skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No - the definition of a star isn't fuzzy at all. It's defined by hydrogen fusion - if it's doing that (or did in the past), it's a star, or if it isn't then it's not. Jupiter fails this by a factor of 75.

Brown dwarfs (which fuse deuterium but not regular hydrogen, starting at about 13x Jupiter's mass) were thought to be in a fuzzy area, but then their own category was created for them.
When we had the CME headed towards Earth recently, I was pretty amazed at the sheer number of highly-upvoted HN comments whose authors seemed to believe that the power grid, copper phone lines, and communications satellites were all about to be wiped out.

Fortunately, most engineers in all of the fields above are well aware of the Carrington Event. And while it's not beyond possibility that there might be some corner cases if (when?) another one happens, we know how to design these systems to keep another one from causing any major outages or damage.
A Woman Who Could Smell Parkinsons Disease
It is common. Its legitimacy is controversial.
Carbon Neutral is the term I was looking for so thank you for that.

Don't give up good in the pursuit of perfect.

If we get a few of these types of solutions - IE Growing algea to pull it from the air and burning it to get electricity and "putting it back"? If scaled? that can be the path forward - especially if we're getting electricity on both sides of the fence.
Feds arrest 2 California execs accused of running giant Adderall scam
https://archive.ph/C6Xep
Can we get a vote-to-ban button for posters like this? It’s getting bad lately and clearly this has become too big a job for Dang.
When the CEO of Nvidia gets mobbed and ends up signing a woman's boob, yeah.
Yeah, let's hear about a mother of four that this happened to, not the jet-setting single defense contractor.
Discussion (41 points, yesterday, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40677059
I really roll my eyes at the marine bio dislike of dolphins which seems to boil down to “they do things they know are bad”

Coming from a human, that reeks of someone hating someone else for reflecting their own flaws.
Oooh, yeah. This really bothered me too! Its behaviour is really intuitive when you strat with a drag from the middle, but even starting on the edge of the pink cube really makes it freak out.

This essentially forces you to start from the middle, but then you don't seem to be able to do any rotation around the axis pointing out of the screen. To do that rotation your best bet is to click and drag around an inscribed circle - but that in turn means you can't rotate around any other axis in the same movement without running into freak-out behaviour. And anything between those two extremes doesn't really behave intuitively.
>Meters are better than feet in every way even if you use miles for long distances. There are 5280 feet in a mile, but 1600 meters in a mile[1]. One of these numbers is far easier to deal with.

why have you forsaken the furlong, the chain, and the rod?
Yes, this is first formulation of the “Categorical Imperative”, which asks individuals to act only according to that maxim whereby they can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. This ethical principle is a central concept in the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Content distribution licensing fees implies and refers to streaming and broadcasting.

Physical Media has always been a seperate and its own category.
I think he's wrong with the same logic. If sound, visual and meaning aren't correlated, what can language be? This looks like an elegant insight by Mr Hamilton and very much in line with my personal prediction that we're going to start encroaching on a lot of human-like AI abilities when it is usual practice to feed them video data.

There is a chance that abstract concepts can't be figured out visually ... although that seems outrageously unlikely since all mathematical concepts we know of are communicated visually and audibly. If it gets more abstract than math that'll be a big shock.
I believe it matters for startup time and memory usage. Once you've fully initialized the library and set it off, the entire operation happens without the Python interpreter's involvement, but that initial setup can still be important sometimes.
That looks fantastic. Thank you for sharing! Definitely worth a stream or a similar blog post about it.

Paint does sound quite tricky, all kinds of issues with it, dripping, how long to write before needing to dip the brush, the direction of travel, many other things? But it can be quite neat, a thicker paint could create layers and textures.
you mean this?

