skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. So can an LLM convey that paranoia?

The way a formal methods lecturer explained to me his concerns about the Y2K problem by talking about the embedded systems in the automated medication pumps treating his sick partner, and how without an MMU and code that could not be inspected, there was a non-zero chance that rolled-over dates would cause logging data to overwrite configuration data?

Can an LLM convey a bit of anger and fear when talking about Therac-25?

Even though a TA is often at a much lower teaching level than this, every single person who has ever learned anything has done so with the benefit of a teacher who "got through to them" either on a topic or on a principle.

It's bonkers to compare TAs and LLMs simply on their error rate, when the errors TAs make are of a _totally_ different nature to the errors LLMs can make.
Teardown Engine Technical Dive [video]
That is basically correct. All the Longhorn .NET code I'd written in the past 2 years was junked. Never understood why the concerns that led to .NET being dropped for OS development weren't addressed before development started.
To be clear, "peak" refers to the maximum output of CO2; it does not mean that CO2 levels will begin falling in the atmosphere, merely that the rate at which we add it to the atmosphere will begin to trend downwards instead of increasing (as it always has since the dawn of the industrial age). "Net zero" is when no more CO2 is added to the atmosphere and as far as I can tell is essentially science fiction at this point. Decreasing ppms of CO2 is beyond that even.

As I said, this is all rather hard to take when considered seriously which is probably one of the reasons for denial. Probably the only near-term effort that can buy time is increasing the reflectivity of the atmosphere to counteract the greenhouse effect; it does seem technically feasible and economical, but is pretty half-assed and has problems of its own - principally a termination shock if it is ever discontinued.
Oh my god, thanks for the memories! I grew up watching this, just across the border in Buffalo!
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The most shocking thing to me is that apparently 42% of young adults (in Germany) use Pinterest. I knew they must have some users, but I wouldn't have guessed that they are doing so well. Much less in that age group

https://tiktok-audit.com/blog/2024/How-Young-Adults-Use-TikT...
> This notebook will generate randomized cubism artworks inspired by Piet Mondrian

Sorry to be pedantic. For people just discovering art from the early 20th century period, this fun project doesn't generate Cubist-style art. Cubism was a completely different genre. While Mondrian was inspired by Cubism in his earlier period, the art we think of when we think of Mondrian isn't Cubism by a long shot. Here's a good example of Cubism, Picasso's Girl with Mandolin:

https://www.pablopicasso.org/girl-with-mandolin.jsp#google_v...

And a side note. We nerds think we can generate Mondrians at will. Here's a "typical" Mondrian (he had many sub styles):

https://smarthistory.org/mondrian-composition-ii-in-red-blue...

There's even a programming language named Piet ostensibly designed to let you generate Mondrians. It has been featured here on HN:

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html

Notice the samples don't look anything like an actual Mondrian.
Not that you'll probably make money in any case but there's very little in the way of routes to market where short stories have even a hope of making beer money. This is even true of genres like SF that at least to have reasonable short story magazines as an entry point.
Basically this is written in C
The original meta-analysis from UC Davis is a lot better than the paper they cite on Boreal forests: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/global-worming-earthworms-contr...

> They found that the presence of earthworms increased nitrous oxide emissions from soil by 42 percent and carbon dioxide emissions from soil by 33 percent. But they found no indications that earthworms affect soil organic carbon stocks — the carbon stored within the soil.

I'm not actually sure what to make of that statement. It seems like they're claiming worms disturb "not yet sunk" nitrogen and carbon dioxide but don't really affect anything deep in the soil. That tracks for what I know about what worms prefer compaction and temperature wise. That said, there are other organisms like mites that are far more efficient than worms - they just don't produce compost. I guess my naive question here is wouldn't that nitrogen and carbon already have high potential for release?
It's a CloudFlare tunnel which saves a lot of infrastructure on my end. There's definitely some caching wins from using CF but a significant amount of traffic still ends up hitting upstream. I think maybe 25% of requests are cached and that includes the infinitely cached strongly-named resources.
Gotta love the found footage videos' photorealism and camera effects too. One of the reasons why a "retro" motif is commonly seen in these videos is to make it more convincing.

What found footage video do you assume to be most convincing? And how do you think photorealistic found footage videos will be made in the future?
Nice, fancy approach. The stupid simple approach I’ve used is to sample each path with path.getPointAtLength() at an appropriate resolution, and use that to approximate the paths with many short straight lines segments which are trivial to interpolate between.
You could try this one here: https://github.com/madnight/pdf-layout-text-stripper
Adobe's PR re: the response to these changes

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-a...
The astral renderer released as open source on https://github.com/InVisionApp/astral-renderer does all sorts of path morphing.

