skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of "us versus them" statements, I encourage vigorous examination of presuppositions. The urgency of the situation could not be more obvious.

The claim "the public is ignorant" is oft repeated by industry-friendly experts in all levels of academia and government. But the policies of the experts have been an objective disaster in the US West. You appear to promote science that is invalidated in real time.
People still use gum in 2024? I thought it's a wide knowledge that it's bad for you in every single way
This article trips my BS meter for a made up story to illustrate a point. Of course that says nothing about whether the point it is making is valid or not.
Wait, doesn't Netflix have a reputation for terrible encoding quality at 4K? (I don't recall being impressed when I last tried it)
I am interested in the plastic layer with conductive traces for the antenna. How are these made? Do you know of a source that talks about the production process for them?
As I'm sure you know, there are a lot of variations on how quantiles are calculated in various software. The 25th percentile, e.g., doesn't always line up with a value in the dataset, so sometimes nearest rank methods are used, otherwise a linearly interpolated data point, where interpolation is done in various ways.

In any event, none of these methods assume normality, or rely on CDFs of a normal curve.

If they did, every box plot would be symmetric.

The fact some people think that boxplots are constructed in such a way is a pretty good reason to take the author's article seriously as for how boxplots are confusing.
"save the trees" is probably better re-labelled as "save the old growth trees". Would you agree?

Would you consider tree farms as ecologically sound? (I'll note those are intentionally over-planted, homogeneous, and burn like crazy)

Which key facts caused you to change your mind?
On the topic of NFC: my iPhone ApplePay thing taps so much more reliably than any of my credit or debit cards. Is this because it has its own power supply and doesn’t have to first be powered up by the machine?
ChatBug: tricking AI models into harmful responses
> You can get a lot done quickly but easily end up with something that’s dangerous to operate later.

That's my experience with all of Rails.
HHS/CMS is making forward progress, usually when mandated to do so by Congress.

Granted, whenever a new requirement comes into play, cue frantic scrambling by underfunded provider/insurer IT departments to support, followed by a few years of waivers from HHS to allow everyone to implement, followed by support a decade later.

But it is moving the system forward.
1.5g sugar per 100g is very noticeable, really ruins the dry salty taste of bread. At least I associate that kind of test with low quality fast food bread, not real bread. Pizza bread shouldn't taste like that, all the pizza I've eaten the bread tastes home made because it is. Switching that to the taste of fast food is a massive downgrade.
It is, similarly to how Microsoft Office documents can run legitimate/malicious executable code.

Although, Office (and most other software) will at least warn you before executing code/malware in such documents originating from the Internet.
might be good if it's not "auto run", but otherwise running code inside org-mode is definitely part of the appeal.
Yes, they did. For instance here is the source of the first quote from Joseph Le Conte - a paper from 1888 in Popular Science with him elaborating on why a flying machine would be physically impossible. [1] And indeed his article is in response to another trying to argue for the viability of flying machines, failing, but then holding out some "hopium" (to use the term preferred by our antagonistic poster earlier on in this thread) by appealing to the birds, which Le Conte set out to snuff.

The other quotes are likely to have similarly rich results. It was a widely discussed, debated, and trialed topic. Everybody wanted flying machines, but centuries of practice, science, research, experience, and evidence had demonstrated they were plainly impossible. Until a couple of bicycle mechanics, of no formal education of note, demonstrated otherwise.

[1] - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volum...
MIME, RSS, and Existential Torment
Next-generation perovskite material can self-heal when exposed to radiation
It isn’t different from other anti-counterfeiting measures, the printing just happens to be really small and electrically react to certain frequencies.

Part of the “software eating the world” story is the decreased cost of precision that enabled the hardware substrate of software to be inexpensively and ubiquitously included in any mass produced object.
BTW, didn't see it in the article, so here's [0] a link to SARA (Society of Radio Astronomers). A personal long-term project is to use basic RA gear - which includes TV antennae - to demonstrate detection of (strong and well-known) pulsars.

