skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given both recent-ish issues at Roscosmos, and the relatively-famous Columbia rescue plan - https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/the-audacious-rescue... - I wonder if SpaceX has a quiet "we will always be capable of launching an extra Crew Dragon within X days" operating rule. That'd cost money...but have enormous appeal to both the spacefans in the trenches and the Chief Ego Officer.
Do you think other compilers for other languages don't perform optimizations like this?
databento provides high-quality market-by-order data at a reasonable price, so at least I can play with the data, though I'm unsure about actual trading. That's why people including me like crypto.
Somehow in the West it is now an ideological crime to point out the obvious: that China has high tech industries, new technology, and scientific development. These are all things that they didn't expect could appear in a country like China, so they want the evidence to be excluded from the internet and labeled as fake news or propaganda.
This strategy has no alpha, best to ignore.
I agree with prioritization but seriously disagree with your low-risk assessment of plastic. We have very good reason to suspect these compounds are disruptive to endocrine systems and we’re finding them bioaccumulating — even inter generationally — in almost every organism we look at.

Those two pieces of information by themselves should dramatically shorten your window of when this stuff will bite us, I.e. there’s good reason to suspect at least that our current obesity and fertility crises are significantly exacerbated by( if not totally caused by) plastic poisoning. It is absolutely not a given that we have time to solve this problem.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_explanations_of_gra...

(but I only play a physicist on HN)
What's missing from the article: The innovation heroes will not only leave, they will most likely also burn out.
Ah right, I remember I ended up writing a netplan YAML. I still couldn’t get it to persist across reboots, and just resorted to running “sudo netplan apply” every time it rebooted.
It’s a shame.

We don’t see software engineers behave ethically in the same way.

Software is filled with so much risk taking and there’s few if any public pushback where engineers are saying the software we’ve created is harmful.

Here’s a few examples:

- Dark patterns in retail

- Cybersecurity flaws in sensitive software (ie. Microsoft)

- Social media and mental health

- Social media and child exploitation / sex trafficking

- Social media and political murder (ie. Riots, assassinations)

This stuff is happening and it’s just shrugs all-around in the tech industry.

I have a ton of respect for those whistleblowers in AI who seem to be the small exception to this rule.
> He was a bully and a tyrant, who's purported genius was built off the backs of far more worthy people.

Is a conductor of an orchestra "building off the backs of" other people? Or do the instrument players need to be talented and the conductor also has to be talented in a different way for a symphony to be preformed well? How about the coach of a sports team?
Breakthrough in Anode Electrode Materials for Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Fuel
> inductors, etc. which are also accumulators.

In what sense do inductors accumulate?

Batteries and capacitors accumulate (i.e. integrate) current.

Inductors differentiate current: v = L di/dt means you get voltage out of current changes.
>> Storage I have no idea. (for that matter, I have little idea how we store non-linguistic thoughts)

Efficiently, probably. There was an article about chickadees' memories, recently:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/29/birds-create...

Although I haven't read the original article.

>> "Hey, you, thumb-monkey, feed us!"

Well, they do stick around because we can open tin cans...
Yeah, I actually didn’t know that until I read the article. I generally don’t consider myself a good barometer of pop culture, I thought Cardi B was a Kardashian until like a year ago, but I still assume the fact that I’ve never heard of it is a bad sign.

It’s so funny how one self-help book can bloom into an empire, and then poorly manage itself into bankruptcy by jumping on a trend like streaming, but doing it too late and poorly.
Pretty much.