It is a C++ library, builds for native (MacOS, Linux and MS-Windows via msys2/ming2 and WebAssembly). It also included a some-what user hostile demo to allow one to make their own animated paths (and save them and load them).

As an example try running

./create_animated_path-release load demo_data/animated_path/example_insane.bin

after you build it for release.

If you download the SVG-Tiger (say from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Ghostscr...) you can see it animate an SVG to its reflection too:

./svg-release file ./Ghostscript_Tiger.svg reflect_direction_x 1 reflect_direction_y 1

The library is not really worked on at all since I (the author) left InvisionApp quite some time ago; that and InvisionApp announced that they are shutting down by the end of 2024.

Because it targeted WebGL2 (which is jut GLES 3.0) it could not use compute so some portions of how path filling are handled become CPU bound instead of GPU bound once the GPU is too powerful; a Mac-Mini with an M1 was generally the sweet spot.
> Direct code solution queries (44%) where students asked CodeAid to generate the direct solution (by copying the task description of their assignment).

Did these solutions scores get penalized for lack of real understanding? Or, to put it another way, is your class about teaching programming itself or about teaching how to solve problems using any tool available (including an AI that solve it for you)?
Why choosing Rust?
I am coming to this from an emotional point for sure. And ranting.

This is what our discussion looks like from my perspective.

> you have to be of a very specific mindset to see message after message about the evil UN and not say, "uh, did we go off the rails somewhere?"

Me: "We can measure "unjustly singled out"" + China and the Uyghurs is one example we can look at.

> The China claims are straight up lies

False. Then you try to weasel your way out of that.

> the implication that other human rights abuses aren't policed is another google-able lie

False. You refuse to engage on any factual basis to support your incorrect statement.

> Please don't troll me.

> I haven't read more than a couple sentences of these obsessive rants

> This isn't behavior I expect to see on HN

> it looks like its a consistent issue, across multiple threads: you ask questions addressed long ago

You did not actually address any question I had for you.

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>> it's not exactly realistic for an area to hold an arbitrary number of troops

I don't expect it to be a war simulation but it should at least be somewhat grounded in reality.

On D-Day the allies used 7,000 ships to land 130,000 on 5 beaches in a day. 850,000 troops and 150,000 vehicles within a few weeks. If they had more ships and troops to send, they would have used those too. I don't know what the upper limit would have been, but even the US, which was producing as much war material as the rest of the world combined, was not capable of producing troops or equipment that wouldn't fit on the battlefield.

So, yeah I will stick with IV for now :)

Will definitely try out VII when it comes out though, can't wait.
Soon I'll write something and publish it.
They never said it doesn't work. They said it has issues which it does.

If it works for you fine but you can't tell anyone with a straight face fractional scaling on Linux is flawless for everyone on all apps because it definitely isn't, proof being the dozens of users who will testify to this.

That's what people are saying. Please follow HN rules when making arguments and assume good faith instead of accusing everyone you disagree with of being wrong.
If someone requests for their content to be deleted, IIRC the IA does it. In other cases however I don't see the need to remove old(er) content. Particularly also because older content/webpages were far lighter than modern equivalents - you may need to delete 10 or even 100 old website archives to store one new one.

Decay is natural, but so is the human/animal urge to stop it.
Any closed curve does this. And if that's your only information, the simplest encoding for it is a sphere, not a doughnut.
Gimp vs. Photoshop (Is Gimp Just as Good in 2024?)
I'll write something an post it here in HN
Not yet, but I'll soon
Discussions [0](251 points, 2 days ago, 106 comments) [1](592 points, 1 day ago, 355 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591860

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607442
How can I install that on Ubuntu? And I don't need a replacement for "simpler stuff". I appreciate the attempt but my point is there's nothing comparable at a pro level. If I had the ability to use creative cloud (which Mac does), I would of course use that.
I'd be terrified of what else the battery company put in the ground.
UN says more aquatic animals were farmed than fished in 2022
I'm surprised by that as well, though speaking as a man, I much prefer my part in the reproductive process; squeezing an infant's head out of any part of my body or getting gutted by a surgeon does not look enticing.