> two places at once on my filesystem
Do you think in a decade or so, most popular Python dependencies will work well enough no-GIL for multithreading to be a bit less terrible?
It’s important to buy the live rosin carts if you can.
Most major roads in Japanese cities have names. Smaller roads do not.
But except for certain cities (Kyoto, Sapporo perhaps) they're just not used for addresses.
No, it doesn't. You were wrong. Just accept that and be happy.
Why doubt what someone felt when they specifically said what they felt?

> I'd be worried about dying, breaking my leg, or breaking my back falling off my roof

I sort of doubt he was actually worried about dying as he was falling off his roof. I mean, really? It's extremely illogical and naive. Unbelievable that an adult would be so irrational. Plus unless his house is so tall the fall would take minutes he would simply not have enough time to properly worry about anything.
I don’t think that’s true. Traditional publishing is much more time consuming and expensive and doesn’t have the instant publishing model that online journalism does.

In general tech workers on HN tend to overestimate how familiar with technology non-tech workers are.
In aviation safety investigations, all contributing factors are considered, and there are usually multiple factors involved in any incident.

My purpose of quoting that wasn't to be a wholly inclusive description of the situation (that's what the full report is for), it was to refute the above idea that engine defect was not the root cause.

> So calling this a design issue rather than an inspection issue is quite reasonable. Inspections are guaranteed to eventually fail, the aircraft being 100% dependent on them is a recipe for future disasters.

Likewise, we don't just require "good designs" instead of inspections, because even a "good design" will experience failures. In the swiss-cheese model of safety, all of the slices are important. In this case, the inspection was the first failed slice.
As a the child of 2 astrophysicists, I can affirm. This guy is most well known for generating the academia equivalent of clickbait (popular science).
> asked to "do research" for their school projects

What is the educational goal of such an assignment?

Certainly researchers and graduate students need to perform literature searches to understand the state of the art (as well as the research frontier) and also to uncover related work (so-called "novelty" being important for publication, etc.)

But for most of K-12, isn't the subject matter fairly well established and written up in a more useful, tutorial format, in textbooks?

I suppose there could be exceptions, perhaps current events or popular culture, or maybe developments in particularly fast-moving fields. But in this case I think students would be well served by a curated collection of sources rather than being cast off in the deep end without guidance. If the goal is to expose students to primary sources (which can be very interesting) I think a curated collection would also work well.

Encyclopedias are great though, for both random and focused reading. Both subject-based and alphabetic organization can be good for browsing and discovery.
I was thinking the same. Jart has gotten very impressive performance out of her 8 channel Zen 4 Threadripper Pro 7995WX (Storm peak). I'm using a Zen 3 TR Pro (Chagall) myself.
mypyc can compile a strictly-typed subset of Python AOT to native code, and as a bonus it can still interop with native Python libraries whose code wasn't compiled. It's slightly difficult to set up but I've used it in the past and it is a decent speedup. (plus mypy's strict type checking is sooo good)
Quite the jump...

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/363/bmj.k5094/F2.large.jpg
Before an LLM discovers a cure for cancer, I propose we first let it solve the more tractable problem of discovering the “God Cheesecake” - the cheesecake do delicious that a panel of 100 impartial chefs judges to be the most delicious they have ever tasted. All the LLM has to do is intelligently search through the much more combinatorially bounded “cheesecake space” until it finds this maximally delicious cheesecake recipe.

But wait… An LLM can’t bake cheesecakes, nor if it could would it be able to evaluate their deliciousness.

Until AI can solve the “God Cheesecake” problem, I propose we all just calm down a bit about AGI
If you land a bit funny and slightly tear a meniscus or something, you just have an annoying knee until you get around to seeing a doctor about it, whereas you can be pretty sure that doctors are involved right from the get to in recovery from a failed chute.
Ok, I will bite

>>HEVC Advance and Velos Media even want content distribution licensing fees.

