skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yah I kept searching for a highjack connection thinking he got hit by malware or something like that. Never found it so I think you’re right.
How we are all in denial about the climate crisis
Hahaha, customer service reps can be social engineered just like LLMs
Test drugs on Africans: "why are drugs being tested on Africans?"

Don't test drugs on Africans: "why aren't drugs being tested on Africans?"

A little charity in interpretation goes a long way.
This one: https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org
Thanks for sharing this.

I once used Floyd-Steinberg dithering to make 3D voxel prints from brain MRI scans [0]. You just convert the scan to full white and black values to represent different inks, and it means you don't have to do any segmentation and can represent fine structures much more accurately.

May be interesting to try with Atkinson dithering too, although the loss of detail may be an issue.

[0] https://www.lukehale.com/voxelprinting/
SUSE upgrades its distros with 19 years of support – no other Linux comes close
ShotSpotter does not reduce gun violence or increase clearance rates
Is "with a sufficiently smart LLM" the new "with a sufficiently smart compiler?"
I'll quote the second para:

The idea behind Bifrost is to provide clients a mechanism to create unique identities and register with a central authority, without having to provide sensitive information like passwords or API keys.
The README covers the exact case you describe - the `word.txt` benchmark is just a file with 93MB of the char `x`. The state machine is still faster in this case.
I think the list I wanted / expected was, “10 things we’re really proud were invented at Waterloo (that you may or may not realize were invented here)”
Incredible that his career spanned 60+ years. When I saw him in _The Dirty Dozen_ it must've already been thirty years old.

This got me curious about who had the longest career in Hollywood. Mickey Rooney came in near the top at 90 years. [0]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058627770/
> What happened to ML?

Well for one, five years ago, anyone doing machine learning was doing their own training -- you know, overseeing the actual learning part. Now, although there is learning involved in LLMs, you as the consumer aren't involved in that part. You're given API access (or at best a set of pre-trained weights) as a black box, and you do what you can with it.
This is a sixty page document. Is there something specific you want to call attention to?
I pretty much never use Facebook, but a while back I got restricted front the marketplace after listing a car. A boring list detailing the state of a car has to be the least offensive thing possible, so I assume some bot had an aneurism, but my appeals got denied and I was never able to find out what I supposedly did wrong. Something like this does sound like a good middle finger to them had I actually had any interest in getting it back.
> Sew

A needle pulling thread?
This sounds beautiful. Also sounds like you have never worked a farm nor know anything practical about working fields and crops.
I personally give it no more than 1-2 years before the starry eyed believers come back down to earth and start selling off their stock whilst they can. Then it will be exponential backoff.
>hence the cycle is net exo

You mean to say net Exxon?

Thermodynamics is a bitch.

Combustion of the pyrolysis oil, which is the oil the plastic is turned into by the pyrolysis process, is not much different than burning any other oil to release the stored energy.

The problem is that making the pyoil from the plastic as a "recycling" method takes more energy than it is worth.

That's whether money is involved or not, even though the oil itself is worth way more money than the raw waste plastic (whch is about zero to negative as solid waste).

Burning pyoil on its own is a gross positive energy source, but when you figure all the energy wasted actually pyrolyzing the plastic to begin with before it turns into oil, you'd be better off burning the plastic directly.

Since the pyrolysis process on its own is very gross negative, consumes energy not releases it.

It's just thermodynamics, you can't fool Mother Nature.

And I'm talking really gross, more toxic than crude oil too and you really don't want to smell it. A spill has a lingering odor far worse than most crude oils, even though some crudes can be deadly at first if it has high H2S. Since H2S is a gas and dissipates relatively quickly once spilled.

However the final pyoil product comes in the same kind of tank barges and tankcars as crude oil, and some traders can now handle it like this which is not possible for solid waste.

Turns out combustion and pyrolysis are two different animals.

Who knew?

Too bad Google may not help with things like this any more.

>pyrolysis itself is endothermic, clearly, since polymerization is extothermic.

There are also classes in logic for anyone who is seriously interested.

Also, most places already have plenty of taxes that are very insane already, you want to tax people's mental health even more? ;)

The more you understand about thermodynmics, the more of a bitch you realize it is.
I did this last year, built a zero player pixellated space simulator using pygame.
Remote work is very inclusive.
Personal prompting style, I imagine,
If we are being ideologically consistent we would sort viewership by audience-size and then start the bias complaints at the top (hint: its Fox News).

Meanwhile, donate to your local NPR Station. Its some of the best local/investigative journalism I've seen:
https://www.npr.org/donations/support
Writing an exploit is usually much more difficult than patching the underlying bug.

Half of the work in fixing a bug report is getting a reproducible example. Nay, more than half.