One interesting thing I learned though - when men think of children, they imagine them around four or five, but women tend to think of them around a year old (and again this tracks with my experience), which does make me think women "want babies".
Finding out where syscalls are called from: Stack traces with strace
One of the great strengths of strace as a debugging tool is that it shows you what a program is doing regardless of whether it was compiled with debug info or not. The downside of this is that you only see the program’s syscall. You can use this information to deduce what is happening in the program but you don’t see from where in the program those syscalls originate...
LLMs are tools. They're not everything. Yes, they can't sympathize or empathize. But if they can help a student to be more productive and learn at the same time, then I'm all in for designing them properly to be used in such educational contexts... "as an additional tool."

We need both humans and AI. But there are problems with both, so that's why they can hopefully complement each other. Humans might have limited patience, availability, etc. and AI lacks empathy, and can be over-confident.

> Why are we doing this to academia when the better approach would be giving TAs better training in actual teaching?

Sure, that is a fantastic idea and some researchers have explored it.

But, what's wrong with doing exploratory research, in a real-world deployment? In the paper we describe both where CodeAid failed and where students and educators found it useful, in a very honest way.
I recall one from Sydney which tested backyard eggs and found that basically all of them were terrible. I don't have it saved, however.
Hug of death alternative https://archive.is/CgxFF
I'm surprised that despite all the talk about liminal spaces, no one mentions the lack of windows in those spaces and how much they add to the creepyness.

I found this especially noticeable in Stanley Parable. Or rather, the offices there have windows, but they are all opaque, showing just a featureless white (and a few are mounted on interior walls, making you doubt whether they really are windows or just LED panels).

At least for me this had an enormous effect to the drearyness and general feeling of disorientation in the game.
I was curious what a significant percentage might be as it just feels odd at first glance that a large percentage of the US population would rather children go hungry if they can't pay for lunch at school. About the worst stat I could come up with was that 20% opposed extension of universal free breakfast and lunch to all students. Of course that 20% is largely in opposition to the universal part more than wanting the children unable to pay to go hungry. In all it's surprising there is any single digit percentage that would oppose this but it disagrees with what most would expect in terms of numbers to a significant percentage holding this view. Doubly so when the comparison provided is a ~35% viewpoint (percentage varies depending on how you frame and measure the question).

Another interesting stat I found along the way was more children were receiving free or reduced lunch than not even prior to the pandemic.
Python library for logging carbon footprint
Ketoacidosis would be easy to achieve by just taking too many exogenous ketones too quickly. Ketones are acidic, the body doesn't like to have unbalanced blood pH.

It is rare without ketone supplementation, because unless you're fasting, eating a ketogenic diet, or are diabetic, the body doesn't usually have a high concentration of circulating endogenous ketones.

Diabetics can become so insulin resistant that their cells no longer uptake glucose, so they must fall back to burning ketones for energy, even while blood sugar is very elevated and food intake is normal. This is why DKA is so dangerous and (relatively) common.

Nothing about ketoacidosis is limited to diabetics - its just not common in non-diabetics, because how would you get such high concentrations of ketones? ...
Which part of the article she links to are we supposed to find objectionable?

> Could you address these suggestions or concerns that this virus was somehow manmade, possibly came out of a laboratory in China?"

> "There was a study recently that we can make available to you, where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences in bats as they evolve. And the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human," Fauci replied.

> He underscored in his remarks that studies of the virus' genome have strongly indicated that it was transmitted from an animal to a human rather than created or enhanced in a laboratory setting, as a review in a scientific journal found.
U.S. 666: "Beast of a Highway"? – why it was numbered US 666 in the first place
From Cloud Hostages to Self-Hosting Freedom
This doesn't seem like a valid ShowHN: Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. Perhaps you forgot to include a URL?

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> They seem happy to continue playing catch up in this regard.

Catch up with what? Does anyone else have an AI product actually worth having?

Is it somehow bad that Apple hasn't also released an AI that doesn't do what it's supposed do half of the time?
If I may use your expertise a bit: I need air quality data for two cities, one of which doesn't have any air quality monitoring stations. Is there anything I can use as a proxy for air pollution, like satellite data? Also, do you know any sources for that data?

Thanks!

P.S.: I'm passionate about air quality, given I have alergies and was an active member of the bicycle activism movement for about 10 years.
I haven’t personally seen that work in practice. I’ve been in situations where we considered it, but people usually have picked a role with salary considerations in mind, and often can’t really walk that back, and if they do it’s demotivating. And they may be able to perform elsewhere in a way that meets the need at your senior comp level.