[0] https://www.radio-astronomy.org/
Much Ado About First Folios — the world's largest Shakespeare collection reopens
Flipside, you can get a lot done with rails very quickly, so your odds of success are much higher.
It is using a relatively old manufacturing process. It may be small but it is because modern chips are small, not because this is a feat of engineering where they've achieved incredible compute densities.
Emacs Lisp had dynamic binding as the default (without any true support for lexical binding) until 2012.
yes, that should be the goal. They don't fully align with the publisher who seeks his own compensation.
Well, that and Module#refine.
Yes, but that is not what the linked vulnerability is about.

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html
> The article title includes "the secret City of London." Without clarification, it's left to readers to decide what that means.

Generally speaking the etiquette on HN is to at least pretend that you've read the article. I've rarely seen someone so audaciously using the fact that they didn't read the article as a defense.
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed a big increase in the number of encoding artifacts recently?

Rapidly oscillating patches, blurry smears, it’s only Netflix (other video streaming services are fine) its getting quite annoying, a few times it’s been so severe I thought it was a problem with my projector
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1026426/global-chewing-g...

Since you haven't seen someone chewing gum in a while, I'm now curious about where you live. North Korea? Singapore?
I followed this guide and was able to do almost exactly that: https://matthealy.com/kindle
Yes, no, maybe. For people who are just doing glue code with no real understanding, yes. That market is going south.

For the high end it’s more complicated:

Comp (not salaries) took a huge upward swing because of an influx of VC money as well as a bull market. People at FAANG type companies could leverage their unvested stock to get higher comp at new companies. Let me explain.

Bob joins Amazon in 2016. His initial comp was targeting 250k but by year 3 he was going to make 350k due to stock appreciation on his 4 year stock grant.

Bob has a smashing interview at Google and they know he won't take less than 350k. So they offer 370k PER YEAR (with an initial stock grant) even though Bob wasn't going to always make that much at Amazon.

Bob works at Google for a bit, his stock goes up even MORE, bob is bored and interviews at Uber/Databricks/Snowflake who has billions in VC money and they offer him 450k (sure some is less liquid, but maybe he knows there's a secondary market).

Without a bull market and without the VC market, comp is going to be a LOT less for the top of band offers.

However, it's probably not going to be a lot lower than the bottom of band offers, because Jim who cracked google but didn't have a boatload of unvested stock and competing offers wasn't getting near as much as Bob anyway.

Finally, Software Engineer fuck ups are still very expensive for companies. So any profitable company that can afford it is going to to to pay close to top of market because paying 2x as much for an engineer who is even 20% better is WORTH IT for them.

It's just likely top of market is down a bit.
where is the Board of Directors, owners and investors of Earthforce.io declared in public?
Unexpected evaluation is never a feature, Emacs should at least warn and prompt before executing code in a file that somebody opens.
That is 538 days since the last report.

Or it could be 509.

Who knows?

https://i.redd.it/2laqohrg3rh61.png
This seems like a lot of effort to go to to avoid buying a trombone.

(Former HS trombone player. Go ahead with the jokes, I love them because I've lived them)
I'm watching a tv show, and while I'm sure a crying baby is appealing to a parent to the point they'll run at it, I'm now sufficiently annoyed that I'm just skipping past the crying baby storyline.
My point is that a lost message looks the same as an arbitrary delay.
Let's also not forget that only 538 people have actual voting rights in US presidential elections. It's mostly a formality, but one of many flaws in the US democracy.
The logging ban also has the effect of preventing road construction and other ancillary development that always seems to follow. I think there is value to the logging ban beyond just the direct effect on trees.
I haven't really looked into the security aspects. I think that you could clone one of the Ultralight chips, but it wouldn't gain you anything because the security is in the backend. It's a lot like a printed concert ticket or boarding pass. You could print as many as you want, but the ticket is still good for just one admission.

