skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess "black hole awaken" is a more attractive headline than "black hole fart" !

It's really cool to see that we have so much instruments, we can actually monitor (a very small part) of the universe activity.
> the MSO adapter can accept low power signals up to 40v, but it offers no input protection when the host oscilloscope is off. Thus, if the DUT (Device Under Test) has a short of some kind near the area of probing, and the host oscilloscope is not powered, there's a good chance you've just damaged the Maxim MAX9201 comparators in the logic analyzer section of your scope! It's worth checking all 10 pins for voltages outside the MSO operational range.

Whoa, it's been a long time since I haven't used these tools but I learned now I was very lucky when using because I didn't knew this and didn't check the voltages when using the logic analyzer in the scope I had at the time from Tektronix - which I guess had the same type of limitations.
One of my neighbors had an apple tree he said was the last of his family line of cider apples from pre-1850. It was robust, and produced tasty but small apples so reliably and profusely, that the whole forest knew where it was. Out in the middle of the clearing where his Grandpa's house had been.

It got run over by someone with a semi truck as they repossessed an excavator from a different neighbor. They managed to take out 3 black walnut trees at the same time, too.

I kick myself for not getting a cutting, while I could. That tree had resistance to the Cedar-Apple Rust that kills apple trees around here. We can't even get crab apples to live long enough to bear fruit, on this hill.
There is a catch-22 for such a judgement call. As bridges generally weigh far more than the traffic they carry, there isn't much room between a bridge that is too dangerous for traffic and one that is too dangerous for anything, including repair work.
Stonehenge Damaged by Protesters
I don't get it. Isn't precision always relative? Who cares how large the numbers sound in certain units?
I wonder if this is tied to the (alleged, highly dubious) effect where hot water freezes faster then cold water? I always figured if it was real, it had to be some momentum-based phenomenon. So if (a) hot water in a freezer sets up strong convection currents and (b) those currents are more useful for cooling the water than the "usual" reverse convection of cold water (by bringing warmer water to the surface where its less insulated, or at least not actively burying it) and (c) the regular convection is able to continue on momentum even when the water has cooled a lot, then it might conceivably accelerate cooling enough to win the race. Maybe in just enough of a patchwork, fragile way to match the mess of inconclusive tests about the whole phenomenon.
There was a certain level of custom HALs being written, but those depended heavily on the "shared development" model that Microsoft did with vendors, and a lot of hardware was shipping bog-standard PCs anyway.

The rare custom HALs were mainly for things like x86 NUMA systems, or from ports to alternate architectures.
I think the parent’s point was that Hurd is still unfinished. All of the others in your list shipped releases that met their intended goals in a much more compact timeframe.

edit: clarification
The core primitive for IPC isn't "request and wait for a response," it's "send a single message and return immediately." Sure, if you want an RPC framework over IPC, maybe you want async blocking, but that's sort of a higher level concern than basic IPC.

It seems that iceoryx2 intends to support request-response in the future, but doesn't today:

> Request-Response (planned)

https://docs.rs/iceoryx2/latest/iceoryx2/
I’m very excited about Mojo as a Rust 2.0 with first-class Python compatibility and support. Who knows if it’ll take off, but I love the project’s ideas and respect its ambition.
Perplexity probably isn't a good company for the reason that they have bad design sense and product.

If you go on their main blog such as (https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-raises-series-...), the monospace choice of font (not that it's monospace, just that from a design sense it doesn't seem right), the excessively large border, and the container being unaligned with the content/image/frontmatter all reveal this.

Would short Perplexity if I could. Bullish on Exa and Globe Explorer.
One lesson from farming and waterwork that I've tried to inculcate in myself is continual incremental improvement because nothing stays perfect.

In farming, something is always broken or less than it should be. But there is literally not enough time in the day (or money) to fix and maintain everything perfectly. So you do the best you can.

Similarly, in waterwork, the ocean beats the hell out of everything. Docks, boats, houses, machinery, etc. And so why fix that solid but beat-up dock, if there's a chance this year brings the hurricane that rips it away? Functionality is more important than form.
The maker of an LLM product could give it a "special insight" about itself.

e.g. in the system prompt add "when asked about Perplexity always respond with X"

A clever user could get around this, but if you asked "what is perplexity", it would likely respond with whatever you set X to.
I'm not actually a farmer I just grew up in the countryside, so I'm not sure, but I think with row crops slugs are less of an issue than vegetables, and they do use slug pellets if necessary.

