skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The capacity of continuing the real world problem solving is very blurry. Boring is a joke. For Tesla he is not a founder, and they are mostly relying on a 10 year old product (new product is a joke) that'll only maybe saved with tariffs. It's mostly a meme stock company by now. SpaceX is a great success but his job was only providing money through government contracts and having the luck of finding Gwynne Shotwell, seems hard to replicate consistently. Add an ongoing mental breakdown and full on lies (FSD, humans on Mars, Hyperloop, ...) and it doesn't look that good (AI is a bit complex, hard to imagine someone in his state still having the intellectual capacity to really handle this). But yeah a new meme stock can still be a good bet for investors.
> requirements of "6 TiB of data"

How could anyone answer this without knowing how the data is to be used (query patterns, concurrent readers, writes/updates, latency, etc)?

Awk may be right for some scenarios, but without specifics it can't be a correct answer.
I'm extraordinarily disappointed that Doug Zongker's seminal work in the field was not mentioned or cited:

<https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf>

Previously on HN:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35745880>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5830497>

And a dang compilation from 2023: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35746402>

Video: <http://yewtu.be/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk>
>apartment owners wanting to hold on to empty apartments to rent them for the Olympics rather than to locals.

Sounds like something that can be fixed with laws.

Edit: would you mind explaining your downvotes with arguments please? thanks.
I think he is referring to the Tory pledge of reintroducing the National Service, given that probably like 85% of the concerned would be used to keep the NHS afloat and the 15% would go to the army.
Keep in mind that Blackhole has to be licensed for commercial use
The RETE algorithm was the core of IBM's rule-based language YES/LI.
Hm - seeing that ChatGPT has access to browser tools, I wonder what instructions you can give it, to infer data about the screening process.

Create some minimal website with a text input field, instruct the ChatGPT screener to visit your website, and to write/input the text you want it to.
I'd agree with this. In Australia, it is too financially attractive to own investment property and enough of the population makes it a political gamble (at the bare minimum) to change that.
I'm an expat now but I'm hearing it's even worse back in Australia. [Disclaimer: Some of this may be off because I'm hearing it second-hand, not actively investigating myself, so corrections are welcome]

I hear people who are already in the top 1-2% in income are told their borrowing power is only A$1M (~U$660K) while houses at all worth raising a family in cost A$3-6M. Banks don't seem to want to lend to them because they could instead lend to yet another property investor that already has a portfolio full of equity and collateral. The houses will sell and the mortgages will close, the banks can afford to be picky.

If you work in tech non-remotely, you're looking at the high end of that because you're competing with everyone else working tech, heavily weighted towards Sydney, and the rest of the country's housing supply is largely irrelevant. The cities certainly aren't designed for car commuting, so the supply of locations is further narrowed to places that are either so close they're walkable or have good public transport.

To my US readers I cannot emphasize enough how much this limits people's options both ways. When you have a non-remote job it limits your housing options, and if you're lucky enough to lock in a house, now it's limited your employment options in return. This isn't great for housing or employment markets. I'd like to think remote work has helped some people, but the most career-focused people I know are sticking to in-person connections, competing with everyone else doing the same.

Meanwhile cashed-up investors can buy up several houses and neither live in them nor rent them out. They're taking supply away from both the buying and renting markets, which is their legal right and a smart move on their part, but totally dysfunctional for the market as a whole. Anyone who does buy a house to rent it out is doing their small part to make buying less affordable but make renting more affordable, making it just that little bit less likely that the next person out there is a buyer of any kind.

Of course there's been doomsaying about a housing bubble pop for decades, especially during the world-famous pandemic lockdowns. Nothing popped and the exponential runaway pricing continues. Surely it's getting untenable enough to pop somehow, if my successful friends can't buy houses then I don't know who's left in the market except the real estate investors themselves.

I honestly don't see how I can un-expat now, and I'm just counting myself lucky to own property in the USA. If I want to keep this sweet deal, my options for moving are more limited than they've ever been, but it looks like a lot of people would gladly sacrifice flexibility to have anywhere near a tenable deal on housing.
But the underlying problem is the same - companies that use Big Data tech are clueless about data management. You can use unicorns - it's not going to do anything. "Garbage in, garbage out" is a timeless principle.
The article only touches on it for a moment but GDPR killed big data. The vast majority of the data that any regular business would have and could be considered big almost certainly contained PII in one form or another. It became too much of a liability to keep that around.

With GDPR, we went from keeping everything by default unless a customer explicitly requested it gone to deleting it all automatically after a certain number of days after their license expires. This makes opaque data lakes completely untenable.

