skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> everyone speaks at least a little English now. Attributed to being locked inside and a lot of YouTube

There was a push for English fluency in K-12 around 10 years ago. Most people you are bumping into are products of that era. The non-Saigon/Hanoi/DaNang/DaLat kids who didn't get that opportunity attended the hundreds of ESL schools like "Wall Street English" and "California English" in town
How can gold exist without a state to insure its value?

Simple: demand.
I have heard that there is much less of this in the Russian army than in NATO countries' armies--and before that, less in Eastern European countries' armies. The Ukrainian army apparently had to be trained out of that (although IIUC, that training began soon after the fall of the Soviet Union).

I'd enjoy hearing any comments about this--true, false, true-but, etc.!
Tell HN: The "I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again" Post Is Shadowbanned
You can see that's the case if showdead is enabled on your HN account: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mataroa.blog

Probably the correct moderation decision since every post about it has been community-flagged.

(this submission was also shadowbanned apparently)
I dunno, Go does it pretty effectively, are they cheating or something?
Absolutely, and ironically, given recent news, I think DJI is one of the top manufacturers used.
> I'd also argue that the biggest threat from ASI is what I've heard Roman Yampolskiy label as "ikigai-doom"; that AI could become so much better than humans at all the things humans do, that even in the best case humanity is left with no purpose

I bet status games will stay. Robots may be sexual partners, CEOs and therapists, but they'd never take on status roles in our society – only utility roles.

Same as we do Olympics, even though machines are much better at throwing and lifting than us – we do it to win approval of others
They could have called Wayland "Y," but we can be grateful they didn't. The Wayland jokes and abuse asking "why?" are already pervasive.
One cool thing is old non-Linux machines like the Symbolics Lisp machine and their library descendants (CLX for Common Lisp) still basically work with modern X Servers.
> Privacy optimized cryptocurrencies like Monero also deal with the problem of their blockchain 'providing evidence in court.'

Apparently Monero has some weaknesses [0]. Time will tell how effective it is once the mask of parallel construction slips.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/monero-privacy/
Google Takeout isn't really intended for backup, is it? The idea is you take out all of your data at once and migrate to another platform.

If you're doing recurring backups, there's likely a better solution (e.g., file syncs from Drive/Photos).
Tricky. More than one way to skin a cat.
So Omid Farhang is at best an AI blogspammer, at worst a plagiarist.
Yes, alright, but where else can you see comments such as yours? :-) It may not have been educational in a "learn a new skill" sense, but I found it inspiring as a reminder to stay skeptical.
There was a sci-fi story decades ago (probably in Analog) on this theme. A very realistic war game was set up, which two real-world opposing nations decided to use in lieu of losing real men. The friction caught them off guard. The one incident I recall was when one side deployed a biowarfare agent, but the wind changed and they ended up infecting their own troops. There were other incidents of friction.
To be honest, I misunderstood the study when I first ready it. However, the study is also not saying what you're saying. The authors had a bunch of students take a test and also predict their own score on it, as well as how confident that they were about their prediction.

The study says "for low performers, the less calibrated their self-estimates were the more confident they were in their accuracy". By "calibrated" the authors mean that the actual and predicted scores were the same. In other words, the C and D students were very confident that they got A and Bs.

The authors go on to explain:

"In other words, [for low performers] the higher the discrepancy between estimated score and actual scores, the greater participants’ confidence that their estimated scores were close to their actual scores... As expected, high performers showed the opposite pattern. High levels of miscalibration predicted a decreased in SOJ [second-order judgment]..."

Suppose everyone in the class was a B student and knew it. After taking the class, most got Bs but a few got A and a few got Cs and Ds.

Focusing exclusively on the D students (low performers), we find that they all expected to get a B. For these low performing students, the more miscalibrated they were the more confident they were. This makes sense because they expected to get a B and didn't expect to get a C or D.

