skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.copymethat.com/

CopyMeThat is free and is also the best technology purchase I have ever made.
I think this line of thinking is a casual example of survivorship bias.
This was incredibly wonderful and helpful, and it feels like I could have written it word to word. Thank you so much for putting this out there, it found me and got me to book an appointment with a psychiatrist.
This is why I ask beloved by whom and classic by what standard.

Look, Narnia has witchcraft in it and depicts Christ as a lion. It's probably blasphemous (though, yes, I get that it is intended as a regular Christian allegory and is not supposed to be blasphemous). It is not universally loved in the evangelical community and is a possible target for a book ban. It's also got racially insensitive stereotypes depicted and that's a target for complaints from a different direction.

The Hobbit is indeed a popular book, that has repeatedly been the subject of book bans, again for the magic/wizardry/witchcraft thing.

The point is, if your job is to be an elementary school teacher and people try to get you fired for having a book they find objectionable, it's a lot keep on top of. The books people object to vary wildly.

Additionally, when people make these classic book lists, they suffer from what I think of as "classic books that adults believe children ought to like" syndrome. Sometimes these books overlap with what kids actually like, sometimes not.
Software glitch causes Tandem insulin pump to shutdown, FDA warns
Yes, but I assumed you already have this, as it is mandatory in most places.

I was talking about the more expensive insurance policies that cover "all risks", including theft, vandalism, or damage to the car due to weather or accidents where the owner is at fault.
I've pegged my thinking on software purchases to local McDonald's drive-thru menu equivalencies.
One solution to this is to collect three different kinds of statistics.

One set is reported (to the police) crime. This is fairly concrete but is affected by people, for example, deciding not to report petty theft because they don't believe it will be investigated.

The second set is a survey of personal victimhood. The British Crime Survey, for example, gets a representative sample of the population and asks questions like "Did you get burgled last year?". This is a smaller (so less sensitive) dataset than the first and misses crime without an individual victim, but has far fewer misincentive problems.

The third is surveys perceptions of crime, either personal or geographical. This is a much weaker measure for actual crime, but captures how people are feeling, and is useful for understanding whether, for example, people are afraid of certain places because of perceived criminality.

The first two correlate reasonably well, though not perfectly. My understanding is that the third is much more weakly associated, has a fairly lengthy time lag between crime changing and perceptions changing, and is affected by changes in political and news attention. Plus, in general, humans are not good at guessing about things they don't have experience of. You can do a similar exercise looking at people's perception of average incomes and they're way out.
> Makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

Why? Do compilers which can't bootstrap themselves also make you uncomfortable due to dependencies on pre-built artifacts? I'm not saying you're unjustified to feel that way, but sometimes more abstracted systems are quicker to build and may have better performance than those built from the ground up. Selecting which one is better depends on your constraints and taste
Bad advice imo. Code tests became popular in like 2016, were hated by 2020, and are now basically out of fashion.

Also, Leetcode doesn't cover: Async programming, APIs, databases, UI, git, tests, design systems, any known framework or library, how to persist data, how to set up a web server, handle requests, serve a page, write CSS, SQL, use devops/cloud platforms, or basically anything an engineer does everyday. It's basically a sport that most people don't like.
I became aware of Steve Albini via the PJ Harvey album Rid Of Me - for me this is the most impressive result of his visceral sound, that elevated the emotional rawness of the music perfectly. Currently revisiting another fave he engineered: Seamonsters by The Wedding Present.
There are many ways to do it free on a Mac, too, including vendor-provided software.

SteerMouse fills a niche, it is not a requirement. Akin to, say, HydraMouse on Windows.
I think the idea is that vampires don't die unless you put a stake through their heart. Most things have many other ways of killing them.
I don't think you could. Let's say you found a house for $50K that meets your requirements. Heck let's say you bought a trailer for $20K and found some land for $10K. You'd still have $200K left (don't forget you had to pay $70K in taxes on it).