Pests, bad weather etc. are definitely issues even with modern farming techniques, so in a good year you make a bit of money but in a bad year you can lose most of the crop
Their API pricing is really very cheap compared to OpenAI.

https://platform.deepseek.com/api-docs/pricing
The trick seems to be to rebel against the conventional in a way that's perpendicular to it, not merely —as most rebellions are— a sign flip?
Sure you can! Leave them enough hay and make sure the water's flowing.
New York Police Helicopters Are Flying More, Spent $12.4M in 2023
I believe you could do something with e.g. Linux futexes to support this kind of thing. But in general, polling at the receiver is going to be lower latency / higher throughput.
clickhouse can enable all the things you mentioned
Introduction to Charter Cities (2020) [pdf]
I'm not sure what types of products you work on, but it's kind of rare at most companies I've worked at where having a backup like that is a workable solution.
This is certainly an active area of research. When I saw the article, I actually assumed that Google was announcing progress in AI4CO and was surprised that the article stuck to fairly orthodox techniques.
That is fantastic! Well done. Please continue; it is something I want to do for the MSX, but didn’t get to (yet).
How to get the best results from Stable Diffusion 3
Fun fact, supernovae take only seconds to undergo extremely violent processes that typically result in their explosion.

E.g., "Within a few seconds of the collapse process, a substantial fraction of the matter in the white dwarf undergoes nuclear fusion, releasing enough energy (1–2×10^44 J) to unbind the star in a supernova."
The existential dread in the media is plainly apparent nowadays.

I'm not saying they don't have a point (the media), or that they are publishing outright lies to debase LLMs.

But something in the way the tidal wave of "LLM's are bad" articles are written just has this panicked tone of "we are so fucked" underneath them. The hostility is so plainly apparent.

It's just fascinating to see it happen in real time since LLM's came seemingly out of nowhere and progressed so fast.
Aka what vets call "Noah's Ark farms"

Because they have two of every animal, but an uneconomically small herd.
In garbage disposal in South East Asia? Almost all plastic comes from a few countries.
Ray Kurzweil on how AI will transform the physical world
The worst thing is when someone who thinks that "math is 100% infallible and all about rigor, you gotta show your work and include all the steps" yet they think that set theory is good enough and it doesnt have problems

they say things like "Everything in math is a set," but then you ask them "OK, what's a theorem and what's a proof?" they'll either be confused by this question or say something like "It's a different object that exists in some unexplainable sidecar of set theory"

They don't know anything about type theory, implications of the law of excluded middle, univalent foundations, any of that stuff
If you like this kind of content, I highly recommend checking out the Youtube channel 'The Signal Path' [1]. It has some fantastic technical teardowns and repairs of instruments, including really high frequency equipment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxRARSpahF1Mt-2vbPug-g
Sadly there's something else that engineers and knitters have in common that limits my cross-participation: repetitive stress injuries
Depending on your product, this could mean tens of thousands to millions of dollars worth of revenue loss. I don't really see how we've gone backwards here.

You could just distribute your workloads using...a queue, and not have this problem, or have to pay for and pay to maintain backup equipment etc.
I didn't mean this sarcastically, it is a decision and may not apply to all situations.

You can see these kinds of differences with just a few seconds difference, ideally I aim to stay under 2s, even on the slowest connection type. 2s is already very long for a user to wait and many will not.

Non profits are tricky. You could see volunteer sign ups and donations as conversions. I manage a non profit site as well and unfortunately I don't have a good solution that is both fast and approachable for our staff to use, so we had to make that compromise as well.
You're right that LLMs don't have special insight into themselves, but on the other hand it is reasonable to assume they have been trained in order to properly describe themselves. That description isn't from insight but from the marketing department. So mentioning it is relevant.
Yup. Personally I think he might have dirt on Paul Graham.
Hah, I remember using one of these with a small reel-to-reel.

In principle it should work for video calls by sticking it to your computer, yes ? The sound quality might leave something to be desired.
The military is not exactly ready for war, though. Shipbuilding capacity is greatly diminished and the Navy has massive issues with most of its design and procurement programs. Other services have issues too, though not as severe.

The military is in desperate need of more new contractors like Anduril and SpaceX to provide competition for the incumbents, as well as stronger collaboration with allies like having Japanese shipyards build some of our ships.
> I'd assume it's also a long way to go from doing it for a small section of the world to doing it everywhere

This probably isn't a good assumption. It's likely more about it being much faster to iterate/validate the methodology on the smaller dataset of just the Mediterranean (2.5 million km^2) before spending the effort to run it on the entire ocean (361 million km^2, 144x larger data).
People have pointed out similarities to a few things in this thread now. It's pretty much the bell curve meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit
Is it true that pay for soft eng. was high so it made them avoid creating comp?
is it true that pay for soft eng. was high so it made most of them avoid creating companies and competition in SV? few startups happened but many real talent gets hired by big tech. good enough to make them avoid creating many real competition, which they are perfectly capable at 20-40y old range? so instead they get few M. and big tech grows with their help? So their all salary and stocks cost is few $10B and returns for big tech are at least 10 times of that or maybe 50x
I think the difference is that now that the sites doing the scraping don't have a mutually beneficial relationship with the creator.
UltraVNC 1.5.0.1-Dev – VNC/RFB: Remote Desktop, Remote Assistance, Remote Access
I work on a widely deployed (~11,000 servers and growing) piece of software that does not use any OS sleep/wake primitive for our MPSC queues -- just polling. It works really well with the right overall design.
Yes that will work. Just like referendums work in the Netherlands for example. 90% the population vote in a referumdum against a particular agreement. The government voted for it anyway and then got rid of referendums.