1. Are Broadcasting and Streaming "content distribution"?

2. Do HEVC Advance and Velos Media currently, or has ever charges for Broadcasting and Streaming?

And to quote: You were wrong. Just accept that and be happy.
This just isn't true. Rents decreased in Texas after an increase in supply. Increasing supply will decrease prices. Freeways typically don't cost money so that doesn't apply.
H.265 is ...?
Maybe people just thought it's too far off topic + suddenly turning unrelated discussion into US politics...
AFAIK, TikTok (US) is not for sale.
Lodi is exceptionally bad. Like, it's kinda infamously bad.
I'm generally curious about what these ancient megafauna tasted like. Especially this one now, seeing as humans apparently ate them to extinction. Someone start cloning monster geese!
There's nothing to bite. You've been wrong before. You'll be wrong again.
Speak loudly to your travel companion during boarding: “Glad we got our seats far away from the crumple zone in the front.”
> I wonder if a lot of these people have some issues that cause them to seek the adrenaline and other hormone rushes from these activities.

Everyone has a different calculus of what risks are worth it. I don't think it's fair to characterize them as "issues."

Skydiving is dangerous, but not ridiculously so-- about a 1 in 100,000 chance of dying per jump, though this does wobble a little bit on your preparation and where you choose to jump (places like Lodi are disproportionately dangerous). One way to understand this order of magnitude is that you're spending a few hours of life expectancy per jump.

I was into airplanes; the fatal general aviation accident rate per hour is about the same as the skydiving risk per jump. But I loved the feeling of being in the air, the things I saw, and the way it felt to control an airplane. This meant on a day with 5 hours of flying, I "spent" much more life expectancy than someone who skydived once. I went into it open-eyed, and I'm glad that I have the experiences of having flown.
Underassessment of risk probably helps contribute to the desire to do things like skydive and climb Everest.
In my experience, hallways in large buildings usually don't have names nor numbers either; only the rooms, and sometimes blocks are numbered too.
LOL, You didn't even bother answering the question. I will let others be the judge. But it is rather obvious from your other reply about your knowledge on video codec.

Have a nice day.
Koo was never thriving.
> they weren't stupid technically, just stupid from a business sense

I wouldn’t call them “stupid technically”, but assuming that there was a hard limit to codec efficiency and to internet bandwidth would at least make them technically naive in my opinion.
> libaom promised me

The reference AOM was never a practically useful encoder even 4 years ago.

> I couldn’t afford to experiment

Pity as you'd discover a better encoder...
Look, your claim is that selling movies on discs is not content distribution. But it clearly is.

You're just wrong. Don't worry about it.
> "Size" is unitless, so I disagree with your rationale.

You're going to have to expand that a little bit.

> valuation is a very common size metric

It's not a size metric.

A world where things grow larger the more people value them might be interesting though.

> and there was no confusion about OP's meaning.

Their comment makes much less sense if you replace "biggest" with "most valuable".
It's trivially obvious that the correlation between valuation and how much a company can invest into software is incredibly weak if it exists at all. On software development spending NVidia is eclipsed by many companies with sometimes only a fraction of its valuation.

So either it's a non sequitur or we are incorrectly assuming that Nvidia became the largest company.
Yeah, I'm aware something like that has been a feature.

But this was just printing from Chrome and using the macOS built-in Save to PDF in the printer dialog.

This was a straight-up bug which I filed with Chromium but there was nothing they could do because it was a bug in macOS.

It did finally get fixed after a couple of years by Apple.
Windows BSOD on boot due to clear plastic tape on motherboard. Would boot and pass memtest86+ with no errors, but would consistently fail boot to Windows until tape removed from area opposite lower PCI slots. If I remember correctly, I could also successfully boot Linux while tape was present, but I may be mistaken as it's been a few years.

This issue was also present when booting a completely different hard drive with Windows 10, which usually would work fine on other systems.

Once tape was discovered and removed, normal boot was restored without incident.