$200K could net you about $10,000 a year if you put it in super high rate tax free muni bonds.

Even with the hermit lifestyle and no taxes, you'd still have to pay for maintenance, property tax, food, and clothing once in a while. Remember, we're talking retirement, so you don't have any other income.

I don't think you could pull that off. Substance farming is work, not retirement. And like you said, without internet, you'd pretty much be relegated to desert paining.
Can we get those operators to provide feedback here? Are the opposing enemy team allowed to attempt to disable them?

Unpopular hot take, I've been following the progression or lack there of with robot dogs and honestly I am not impressed. I think a real dog or a high speed drone tank could disable these things. Should they evolve to the agility of the fictional character AMEE [1] they might be a threat but I have yet to see anything close to her. In my opinion these are too slow, wibbly wobbly, noisy, unidirectional. Too many of the weaknesses of a real dog have been recreated. This is a robot and they have the opportunity to engineer away all of those vulnerabilities. I would be more afraid of an actual dog trained to kill.

I have a personal request. Two of these dogs armed with owie-owie-hurt-hurt paintball guns verses two riot cops armed only with the riot-cuffs heavy duty tie wraps. Give the cops no instruction other than to disable the robots.

[1] - https://youtu.be/KTcOOzD-JQs?&t=28
Spending has changed for young adults in the last 30 years
It is a terrible ad and I don't think Steve Jobs would have let it air.
Show HN: An AI logo generator that can also generate SVG logos
Hey everyone,
I've spent the past 2 weeks building an AI logo generator, which can also generate high-quality SVG logos (bw/silhouette only for now).

You can choose a style from a gallery of options and adjust the prompt/keywords however you like. The rest is pretty self-explanatory.
Indeed. An issue I ran into over and over while doing research for semiconductor manufacturing.

My complaint was more illustrative than earnest.
Yeah, that's right; but the "glue code" I've had to write for this has been really minimal. Certainly less effort than translating C to JavaScript with regexps (that on its own is something of an accomplishment). I didn't port everything so maybe I missed some more complex bits.

I mean, if this works well for you then that's grand; just wanted to point out to others that \-commands are typically very "non-magic" and you don't need to go the route of translating C code.
The scary thing is it records video. They now have your driving habits, and so do any cop in the US & Canada.
It's really not weird. The more you charge for the base product and upgrades, serving the bare minimum becomes less acceptable. It also doesn't help that the 4GB base models from years past aged super quickly compared to it's higher end cousins.
Could Equinox's New $40k Membership Help You Live Longer?
Yes, by pure statistics you are probably rich compared to everyone else. The average software developer salary is way bigger than the average salary for the entirety of the US. Let's not even mention compared to the rest of the world.

Sure, some people pick up the iPhone because they like the specs, or the apps, or whatever else. That's why I said the majority picks it up for status, not all. But keep in mind nobody's judging the iPhone's specs or capabilities here. We're talking about why people buy it.

Ask any teenager why they want an iPhone. I'd be very surprised if even one said it's because of privacy. It's because of the stupid blue bubble, which is a proxy for status.

I'm pretty sure if Apple released the same phone again with a new name and design, people would still buy it. For the majority, it's not because of features, ease of use, specs, etc: it's status.
Hacking doesn't hurt people, theft/scamming does
Honestly, first time I hear about it.

Out of all devices connected to my TV it looks like it will only play through Apple TV. Thanks for the tip! There are some games I'd like to try
Incredible engineering. The whole YT channel is full of videos on the bridge lifecycle.
FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole
There's also a question of short-term vs long-term benefits to be considered.

Short-term, the demands that trade unions make do indeed make workers more productive.

But long-term, the company owners (and here I of course mean actors who hold significant amount of concentrated shares, not your average stockholder) and top management may see this as only the first step down the road where they do not wish to go. By this line of thinking, if you allow unions to establish a foothold with those basic demands, they will use that as a beachhead to make further and further demands that favor labor interests over those of the capital, with the end goal being a worker-owned business (i.e. socialism) which excludes the people who currently own the capital entirely. Naturally, they do see it as a threat to themselves - it is very much intended to be! And so they are willing to forgo some things that would be more profitable short-term.
Not the person you replied to but, today I learned!