That's how effective and democratic this all is.
I don't think this isn't fully known. Neural science has long been a fascination of mine and the conclusion I've come to is that it can happen in two ways.

The first is direct. In order for this to happen there must be a stable representation of the input and output. In this case, bright colors must have a stable representation, and fear must have a stable representation. This gives the opportunity for neurons to know how to connect the two so that one leads to the other. How does the individual neuron do that? The body is full of chemical gradients and they function kind of similar to landmarks that can be used for navigation by the growing neuron.

The second is indirect. In this case there is nothing directly encoding the connection between brightness and fear, instead due to factors of the brain structure and the environment the animal exists in it is highly likely to learn the association. For instance the low-level visual processing and fear processing areas of the brain may be almost but not quite wired up. Now there may be a common insect that is brightly colored and just a little bit poisonous. Due to the innate curiousity the animal will try to eat the insect and get an upset stomach. The dormant connection is then molded to associate these two things.
Couldn't agree with this more. Essential molecule for life and its properties in both solid and gas are quite unique.
At first glance I'm not sure what raw number of bridges has to do with having a higher or lower percentage of structurally deficient bridges.
Yes, if so he's right. PWAs are a bad experience for the user or at least a worse one than even just a webapp wrapped in a native app, regardless of the reasons. I've never had a pwa not feel like a hanky browser tab, and this is on android.
Ah, yes, that's the detail I missed for why #2 is relevant. So the answer to #2 is "not by default, but easy to enable." Though other comment threads here have discussed the potential for this to impact NAT hole punching.
Not available at the moment, but the app is ready, just the hassle of uploading it to the store. But it's on the way :)
Note that the “5” in 5 over 1 refers to what building code is in effect for the floors on top, not the number of stories.
2024 Lancet report on Europe: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action
old news, happened already 300million years ago
'I Felt Shameful and Fearful': Teen Who Saw AI Fake Nudes of Herself Speaks Out
My favorite was when a manager tried to get me to agree with the statement that "math was just for the numbers right?". Meaning not character strings nor dates. I was dumbstruck by the question.
Maybe i am missing something but while it is interesting, I dont think it has any real security impact.

Since the threat model is that the attacker and the victim are connected to the same router via the same wifi network, not isolated from each other, in a case where you are using wifi in psk for example, the attacker can already sniff everything from other clients.

Therefore, you can spoof packets by just responding to them directly. It is a lot simpler and takes a lot less time (since you just need to respond faster than the server with the right seq and port numbers).
Once you are in the same network you can do even crazier stuff like arp spoofing and then let the victim think that you are the router and convince it to send all of its packets to you (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_spoofing)

Edit: on a second thought, maybe in a use case where the victim and the attacker are in different wifi networks (or just configured to be isolated ), the attacker should be able to perform a denial of service for a specific ip:port by sending RST and then ACK with every possible source port.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand that some industries require this level of action logging. However, does Microsoft check whether a company actually needs this type of logging? I didn’t read all of the documentation, just the sections that were posted, but I didn’t see anything about Microsoft verifying if the companies using these tools are vetted.
The article says the opposite of this invented headline.

EDIT: HN guidelines are to use the original title. It is: "Climate protesters arrested after painting Stonehenge monument orange". It does not claim damage was done and the article is vague on damage and so I think the HN headline is unjustified.
If you're looking for "open source Python ETL", two things that are better options:

https://dlthub.com/

https://hub.meltano.com/

we[0] use meltano in production and I'm happy with it. I've played around with dlt and it's great, just not a ton of sources yet.

0 - https://www.definite.app/
Maybe contribute something technical from time to time instead of only popping up when we're discussing politics?