Now let's take a look at A students. It makes sense that the more miscalibrated they are, the less confident they are because they all expected to get a B.
Show HN: Plato – Google-like search for company APIs and docs
Hi HN,
We noticed a common issue working at companies like Amazon and Capital One, searching for documentation relevant to our projects was time-consuming and difficult.

After doing some research, we found:
- Service catalogs and internal search tools at many companies rely on keyword search (so you can’t just search in natural language for a package that “fetches user favorites”)
- Relevant docs can be scattered in many different places
- If bugs arise or docs are missing, you have to wait to talk to the right engineer on another team

Plato lets teams create “spaces” for their services/repos with:
- An OpenAPI spec plus links to documentation, GitHub, and Slack support.
- A chat window that can read your docs using RAG to answer questions about the service and help with debugging issues.

The idea is to fit this all into one page, to let devs get the necessary information to start implementing as quickly as possible.

We looked at other developer-portal-like tools such as Backstage and Cortex, but didn’t see anything that focuses on making services searchable and making the documentation experience better. We thought that enterprise-search companies like Glean didn’t optimize the workflow of a developer well enough for our liking.

That being said, we’re still looking for ways to significantly improve the documentation and API search experience, and are open to feedback. Feel free to sign up, try it out, and email us directly if you have feature requests, suggestions, or other ideas:

rohan@platoportal.com
arjun@platoportal.com

Link: https://platoportal.com
Tech cycles, hype, maturity. I remember the prevalence of javascript frameworks, big data bashing, and crypto currency debates for years. Then... nothing.
I do similar, but there is a "Copy event" button that I can use (and then just change the date). Is that available for you?

Don't think I have anything super premium, but am an organiser of the group
"Hi, what is your name? Where are you from?"

It was pretty mediocre and that was the depth of it.

Unless you're in a private school, my experience is that education here is still pretty poorly handled. Kind of "blind leading the blind".

What I'm seeing now is that even the older generations are speaking some English too now, where previously I would just get the infamous jazz hands.

I'm also in a big city... it'll be interesting to see how things are when I head out into the country side again.
VN and China have a FTA (part of the ASEAN FTA)

> Are drones being used in the US as well

Yes. We even funded a couple prominent players in the space that got acquired a decade ago.

Chicago, Champaign-Urbana, Pittsburgh, and Ames used to be hubs in this niche back then.
Discussions:

(33 points, 3 days ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40701868

(42 points, 3 days ago, 116 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40704435
No, let's decidedly not.

If you have a disinclination towards purportedly difficult academia such as higher math, you're more than welcome to apply to some kind of a new major, we can call it "software development" where you can fritter away your mortality with impressive courses such as "flexing on others the CSS way" and "Mongo, the SQL to relational databases.", but there are those of us who study computer science with an emphasis on transcendent learning, and not the frontend framework flavor of the day.

Computer science is a STEM discipline, not a trade.
but that doesn't take into account the influence false reporting in the media has on them. badly or falsely informed is much worse than uninformed.
I think this is a significant contribution to imposter syndrome. It took me a long time in life to realize that the confidence some people have in their opinions rarely comes from true expertise; rather, it comes from their personality.
Instant Meshes is pretty good. We have it installed in all our labs. The results you share seem fine for the purpose. In our experience, Quad Remesher is the best. It certainly helps that QR sits inside of Blender as an add on (unlike Instant Meshes). It is also pretty much industry standard, being used in Max, Maya, ZBrush. As for its results... I find that it has a deeper 'awareness' of the source topology. The meshes are dense when they need to be and not dense when they don't need to be.

