skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If there's one thing you can say about mankind

There's nothing kind about man

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork

But it always comes roaring back again

For want of a bird

The sky was lost

For want of a nail

A shoe was lost

For want of a life

A knife was lost

For want of a toy

A child was lost"

I like that Waits never became an entertainment industry pushover.
But then what was tfanswtpf_
What is the expected level of math for a well-rounded liberal arts education? I am okay at best at any type of advanced math. I'm also okay at best in most of the other advanced areas of my liberal arts education that I didn't major/minor in.
Justice Department sues to break up Live Nation, parent of Ticketmaster
ast-grep find/replace Abstract Syntax Tree.
Amber matches on regex.

It seems ast-grep is more powerful if you don't exactly know how the code is structured.
if it was me, I’d sit in a café for 12 hours and track how much they earn to get an idea
I think it's critical that we do annotate it as a special multiply.

If wraparound is ok for that particular multiplication, tell the compiler that. As a sibling comment says, this is seldom the case, but it does happen, in particular, expecting byte addition or multiplication to wrap around can be useful.

The actual expectation of the vast majority of arithmetic in a computer program is that the result will be correct in the ordinary schoolyard sense. While developing that program, it should absolutely panic if that isn't the case. "Well defined" doesn't mean correct.

I don't understand your objection to spelling that `val *% GOLDEN_RATIO_32` is. When someone sees that (especially you, later, coming back to your own code) it clearly indicates that wrapping is expected, or at least allowed. That's good.
Huh. You know, I think HackerNews folks must approach literature searches and reading academic papers differently from the scholarly world at large. I can't think of any of my colleagues who would be looking for an algorithmically driven feed of papers to peruse. Usually we have specific questions we are trying to answer in research.
Maybe. But... a few drugs disappeared for several months in Europe. I'd expect an increase in diagnoses to result in an intermittent supply, not zero supply.

As shortages hit the US and Europe at roughly the same time, I'm wondering if it was supply chain issues - maybe a precursor chemical all manufacturers source from the same supplier?

(Writing this in the hope that someone with more knowledge than me chimes in).
Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game
I'm using Astro with React and Supabase. haha in regards to scaling I know what I built isn't ready but I figured I'd worry about that bridge after I run into problems.
It's not always about burning passion, but sometimes about escaping a toxic environment that you bring home everyday or follows you like a dark cloud.
In my case it was the opposite: I went from building infrastructure (mainly Windows servers and related tech) to becoming a software developer at 45.

I lost my job at the start of the COVID stuff (Feb 2020?) and couldn't find another. No one would take my calls and I found out from some recruiters that eventually spoke to me that they were getting thousands of applications per job: one got over 5000 for a £300 a day contract!

I got to the point I'd ran out of money, gov wouldn't help, was getting money from my parents to survive so I decided to lie on my resume.

Now, don't get me wrong: I'd been programming since the 90s. I knew SQL server like the back of my hand and could programme .NET with the best of them but I'd never done it as a primary job (partly fear - didn't think I was good enough but turns out I was pretty fucking awesome at it :D) so I changed my resume to make it look like I had been doing it for years in various roles and got a job in 2 weeks!

I'm now an architect and couldn't be happier... the money definitely helps.

I'm looking to do my own thing though as I'm done with the corporate life.

However, I can't knock it too badly: In 4 years I've gone from being in serious financial shit to paying off my mortgage a month ago :)
>The problem OpenAI has is they tried to get Scarlet to do the voice and after she declined OpenAI found someone who has a similar voice to do it.

As the public currently knows based on reporting from WaPo, the original VA was selected and performed her role (months) BEFORE they reached out to Scarlett for the first time. Please don't misconstrue the timeline for other people that are just now tuning in.
Artificial Intelligence Act (EU Law)
The ambition to hide errors from users for example is just completely unhelpful if you think about it.

