skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This probably won't be an issue in Rust because there are very few situations where taking a reference can extend the lifetime of an object. It can really only happen for temporary objects where their lifetime can be extend to that of the function. It isn't nearly the same as a GCed language where it is very easy to accidentally keep an object alive for a long time.
Pushing the Boundaries of Mixed-Precision LLM Inference with Marlin
No. What brought here 3 months ago? Your curious take on Alexei Navalny death?
Nitro does measure firmware. If any firmware is unexpected, server will essentially stop being connected to the EC2 substrate network and/or server wiped clean automatically. People will be paged automatically, security will likely be pulled in, etc.

There is no reason to measure hypervisor firmware as it’s not firmware in the case of EC2. The BIOS/UEFI firmware on the mobo is overwritten if it’s tampered with. Hypervisor code (always signed, like all code) is streamed via a verifiably secure system on the server (Nitro cards, which make use of measured boot and/or secure boot).

No idea what the customer facing term “Nitro enclaves” means, but EC2 engineers are literally mobilized like an army with pages when any security risk (even minor ones) is determined. Basic stuff like this is covered. We even go as far as guaranteeing core dumps don’t contain any real customer data, even encrypted
Is this about growing the teeth entirely from the 'ground' or about growing already present teeth that for some reasons failed to develop?
> You can't get a steam engine to dig a hole though

Steam shovels came out in the early 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_shovel

> They were limited to rails

Um, no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_tractor and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_steam_road_vehicles
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For those of us curious about what Omnivore is: https://omnivore.app/

Source code: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore
Clearly it shows the superiority of the Bourgeois state to protect our rights. /s
Subtly different. Originally I didn’t have ^a, but you do in-fact need it. ^a means “push with no evaluation” and (a) means “build a closure” that computes a”.

If you push, pop, push, pop, push repeatedly you’ll be wrapping the value in lots of closures. The value is no longer a value too. You’d have to “force” it to get back the value.

Semantically quite different. If you’re going all Turing tarpit, could you survive without “^a”? Maybe. But you’d be suffering for sure.
Well I had an opportunity to munge some data, but the .CSV file had spaces in its name so the generated SQL failed with an error because it started by creating a DuckDB view named the same as the file, without escaping the spaces.

I tried putting []'s (brackets) around the name to escape the spaces but apparently that's not how DuckDB works.

Also, I'm used to using F5 to run the queries but that didn't work either.
htmx apps can't run without internet. Assuming that users will have a stable connection all the time is a big assumption.

As always with new tech, I think htmx will create more frontend jobs after the fad is over.
Right. Maybe you can rent it for one day for cheap though ! Pros needs continuous use so buying makes sense for them
This is generally true, about type theories:

A type theory corresponds to a complex diagram, as outlined in topos theory. (Note: complex as in CW-complexes.)

I think it’s fascinating LLMs ended up being a similar structure — but perhaps not entirely surprising. There have been similar results, eg a topological covering can generate an ML model.
The link is specifically about Virtualization.Framework.
Also the high-quality amateur scientist webpages. e.g. measurements on radiation heat loss to the sky when camping.

OTOH... we now have sci-hub.se with high-quality professional scientist papers.
Nope, it will not work
WebRTC Plumbing with GStreamer
When we were kids we played a game called King where you try to hit your friends with a tennis ball.

I was terrible at throwing with my skinny arms but very good at dodging, mostly by having learned to watch first the throwing arm trajectory which gives you a plane in 3d space of where the ball can possible go. Secondly you watch where in the arc the ball leaves the hand which turns that plane into hopefully a line or a triangle which you then try to avoid.

Bowling adds more variables on top such as holding the ball in a certain way to make it curve, although with cricket vs baseball it's more about how you're going to make the ball bounce instead of trying to curve it in the air (if we're talking about spinners that is).
Requiring a new device for new features is not the same thing as removing support for older devices.
https://grabcad.com/library/m-c-escher-sphere-spirals-1
Yes, naming conflicts within the United States where multiple companies can register the same name in different states are one of the issues I mentioned that Google did not address.

Your point about trademarks is also valid.
And ensure visibility! Those tanks on wheels can't see my children.
That guy is just some random blogger and I wouldn't take that to literally mean they use the same chips as a Macbook. Apple only says they use "Apple Silicon". Common sense to assume it is designed for servers and AI inferencing.
> Chomsky, for some weird reason, chose to take Russia's side.

Chomsky's foreign policy views can somewhat accurately be reduced to "everything is either American imperialism or reactions against it," to a degree that he ignores the imperialist tendencies (and other unpleasantries) of countries that aren't the US because they're against the US. For example, his denial of the Cambodian genocide essentially boiled down to "well, the US doesn't like the Khmer Rouge, so therefore everybody criticizing the Khmer Rouge was overselling the criticism, how was anyone at the time to know what they were doing?"
I definitely read an article on 404 media about Apple Vision VR Porn - they are just recording it with their own headsets.
I teach adolescents at a Montessori school. The families are higher SES but they value holistic education and the wellbeing of their kids above academic performance. The programming reflects these values, so it works all around.