A good test of any re-mesher is to apply it to some 3D text. 3D text geometry is famously horrible. Another test is to apply it to a face. Face topology is very prescribed: there is a (mostly) single way of doing it. Any non-standard approach will create issues, especially if you wish to animate it. I would not have expected any automatic approach to work very well, yet have been surprised by the quality of QR.
Is there any innovation in sowing rice?
Yes. Until recently though, spraying by drone was a near impossible permitting nightmare (now it’s only a minor permitting nightmare) and was inefficient because you needed a Part 107 pilot and a Visual Observer for each individual drone. But, things have gotten better. Before, spray drones over 55lb (the limit for a Small UAS in the US) had to go through an experimental aircraft registration program and be granted a tail number. Now, a select list of drones are authorized for spray operations with a special waiver instead, which is way easier.
In case it's of interest, here's the standard language from emails I send people:

We try not to delete posts that got replies, because doing so would be unfair to the other commenters in the thread. What I've done so far is reassign it to a random user ID, so it's as if you'd used a throwaway account to post it and there's no link to your main account. Does that work?
You might want to read the TFA, it's describing a "whole other language" they call Hyperscript

on click send htmx:abort to #contacts-btn
on htmx:beforeRequest from #contacts-btn remove @disabled from me
on htmx:afterRequest from #contacts-btn add @disabled to me
No, keeping a separate non-root account around is what's kind of silly.

If my user account is compromised, the attacker can ruin my credit and reputation, end all my friendships, drain my bank account, and sell my entire life history to an eager 3rd party.

If my root account is compromised, the attacker can do all of those things as well as add a printer, or delete a file that I can download freely from the Internet. I don't really care about that additional attack surface.
And now just think of all of the people who will be getting their knowledge from LLMs which are literally making up stuff through statistical linguistic inference on a grand scale from hearsay.
Source article (referenced at bottom): https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/for-healthy-ageing-its-all-a...
What if we special built a space vehicle to hold as many MicroSD-style flash memory chips as we could and blast it off at Voyager speeds?
In fact it's the other way around—at least to judge by the HN inbox. We rarely get these requests from highly ranking people (at least not anyone I recognize as such), and we get the most elaborate and demanding requests from people who don't appear to have much public reputation to worry about, and often are anonymous to begin with. Why? Your guess is as good as mine.

We do get occasional corporate takedown requests, often from the lawyers of someone who noticed that someone said a bad thing about their company (or occasionally themselves) on HN years ago. But I try to do less in cases where we're not hearing from an HN user directly, and least of all when they lead with a stick (e.g. legal threats). I do check with YC's legal people though, but they love HN and totally get it and are on the community's side.
Power consumption of Ryzen 5000 series CPUs
Today, as a tourist in Japan many restaurants and bars outside of Kyoto, Tokyo, and Osaka and some in those places will not serve me food or a whiskey highball because I am not Japanese. They say "No English" as the reason. Four African students who recently graduated from the University of Kyoto were refused entry into a bar in Kyoto as I walked by. They all speak English and Japanese fluently unlike many of their Japanese classmates. This is high contrast to Vietnam where people would stop me as I walked down the street offering me a beer poured from a pitcher, a seat at their table on the sidewalk, or food and they would try to speak English with me. I also noticed that there is a lot of cooperation between people of different countries in Asia done with English. I would not be surprised if the common language of the Chinese and Vietnamese people mentioned in the article is English.

Vietnam is my favorite place in Asia. It felt like the country is trying very hard to address many of the environmental problems like moving from gas powered to electric vehicles.
Sure, it is just a strange feature that me, being someone who has been posting here a long time, didn't know
Unless pot holes are fixed, increasing speed limits will just make them more dangerous.
It's why I think flatpak/snap kind of miss the actual problem: the only valuable data is the data the app is meant to handle. I don't actually care if they modify the system since I can reimage for free from the Internet at any point.
Statics, dynamics, and two semesters of physics are required courses for every engineer. None of them incorporate the teaching of jerk or snap.
Ongoing discussion (876 points, 9 hours ago, 757 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730156
Since I've started working in finance, I find all those conspiracies about banks and "wall street" a bit cringe: HSBC is actually a nice bank, they helped me a lot, hedge funds do lose as much money as they make in aggregate across all of them because end of the day it's all a random 0-sum with losers paying winners, inside an investment bank, risk is very managed and boring, deal makers spend lots of time trying to reject proposals, loans are rarely predatory and not always easy to get because nobody wants bad payers, bonuses are scarse, etc.

