skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Install VScode, optimize the environment (10^10 article, google, or best are on medium), pick a topic/app you are interested so you are more likely to keep investing, and get a sub to ChatGPT. Start with "I want to build a python3 application that does {insert high-level description}. Please wait for me to describe it in detail. Do you understand". It keeps you interested combine it with more medium articles that interest you and ask ChatGPT when you don't understand. Ultimately it's try through creativity. If do not know what to build, tap into python projects on GITHub. Step and repeat. Never look back. If you want to learn other things like html, css, do a web app with flask or stream-lit...you will learn that too...
> professionally-oriented

What does this mean? Is it marketing slop for “portrait”?

Oh! Or do they mean the product is targeted at the “corporate pays for it” price point?
Yeah, I thought this was pretty obvious but I've got to remember not everyone took Spanish in school.
> I often find myself debugging great-looking code that makes up methods or functions.

Are you using an IDE? I do some training of models for a few companies and yes, the models all do this at lot, but it is pretty obvious within 10 seconds of pasting the code into PyCharm.
Google's new AI search results are having quite the week
this reads like it was written by Steven Seagal
There seems to be a misunderstanding of the place of technology in the criminal justice system. There is nothing wrong with using technology to sift through a mass of data points to narrow down suspects or point the investigation in a particular direction. However, this does not obviate the need for investigation to actually verify that the initial identification is correct. There should never be a case where people are arrested or prosecuted solely on the word of a database query.
How so? All the high speed rail deployment and modern advancements in photovoltaics, smartphones and EVs were not made not under Deng.
Assuming high fertility is something that's passed down from your parents. What if it's just poverty that causes it? In that case, people will get poorer until they reach high-fertility levels of poverty. That would be a disaster to have western civilization collapse.
Regardless of the social changes in recent decades, I think it is silly to decide to reserve the root "trans-" for a certain group when it has historically had multiple meanings. Correct me if you had some other reason.
What does this do that’s so incredibly time-saving that you could cut specialists and aides?

One may hope it’d just help teachers be a ton more effective, or at least less over-worked. We’d need about twice as many to deliver really good education, but instead the pool of teachers is shrinking, so we’re gonna need tech just to tread water on education quality.
Three paragraphs later, in TFA.

>To that end, Khan Academy will give Microsoft access to its math-related data, including math problems with step-by-step solutions. Data from Khan Academy users will not be part of the training data, the companies said.
Yeah, I used this prompt but ultimately switched to Claude which behaves like this by default
It’s quite interesting how these descriptions align with Buddhist or Zen teachings.

I wonder if she was influenced by it or if this is a rediscovery.

The fact that she associates a sensation of contraction in the forehead as thinking is very interesting.

Also the fact of there being no time or no will.

Although she goes further to conclude that she acquired will, instead of illusion of will or choice due to previously experiencing no will or choice.
It is derived from that meaning (ruler) but over time became less of a title and more of a last name used by Islamic people in areas like Afghanistan. Khan Academy is named for its founder, whose ancestry is from the Afghan region. The Mongol empire, where Khan was a title for rulers, did extend over the region of present day Afghanistan and the entire Middle East.
yeah it’s a pretty brilliant stroke. and really augurs well for future software in this brave new world of interoperability. everywhere i look there’s cool projects plugging wasm in everywhere, and it just seems like there’s enormous potential.
Because they are being paid by public money.
Ask HN:Why Aren't There More Companies Like Ecosia?
I've recently come across Ecosia, a non-profit search engine that uses its profits to tackle climate change. They focus on reforestation and other environmental initiatives, and they publish monthly financial reports for full transparency on how the money is used.

This got me thinking: why aren't there more companies like Ecosia? Their model seems incredibly impactful and straightforward. Given the current climate crisis and the increasing consumer demand for socially responsible businesses, one would think that more companies would adopt a similar approach.

