skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this excellent Mindscape (Sean Carroll) podcast with Gavin Schmidt (Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies,) there is a circle of climate modeling folks who make a yearly bet on the next year's global average temperature. They have been patting themselves on the back for over a decade with how good their estimates have been, Ninos and Ninas, all factored in. Their estimates were generally rising, but as a group they were always within range.

This was the first year where everyone was wrong, as it actually got way hotter.

Podcast: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/05/20/276-...

Data: https://berkeleyearth.org/march-2024-temperature-update/

- Globally, March 2024 was nominally the warmest March since records began in 1850.
- The previous record for warmest March was broken by only a very small margin (0.01 °C), within uncertainties this means March 2024 essentially tied with March 2016.
- The ocean-average also set new records for the warmest March.
- The land-average was the 3rd warmest observed, behind 2016 and 2023.
- Particularly warm conditions occurred in parts of North America, Asia, South America, Africa, and large areas of the Atlantic.
- No regions exhibited unusually cold monthly averages in March.
- 43 countries set new national monthly-average records for February.
- El Niño has weakened to a moderate category, and is likely to end by mid-2024.
- 2024 is very likely to be either the warmest or second warmest year on record.
The best summary I've heard for "right" and "wrong" here was an invitation to imagine a hypothetical where one set of combatants or the other laid down their arms, what would be the outcome?

If Israel did so, Hamas would rampage and slaughter the people of Israel just as they did Oct. 7.

If Hamas did so, on Oct. 6 they would have lived in peace. If they did so now, the civilians of Gaza would live in peace, and Israel probably would downgrade its activities even against the Hamas organization specifically.

This indeed is the key issue in every war, which by its very nature is a failure of both politics and of "justice" of the bewigged variety. There is no "justice" in war, only the right to self defense which Israel alone reasonably claims here. I tend to be sympathetic to international institutions like the ICC, but this demonstrates it's either corrupt or impractical or both.
Natural formation rock consciousness both lacks evidence and is absurd, as there isn’t even a coherent reason to think it might or could.

Your computer processes information, and can be configured to process information about itself. At least the possibility and potential utility exists that conscious computers may one day exist.
I dunno about "do not access the network" — sounds like the wrong granularity. I want an app like e.g. Evernote or Calendly, to sync to its own cloud backend (or better, to my configured server.) I just don't want them sending my data off anywhere else.

Annoyingly though, in that scenario, the desire to not have my data processed by third-party vendor APIs, would need to apply to both the client (which I can control through technical measures, e.g. LittleSnitch) and to the cloud backend it talks to (which I fundamentally cannot control.) So such a config flag can't be purely a technical measure, but also has to be something communicated to the backend, ala "Do Not Track." And unlike HTTP, most of the other application-layer protocols we use today don't have anything like a standardized way to communicate "user-imposed constraints on how they want you to process their request, while still giving the same result".
I was a CNC machinist, manager, etc. I went back to school for computer science because I believe CNC machining is about to take a big leap and the industry is going to dramatically shift.

I think there are absolutely some applications of CV. Keep in mind a lot of feedback loops in the CNC process aren't there yet, but you decide how a part is oriented in a CNC machine when you write the program to make the part. The machine can skew the axis, but this doesn't happen very often. Usually someone aligns everything to the machines physical axiis. However, the machines often have a probe that could be used to find the orientation of the part, but you have to program that, too.

So, why not use CV to find the rough orientation of the part, generate an orientation routine, then probe it.

Very often the purpose of the person at the machine is to watch ( where is the part? Is the tool broken? Do the chips look right? ) and listen ( does it sound good, or is it making a horrible sound) as a process control. The parameters of milling could probably be controlled automatically with answering the bad sound and good chip shape questions.
I don't use twitter :(
GPT-5 at the Microsoft Conference?
Wow journalists and media being shut down? That's crazy. Anyway what's this post about.
Any good examples? I agree with your premise
Why does Starlink still have Russian customers?
Why would you think this? There are plenty of open source products which intergrate with APIs, including OpenAI.
With such old bugs I often wonder whether it's not best to simply close them. Few people will browse them and many will be "accidentally" closed by reworking of different subsystems. But if they are still relevant somebody will file it, again. If not reopened it's probably not a problem anymore.
Yes, of course I would. Would you not?
Hackers often do not vote.
All subscription software is just a protection racket.

Nice files you got there. It would be a shame if they suddenly become unreadable, eh?

Even the so called "open" core is a joke. Just try to add anything useful. It will get rejected in favor of a paid option.

The whole thing is just an offensive anathema to open source.
I refuse interviews that include shit like leetcode currently, as they are a waste of time, and I’m glad that LLM’s are ruining them.
Why would a cron job that sends e-mails need to implement its own SMTP client???

You just use the mail program from mailutils or whatever.

