skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another hot take is "if buying isn't owning piracy isn't stealing".

Big corporations/governments set the rules.

Rules are for small people.
Wind farms also cause noise. You don't want to live too close to a working turbine. I will also agree that they are quite ugly.

But that is all fine and we can just build them elsewhere where this isn't an issue.
Real time public video link (Portal) between NYC / Dublin
yes, but the fact that some people learn from mistakes and life experience doesn't change the fact that many don't!
Hi, thanks for trying Noctie!

If you did the rating test, Noctie tries to adapt to your strength while you're playing, so if you play at 2574 level for a while, eventually Noctie will also play at that level. Since Noctie has no idea about your rating when the game starts, it might be that it took some time for the rating to adapt and therefore you found that the AI played much weaker.

The max strength of the AI is about 2700–2800 FIDE (level "Queen 4" inside the app if you have an account).

Per this site, https://chessgoals.com/rating-comparison/#lichessotb, 2809 Lichess is equal to around 2550 FIDE so if that's your lichess rating (wow btw!) maybe Noctie wasn't so far off. (EDIT: Ah I see, that's not your rating, sorry)

Obviously, you might get a different result next time – one game is very little information to make an accurate estimation off of, especially when the AI has to adapt it's playing strength as we go.

I don't use accuracy for the rating estimation BTW, I use custom neural networks that observe patterns in how humans at various rating levels play chess.
Between this and brexit it seems that referendums about concrete things are a terrible idea.
Jneeg shield for Jetson Nano for real-time EEG signal processing with DL
The vast majority has no aesthetic value to 99% of people and certainly not to the owner of the property.
It shows me 129€ for the German server and 121€ for the Finland server. Did they adjust the prices or is it location specific?
ChatGPT, do you aim to tease?
Agree on all points except this:

> the cladding only went on to make richer residents view better.

The cladding should have reduced the residents' heating bills substantially, reducing fuel poverty and helping the environment. In fact one of the reasons the building was clad in turns-out-its-highly-flammable Celotex instead of a truly non-flammable insulation like Rockwool was because of its higher U-value.
> I guess that immutable Rust is simpler to verify with the other systems too.

I don't think that's the case (it's not harder either). The type system of Rust makes handling mutability fairly trivial in verification, in fact it could be translated to immutable code in a continuation monad like the Tardis monad from Haskell I think.
And the F-105W will do the same but with a usable night light.
It is a bit sad that an entire blog post is required to explain type declarations in a language as common as C. It is even worse that C++ stuck with it. It more atrocious still that C decided it was good syntax to attach operator* to the name instead of the type to justify this crazy business, which thankfully C++ reversed a little with `auto` and West const.

Imagine how much easier that last example would be with a trailing return type, Ptr<> and Array<> parametrised types, and lambda-esque function objects instead of function pointers:

char * (*(**foo[][8])())[]

versus

let foo: Array<Array<Ptr<() -> Ptr<Arr<Ptr<Char>>>>, 8>> = ...

It's immediately clear what the top-level type of `foo` is: some parametrised `Array`. We can do better, though.

In this hypothetical language, one would probably dispense with 'pointer to char' and 'pointer to array' and replace them with view/range/span types, eliminating a layer of type parametrisation and many classes of bugs:

let foo: Span<Array<Ptr<() -> Ptr<Arr<StringView>>>, 8>> = ...

Though I am dumbfounded by why there needs to be a 'pointer to array' in the function return type, and a 'pointer to function pointer'. I assume these are unknown arrays themselves, which means...

let foo: Span<Array<Span<() -> Span<Arr<StringView>>>, 8>> = ...

A perfect language would probably have multi-dimensional spans, which would eliminate the two `Span<Array<>>` and replace with some `MultiSpan<>`.

Addendum: https://cdecl.org/ is a very useful and very self-aware resource: 'C gibberish ↔ English'.
My first thought was that perhaps it could be a movie prop from perhaps "Pirates of Silicon Valley" or some other movie about Apple but the badly faked provenance proves that it is not even that.
Unless those big cats were dispersed in >5 numbers in the same area how are they supposed to reproduce? This problem will just solve itself in a couple of (cat) years
Using a hashtable is effective because you only compare elements within their hash buckets, not the entire set. However, they can become inefficient with very large datasets due to memory usage and processing time, which is where approximate counts shine.
52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes
> When the subject is brought up anywhere with experts it is usually dismissed with a bunch of ad-hominem attacks which is just not helpful for anyone trying to learn

Because you're trying to 'learn' from an unreliable source spouting fiction. It's like someone learning homeopathy being frustrated that doctors dismiss it with passion.
No, but having a strong network of trains, trams, and buses makes it easy to get from one place to another regardless of where you’re going. You only get those crappy “the city has one train that runs once an hour” in some US cities