IMO there is a way forward for schools. It doesn’t need to be Montesssori but it does need to reduce the extrinsic manipulations of students from within the school as much as possible. Those manipulations lead to many of the maladaptive effects discussed in the article.
Malevolent traits may be important for athletic success – study
Hey, article author here!

I knew about F# since my university days and I'm guilty for not really dig into it except for toys projects. I worked in many companies and most of them were Microsoft hostile. That would explain why I'm kind of far away from the .NET affiliated technologies.
We all agree that this is a silly reason, but if you wonder why F# doesn't get any love, I'd bet that this is because a lot of people are ignoring Microsoft. Let's change that
Ask and you shall receive :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdCapu0CVJ8
> Not only that, you can't distribute a half-finished app to the public -- even if it's free -- because it wouldn't pass review.

Ahhh so you want the public to do your QA for you and don’t mind interfering with their productivity when the first iterations of your software are a buggy mess? I am ok with Apple trying to keep the pests out of their garden, or providing a lockable gate like TestFlight where I can go into a testing situation with my eyes wide open and risks well understood. Your open source devs are not always great at disclosing the fact that their software is half baked and people install expecting a robust app and finding instead…a load of crap
Historically Q and Z lived on 0.
MyScript Calculator
There is an app called MyScript Calculator available both on Android and iOS. It does the same thing perfectly and fine. Apple is copying their ideas. As an Asian, I barely use it (for finding log and trig values). I like it because it gives a pen-pencil feeling. The first release of the app was about 11 years ago (ain't sure) and after that, they released version 2 which was more advanced and able to handle advanced mathematics. It didn't need extra RAM, memory and stuff at that time. I'm not judging or criticising Apple, and neither I'm the developer of the app (I'm not the creator). I'm just thinking if you took someone's idea, why not at least give credit to the original ideator? or tell the people that it's inspired by the XYZ company or the company where the product originated from.
Ha. Well I meant “add those operations to the C interpreter”, which would be like 4 lines of code.
Keep reading down that Wikipedia page and you’ll see that he is also a serious and well-respected scientist.
> FFS just give me ingredients and steps.

The commonly believed reason is that a simple list of ingredients and steps would not be copyrightable. So they add fluff which can be copyrighted.
This is very old but imo very interesting index of pov-ray stuff by various artists.

https://www.f-lohmueller.de/links/index_re.htm
>Car dependent design is the problem that prevents children from being able to play with friends

These statements as facts aren't helpful because it implies car dependence is the only thing. There is so much history and nuance here. OP is right, making every discussion essentially '/r/fuckcars' doesn't get us anywhere.

Anecdote: I grew up in a small suburb, 100% car dependence. However I still walked to grade school and rode my bike on roads/sidewalks where cars are the same now as they were in the 90s.
Has anyone read the underlying studies for the first section? I tapped out but I find it somewhat hard to believe that rates of hard substance abuse are higher in places like Cupertino than in some ghetto school (the author specifically implies this with their vagueness).

I can see high achieving kids having an unneeded Adderall prescription or binge drinking, but am I really being led to believe that rates of crack abuse are similar? Did they look at kids who drop out/never attend (probably not)? Just feels a bit off.
Apparently the way teeth stop growing is that something gets switched on and tells the cells that start them to not start new teeth anymore. This blocks that signal, so the cells start growing new teeth.
You ddos'ed your university home page. ;)
Magic died when art and science split
On-demand charging is very much happening today. All chargers communicate the available charging current with the vehicle and some can adjust it dynamically.

As for control, there are proprietary and OSS solutions (shout out to https://evcc.io/en/) that allow you to control the charging process based on price, grid load, local PV generation, etc.
The point of the studies is that this kind of parental pressure makes it harder to earn a living. Not easier.

But when these parental and educational practices are clearly linked to addictions and emotional/mental health issues, parents and schools should certainly be asking themselves what they're doing. And why.

Of course there's a balance between pushing too hard and not pushing at all, and between worthless-if-you-don't-win culture and get-a-prize-for-breathing culture.

A friend of mine used to say that the perfect job was just challenging enough to be interesting, but not so challenging it was overwhelming, and not so unchallenging it was boring and pointless.

Parenting is similar. There has to be some challenge and some unconditional support, but not an extreme of either.

