skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol. It's not an explicit rule. It's their revealed preference. They're incredibly slow to act on approvals, inflexibly demanding of "data" that is difficult to obtain at best and completely unnecessary at worst, and they don't give a damn about the cost. (Both the near-term human cost, and the financial cost -- which goes on to reduce innovation in the drug business, leading to a further toll in human suffering.)

In the end, they've killed an awful lot of people via inaction, lack of urgency, lack of efficiency. But that's okay, because killing people via inaction is not quackery, after all. Better a million die of neglect than another thalidomide, the FDA would say.
I mean the typical advice I get is 1 hour of running burns as much calories as one large slice of pepperoni pizza (~700 cal). Trained or untrained, this seems off by a lot.
Hi Hacker News, I have created a small business based off my personal journey and utilising apparel to build the future of LANI, New Beginnings. Due to being out of social media for over 10 years I feel its the only way to build awareness. But I'd love to ask for your advice/feedback on how I can build this, build more awareness.
Rather than paying thousands for the next course on the internet.
I have done everything on my own, but now I feel I am running around in circles.
"I don't get why people keep using the default recommendations? Just go against everything the site wants you to do and that's it!"
Webtap feels like a well-oiled machine - simple to use and gets the job done efficiently. There's always potential for fine-tuning, but it's a strong starting point. Excited to see what the future holds!
Is it though? There's no sign it's remotely profitable.
What the fuck do you care about people's opinion of your emoji use?
Other options:

• Start working max 40 hours per week at your current job.

• Find a new job with higher salary, where you only work 30-50 hours/week.
Really? You’re going to claim that the prosperity of Britain did not come from systematically plundering the rest of the world? Is this what you’re going to go with as your counterpoint?
my experience is that while data keeps growing at an exponential rate, its information content does not. In finance at least, you can easily get 100 million data points per series per day if you want everything, and you might be dealing with thousands of series. That sample rate, and the number of series, is usually 99.99% redundant, because the eigenvalues drop off almost to zero very quickly after about 10 dimensions, and often far fewer. There's very little reason to store petabytes of ticks that you will never query. It's much more reasonable in many cases to do brutal (and yes, lossy) dimensionality reduction _at ingests time_, store the first few principal components + outliers, and monitor eigenvalue stability (in case some new, previously negligable, factor, starts increasing in importance). It results in a much smaller dataset that is tractable and in many cases revelatory, because it's actually usable.
Interesting article. I'm not an astronomer, or any kind of scientist, but I tried perusing the paper anyway. What I expected to find was some indication that the stars in question are aligned on a plane - rather than being varying distances [1] from our pov and only looking like a ring to us. Is this information present and I missed it?

My other thought, with all respect to the expertise of the scientists involved, is that when we observe the universe at this massive scale it may be inevitable that structures will just appear out of the data, even with very high statistical significance. I don't know if this is a scientifically defensible position to take though.

Again - I'm not a scientist and I don't know what I'm talking about. Just musing, but interested in the opinions of others more informed than me.

[1] I'm aware that determining distance over cosmological distances is very difficult
> a chronic mismanagement problem. Like fimmaking.

the mismanagement stems from the fact that it is costing too much from the onset, and "management" wants to ensure that the investment makes a good enough return to justify the high cost.

Therefore, they dictate all of the risks have to be removed - such as not going for a risky new brand, but make a sequel. They want realistic graphics because it's more commercially viable - going for a different or uncommon aesthetic means taking risks.

I would argue all of the problems in AAA development stems from this fact.

it is also why indie games can be so cheap yet so successful. Not because indies are better (tho they are- at least more passionate if nothing else), but because indies are capable of taking risks to push the edge and make something new and untested.

It's the same as films - creative endeavours cannot have their risks managed away. It is inherent, and there's a large chance of failure even if the team has done their best.
That's just how people are, they put in the least amount of effort they can, and tend not to be curious or want to bother with change. Even on Hacker News people stumble across features hidden in plain sight all the time because they just never bothered to alter their initial routine.
It has just been rebranded as AI.

AI also use all the data, just with a magick neural network to figure out what it all means.
Maybe this'll come off as snarky, but I would build Excel! It would spread 10 million requests across the 10 million users, be totally immune to network outages, and my users could rest assured I wasn't thumbing through their data.
The only reason we have switching costs is that the grid system for nearly a century was designed for fossil fuels with essentially a hub and spoke system. This is an incredibly fragile system as we saw with the massive blackouts.

Different technologies will obviously incur a switching cost.

The reason Germany has to import that energy and burn coal is obvious. It decided to eliminate 30-40% of its power source nearly overnight. Is it really a shock that NEW renewables which are indeed that great but are barely a decade old in terms of being cost effective alternatives were not able to fully and immediately replace all that fossil fuel capacity and that Germany relied instead on existing decades old, existing but worse infrastructure.
I mean, clearly "lack of evidence"!