It’s how nearly all of my coworkers commute, even though we live in different cities and leave at vastly different times
Thanks! Ah, sorry for that. Just to clarify, do you mean for the semi-transparent pieces (the generated ones without "locking in") or even the manually placed pieces?
Indeed. For some reason this obvious conclusion doesn't satisfy the pyramid theorists, even though ancient Egypt's many periods of cultural decline and later resurgence are well documented.
I would expect this from free service, but from paid service with non trivial cost... It seems insane... Maybe whole model of doing business is broken...
A good example of irreducible complexity
If Hamlet was 100000000 times the word Hamlet and 1 time the word pancake, it would still give an good estimate measurement - even if pancake gets 0.
Rob Pike has some commentary on this in this blog post on Go's declaration syntax: https://go.dev/blog/declaration-syntax
I agree with this so much. Only yesterday someone picked a ticket off the backlog to change a minor detail on a feature I've been working on. Rather than getting me to do it (a ten second job) this person made the change and also made unrelated changes. Now the user may proceed to the next step and bypass all the validation errors in fields they forgot to put values in.

If they'd ran it, they'd have seen how broken it is. But they didn't run it, and just merged the branch.
I think this reflects very much the Silicon Valley way of thinking about internet governance, in which there seem to exist only two imaginable forms of it: Either anarchy, in which there are no rules at all and the only limits are technological, with full-on tragedy of the commons unfolding - or oligarchy/corpocracy in which whoever is the most powerful private actor gets to make the rules and then of course gets to make them in their own interest, not the common interest.

Didn't we have some more forms of government available for discussion?

E.g., after the xz backdoor, I read a call of OSS maintainers that critical OSS projects should be state-funded as they literally comprise critical infrastructure. Why couldn't we do the same with social networks?
Assuming you OK with their privacy statement? https://post-okjike-com.translate.goog/jike-privacy/?_x_tr_s...
Global warming turns so many of the environmental fights into saving the flowers while the forests are burning.

If noone ever fought for the environment beyond their own personal immediate health we might be in better position now than we are in term of CO2 and millions of people and thousands of ecosystems and species could be saved.
It would appear this is not the first bit of evidence suggesting that Alien Big Cats (ABCs) are a real thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_big_cats#Proven_captur...

I should add, the "Alien" in ABC denotes alien to the country they were found in. Not alien to planet Earth! :)
Who are you to say what I consented to and what I did not?
Respectfully, I disagree that the definition of "Europe" depends.

The UK is in Europe.

The fact that we know what they mean by saying the UK is no longer in Europe does not make that statement any more correct.

I often see comments from people outside of Europe who think that the UK "left Europe" (not realising the distinction between Europe and the EU). I don't blame them, but I think it's worth pointing out.
Permission is not remotely the same as legitimacy.
In the top left of the page you can select the VAT rate. 104 € is the price without VAT (which is what companies usually look at).
Thanks for the feedback! It's a simple modification to guarantee things like this – for this prototype I thought it interesting though to expose the "raw" output of the neural network, including crazy things like sometimes placing two kings of the same color. I even force the neural network to place more pieces than it intends, if you put the piece slider on max, to see what happens (and often the result is very bad)
A leopard? In Britain? It probably escaped from the zoo.
Not the OP here, but I've tried really hard to use Element X and it crashes constantly.
Cool idea — love it!
I'm in favour of an apocalypse caused by a swarm of giant alien murder cats rather than the cliche skynet outcome.
Tried growing them after this post made it to the HN last time.

Killed about two months on this and nothing good came out of it. Got some crystals, sure, but definitely nothing that is even in the same ballpark as in the post.

It all sounds simple, in principle, but requires skills and experience. Like making a good carbonara or decent croissants. It's all in the technique.
In Zmacs on the Lisp Machine, the s-expression under the mouse cursor gets an outline. This is updated while the mouse is moving.
Open sourcing IBM's Granite code models
HN focus on the quality of content and underestimate the concept of user compared to reddit, I think that's why HN don't open the feature to follow, chat between user.

Quality ofcontent is the key of platform.
A private collection seems more likely, unless it was a zoo closure and the zookeepers got fired before it was wound down a zoo would most likely alert the government.
I see these all over in Italy and Germany. Still confused by the youthful smokers.
Meanwhile in non-defaced public property: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/1_times_...

The thing about a big city is it's not just about the people who own the stuff you look at, it's about all the other people who have to look at it. I'll take graffiti over advertising any day. At least graffiti isn't trying to sell me anything or make me depressed or addicted or whatever.
I mean, if they appreciate the effort going into the keeping the infrastructure working, they can have some (un)written rules like not spraying identification numbers, street signs, transparent surfaces (like windows), I think many people will appreciate what they do and the story behind more.

