skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the standpoint of the life expectancy chart, the fact that the computer revolution continues the upwards trend despite sharply diminishing returns is probably as significant.

The Industrial Revolution was doing the "low hanging fruit" of that. Still unbelievable significant, but the information age (which the medical revolutions are attached to) is doing some unbelievable lifting there.

If/when they make serious strides in addressing aging, that will probably be the third (or fourth, the chart doesn't show Hunt+Gather -> Cultivation) major economic revolution.

Keep in mind our life expectancy will probably drop without some biotech revolution. Climate change and demographic bombs are fueling dangerous wars, and we haven't even had to deal with really bad climate change impacts from heat and mass population movements/drought on the scale of billions.
Among many. Apple’s security model has a lot of ups and downs like this. I gather any app that needs access to anything on the screen outside of itself requires “screen recording” permission. I know all of the Remote Desktop apps, as well as color sampling functions in browsers, Adobe’s apps, and all of the designer tools with similar functionality require it.
Counterpoint: the more networks internalize the patterns behind engineered prompts, the closer they get to being general reasoners.
Thank you for pointing that out! You are correct, μs stands for microseconds, not picoseconds. I've corrected the mistake, and the update should be visible as soon as the CDN cache invalidates.
Government provided assistance? That sounds like management to me
I don’t think the “right to be forgotten” works with immutable logging? It seems like the workaround of mapping usernames to a random number and not including that mapping in the transparency log would break the security, because it allows usernames to be changed arbitrarily without logging it.
Shareholder value?
i think papers like this reveal the benefits of domain-specific methodologies. a scientific paper is a bad choice for historiography.

art historical texts are usually much more concerned with close reading of artworks to establish syncretic pathways of artistic convention. art writers are usually unconcerned with null hypothesis and burden of proof. the authors here had no real claim about history or any interesting reading of artwork. i couldn't imagine something like this being disseminated in an arts journal or publication-- there just isn't enough time spent with the methods of art history, i.e close readings of the examples presented, primary source inclusion, historiographic narrative, formal analysis, etc.

i wish i could provide a counterexample, but my work is on american conceptual sculpture, not renaissance art. i think the last very good text i read on the renaissance was james hall's book on michelangelo's anatomy published some years ago.
Arm didn't develop the IP tarpit, they're one of the few players that learned how to operate in it.

The SuperH example is relevant because what Arm did was "that's neat, let's license it" for some of the Hitachi innovations, and then licensed it to other people too. This is a positive development, and how trade and innovation has worked through the most successful periods in history.

There is a respect in which they are more comparable to the MPEG-LA than a conventional company, but they do not have a reputation for shady antics, unlike some of their customers!
I think the main lesson is that if you are going to send something for warranty, better to send it as original as possible, otherwise they are going to claim that your modification was the cause of the issue.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40496967
This is true but misses a key fact, that typical llm errors are different to human errors. Not that they're worse or better but just that you need to understand where and when they're more likely to make mistakes and how to manage that.
If you make incredibly loud noises above water, humans will complain, and you'll end up reducing the noise, due to some combination of workplace safety regulations, litigious neighbors, and self-regulation.

People don't experience underwater noise directly, though, and so it is allowed to be arbitrarily loud and has gone almost completely unchecked, and is undoubtedly harmful got marine ecosystems. It is thought to be a major factor in whale beachings, for example.
It was a C++ graphics programming job.
Survey of 2,000 American adults.

not really representative of the entire population.

The current population of the United States of America is 341,695,345 as of Friday, June 7, 2024

I dont eat any fast food.
Waves are just a description of the behavior that’s been observed, right? It is a mathematical model.

Physicists cleverly foist the question of what is and why on philosophers (who are happy to ponder endlessly), it turns out “can we model how it works” is much more profitable to follow.
SEND is at breaking point in UK. Councils regularly try and shirk their responsibilities because the funding just isn't there
Objection forms,

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As for what to put inside the objection form, you can say something like:

> I do not consent to the use of my data for AI training, improvement, or personalized services.

and in the additional information box, you can put something like:

> If my objection is not honored, I will cease using all Meta products indefinitely.

There should be absolutely no reason for Meta not to honor your request.
I don't think the other poster was objecting to the excitement about this being a potentially important discovery, or criticizing the research or the researchers. They are objecting to the way the linked article presents it, specifically its claim that "Courchesne and Muotri have established that brain overgrowth begins in the womb."