> It is possible to open doors in a Model Y if you’re inside the vehicle when it has no power; there’s a latch to open a front door and a cable to open a back door. But that wasn’t an option for the young child, who was buckled into their car seat while Sanchez was stuck outside the car.
The issue with this tech is the following:

1. Get congressmen to earmark grant funds for shot spotter.

2. Purchase & Install

3. …

4. Cops get a report of loud noises.

The only useful thing I’m aware of is that these are installed in stadiums or other mass gathering venues and can triangulate location of a shooter in a chaotic environment.
Perovskite solar module passes silicon degradation tests
“by code” what codes? Do you mean offered but cancelled bids/asks and things like that?
Sad story. There’s a Wikipedia page for him which also remembers his colleague, Derek van Alstyne, who died alongside him, both caught by bad luck in a building collapse during the quake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Anderson
Au contraire :)
Basically a blogpost tbh, and it begs the question by defining language as verbal communication.
That’s not too helpful. If the transition is really as easy as they claim, a simple console utility to generate a farm.config.ts from my vite.config.ts would go a long way.
The pubkey is shared once any transaction transfers out of an account.

There are now hierarchical wallet keys.

Which systems asymmetrically cryptographically transact without de-blinding the pubkey, without hiding more than the signature?
If they priced below human labour they might have their testing licenses revoked due to political pressure. Right now they're still in the testing phase, there's no need to rock the boat by pricing below uber and lyft yet.
We do talk about water moving down though. There is no reason current should be bubbles.

A rationalization after the fact is different from a reason.
Oh that's weird, I'm right now as I type this, listening to a CDDA disc I burned in 2009 and it's flawless. At least nothing's getting through the error correction; I suppose I could scan it and check the C1/C2 error rates, but I don't know what they were immediately post-burn to compare to. (I used to scribble the burn date on the front, so combined with the ATIP batch data, I could eventually build up empirical data about which ones failed prematurely. Never came up with enough failures to produce a signal from the noise, but I have all these discs with burn dates on them.)

DVDs were pretty much the opposite. I burned a lot of DVD coasters. Had even more that failed a few months into service. Dual-layer were so expensive for the good blanks, and so dismally unreliable for the cheap blanks, that I seldom bothered -- two mid-grade single-layer discs were cheaper and more reliable.

Floppies have been hit-or-miss for me, they're more susceptible to mildew if stored in a damp basement, and cleaning solutions are a you-get-one-shot affair since you have to cut open the jacket and remove the flexible media. But if kept dry, I've had decent (95%?) success rates from mid-80s-to-early-90s floppies. A drive cleaning disc is essential.
What a terrible article. There was one part that may have actually communicated some information though

>But by using entangled photons, the quantum photonic-dimer laser can maintain precision and strength over greater distances and in adverse conditions, the scientists said in a statement.

This makes me think the "photonic-dimer laser" has very narrow linewidth/extremely long coherence length, but also at very high power. There's usually a big tradeoff between laser power and spectral purity. A laser with a longer coherence length has favourable beam characteristics which allow it to be less divergent and less susceptible to diffraction from the atmosphere. The ideal propagation characteristics combined with the high output power is the story I guess.

Quantum entanglement contributes to the longer coherence length, which I guess could described poetically as photons protecting each other...
Remote Desktop Protocol supports those APIs natively and can work with locally accelerated surfaces (RDP is way, way better than VNC or other Linux remote access options, particularly over low bandwidth connections - it's generations better technology).
The funny thing is they have no voting power as there are so few of them.
SkyGraph shows the potential for custom algorithms on Bluesky
Coming soon near you:

- Game of life using Tetris

- Logic gates using Tetris

- Full microprocessor using Tetris

- Full computer emulation using Tetris ... :)
I used to invite mates over and move my hand like a wizard to change the frequency of the tones, not letting on that I'd memorised the whole sound sequence by rote and was messing with them.
There are degrees to this kind of thing, and this is far far away from that one (exercise: find one instruction in the code that can be deleted without changing anything else). On my (Ryzen 7x40) laptop it does run around two times faster than its SSD can supply data (11 GB/s vs 6 GB/s), and—to my great surprise—gets four times(!) slower if you feed it via (GNU) cat(1) instead of shell redirection (slowdown from piping from pv is below 1.5× though).