I’m all for street art, but not fond of not being able to navigate because some group decided to let me they were here by making a road sign unintelligible.
Illegal exotic pets, more likely.
The period is outside the quotes though, are you suggesting we should have the quotes too?
I want to know how to grow a silicon ingot at home.
Record companies are the worst. They use the same “spray and pray” strategy as the VCs but charge the artists money to mitigate their risk. Monopolies…
> I didn't think not knowing accurate definition of a word warranted downvotes

I think the downvotes comes from then accusing the person writing it of clickbait. So while it's fine to not know the accurate definition of a word, it's not so fine to accuse the author of something because you don't know the accurate definition.
General deep learning: https://course.fast.ai/

For LLM in particular: https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/1
Some kind of Casio watch?
A large fraction of trains and buses in Europe are already equipped with large full-color monitors. They are primarily used to show trip progress, potential transfers, and basic informative messages. Ads are rare, and are usually static images advertising the transport company's own products.
But like the Office services, these are all significantly older than Rust. Bing the branding is like 15 years old, the underlying service is older still (as "Live Search")

So when this stuff was built the high performance option was C++ and there is an obvious reason to avoid that if you can. Rust means you can have the excellent performance without the absurd foot guns. Whether you chase that depends on other strategic priorities.
> I wish more people would work on noise pollution

Absolutely agree.

It's one of the most insidious kinds of pollution that has big effects
on mental and cardio-vascular health, and is accumulative.

Everything from aircraft, to emergency vehicle sirens, to construction
and poor housing, is slowly killing people.

In Europe we've actually made big leaps forward with regulation,
building standards for isolation, and abatement laws. But these often
go unenforced or even flippantly dismissed and mocked because people
don't recognise the harm pathways and effects.

Whenever this topic comes up I am reminded of this (very funny)
curmudgeon's screed "On Noise". Although Arthur Schopenhauer was
"serious" about this, his acerbic style only gets more funny with time
[0].

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10732/10732-h/10732-h.htm
Too much visual clutter with very little actual benefit. I found that I don't need/want to find matching parentheses by a mix of position AND color.
Meh, I’m a minority who lives a few blocks away from i95 with my father and we make ends meet in the house he mortgaged 30 years ago this year, but all I ever hear about is that only rich people live in houses in NYC and all those nimby’s should get their houses bulldozed away for “dense residential” (I can literally see the projects in my backyard). So we’ll lose anyway (rising property values? Ohhh a tax bill I won’t be able to afford when my father passes, yay) you take it.

I’m sure you all won’t know what to do with this comment and I’ll end up in the grays anyway.
> Not alien to planet Earth!

"Speaker to Animals" was a Kzinti name, popular enough among fen of the era that I've even seen it on a business card as a job title. (IIRC, for a sales engineer?)
Weirdly it says "up to 10dB" attenuation.. which isn't actually that much at all. 10dB would be a halving/doubling. I'm not sure how the apparent loudness / change in waveform amplitude display is so great, considering that actual hard stat...
Show HN: I built a visual builder for prompt engineering AI workflows
My journey to tech started exactly where you’d expect: a useless marine biology degree and 30k of university debt. One thing I got from those days though was a lifelong love of guitar so, after uni, I chased my dream of being a professional muso. All in all I did pretty well, but by 27, I was starting to see the writing on the wall about the kind of future I was staring at if I put off upskilling any longer.

Luckily, teaching guitar had led me to learn SEO and I became quite good at it. I decided to pursue it more seriously and after several entry-level gigs, I eventually became head SEO for an international company.

Around January last year, I felt the need to investigate AI more seriously - mostly because we were spending 300 dollars per article from human writers and I knew how much I could save if I could get decent results from AI. Thing was, decent AI writing was quite hard to achieve and I found myself going back and forth a LOT with ChatGPT trying to dial it in the way I wanted. I realised that the model was actually quite bad at trying to do more than one or two things at a time and that I’d get the best outcomes (less predictable, samey content) if I broke the steps down.

I had also started coding about 3 years earlier and I started building a tool to help me automate the steps I was constantly doing. I ended up publishing it at promptchains.ai - it’s a visual builder for AI workflows. It allows you to:

- Prompt Chaining: Chain multiple prompts for complex tasks.
- Variable Integration: Customise prompts dynamically.
- Diverse Data Scraping: From Google to YouTube and beyond.
- Reusable Workflows: Save and share your solutions effortlessly.

I started to apply it to client sites and honestly, the results have been spectacular. The posts even survived, for the most part, the recent HCU updates that shook things up.

A year later, I decided that having this much power comes with great responsibility, and decided to open it up to the world for free. I want it to be a collaborative platform with high quality solutions for everyone.
This is one of the most likely theories IMHO.