Is it due to financial viability concerns, lack of awareness, or perhaps something else? What could be the barriers that are preventing more businesses from following in Ecosia's footsteps?
How is that different than a caricature? Or how about a painting of the person? What about a a figure like what was made of a naked Trump? Or how about the Trump diaper balloon? Or like Kanye did of a a naked Taylor Swift? Or what about SNL “lookalikes”?
> Lol.

Thank you.

> It's become a major problem in the schools

In my entire life this statement has never been true and has never materially contributed to society by being entertained.

> in a way that is impossible for smoked cannabis or smoked tobacco.

Have _you_ been out in the world?
I haven't RE'd SpinRite myself, but I remember reading from some others who did and concluded that it was basically very similar to ddrescue's algorithm, but with some additional use of "read uncorrected" commands and statistical analysis. The latter is implemented by other DR software too:

https://www.deepspar.com/blog/Read-Ignoring-ECC.html
That’s 10% degradation. How does it compare with other cars?

Don’t floor it so much and it will not degrade like that. Plus indicator on dashboard is pointless as it’s highly subjective to weather and other conditions.
... and here in Buenos Aires, we have a phantom 9. If your cell phone is +54-11-5555-5555 in some apps/webpages you must write +54-911-5555-5555. But not in all apps/webpages, so sometimes you must try both options until the app/webpage is happy.

Also, from a cell phone you can use just use 5555-5555 but from a line phone you must add a 15, i.e. 15-5555-5555. So users type whatever combination of 11, 911, 15 or nothing they think is the best one.
the oil shell guy is pretty ambitious. i dont really know what repl shell looks like because the shell is kind of the OG REPL, no?
Digraphs are a reasonable tradeoff to simplify text handling IMO but then, why have Ø? Seems to nullify the whole benefit of the other digraphs and leave behind only the downsides.
Yes, but I don’t do these just for productivity

- Delete ALL social media. I just have hackernews. No Facebook, no reddit, Insta, Snapchat, TikTok etc

- Get rid of TV

- Get a dumb phone (don’t have it now but did at one point)

- Make a budget, track incoming income and all expenses. This allows you to ask the question, what is the goal/desire of my productivity?

So with all that, I’m pretty productive
Funny coincidence. Mine is “PowerShit”.
I believe that bit about sign language in Brazil. When I spent some time there years back I was impressed that most people seemed to know a bit of sign language. There is also a lot of informal hand gesture-slang culture. I remember some things like "let's go", "robbery/rip off", "it's crowded"
"Nonconsensual porn" sounds like a strategic choice of words to give the impression you're banning porn about rape, not pasting someone's head on a generated body. If I write erotic fan fiction about Tom Brady without his permission that is "nonconsensual porn" by this definition.

The fan fiction comparison also suggests this is not defamation -- for celebrities, defamation needs to show real damages as well as malicious intent and knowing falsity.

I hope we end up with a distinction between commercial and private use, so this stuff isn't advertised or commercialized but people can enjoy it in private where it doesn't disturb anyone else.
The "it only happens here" bugs are a symptom of mutable infrastructure.
Why is it defamation if it isn’t claimed to be that person?

And maybe a more interesting question - if you can think about your favorite celebrity, why is expressing it visually bad? Isn’t that just (free) speech? Or maybe it’s art? Digitally generated art is still art.
I don’t think Mozilla should be accelerating the current path they’ve chosen
Right? It's such a foreign form of intelligence to me. I think the paper "What is it like to be a bat" by Thomas Nagel made me realize that I can't even imagine what it's like to be my next door neighbor, let alone a being that has senses that differ from mine. Helen Keller's mind must work in a greatly different way than yours or mine. When I think, it's in English. I visualize things. Smell, touch and taste are never really involved. It's like they are the lesser of senses and yet that's all she had. It's incredible.

Andy Weir in Project Hail Mary and Adrian Tchaikovsky in Children of [Time|Ruin|Memory] do a great job of describing what other forms of consciousness might be like, but still falls flat, I only really think in sight and sound.

