skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For cyclists in my area you aren't considered a pedestrian if you're riding a bike, and they have tons of signs telling you to walk it across the crosswalk. Presumably it's because bikes can move a lot faster than someone on foot and a motorist may not have time to brake if the cyclist darts into the crosswalk.

> They are attributing their motivations to some sort of homophobia

This could potentially be used to upgrade a petty crime to a hate crime, if prosecutors could convince jurors they were homophobes.
> The international community failed to pressure Hamas leaders

The international community besides America and Israel arguably entirely lack the leverage to pressure them.
There are local versions - a veterinary emergency hospital with veterinary oncologists and cardiologists in a smaller city without other metros for hundreds of miles, for example.
The lego one is actually pretty nice, and cheaper than most ready-made models.

The one part that isn't quite right, and I'm not even sure I've ever seen a model that does this right, is the moon's orbital tilt, so the earth isn't blocking the moon for full moon, and the moon isn't blocking the sun for new moon. The distances probably don't scale to make it practical, the tilt would have to be extremely exaggerated. The phases of the moon is the only thing that I've never seen an orrery show very well.
> Often it does not.

Then we need to fix that problem, not make it OK for it to exist. A government site should be the source of truth on information about governmental affairs, or relevant to this article, if I search for "$STATE DMV", I should end up there first. If I search "how do I register my car in $STATE", that answer should also come from a governmental site.
> Because I heard that GPL licenses are like viruses and someone hates them.

That's just old Microsoft FUD. The Linux kernel is GPL and approximately zero people refuse to run it because of its license.
I don't mean state intervention as most programmers are quite privileged, but a company that creates something like skunk works for people for burned out people
Those are great models for local adaptations. They won't grow a leg with extricate mechanical properties we have trouble modeling in state-of-art robotics/mechanics.
This feels like a karma grab. I guess it worked and costs nothing.
>This bizarre romanticization of autism is frustrating for those who are or have loved ones who are nonverbal, stim all day, etc..

Look at every thread about the subject on these boards: it's filled with people claiming to be "on the spectrum" (aren't we all?).

>nerfing autism...is a way to demonize effective interventions so insurance companies won't have to pay for them

What a bizarre conspiracy. Are treatments even expensive?
And GCC/clang do get intrinsics that are nicer to use than inline asm, often with more optimization available to them as well.

If the compiler does know about a specific instruction, then it's better to just provide the intrinsic than try to infer it from some inline asm string.
About an hour after reading this blog post and the thread here on HN, I opened Instagram. The very first ad was from Lego, for their orrery.

It was so specific and unique (I can’t recall ever seeing an ad from Lego on IG at all) that it must have been targeted by some behavioral data on me.

But from where? HN and the blog do not seem to be running the Meta pixel, and I was using Safari on iOS, which blocks 3rd party cookies.

After some recollection, I remembered that I had clicked play on one of the YouTube videos that are embedded in the blog post. So Lego must have Google ads running that target people who view these orrery project videos.
Thanks for the feedback. I would really appreciate if you can name few essential features. We will add them in our roadmap.

In regards of the basic interface that's intentional. We are trying to keep the product as simple as possible, yet cover essential features for successful project management.

Thanks again for your valuable feedback, looking forward to learn more.
HN in this sense is a community, there are people pro- and anti- whatever, I guess. There are topics where a clear consensus will raises, but probably few that will gather unanimity.

I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised that some people in HN would find that making cannibalism illegal is an outrageous restriction of their holy personal freedom. I would find it surprising that it would not shape a clear anti-cannibalism consensus.

Now of course cryptocurrency is nothing close to cannibalism, of course.
Everyone with cash to spare (CSPs and consumer-internet monopolies) and fomo will have their GPUs soon.

Who is left ?
“Truth” is the most problematic concept in philosophy, it is so problematic that talk of “The Truth” is a warning that somebody is trying to pull the wool over your eyes. (See “Truther”)

I’d argue that many statements can only be truth tested with reference to a library or the ability to take measurements or do experiments. Many statements, such as “did I eat a 23 cm long carrot for lunch today?” are impossible to check because I ate the evidence.
https://v2.hysteria.network/
The point I’ve seen raised that seems to escape many is that AI doesn’t need to be better than the best human to be profoundly disruptive - it only needs to be as good as a mediocre human carrying out a rote task to absolutely change the world.
That would be fine; but we have some lineages coming from fish living on the surface. Those are the interesting ones.
industrial robots are surprisingly simple to program, Fanuc/Kuka etc. with tablet teach pendants and the like. there are even extremely simple ones where no lines of code are required (programmed by human movement). I'm sure these real-world open-ended robots will take inspiration from that, possibly having a general world knowledge but human would need to finetinue/teach movement for specific tasks
Part of the insight they learn is that disabilities are very different and you gain very minimal empathy into them.
Code inside code is always a bad idea. Sometimes you can't avoid it (like with SQL), but in this case, if the file had just been an assembler source code file, this wouldn't have happened.
The is wonderful
I'm chuffed as it was only $100 ! :p
> Perhaps the company will announce that it has designed a new server chip