>After an inital investigation, the police dropped the case due to lack of evidence, and inadequate legislation.
Show HN: Making slides is so annoying. That's why we made this tool
that's not the point. Commenter said a human couldn't handle fog/snow either, which, in this case, is objectively false. FSD failed when human vision and hearing did not. Maybe we need more then cameras afterall?
Modern editors with good Java support, while not being full-fledged IDEs, rely on a Java language server. They don't blindly index .java files in a directory. It is also very desirable to index external dependencies.
It is just one tap, right on the top, not that hard and that the algorithm starts showing you stuff by default before new people follow enough is not that evil is it ?
One of the noteworthy things changed in this edition was the removal of instructions to use bx from libbitcoin to generate keys, since it only uses a fixed 32 bits of entropy seeded from system time by design no matter how many bits you request.

The bx maintainer Eric Voskull (who added these instructions to the book in the first place) insisted this was not a bug.

His side of the story is he crippled entropy intentionally, expecting users would read the related source and doc changes, and instinctively understand this as advice to switch to using dice.

This choice has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars in value across many chains.

Interpret that as you will.

It is possibly the first example of a supply chain attack targeting a book.

Details: https://milksad.info
heads-up, only the first link has actual comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39123276
> My preferred solution would be if we could just go back to personal blogs, blogrolls, newsletters, and RSS feeds. It seems unlikely but maybe a new generation of wrappers around these decentralized protocols would work.

Be the change you want to see in the world they say. If you can and want to, bring back a personal blog and post there. Blogging and rss are definitely not dead.

The growth is slower, it’s hard to go viral but that’s a feature imo, not a bug.

You’ll get fewer connections but are going to be a lot more meaningful.
Hi, everybody!
My name is Jakub, and I run a UX agency in Prague.

I'm still doing presentations, and it's still a pain. We made an alternative to PowerPoint. I type text, and the slides generate themselves. I don't design them; I just concentrate on the text (or insert images). I'm not so anxious anymore :) and I can instantly create presentations that I use for clients and students.

From Markdown to quality presentation.
Ctrl+C - Ctrl+V.
It's as simple as that.
From what we see in the video the driver was paying attention: he hit the brakes and turned the car to avoid hitting the train.

Now of course he did do it "too late" to avoid any collision, but at what point are we expecting an attentive human driver to realise that their self-driving care has decided not to stop at an oncoming train and make the split-second decision to intervene?

If we expect drivers to mistrust their allegedly self-driving vehicles to the point that they must be ready to anticipate the car failing to react to an oncoming obstacle and immediately intervene, then this is not self-driving technology — it is human driving with extra steps.
How was the Nakba a genocide?
This is very interesting, following. I wrote about this issue a little a week or two back. Lots of people making tools (both software and plugins) for what we might call the open-source information management ecosystem, but far fewer people taking a big-picture view and working out how to use these tools to make effective workflows.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313143
> Am I the only one who thought this article reads like an ad for the spyware software?

I thought it is about Microsoft Windows. /s
I have put some thought into this and my stack includes an assortment of Chrome extensions to observe the behavior I like.

- Hide Youtube Shorts

- Hide Youtube Watched

- uBlock Filter to remove Upcoming videos from the subscription page

- Unhook with most options turned on

I do the same for Twitter with the Just Arrived extension tweaked from gh.
Is there anything Linux-specific about ELF? I was under the impression it's a pretty common format for executables, used by a whole bunch of systems. It certainly predates Linux, as it was (according to Wikipedia) introduced in 1988 with SVR4.
Well the goal for this project is to go dependency free so, yep, it's not a good fit here.
If you have no watch history, they don’t even show you recommended videos in the home page anymore. I see that as generally positive
I feel it’s primarily a platform for Elon to cultivate bagholders for his various enterprises. The whole white supremacist cosplay just a method to filter to the most gullible audience looking for a strong leader.

Not sure how Cathy woods as the Queen of bagholders fits in there but there’s probably a connection.
impressions matter
> I would pay tax twice I suppose

No?
Time for a Starlink backup then
Reinventing LateX? :-)
On false pretenses, such as the presence of WMD.
Proxy firm advises shareholders to reject Elon Musk's $56B pay package
The chronological order is quite subobtimal. You still want to discover new content/ideas/conversation. It's easy to miss out on a lot of what your followers have been tweeting if you don't check it 24/7. On the other hand, when you sit for an hour to check twitter, the following tab will dry-out immediately and you can't discover anything new unless you go to the For You tab which is basically a mix of stuff.

