skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Los Angeles Unified School District will ban cellphones from school day in 2025
My favourite flower, which I have just discovered: Phacelia (blue/violet color) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phacelia_tanacetifolia )

1) Seeds easy to find in most stores.

2) Each strand has an array of flowers which bloom serially => quite long blooming timespan (and damage by bad weather is limited if it affected only the flowers).

3) Bumblebees absolutely love them (this year I put exclusively Phacelia seeds into 1 of my 2 big pots on the balcony, with max seed density, and often there were up to 10 bumblebees at once per pot checking them), and I absolutely love bumblebees (they look clumsy, they're kind of funny + they absolutely ignore me, respectively when they happen to fly in my direction and they notice me they take a turn as soon as their flight envelope allows them to)

4) This might be just random or caused by some other factor like weather/neighbours/whatever, anyway:

since I planted this year Phacelia flowers and the bumblebees started coming I have hardly seen any wasps nor especially hornets (I've seen twice a hornet flying by, but it took a large curve from my balcony - during the same timespan at the other sides of my flat I noticed four times hornets investigating in front of the windows). Last year (without Phacelia/bumblebees) I had a lot more problems with wasps&hornets => maybe wasps & hornets noticed the bumblebees and thought "ah, already taken/busy!" and therefore marked my balcony as a no-go zone?

EDIT:

I recommend the app "PlantNet" for Android ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=829216199869931637... ) & iOS ( https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/plantnet/id600547573 ): take a picture of your plant/flower and you get the name.
Why exactly is it "usaglig" to suggest that this new tax is pointless, and indeed hypocritical in light of Denmark's other policies? (No nuclear power, punitive tariffs on EVs and solar panels, etc.)

The most charitable interpretation: It is political theatre. And that, by definition, is unwise and unreasonable.
In other words, Cloudflare is man in the middling their customers and hijacking delivery to customer CDNs? This time it was beneficial...
My understanding is that most current metal 3d printing yields items with significantly worse properties with respect to shear forces, because of how the molecules align compared to when it's melted together as a whole and cooled (or something like that, I can't find the research paper someone linked to me in the past here regarding that).

Do we know if this is better with respect to that?
I believe all of the colors of butterfly wings, and of all feathered animals are produced in the same way? I've always assumed that "simulation" has a local definition in the study of biological color reproduction, where light interactions with ultra fine structure at the atomic level is the default, or perhaps maybe on the time scale of evolution, the oldest means of reproducing color.

Contrast this witb a much coarser structural phenomenon manifesting at a level much closer to macroscopic is thus considered to be a "cheaper" simulation of that effect, in order to derive its same selective benefits but with less of a radical genetic shift required for the production of the right proteins etc.
A manual toggle is required for paid customers. Only free customers were automatically turned on.

It does show that you have to trust cloudflare, which seems like a safe bet given their desire to keep the internet secure.
Ohno.
This thread brought to you by reddit ca. 2005.
It's not their job to maintain it unless that was specified somehow in advance.
Are you a Supreme Court Justice?
I think you have enormous misconceptions about how war functions.

>Ukraine to airdrop pamphlets

Ukraine is currently not in a position to airdrop anything over anyone for some vanity project. The idea of the Ukraine penetrating Russian air space with the aim of dropping some paper leaflets is just ridiculous.

And even if such a pamphlet gets dropped, a NK soldier miraculously finds it, what is he to do? If he defects, he has multiple days of marching to do to arrive at the Frontline, where any discovery means death, then he has to cross that front line and get to an Ukrainian post without getting shot by either side and explain some Ukrainian guy that he is a NK defector.

The chances are just abysmal and the punishment for discovery are extremely high. It is extremely easy to imagine how this will end for any soldier, doing this legitimately takes mountains of stupidity.
The giraffe actually does look like Geoffrey. I don't know how they're "spitting on their own graves".

It's just not the same company. Not the same management. Probably not even a single member of the board still from the days before it was bought by private equity. That's literally how it works. They buy it for parts and basically sell off even those parts just to invest in something built from scratch, but with the same logo.
Setting a dangerous precedent, especially doing this by default (no opt-in) needed.