Yet it’s nowhere near being bottlenecked on memory bandwidth (theoretical at 80 GB/s, sequential-read actual at 55 GB/s, memset at 45 GB/s, or—probably most realistically given we’re not using zero-copy I/O—memcpy at 25 GB/s). As Daniel Lemire put it, “Data engineering at the speed of your disk”[1].

Unfortunately, to get that speed out of your computer, you end up needing to program any transformations you may need in strange, target-dependent, and most importantly nearly noncomposable ways. Compiler engineers have been working on the problem for more than two decades, but I don’t think we’re putting away our intrinsic references and latency tables any time soon. One good way[2] to explain the problem is that a single core of the CPU mentioned above (for example) has about as much memory it can access essentially instantly as the original IBM PC without addons: about 64 KB (then it was called “RAM”, now we call it “physical registers” and “L1 cache”).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6X8BGSrR9w

[2] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/26457
It's in rust. Somebody port it to C++ then it might be worth looking at.
I mean, the fiddly-ness comes from wanting to use inline assembly, which is often considered to be niche and second-class in most modern languages. Even writing the asm in the first place is full of footguns [0]. There are ways to reduce the optimization barrier of asm, and implementing constant folding is one such example. But I can see why most compiler writers wouldn't be that interested in it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607845
>But then... It won't f*ing run Windows 11 because it doesn't have a TPM.

You can keep using Windows 10. The LTSC version will be supported until 2032. Even the regular versions will get (paid) updates probably until 2028.
Combine that with the speakers picking up a GSM call setup sequence before the phone actually rang, and you were pretty much clairvoyant.
This somewhat related to universals and how they are view from Platonic idealism and Aristotelian realism. With language we capture a symbolic representation of the ideal form, the red apple, or do we just imagine the last particular apple we saw. Or maybe if you're really modern you imagine the molecular structure and photonic reflective spectrum.

I suppose chose your own adventure.
> 现在其中文版已经找不到了

Yeah, Griffith's translation is what I keep turning up, no matter what character set; maybe if I ask Fort Meade really nicely "The Dragon Lady" would be willing to samizdat me their version of the original?
As someone with Aphantasia, this is fascinating to me. There have been other aphantasics who report gaining the ability to visualize after mental exercises, and what you’re describing sounds somewhat similar. No luck for me yet, but I’m really interested in the idea that I could actually learn these skills…
The X Window System is still hanging on at 40
They do, energy can't pass through a battery on the way to powering something. It just skips the battery and directly powers the device.
AI Cybersecurity Lessons from GenAI
> All this fuzzy language makes me feel like I'm dealing with a kindergarden teacher addressing his/her pupils.

Very fitting… both the kindergarten teacher addressing her pupils vs Windows abusing its users have the one thing in common - people who have zero chance of escaping their control and little influence to chamge their situation. In the business world, it’s called a captive market
Immortalized in movie form: https://youtu.be/UFcb-XF1RPQ&t=10
> In the circumstances you describe, selection pressure exists for the species that can reproduce the fastest.

My point was there's no pressure without constraints. A faster-reproducing species will only apply a pressure if starts exhausting a resource or similar.
Mh, interesting:
i was told this is called "walk forward testing" - nontheless: thanks for clarification!

Exactly what you describe is what we are doing:
Since in backtesting, our algo works more than perfect - if we switch to "live-data-scenario", meaning adding data bar by bar (per timeframe), the system behaves differently and the results are a little bit worse.

Therefore my sentence above: During intensive testing we found out that most of those strategies fail (nearly completely) in real-world-market-scenarios.

Tradestation:
We have built our own app, we are aware of these "of-the-shelf" solutions, but they are fairly limited regarding what we are doing.
It's a hard limit to help people focus on their closest connections and catchup with their daily routine updates rather than following someone famous, that's why there is no follow, just friends, that too up to 51 only for now :)
I think you were right the first time.

