skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Folks are downvoting cus their feathers are rustled but you’re 100% right on this.
Python is designed from the ground up to be hostile to efficient compiling. It has really poorly designed internals, and proudly exposes them to application code, in a documented way and everything.

Only a restricted subset of Python is efficiently compilable.
California made a huge mistake routing high speed rail through the central valley. It should have gone through to 101 corridor south of SF. Plenty of room for new cities along the rail and nicer weather.
CrewAI Meets Suno AI
What do you get in exchange for resigning?

What happens if you get fired?
They're just jokingly noting that the string of H's is only 9 letters long, not 10.
Every damn time I need to find a ticket in Jira. It's easier and faster to open a random ticket and edit the URL than it is to use the UI.
Combine these with the street maps that are not oriented north but the direction you’re facing and you’re gonna have a bad time
Interesting perspective. While I know secure boot has some downsides, on the whole I think it’s a pretty good thing.

I guess you’re looking at it as a freedom for gramps to dual boot a homebrew OS, and I’m looking at it as taking away gramps’ freedom to install persistent malware that requires buying new hardware to get rid of.
If Mark Twain was alive today, he would have said "Lies, damn lies, and Data Science". Data Science is due for a reckoning with ritualistic Machine Learning. In this article, I talk about all the ingredients that make up this explosive cocktail, and how you can keep your data scientists accountable.
Errors/Exceptions are just way too contextual without some sort of operator to say “hey trust me I know this can’t happen”. I’d like to see Java adopt something like Kotlins !! operator rather than coloring the stack with throws clauses.

Otherwise your code is just littered with try/catch/throw new RuntimeException(ex).
I'm a firm believer in meritocracy and equal opportunity, so if a candidate can perform the duties of the office then why does being older by itself matter? That's ageism.
For direct user interactions (such as opening a combo box) the threshold of perception is actually much closer to 30ms than 300ms. 300ms is usable but far from a pleasure to use.

I found myself interacting with a Windows Server 2008 VM the other day (don't ask!) and was astonished how snappy the UI was, relative to today's machines (Windows or Mac).
Judge Likely to Kill $30B Visa, Mastercard Swipe-Fee Deal
https://archive.today/GLfm0
I have gradually come to like those, but I had to unlearn expecting them to be north aligned first
Usually when I use blocks, in the US, in conversation, it's with a city that both of us are familiar with. Any conversion to other units makes less sense in my head than the visual idea of what I know the city looks like outside.
lol I definitely don’t want that. That is the reason I already use incognito mode for everything.
It sounds like you asked it to write the paper. It would probably be better if you actually used it as you said--to help you write the paper.
Algebraic effects are the new hot craze in FP circles. That’s exactly who this is marketing to. People who want monads/pure fp in js.
Hi Rusty! :-)
To make you amazing toasts, of course. Have you heard of the most expensive toaster? It’s a Mitsubishi toaster that can cook your toast just right.

In the future, all toasters will be able make great toast when practically all devices come with the same control board, something similar to raspberry pi but with ability to run LLMs and the toaster makers will simply connect the heating elements and sensors without needing to understand computers and the AI will control that toaster to cook just right.

:)
Our will is not free, it belongs to us!
Hey, someone needs to protect our precious binary fluids.
what do you think it could mean? point of sale? people of shekel?
If the QC is unknown, then so is the metal.
What is a password spraying attack?
> “A stray bullet killed a child during police encounter”

To be pedantic, this isn’t passive voice at all. See Pullum on this particular misconception: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.html
FlatEarther: How do you know the Earth is spining?

Physicist: Well, just look at these particles.
It's no hunch and the author didn't express it as such.

It's a well established theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
I grew up in a no internet home. I learned so much from the 2001 set of World Book my parents bought. I'm confident I read every single page in the whole set.
The first time I went to Japan was also pre-smartphone, and navigating anywhere involved a combination of going to a convenience store with a written address and getting the clerk (hopefully a young girl -- they have better language skills!) to pull out the big white books for the area, look up the address in the index, etc. If you were in the unfortunate situation of needing to navigate in a puzzling neighborhood, you'd have to make a copy of the map or draw a little diagram, and then if you got lost, you'd use the random "neighborhood maps" posted on signs on major streets (these still mostly exist).

Guidebooks would often have little tiny maps drawn in the margins that tried to get you from the nearest train station, but even that could be a nightmare, because the typical downtown Tokyo train station has a dozen or so exits, and just getting to the right exit to use the map was a navigation puzzle in its own right. I got lost for the better part of an hour on my first visit to Tokyo station!