As an aside, and as someone who's currently going through materials such as Crafting Interpreters (and who knows what else based on suggestions from r/compilers), is there a, I guess, guide for people who want to implement a compiler that targets the CLR/CLI?

I have a copy of CLR via C# 4th edition, but other than that not sure what else I can reference targeting anything newer than .NET Framework 4
https://web.archive.org/web/20240508163401/https://pitchfork...

https://archive.ph/q6jOl
Would be very useful if one they used it to predict the structure and interaction of the known variants to.

Would be very helpful when predicting if a mutation on a protein would lead to loss of function for the protein.
In a four-day work society, the extra "weekend" day can be spent with parents.

Assuming the 'whole world' agrees to take the same day off. A more likely implementation is that you'll keep the traditional 5-day work week, but everybody only work 4 of those 5 days on any given week.
Improving GPT 4 Function Calling Accuracy
Interesting choice of questions in the demo.

Are you from Nepal?
Sure, and this is where I will ask you post a list of "good" professional software so I can google all the bugs in that software :)

Nah, I'm good. Believe what you want to believe my friend.
So why did you catch it now and not during QA? Or did you not do QA?
Even if we don’t understand the models themselves, you can still use them as a basis for understanding

For example, I have no idea how a computer works in every minute detail (ie, exactly the physics and chemistry of every process that happens in real time), but I have enough of an understanding of what to do with it, that I can use it as an incredibly useful tool for many things

Definitely interesting times!
I'm not a scientist by any means, but I imagine even accurate opaque models can be useful in moving the knowledge forward. For example, they can allow you to accurately simulate reality, making experiments faster and cheaper to execute.
Oracle’s lawsuits, esp copyrightable API’s, makes me default on staying away from anything they make. I’d leave any platform they acquire, too. There’s many open platforms whose owners or backers aren’t as aggressive in lawsuits as Oracle is. Many have strong communities of contributors, too.

The only reason I’d use or contribute to Oracle I.P. is if I was paid to do so. The other is porting off Java but that’s legally risky if minima changes. CPAChecker was the one I was thinking of. Past that, I’d try to avoid Java.
If you change the language, you have no ecosystem. You cant say, it has a big ecosystem "if everyone ports their code". By that logic all languages have a big ecosystem. Anyhow. JS has much unexpected strange behaviour, i really would not recommend such a language in 2024.
> A tool is a tool. I wouldn't want my CAD software saying, "I think you're trying to CAD a pipe bomb so I'm going to shut down now."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Photosho...

You should try photocopying money some time.

https://www.grunge.com/179347/heres-what-happens-when-you-ph...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
The improvement on predicting protein/RNA/ligand interactions might facilitate many commercially relevant use cases. I assume pharma and biotech will eagerly get in line to use this.
What sociologists want you to know about teen suicide
I think that a lot of scientific discoveries originate from initial observations made during engineering work or just out of curiosity without rigour.

Not saying ML methods haven't shown important reproducibility challenges, but to just shut them down due to not being "useful science" is inflexible.
Posted this on BlueSky. Just gutted.

https://bsky.app/profile/tft.io/post/3krylxcef4z2k
Read this too quickly and thought I would be finding out the details of rifling, breech loading, etc.
Nice!

You need to get the sugar cubes and use way too many for maximum authenticity :-) I myself am partial to Çaykur's Hemşin tea, by the way.