Don't get me wrong, this is all a net positive. The customers data is physically removed and they don't have to worry about future leaks or malicious uses, and we get a more efficient database. The only people really fussed were the sales team trying to lure people back with promises that they could pick right back up where they left off.
Shootout was a clear Mad Max spoof.
There won't be because of the massive number of immigration the country has faced.

Either intentional or unintentional, this has the effect of increasing demand and with interest rates high supply is constrained.
Enameled wire completely submerged in water makes for a fantastic electrical load.

I’ve sunk 40 amps at 30VDC into a plastic tub filled with water for hours.

When the water gets hot, put fresh water in. For long term testing, trickle cold water in and let the hot water rise to the top and spill out.

DO NOT let the enamel on the wire burn off, or you will put some very nasty stuff into the air. Keep it completely submerged.

It is amazing how much energy it takes to heat up a volume of water. (This is also why it scares the shit out of me when I read about ocean temperatures rising and I think about how much water is in the oceans.)
People want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the peace and quiet of single family homes with lots of space of rural areas for their garden and kids, with the job opportunities, infrastructure and amenities of modern dense hip vibrant cities where the best schools, jobs and entertainment are within walking distance or short commutes by public transportation.

There's obviously gonna be a shortage of such housing arrangements, and therefore will come at hefty prices everywhere.
They're probably referring to the Tory's proposed 'national service' thing, which showed up yesterday and is already being walked back; the Tories, facing fairly dramatic defeat in the upcoming elections, are throwing all sorts of nonsense at the wall to see what sticks right now.
Actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48153-z
Which Starlink solves utilizing the laser links between satellites.
Of course they did want space. Turns out most people can't stand being locked up like chicken in too small coops too long. Domestic violence exploded for example - and that's only from those who were actually able to call police [1].

On positiver notes, you had stuff like urban gardening increase in popularity [2], or sales of (e-)bikes towards people who went and biked to the rural areas.

And finally, WFH made it possible for a lot of people to give up their expensive city housing and move out into the suburbs... but obviously nowhere near enough to make a serious dent in demand, and RTO policies are creeping up and destroying even that bit of progress.

[1] https://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/06/shadow-pa...

[2] https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/people-turned-gardening-stress...
Starlink can act as a backup for the ground station utilizing the laser links.
Could you explain this more?

Some people clearly recover from depression, solely through lifestyle changes.
While I doubt that explanation will hold, it is true that cosmological distances are where we should be looking for ET civilizations, as at those distances one can avoid the Fermi argument (although such a discovery would be pretty firm evidence we'll never achieve FTL travel.)
Sam Altman just comes across so sneezy that it's impossible to take anything they say in good faith, so Id assume this comes from a place of suppressing competitors.
The article mentions that some cell actually depend on 'unstable' conditions for their optimal metabolism.
This may be surprising as maintaining homeostasis (constant environment) is a 'fundamental rule' of cell biology at the cell level... yet ideas such that fasting might be beneficial to cell metabolism do suggest the principle does apply.
Which isn't very surprising, in macro-biology animals or plants evolve in a way that make them expect varying conditions (e.g. cold in the winter, hot in summer). At a certain point the organisms become dependent on the expected instability. Natural selection operates on the environment it is given.

It would be more interesting to know if they define precisely what instability is (expected or unexpected, etc), but I haven't read the paper.
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For $5 for 20 hours of audio you can try https://deepgram.com.

They give $200 of credit.
Nota: some extension/generalization of Rete includes

- TREAT

- GATOR
What would you say differentiates a tiny house from a trailer set up in a trailer park? And from a tiny house estate to a trailer park?
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech
"Yes, some idiots did beat their children, or hit their children out of anger. That doesn't mean it was common."

In the areas that still do beat their children, they commonly do beat more, when they are angry.
I guess you could argue for it. Command resize can only be applied after something is selected, and not deselected in the meantime. You might be able to describe the Picture Manipulation Commands language using a finite automaton, and if not, using a grammar.

My views on this are highly shaped by my university lessons on formal languages [1], which I also taught a bit teeny bit. You would have text in mind, but the mathematical concepts are actually more generic than this. One of the exercises was modeling a PIN electronic door lock with a finite state machine (how to unlock without unlocking too early?).

These formalisms look like computer science stuff but are actually directly taken from Chomsky's work [2], a (bio)linguist who was/is actually concerned with human languages (which another commenter implicitly mentioned [3])

I guess this stuff is probably valuable to study natural languages, given the correct scope, since it was made for it (xD). It sure is useful in computer science in any case.

One direct result of his work is the (in)famous stack overflow "You can't parse HTML with a regex" post [4] (since regexes can only define regular languages, and HTML is not a regular language - although I believe the answer is a bit wrong, you can find a regex to parse the regular subset asked in the question, though you need to watch for cdata sections (in XHTML) and script and style tags (in HTML), at which point maybe just use a proper HTML parser unless you are dealing with well known content with no such exceptions)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_of_Noam_Chomsky

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40480913#40483454

[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
Woops. Yes, galaxies. Too late to edit.

