skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Chicago's extra strict fire code allows for timber 5-over-1 buildings. I don't recall ever seeing any under construction.
Sustained revenue growth
My understanding is that intent needs to be established for any recording. If you establish consent and the second party records without consent I'm not sure where that stands but the spirit of the law seems to suggest every party must consent to every recording.
Yeah, scientific papers are a pain to read. Some have a Latex extension which links you to the paper down in the references but it's not bidirectional - you have to scroll back to your previous position.
I remember emailing him once while at MIT to invite him for a dinner series that I was hosting back in the 2010s. He couldn’t attend but sent a long and beautiful reply.

Remarkable, how approachable he was for being such as a hallowed figure.

RIP!
The contribution of the Chomsky hierarchy to computer science is highly significant. It had a big personal impact when I was learning about compilers and parsing.

Any remembrance is going to keep getting flagged off of HN because of his other activities, though.
I feel like this part of their comment:

> According to Piaget[3], people are able to identify that others don't know what's in their heads sometime between ages two and seven.

is a little far to be a simple misjudged tone, even if it was intended as a joke. I did find it a bit funny but it still felt a bit insulting too.
As an interested amateur, I recommend the book "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime" by Sean Carroll as a good overview of quantum fundamentals. The book discusses several interpretations of the reality of matter at the quantum level. Dr. Carroll himself believes that everything is waves/fields at the lowest level, and a many-worlds interpretation of why matter appears to be particles when we observe it, but also discusses de Broglie–Bohm pilot wave theory and spontaneous collapse theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec...
This is really exciting since the Otel collector already supports Datadog tracing, adding metrics will cover the big two signals that make it hard for most teams to shift from DD's walled garden. I suspect this will really ease the migration path from closed standards to open for a whole swath of companies now.

Hopefully the PRs get upstreamed quickly without any opposition from Datadog unlike last time.

std disclaimer: I'm building oss obs for hyperdx, so I have a clear horse in the race for companies adopting open standards, just like grafana.
Yes, this article doesn't appear to have any independent sourcing, it just cites the Jacobin one that you link: "de acordo com a revista norte-americana Jacobin" ("according to the North American magazine Jacobin").
Tried to add the death, but other editors are still in disagreement. It's not solidly confirmed yet. I don't think either Jacobin or New Statesmen are reliable sources for this kind of news (they don't usually do breaking news like that).

Debate about it on the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Noam_Chomsky#Is_he_dead%3...
That could very well be how they manage to still hae new construction that's all masonry... although as I think my second (all balcony) example above shows, you can certainly do a generic obviously-optimized unpleasant brick 3-to-5-over-1 too! Not sure if people would prefer them to timber-over-concrete ones still.
A Mysterious Monolith Appears Near Las Vegas. Why? It's Anyone's Guess
I think the flags have more been because of the poor sourcing of the actual death. It seems various people and groups heard that he died and are posting their obituaries and remembrances, but there's no real factual confirmation or details (e.g. one thing that was briefly on the front page here [1] was a link to an unsourced, now-deleted tweet from Momentum UK).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40721271
* figurehead (A maidenhead is quite a different thing.)
This is a lot of fun!

Reminds me of the 'polyrhythm' genre of videos on youtube (eg. LucidRhythms)

One fun thing to do is load the canvas up with a bunch of balls really close to each other then click the yin and yang icon which causes them to change state when struck.

Adding some kind of gravity might be fun.
https://archive.ph/JKAWe
And it is hard to balance profitability with ethical practices
Call centers introduce 'emotion canceling' AI as a 'mental shield' for workers
> Yes, you can do it all yourself open-source, invest engineer time to keep it all running. Pay for cloud infrastructure, run DataDog-like/clone UIs

This stuff is table stakes for any competent ops person and we can spin this whole stack up in our sleep. You do it at every job. It's cheap to run and maintain as well. This isn't to say that Datadog can't be worth it but $40k/mo will get you the whole stack plus 35 hrs/wk each of a senior and junior SRE that can work on other projects.

If you're swimming in cash and want the best at any price then hell yeah do it, DD is unbelievably polished. But if you're at all cost sensitive it's a bit of a catch-22 because if you have enough infrastructure to warrant DD then you likely have an ops team that can do it themselves.
They have a discussion going on:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Noam_Chomsky#Is_he_dead?
o.d.g. I lolled sooo hard when I got to the bit that I thought would be coming and yep, ...... sure as bears defecate in the woods... there it was... Stripe Radar ... featuring AI!!!! " it uses machine learning to " etc.
Gasp, Shock horror, wow, much AI ffs) ... and the pricing? Laffs even harder.

Pricing:Stripe Radar for Teams is priced at 7 cents per screened transaction
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GLWT M8 L0L.
50% is about as bad as you can get without code that is specifically pathological - that is random guessing.
I learned only much later, years after earning a B.A. in linguistics, that Chomsky was much more renowned for being a political pundit and philosopher than he was for conceiving of X-bar theory and so forth.