Yeah, why not? There are plenty of reasons why they don't want to be just another NVIDIA customer, and beyond their own internal use, I could certainly imagine them offering an "AI accelerator" board in the Mac Pro.
I have a few Java coffee cups that have the older Java logo and say "brewed by Sun Microsystems" on them that I use constantly. Feels like they give me some old school cred. I still dream of showing up on Antiques Roadshow with them and being told they're worth thousands...
file-organizer
Why does AI for risk management get your attention?
We have a chat system which most people are on most of the day. If I want to talk to someone I ping them on there. We might arrange a video call, but mostly it's sorted out on chat. Email is also used for things which are not time critical and/or require more detailed explanation and discussion.
I couldn't figure out how to join without an account. Sorry I changed my mind you don't need to upvote this. Or well... I wasn't asking you to.
Failing at Combinatorics with Haskell
This is like saying Microsoft is an evil company because Overwatch has cosmetics. It's just one of their products.

Counterstrike doesn't define Valve. They do so much more than that, especially for those of us who don't even play CS. The lootboxes were something they added much later. It was originally just a Half-Life mod.
Usernames in domains means, in many cases, the ISP learns peoples usernames.
Have you ever programmed in objectivec or swift? I imagine what you're describing working something like that, but on the command line.

A few years back, mpv changed to make named arguments require an equals rather than a whitespace. I've gotten used to it, but it seems like such a weird outlier.
Got recommended to do their Java MOOC ~10 years ago, rolled right into a job afterwards. Wouldn't be where I am today without this.
The Science of Having a Great Conversation
If you can't keep up with or follow the discussion, that's fine, but please don't insult those of us engaging in good faith discussion.
It says explicitly "for Windows". Is it locked to MS signed operating systems (which do not include Linux for ARM)?
Of course the funny things with that cartoon is that today the 'hard' task is just as easy as 'easy' task, if not easier. Which I guess only goes to show that not only is it hard to tell what is easy and what is hard, it is equally hard to tell which 'hard' tasks will remain hard and which will become trivial in a few years time.
It looks like dang has a page despite having no slug on his profile page:

https://dang.at.hn/

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

Unless of course he added it, and later removed it?
Yes, but they also stated that this incentivizes working less instead of working more. Generally if you earn more by working more that is incentive to work more not less so I wanted clarification.
I mean it depends on the customer. If you’re selling to a homeowner, then yeah a bit that lasts a few dozen uses and is approximately 1/4” is fine. For a handyman, the requirements are different. Do you need to sell homeowners a bulletproof drill bit? Do they need or want that?
Because it's not arbitrary. It's what physically defines our countries, which are made up of people and culture and history and values within those boundaries. Those borders are what better men than you fought and died for. If you don't see the point, it's because you've never wanted for anything, like most leftists.
Euro banks worry AI will increase their dependence on US big tech
A lot of people appear to struggle with the likely possibility that there is both a lot of AI hype to go around and it's still a very disruptive technology that will improve a lot over relatively short timelines.
Fermat's Last Theorem
It’s because we don’t need Artificial we need Apple Intelligence
Could be lawyers at some companies just didn't want anything to do with the GPL, especially if they're fiddling with the kernel itself. Maybe they're not even correct about the details of it, just fearful. "Lawyers overly cautious" is not an uncommon thing to see.
> b) If everybody did this, a) would quickly no longer be true…

Maybe the spiral goes in the other direction: Because no one does, a) is not true. I.e. because many people are "keeping up with hour-by-hour events", your house may explode tomorrow. If everyone was living under a rock, your house would be safe.

Maybe there are two equilibriums. One equilibrium where everyone needs to know about current events because their houses may explode, and another equilibrium where everyone lives under a rock because their houses are save.
A calculator can also outperform a human, and there are many other devices that have outperformed humans for a very long time. Does that mean it is human-level intelligence?
Exploring Bloom Filter Theory: Fjall's Approach in LSM Storage
> SDL and Vulkan are equivalents to DirectX, to state otherwise is itself preposterous.

SDL and Vulkan are no where close to being equivalent to DirectX. What they are is useful in some scenarios, and good alternatives to some parts of DirectX.

It's not preposterous at all, and I'm sorry to say you clearly have a lack of knowledge in this area to claim otherwise.

Since that's beyond clear to me with your last reply, I'm just going to bow out of this discussion at this point. Good luck.
Don't Use Celery
> He even told us he was willing to eat 20% productivity to be in the office.