Indeed if you're active, and like stuff, the algo improves and shows you lots of relevant content. But mostly from the prominent accounts and only viral ones. So the point of the post stands.
> This limits how many people you can follow.

Which is valid to be looked at as a feature rather than a deficiency.

> Mastodon missing a feature to somewhat curate your timeline automatically is what stops it from wide adoption.

Citation needed. There’s always something that someone points out as “the reason that stops Mastodon from wide adoption”, yet its usage continues to rise slow and steady. Maybe what’s wrong is not the slow adoption of Mastodon, but the rapid adoption of other social networks which have billions of dollars behind them with perverse incentives to consume your life so you consume advertised products.
Unironically funny answer.
Possibly an owl.
What usually happens is people take two L3 jobs instead of a single L5 job, with different benefits and expectations. One of those expectations is not being just a warm body in a seat for 8 hours.

But at lower levels, you could probably automate more stuff too, at the risk of being promoted to a level where you can't.
List of Java 23 Features coming in September
This is not fully correct.

Originally big data was defined by 3 dimensions:

- Volume (mostly what the author talks about) [solved]

- Velocity, how fast data is processed etc [solved, but expensive]

- Variety [not solved]

Big Data today is not: I don't have enough storage or compute.

It is: I don't have enough cognitive capacity to integrate and make sense of it.
XAI gets another $6B to spend on Nvidia chips
Surfsite is the future of AI-driven workspaces. This platform integrates various data sources and applications into one dynamic workspace, including CRM systems and project management tools. This powerful integration enables the creation of highly context-aware chatbots that can use live data from apps, files, and user inputs, enhancing real-time communication and decision-making.
I found it odd that my girlfriend would say out the cents, because personally I have always been rounding up, and never considered the cents, for example.
Security vulnerabilities are found in browsers.

Browsers are updated to fix the security vulnerabilities.

People upgrade to the latest version to get the security fixes.

If a person is using a browser that is years out of date, they are subject to a lot of security vulnerabilities in a piece of software that is constantly exposed to untrusted code.

Using an old browser is unsafe. If you encounter people using old browsers, you should strongly encourage them to do whatever they can to update their browser for their own good. If they do this, a nice side-effect is that you don’t have to support their older browser version.
Not me. Far from it, actually. Playing music feels very distinct from programming. However, mathematicians and computer scientists are more drawn to Bach than other people. There's some connection between music appreciation and programming.
What's your motivation for building this when alternatives like Mastodon already exist?
Coffee culture has evolved a lot since the 90s'.

Espresso makers for home use were incredibly rare back then and still are today in most households, since they're large, expensive and difficult to use compared to the usual household coffee makers like drip filer coffee, French press, AeroPress, etc

Most people who wanted espresso-like drinks at home used the Mokapot for that since it was much cheaper, smaller and easier to use.
I imagine driving a self driving car is like watching someone else driving as a passenger:

"oh look, a railroad crossing with a train crossing"

"we're getting close to the crossing, surely he noticed the train"

"why aren't we slowing down? oh crap he falls asleep at the wheel"

*grab the wheel and steer off the road*

As long as self driving cars require constant supervision, I think this kind of accidents will keep happening. Drivers will have reduced reaction time when they're not actively driving the car.
Does taking corrections to better land over the cable look normal https://x.com/PerErikSchulze/status/1794828268480438514 ?
We're markdown fans, but basically... Yes :) Thanks for the comment, what do you think of our tool?
Judea was mostly empty too.
like https://sli.dev ?
> Hide Youtube Shorts

Interestingly, this is a non-hidden feature of YouTube itself; you can just close the shorts section of the page. Except that the setting automatically expires after some period of time, maybe ~1 month.

> Hide Youtube Watched

This doesn't seem to make a lot of sense; would you hide "heard" songs on Spotify?
I like fact checking (Community Notes) on twitter. I am not that much exposed to western culture, and it is good for explaining latest fads and memes from west.

Like why someone refused to provide definition of something somewhere. It provided commentary for clawn universe.
Maybe they showed them the founders ROI record?
I don't know you but I love you. I wish I could help you even feel those feelings for you.

Hang in there
I don't know who's right here, but the article did address it

> One of the main ways I was using Twitter is to find people doing interesting things and then follow them to see what they're up to. This no longer works since you no longer see tweets from the people you follow unless they go viral.
Some things are often listed from other markets. So it could be something exported from China that was manually converted by someone unfamiliar with £.
Artificially pumping beer full of nitrogen is kinda weird you gotta admit.
Is that even a risk?
IMHO the main driver for big data was company founders egos. Of course your company will explode and will be a planet scale success!! We need to design for scale! This is really a tragic mistake while your product only needs one SQLite DB until you reach series C.... All the energy should be focused on the product, not its scale yet.
This is one of those unknowns that climate scientists couldn't predict: melting permafrost is releasing minerals that have been locked in place for thousands of years.
I think that’s an overly optimistic view of it. While I don’t doubt that there’s a component of it, it also very much feeds into musk’s pathological need for attention and flattery: the marks angle could explain signal boosting the worst idiots (though I’m not convinced), it does not explain the cringy, juvenile, and usually off-mark meme attempts (or uncredited reposting, complete with flying off the handle when that’s remarked on).
> Out-of-the-box, Lua runs through an interpreter - not a compiler.