I had thought at first that it was just a coincidence that this fellow talking about politics had the same name as the famous linguist.. but it's not that common a name.
The Firm Infinity Power Unveils Highest Efficiency Atomic Battery
Obituary from Yanis Varoufakis:

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/06/the-noam-chomsky-...
Wow that's generous and kind of you, thanks!
Very curious if anybody else is working on a DSL that's meant for LLMs to output?

Has anyone seen anyone using this approach? Any resources available?
My aging mind can't remember the actual facts but it was determined that when someone has significantly more power than they had a need for (say, full batteries and a whole lot of solar) that it opened up interesting behaviors. We try hard to be as efficient as possible, but when you don't have to, it leads to interesting stuff. (like leave the lights on, leave the windows open with a space heater next to you, etc.)
There is disagreement about whether this is actually true or a hoax/mistake.

Discussion on his Wikipedia article's talk page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Noam_Chomsky#Is_he_dead%3...

edit: fixed broken URL encoding
There is an global IATA regulation with the same limit I don’t know which was first
Of all the great stuff he wrote, the one that sticks in my mind the most is "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_fu...
Immigration, which I assume is what you’re hinting at, has nothing to do with open borders between EU states.
Wikipedia doesn't show him as deceased as of this writing, so I'm inclined to believe that. Multiple news sources report him recovering from a stroke in Brazil, though.
Ukraine AI to manage 700 years of removal of Russian landmines
New Statesman has published an obituary. See my previous post here.
HN soon too. You’ll have no idea what comments here are just a subtle deluge of information manipulation.
"Tens of milliwatts" for decades from a coin cell. Amazing!
delving

Found the GPT bot
Fascinating and unique way to merge science and creativity.
> Nor would I describe Jacobin or The New Statesman as reliable.

He literally wrote articles for both of them. If you don't believe them, why do you care at all if it's true or not?
How so? Maybe in the past, but nothing announced today is open.
Perhaps I wasn't clear.

I also like the use of the file name "pre-extension" to categorize files.

There was a way to have the cake and eat it too which is: forbid _ inside the file name other than the extensions that have a well known meaning and treating the others as reserved.
Absurd if you consider the utility to the average person of the ISS vs Starlink.
I'm trying to confirm it as well and wasn't able. Never heard of any of those above sources.
Which is a very interesting asymmetry, if we're stipulating that these are merely excuses. It implies that "think of the gays" will lose you more votes than it gains, compared to "think of the children". Terrorists and children are apparently the optimally intersectional bogeymen and helpless wards respectively.
Fair point. I just feel like his statement saying current neural networks are based on the brain is way off. Especially in the popular LLM paradigm, it's not something anyone is trying to mimic.
We got it in Maine and then got a follow up afterwards (from Maine) telling us to disregard it.
Is Folding a good use of computing resources and power? Do they have any wins?
AFAICS, DCM (the source) was the first to publish the confirmation clearly.
You'd think, but I've seen these stay vacant for years. Sometimes from the outside it looks like the developer is using the "retail" space as storage or a workshop.

Sometimes they seem to attract high end medical and beauty/spa businesses. There's nothing wrong with the businesses individually, but a glut of them isn't useful for the neighborhood (nobody needs eight cosmetic dentists). And replacing a strip of walk-in businesses (groceries, cafes, hardware stores, affordable clothing shops) you use regularly with mostly appointment-based services businesses you use occasionally if at all isn't great.
This link is dead now also...
You're welcome! I think as Go users we're very lucky to have all that information in the open, and that the people driving the language take the time to write it down, and discuss it with the community. I'll assume good intention and think it's not trivial to find, or the people writing articles/comments citing the same Rob Pike quote again and again don't know that he wrote and talked more about Go. I hope I can help elevate the debate a little by sharing these quotes.
Good idea to make it like since art instolation
They're bloody awful and should be taken outside and shot. Even the expensive 3M ones. First they are unreliable and wear out. Secondly they melt when you inevitably screw up. Thirdly there isn't a ground plane so it's basically a nice board of little capacitors and inductors to argue with.

For the last 35 years both professionally and as a hobbyist I've just soldered stuff to bits of copper clad board. On one-off items like test rigs etc, these are then screwed to the inside of the lid of a Hammond box.

Also see AN47-26 "breadboarding techniques" https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/appl...

(check Appendix F in particular)
This is a big problem with Belgian scientists. Their culture puts a lot of pressure on publishing and so on so they tend to falsify flashy results over just doing the science.
Switch to CHORD mode.
i really value this point, although the fact that biden is president and not elizabeth warren or bernie sanders shows that centrism is a lot more present in the presidency. thanks for your well reasoned comment.
> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially…

This is the part where he loses any sympathy.