Doing this without any language proficiency meant that getting anywhere could take hours. Fun times. It's sort of mind-blowing how much easier it is for tourists now.
Yes, from 1993 until I retired in 2011. I worked at C-Cube Microsystems and LSI Logic.

In 1993-1994 at C-Cube, I helped develop the first real-time MPEG-1 encoder. The rest of the team was busy developing the 704x480 resolution encoder for the roll-out of DirecTV, so I ended up taking sole responsibility for the MPEG-1 product and brought it to market. It's thought that this encoder authored much of the content for China VCD.

One notable thing I remember was watching the OJ Simpson chase on a test DirecTV receiver in the C-Cube lab (the same day that DirecTV went live).

Here's a picture of the C-Cube chip. It took 12 of these running in parallel to encode 704x480 MPEG-2.

https://www.w6rz.net/cl4010.png
"The Implications of Ending Groundwater Overdraft for Global Food Security" Nature Sustainability (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01376-w

"Study emphasizes trade-offs between arresting groundwater depletion and food security" (2024)
by International Food Policy Research Institute https://phys.org/news/2024-06-emphasizes-offs-groundwater-de... :

> [...] a transdisciplinary approach combining regulatory, financial, technological, and awareness measures across water and food systems is essential to achieve sustainable groundwater management while preventing increased food insecurity.

Overdrafting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrafting :

> Overdrafting is the process of extracting groundwater beyond the equilibrium yield of an aquifer. Groundwater is one of the largest sources of fresh water and is found underground. The primary cause of groundwater depletion is the excessive pumping of groundwater up from underground aquifers. Insufficient recharge can lead to depletion, reducing the usefulness of the aquifer for humans. Depletion can also have impacts on the environment around the aquifer, such as soil compression and land subsidence, local climatic change, soil chemistry changes, and other deterioration of the local environment.
I think it's fair. It discerns what sounds are important, languagey sounds. It discovered but did not understand
I disagree.

Poor design leading to the loss of all flight control surfaces in the event of an uncontained engine failure is what led to their deaths.
and there are some reasons to believe the borg were running some kind of distributed system that was weighting certain nodes at various times.

Perhaps a future fork of freenet will become borgnet? Seems futile, but resistance often can be.
I'd caution us to separate out the feature from the implementation.

The feature provides the ability to search through all of the previous things you've done and gain context in an instant, in a way that can be queried with natural language. I think we can agree what it aims to achieve is beneficial.

The implementation is what you're debating. I see these are two separate things, but they play hand in hand. If you get the implementation wrong, it can easily tank the feature.

Still, the documentation for this seems to disagree with what you're saying.

> This is a spyware that stores screenshots unencrypted

This page[1] states "Snapshots are encrypted by Device Encryption or BitLocker". They suggest that things aren't shared with Microsoft, though I totally understand the skepticism there.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont...
That’s because you don’t know better toasts. That dial controls just one parameter and in my experience they suck at consistency between a warm batch and cold batch.
All I'm saying is people don't pay their taxes using an Xbox.

I'm all for opening up consoles too. But Apple is a much more important target in the fight for consumer rights.
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From "How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39731290 :

> - "Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water" (2023) : "Extreme salt-resisting multistage solar distilation with thermohaline convection" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39507692
Graphene maybe but it has a very limited set of devices it works on. Lineage may not be actually. They rarely go against what Google does.

Developing any normal user facing OS with lots of bells and whistles so it has a useful and modern closed-source friendly app ecosystem is insanely hard. It is the huge software stack that Google put in Android that makes it nicer for many app developers to make apps for it. Those basically un-Linux the Linux parts of it to provide stable interfaces.

I don't think this will change in the open source world in the next 3 decades and with increasing hardware complexity I expect even less success from independent Linux phone projects.

If such a project wants to be successful it has to do many things against the usual Linux. I don't see that happening without any corporate support.
Mostly affects cloud formation [1]

1. https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/physics/cloud-discovers-n...
Server not found. Might try Wayback.
I see Americans will disgustingly continue to put their head into the sands regarding the extreme culpability of the U.S. statement department in the coup of Ukraine despite any level of evidence. There are any number of decade-old videos you can find of Nuland joyfully co-mingled with Maidan protestors. She traveled several times to Ukraine to participate in the protest. (Many of explicitly clear ones where she cracks jokes regarding the President while handing out cookies have disappeared over the years, thanks to take-downs)

In the famous Nuland-Pyatt leaked call, Nuland and Pyatt discussed who should or should not be in Ukraine's new government. This was happening even before the President Yanukovych was kicked out! She even said "No" to Vitaly Klitschko as a replacement. He was far too moderate, you see. She explicitly mentioned anti-Russian extremist Yatsenyuk as her choice. And LO - the heavens agreed with her choice. He became the leader of the post-coup government.