What is it like to be a bat? I'll never know.
I curiously clicked on one of the links within the article, and found myself a half hour later down a rabbit hole of interesting reading. Definitely bookmarking to come back!
What if calling someone stupid was a crime?
The article said she briefly became a eugenicist, like other political radicals of the time, before going back on it. Not the "gotcha" you think it is.

I think it's the bigger story that she was very left wing. I never learned that in school and was unaware of the fact until reading some of the articles she wrote for my union, the iww
There was a Cyrillic code page (remember code pages?) designed so that most letters would be at the same code point as corresponding Latin letters, just with the high bit set:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI8-R
what kind of hardware do you use to capture wind energy? It’s pretty easy to get into solar as a hobbyist but wind seems to have a higher barrier to entry (?)
>As my experiences broadened and deepened, the indeterminate, poetic feelings of childhood began to fix themselves in definite thoughts. Nature—the world I could touch—was folded and filled with myself. I am inclined to believe those philosophers who declare that we know nothing but our own feelings and ideas. With a little ingenious reasoning one may see in the material world simply a mirror, an image of permanent mental sensations. In either sphere self-knowledge is the condition and the limit of our consciousness. That is why, perhaps, many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves—and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.

>However that may be, I came later to look for an image of my emotions and sensations in others. I had to learn the outward signs of inward feelings. The start of fear, the suppressed, controlled tensity of pain, the beat of happy muscles in others, had to be perceived and compared with my own experiences before I could trace them back to the intangible soul of another. Groping, uncertain, I at last found my identity, and after seeing my thoughts and feelings repeated in others, I gradually constructed my world of men and of God. As I read and study, I find that this is what the rest of the race has done. Man looks within himself and in time finds the measure and the meaning of the universe.

What poetry!
And then once you've established a good reputation, you can do some high volume dropshipping.
On a mildly related note; I've never been called Brad Pitt as much as when I was in Japan.
And why does anyone need to fuck with their brain like this without a doctor’s supervision? I get some people have glaucoma or cancer. But that doesn’t require normalizing yet another psychoactive substance. As if we don’t have enough problems with alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, not to mention all the other toxins we’re pumping into our bodies (BPAs, PFAs, microplastics, etc).
> You can just reuse the Q for that. It’s pretty much useless as well. Can’t be used by itself because it’s always in “qu”.

It’s... not. English has words with “q” where:

(1) it is followed by a different vowel than “u”, and ones where

(2) it is followed by a consonant, and ones where

(3) it is the final letter in the word.
You can “perceive” time as non-linear all you want, but at the end of the day every effect we’ve found has a temporally-preceding cause.

The “higher consciousness” that we experience thanks to language is probably similar to how—for example—autistic savants can perform astonishing feats of mental math. You’re probably better off trying to understand their thought process and replicate it in a more neurotypical brain than you are trying to figure out how to think in terms of non-linear time in a linear-time reality.
IMHO you are giving too much credit to the people here. They like to dope themselves, period. For most I doubt it is really because they need to get themselves distracted from the world.
bonobos, bears and chimpanzees have children.
An alternative, more arithmetic, argument:

- x is 2^b*k for some odd k < 2^(n-b)

- -x is 2^n - 2^b*k = 2^b*(2^(n-b)-k)

- k is odd by definition, and (2^(n-b)-k) + k = 0 (mod 2^(n-b)). This means that the LSB must be 1 in both operands, which results in a carry out, and in the following ith bits we have that the sum is 0 mod 2^i if and only if the ith bits of (2^(n-b)-k) and k are distinct. Thus x & -x = 2^b.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15758
My desktop has no battery.
We're banning art now?
in china, businesses are required to use government managed software that will automatically handle taxes and print on government issued receipt paper. for a while the receipt paper included a scratch field where consumers could win something in order to motivate them to demand a receipt. at least once we won more than we spent. some 2digit amount in dollars.
Bitview – Video sharing site with the look of ~2006-2010 YouTube
Some $300 wind turbines off Ali baba that put out 300 watts or something. It was kind of like a propeller diameter 1m mounted to a little dc motor that was mostly bearings.