The DESFire and other secure chips contain a cryptographic key that you can't access. Without the key, you can't make a clone of the chip. The cryptography provides authentication and encryption that you don't get with the cheap Ultralight chip.

I think this is all market segmentation; they don't put more security into the Ultralight chip because they don't want to cannibalize their higher-end sales.
Additional conjecture: a device with upgradable software can take advantage of updates to readers and protocols. Whereas the physical card is stuck at the version it was created with.
I'm just guessing here. What stands out is that the extrema of that octave have the same value. I would guess that this means that things are probably especially well-behaved in that region.

If you look at the Chebyshev series of log in that range, you may see some very small coefficients.
Perhaps small guided parachutes that receive an auto-correction location from the RPi and track the mouth? The issue is that the gum will be expensive.
> I don't think corporations have any standing to lecture regular people on what's moral.

Right, and my point is that I don't see where Bud Light was trying to do that.

If they'd launched a nationwide ad campaign saying "Bud Light drinkers, respect trans lives", I could see the argument. But they didn't. They merely partnered with an influencer that's trans to advertise to their followers. If anything to me that seems nakedly amoral, they're just a business trying to expand their market. Existing buyers of Bud Light would never have seen the ad so they wouldn't have had any moral messages foisted upon them.
I believe people are confused because ChatGPT's API exposes a seed parameter which is not guaranteed to be deterministic.

But that's due to the possibility model configuration changes on the service end and not relevant here.
This is fascinating. We were just in Europe where we experienced these tickets for the first time. I had trouble with them; I was trying to figure out how to scan them because it never occurred to me that they might contain an NFC chip.

My wife, on the other hand, who is not at all technical, took it for granted that you would tap them and immediately figured it out intuitively.
I that worse than accidentally landing on it?
> Mentioning 1.9 migration and ruby being slow? Python 2 to 3 was waaaaay worse and more negatively impactful

Python 2-to-3 was mainly worse than Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 because Python had already won, and had a much bigger and more diverse ecosystem.
All Moscow public transport powered by these chips (actually it was, nowadays the chips we use are clones, made in Russia itself) - trains, metro and buses.
I think flying close to the sun is precisely aim of the game here. So anyone sensitive to it is likely to conclude it is terrible.
This is a lame criticism. One guy doing a silly little project to entertain himself (and also developing useful skills along the way) is far better than the millions of people who work in politics, industry, etc. that also aren't actively fixing the world and are instead actively worsening it.
[Note: spam link in comment.]
What's of greater importance here is not this specific security issue, but the default configuration of MIME handling in Emacs which can turn any unexpected evaluation bug -which we are likely to see more of- into remote code execution. We've had a previous Org security issue in exactly the same vein [1] and the Emacs MIME defaults are still unsafe. Of course, one can change them (non-trivial and related documentation is extremely confusing, see [2] for a possible solution) but really Emacs should not come with these defaults.

The loss of on-by-default functionality such as Org fontification in email message buffers is in no way as important as being wide open to trivial remote code execution.

[1] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/befa9fcaae29a6c...

[2] https://xristos.sdf.org/fix-gnus-mime.el.txt
Yes, depending on the state of the economy and more importantly the VC scene. I do not think LLMs will have any major impact to "Software Engineers". Software Engineers will have better tooling than stack overflow. So they will become more efficient. So we will build better softwares.
For VR perf its probably a bad idea to throttle the performance. A better goal would be to balance user comfort. You can trade noise for thermal comfort.
>Imagine a multi-polar world, with certain limited global rights.

Who backs those limited global rights?
I do, specifically Mastic gum.
This is the coolest thing I've seen this week.
So then...OpenTTD is the best railroad simulator?
President Truman knew exactly what he was doing when he authorized the use of nuclear weapons. He made the right decision and it saved American lives.