If there was a magic AI which could generate exploits, I'd imagine there would be an equally magic AI patching the holes right out.
I just make it up as I go
Here's the study page. https://www.purposestudies.com/purpose1/ and extensive details on clinicaltrials.gov https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04994509
It's double-blind so the patients do not know if they received the drug or an alternative. The investigators inform the patients of the risk and tell them to do what they would usually do. The participants must meet certain criteria including already being sexually active. The investigators would not tell the participants to be more sexually active, or active with more risky people than they normally would. The prevalence of HIV infection in the area is already fairly high so people are actively at risk already. I believe there was only very limited compensation.
MiniZinc Playground
Same. Called them a few times when I was younger. Never showed up, stopped bothering. The fire department, on the other hand, was 100% reliable despite having a fraction of the funding.
> And where there are several, it’s typically the ambulance who decides where you go, not you.

Don't necessarily disagree with most of your sentiment, however the vast majority of hospital patients do not arrive in an ambulance, or even through the ER.

A lot of hospital services are elective or planned (surgeries, pregnancies, etc) and for those I've found it very helpful to 'shop' for the best options.

Also, the one time I was in an ambulance, they asked which hospital I wanted my daughter transported to.

All that said, it isn't always possible or feasible to choose - but it's not because of an ambulance.
> Author sounds like a young person

I almost laughed out loud when he said he started working as a data scientist in 2019. Five years is not a very long time. And he claims he already had identified the entire field as full of fraud in the first two years of that!

I agree with a lot of the article's points, but the author took a serious credibility hit with me after asserting that two years of from-scratch experience is enough time to evaluate an entire subfield of computer science.
Public nuisance. Don't bother trying to explain why some statutory language you googled and skimmed doesn't apply.
I might need to watch it again tonight.
But, conversely, it also means that people in other countries who have genuinely lost access to their account have no recourse.
I hate when riddles are told badly and ruined.
I remember the original one which was not solvable this way and really puzzled me.
When resolving the one in the article I asked myself why I had found this to be much more complicated, and it was beacuse the number of bottles was 128 in the original.
"Trade" you for "tetromino", which I did not know was a thing :)

TIL ...
Prompt LLM to explore UI concepts, use tools like this to explore the LLM's output. The dev loop is getting so fun!
I'd go even further. Most people don't want to even be exposed to the news.
I live in Kazakhstan as expat, and locals are brought up patriotic pretty much like in America -- national anthem at school every day (I shivered when I learned about it, both about KZ and America), told they're the richest post-soviet country. So the movie that plays the anthem and highlights so much that he's from Kazakhstan (although he looks nothing like a Kazakh), looks like a serious insult.

(edit: to be exact, I don't mean he mocks this partiotism, there's nothing to do with it in the movie.)

I've been told that the true meaning was to film Americans with candid camera and laugh at how stupid they are, but to me, Borat is the only thing people utter when I say where I am, so it's pretty annoying.

OTOH, given this popularity, nat. govt could have paid some petro-uranium-dollars to Cohen for some tourism commercials.
I have come across projects called X12, Y and Z, but I don't think any amounted to anything.

20+ years ago, I joined a group of open source devs wanting to build a successor to X11, and I suggested "Umlaut" as a working name because of Germanic languages' alphabets typically had letters with umlauts after 'Z'...

However, we wanted different things, so we disbanded. I wanted to push network transparency with object capability-based security and SVG-like vector graphics. Others wanted something more similar to what Wayland is today, or even simpler: with 32-bit framebuffers like what SerenityOS has.
Today I think perhaps a capability-based windowing systems would best be built on top of a capability-based OS — building it on top of Unix/Linux would be a kludge at best.
There's no way for customers to pay in a way that induces a contract with the journalist to not lie to not enter a contract with someone else to manipulate them. Payment should offer control over incentive structure
> You could also have the next step be arbitration if I disagree with the determination.

Great. Now imagine that it was actually and factually a nuisance support request. It was user error and not a technical issue. (Because some percentage of fwits have access to cash.) Do you as the company keep the money, or do you give it back? Knowing that the fwit with 10k easy money will likely sue you. If you give it back you haven't really filtered much with it. If you keep it you can very easily risk more in reputational damage [1] and defence costs.

What I'm saying here is that what you are proposing is more of a liability than what it would be worth for the company.

1: Just imagine the headline: "Hear the story of this 87 year old cancer stricken grandma! Facebook banned her, took her last $10k and now they won't even respond to her messages."
Game programmers have all kind of wrong notions about C++ programming.
There would be massive counter-productive effects the moment a significant enough fraction of the population is willing to bring forward bogus lawsuits to use as a political weapon and for propaganda purposes. It is DOA.
I liked his role as the pyromaniac in Backdraft.
Could you point to an example of the eu enforcing its laws on a non eu entity?