I think it’s easiest to cut the relationship and let them start clean somewhere else.
You'll love this site :)

https://treevis.net/
Technically correct, aka the least useful kind of correct.
In later European monarchies you could have a queen or a woman acting as a powerful regent. There's no way a woman could be elected consul in the republic though, and it seems like child emperors were not much of a thing. I think the same is true for lower levels on the political ladder: they were all elected instead of truly hereditary, so women were legally barred.
That's not exactly what police profiling by color means.
No. Students' usage was anonymized, so the course instructors did not know who used the system in what way. This was to make sure that students could use the tool freely without feeling like the instructors are watching their usage.
Most of my dreams take place in similar places. Often though they are falling apart — like leaking ceilings, etc. Always they are labyrinthian, almost always it is night time (although the frequent windowlessness of the places would not make that obvious). They are often populated though — maybe college-age students, sometimes more like a mall.

I've always been fascinated by the place of my dreams. I have asked around but haven't had anyone confirm having similar dreams.

When I was a teen (and a bit younger) I had night terrors. I did not know the name of them at the time (no internet yet). But sometimes they featured a room that extended so far in every direction that you could not see the walls. Something like an all-white parking garage, I suppose. I feel like a family friend a little older than me tried once to hypnotize me when I was young — they might have used a similar description: a room white that extends to far that you cannot see the walls. Perhaps that was the source of the imagery in the night terror dreams.

I wrote a game decades ago where you (well, a paper airplane) wander a seemingly endless house trying to escape. I am not sure which came first though — the dreams of an endless space or the game.
While of course the source is biased, offers a much more balanced view on the nature of HFT.

HFT unfairly demonized in my opinion by people who know close to nothing about it (and it seems like the less someone knows about something, the stronger and less nuanced their opinions).
I’m not connected to the authors, but the detail seems legit. They seem to have a database of energy mix per power station.
Back in the day there were some movie critics who I felt I could generally rely on, some I either mostly aligned with or realized we had different tastes in specific ways, and a few who I could reliably count on to be a counter-indication of what I would like.

But it may be a reflection of the modern media landscape but I don't have critics that I gravitate to any longer. Admittedly I couldn't even name the critics at publications I actually subscribe to.
Ever since I switched to Final Cut Pro and PDFExpert on my Mac and canceled my creative cloud subscription I haven’t looked back. The heaviness of adobes additional apps and trying to push their cloud subscription running on my machine 24/7 just isn’t worth it.
Algorithmic Displacement of Social Trust (2023)
Holy Crap! You were right about PaddleOCR. My personal benchmark for OCR tools is to submit several random pages from the first edition Moody's Manual for Railroads.

https://imgur.com/r2RsJeH

The reason I use it is to test whether it's just analyzing letter-by-letter (even if they claim it does more) or if it's actually scanning the letter/word in its context. If it's letter-by-letter, I get hilariously awful results.

Sure, it got things wrong. But it also figured out some things even I couldn't decipher.
I prefer these derivations over the red blue and yellow
I’d connect this to a pi running pdp-11 emulation. Now you’re back in 1982 land.
Perception of time changes in all extreme circumstances - if you are conscious. If you die in your sleep while being high on painkiller, I do not think you notice much. Unless of course you feel your soul make the transformation if that is a thing. No idea, but I do know that time slows down in near death situations - simply because the brain runs faster.
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I agree but I'm not sure why this news really supports that. Google is just paying the government for what the government claims they were overcharged by (plus treble damages and interest). And they are paying it without even a court order so it appears pretty generous.
Orco-dependent survival of odorant receptor neurons in ants
no, it was more a poor play on the old George Carlin bit regardless on how you think my reading comprehension skills might be
> For many that grew up in US drinking culture, the choice is surprisingly binary: binge drink or abstain completely.

Half of Americans don't drink regularly, which is several times the abstaining population in the UK (for example.) Of those who do, 24% binge drink and 6.2% have more than two drinks a day. every day of the week.

That works out to 12% and 3% respectively.

https://alcohol.org/professions/

I don't have data for the US, but in the UK, the alcohol industry makes most of its profits off alcoholics, with harmful/hazardous drinkers making up 25% of the drinking population, but ~66% of its profits.

https://www.recoveryanswers.org/research-post/alcohol-sales-...

~4% (the harmful drinkers) drink one third of all the alcohol sold in the UK.

Heavy drinkers tend to not move from whatever bar they start at, and this is why "happy hour" exists. It's literally bars 'bidding' over who gets the alcoholics for the night. That's why some states have banned the practice.
No. You probably haven't worked in Photoshop enough.

After reading the article it touches on moot points for most graphic designers. The demographic Adobe is aiming for does not care if Gimp is open source and you can modify it.The average graphic designer has 0 care for "less storage space" taken up or open source and wants a rock solid product with years of support, guides, and guaranteed straightforward methods of accomplishing multitudes of different effects.