A lot of sightings started at the end of the 70s, which would align with the introduction of this law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Wild_Animals_Act_197...

Rumour has it that lots of wealthy people simply released their "pets" into the wild rather than confirming with the laws!

Fairly certain there were documented cases of servants confirming this too.
From Langlois to "la loupe": thoughts on piracy (2021)
The problem may no longer exist in a few years, but children used to playing in a deemed-safe countryside might be at risk in the meantime.
>What if you’re Facebook, and you want to count the number of distinct users who log in each day, even if some of them log in from multiple devices and at multiple times?

Seems like a bad example of when this algorithm could be useful in practice.

If you already know you will want this info when designing the login process, it's simple: keep track of the date of last login for each account, and increment the unique user counter when the stored value is different from the current one.

And even if not, it should still be possible to "replay" a stream of login events from the database later to do this analysis. Unless maybe you already had years worth of data?
I'd love for everyone to try it and let me know what you think! Any feedback is much appreciated.
> Rick Minter, who has received more than 1,000 reports of people’s encounters with big cats, said the animal was most likely to have been a leopard.

> Of the five species in the Panthera genus – lion, leopard, tiger, jaguar and snow leopard – the only other cat that has a similar melanistic form is the jaguar, and they don’t appear to be in the British countryside, he added.

I'm failing to see why that's an argument that favors leopards over jaguars.
I have tried twice to install it on my rpi4, but I never got it to boot properly :(
I regularly get ads or content on tiktok based on what I discuss in DMs on discord. It takes about an hour or sometimes even less.
Did the Great Pyramids' builders use concrete? (2008)
When it is actually impossible to count something and when the error between estimation and an exact answer is not significant the pedantic distinction is not helpful.

The same thing happens with measurement. No measurement is ever exact. If I said I was measuring a count, someone would probably correct to say that I am counting.

Common speech is like that.
The application process is in place to create friction so that people wouldn't off themselves for silly reasons, also to try to address concerns like yours.

Who else than state? Random people? You can always off yourself, but that is messy. Might as well have a process for that.
They don't need steel to work with these materials though, as copper is enough for even granite. https://youtu.be/yyCc4iuMikQ

World of Antiquity has debunked several unchartedx videos, including the supposed spiral striations. https://youtu.be/n_NguZUDku4 https://youtu.be/Wcl82hQr8xc
Fifth generation of online porn. The first was photos, the second clips, the third tube sites, and the fourth cam sites. What the fifth generation will bring I have no idea. I suspect it will have something to do with furries and AI.
Thanks for bringing this online! Must have been a lot of work and passion.

Wish: try and bring it close to the original feel of APL and see how you like a subtle css change:

a.internal {
text-transformation: lowercase;
font-variant: small-caps;
background-color: none;
}

a {
// color: omit
// font-weight: omit
}

Give it a try, please.

Maybe make it configurable per user?
For the same reason that they hire cleaners to clean the windows of their buildings and pay people to check cables in their data centers. To make sure that their business isn't going to fall apart.
What I miss in this article are some references to some of the great research on Starlink performance and characteristics that has come out in the past ~2 years. [1] and [2] come to mind. They also go into much more detail on the 15s interval, quote [1]:

> Interestingly, we observe that the Starlink OWD (one-way delay) often noticeably shifts at interval points that occur at 15 s increments. Further investigation reveals the cause to be the Starlink reconfiguration interval, which, as reported in FCC filings [71], is the time-step at which the satellite paths are reallocated to the users.

AFAIK it is not the dish itself that does the tracking but a central orchestration.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09242
[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07469
Google Blog: How we work with cultural institutions to bring their collection
Another soul lost to the dark side ... Muahhahah
I wish we had a theory connecting randomness with time/space complexity.

Intuitively I think the key to many computational limitations is making use of randomness.
Qualitatively speaking it definitely is a problem in Germany. DB planning rules used to include a guidance note that noise barriers higher than the typical lower edge of a train window should only be considered in exceptional cases. Two or three decades of constant complaints about train noise have led to legal rules and planning regulations having been significantly tightened up and now mean that four, five or even six metre high noise barriers are nothing out of the ordinary for new-built infrastructure.

The result being that people still complain about fear of more noise when new infrastructure is proposed (despite freight trains having gotten quieter, too, due to the introduction of new brake shoes), but now they're also complaining about the visual blight, too. (And nobody cares about the views of the train passengers.)

Meanwhile in Switzerland for example the current state is that balancing noise reduction needs vs. the visual impact of noise barriers still is an official planning goal because apparently people haven't been screaming so loudly about noise and nothing else, so the Swiss tend to build fewer and lower noise barriers even today.

(Also purely empirically from my visits there, the UK also doesn't seem to build as many and as high noise barriers, even on infrastructure that has been newly built or rebuilt within the last two decades.)