BOFH's who want a good prank take note.
He must be on the good stuff.
It was only after how many thousands of years after the wheel was invented that women got the right to vote? I agree. It’s ridiculous to judge dolphins. They don’t even cultivate crops yet!
Personally, just wanting the experience is what made me jump out of an airplane at 10,500 feet. I knew I was taking a risk, but what the heck, I can't live in a closet my whole life and avoid experiencing things I want to just because there are risks. I did it, I enjoyed doing it, but I've never felt any motivation to do it again. I certainly wouldn't encourage anybody who isn't interested in doing it, it wasn't honestly all that amazing.
On HN we don't treat reposts as dupes unless the earlier thread got significant attention. That's on purpose, to give good articles multiple chances at making the front page. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. (I mention this because it's probably why your comment was downvoted.)

I've merged the comments from that thread into this one.
I’m not worried about losing chatgpt. Im worried that they will leverage gpt on nsa data. And open ai will be the agent.
Does medical insurance cover injuries sustained thrillseeking? I assume they would.
Yeah this discussion is pretty interesting. I was wondering what what happening with development as well. Taichi is cool tech, that if I had to be honest, it seems like they lacked direction of how to monetize it. For example they tried doing this "Taitopia thing" https://taitopia.design/ (which is already EOL'ed).

IMO if they had focused from the beginning on ML similar to Mojo, they would be in a better place.
Some people are just built differently.
They’re not true clones. Bluesky is decentralized something and threads is hidden away in instagram.
The insidiousness of notebooks is in their uncanny resemblance to proper code. To take writing for example, a handwritten draft scrawled on coffee-stained yellow paper is more obviously a work-in-progress than a typed manuscript. But the maturity of code is not so immediately apparent.
If it's magic, it's spells have been greatly disenchanted. It's like gandolf.
Uncountable infinity > countable infinity > can’t countable infinity?
I'm always surprised by stuff like this, don't airplanes have fuel gauges like cars do?
You probably clicked outside the ball. You can't see it, but the radius is 1/4 of the canvas width.
I love how The llm responds back to you in a sarcastic, patronising, condescending, uninterested tone...
There's about ~15M vacancies in the US currently.

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/detailed_tables.html
Invention to Impact: The story of LASIK eye surgery
it's not misleading, but leading - to the concept of lossy compression
Because if we have such intelligent capable robots, there is very, very little reason to suggest they'd want to cut your hair.
What kind of stuff are you seeing?

I haven't seen any weird uses yet that I can think of, outside of like GitHub projects
People vastly underestimate god. Players aren't just trying not to blunder, they're trying to steer towards advantageous positions. Stockfish could play perfectly against itself every move 100 games in a row, in the classical sense of perfectly, as not in any move blundering the draw, and still be reliably exploited by an oracle.
I had a chute deploy with tangled lines and it wouldn't get square or flare. it was my first jump as I did the training for a solo static line jump. was able to untangle them. landed a bit hard but can legit say it's not my thing. I did a second one to get the jitters out, and that was it. as the saying goes, if at first you don't succeed, skydiving is probably not for you.
She didn't seek to climb Everest; she was going to the base camp. Going to base camp is not without hazard (people have died from altitude sickness, falls, or avalanches), but it's tiny compared to the hazards involved in summiting.
Naive? How would it be naive? Falling off a roof is one of the easy ways for someone to accidentally kill themselves. Anyone dealing with a roof should have "falling -> death" near the top of their mind.
TikTok is the digital version of this
I mean the thing with something like SVT-AV1 is, even if it doesn’t give you the best efficiency encode, does it do a more efficient encode than your alternatives in a reasonable timeframe.
Chess: Carlsen and Nakamura dominate in Stavanger, while Ding falters again
The barrel may be rotten, but the apple is not.
That's a very bad book

"Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors"

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Thats the part I don't get. When you are developing AI, how much code are you really running on GPUs? How bad would it be to write it for something else if you could get 10% more compute per dollar?
It's not so mysteriesus, when the gang shown up with their van and doggy treats. Skooby snacks is obviously slang for weird hulicinagens.
Southwest Changed Flying. Now It Can't Change Fast Enough
This site is neither private nor secret. It's a forum where people post links to publicly accessible articles. Lots of technical blogs link to it. As you've already discovered, anyone can join.