If it’s so trivial why was nobody doing it? It’s classic tech bro know-it-all-ism.

Plus yeah wow, without the 3% of people who run desktop Linux whatever will a business do?
What’s good place to start reading Chomsky?
Is this yet another essay about software development that does not offer:

- Testable hypotheses

- Reproducible experiments

- Data to support its arguments?
It's far from a comprehensive list. Many of the causes are listed as "unknown" as well. This page lists 9 unintentional collision events: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_collision and it's clearly not comprehensive either since it doesn't contain some from the other list. And collisions are not the only kind of accident creating debris clouds. The page cites 250 debris creation events as of 2015, there have been more since, and most of them were not intentional. Ultimately it doesn't matter what specific kind of unintentional accident created debris. All that matters is how long it will pollute orbit.
> Lots of assumption here. First, that we will only be training on text data, if we take into considerations all the videos and audios shared I am quite sure we would have one or two orders of magnitude more of data.

1GB of text is way more useful for generating text than 1GB of video is.

> training on the right data improves prediction more than training on more data

Books are more useful than Facebook rants. But this is an argument for data scarcity rather than for data abundance.
I'm just starting to use photogrammy in hobbyist game maps to provide "chill maps". Unfortunately splatting will not be possible there.
Those are events that created debris, not events caused by debris.
All the analysis I can find talk only about the spot price being negative.

But what matters for economics is the volume exchanged at this negative price, that is if you are a buyer with infinite capacity to absorb kWh how much money you'll make yearly?

Anyone with a good URL?
Anything that comes out of that person should be taken with a shovel of salt.

I did the rounds a few mins ago, and there is nothing on BBC, CNN, France24, DW.

For all we know he has passed. I will believe it when I see it in these (or some other credible site), not a joke's twitter/X account.
> End users don't want complex UI interfaces

It's complex UI requirements, not complex UIs...

For ex our company routes phone calls and needed routing system that had 3 layers deep of hierarchical organization, reordering, sorting, weighting, grouping etc.

You could have done all of those with a new page load every time, or spread out into individual static pages, but that'd take 10x longer for the user. I built something that did all of that in a box that fit into one screen and one page load, and only 1 ajax request for autocomplete search box.

Some things just demand 'desktop style' complex browser UIs that server side simply can't provide...

Which is why every serious company that makes $$ uses it. Backend devs like to pretend they can throw the baby out with the bath water and call it day, then deliver poor UX because they limit themselves artificially, just because some people abuse JS.

That's not the solution.
After decades in the software industry, I decided to just get a factory job within bicycling distance of my house and only do programming as a hobby.

I can't take the hype cycle anymore. First it was big data this and big data that, now it's all AI. It's always about something other than crafting sensible solutions to real problems.

A breaking point for me was getting scolded to figure out how to apply LLM technology for a sewage utility contractor. Like, WTF.

I'm not too moral to take money for stuff people want but don't actually need. But it gets old. I'm tired. Now I can do little projects that I enjoy after work.

Maybe they'll go somewhere. Maybe they won't. They're not my real job anymore so it doesn't matter.
I took job that I thought it was going to be more fulfilling (for about 30% less than my current), and ended up regretting it massively... In fact I'm still here, but my work team is an absolutely hellish group of individuals, and my boss is the most crooked individual I've worked with so far.... so In retrospective, I've should picked the other job, the problem was that it was incredible specialized and involved working in radar stations on top of remote mountains, who the hell wants to do that??? Anyway, I guess I'll get something better at some point... Work climate is just so weird right now for devs....
You're asking for a definition of exhaustive search. Exhaustive search, by definition, goes through the entire search space. That's what word exhaustive means.

For a reference, check Cormen's "Introduction to Algorithms". Every mention of brute-force search is specifically to exhaustive search is which not feasible for bigger spaces.

> I mean, the approach under discussion is literally exactly this.

It's literally not. It DOES NOT REDUCE the candidate set. It generates most likely candidates, but it doesn't reduce anything.

You lack basic understanding. Solutions are pixels grids, not Python programs. There's no search over pixel grids in the article. Not every search is exhaustive search.

This is like saying theoretical physicists are "brute-forcing" physics by generating candidate theories and testing them. Ridiculous.
> contained falsified images

This is so common. Why aren't there more legal outcomes around this like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Poehlman
Ends up looking like a constellation.
You don't need negative prices for storage to be profitable, you just need to be able to sell your stored electricity for more than you paid for it.
Choosing happiness over a higher paycheck is a significant decision that not many are able to make..
> Projects like the one at Dinorwig (pumped hydro-storage) are more viable solution for excess capacity.