If a particular 50% chance event does not happen, then the complementary 50% chance event does happen.
Oh yeah, holding a spinning Discman you could notice the gyroscopic force; don't pivot it too fast or it'll precess beyond the suspension's compliance and scrape the edge of the disc!

And that was only spinning at 1x; later faster data drives were weirdly powerful. I had a little experience with a 24x drive in a laptop and you didn't dare move it while the disc was spinning. Thankfully they never went faster than that in portables; a 48x slimline would've been dangerous.
In case the author is reading this, I am wondering why Dad did not have a succession plan, and was it ever discussed in the family what should happen after? What was dad’s plan?
I’m the owner of the site - does telenor provide any info on why the site seems malicious?
Really?

I certainly have used commit messages and seen others do the same. Perhaps this is more an indictment of the quality of the commit messages than anything else.

In my experience, rebase and squash makes it easier to collect work into meaningful groups and thus write more helpful/informative commit messages.

I can think of a few times off the top of my head when I referred back to a detailed commit message in a repo to understand why a change was made.
What makes Skyrim not work well at all for you?

I haven't tried that game, but I know for a fact that Fallout 4 works quite well, and it -- like Skyrim -- has a gold status on protondb.
1) I question how much choice an addict has.

2) If you were devising more efficient sugar delivery systems for those acquaintances as a means to take every last cent they had, knowing they'd be unable to resist, you're complicit in robbing and killing them.
(The irony ...)
Now that you mention it. I had near completely forgot.

I knew that site at some point.
but that's the thing - the whole point of AI for Apple is to try to improve the stagnating iPhone sales. I wonder if it will lead to iPhone losing some marketshare in EU due to that.
Linux Mint Is Building a New Desktop Chat App
I think about this mismatch quite often and the pay issue is sometimes debated well on HN. Mostly it is people complaining about fair wages like /r/antiwork.

I wish we had a balanced discussion from both sides (Company founder/owners and employees). The issue is complex and outliers are often used as status quo.
Despite the obvious hypocrisy how should that work?

Get the chat apps a list of these people and their devices to exclude them from scanning?
Appreciate your kind words about my project :)
> Think about what a negative force multiplier can do for an org.

Negative force multipliers are easily remedied: just make sure you have an even number of them.
I don’t entirely disagree - subsidies aren’t a perfect solution. But the current system is so far from perfect that I think considering alternatives is worthwhile.

I’d be curious how many actual world-changing innovations were ONLY pursued because of the existence of copyright, that don’t belong to a class of innovation (like pharmaceuticals) that could have a solution, whether copyright, subsidies, or something else applied to the industry as a whole. I don’t doubt that there are some, but I would be shocked if their benefit isn’t dwarfed by the innovation lost to the anticompetitive nature of patents and copyright.
I find it easier to believe that this is a failure of communication.
Maybe they did see the commercial value, but they were more FOSS-minded people thinking this technology must be free for the world to use. But I don't know any of the specifics of this particular transfer of IP.
Will the UK get the new features? Fingers crossed.
Well, again, I'm not sure what your prompts are, but here we go:

https://chatgpt.com/c/7ead1985-83be-4dce-9fd7-29aafb248f01

> The statistical model is confused by the superficial similarity between (a) and (b), just as Chomsky predicted decades ago.

Well, WE are statistical models as well. So, any too-broad claims on the inability to understand natural language by ANY statistical models are falsified the moment they are spoken (or written); unless you go into Penrose-style Neoplatonism.

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Vide your doubt if I find a (counter)convincing example. Sure, any benchmark of human vs. model performance is an empirical verification. And yes, some artificial models may struggle with some tasks. For example, for the Winograd schema, there is a leap between GPT3 and GPT4: https://d-kz.medium.com/evaluating-gpt-3-and-gpt-4-on-the-wi....

What it's (to me) is ex-cathedra defining what is the English language. The actual natural language people use is full of utterances that are not correct (yet are easily understandable) and "correct forms" that are rarely used and, if so, misunderstood by anyone save for those who put conscious effort (linguists, lawyers, etc).