The headlines about some crisis with uneducated comments about how rich bankers exploit the weaks make me hesitate to trust journalism. Often incompetence is way more prevalent than nefariousness ...

Each time I say stuff like that I get comments saying "maybe but it's not a reason to defend banks", completely missing that it's exactly my point: this hatred of banks is a bit irrational, I think it's fine sometimes to defend them...
I think going all in is an important part of it. Cramming a whole CS degree in a few months does require full-time commitment. It can't be a part-time thing while working other jobs.

Preferably the boot camp is in person not online, because physically relocating to the place of instruction is a big part of going all in.
Because they're mostly a vast array of reference docs with just one simple tutorial that barely scratches the surface?

https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php
But... does it retain Windows's dumb use of backslashes?
What is it?

Maybe the market doesn't care about quality.
Maybe the value isn't real.
If people only posted about topics they knew then their views wouldn't get corrected. You learn much better when you are corrected than when you just see the right information.
Gell-Mann amnesia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155538
I'm ashamed to say that I have not heard of R3DS Wrap. It does not seem to re-mesh as such. Rather it seems to 'wrap' an existing mesh around your raw mesh. It also manages the baking, which is sweet.

This seems like a valid approach. After all, every human figure in a Pixar movie has been sourced from the same base mesh.
I'm an American.

My thoughts are that I'd prefer to spend as little time as possible in an elevator and would rather spend that time doing other things.

If I don't feel the elevator moving, then it's moving too slowly and wasting my time.
Nope.... SSDs aren't going to retain data for decades, especially with all of the radiation spewing around outside the protection of mother Earth.

The gold record will last way, way longer, as it's low density data, thus fairly redundant, and you could work around any micrometeorite holes.
I call this customer-funded self-training.
The example is there to establish the principle – once you accept that sovereignty has limitations it's then just a question of which limitations you think are legitimate and which aren't. I think censoring pirate websites kind of isn't.
I found the article compelling and illuminating, but I wish someone had proofread it for the grammar. Half a dozen times I had to reread a sentence and concluded it wasn't correct English syntax.
Among all adjectives to describe the security issues of NAT, "few" is not one of them. _Especially_ when you remember that many are under the false impression that they are "protected" by NAT.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/06/01/circulati... says it is at around the 1940's level in absolute terms. If you do per capita it works out to 30% for 1940 vs. 12% in 2015. I think it's safe to assume that per-capita or not, the circulation curve is ∩-shaped. But naturally, the historical timeframe that today's level of news readership is most comparable to is a matter of debate and speculation - all that matters is that it has not yet regressed to the point where it is nonexistent, and the decline/stagnation started before the internet.
Love it, super smooth! Played a quick game

https://freesolitaire.win/turn-one#25307
Do /they/ have pneumatic tubes? And if not, they should.
A truism, which is not very useful. The strategy of reducing speed to reduce collisions/severity compared to reducing dangerous behavior that leads to collisions is like the failed war on drugs.

I’ve been hit a few times in US and always it’s a distracted driver going fast and not following any rules. Speed limit didn’t slow them one bit. Not even in a school zone. Training, enforcement and more training is in my view a better answer. Not perfect, but better.
Looking forward to enjoying simulations of existing train networks
I think what makes HN the best place on the internet for whatever this place is, is that the god mod here is so focused on it. I can only assume you have a huge amount of scripts and tools that make operating and moderating this place manageable. I always feel like you jump in seemingly everywhere that has issues. It's quite impressive
Interesting!

In Australia we see drones mapping areas that need to be sprayed, then that data is downloaded into a tractor which traverses the field spraying (or adding nutrient) according to data collected by the drone. Haven't heard of spraying drones yet
"Instead, XT architecture integrates a hardware specific code with the kernel."