Just from a point of view of deliverability, developing bare bones SMTP interaction over a socket is a nonstarter. You can't just connect to random mail exchange hosts directly and send mail these days. A solution has to be capable of connecting to a specific SMTP forwarding host (e.g. provided by your ISP). For that, you need to implement connections over TLS, with authentication and all.

Also, a slightly ironic thing is that cron already knows how to send mail. The output of a cron job is mailed to the owner. Some crons let that mail address be overriden with a MAILTO variable in the crontab or some such thing.
Reduce your use of plastics. Encourage others to do as well. Put up with higher costs of products as they make the switch to being more sustainable. It's a group action problem just like everything else.
Yes, but the RFCs permit 6v4 addresses such as ff:ee::aa:1.2.3.4
Windows Copilot Runtime
You are the one who started talking about "scammy".

Look at what I've said, I've JUST said that US is more tolerant with con artist and bullshitters. I did NOT say "start-ups are con artist and/or bullshitter". What I mean is that US is less concerned to dodgy things, the more extreme being scam, the more benign being, for example, unrealistic claims. I'm just saying that the two are from the same mentality.

In other words: people in US and in Europe are not judging positively the scammers, and people in Europe are not judging positively people that are being unrealistically ambitious, while in US, they tend to be way more forgiving. People in Europe are not judging positively people that are being unrealistically ambitious not because they think they are scammers, but because, culturally, it is not seen as something positive for the society.

It's just cultural. The same way Europeans in US find it unpleasant when Americans are forcing themselves to smile at their customers when they obviously don't even know them and don't have a good reason to smile. And Americans are finding Europeans too cold when they are not smiling all the time even if they don't have a good reason to do it.
What I don't understand is why they can't use AI to improve search quality. I'm sure there are tons of reasons, like institutional paralysis, but from an outside perspective it's frustrating because I'd be happy with search that just works.

I use ChatGPT these days largely as a better search. Where Google is flooded with junk, ChatGPT usually answers my question straightforwardly. If it's something important to me, I'll go back to Google to verify that the answer I got wasn't a pure hallucination, and that's usually pretty easy to do now that I have the key details I was missing before.
Feature request: There are too many particles and they have little space to make weird stuff. Perhaps you can add a button to kill half of the particles and another to duplicate them.
In the context of the original chart which covers a long period of US history ... is Bernanke's statement still true for most of it?

Clearly, I am not a monetary policy buff, but certainly I've heard people talk about the US getting off of the gold standard in 1971. When the currency is by policy backed by something, you can't just print money (unless you dig a new mine, I suppose), right? When I google around for what our policy was in the 1920s, I see that it was a bit complicated in that many countries suspended the gold standard during WWI and in some cases there were pegged exchange rates, and the US intervened in gold imports.
It actually worked fairly well, but obviously wasn't freeform since you couldn't order units to move to any arbitrary point on the map with a voice command.
iTerm2 is so good, it’s worth using macOS just for the crazy good terminal. I love the quake term hotkey access and while I’m sure other terminals can easily do it too, I think it might have been the first?
("parent commentator")
yes, any settlements outside the pre-67 borders should be dismantled, they are wrong, and criminal, and will never allow for peace. Anyone responsible for this should be removed and banned from power, at the bare minimum. I would go further - dismantle the settlements, and let the Palestinians do whatever they want with the land - West Bank and Gaza. give them a state. Will that solve the problem ? No, there will be further wars, but at least we get past this issue.

this is a practical matter - both Palestinians and the Jews have claims going back a long way to all that land (rivertosea), but (during the Palestinian Mandate) they just kept massacring each other, so the governing power gave up and there was a roughly even split of the land (1/2 of the 30% left after 70% went to Jordan), and that just needs to be good enough for either side, even if neither are satisfied

Wars have consequences. 13 centuries of Islamic rule came to an end in 1917, and the Ottoman Empire lost and was dismantled. Land was given back roughly along the lines of past histories, not perfectly, but nothing is.

right of return ? well, at least as many Mizrahi Jews in Israel and other countries could claim that from the nearby countries, but that is about as likely and practical to happen as reversing the Nakba. Wars have consequences.

Why stop at reversing 1948 ? Why not just go back another 30 years and reassemble the Ottoman Empire ? I am sure that would make everyone happy.
I think they would have just brought you another. They unclip from the seat very easily (in a safe way of course)
Outside of external cloud providers and actual fluent-bit installations on-premise, any other products/infra on-premise/internally, that an org would need to look at?

From the tiles of products that could potentially embed fluent-bit listed here, https://www.tenable.com/blog/linguistic-lumberjack-attacking...

.. I'm thinking self-hosted Splunk might be at the top of the list for an org to investigate internally for potential vulnerability?
Pretty Fly for a Wi Fi
>Given this success, an awful lot of lobbying has been directed at US politicans to pass so-called "anti-BDS" laws that are laws in ~37 states. For example, to be a teacher in Texas, you need to sign a contract agreeing to never participate in a BDS movement against Israel.