For any discussions, it is essential to know if we are working with a real (and highly probabilistic) natural language or what of its concrete models (i.e., an abstraction).
PS. Should have been "NAND to Doom"? :)
Where can I learn more on this? Searching yields nothing.
That sort of "find the correct chunk boundary" logic was very common with all the mapreduce processing that was done when people still used the phrase big data.
Only problem with GDPR is that while the spirit/intention of the law is great (and it even prohibits malicious compliance such as consent prompts that make it more difficult to decline than accept), enforcement is significantly lacking which means it's still more profitable to breach it than respect it.
Unsurprising. In fact, I think this is exactly why their chats should be monitored and broadcast to the public. That is not the behavior of honest people.
Yep. They also probably don’t have that many waymo cars yet. I’m sure eventually they hope to blanket the city but for now, I assume they price rides such that supply = demand. If it was so cheap that everyone ordered them, you’d never get a car. That would be a really bad experience for customers and they would bounce. It’s incredibly hard to get someone to try your service a second time if their first experience was negative.
However, Tsundoku hasn't caught on, at least not in English, except as a vain example of language fun facts. If there was a need, it would be borrowed eventually, perhaps as a semantic loan (calque). We call it hording already. Japanese simply adds a work related to reading. I don't read Japanese but I can recognize the "speech" radical at least.
Old article. This has been already rejected a couple of days ago. For now... It will come back though.
Indeed, could not agree more. Also, using composition over inheritance is age old advice but that still did not prevent those architectural astronauts from creating inheritance structures 15+ levels deep. Luckily, newer languages make constructing such monstrosities harder and discouraged.
I wouldn't call this a performance bug in clang. It's an optimization working as intended.
I don't know why anyone cares about this stuff. You can literally do whatever you want on your private branch. If you want to make your life harder, that's cool. Just squash into the main and call it a day. None of this stuff matters anymore, like it did when I started my career.
There is no sender in Bitcoin. You consume outputs. There is also no "Public Key", you just need to satisfy the condition of the output script. Quite a different architecture from Ethereum where you have an actual account.
Gettng up to 26% would be a VeryGoodThing(TM)!

And the tandem modules rather than cells is also interesting, and I'd like to know how it works...
Here in Texas I'd love for more people to stubbornly obey the speed limit to slow down the flow of traffic.
Thank you for explaining your viewpoint. And I have to say I'm sorry, but you're just simply incorrect about this.

Again, it's clear English isn't your native language, and I suspect you're simply making a mistake about how English is used. Which is not uncommon -- I've made plenty of mistakes thinking that how something worked conceptually in English would apply to another language too, and then being corrected by a native speaker.

In English, it's perfectly conventional to say "the electron is negative" when you're talking about charge. It is linguistically and conceptually correct. There is nothing "fishy" and certainly nobody is "trolling", which is an unfair and uncharitable accusation for you to make.

Perhaps it isn't correct to say in your native language, I don't know. I'm sorry you didn't like this conversation, but hopefully you can use it as a learning opportunity.
I'm a security student. My main experience has been python and java....but I have started to learn c to better learn how low level stuff works without so much abstraction.

My understanding is that C is a great language, but I also get that its not for everyone. Its really powerful, and yet you can easily make mistakes.

For me, I'm just learning how to use C, I'm not trying to understand the compiler or make files yet. From what I get, the compiler is how you can achieve even better performance, but you need to understand how it is doing its black magic....otherwise you just might make your code slower or more inefficient.
Unfortunately not yet. I had more pending (paying) needs that conflicted with the patches necessary to support the AMD driver, and I didn't have time to backport the necessary bits to 6.7. This is no longer a problem, so time permitting I might try something in this area next month - need to deliver a freelancer project first ;)
Proposed USDA rule to require RFID tagging of inter-state cattle and bison