I'm not shocked that an exec would think this. But I am shocked that one would say this publicly.
Yeah. This was part of the issue that nukey-poo had at mcmurdo back in the 70s.

It's not nearly as bad now due to improvements in electronics, nuke tech, and automation, but turns out running a nuclear reactor takes a lot of highly skilled (and expensive) people. Of course nukey-poo was staffed by like 30 seabees working full time so staffing was a bit less of an issue but that's still a very expensive proposition.

There's talk from the biden admin of the military adopting SMRs (small modular reactors) again now that they are so much cheaper, simpler, better contained, and less staff intensive to operate. So it'd be interesting to see if they offer support for one to the USAP to use at the pole.

Of course that comes with it's own added problems (potential interference with science experiments like icecube) given that they spew neutrinos with basically no ability to shield them. So if they were to do it, they'd probably have to install it quite a ways away from the dark sector.
Nonsense! Just look at how successful tulip bulbs and cryptocurrency were!
The machine outperformed John Henry, does that make the machine human level intelligence or in the case of AI are there enough human tasks that are pretty easily accomplishable through protocol? A lot of people say things like “it’s so easy a baby could do it”. Nothing in AI means humans aren’t intelligent or that machines are now human intelligent.
Thanks. Appreciate it. I'm probably fortunate that I came to grips with that whole end of things 20 years prior to work-induced burnout. I can probably safely credit the experiences for both the relative ease with which I went down the burnout hole and the relative ease of building a mindset for dealing with it.

Everything has its unsigned and signed integers.
Yes, it's updated now.
Berkshire Hathaway Doesn't Hold Nvidia Stock
That is only a cheap excuse. The indignation towards Israel encouraged its attackers to continue holding back hostages. And some countries really made a bad impression here.

And what leverage would Israel have? Increasing their military response? Or the US for that matter?
What’s the renewal cost?
> So for "learning robotics" I would personally recommend starting with something like assembly lines.

That depends on what you want to learn. In assembly lines the solution very often is to constrain the inputs and limit variability on conditions. If that is what you train on that is what you will learn. You will have 101 tricks on how to QA the inputs and how to maintain the same grippyness on surfaces and so on. Which is great if that is what you want to do.

But if what you want to learn is how to make robots which can adapt to varying circumstances your best bet is to try that. In examples where failure is less costly and you can iterate quickly.

Also "robotics" is not a single thing. Even just the computer stuff has many subfields (localisation, perception, calibration, tracking, prediction, planning, control, etc etc). When learning your best bet is to pick a few of these and assume that the other things are either solved or pick a challenge where they are not needed. :) Not talking about all the "sibling subject" like electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, thermal engineering, fluid dynamics, etc. Cool cutting edge stuff usually requires innovation in more than one of these.

When you look at the latest Boston Dynamic video we all marvel at the exquisite control they demonstrate. But they also have to cool their actuators the right way otherwise the whole thing will just melt.

As a learner your best bet is to pick a stable platform made by people who know what they were doing and colour inside the performance envelope of that machine. What you make will probably won't break the state of the art but you will still learn a ton.
Laser hardening of steel used for nuclear plant equipment by Rosatom
> if someone has a graceful/simple way to handle the non-lowercase usernames, please come forward.

Graceful? No. But simple? Yes.

Scrape every single username on HN to some local storage (even a file on disk would be enough, HN is relatively tiny), then lowercase all of them into a second column in the file. Refresh this file once per day.

Now you have a map of UserName <> username that you can use for lookups :)
Books can fill a near-infinite amount of space. I have tons of space where I could stash books if I wanted to. But I've gotten pretty hard-nosed about donating books I'm not realistically going to read or re-read to my local library book sale.

It helps that I just buy a lot of newer fiction in particular in digital format because it lets me read it wherever I happen to be.
Yeah - there really is a opportunity now to rethink browsers as just sandboxed rendering windows using WebAssembly + WebGPU.

Could still have typical DOM rendering handled with Webassembly delivered by the web sites (ideally cached).
The challenge is though still having standards and accessibility options. That VeryGoodGraphics example allows for no text selection - and doesn't at all handle zooming.
Still though it'd be a good bottom up way for a new browser to disrupt Chrome
Static linking uses the DT_SONAME of a linked library to create an entry in the DT_NEEDED table. The name in the DT_NEEDED table is used by the dynamic loader to search for a matching filename to load in. So in a very indirect sense the dynamic loader always uses the SONAME that was supplied at build time, but it also uses a search algorithm to find that filename at load time.
instead of going to dang.at.hn directly, I am archiving it at https://archive.ph/wip/0acmv so only me, and the fine folks at archive.today, and of course everyone on HN will have access to dang's username :D
Then I don't understand why GWT was mentioned. Does compiling on GWT have anything to do with the finished C++ code?
WallStreetBets and Reddit Turned Young Americans into Traders
(Trinobantina = "tri" meaning three + "bantina" meaning inexplicable American candy shop)
No shit that was obvious. Now you have a bunch of cynical people playing games instead of being productive.
It kinda does that but one token at a time.
I wasn't aware of electric balance bikes, what a great idea:

https://electrek.co/2023/08/20/why-we-need-more-motorcycles-...