It's cheap and easy to pretend to take the moral high ground and refuse to work on weapons when you have nothing at stake.
How is that different than the transition from C++ to say, Java or Python? Didn't the higher level languages make it easier for people without as much technical know how to write software faster and with more copy/paste?
The Gates Foundation Grants $2.7M to Jeff Hawkins' Numenta
Writing better release notes (2022)
My doctor’s office handled the insurance approvals once I told them I was interested in switching me off oral PreP. I go to a pretty large practice that specializes in working with LGBTQ folks and one of the big advantages is they tend to be pretty good at figuring stuff like this out quickly.
Just got to 11 zeros with some beginner rust code! Gonna keep it running for a while to see if I can get higher than 24, but this was a ton of fun! And it was my first time doing parallel rust code!

I couldn't get wgsl to work properly, as it would need to have a sha256 implementation, and that's a bit heavy for a buzzed coding session. So, I used the simd commands, and that got me up to around 7mh/s on the m1, and a whole lot more on my desktop.

I will share the code once I get all the other optimizations I want in!
Sure--- I'm familiar with the bandwidth theorem. In general, a single narrow carrier with lots of energy inside your channel is more harmful to demodulators than spreading the interference over 20MHz, most of which isn't even on top of your channel (or, if your channels are reaaaaaallly wide, it's still just a slightly increased noise floor instead of a strong single frequency swamping your signal).

I've designed a lot of radio systems, built a lot of demodulators, and calculated a lot of link budgets. It's best to assume that people know a fair bit, here, instead of tossing out the simplistic dismissal.

I'm also an amateur radio operator, and I know that strong carriers are often far worse for me down in HF than the same energy spread out over tens of thousands of cycles; though I can often notch carriers, I only have so much dynamic range.
I've watched enough sci-fi set in space to know that there's always something for the ruling powers to find scarce enough to start wars over..
Show HN: Tsellm: Interactive SQLite shell with LLM support
Hello HN,

While browsing the Python docs yesterday, I discovered that the latest 3.12 version has added support for a `python3 -m sqlite3` interactive shell. I looked into the source code, and its implementation was simple, giving me an idea:

Why not hook the beautiful llm library by simonw into such an interactive shell, and thus have direct LLM support in SQLite? Without writing a C extension, build a shared object and all that fuss.

Well, now you can `pip install tsellm` and do just that.

demo gif: https://github.com/Florents-Tselai/tsellm/blob/main/tsellm-d...
Worth noting that the GraalPython implementation does support creating a single binary.

https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/stand...

I'm not sure I'd try replacing shell scripts with natively compiled Python binaries. That said, I use a Kotlin Scripting based bash replacement in my own work that has many useful features for shell scripting and is generally much more pleasant. You have to "install" it in the sense of having it extracted somewhere, but it runs on Win/Mac/Linux and can be used without root etc.
This is visionary.
(spoiler alert)

Thanks a lot for the game. I really enjoyed it and it got me thinking about the coloring problem.

I wonder if it could be interesting to also add some bits of the corresponding graph problem into the game. This might be able to make the coloring problem a bit less "mysterious", but not less interesting.

Some shower thoughts:

It's easy to see that if you start with an arbitrary "country map", you can easily convert it into a graph with the same coloring properties: Just draw a node into the center of each region, then, if two regions have a shared border somewhere, connect their nodes with an edge.

The coloring problem is now the task of coloring all the nodes, so that no two nodes that are directly connected with an edge have the same color.

The solution to that task is also easy to see: If you have n nodes where each nodes has edges to all the other nodes, then you need n colors. The more "missing" edges you have in the graph, the less colors you can get away with. (The location of the missing edges is important though: As soon as there a group of n fully connected nodes, you need at least n colors, no matter how many additional nodes and missing edges there are)

Does that mean you can construct graphs that need 5 colors or more? Yes, just make the desired number of nodes and draw edges between all of them.

So then, where does the limit of 4 come from? There it gets interesting: Because not every graph con be converted back into a country map: Only planar graphs, i.e. graphs where no edges cross if you lie it out on a plane have a corresponding country map, otherwise you'll get an "impossible geometry".