We mounted it on a pile to a shed made of metal covered foam panels, the whole shed blew over. Guyed it down after that.
You’re removing the keyword AI. This is in the context of using replicating someone’s appearance specifically for porn using their images as an input.
The podcast is called “Security Now” but what it should be called is “privacy now” because Mr. Gibson fails to understand a lot of contemporary security problems yet is quite sure that Windows collecting telemetry is the most severe problem on the planet today.

unless you use his software to fix it, that is.

Every episode having a 15-minute commercial for spinrite (via testimonials which all sound like they were written by the exact same person) should be more than enough for anyone to start to question the guy.
How many heavy users have you failed to identify?

How would you know if you had failed to identify one?

Isn't this just the toupee fallacy?
Art is not above law. In the same way you would not feature children in this “art”.
I think you might find the sites Help page to be particularly interesting. Videos cant be longer than 15 minutes or larger than 2Gb in size.

https://www.bitview.net/help

I strongly advise an adblocker though.
It's not inherently defamation because it is not a fact claim. (It can be used in the course of defmation, but then, so can actual photographs.)
This is what I was about to say. I've used it some drives and it worked 4 out of 5 times for drives that I had given up all hopes for.

These hit piece articles are all the same: very well contrived phrases that stops short of making definitive statements and overly rely on the reader making assumptions as a mean to avoid libel lawsuits.
If the back room had a "nonconsensual" shelf, it was always empty . . .
This is a misunderstanding of the purpose of teachers in the US. They exist to babysit students while the parents work, and any learning that gets done is a bonus. You can't replace babysitting with online classes.
Solid State Batteries Are Closer Than You Think [video]
Italian teenage computer wizard to become first Millennial saint
At least in case of Bigquery, I have fought with indeterminist-like issues many times over, especially when dealing with window functions that aggregate floats from different compute nodes, where rows cannot be further sorted on a unique column (i.e. the maximum sorting granularity for rows with a similar column of interest to compute a window function over has been reached).

Inconsistent results could be resolved by introducing additional out of data constraints (e.g. incremental hashes), but it can take quite a while to figure out at which exact point in a complex query these constraints need to be introduced.

Beyond that, some functions might still produce different results between runs, e.g. `ml.tf_idf` and `ml.multi_hot_encoder` that take some approximation liberties. Whether these functions are relational in the traditional sense is up for debate.
I would be serving multiple life sentences.
Eh, "I don't believe your claimed reasons because your actions don't seem consistent with them" can be a valid things to bring up. Of course it becomes less so if you then refuse to hear any explanations that aren't the one you came up with.
Lol. Teachers are for babysitting. Learning is secondary. They'll be fine because we've decided the optimal babysitting ratio for teachers is somewhere between 30 and 50 students.
> I won't answer your question because it is ridiculous flame bait.

You won't answer because you have no desire to help people become healthier. Your goals are different. You just want to feel superior. You made it, and they can't. How dare they cheat by taking a drug that works? That's not fair!

> As for "interventionist". My wife is a doctor. Do you know her #1 complaint about patients? Simple:

> They don't do what they are told. They don't take their meds. They come back a month or two later with the same issues and still refuse to do as they are told.

K. Then they won't take this either I guess, right? Who cares then.
Show HN: Preps – Practice coding interviews by talking to AI
There is in depth information on its workings, on the website itself, in the newsgroups and in the podcast. If the author of the article were to look it would remove any "magic" of its workings. The author apparently has an axe to grind, for whatever reason , having said that , it may be for a very good reason but for transparency sake this should be included in the article. Instead its just a weird ramble about what he thinks of other tools and that he thinks Spinrite is a "scam" without technically explaining why, boiling it down to essentially a technically worded opinion piece.
> How is non consensual porn different than hiring a look alike?