It's hard.
It would be great if they let us install the private cloud server on our Macs, but I’m not holding my breath. Then again, in the name of more privacy, maybe they want to sell a dedicated local AI hub as another hardware product. They could even offer it for an affordable upfront cost that can be amortized into a multi-year iCloud subscription.
Hmm here there would be a normal 3 color light specifically for turning right, with 3 right pointing arrows.

Never saw single red lights. Just the blinking green when it's permitted. Btw blinking green implies yield to other cars, pedestrians or anything else that's in your way.
I think what you are describing is the socializing of the burden of raising children, only to have mega-corps privately reap the output of their potential and your efforts raising them.

Pretty much, modern-day serfdom. Just see how we still discuss sustainance as a non-given.

Maybe we should instead start instead working on improving the society, so it better caters to develop the potential of its citizens and also give them better equity in return of their high achievements?
op probably means to have a chance getting in to a top tier university. To that I agree, a HS student is competing with the whole world to get one of the very few spots in one of the top universities. Given the pool of applicants, all of which are very high achieving kids, the competition is very wide and deep.
Participed once, and ranked low... I could only dream about the skill level of our french master Mr Tran.
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Not sure if I would bet on Raspberry Pi, because to me it seems they mostly ride on inertia and their okay-ish drivers. Looking only at hardware, the Raspberry Pis have gotten quite expensive, not that far off from the cheap and faster x86 boxes with intel’s e cores when including accessories.

There are many competitors in the SBCs space offering products that generally exceed the offerings of the Raspberry Pi. The only issue is software, often you get something like an image based on an old Debian with kernel patches. (Or you must use a 3rd party project like Armbian). But I can't imagine it's impossible that one of the usual SBC-SoC manufacturers would finally start doing proper upstream Linux kernel work.

Raspberry Pi seems really unpopular in some circles, the IPO probably doesn't help.
I'm wondering how Broadcom sees the bigger focus on commercial customers rather than education and hobbyists.
> It’s now clear that Apple knows how to train frontier model-quality models, but it’s simply choosing to lay low. Apple’s server-side models running in the Private Cloud Compute are apparently quite near the GPT-4o in terms of quality

I really don't see where this comes from. Apple has been deploying Siri for a decade. Despite this, Siri is still a steaming pile of cow dung. In few months, OpenAI built a working Siri, something that no-one at Apple was remotely close to achiving.

The fact that Apple signed a deal with OpenAI and includes GPT-4o as an alternative option is a clear sign that Apple server-side models are really not anywhere near GPT-4o. If they were, Apple wouldn't have signed this deal which is so unlike them.

To me, it really looks like Apple is late to the party in terms of LLM. They are betting that within a few years, high quality models will be commoditised and that having an ecosystem that leverages them properly will be the differentiator. Until then they are reluctantly incorporating the market leader in order not mis the train.
IMO No. Raycast:

- Took VC money and pushes for subscription instead of a clear payment model.

- Rides the AI Hype train.

- Is still not able to handle file workflows properly.

- Alfred workflows are easier to write and to debug due to workflow editor, you have to be a web developer to find the proposition of writing what is basically a small react app a good one.

- Also, IMO, not very fast, consumes a lot of resources and has a clumsy UX due to using stateful multistep apps.

I would always prefer Alfred to Raycast, but I am stuck with Launchbar which is still the Launcher with most smooth workflow for me. The whole <Object><Action> paradigm is just so fast - select something, tab, match an app with 2 keystrokes-enter -> Opens in app. Works on text, files, whatever.
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At one point I just realized that the work in BigCo has very little to do with actual value, and much more politics and PR.
In my last workplace we had two teams working on almost identical applications - large, multistage web forms for insurance. At that time it was a common practice at the office to estimate in units of time. One team was constantly commiting sprints to 300 units and delivering 200, and the other was commiting to 100 and delivering 150. First was quickly disbanded and fired, and the latter was praised for performing beyond expecations.
There was a lot of work on big light-field capturing rigs in the past, but honestly, with the current advancements in neural radiance fields, gaussian splatting, meshing and other scene reconstruction techniques even monocular capture can generate pretty amazing results. I'm sure that having ultra-high res binocular video could be converted into some pretty high quality free-look output (that can at least be played back in real-time) on high-powered mobile devices could be possible today (w/ just some additional optimization/engineering work).

Recent research examples:

* https://vidu4d-dgs.github.io/

* https://fudan-zvg.github.io/4d-gaussian-splatting/

* https://guanjunwu.github.io/4dgs/

* https://aoliao12138.github.io/VideoRF/
Considering he’s significantly anti-Israel I’m curious even if there were nefarious purposes behind his meeting with Barak what direction do you think it swayed him in?

In addition a LOT of academics met with Epstein. The whole point of Epstein was that he clawed himself up the social ladder by schmoozing with money people and raising funds for academic work. It would be entirely shocking if Epstein raised all this money for academia and didn’t even try and meet probably the only famous academic in the world.
FWIW: You can do that on your phone today iwith Siri, if you have the ChatGPT app.