So the coloring problem "really" shows that you can have at most 4 fully connected nodes in a planar graph - if you have graphs with more connections, you will always have at least two edges crossing, no matter how you arrange the nodes and edges on the plane.

This might also explain why it is so hard to produce good visualisations for arbitrary graphs.

An interesting question might be how the planar criterion works for other geometries, e.g. if you lay out the graph on a sphere or torus or multi-hole torus.

Another aside: In real life, states are not always continous regions on a map. There are a lot of nations that have enclaves, oversea territories or for other reasons consist of more than one geographical region. So in theory, a "map of nation states" instead of a "map of regions" could represent a nonplanar graph and could have a coloring number greater than 4. I'm not sure if there is actually such a situation anywhere on the globe though.
If they're feeling lonely they at least know they can chat with their finance AI.
The Perfect Commit (2022)
I believe it’s expensive but I’m fortunate that right now it is fully covered by my insurance.
As soon as I got a few lines in I was like,

"So, a trombone... with extra steps"

(Also if you want to slide, any fretless instrument is good! )
I'm a little surprised that we haven't seen something more AI driven yet. (yes yes buzzword I know)

i.e. slice it not just into scenes but also into objects and do bitrate on that level. i.e. Face and objects in foreground get more. It seems we now have pretty small models that can do that sort of stuff (see Apple & MS ones recently) so should be feasible at scale.

I'd imagine you can also train an LLM on patterns that encoders choke on...chequered patterns etc.
Structures discovered in the Pacific could change our understanding of Earth
> Some bit of reflection magic which allowed objects to remove methods from their method sets at runtime would be perfect. You'd just use interface upgrades and you'd be sure that it would work.

Given that methods sets are...sets. I'd be interested at a language level, what it would look like to add some notion of set difference or expressing disjointedness in some way, e.g.,

type ReadOnly retraction {
Write([]byte) (int, error)
}

type ReadOnlyFile struct {
ReadOnly
*File
}

where `ReadOnlyFile` would have all of `*File`'s methods minus the methods defined in `ReadOnly`

restriction probably isn't a good term, I could see it easily being misinterpreted, but I haven't all day to ponder it :)

(edit: after publishing I realized `retract` might be more clear)

I don't know if it would ultimately simplify the problem or not, but I agree that having some way to easily mask or hide a method subset could be quite nice.

Edit:

I want to add that the idiomatic thing to do now would be

type ReadOnlyFile File
/ *proceed to implement every method you want accessible */

maybe something like the following could be possible

type ReadOnlyFile retracts *File {
Write([]byte) (int, error)
}
Assuming that it doesn't become litter on the street what is the actual impact of such waste?
So close once more lol

> 2. The CertificationRequestInfo value is signed with the subject
entity's private key. (See Section 4.2.)

I wonder what this means? Hmm...
Apparently the knowledge isn't wide enough, because this is the first I'm hearing of it... Why is gum bad for you? I knew it was in a downward sales trend, but I figured that was just consumer preferences changing over time.
The Rise of AI in Trackmania [video]
Of course "real" would need to be defined, because the typical behavior of tyrannical governments is to charge their political opponents with "real" crimes, roughshod them through kangaroo courts run by cronies of the political establishment, and then imprison them. The general idea is to ensure you don't allow something like genuine murderous terrorists from being able to emigrate to a hostile country.

I don't know what you are implying with the CO2 stuff.
Been reading HN compulsively since 2009 or so. About ten years of Slashdot before then. HN is still my first go-to when I grab my phone, haven't noticed any changes in interest.
Cool. Now replace hats with explosives and sell it to the military.
This is a fair point and maybe someone more well versed can correct me but pretty much all state of the art image recognition is trained neural networks nowadays right? A* is still something a human can reasonably code, it seems to me that there is a legitimate distinction between these types of things nowadays.
Imagine if there was 'old growth internet' and the federal government forced big tech companies to preserve big chunks of it.