And that lead directly to the rebellion. It was the equivalent of a Nazi taking charge of a nation with a large number of Jewish districts. Obviously, you would have a rebellion after the coup. And obviously the rebels would ask for Russian help and receive it. Israel gets hardcore military support halfway across the world from U.S anytime it needs it. Why wouldn't Russia assist rebelling ethnic Russian regions terrified by the coup ? Remember - this was a LAWFULLY elected President - VETTED by the EU overthrown in a coup! With the U.S. State Department Shining Star in full support.

(There was another interview with a frightened EU minister who talked about the U.S. involvement in the coup and her fear of the future. Can't find this since its been a decade now)

Nuland immediately became the lead U.S. point person for Ukraine's "Revolution of Dignity" and also established loan guarantees to Ukraine's new government, including a $1 billion loan guarantee in 2014.

You appear to need an absolute, extraordinary threshold of evidence - which is simply impossible without waiting for 2064 where this stuff will be hopefully de-classified, unless the U.S. President at the time postpones de-classification. Yet, the U.S. has gone to war on the basis of circumstantial evidence time and time again.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-ukraine-hypocrisy#
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26089450
Socially this means less empathy toward current early days/months/years parents though.
Usually there’s a small neural network that makes the choice for each token in an LLM.
So basically the moon's position follows a combination of several sine(ish) waves, and this is (close to) a global maxima of that combination?

You and the article both say "high" which I would usually assume to mean "high altitude", but in this case it means "northerly azimuth"?
historically cities developed along navigable waterways. Not as necessary in modern times. But lots of big cities are a continuation of existing cities
There's a related medium where I think similar advice applies, technical papers. At least for my field - computer vision / machine learning. You choose a cool, hopefully self-explanatory, figure to feature prominently in the first page. Something that will grab the attention of someone flipping through pdfs and get them hooked. In computer vision you can usually find something visually appealing, like a 3D reconstruction, or an image with highlighted object detections. If nothing else, you can go with a plot showing how much better your method is compared to a baseline, but that's probably less engaging for people who aren't super familiar with how meaningful the numbers are.
I don't know the details, but there are a variety of routing mechanisms that have been tried. One goal is to load balance tokens among the experts so that each expert's parameters are equally utilized, which it seems must sometimes conflict with wanting to route to an expert based on the token itself.
Another one bites the dust. Added to the list, paid account canceled, data deleted, account deleted.

Its becoming easier and easier to step back from a service and consider if its essential (its not, as a rule), and remove it WHEN it becomes an abusive relationship.

OpenAI was not a good dog.
It wouldn’t be quick for me and I have done University calculus.
Most people don’t even know what Linux is.
The AI chat bots dealing with written language are crap enough on customer support scenarios. Throw in voice and regional accents and it's going to be even worse. No thanks.
The New York Times has a pretty good space-related events calendar feed.

It's made in Google Calendar, but should work everywhere. (I use it on macOS Calendar.)

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/nytimes.com_89ai4i...
Oh that’s ok. I’m used to it by now - that’s the price I’m paying for commenting on HN these days :) a lot of reflex downvotes, it seems.
Being it was a well known probation period, I would say not to fight it.

IMHO - the government, especially the US government has a hard time getting rid of people who do not fit in. As such they have their probation period to make life easier.

When I worked in regular industry, we liked to hire people as contractors first and if they worked out convert them. This avoided having to layoff people who did not work out. You just claim the need for their contract work went away.

DO you want to stay where they do not want you? Be active in finding a new job. Worked your hardest on delaying your departure, until you line up a new position.
Kyoto has this sorted. It's on a grid system, and every horizontal and vertical street has a name.

When giving full addresses it is done like so

京都市中京区堀川通御池西下る西三坊堀川町521番地

Very long! 京都市 (Kyoto city) 中京区 (district/ward) 堀川通 (vertical road) 御池西
(horizontal road) 下る (go south) 西三坊堀川町 (neighbourhood) 521番地 (block number)

In other words you are told the crossing of two roads and which direction to travel from there.
Physorg stole the title of my wife's blog post about her husbands farts....
For demos, I long ago learned to "start with the good part."

If you have some fantastic monitoring software, don't start with an intro for how you installed it, how you set up the metrics collection, how you hooked the front end up to the time series database, then show a cool graph with info that the user never had before.

Instead: start by showing a cool graph they never had before. Explain why that graph is so useful. And THEN, now that everyone cares...you can take the time to show how you got to nirvana.

I've seen so many demos that start with a longish, boringish process to get someplace cool, and they would have been better had they started by showing something cool.
This seems related to why AI/Superintelligence has made me so depressed in recent days. After reading the Aschenbrenner summary, I feel as if all "why's" are becoming irrelevant. I have all these projects, all these creative ambitions, but they seem silly if AI will be running/managing/curating/doing-everything for us in the future.