These are unconstitutional laws that unfortunately are easy to pass but difficult to remove. There needs to be more legal challenges to remove these laws. There have been positive efforts to remove these laws although the states find new ways to keep amended versions of the laws on the books which requires further lawsuits to challenge.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Constitutional_c...
God exists. I can't show you God. But believe me God definitely exists.

Also low success rate comes from the fact that most of these games are asset flips. But we can conveniently ignore that fact so we can believe in the imaginary.
I see people say this all the time, it's a harmful bad practice. Don't auto close bug reports after x amount of time.
Why didn't they reference the study by title and author names? Who conducted the study? How can we fact check it?

This is bad journalism.
you must be young, ever heard of a million dollar page?
Khan Academy and Microsoft expand access to AI tools that personalize teaching
> A portion of this code implemented a SMTP client.

What the...
Apple hate? No, low quality, big price hate.

Check out my profile yo. No one is spared.
> It is not yet a glofiried ssh machine

I'm saying that my macbook air is a glorified ssh machine and word processing machine.

But clearly it would be better to walk around with a tablet (with detachable keyboard) as a glorified ssh and word processing/slide making machine than a macbook.

I want to be able to do some minimal work, walk around with my device and pull up slides (that I can fucking markup with my pencil -- not a glorified pointer), pull up docs, and etc because even though I'm mostly living in the cli I still have to show and communicate my work with others.
While some necessary factors about what makes a pop hit are known, even with that knowledge -- and a huge marketing budget -- the vast majority of songs written even by the very top producers and songwriters flop massively, all the time.

They know this, too. They budget so that their 1% massive hits pay for the 99% that nobody cares about.
That's just the mind control. If you actually compare, they are not.
Note that IPv4 address literals are encoded in square brackets (e.g., user@[127.0.0.1]), so it's really all IP address literals that could be a problem rather than specifically IPv6 literals.
That sounds wrong to me.

I am not an authority on English, but using sound as a verb seems common, and idiomatic. Not sure where you got this idea.
rummages in box of tapes and lubricants

3M VHB (Very High Bond) is awesome double-sided foam tape, that comes in a variety of thicknesses and bond types. I last used some to re-attach a piece of rubber seal around a car door.

"Gorilla Tape Crystal Clear", which I think is a "repair tape". Size of Duct tape, looks like regular clear tape - but much thicker and much stickier and waterproof. Ideal for say repairing a tear in a paddling pool. Or a crack in a roof-box, where Duct tape would look bad.

3M Super 33+ It looks like standard black vinyl insulating tape - but is a pleasure to use. I don't think the existence of insulating tape is going to blow minds, but I'm just mentioning it for those who "thought it's all the same" and are "annoyed by it".

Self-Amalgamating Tape. Black, thick, rubbery tape with a pull off backing. Not very sticky, so doesn't immediately feel useful. What it does do though, is bond with itself. Not 'stick', but as the name says 'amalgamates'.
If you've ever wrapped a load of tape around something to keep water out, this is what you should have used.

I wouldn't normally inflict this list on anybody, but 'tape' is this wonderful area of technology where everybody knows what it is - but there's seemingly endless specialization for every conceivable use case. Finding/collecting these tapes feels like I'm assembling a box of solutions - and a tape-suitable problem is an opportunity for happiness.
> It's everywhere, and it's exhausting. Part of my job requires me to keep up with the latest advances with AI and I'm unable to. Everything happens so much.

Good god yes. I'm bullish on AI, have been playing with it a lot over the past year, and am now making a commercial AI-powered desktop app but this is exactly how I feel. I went from feeling the most excited I've been since I started programming as a kid to feeling like I'm drowning.

Today on the front page of HN between a fifth and a quarter of the articles have been about AI of some sort. Not necessarily LLMs but between the Microsoft AI annoucements, a post on RAG and another on neural networks, CLIP representations, it feels like it's non stop onslaught of AI news that I try to keep up with and we're more than a year into the hype.
Finally we can shovel garbage attention stealing games at an unprecedented rate!

New games per week is an insane metric.
I don't know what planet you're from, but here on Earth NOBODY deserves a $46B bonus.
To add to this, White Dwarfs consist of electron degenerate matter, not pure neutrons. They have not yet reached the point where the electrons and protons fuse to become neutrons. Essentially the atoms have been compressed to the point where the only thing keeping the star from collapsing further is a quirk of quantum mechanics and the Pauli exclusion principle.

