sense, rather than the "this looks plausible (but is actually incorrect)" sense. But given that the comment referred to "Conversational AI", and to "modulat[ing]" the content (i.e. _giving_ answers, not just providing pointers to the original content), hallucination is still a problem.
People think of corn as a vegetable, but it’s really just a quantized excitation of the corn field. As corn fields expand to have an increased number of states, and those states become lower energy, the relaxation of the corn excitons releases energy, which is why we’ve been mandating its use in motor vehicle fuel. It really makes things pop. And who knows… maybe a kernel of truth in this.
Like the musician in the story, I have many synthesizers with floppy drives. I love the synth, but not the floppies. I keep floppies around because I have to in order to keep the synth operable, but I am slowly changing the floppies out of floppy emulators. At $100 a pop it’s slow going.
From the neural network Wikipedia page:

> The signal each neuron outputs is calculated from this number, according to its activation function

The activation function is usually a sigmoid, which is also usually defined in terms of trigonometric functions

Which neural networks don’t use trigonometric functions or equivalent?
Modeling Dilution (2023)
According to the paper, the "registers" are additional learnable tokens that are appended to the input sequence of a Vision Transformer model during training.

They are added after the patch embedding layer, with a learnable value, similar to the [CLS] token and then at the end of the Vision Transformer, the register tokens are discarded, and only the [CLS] token and patch tokens are used as image representations.

The register tokens provide a place for the model to store, process and retrieve global information during the forward pass, without repurposing patch tokens for this role.

Adding register tokens removes the artifacts and high-norm "outlier" tokens that otherwise appear in the feature maps of trained Vision Transformer models.

Using register tokens leads to smoother feature maps, improved performance on dense prediction tasks, and enables better unsupervised object discovery compared to the same models trained without the additional register tokens.

This is a neat result. For just a 2% increase in inference cost, you can significantly improve ViT model performance. Close to a free lunch.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313733

1480 comments here if you want HN opinions on it.
Actually, the term opperhoofd was used by chief ranking officers of the Dutch trading companies in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOC_opperhoofden_in_Japan
Lossy Text Compression [pdf]
Just represent joint density for each neuron as a linear combination - then you can inexpensively propagate in both directions e.g. as E[X|Y,Z] or E[Y,Z|X] by substituting and normalizing ... the formulas turn out quite simple - could be hidden in dynamics of (bidirectional) biological NN ...

And for pairwise distribution becomes ~KAN, which turned out quit successful ... so we are talking about its extension: adding more possibilities, like triplewise dependencies and multidirectional propagation.