But then again, if the people who carelessly include 3rd party dependencies (i.e. playing with fire) are those who use CF... they probably won't object to it :-)
The real reason why music is getting Worse [video]
I mean probably every company ever will probably fail, it's only a matter of time
No it’s not. Go to South America for a lesson in corruption.
…and next time when it’s harmful they lose their entire business.

Doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense, does it?
From 6 years ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193750

It has some discussion in there as to why this might be of public interest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE

Speaking of fun desktop toys, Compiz effects used to be wild.
And I am sure that all of the fat people (myself included) are thrilled that a thermodynamic approach to weight loss is a proven solution, despite the fact that I have not had much success applying it.

I am also strongly reassured that XSS is a solved problem when using content security, and climate change has been solved by mass reforestation efforts.

The difficult part of a technical solution is not inventing it (although those are rightfully hard problems); the real challenge is in driving adoption of the solution.

The industry will push back on this solution for a broad range of reasons:

1. Cost - what is the cost of both the supplement and the labour required to administer it, or the differential on unfortified vs. fortified feeds.

2. Marketing - how will you communicate to folks that they should do this?

3. Customer Satisfication - does the supplement meaningfully affect any of the metrics for customer satisfaction (flavour, texture, etc of the meat).

4. Availability - retooling and spinning up the aquaculture required to produce the supplements

5. Viability - what is the ecological impact of the proposed seaweed solution, and is it a net positive.

I spent a chunk of my career as a researcher, developing protoypes and proof of concept stuff. One of the greatest things of that time in my career was developing something to 80% and throwing it over the fence, which let me ignore all of that hard work and call my project a win. One of the worst things is that out of that multi-year period of experimentation almost none of the work I did actually yielded unique products or improvements (although the tools I built did drive improvements to address issues and flaws found).

Assuming that you did the research, your work was definitely successful in finding a solution. You have not solved the problem, and the hard work is very much ahead.
I come from the complete opposite side: I have been writing some concurrentML code in guile scheme recently, and it has really made me understand why I always disliked go's channels.

There are just so many things that are just slightly wrong to make it unpleasant. Better than many other things, but still kind of frustrating. I really think unbuffered channels should have been the default.
"Hydrate" is much older than 2020. Here's a StackOverflow reference from 2011 [1], for instance. I first heard it used around that time, for loading objects from databases (in a banking context).

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/4929478
Also think so. Plenty of fish are vibrant blue, the blue whale is grayish blue but still blue.

Also plenty of birds are blue are they not?

And I totally forgot about butterflies and other insects as well
True, but they say "we decided". That implies they could also have decided to turn it on immediately. And they did for the log4j and Shellshock issues.
I totally get the intention behind this and the final outcome is definitely a safer internet. It's also somewhat justified considering the author has mentioned they never controlled its domain, yet the library has been distributed through that domain, correct? This is a reflection of the extremely poor security practices in the web development world.

At the same time, there is a wrongness in Cloudflare being able to overwrite content and changing the 'truth'. I'm like that larry david gif, I just don't know how to process this.

One more thing to note, if you go to the polyfill repo, they've also mentioned they're using Cloudflare to distribute the library.

https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/...
Plot twist, you are competing against several dozen pigeons in Central Park.
Could perhaps UW (for instance) EE or CS alumni arrange to bid and give the collection to the department at UW across town?
Whoops. Need to replace that abs with a max 1. Otherwise it doesn't Always terminate. Remember to check your boundary conditions!
I agree. There's no moral or ethical difference in any way.

Unfortunately for us, the law routinely does see a substantial difference and treats them as such. Due to that, the SCOTUS sees them as different and judges that a law on one is not automatically a law on the other.

In other words, to ban a thing you actually need to specifically ban a thing and not just something that feels ethically like the thing you want to ban.
Cool but after waiting 2 mins for a one sentence prompt I got;

We have analyzed 1681 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 2 minutes ago and took 1 minute and 42 seconds to complete.
Important bit from the article:

When white light strikes a blue feather, the keratin pattern causes red and yellow wavelengths to cancel each other out, while blue wavelengths of light reinforce and amplify one another and reflect back to the beholder’s eye … [D]ifferent shapes and sizes of these air pockets and keratin make different shades of blue.”
For a start, I would be okay with 1) limiting campaign contributions to real people, 2) capping the amount at something most middle class Americans could comfortably afford, and 3) similarly capping total contributions to any PAC.