"Something went wrong". Sure, many or most users won't be helped by a specific error message, but they can use this message to ask someone how does. Especially if large tech companies just forget to offer support, a sensible error message is better than nothing. Sometimes error messages lead you down the wrong path if you don't know the intrinsics of an infrastructure, sure. But I still don't know which brain is responsible for the "guideline" to hide some essential from users. It is just objectively wrong.

It would be childs play to hide the "ugly information" in an extra menu, window, popup or anything. But doing UX isn't an excuse for bad engineering.
You mean the voice actor's natural speaking pattern is more similar to the OpenAI Sky voice than ScarJo's performance in Her movie? Perhaps. But isn't that expected?

They still created a voice that sounds like ScarJo - and many signs point to that being intentional. Overall, not unlike the case in "Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc".
The real irony is the number of employees and customers that Morris killed. His wallpaper was hideously toxic.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/victorian-wallpape...
There are quite many apps for visualizing disk folder structure for almost any OS. Any flavor you like: lists (diskwave, omnidisk), treemaps (GrandPerspective), pie charts (DiskSavvy), sunburst (baobab), icicle, etc.

The two winning visualization types are sunburst and treemaps.
Both have their own cons and pros, but in our tests user sunburst performed slightly better for regular users.
My personal bet is that no disk space analyzing tool's developer took it seriously or tried to actually advance the algorithms. Most of the apps I know use quite straightforward implementation and haven't been touched for years. Guess a little bit of filtering, grouping and changing coloring algorithms could significantly improve the treemap's perception, but someone has to do the job.

disclaimer: I'm the original designer of DaisyDisk.
Discord links! As citations for major results in foundational computer science!
I second this. Mobile is how I primarily read news. IMO it should be the first platform you support.
He has found the ultimate hack in living in a modern capitalistic economy. Have a private company which has a cash cow and allows you to work on whatever projects you want and has less than a thousand employees.

Even valve is somewhat similar and they produce some of the most interesting, unique things without having to bend a knee for shareholders.
It is how it works given enough time and size and spherical cows and a bit of vacuum. :)

Amazon does provide jobs, in fact it provides too many jobs, crowding out other buyers on the local market, then after they downside/close, Amazon can effectively set the price of labor there, and it sets it to the minimum. (Meaning Amazon takes all the economic surplus produced, basically those who work there cannot save, cannot really raise children, etc.)

The problem is not that the market doesn't work, the problem is that it doesn't help with the desirable things society wants.

And if we only consider economic surplus, it is better to have Amazon there than not. (Before Amazon we can assume people there had even worse jobs, and the region heavily subsidized by various welfare programs.) But big companies inherently do very profitable things that look like coordination (ie. they look like they are in a cartel), that's why - other factors being equal - they won't open factories/warehouses in already saturated labor markets, instead they pick a place where cost of operation is cheaper (wages are lower).

And then through consolidation the market can get into a (pathological) state where there are only big companies, and they just buy/deter/sabotage new small companies.
Liszt's lost opera: work brought to life after 170 years (2018)
Also, FWIW, I saw a bunch of demos of “token sequence learning” that did a lot of the applications that people have been so excited about with LLMs: producing text descriptions of video and images, text summarization with question answering, etc. Those demos were a little janky and limited and obviously only at the academic paper with impressive video demo stage which is a far cry from fast and reliable enough to be useful in production. But they weren’t categorically different from what we’ve seen with transformers and LLMs. This is one of the reasons I’m more skeptical about claims that transformers + more data and compute is all we need for AGI. After a decade plus of not just MASSIVE compute and data scaling but some fairly clever new techniques I would describe progress as incremental rather than transformational beyond those older results. Honestly, people have forgotten this now, but the biggest change that ignite the LLM hype was the UX decision to present interactions with these models in the framework of a conversation with an agent. This is a trick that goes back at least as far as Eliza and it’s effect is mainly in how it primes the user to think about and relate to the tech. That is also an area where more work can be done (conversational interfaces are not the One Solution to all computing). I recommend googling Interactive Machine Learning, which is its own sub-discipline that specifically studies this problem of how to build UX that is native to, and takes best advantage of, ML/AI techniques to produce software that people can use to accomplish real tasks.
Hang on, what? Specifically the cancer part
Drawing imaginary lines on charts with crayons for dummies? TA seems to mostly be astrology for finance.
Genuine question, what's wrong with trying to replicate in real life an idea from a SciFi movie ?