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

In addition, when the White Dwarf accumulates too much mass (1.4 Solar Masses), it will cause a Type Ia supernova where the entire star will explode leaving behind nothing.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit
You may be missing vital info, here: Uber isn't paying the surcharge — it's the driver!
The rail-mad millionaire with Britain's only privately owned train
>But people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have no way to become Israeli citizens (unless they are Jewish)
>That is clearly undemocratic

Not only undemocratic, but it is running an apartheid. Not to mention the complete denial of right to return for displaced Palestinians, not even acknowledging it.
Would you mind saying which country you live in? Because if you believe that all, or even majority of your taxes goes to public services then either you're extremely naive, or you've found a perfect place to live, and I want in :)
Turn-based nuclear war game
If we could've preserved his brain for the future.
Sure, anyone can make music so long as they pay the Suno tax. While I appreciate the technical achievement, this kind of technology disempowers as much as it empowers. The process of automation inherently devalues the process that is being automated. It is easy to say this doesn't matter if the process being automated is meaningless or unimportant to you.

Making music is not just about whether a song measures up to some objective standard of goodness. It is about the process of connection and sharing between the musician and audience (which I mean in a broad way -- it could be another musician in the band). There are many amazing musical experiences that I have had that are not possible except in a live experience. My concern is that these kinds of tools will dissuade people from participating, in no small part because ai music is better than what most people can produce -- by the standards of recorded music. Why should I even try if I can't even come close to an ai?

In a worst case scenario, and I'm not saying this will happen, ai generated art (not just music) creates a doom loop where people stop making art themselves. Communities formed around participation in art wither away and we lose the ability to make art ourselves. We then become solely reliant upon ai for art, which means that art will primarily be consumed through the human -> ai interface rather than the human -> human interface. I'm not opposed to people experimenting with ai but I am worried about it replacing the human -> human interface and, frankly, the last 20 years of social media give me ample reason for those concerns.
I've experienced (not on GitHub) things that happened 729 days ago being "one year ago", which is similarly incorrect
Programmers discovering racketeering
You'll think I'm kidding but at least 1/3rd of Google isn't sure if AIs can code, and 1/3 thinks that if they can the code is too bad to bother with. Things like "gee idk, VS Code autocomplete is pretty cool" are either non-sequitors or a battleground.
Maybe this is a totally different market from what I'm in, but as an indie game developer, this reads dystopian to me.
Worst fears come true. Its never deleted, its just marked as deleted. All your baddies are organized for Apple and the FBI.
but that would only happen under monetary contraction, and the norm now is monetary expansion which siphons off money from savers and redirects it into the pockets of asset holders and "Cantillionaires", and this also means you get paid less with a static wage unless you get raises which for many people is hard unless they're constantly job searching which sucks anyway
I think there's probably a vast range of use cases where having the models freely available isn't hindrance
Yes, but you have to take into account what kind of product it is and who's the developer and their track record.

It's different if a paid or ad supported product wants to increase the amount of people who use a feature vs. an open source developer adding a feature for people to use and having no benefit by people using it. iTerm already has a lot of advanced options and that's just one more of it.
I had to check if it was April Fools' Day. This is one of the most disturbing posts I've seen in a while. I sincerely hope that people who profit off of this will get fired at the very least.
If only these were done on publications, it would be a lot more accurate.

English is the lingua franca of science, like it used to be german, because ideas build on each other so you need to be able to communicate your ideas to others.

Having your native language be the lingua franca is helpful, but many of these universities are filled with foreigners who have learnt English. They could have stayed in their native countries, but they chose not to.
that's not an excuse.
Sure, when you're threatened by a state that has used nukes against a rather large population, as opposed to the 'testing' in the Pacific or Siberia, and apparently is run by insane genocidaires, you're going to become very, very paranoid and expect espionage everywhere.

Of course they copied what they could. Like we all do. Information is addictive and wants to be free. But the USSR had a very skewed view of life on the other side of the 'curtain'. It was also not as propped up by colonialist endeavours as the US, and if you'd have pulled that value out of the US economy the USSR might have 'won' the Cold War.

Yeah, there were rather neat suburbs and relatively well stocked shops in the US, but was it worth the genocide in Guatemala? The undermining of democracy in Europe? The return of heroin as a widely available drug of abuse?

Same goes for the UK, was the wealth on those islands worth the long line of southeast asian famines? The terror and exploitation in Kenya?

I'm no friend of soviet or chinese attempts at reaching communism, but the claim that they haven't achieved any nice things because they weren't capitalist is blatantly untrue. From this follows the conclusion that we likely could move on from capitalism and possibly achieve a global society that isn't centered around economic transactions, conflict, exploitation and surveillance. Some would say it's necessary due to the damage to our habitat industrialisation has caused.
Question: the demo uses star wars imagery, including X wings and tie fighters, going as far as naming BB-8. How are you not getting sued to kingdom come?
What exactly do you mean? Reddit and Twitch are marketing-channels too. Marketing does not mean someone has to pay for it, just that people are talking about it and are aware of it.