I think this is a little simplistic. Pumped hydro is very reliant on finding suitable geography which ultimately limits the potential capacity. I think it's more likely that grids of the future will rely on a variety of storage solutions (pumped hydro, consumer EVs, grid scale batteries etc.) and smarter load-shedding rather than any single solution being dominant.
Probably because our interference with their breeding selects for non-smart qualities.
The reason why the prices are negative is that renewables have become cheap to install, but don't come with an off switch.

There is good news though. With electric car sales slowing down (at least in the west) there is a surplus of batteries on the market, which makes grid storage projects more affordable. The incentives are currently pushing us towards decarbonizing our electric infrastructure faster and that is wonderful. As long as the politicians don't do anything dumb like slap huge tariffs on solar cells or something we should be making some real progress towards a green future.
Inclined to agree with reddit comments - that looks fake
> For example, a business might send promotional emails to its customers. By implementing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, the business ensures that its emails are not marked as spam

But such emails can very well be (and in my experience usually are) spam. My spam filter will take the lack of implementation of these as a strong signal that the email may be spam, but does not think that just because these are implemented, the email isn't spam. As it should.

Just wanted to call this out because the article strongly implies that implementing these will let your email bypass spam filters.
> There's nothing stopping localities from forcing developers to make these buildings nice looking. I've been to villages where the mcdonalds is in a tutor style building because that's what code requires.

That's homogeneity, not attractiveness. I think there are a very small number of places where this works, as a cool marker of identity and difference, like (maybe) Santa Fe. Even there I'm not sure if residents like it, or if it's just the tourists who think it's historic and cute. But for most places it just makes things bland and depressing. At first glance it's kinda cool when a university enforces a style guide that visually distinguishes its campus from its environs, but it quickly turns sad when you realize the art museum looks exactly like the biology building, which looks exactly like the business school, which looks exactly like the campus health services.
> Dunno why dang felt hte need to write that comment.

Who writes the checks that keep the HN lights on?
Just to add to that: Any fluctuation in prices works to incentivise storage, negative prices are not so special in that regard.

Negative prices allow for some weird actions to become profitable - like starting an empty washing machine, turning in the light in an empty room or needlessly heating some water tank. Basically everything we are used to think of as waste. It sounds absurd, but it's not really a big deal.
Minneapolis's Natural Upzoning Experiment
> Um, okay. I have never heard of this

Then maybe you shouldn't make assumptions about what is and isn't possible with VR and AR. OpenXR is literally ground-floor level stuff, if you follow VR in any capacity outside Apple marketing. Apple can cover stuff like this while also supporting unique features; they literally just did it with WebXR.
It’s possible that they made a mistake. I just think it’s unlikely that they’d have published it without confirmation.
Typically media orgs have obituaries made for everyone likely to pass (sick, or old age). It would make sense that all media orgs got one handy for Noam as his is rather old.

Let's wait and see.
Fun fact: Wirecard was a spy operation by the Russian intelligence.
This will become more and more common, see https://rmi.org/insight/the-cleantech-revolution/

Direct link to PDF: https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2024/06/RMI-C...
TL;DR: "While the glow is invisible to the naked eye, it can be detected by instruments aboard satellites such as NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Obsevatory-2 (OCO-2). Launched in 2014, OCO-2 has observed the U.S. Midwest aglow during the growing season.

The researchers compared years of fluorescence data to an inventory of flash droughts that struck the U.S. between May and July from 2015 to 2020. They found a domino effect: In the weeks and months leading up to a flash drought, vegetation initially thrived as conditions turned warm and dry. The flourishing plants emitted an unusually strong fluorescence signal for the time of year."
>I wonder why exactly this is posted as a google translation of a portuguese article.

He was/is hospitalized in Brazil.
Ally let's me do recurring transfers to support the same account setup that they mentioned.
Wait, the Otel collector supports Datadog tracing? Do you have a link to docs? I tried looking into this a few months ago but couldn't find anything.
But if it has looked wonderful -- like really wonderful -- for the last twelve years that also says something. I would've argued that Adobe was stealing from its future ten years ago when they started started using this model and I would clearly have been wrong. I don't see what's different for them over the next 10 years either because I've apparently underestimated peoples' complacency with being fleeced.
It's not just supply and demand. Expensive areas being expensive is partly by design.

Things like redlining are no longer legal, but the desire by people to exclude people that they do not want their kids to end up like remains. One legal way to do this is to make the cost of living sufficiently high that it guarantees your neighbors conform sufficiently to society's standards that they were able to accumulate wealth.

Here's a podcast episode on the particular issue if anyone wants to explore more

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/3/18/benjamin-herol...
Is it? He used the surgeon general's recent moves as a starting point in his statement and continued "When children and teens are in school, they should be focused on their studies — not their screens.".
I would need to test it more. The accelerometer generates lots of events that would end up changing gravity constantly (when held up); maybe with a low-pass filter so that gravity changes more slowly it would work.
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