I understand that it could be problematic if OpenAI did one of two things:

- imitated Scarlett Johansson's voice to impersonate her

- misled people into believing that GPT-4o is an official by-product of the film Her, like calling it “the official Her AI”

The first point is still unclear, and that's precisely the point of the article

For the second point, the tweets you posted clearly show that the AI from Her served as an inspiration for creating the GPT-4o model, but not a trademark infringement

Will Matt Damon receive royalties if a guy is ever stuck on Mars ?
Glad to see the transformers are more flexible in the new release- I think they were already better than Datanymizer. The feature request is here for conditional transforms, looks like it is planned to be implemented soon: https://github.com/GreenmaskIO/greenmask/issues/34
Microsoft's new Windows chief on the future of the OS, Surface, and annoying ads
I have been fascinated with generated art drawings recently. Care to share any tips that's led to your current situation?
Why'd you say up north then?
The main issue is not that "Microsoft having a copy of everything you ever display on your screen", the main issue is that they will sell it to other companies and government agencies.
They were "seashells". Just live ones.

And 72? I can understand taking a souvenir or two, but thats just plain greedy even if they were seashells.
Ironically, the complaint seems to be that the copies are not accurate enough, i.e. don't sufficiently resemble the styles of the original creators, and are too easily detected as forgeries.
Ask HN: Laravel+inertia vs NextJS?
“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.” ―Tom Waits
I love the idea! But there is one little thing. I would love to see an easy and clean interface like HackerNews but using a Blue color instead. I think that would be awesome!
I didn't know they weren't listed on flight aggregator services and I almost certainly did not consider Southwest when flying to FL for this very reason.

Seems to me that Southwest are learning the hard way that not being competitive and transparent with consumers about their pricing is bad for business.
I assume this is being hugged to death?

504 Gateway Time-out

The server didn't respond in time.
> Giving up a six figure income I use to feed and house my family

I'm getting ready to do a pivot and have set a hard deadline: if my income is going to take a very large hit, it needs to be reflected when I fill out the FAFSA for my oldest child. I'm pretty sure that I have 2 years to pivot because I am filling out the FAFSA in 4. If I can't make it happen by then, I'll need to stick it out for a while.

Other than that kind of thing, I think you dramatically overestimate how much you need your 6-figure job.

I'm still trying to figure out what my pivot will be. All I know is that if I have to work with people that don't care, it has to be a job in which not caring is totally fine for the work they do.
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ???
For PTSD, psychedelics like 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete for the brain'
> She said the whole experience taught her children and her valuable lessons about wildlife regulations.

They know now at the beach don’t touch anything
> For about a year and a half I had to call around checking inventory before calling my doctor.

The other improvement here is that the DEA started allowing pharmacies to transfer patient prescriptions for controlled substances, so you don’t need to call your doctor and hope they send it out to the location with inventory quickly enough.

But only once, to keep life arbitrarily difficult. Gotta make life easier through more rules, never fewer!

https://www.dea.gov/stories/2023/2023-09/2023-09-01/revised-...

The DEA still has some restrictions on moving inventory between pharmacies, which can still prevent pharmacies from balancing supply and demand in a way that’s transparent to end-users.
Nice article, I learned a couple tricks.

A first gotcha:

> you could just replace it with… #!/usr/bin/sbcl –load /home/youruser/.sbclrc –script

this doesn't work, since a shebang only accepts one argument.