Mehmet Efendi is good if you're walking by the shop (smells amazing) but the dirty secret is that in a post specialty coffee world, you're probably better off asking your local coffee shop to grind fresh beans for you on the "Turkish" setting or absent that, the finest possible setting they have - more than espresso. And you get to have an interesting conversation with the baristas because they're always super psyched about it for some reason. Arabica beans, dark roast, low acidity from Ethiopia, Yemen etc is traditional but you shouldn't feel limited to that.
Artillery has been the number one cause of combat casualties since World War I. The tech is obviously changing, but soldiers dying out of sight of the enemy is not new.
Very sad news. I've been blasting "Rid of Me" the past few weeks, one of these records that just makes me want to crank up the volume.
IBM has a track record going back to automatically price calculating cheese cutters [0], but Sam does not.

IBM has proven itself in various ways over the years, OpenAI hasn't.

While IBM is a behemoth of a money making machine, they put money where their mouth is. OpenAI does not.

So I'll trust IBM, but not OpenAI.

[0]: https://youtu.be/z8VhNF_0I5c
That is no longer true.

The DDR5 standard allows either 40-bit channels or 36-bit channels in ECC DIMMs. (A DDR5 UDIMM has 2 channels, while the desktop CPUs use 4 channels provided by 2 sockets.)

The former choice corresponds with a 25% overhead, while the latter with a 12.5% overhead.

In the beginning there were only 80-bit ECC DDR5 UDIMMs, because the DRAM vendors preferred to make only x8 chips. More than a year ago, 72-bit ECC DDR5 UDIMMs have also apppeared, which use a mixture of x8 and x4 chips.

Nowadays no ECC memory vendor can justify a 25% overprice, because if they happen to use 25% more memory that is because they believe this reduces their production costs (by making a single kind of chip). Only an overprice slightly more than 12.5% is right.

Unfortunately, due to limited offer, the ECC DDR5 UDIMMs can still be up to 50% more expensive than non-ECC modules.
Holographic AR Glasses with Metasurface Waveguides
It's not just law enforcement though. With the way the laws are today, you could have the trusted entity selling that data if they're partnered with some consumers. If you save the cert usage (on the consumer side) you could eventually utilize it if the trusted entity changes hands, policies change, etc. The government is also a potential malicious actor depending on which government and how you want to define malicious.

Of course there are other issues in the chain concerning anonymity, like ISPs.
You can get almost the same results for free using Obsidian Canvas and one of the following plugins:

- https://github.com/MetaCorp/obsidian-augmented-canvas

- https://github.com/phasip/obsidian-canvas-llm-extender

- https://github.com/rpggio/obsidian-chat-stream

- https://github.com/zatevakhin/obsidian-local-llm
Audibility of error (and sound in general) depends on what other audio is playing at the same time, with both frequency domain and time domain effects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking

Here's a two-part lecture with audio demonstrations by Bernhard Seeber of the Audio Information Processing Group at the Technical University of Munich:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9UZnMsm9o8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU0_Kaj7cPk

A simple weighed frequency domain error calculation is not very useful for comparing lossy audio codecs, because effectively exploiting auditory masking to hide the errors is a major factor in codec quality.
I use perplexity because it's the best free GPT that is anonymous (no login required)
Fair question. In my anecdotal experience everyone I know who had persistent energy, focus and a mechanism for improving their craft achieved something interesting. Sometimes it was ended up in screenwriting or an adjacent field, but something came of it.

My friends who produced excuses became really good at that. My friends who produced real works and continued to improve became good at that instead.
I guess my aesthetic sense is different from the author's in a way which places greater weight on functionality, because there is nothing ugly about this web site in my eyes. It has lots of text, there is nothing in the way of the text, and the content is generally interesting: ahhhh, yes! It's lovely. Give me more!

I strip away virtually all the designery fluff from the web via Reader View, anyway; if a page doesn't work in Reader View, I probably won't bother with it.
You can share pointers across threads in Rust, it's just `unsafe`.
Deep-Kan
Go fixes its 7th code execution bug in the same feature
It's an official press release on the official website for the engineering regulator, so definitely not a parody. But boy, does it look like one!
> You want to avoid serializing the objects since they will be copied anyway with fork(), but the parent needs a way to refer to a particular object when talking to the child, so it needs to pass some kind of ID.