Equating money with free speech is a mistake in my view. It is explicitly saying we believe each person's value to society is strictly their net worth. For political purposes I think everyone should have an equally powerful vote, and I include campaign contributions in that.
"They" have considered it and tried it, but had to revert the change. Dash is in Debian primarily for scripts, not for interactive usage. If you want to use dash with libedit, you have to compile it yourself, unfortunately.
Honestly? I'm tied of online platforms. They are totally inflexible by nature, they are more and more designed in childish style representing anything easy while missing user control. This IT model, not your creation to be clear but the model, is unsustainable.

What's needed to teach in the present world?

- first teach to use a damn desktop, the MIT Missing Semester should be considered the NORM for ALL "middle-level" (sorry, any countries have it's names and division, meaning for people between around 12 and around 18) WAY before university. No one unable to takes notes, handle his/her own files, able to typeset a decent looking document with small potatoes automation (meaning no Office crap), plotting a simple graph, writing a simple math formula, handling *sv files in simple ways, unable to properly use emails, most common fields and netiquette etc should even be admitted to the university;

- secondly lessons online should be a video like a lectio magistralis, with relevant examples like https://www.youtube.com/user/AlgoRythmics/videos etc where the student listen, take notes, understand, possibly in the evening to fix better memories sleeping at night, than in the morning a small personal recap to prepare {him,her}self teaching a lesson to his own teachers, even some randomly selected ones who know the topic but do not know the video/specific lesson. They listen and ask questions testing the student understatement, while this process teach how to talk, how to take notes, how to get ready to interact with others;

- assignments, projects etc should be done FLOSS style with FLOSS tools chosen by the students themselves among a suggested sets or something they discover alone, because they must explore and learn the world is vary.

All the above do not demand specific web platforms, at maximum a video sharing DESKTOP app PopcornTime (Torrent) style, a classic public discussion system like Usenet with school specific and nationwide groups per class, emails possibly used LOCALLY meaning a desktop MUA on a local maildir and so on because in 2024 people MUST know how to use a desktop not being just able to click around like today workers. Schools must form Citizens not workers. Oh, of course Citizens are also workers, but far more. Similarly a platform must not be a closed tool with fixed rails. What if I just want do set some "notifications" at specific computed dates? Where is the ability to quickly define a date expression like Emacs/org-agenda offer? What about quickly produce math and code and evaluate live in a whiteboard alike tool? User programming MUST be again a thing. That's what we need IMVHO to teach future generations of people able to produce future tech and human evolution.
What about swapping out neo4j for EdgeDB? Then you get to keep using Postgres with PG vector, and get knowledge graph all in one shot.
Aligning LLM-as-a-Judge with Human Preferences
> that congress has been in deadlock for partisan reasons.

If Congress is in deadlock, that means that Americans cannot agree on the rules. In that case, yes... no rules ought to be made, because it's not going to represent American's interests writ large.

You are actually arguing that rules should be made up by unelected bureaucrats while admitting that the representatives substantially disagree on those rules and would not be able to legislate them themselves.

That means you are asking bureaucrats to go against the collective will of democratically elected representatives.
Well, good answers to that question here will be tomorrow’s valuable Google search results.
How eBPF is shaping the future of Linux and platform engineering
Oh you'll find out alright... when it's too late. I'm just waiting for a year or two from now when companies realize what a colossal hole they dug themselves in using a bunch of AI generated crap in production.

We're already seeing it with marketing copy.
Not just colored blue, but embedded metal to be detectable

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5dg5qs/til_t...
The timeline might be compressed for crypto, but this seems to be true for banks as well.

Looking back to the financial history of the 1800s, it seems to be the case that it is only the massive intervention of government beginning in the 1900s and especially after the Great Depression -- in particular aggressive regulation and oversight, central bank systems, deposit insurance -- that prevents perennial banking failures. And it happens anyway: see 2008. Reportedly, even the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank threatened contagion before the FDIC made the extraordinary decision to protect balances in excess of $250k.