If google don’t want to be subject to the gdpr they don’t have to do business in europe.

Howver their business is abusing the data of eu citizens, while getting other eu citizens to pay them for it.
I do not know a single high quality news outlet with values that are consistent and reasonably similar to mine. It just does not exist. I have no interest in paying for low quality reporting and/or giving money to political hacks who don't value the same things as me.
> X11 is old and crufty, but also gets out of the way. Once a few utility functions to open the window, receive events, etc have been implemented, it can be forgotten and we can focus all our attention on the game. That’s very valuable. How many libraries, frameworks and development environments can say the same?

This is my thought as well. You can even avoid some of the grotty details of this article if you use Xlib as your interface instead of going in raw over a socket. Basic Xlib is surprisingly nice to work with, albeit with the caveat that you're managing every single pixel on the screen. For something like a game where you're not using system widgets it is all you need.

Where people ran into trouble is when they try to add the X Toolkit, which is far more opinionated and intrusive.
Sam said on Lex's podcast that people should temper their expectations for GPT-5, not in that it will necessarily suck, but that they want to ramp up ability slowly over time rather than discrete large steps.
Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a coding co-pilot
Dell said return to the office or else–nearly half of workers chose "or else"
While it is usually great politics to scream that "our side" will reduce crime by being tougher (both side of the aisle take part in this) Overwhelming evidence shows the rise and fall of violent ( and other) crime based on lead in the environment.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-c...
Unfortunately, unscrupulous types realized how much money could be made from imprisoning people and billing both them and the government - there is now a large lobby that works to push the status quo and even to increase the number of prisoners. ( See immigration policy)
That's fair, thanks, I edited it out.
PASP is awesome but it just scratches the surface. You will need to dive into papers to make any headway - there is a ton of research but there is no "toolkit" for doing it because it's comparatively a niche thing to do. You will probably also want to reference the author's other books on digital filters and computer audio. There is also no consensus on the "best" techniques, so you read papers until you find a technique you can adapt to the modeling framework you've built, implement, repeat.

Physical modeling can be done on a modern computer in realtime (for example, my VST instrument models a 6-string guitar, with a litany of modeling features, at about 3-4x realtime at 96kHz, and I have plans to expand that to a whole piano at roughly the same computational cost). But you will have to be quite good at DSP engineering to be able to meet the realtime requirements - this is similarly high-performance as graphics programming or any other kind of modeling code. You can also build toy models in Python or MATLAB and run them offline, but this is not nearly as much fun.
When I got laid off (October 2022), there were a ton of tech layoffs, including big cuts at FAANGs. It was a lot of competition at the time. I did get offered a job doing QA but the position was closed and my offer rescinded a week before I was supposed to start. I didn't have a lot of options, so took this helpdesk job. Now, I am just not getting calls at all, not even phone screens.
There you go! Now I get it. Thanks.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/06/20/the-exponential... | https://archive.today/JuoYa ("The Economist: The exponential growth of solar power will change the world")
It's basically a lyric video generator. Right now I'm processing the lyric transcription on a server, but I'd rather users do this locally so I don't have to spend money on that.

I've actually made a few lyric videos with my own music, but I just don't want to have to manage the data of other people.
This is abject nonsense to the extent that I hope it is machine generated.

Sufficiently carefully written C can execute without memory errors, in exactly the same way that sufficiently carefully written assembly can be. That's not a memory safe language, it's a program which manages to not corrupt its own state.

There are compiler flags, sanitisers, static analysis, testing strategies and so forth to help one write something in C that doesn't fall over unexpectedly, but even with absolutely all of it implemented you still don't have a memory safe platform to build on.
Citadel BBS
How many coding co-pilot we have on the market?
The Era of the Line Cook
The papers should offer their own card
I had a subscription to the WSJ for awhile. I liked it because it is consistent. It definitely has a conservative slant, especially in the opinion section, but you can "lead the shot" so to speak. You can account for it. It is reliably and consistently conservative, and being conservative is relatively consistent.

The NYT or Atlantic or New Yorker, etc? God only knows what new thing has been declared off-limits/"problematic" in the online progressive world this week, and the tone of self-righteous goodness from the progressive media is insufferable.

I feel like Matt Stone from South Park: "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals."
You created a new account just to spontaneously share your love of Orban? He must be a great and very convincing person.
I'm not sure I agree with this premise.

> In 1984 ... everybody is miserable

"He loved Big Brother." In that story, nobody other than the protagonist considered that they had a bad lot in life because their basic needs were always taken care of and, in the end, Winston was successfully converted to a regular, party-loving citizen.