As readers of this article we can fill in the blanks and imagine that there might be a well-understood and well-founded way to extrapolate observations of these BCO samples to fetal brain development, but we can equally well imagine that this extrapolation might be tricky or unreliable. So as lay readers we're left to guess which mistake the author made: did they overstate the conclusion based on a bad assumption, or, after already explaining so much about the research and connecting so many dots for the reader, did they forget to explain why we can confidently draw conclusions about real fetal brains from these in vitro models? Obviously the second is more forgivable, but it's annoying either way.
Great writeup, bookmarked for any future case where I run into a similar problem.
This looks like one of the earlier prototype ships, when they were still working out the tile geometry, but still also wanted to do a dry run of stacking it.
> I think states have dropped issuing the ones that don’t.

A lot of states still issue the non-federal ones. They are much cheaper and easier to obtain (at least where I live).
What happened was wgpu, which runs on top of Vulkan and can also run on the web as web gpu

Many Rust programs are written against wgpu rather than Vulkan
> For better or worse, the overall trend is for a lot of the smaller liberal arts colleges to be going out of business as home economics/finishing schools really aren't especially useful any longer.

I doubt this. Having an undergraduate degree vice not is a major social status symbol, at least in the US. Someone with a degree from a liberal arts school is much more hirable/datable etc than someone without.
Autism is a sensory processing disorder in which your brain receives too much stimulus. This it makes sense it would occur when you have too many neurons (or connections) as that would cause increased response to any external stimulus.

It’s not because of “skull pressure”
As others have pointed out, you could do so much with this. It's similar to a raspberry pi or a beagle board, but it comes with Bluetooth, a screen, and a knob for input.

This is exactly the kind of thing that would be a great controller for a 3D printer or similar CNC machine.

It can still be used as a media player, even if doing so will require custom software.

It could be an interface for home automation, smart thermostat, or daily planner.

People make all kinds of devices using similar hardware every day. Rather than rolling your own, here is one that will soon be cheap on all the used markets as the average owner has no further use for it.

The article is really overly critical of this. It's not a potato and it's not necessarily e-waste if it's easily reusable.

What hardware did the author expect this to have? It's a glorified MP3 player. We used far less powerful systems for that in the early 2000s. No doubt that chip is cheap and plentiful. Why would they use anything more?

The article strays far from reporting on the news and well into an opinion piece.
I just launched Peek on Product Hunt and am curious what HN thinks.

I’ve invested more research and engineering into organizing users browser tabs than I’ve seen any other team do really. I’ve always wondered why big teams haven’t invested more time into this. They must have data that shows it’s not a profitable problem, idk.

Either way, 10 or more research institutes (including Harvard, CMU, and WashU) have shown how severe and widespread the problem of a poorly organized browser workspace and how detrimental it is to productivity. So I took a crack at building a tab auto-pilot system that doesn't require any pre-set categories, runs continuously, and is accurate across any topic. I didn’t build a new browser because viewing a webpage isn’t the problem—finding information nested in your browser and organizing your browser tabs into ideas and action items efficiently is.

The autopilot system handles about 80% of the initial browser tab organization that you either hate doing yourself. Then, I built a workspace that provides a better UX for organizing, ideating, and navigating your daily explorations and work online. We combined the two into a single tool and called it Peek.

Our AI autopilot system:

- Organizes tabs into suggested groups as you work.
- Summarizes web page collections with one click.
- Finds related pages from your browser history as you type.
- Keeps related tabs grouped together.

With the workspace users can:

- Quickly prioritize, organize, and switch between tasks using drag-and-drop.
- Add notes to topics, keeping ideas and tabs together.
- Search across all notes and web pages.
- Close and open all tabs related to a topic.
- Save tabs for later easily from your browser.

So far, our suggestion system seems to blow Arc's "Tidy" feature and Chrome's Experimental "Group Tabs" feature out of the water. I'm curious how valuable an integrated workspace + built-in autopilot system like this is for HN!
Sickle cell trait as an Evolutionary adaptation
The central repo is called the web browser. Porn is in your web browser's history. People you connect to is in your web browser's history. Content of your chats can be accessed using the cookies in your web browser's cookiejar.

If you are security-aware enough to avoid those issues, then you aren't using a closed-source operating system in the first place.
I recently rewatched Band of Brothers and this scene hit me really hard (starting at about 1:50):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y43-p3xLDyo

This is from the final episode of the series. Easy Company have fought their way from Normandy to Germany, losing hundreds of their friends and brothers in battle after brutal battle. Now the Nazis have surrendered and they finally have some respite - but their celebrations are shortlived. Their commanding officer informs them that they're to be redeployed to the Pacific. The war isn't over, and the expression on Malarkey's face at 2:09 says it all.

Whatever anyone says about the atomic bombings, I bet those men were damn happy to hear about Japan's surrender. Imagine if they'd been sent to invade Japan, in another brutal campaign that would have taken months if not years, costing hundreds of thousands more Allied lives.