You just say "hey siri, ask chat gpt..." and then it will
> All you need to get started with Gleam is already in this CLI. You dont’t have ANYTHING else check, there’s ZERO decision paralysis: THIS-IS-WHAT-WE-WANT. Javascript makes you pick a tool among hundred of options, for each tool provided in Gleam’s CLI.

This is undoubtedly true, although if Gleam ever becomes as popular as JavaScript, there will almost inevitably be the same set of choices to be made for Gleam.
Show HN: from the developer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40572260
long gone unfortunately, though not that fancy, just made some text in moray and applied some materials, in a semi transparent box or sphere, render. The reaction was always wow, I always chuckled at the time.
Surprisingly high levels of toxic gas found in Louisiana
I’ve always found that a weird characterization. It’s sent in the signaling channel, but why is that “leftover”? The channel is still established for the SMS, and it’s not like that channel bandwidth would go unused otherwise.

It’s like saying “postcards are delivered in the leftover part of the mail truck unused by letters and parcels” :)
> Still interesting that the stations increase demand enough that grid stabilization can occur by simply disabling battery charging.

That trick is not limited to battery stations. Another thing which is done in some places (at least my country does that), is to have some circuits from substations configured so that they cut power when the frequency drops too low and/or too fast, preventing a generalized blackout at the cost of temporarily losing power to parts of the system (the circuits to be powered down in each step are chosen so that important loads like hospitals do not lose power). In the country-wide blackout last year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazil_blackout), that mechanism stabilized power in the southern part of the country, allowing it to recover quickly (the northern part, where the disturbance originated, unfortunately lost too much transmission and generation, and needed a black start).
Turns out those are the total remuneration for employees at the charity and all its subsidaries (i.e. charity and commercial arms) - thats how much tech in the UK pays.
Abbott gets FDA clearance for 2 over-the-counter continuous glucose monitors
You said "equally as closed Windows machines."

In terms of the machine Windows is way more open in that you can use what hardware you want. But yeah the software is closed source.
Complexity and Criticality by Christensen and Moloney [0]. It goes through three main systems, percolation, the Ising model and the rice pile model. It's an introduction that gives the tools to analyze each and provides the foundation to understand other models and other literature in the area.

I found it pretty accessible from a programmers point of view.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/COMPLEXITY-CRITICALITY-Imperial-Colle...
Thank god. I think 1pw has been mostly good, but it has frustrating quirks... Like requiring me to input the master password on the iOS app/OSX/Browser extension (on the same device) as if each of these apps have no way of communicating.

I constantly have issues with it not engaging on a form where I have to manually switch to 1pw, though it has gotten a bit better over the years.

I hate to see a company/product get sherlocked but I don't feel like password security was something we should need to have a subscription for.
Povray and the Internet Raytracing Competition was my entire world in the late 90s.

https://www.irtc.org/stills/
I wish that I was a better programmer, so could be a better advocate for this programming style.

I wish that there were more standard tools for it --- it kills me that I couldn't find a nice .layout for doing Literate Programming in LyX w/ arbitrary programming languages.

I'm just glad that my using this system lets me overcome hurdles/complexity beyond levels which previously posed insurmountable stumbling blocks --- at a previous job there was a typesetting back-end for phone book ads which I had written in LaTeX using a documented TeX file (.dtx) --- once a year or so they would sell a license to a new customer and I would have to update it to their needs, and every quarter or so there would be a bug report... being able to read through the code would quickly get me in a place where I could fix things and then move on to the next task.

Current effort is at:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

At some point in time I need to look into if using Lua would allow some niceties such as per-file line # tracking...
Advances are recouped from the sales of your albums or tickets. Assuming you’ve made a good faith effort to fulfill your obligations you don’t need to repay the advance or pay interest on the advance if your album doesn’t sell.
You maybe on to something there but you phrase it as antagonistic.

HN is heavily biased towards tech centers (SF, NYC, Seattle, etc...). These places skew liberal, agnostic, pro-public transport, pro-dense housing.

Conversations will always shift towards these talking points, the few of us that don't fit into one or more of these boxes get drowned out as out-of-touch.
Finally some refreshing view: I am constantly bombarded by people who either completely abhor or love it.

I think it's a tool, it's going to take away jobs which were already shaky and on the line, while empower people who can understand its potential and limitations.
The return of the Geisha.-
Hard work and reverse engineering I would guess.

The also make it sound like they also patch some non-windows software. I'm curious what the quality of these are. It seems fairly easy (if expensive) to binary patch most code most of the time but I would have to expect that there is a non-trivial rate of crashes or incomplete fixes with this approach. But maybe better than nothing?