---

There are 2 main caveats to the described approach: starting SBCL like this from sources and not from a binary takes a little time. And you don’t have batteries included. Want a HTTP client, a CSV parser? You have to quickload them and this adds up in the startup time.

We can rely on long-running images in the editor and run stuff from there, bypassing the terminal altogether, or build binaries, or try other approaches (Lish shell, a lisp server https://notabug.org/quasus/lserver/)

But that’s why I started CIEL, CL with batteries included. You can get a binary and run scripts that start fast and can do common tasks. It’s also a superset of useful libraries that you can quickload or use with a core image (for a fast startup in your editor).

https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/

http://ciel-lang.org/

It’s in beta, polishing phase.
really? so corporations are doing ltds blocking? Why?
Is there an RSS feed I can subscribe to?
Depends on what you intend to do IRL if it's just fly around then a couple of hours in acro will get people up to the point where they can bimble about and sort of land but will easily get way out of their depth.
My main takeaway from that was that software checks aren't an acceptable replacement for hardware interlocks... A lesson we seem to be collectively unlearning
I like the concept. My feedback is to increase the color contrast. It's very difficult to read with the light gray text on light background. I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu.
so _that_ is why some pronounce it "slow-th" vs "sloth" (that rhymes with cloth)
AWS SDK is huge yes, but you can implement an S3 client in 300 lines of Java.

https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos/blob/master/src/peergos/s...
I'm mostly just running the (Go) compiler on my laptop which is considerably faster than on docker and considerably cheaper than the server...

I mean an ass end M3 macbook has the same compile time as an i9-14900k. God knows what an equivalent Xeon/Epyc costs...
The new BB(3,4) record holder is

0 1 2 3
A 1RB 3LB 1RZ 2RA
B 2LC 3RB 1LC 2RA
C 3RB 1LB 3LC 2RC

with the triple (t',d, s') in row s column t specifying the transition from state s with symbol t under the tape head. the machine overwrites symbol t with t', moves the tape Left/Right according to direction d, and changes state from s to s', halting if s'==Z.

This is 3*4*log2(4*2*log2(4+1)) or about 64 bits of information.
Meanwhile, in only 49 bits, BBλ(49) far exceeds Graham's number [1].

[1] https://oeis.org/A333479
I’ve always had them at the bottom of my list because I like to pick my seat in advance.

I also used to think Google flight search would show the lowest prices, but I recently saved a few hundred dollars by buying on Expedia. Same everything, just cheaper than even the airline’s website.
> is looking/sounding like somebody else (even if its famous) prosecutable or not?

No. And if a lawmaker claimed they would like it to be, and then claimed they meant civilly litigible, they’d be labelled dishonest. (Even if it was an honest mistake.)
Who struggles to do what for which purpose?

Sometimes the word “intelligent” is used by someone who sells IQ tests.

Sometimes the word is used by someone who sells the idea of a computer that can think like a human.

I don’t know if people in general struggle or care about the definition.
Vercel Ship 2024 Keynote (live) [video]
What would you have done differently than the treasury and fed did?
Poor example, they're not naturally poisonous, it's dietary. Palytoxin and Ciguatoxin are not endogenous, the animal first has to eat another organism containing a dinoflagellate that creates these toxins, Gambierdiscus toxicus. This quality is inherent to most reef fish, especially ones with beaks.
"If you're not letting me play, I shall not play!"
I am glad to see more projects in the vein of helping people find research papers. I am delighted by the discourse of papers on HN. Indeed, the comments on research papers here can help me better understand something that's outside my field of expertise. But HN is not specifically for research. Thus, it feels like there is room for another space for people to come.

I like the idea of subcategories. Some notes on the experience:

- When I load the page, it takes 1-2 seconds for papers to load. This doesn't feel great.
- The grey colours in the list make the page hard to skim. I recommend a darker colour for the text.
- The colour of the navigation links is too light. It is hard to see the links.
- The information density is spot on. Amazing work!