Then imagine telling them that the government had secretly developed a powerful new weapon that could have ended the war earlier and avoided all this bloodshed - but they hadn't used it because they were worried about the moral implications. I don't think they'd have agreed it was the right choice.
The Dumb Domain Store
This is like one or two steps away from a Mimikatz with superpowers. Add some OCR and string pattern matching to your payload and you could probably mass harvest certain interesting numbers and strings from your botnet that you previously couldn't.
This utility allows it https://totalspaces.binaryage.com/

You hit a keyboard shortcut, you get to the new space with 0 animation/transition. It can work with SIP on but only on macOS older than 10.14.

They mention here this is due to some changes they make to the Dock https://totalspaces.binaryage.com/sip-details I'm not sure if the only part I care about (instant Spaces switching) would continue to work without that / if you turn SIP back on. I haven't tried.
"Perfect is the enemy of good."

You are unwilling to accept a significant reduction in "dinosaur juice" therefore we still burn about as much of it per day today, as we did 20 years ago[1]. You are not alone in this misguided opinion - which has stunted environmental efforts.

Going from a 300 mile range to a 600+ mile range on the same fuel input is really significant.

Instead, a tiny portion of the population drives an electric vehicle...

> I wasn't "fooled", and this is vaguely insulting.

It was designed to be insulting.

People like yourself with this viewpoint that hybrids are not acceptable are the reason we do not have more hybrids. The tech was already there two decades ago to make all cars hybrids... best of both worlds - significant reduction in emissions, extreme range between "fill ups", and fast turn-around time at the pump. No new infrastructure needed to be built to support a "hybrid revolution".

Instead, we have self-righteous electric vehicle owners touting how their environmental impact has been outsourced and reduced - failing to see the global environmental impact of electric vehicles has been essentially zero for two decades.

Forest meet trees...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/282716/oil-consumption-i...
Only if the energy prices in California (highest in the continental US) come down and desalinization becomes less energy intensive. It may make sense to use desalinized water for human consumption, but likely won't be cheap enough for water intensive agriculture and manufacturing.
game engine architecture, by jason gregory

there's a section on memory allocation patterns

i believe casey muratori talks about allocation patterns in the handmade hero video series, too

edit: ryan fleury has a talk: https://www.rfleury.com/p/enter-the-arena-talk
We have a son, nearly five now, who matches this description. He has, in my amateur opinion, severe sensory processing issues. He is extremely highly strung, prone to meltdowns at the drop of a hat, has trouble regulating, focusing, and so on. He is only young, so it all may change, but he is behind in micro and gross motor skills, behind in writing because of this, and is almost impossible to help because any time he senses a hint that he isn't perfect he shuts down, eventually with a meltdown if pressed. A meltdown for him involves spinning around on the floor, hitting himself over and over. He calms himself by going into a dark space and sucking on a comforter.

And yet, in social environments, if he is kept stimulated and has a lot of positive attention, you would never guess at this other side and we feel that people look at us strangely when we mention how hard our family life is. The ironic thing is I'm sitting in my home office right now and I can hear him having a meltdown outside as my wife is trying to keep him entertained.

It causes huge issues for us, and we've been having a difficult time keeping things together as a family. My wife and my relationship has suffered a lot.

PS. We have another son, two years old, who is just a typical child. Challenging at times, but otherwise fine. So it's not like we did anything different.
The official OpenAI library for .NET
Show HN: Use functional tokens for AI agents to simplify app workflows
Hi HN! I want to share our latest project at NEXA AI. We developed AI agent foundation models designed to transform how developers create AI agent powered apps.

One major challenge we've observed with current human-computer interactions is that many simple, one-step tasks become unnecessarily complex, multi-step workflows due to limitations of current GUIs. AI agents can solve this, but existing AI agent models are slow and costly.

To tackle these issues, we built lightweight AI agent models based on our Octopus V2, small language models for function calling (You can learn more about our functional token approach in our paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.01744). These models support developers in building AI agents both on-device and in the cloud. Our function calling models are 4 times faster, 10 times cheaper, and more accurate than GPT-4o.

We’d love for you to try out our model APIs and see the difference for yourself. Your feedback and thoughts are incredibly valuable to us, and we’re here to answer any questions you might have.

Links:

Website: https://www.nexa4ai.com/octoverse

Playground: https://hub.nexa4ai.com

Documentation: https://docs.nexa4ai.com/

Join Discord to discuss: https://discord.com/invite/thRu2HaK4D

Paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.01744
We migrated from AWS to GCP with minimal downtime
I'm confused, why does the Trip Service talk to the issuer to place a hold? I would have expected the Payment Service to mediate all that. Particularly since "Place Hold" is another way of saying "Authorize Payment".

Perhaps the lines are wrong?
Glad one of many things is getting fixed.
It's AWS, if you shake a stick at some network transfer optimization or storage/EBS/S3 you'll save three engineers salary.
Managed services still require engineering efforts. I have never seen a transition to a cloud service that actually didn't end up requiring a new hire.