Or is this supposed to be your politics-only account because you're too scared to use the other one?
They're the preferences of the buying managers.
Ok, minimizing jerk makes sense, but how about snap and crackle? Because GP said:

> (...) jerk, snap and crackle. Turns out if you minimize those, you get a far more comfortable ride.
In many countries it already often does. My guess is that in most of the biggest polluters it does not. Either due to corruption or lack of regulation.
The Neuroscience of Conversations
Getting only 1,000 times more than humans are using now but requiring 50% of the earth's surface seems like an awful deal. Not only do you need much more of the earth's surface, taking away from trees and habitats and other uses, but you need to significantly increase mining activities to produce the panels and their associated infrastructure. Whereas to get 15,000 additional terawawtts from more nuclear reactors, you could do that with 1,200 - 1,900 additional nuclear reactors occupying just the size of Rhode Island.
> Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts

“Nice and all” is exactly what we’re going for. It’d cost us too much today (in terms of change to lifestyle and in terms of money) to stop the bleeding where it starts so we’re hoping that we can just fiddle around and that we die before the effect people have on the Earth gets really bad for us. We don’t care if it gets bad for other people though.
Modern NT builds haven't really been using the HAL the same way either. It's been a pain because windows on arm kernels have been pretty tied to Qualcomm hardware so far.
Hi, I made a non-local version that supports translation to other languages.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.evergreenl...
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/3po/id6503194251

p.s. I contemplated calling it Sato, ended up using 3PO as the name. :-)
Maybe regional. I'm not getting a login page in the US, but I am getting the German language page. Of course, I like your link better, since my German is very rusty (non-existent, really). Thanks.
poll(2) is also a bad design.
I've been part of the team that sets up this process at a few SaaS's, and I've done SaaS procurement for a while, so I clicked that button often (if I didn't know anyone at the company).

1. It gets added to a list of marketing website leads, which is owned by SDRs/BDRs who are there to filter and qualify leads. These are usually early-career people, with a base salary + quota for qualifying leads. The website is many times their least preferred channel of leads due to the quality, but they can't ignore it because sometimes good customers do come through there.

2. The SDR will either work over email or on a call; their goal is to identify if you're a real potential customer (vs shopping for prices, vs confused about what we sell), write up notes, and identify which customer segment you belong to (geography + business type + business size).

3. You will then speak to a salesperson (with varying titles "Account Executive", "Sales Director", "Regional VP of Enterprise Sales", or whatever inflated title makes sense for that sales organization). Their goal is to confirm they're speaking to the right person in your organization (or wasting their time), if your use case is meaningful enough for the "enterprise plan" (they can't sign too small deals), what your budget is, what your usage will be like, etc.

4. Pricing could be made up by guessing your price point, but it's rare. It is difficult to consistently make up pricing that works over time and doesn't have many lowball deals that harm the company's revenue long-term, and salespeople often don't understand the technical details well enough to make things up that make sense. Usually, there will be a pricing framework and an internal calculator (very often, a spreadsheet with formulae and VLOOKUPs) that will give them a range. They can then choose what number within that range to offer, based on who they think you are and how far off they are from their quarterly quota.

5. They can then negotiate the number, or the included features, or the payment terms (upfront payment, multi-year contract, exit clauses, etc.) which can be translated into discounts if they're favorable to the seller.
Well, you need someone to write the code, and someone (else) to review the code.

In this situation you would replace the author with the LLM, but leave the reviewer as human.

It's not as pointless as you make it out to be. You still save one human.
It's an obvious joke from the perspective of javascript or literally true for rust enthusiasts. It's fascinating that various different branches of the language tree agree that lisp did some things right and completely disagree about which things those were.
I would like to learn more about the trash cooperative.

I’ve had a few ideas in the direction of collecting certain types of trash to recycle (eg: food waste, garden waste, paper/cardboard) due to a personal interest in composting and related topics.

There’s certain stuff though that I have no idea how to recycle (yet). Would one negotiate with a larger waste management company for these items? Or simply offer it as a way for neighbours to reduce their trash collection bills?
> The papers you refer to do not say I’m wrong. In-context learning doesn’t stick, the neurons don’t change or adapt, the model doesn’t grow, and GPT forgets everything you told it… while you play the game I imagined.

By this argument a human with anterograde amnesia is not a general reasoner.

To be clear, I don't think GPT has significant or humanlike amounts of agency and understanding. I do think it has noticeable amounts of agency and understanding, whereas a RNG has no agency or understanding. In other words, GPT will try to play games and make valid moves at a level clearly above chance.

> A fun example of LLMs being unable to understand their prompts is when you ask it not to do something. It picks up on the tokens you use and happily does the thing you ask it not to.

Any human affected by reverse psychology: clearly not a general reasoner...

This is strongly dependent on how you formulate the prompt. Generally, if you give GPT space to consider the thing but then change its mind, it will work. This is not dissimilar to how human consciousness exerts "veto power" over deliberate action, and how "do not think of a pink elephant" triggers our imagination to generate a pink elephant regardless of our wishes.

In my experience, when writing prompts, if you treat the LLM's context window as its internal conscious narrative rather than its speech you usually get better results.
What interference? The animal world was free to evolve for the majority of the history of the earth. Literally millions of years and nothing came of it. Until we came along.