For those unfamiliar with learning to cycle a moving bike is easier to balance. That's what the parent running alongside the bike provides until the rider gets it.
Well...the -11 does have a super-clean assembly language. That machine was a joy to work on.
> And what leverage would Israel have? To increase their military response?

If their intention was to destroy all forms of international support for Israel, then sure. But it would make more sense to heed their allies call for a ceasefire and an end to excessive and unnecessary civilian casualties.

If both sides turn this into a game of brinkmanship, then no third-parties will want to support anyone. That's part of the problem Israel has carved out for themselves in the Dahiya doctrine; disproportionate response only ends with escalation, never deterrence.
The wording of:

> To opt-in, paste "{your username}.at.hn" anywhere in your profile's 'about' section.

Is slightly incorrect, I think.

Everyone seems to visible by default, opted-in or not.

However, the ?refresh thing is locked down so you need to opt-in before. But by default, every user page is accessible on at.hn, even if you don't have the link in your profile.
But it’s still trackable and not completely anonymous as has been proven time and again. So while Bitcoin claims that the purpose is so rudimentary, the established systems don’t exactly make it true.
Alternate URL: https://scribe.rip/p/moscow-state-university-network-built-b...
In addition to the lack of zero-copy sendfile from ZFS, we also have the problem the ZFS is also lacking async sendfile support (eg, the ability to continue the sendfile operation from the disk interrupt handler when the blocks arrive from disk).
But assuming Russia doesn't keep all of their nukes in those two cities, destroying them may not be enough to prevent many bombs launching towards far more than 2 European cities? If you're on the receiving end of a nuke it won't be of much solace to have a minute of thinking "hah at least Russia is fucked".
I assume we're talking about AI in general (i.e. a future human-level AGI, with whatever architecture it may have), not today's language models (which are basically just expert systems).

It may take effort to make an artificial species / AGI to appear fully human-like (notwithstanding how close even LLMs can appear, even if that's only via text interaction), but I think we're probably - for better or worse - going to try to push to make them human-like, in order to better understand us and communicate with us, and also just because we can. It's an interesting endeavor, and in Feynman's spirit of "If I can't build it, I don't understand it", I think people will strive to build "artificial humans".

The potentially difficult part of making an artifical species appear human-like as opposed to intelligent but shoggoth/alien-like, is that it would need not only to be intelligent but also have human-like emotions modulating it's mental activity and the full range of innate traits/desires that make us human (as well as male or female). Probably a little goes a long way though, and just as people are willing to suspend disbelief and treat ChatGPT, or even ELIZA, as human, then an AGI that at least shows some type of genuine/innate anger/desire/curiosity/etc on occasion would appear to be on the spectrum of human.

Ultimately, if we could identify and imbue an AGI will all (or at least the most significant of) innate human traits, then we should to be able to trust it in the same conditional way we trust each other.
> The all-party NSICOP said Monday that it has reviewed intelligence that suggests “semi-witting or witting” parliamentarians have worked with foreign missions to mobilize voters during a political campaign; have taken cash “knowingly or through willful blindness” from foreign missions or their proxies; and have shared privileged information with foreign diplomatic officials.

If the evidence is solid, this definitely seems like a "name and shame" scenario. (At the least!)
I'm not sure how you think microservices gets around that (it doesn't!).

We didn't play a blame game though... your team was responsible for your slice of the world and that was it. Anyone could open a PR to your code and you could open a PR to anyone else's code. It was a pretty rare event unless you were working pretty deep in the stack (aka, merging framework upgrades from open source) or needing new API's in someone else's stuff.
ATM's killed bank tellers for the most part, people changed how they work in banks to move up the value chain. The same thing will happen.

Also, expect a backlash to AI taking human service jobs. Like having to scan a QR code at a restaurant. Its a bad experience that shows you're enraptured by a technology and don't care about the customer.

I don't disagree that AI will be disruptive. I just think it's going to find a place in technical fields and more people will want to remain talking and interacting with people like we've done for the last 100K years.
Why cannot computer possess concepts or meaning? Because they can't possess consciousness? And why is that, what is consciousness? Because <<... boils down to some kind of magical thinking...>>
I'm guessing an encyclopedia company leans heavily on a big Rolodex of people who maintain some small number of articles.