It's the dirty little secret of our industry.
'Off the charts': the key breakthroughs giving new hope in treating cancer
This article describes a few ways to defeat a barnacle https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/students-defeat-new-barnac...
Yep.

My favorite "fast food" place is an 8-decade-old neighborhood ice cream shop. They have a variety of good sandwiches in their refrigerator case, ready to grab & go. And none of 'em have the "opps, am I eating the wrapper?" chemo-plastic taste or mouth feel of modern fast food.
CodeAid: A classroom deployment of an LLM-based coding assistant
> because they react to temperature sensors they always lag

Why don't systems drive the fans based on the VR state instead of lagging temperature readings?
Lack of adequate testing probably due to rushed schedules, insufficient infrastructure, and perhaps poor release practices because management celebrates firefighting as it's the easiest way to show "business impact."
It is just me or has this been happening more and more with mac apps. The unarchiver, Transmition, uTorrent..
Yep. It’s illegal but they’ll keep doing it as long as people don’t take them to court.
270GB of source code from The New York Times leaked to 4Chan
The e-ink review say the display has a dark purple color. How is your experience?
Oh, I'm sure they'll feed that into the ad tumbler too, don't get me wrong ;)
> the emperor was not to be blamed.

Even though he should have been:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hirohito-the-war-crimina...
This is a directory of public keys, which every secure messaging app including Keybase must also have, but federated rather than centralized. That's a necessity for e2ee and it's very cool to implement it as an append-only version of the pub-sub messaging the fediverse already has.

It has nothing to do with the identity verification a la Keybase, unfortunately, as that would be a really good and useful feature for the fediverse, but I think it would be a lot harder to do.
Ask HN: How does one get good at System Design interviews?
I'm looking to improve my System Design interview skills as fast as possible.

Though, the number of resources online is overwhelming.

I was hoping that someone who conducts these types of interviews can provide some insight as to what resources might be the most helpful.
> Legends Tower will be part of Boardwalk at Bricktown, a mixed-use development comprising four new buildings. The first phase of its construction will include a hotel and two smaller residential towers; the second phase, which will include the supertall building, is estimated to begin in two or three years. Rob Budetti, a managing partner of AO, told City Council members on Tuesday that he expected the entire complex to be completed in about five years.

We'll see if this actually gets built, of course--it's almost certainly a money-losing effort, for the reasons many people have noted. Either the developers are engaged in wishful thinking, or they are willing to take a financial loss for other reasons.
It's a simple matter of incentives. The government pays you if your researchers are good, and some private entities may also contribute. Nobody is willing to pay more if your teachers are good. And then there is the reputational effect. Graduates from prestigious research universities are in high demand, while nobody cares much if your teachers are good.
musl is one of the better ones [0].

None other than John Regehr recommends studying it [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musl

[1] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1393
Terrence Howard enters the chat:

Told you so!
So this means we can strap some rockets to it and send the Statue of Liberty to space?
I agree that it isn't the sole reason why I didn't get the job. If I did great on the other 5 interviews, then my O(n log n) solution probably would have been fine. However, not getting the optimal solution didn't help.
My experience disagrees with that claim. But I suggest an easier way to verify this, which is to just go to YouTube and look at videos of the sound produced by wind turbines on land. You will hear the distinct loud woosh sound of the actual blades and not the gearbox. Personally, I feel a lot of the academic denial around this noise issue is from people with an activist goal.
VS Code Extensions and WebAssembly – Part Two
Their servers always seemed pretty nice back in the day, though I don't have any experience since the HPE spin-off.
Feels like an abrupt 180 from the “facts over feelings” crowd.
Hof v0.6.9 – more CUE powered tools and extensions
Open Crawler released for tech- preview
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Mini Metro is a game that has the player connecting metro stations together by routing them however they see fit. It's a minimalist network/graph game that's both relaxing and challenging. It uses loose approximations/abstractions of real world cities.https://dinopoloclub.com/games/mini-metro/ (highly recommended!)

I'd love to see a web map version of it based on real geography.
Not really, imagemagick is the only package it needs installed (apart from bash and coreutils).
Best green option without damaging the environment with insectisides

Insectisedes are not a green option

Get an anteater or Aardvark as a pet
Something similar happened to me. I stopped using shitter because of this. I used it primarily to support ukraine by annoying russian idiots and commenting on obvious propaganda.

I'm not going to be using social media again.
A fallback BIOS should be standard by now

Didn't Gigabyte put that onto their mainboards
It doesn't have to be court-enforceable. It just has to be scary enough that the customer will self-enforce. Usually the worst thing that happens if you put something invalid in a contract is that it's as if you didn't write it. Which is fine because that's what you would have done anyway.