And concerning 'anticipatory anxiety', the past year in AI makes me feel like the future is NEVER GOING TO STOP being deeply/awfully unsettling. Every time I put a new fear to rest about AI, another "development" seems to pop up.

I have these games/projects I want to work on, but I just imagine AI creating all of it better than me. I imagine profound virtual realities that just make everything I'm doing (political/cultural simulation), seem elementary. I want these feelings to stop. I'm normally not THIS BOTHERED by AI. But I can't seem to find reassurance anywhere.

Where will 'meaning' be in 10 years? 20 years? For anyone?
Yeah it's extremely weird to see 'marxist' thrown everywhere DEI appears.

Marx made it clear that the only real difference between people was money (and ~ power somehow).
To be fair, the goal seems to be to kill and injure as much as possible, so wether you're using a cellphone or not you might just die.

An I you consider a kill and 3 injury for each bombardement (4 casualties)(which is a low estimate), 250 bombardement a day (low estimate again), and take the highest estimate of Hamas militants, 20k (including associated armed groups), 90% of all casualties are civilians, which is a ratio you only find in civil war and genocides.
Fairchild is an excellent and key example, because it shows clearly what is necessary: people leaving their former jobs to go start or help start different things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight

It's just far too terrifying a world for that shit now. Housing prices are absurd, and just as bad, healthcare is deathly terrifying to consider. None of these companies reward ambition or drive very well, progress is incredibly slow, culminating in more glossy over-produced show-off events of very little. This top-heavy pace would be horrible for engineers and is, except it's well paid awful & unproductiveness, and jobs have been relatively abundant.

Usually when there's some kind of shitty local optimum that's obviously bad at producing new value, there is correction. New things start. But this whole era has been consolidation/aquisitions & belt-tightening difficulty, even somewhat when zero-interest rates were in effect. There's such limited ability & will to try, such a dearth of ideas people will find if it doesn't promise to become the best new monopoly in the world.
Apple Intelligence works 8 gigs because of the phone's ram limit, no?
I don't think it entered parlance through that usage. It was actually a common feature of the landscape beginning in the 1780s [2] even if we don't count Philadelphia in the 1680s [3] which later became the national capital city.

The Commissioners' Plan which griddified Manhattan was not until 1811 -- but tens of thousands of square miles were already being rapidly surveyed into townships, sections, and ranges, which lend themselves to further square subdividing, after an act of congress back in 1785.[1]

As a fun side note, 19th Century Philadelphia invented the process of adding street numbers to its existing grid using 100-to-a-block addressing, and was also the first American city to add the hundred-block to street signs.

[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Ranges

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-16/the-jeffe...

[3] https://dougalleninstitute.org/archives/10148/

[4]
https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/what-is-the-philadelp...
Wine 9.11 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
Earlier this year I was looking at an NPE that started happening within a rules engine used by an insurance quoting application for discount eligibility. Ultimately the nature of error was evident - a rule was written in an unsafe way and necessary data was not present, but it wasn't immediately clear why the data wasn't being mapped properly.

The error had only been reported happening a few times in a development environment. I was able to discern that the first time it happened was the morning after an update to Spring 3. Debugging locally with code written just a few days earlier didn't trigger the error, so I knew the Spring 3 upgrades had to be related. The missing data was supposed to be derived as the result of a library call to another rules library maintained by a different team, used to derive pricing attributes from information on a request.

After a bit of debugging, I could see that the data in question should have been derived by this other rules engine, but no data of any kind was being mapped from it. No errors were logged in the scenario, and debugging was very fiddly. Notably, the error messages at different points in the debugging process differed on subsequent requests after the first request was submitted. This required restarting the application locally after each pass of the error. This made me think that some static structure was at play.

This rules engine made use of the popular Jackson package to parse YAML files containing lists of rules to be executed subject to constraints. I could see that this parsing initially worked, but failed shortly into the execution flow. No rules were being executed even though they were being scoped for execution. After a few hours of incrementally debugging the scenario, I saw the true culprit: a class from the Apache Commons library was missing at runtime. The ClassNotFoundException was silently ignored and allowed processing to continue, only resulting in a NPE for a limited number of scenarios that required this additional rules engine. The class in question should have been provided transitively from our dependency on the other rules engine maintained by another team, but migrating to Spring 3 seemed to cause some incompatibility with that error. Adding Apache Commons to our build config (and fixing the unsafe code) fixed the issue, but I still don't know perfectly why the issue was happening. I'll probably look back at in the near future