Yes, that is exactly and succintely the crux of the idea :-)

As you found out, you can rely on indices or keys in a global object to achieve the same result. The annoying part though is that you need to pre-provision these objets before the pool, and clean them after to avoid keeping references to them. That means some explicit boilerplate every time you use a pool.

The nice thing with the id() trick is that it's very unintrusive for the caller, as the reference count stays the same in the parent process, it is only increased in the child, unbeknownst to the parent.
He famously would hit record and then just play games on his phone until the track was done and ask if they wanted to go again. Of course he did this because he felt after getting things setup and sounding as desired (which he put a lot of work and thought into) it was the artists that were responsible for their art. He would offer his thoughts if asked though.
You might not, but the boomers are going to love it. Wait til they find out about LLMs. We're fucked actually.
MXM was problematic because the inflexibility of the form factor to upgrade a given system. If your laptop size, power and cooling was designed for a gtx1030 you couldn't replace it with a gtx1080 module.

In framework's case, the cooling is integrated in the gpu module, and both it's size, cooling and power deliver can be adjusted depending on the gpu power.
If there is a desire to unionize, it would be great time for a strike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_and_unions
It's been a while (~5yr) since I've done anything with Spark, but IIRC it used to be very difficult to make reliable jobs with the Java or Python APIs due to the impedance mismatch between Scala's lazy evaluation semantics and the eager evaluation of Java and Python. I'd encounter perplexing OOMs whenever I tried to use the Python or Java APIs, so I (reluctantly) learned enough Scala to make the Spark go brr and all was well. Is it still like this?
The difference is that Old Navy isn't selling anything they don't already have ready to go.

Lamborghini and Ferrari take orders, but they tell you what the average wait time is, and you don't have to pay a 100% deposit beforehand.
People are hunkering down while companies are trying to squeeze what they can out of the workers left. As soon as the market turns, Fed starts cutting, workers are going to bolt even faster.

Recession is as cancelled, full steam ahead.

> And Americans’ confidence in their job-hunting prospects has reached its highest point in two years, a February 2024 ZipRecruiter survey of more than 2,000 jobseekers shows.
> but the breach appears to make Salvadorans relatively easy targets for cybercriminals looking to open accounts under assumed names, which would normally require them to gather other information contained in the leaked database

daily reminder that AML/KYC is a joke when you can just get a legitimate account with anybody else's info and access the international banking system

you would never be notified if someone simply made a bank account in your name, and never overdrafted it.
Yeah. And isn't that just... fascism? After you get past the stuff we pretty much all agree is evil, it very quickly enters into a subjective space where what's actually happening is that one group is deciding what's acceptable for all groups.
>You seem to assume that because this thing is faster, it must automatically be less enjoyable.

The problem in this case is that the device is doing part of the swimming for you.
New Postman release supports AI API development with AI
Relative Path File Injection
The Geysers
is there a ranking of the methods that actually work on benchmark datasets? Hybrid, "ML" or old stats? I remember eamonnkeogh doing this on r/ML a few years ago.
Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
It’s pretty simple math! I’m certain they have all the ideal ratios worked out and whatnot
Looks like it's a declarative CMake so you don't have to interact with the CMake DSL yourself. Which is nice, but I've rarely had a non-sample/toy CMake project where I didn't have to hack something outside of the straightforward steps the docs make it look like you need to do, so my number concern with this is that it's going to end up being a (very) leaky abstraction. How much will cmkr get in the way and make it harder than if you had written out the CMake yourself to begin with? How much of the time will it "just work" vs end up being of little use?

It's great that it's self-bootstrapping, though. I thought they would have you install both this tool and CMake in order to build the project on end-user's machines.
> data seems unlikely to help any hacker attempting to defeat an onboarding or access control system protected with presentation attack detection

No. But these people have been forever de-anonymised in photos and videos online, as well as in potentially every place on the planet with an integrated security-camera system.