Of course, I agree with your overall point; people will welcome the dystopia with open arms when it promises to solve all of their problems.
I think this is what I remember reading (or perhaps a first draft that turned into this): https://www.wired.com/2004/02/stop-making-pills-political-pr... .

It was written before those drugs actually were made available to poorer countries for low cost for humanitarian reasons.
I read a little bit of that but couldn't discern what the actual problems were aside from some frustration with management. Nothing that in itself would drive someone to suicide, as you're implying. Can you clarify?
He's not punching down or hiding behind an ethnic identity, he's mocking the idea of someone being upset over a parody/mockery/comedy.
> Ag’s should not be requesting that this is fixed, but requiring it in no uncertain terms, and giving out massive penalties for every single time it’s allowed to happen.

Or just write up criminal charges and arresting the CEO of Meta the next time he sets foot in their state.

A weekend in a county jail might realign his priorities?
"adds almost nothing to the overhead" is not always true. In the example code in the article he kept the pixbuf in the local X Server memory for low overhead and fast performance over the network. SDL always wants to send the pixmaps over the network. This is not a big deal for Minesweeper, but can be tough for action games.
Ask HN: How do you stay organized for solo dev?
When working with a team, I've found that Scrum-like short-term goals and organized task backlogs really help keep me focused and on track with the work I have to do. For solo development, however, I've never really found any approach that sticks and often end up getting sidetracked and losing track of my objectives.

So my question to all of you is, what tools and techniques have you used to ensure you stick to your objectives?
As another comment mentioned, the differ is being done naively w.r.t. the color space. Handling rgb (or gray) values as linear values is usually wrong
Funny, Watcom C++ was the most impressive. That's been around forever.
It could be written as:

while True:
...
if <exit condition>:
break
Watcom was pretty big in the C/C++ world in the 90's, I think. I was only doing a little bit of C/C++ programming back then but I kept hearing about it.
Are we looking at the same thread? Folks there seem to be complaining the old interfaces are anything from outdated to confusing to simply wrong, and I agree.

I think it's totally reasonable for a program designed in 2024 to say it only supports ASCII and UTF-8 encodings. Whether/how it should support the full spectrum of Unicode definitions of characters/graphemes/... is more interesting. For a lot of backend code (processing text-based network protocols, for example), focusing on ASCII is arguably best (e.g. functions like isspace and isdigit only returning true for ASCII characters). For more user-focused stuff, most of the world would say they'd like their native language supported well. Programs written with both use cases in mind should probably have a switch. (Or parallel APIs: e.g. Rust has {u8,char}::is_ascii_digit vs. char::is_numeric, which makes much more sense there than having one that switches behaviors based on an environment variable, as the correct behavior really depends on the call site.)

Of course "say it only supports ASCII and UTF-8 encodings" is mutually exclusive with claiming to be a drop-in replacement for a utility that is specified as having POSIX locale support. This project does not make that claim, or even that it's intended to be actually used rather than illustrative of a performance technique.
I thought David Smith of Yorkshire, England came up with the hat shape and it was just verified by Dr. Craig Kaplan.
https://www.scope.org.uk/social-model-of-disability

> The model says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. Barriers can be physical, like buildings not having accessible toilets. Or they can be caused by people's attitudes to difference, like assuming disabled people can't do certain things.

> The social model helps us recognise barriers that make life harder for disabled people. Removing these barriers creates equality and offers disabled people more independence, choice and control.

> Not everyone uses the social model and that’s ok. How anyone chooses to talk about their impairment is up to them.
NPR has its flaws, but it’s still reporting news. Bari Weiss is just opinion pieces now.
> the sound from musical instruments

Pianoteq (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pianoteq) is a physically modeled collection of instruments (mostly pianos). Runs even on a Raspberry Pi and sounds like the real deal without gigabytes of prerecorded samples. Super impressive what physical modeling can achieve.
The article mentions that China has a military base in the east of Tajikistan and touches on Chinese attitudes towards islam and their behavior internally (in Xinjiang for example) and externally in Tajikistan. Russia appears to be unable to prosecute their own defense let alone the defense of "allies" as Armenia found out.
A service business is about selling employee time. Anything you can use to speed up the non-core tasks goes straight to the bottom line percentage. After that anything you can use to have management "run" more people also goes straight to the bottom line, as a multiplier.

So there is tons of potential in AI-based tools. Is it there yet? I doubt it. But perhaps yes. Anyone here getting traction in AI for business routine efficiency? Back office? Accounting? Time-keeping? Task dispatching? Email requests dispatching? Audit?

But also possibly, having a sales team running the simple cases (mostly) straight through an AI "junior engineer" before even talking to the more expensive guy.
> How are the static types

I think you may be misunderstanding what htmx does