Isn't this a bad idea?
Instead of looking at how long it will take Wayland to mature, let's look at
how long X has been obsolete (for some applications): for example, Apple rejected X way back in the 1990s for use in its new OS (which they released to users in 2001).

In contrast Wayland is mature enough that ChromeOS decided to go all-in on Wayland, and Microsoft uses it too, for WSL2.

ChromeOS has been using Wayland in Crostini and ChromeOS's Android emulator for years, but only in the last year or so have versions of the OS rolled out to ordinary users that use Wayland also for the main UI (browser and task bar and such). Till then ChromeOS used a hand-rolled graphics system for that.

Also Wayland was embraced many years ago by makers of graphical user interfaces for cars.
> that education here is still pretty poorly handled. Kind of "blind leading the blind".

It is, but the tourism boom began around sa decade ago as well, which pushed (pidgin) English fluency front and forward in Tier 1 cities (eg - https://laodong.vn/chinh-sach-giao-duc/dieu-kien-lam-giao-vi...).

Most Vietnamese born after 1980 who consume foreign content prefer Korean, Chinese, and Japanese content over Western (based on my wife and her extended family's experience)

In Saigon at least there was a push for English teaching in K-12, and ik international teachers (mostly Pinoy) were hired as contractors to teach part time in that initiative.
> Academic disciplines — particularly technical ones like science — are examples

Technical sciences are much easier than the social sciences. Social science is much more full of people who have no clue what they are doing than technical sciences, because technical sciences can be verified by experiments while social science is mostly about trust.
Friction comes up--although not under that name--in The Mythical Man Month. (People do still read that, don't they?) One example Brooks gives is the hard drive that goes bad, perhaps losing code, but also preventing people from doing work until it's replaced. (This essay was written about a software project on a main frame, when "the hard drive" was a real thing.)

At least that's how I remember it...
Carbon Removal: Optimizing biomass processing at Charm
I think you misunderstood. kstrauser and I were using gmail as an analogy. You’re right about Google owning gmail. That was my point - you don’t really own anything. If they lock you out, you’re screwed.

I agree that the fact anyone can make their own server is great and I’m glad the AT protocol supports that.
Jerk is why you don't want a straight track to abruptly turn into a circular arc. Unless, perhaps, it's for a roller coaster.
Show HN: PlanBowl – Customize Your AI-Powered Emergency Plan B
And the "i" in "i-{everything}" never stood for anything, making it even dumber.
I'm fascinated by the large drop in England's overall suicide rates when the country switched from coal gas (containing carbon monoxide) to natural gas (much less lethal). It's pretty clear evidence that many suicides are impulsive acts, and simply making it a bit more difficult is sufficient to dissuade some people from trying.

Here's a bit more on that history: https://gizmodo.com/why-have-people-stopped-committing-suici...
Please search and find in its main framed concise exposé: "Deaths 1 confirmed from radiation (lung cancer, 4 years later), and 2,202 from evacuation."
"I am the best candidate who meets the requirement that I be related to the boss. Our company is absolutely a meritocracy."
Is it possible to buy a piece of land and just get a rule that says "I can pretty much fly anything 100 feet up in the air above my property"?

It's kindof frustrating that this isn't the case.

If you're a company developing drones, for instance, how do you even test them?
"We are assembling a lean, cracked team..." Perfect.
Bug Bounty hunters drain $3M from Kraken
Hue Doodle
Timescales
I remember when Canada listed the freedom truckers as a terrorist group... Are we the badies?
The problem with knowing - of actually, REALLY, knowing - is that you can't do anything with it.

Not enough other people know, and so you find yourself fighting against the tide.

It gets lonely.
For fun I asked Claude (sonnet) to proofread that paragraph and it found no problem with "cracked team".
The user runs as root seems odd from a security point of view.