This is a community project. Try to get a few people on one niche who know what they are talking about commenting on your site actively (This HN post may help you find those people!). If your site became good at computer vision, the field in which I work professionally, I'd be there every day.
Taiwan Says Chip Machines Can Be Shut Off If China Invades
That's about the Rewind Pendant which you're physically wearing, not Rewind the program.
I'm tending to think that Figma components should not be maintained in a serious way... design artefacts should be ephemeral and I think it's less effort overall if designers reuse or create whatever they need when they need it.

Keeping a huge Figma component library in sync with a component library / design system feels more and more like busy work.
Context-dependent neural representations of odors in humans revealed by 7T MRI
I understand the complaint here, but a lot of recent impressive progress in mathematics has been by rapid collaboration + iteration (e.g. the project to improve Zhang's prime gap bound), and it may be the case that different communication tools are not easily fungible with Discord in this regard. You have to go where the people actually are.
Backdoor found in court recording software JAVS
My favorite Tom Waits story is the one when he was in a legal battle with an avante-garde French circus performer

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/08/tom-waits-angr...
I was in to drone racing for a while then got out of it and in to high powered rocketry. Interestingly, a friend is moving and wants me to take over his passion project. A rocket powered glider using an 'M' (pretty powerful) rocket motor. He has a smaller POC working with an ardupilot autopilot launching on 'H' motors. The basic gist is the rocket takes the glider up and the autopilot handles the flying until the altitude is low and then manual takeover for landing. On an M motor, the glider is going to go far out of site so the ardupilot will have to get it back to the flight line where i can see it and land.

I need to check the rules closely because there's exceptions for rocket powered gliders but I don't think i'll be able to launch at a sanctioned event and will probably have to go out to FAR (friends of amatuer rocketry) which is a multi-day drive for me. Tripoli, the main governing body for experimental high powered rocketry, has rules about guided recovery with some exceptions for gliders. I have a feeling a rocket powered glider would have to remain in sight at all times which wouldn't be the case with an 'M' motor sending it up. Someone building a rocket that can fly to 100k feet and then land at a waypoint would attract a lot of unwanted attention from authorities and be bad for the hobby which is why those rules exist.
Apple's foldable MacBooks rumored to ship in 2026
> Rust disables implicit copying for structs with destructors

"Disabling" is maybe not the right way to think about it. Rust only has "implicit copying" for Copy types, so you have to at the very least #[derive(Copy,Clone)] to get this, it's true that you can't (and therefore neither can a derive macro) impl Copy on types which implement Drop and that's on purpose but you're making a concrete decision here - the answer Rust knows is never correct is something you'd have to ask for specifically, so when you ask it can say "No" and explain why.

Lots of similar behaviour in C++ is silent. Why isn't my Doodad behaving the way I expected? I didn't need to ask for it to have the behaviour I expected but the compiler concludes it can't have that behaviour, so, it doesn't, and there's nowhere for a diagnostic which says "Um, no a Doodad doesn't work like that, and here's why!"

Diagnostics are hard and C++ under-values the importance of good diagnostics. Rust recently landed work so libraries can provide improved diagnostics when you try to call them with inappropriate parameters. For example now if you try to collect() an iterator into a slice, the compiler notices that slice doesn't implement FromIterator and it asks FromIterator to explain why this can't work, whereupon FromIterator notices you were trying to use a slice and emits a diagnostic for this particular situation - if you'd tried to collect into an array it explains how you'd actually do that, since it's tricky - the slice is impossible since it's not an owning type, you need to collect into a container.
The article mentions that first one explicitly, and highlights the problematic aspects with interpreting studies without the relevant expertise.
SaaS auth platform startup Userfront launches with $5.3M in seed funding
https://archive.is/2024.05.23-124105/https://www.bloomberg.c...