Hiring a lookalike and presenting it (whether by explicit claim or implicitly by context) as the person who they look like is a mechanism for nonconsensual porn (other mechanisms besides AI are using true images and distributing them without consent, and using non-AI photomanipulation/compositing.)
I use my iPad pro mostly to read pdfs. Neither my laptop nor my phone are practical for that. Otherwise I didn't find many things the iPad was better at.
People incorrectly saying "hey this fun thing has no downsides" seems like less of a problem if the thing is illegal and staying that way.
> So the question is, does ducting help smaller scale turbines, and will placing smaller scale turbines where big turbines won't fit going to be worthwhile?

Simple ducting does help some. A group at Clarkson has been working on this. They have a wind tunnel, so they can get solid data. [1] They have a simple duct around a standard wind turbine. This gives the effect of more intake area, and they get almost twice the output power. Unclear if this is cheaper than just increasing the blade length.

Many people have been down this road. There are many, many variants on experimental ducted wind turbines. Just search for "ducted wind turbine". There are very few installations. Here's one of the few.[2] They're demo installations on college campuses.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxA-RkwuRY

[2] https://www.ductedwind.com/blog
Well I'm a teacher and I completely disagree. This if anything just levels the playing field by now giving poor kids tutors that rich families were paying for the whole time.

Having a new teaching tool is no substitution for teachers. Teachers are there to classroom manage, manage/coach students to learn, and baby sit.
Show HN: A Tiny Compiler for a Tiny Functional Language
Any idea why Khanmigo is country locked? It seems to be available only in the US. Even the paid version.
Phobos photometric properties from Mars Express HRSC observations
And even what exists in state law wouldn't usually cover this for most people (some revenge porn laws that didn't specifically intend to cover AI were nonetheless written broad enough that they inherently cover AI-generated nonconsensual porn of recognizable individuals, but that is separate from normal likeness rights laws.)
In the "two's complement" representation, there is a sign bit, but the meaning isn't "invert this number", it's "subtract a large, fixed power of 2 from this number".

The reason this has become the most common representation for signed numbers in computer hardware is that it makes the difference between signed and unsigned numbers basically irrelevant as far as the hardware is concerned. When the difference does matter (which it does in division, conversions between different word sizes, conversions to/from text, and sometimes multiplication), there are two different instructions for signed and unsigned, and it's up to the programmer or compiler to pick the right one.
Full shower in the evening. I stick my head in the shower in the morning to get my hair wet and wash my face. Otherwise my hair looks like an anime character.
Followed by… stillsuits.
Any update on that? There's a comment there that suggests a simple legal "you better not do that" letter is all it takes. Obviously, I am not a lawyer, but I was looking at Boox tablets
I didn't listen to that show for a while now; but it seemed that it was the only show out there that explained in details computer security news. I remember him explaining the speculative execution exploits when they first appeared really well when they first appeared. Does the people I know who works on blue and red teams listen to him? No, they already know that stuff, and yeah he could be more up to date, but he does his researc, does his homework and is a great pedagogue.
"The law" is an ever changing thing.

Shit we accept as art today would have probably caused riots 500 years ago.
The correct way to handle copy and paste in a terminal is to copy what is selected verbatim and to paste whatever is in the clipboard verbatim.

Interpretation of intent and “helping” the user are neither needed nor desired, and at best leave everything alone and at worst misinterpret and get in the way.

I have never copied anything out of a terminal and gotten anything other than what I copied when I pasted into sublime text, and I’ve never used iterm2.

Are you talking about copying from a terminal and pasting into OneNote or some other “more than plain text” application or something?
> Meta hasn't paid that fine.

Source? I can't find any confirmation.
Are your neighborhood noise levels caused by wind turbines or something else?
I mean, can't you do that with your thoughts?