There's even a Wikipedia page about this site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

To find out more about what this site is about and what its acceptable uses are, please read the "Guidelines" and "FAQ" links at the bottom of the page.
For what I use C++ for (game development and embedded systems), smart pointers are "good enough". Especially single player games, worst you run into is a crash, or my arduino code writes past a buffer.
Iron-Man Learnings – How to have a healthy relationship with technology
This happened to a friend of mine about 25 years ago; parachute didn't open and neither did the reserve. He landed in a tree. Had some broken ribs and collapsed lung, but was basically fine. From what I recall he didn't spend any time on the ICU. I saw him one or two weeks after the accident, and he wasn't doing gymnastics or anything, but was just walking around (with a bit of a limp).

His brother was supposed to jump next, and his parents were in the plane to watch. First thing he did was get up and wave to show he's okay.

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, right?

Reading the recovery process from this woman, he was massively lucky not just to have survived, but also to have survived relatively unscathed.
I’m unclear what your concern is. How is this different than any other home builder? Also unclear what you mean by taxpayers being on the hook. More people in housing expands the tax payer base. The new homeowners will literally be paying for these things when they pay their property tax.
As a geophysicist friend used to say, in complete seriousness, the earthquake prediction problem is really easy to show expertise in.

Give location, time and magnitude. Period.

Have at it. If successful, your results will be noticed.
Where's the technical details for how this works? Are they just broadcasting wifi hotspots?
> Shortly after humans arrived, however, Genyornis went extinct. The birds are thought to have been eaten into extinction, with climate change hastening their demise.

It’s funny how they (and all the other large mammals) survived for 1.8M years of massive global climate change but the period just after we arrived (like in the Americas) was what “hastened their demise” rather than the humans with clubs they hadn’t had time to evolve to be scared of, eating every last one of them.
Surely there's some difference between text that a human wrote with some purpose, even a nefarious one, and an AI writing text with complete amorality. To lump those two things together is missing the point entirely. When I read the writings of a human that I suspect might be derogatory or objectionable in nature, I can look that person up and get a better understanding of their world view, their politics, their past writings, and so on. I can build context around the words they're uttering. With an AI, there's no plausible mechanism to do that. Whether you like it or not, the vast majority of people are not skeptical of plausible-sounding falsehoods. And it's made 100 times worse when there's no mechanism for such a person to research what is being uttered. The vast majority of "objectionable" (if you want to call that) human writing is, at the very least, sensible in some context, and it's possible to learn that context to make an informed judgement. It's just simply not the case with AI. And when there's a media brand sitting at the top of the page, and there are advertisements, and it's in the news, and when there's trillions (?) in financial backing -- sorry, people are going to take what comes out of these systems at face value. That much is proven.

Personally I'm fine with zero censorship of generative AI. But then ban advertising about it, ban making false, unproveable claims about how great it is, require prominent legal warnings, make it much easier to sue companies whose AI systems produce negative societal outcomes, prohibit any kind of trademark or copyright on AI-generated material, and so on. But of course, nobody wants to do any of that, because that would ruin the cash cow. This isn't a censorship-gone-awry story. It's a story of companies trying their best to convince regulatory authorities to leave them alone.
Alliteration always anticipates attention.
How do you distinguish between minor earthquakes which are followed by major earthquakes, and minor earthquakes which aren't followed by major ones?

The rule-of-thumb is that there are in the order of 10.000 3 Mw earthquakes for every single 7 Mw earthquake. How do you decide which 9.900+ ones to discard? How are you going to distinguish a critical precursor from a 2.3 Mw Taylor Swift concert[0]?

[0]: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/27/entertainment/taylor-swif...