The first thing the "interpreter" does is run the Lua code through `luac`, the Lua compiler and then feed the bytecode to the Lua VM. This may be transparent to the user, but it's still there.

Almost all interpreted languages have a compiler and a bytecode interpreter as distinct steps.

> Is loading and parsing a .PNG resource that appears in your executive bundle somewhere, also considered "Scripting" in your opinion?

Of course it's not, an image file does not contain any code that could be interpreted or executed in a host environment.

There is a distinction here on how code is executed, whether by compiling, interpreting, JITting or a combination of the above. But if you draw the line for "scripting" at consuming textual source code, that would exclude most use of Lua in gaming engines, as it is typically distributed as bytecode and may not even link luac compiler to the host executable. Yet it's commonly called "scripting" in the industry.

And conversely, if the code in this article included a mechanism to compile the source to risc-v would it meet your definition of "scripting"?

There isn't a clear definition of what's scripting and what's not, but drawing the line at consuming textual source code is not, in my opinion, a useful distinction (it's certainly a distinction) because it hardly matches what's the state of the art out there.
Are you? You seem to have correctly noted that (1) the ash is a symbol from the IPA; (2) you don't know what it means; and (3) if it meant the FACE vowel, the conversation wouldn't make any sense.

Since you already know how it's being used, it would be the work of a few seconds to look up the IPA value, but, as you might guess from the name "ash", it represents the TRAP vowel, the same thing it represents in the orthography of Old English. (And Norwegian, apparently, but I would put good money on the IPA usage deriving from Old English.)
To EVM or Two EVMs?: An Answer to the Question
> 95% of businesses never become unicorns, but that's the goal for most

Is it really the general case or is it just a HN echo chamber meme?

My pet peeve is that patterns used by companies that in theory could become global unicorns are mimicked by companies where 5000 paying customers would mean an immense success
Common Lisp has the Condition System [1] and that is not a continuation mechanism, though it may seem similar because you can stop a computation and resume it with a different value, for example. I think that to classify as a continuation, CL would just need to expose the condition system's internals to allow the user to choose how to "use" it, but as it is, you can't: the only way to use conditions is to have predefined handlers for them... I remember that this was an important difference because with delimited continuations you can implement stuff (like async/await I think - probably most Monads?) that you can't in CL's Condition Systems (I can't find the article talking about this right now, hopefully someone else can chip in).

[1] https://lisp-docs.github.io/cl-language-reference/chap-9/j-b...
>If we expect drivers to mistrust their allegedly self-driving vehicles to the point that they must be ready to anticipate the car failing to react to an oncoming obstacle and immediately intervene, then this is not self-driving technology — it is human driving with extra steps.

Well, it is not self driving. Anyone who uses FSD Beta is beta-testing it and should be paying the same amount of attention as if they were driving themselves. It is human driving with extra steps.

(I use Tesla autopilot, don't have FSD.)
There are some problems with just showing people the people they follow in chronological order. It limits the amount of accounts you can follow, it buries accounts that post on times you don't reach by scrolling, your timeline can get spammed full by account you like but also post or retoot/retweet.

Sadly providing an algorithm that provides this is not what makes money so with most solutions you're stuck with an algorithm that just tries to show you what will keep you from clicking away instead.

The stupid thing about this is that Twitter has a great measurement system for evaluating the tweets. They have likes, retweets and quote tweets. It would not be that hard to make some inferences based on those metrics mixed with some randomness that would create a nicely curated timeline for most. You could even allow users to up the randomness or give some more explicit preferences.
The overlap in terms of the used technologies, the required skills, the actual products and the target market is minimal. AI is not mostly Hadoop, it's not MapReduce, the hardware is different, the software is different, the skillset is very different and a chatbot or image generator is very different from a batch job producing an answer to a query.
Not really comparable:

1) Alaska was (and still is) a huge, and very sparsely populated land

2) For the native population it was not a big difference whether Russians or Americans ruled them, none of them treated them well - it was a colony and all they cared of was getting the natural resources.

3) Russians were not kicked out of their homes, as there was very few of them there in the first place (mostly working for the government). And then there was also proportionally very little American settlers coming in compared to the vastness of the land available.

If you want a better comparison with US history, look at the Trail of Tears, it's much closer to what happened in Israel...