> Anyway, given the number of galaxies in the ring, being at different distances but their projections just happening to form a rough circle would be even more astonishing than the galaxies in fact sharing a causal history due to some unknown early-universe mechanism.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Why would it be "more astonishing" than an actual causal connection? Surely astronomers are more interested in causal connections than observational coincidences?

To illustrate: the stars making up the constellation of Norma [1] form a rough square when seen from earth, but as their distances from Earth vary greatly this is just an illusion caused by Earth's relative orientation to them. Given the Copernican principle (which I accept is not a physical law) I'm struggling to see why a group of galaxies that form a circle only when seen from "near" earth [2] are actually cosmologically significant.

I accept that the ring contains more than four galaxies, and this makes the ring more statistically significant than a square of galaxies. But it still implies a privileged viewpoint in order for it to be actually significant. I still have the gut feeling that this potential significance is more than offset by the enormously greater observational scale.

tl/dr: why is this more than just naming a new constellation?

(Just to re-iterate: I'm interested in understanding the errors in my mental model - and I'm not trying to poke holes in the work of scientists more qualified them me.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_(constellation)

[2] And also, I guess, from a similar point on the other "side" of the ring
You can, at least at that specific time that all other boats were not trawling over cables.
... Did he really crack water in that box, letting gaseous oxygen and hydrogen mix exactly in the ratio of 1:2 in a closed container?

I mean, it's good he choose a less caustic electrolyte, but the potential explosion in itself is not fun.
I found a enlightening yet brief conference Alexia López gave on the Big Ring discovery:

https://youtu.be/fwRJGaIcX6A?t=173

Here's an in-depth seminar on the findings of the Giant Arc in the Sky, her work prior to the Big Ring discovery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkGk6EPMC8

She was also featured in a pop-sci BBC Four documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S36MqEzUzIw

Unfortunately all videos are of quite bad quality, but the explanations are a good introduction to the work.
Pff, in Switzerland, the mean age of the first-time home buyer is 48, and the mean age of a homeowner is 58. And those are the luckiest and the richest who could actually afford buying a house; many rent for life.
♥ thanks man! we're putting a lot of love into our product and happy to help anyone looking to move away from the old x.ai scheduling
How is it that some people get 6B to understand the true nature of the universe? It’s not like they have a track record of doing anything other than absolutely devastating a previously successful company…

If I ask someone to give me 6B to understand the true nature of the universe they’d laugh in my face, but I sort of assume I’d have an even chance of doing better.
Indeed, that's what `touch -t 201101020304 /tmp/old-file` is for. (Although on ext4 it seems that you can't control the birth time; for that you would need to set your system clock.)
Maybe one day the actual disk images he used with the early Amiga will be made available, instead of non-pixel-exact conversions of only the artwork. The software Warhol used was prerelease, and no other copies of the version he used have been found.
> make a ZFS or BCacheFS pool with 20-30% redundancy bits and just go wild with CLI programs

Lol. Data management is about safety, auditablity, access control, knowledge sharing and who bunch of other stuff. I would've immediately shown you the door as someone who i cannot trust data with.
Nothing wrong with using WebAssembly, if you wish to. eBPF I'm not so sure is a good fit. Most people are just fine with Lua, LuaJIT or Luau though. This is really just for especially interested, or if you really need low latency.
Are we going to find the same firms involved who helped the tobacco and fossil fuel industries?
I read it as both, especially given the "I'm a hunter and hunting is great" bit. It is moral psychology. There is an implicit notion of what it means to be a human, and what is ethically sound is tied up with it, because it is universal, beyond time and place, and thus normal and good.

In this particular ethical issue it is an eternal tug-of-war between humans as essentially vegans by nature, corrupted by cloaking animal suffering in neat, pre-slaughtered packages (if we would only see...), and the other side presenting humans as one of the animals eating other animals. We are made out to be part of a natural order as hunter and butcher, which is both normal and good. Modern sensibilities around animal suffering is seen as a whimsy aberration of normality, artificial and unnatural. It is both descriptive and normative, and the what-is functions as a tool for the what-should.

This does lead to pretty bad 'science' (on both sides, really) and conversations that are very loaded around basic facts. I would agree if you would say the what-is does not depend on the what-should-be and vice versa, free will and all, but this is often not how ethical conversations (and rhetoric) works.
Statement: Cooperation in Quantum Information Science&Technology–US and Germany
"Nationalizing the internet like the telephony system" is a meme and agenda among some ITU people, originating from China and Russia.
And now the American FCC comes with this... Perhaps the FBI's counter intelligence branch should do a better job because this smells fishy.
We're talking about France, fix the law too much and heads will roll, or at least cars burn.
> Although, it's quite difficult to find a better DDoS mitigator which is better than CF, I still wouldn't trust them for everything.

Adding Challenges, TLS fingerprinting and Rate Limiting is possible on just about every major CDN platform to be honest. I guess with CF it's more "ootb" though, where you don't really have to think too much about policies - but at the same time, you can't go as granular in those policies (e.g layered) as some others.
<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eVQDUoD_cJY&t=40>
Sunlight puts in a serious amount of energy. Roughly 1000 W/m2 at sea level as a global average according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance
This me: :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIUSFcq5bBE
The ones doing it on their own, are probably doing it privately. One of the reasons for us government asking to know, so atleast they are not kept in the dark.
Well over a decade after publication of RPKI it has been deployed at only 22% of US networks

https://observatory.manrs.org/

There is no justification for that not to be 100% at this point.

With this data at hand, can you really claim that the industry has sucessfully self-regulated itself?
Do you mean required education? Therapy exists but it is not required unless asked for.

I have mixed feelings on it. It can be great for some people. For me, understanding how I feel and act now as a consequence of my parents actions was not helpful. Taking 2-3 months to get to these points also was not a good use of time.
Until they became a CA themselves...
This one is still in my “to read” queue from last week

For anyone that’s read it, I’m curious did they compare relative percentages of these DNA between haplogroups

Eg. Percentage of antisocial DNA in Europe vs Asia vs Bantu etc…
I mean, they didn't ask for an example where it works well.
I've tried this over and over with different methods - putting the text in as an annotation, putting it directly in the document, putting many copies of it in the document... and in no case has it affected the results at all, using GPT-4o with "Evaluate this resume for [job description]."
If by "content you don't own" you mean "pubic domain works" or "copyrighted works for which you have a license that permits sale", then sure. If you mean "copyrighted content you don't have a license for", then that's pretty much the most blatant possible way to violate copyright.

>This material is shared here under the applicable laws for fair non-commercial use.

Well, it's worth a laugh at least.
Calls themselves "applied physics", uses a hypothetical "positive energy" to make a mathematical model to describe an idea. This is a purely speculative hypothesis, not a breakthrough discovery.
I'm surprised that something like this has only showed up on HN now. The discussion around white-texting (or whatever you want to call it) has existed for the past few months on LinkedIn and other spaces. Employers are already finding ways to crack down on it.
He seems to have an unhealthy tolerance for disasters. I’m sure he could convince himself that was perfectly fine given zero sparks, but wow.
And Australian houses are, as I understand it, bigger again. There was a thread somewhere about where to put your washing machine: bathroom or kitchen. And every Australian was in there getting completely confused because the vast majority of houses in Australia have a dedicated laundry room usually with a trough, bench top, washing machine, dryer, etc.
Inspecting the software on the disk, as well as slack space for any potentially deleted files, can help a lot towards proving authenticity in a practical way, depending on potential chronology. Warhol used prerelease versions of the software involved at one point (Kickstart rev 26.7, and at that point I believe it was CLI-only if the later Kickstart rev 27.5 is any indication).

At the very least, send Cloanto copies of Warhol disks for documentation on their ROM page.
I have lived in an apartment my entire life. I'm in a building with 15 floors and 5 flats on each right now. My direct neighbors have a newborn baby. I don't hear a thing, literally - I wouldn't know there are other people if I wasn't 20 meters above the ground. Don't compromise on build quality like the Spanish do, build it like the Germans, Poles, Czechs and Slovaks do - and you won't have any issues.
> 2.5A primary side fuse (integrated into the AC inlet) did not melt

This is a current-limited power-supply right? Test your fuse! Would not be the first time a fuse-shaped wire is sold[1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/B90_SNNbcoU?si=HwDCRvz7E-aCR1rQ&t=431
Can the AI boom stop the tech exodus from San Francisco?
You can join a Google Meet meeting without a Google account if the meeting creator enables the “Anyone with the link can join” setting, or if they accept you when you click the link.

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?hl=en&co=GENI...
Electron launches first NASA PREFIRE Earth science cubesat – SpaceNews
You assume that programmers in the english speaking world think that there is anyone who uses anything except christian name, surname, especially in a corporate environment
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Driving Innovation Like Porsche: Stair-Step Method Product and Tech Innovation
You’d think that at some point someone realizes it’s more profitable to sell shovels…
And yet there is a shortage of urban units with 3+ bedrooms in most US cities.
Because it's a screenshot of a tweet of a teenager. Probabilities are high that this is just a made up story.
South Korea launches its own NASA – Science – AAAS