So really, it appears to me that crypto is merely an immature financial system that is learning the lessons of legacy finance in an accelerated fashion.
A to do list for bureaucrats! You can monetize this with a federal or f100 contract
Design is different. It's become literally just whatever the boss likes.

You can tell me about the math, theories and laws but look around you, nobody cares about those any more.
True, but that works only for the current round of hardware. NVIDIA will be around for the next decade to support future clusters, too.
Depends on the details. My spouse was a local elected official in California, which has significant gift reporting requirements for those who hold local or state office (not federal office holders though). Staying at a friend's ranch, would likely fall under a limited gift exception [1], and would not usually be reportable:

> 1. Home Hospitality. Gifts of hospitality including food, drink or occasional lodging that an official
receives in an individual’s home when the individual or a member of their family is present. (Regulation
18942(a)(7).) Such hospitality provided by a lobbyist is a gift unless the home hospitality is related to
another purpose unconnected with the lobbyist’s professional activities. Generally, this means functions
like children’s birthday parties, soccer team parties, neighborhood barbeques, etc., where other guests
attend who are not part of the lobbying process. (Regulation 18942.2.)

or if the friend were not present, it may fall under this one...

> 6. Long-Time Friend. Benefits received from a long-time personal friend where the gift is unrelated to the
official’s duties. The exception does not apply if the individual providing the benefit to the official is
involved in some manner with business before the official. (Regulation 18942(a)(18)(C).) This exception
does not apply if the person providing the benefit to the official is an individual who otherwise has
business before the official as set forth in Regulation 18942(a)(18)(D).

Note that long-time friend is more restrictive than home hospitality while a family member is present. I would interpret this to mean that if your family friend has business related to your official position, you wouldn't need to report the stay if they were there, but if you stayed at their ranch while they weren't there, you would. Either way, if they had business with your position, I'd avoid the stay --- but my spouse was in a very limited scope office, so other than neighbors, nobody we knew had any reason to be involved in official business.

[1] https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/gi...
Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app (2020)
I also did something similar 14 years ago. It was a php website that allowed you to subscribe to online newspapers and get the news sent to your Kindle, in MOBI format. It worked but it was basically calling calibre under the hood. I never made it public (and I remember a similar website existed already at that time that did not work well)
I understand all the negativity, but to me CF has provided a least bad immediate solution.
i have a vague memory of either my dad or grandfather working on a car and holding on to a sparkplug to see if it not firing was the cause of the problem. I remember them dropping it and shaking their hands like they touched something hot and saying "no, that's not it" hah.
They're a US based man-in-the-middle for large parts of the internet at the mercy of the America's secretive FISA Court. There is no way they don't have a Room 641A.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Arguably before bribes were more hidden, and when brought to light they were more often procecuted or at last shamed folks out of office. See Abe Fortas
Fake Elon Musk livestreams promoting crypto scams keep popping up on YouTube
The linked article is two days old, yet YouTube is still full of these scam live streams. See for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tesla+unveils+a...

Considering how ruthless the automated copyrighted content detection is at YouTube, do we really believe Google is incapable of automatically detecting and removing these scam live streams, let alone manually removing them?
> It's literally brought about the longest period of peace between major world powers, in basically the entire history of civilization.

What may look to you like peace is still a mexican standoff. On small time scales no one is firing a weapon but it's not an environment I'd call peaceful.

> At the end of the day human conflict is rooted in simple physics and biology. We compete for a limited set of resources. Even if everyone had every resource they wanted, they'd still compete for sexual partners. You're not going to fix biology or physics. If you have an issue with this, I'd suggest filing a complaint with God.

I don't think using physics to explain warfare would be simple at all. Biologically, I agree that situational constraints sometimes do potentiate conflict. But my complaint is firmly with humans, not some made-up external force they imagine to be responsible. If you would use violence to obtain sexual partners that's on you, not God.

I'm not suggesting that people ignore real constraints, that would be as irrational as ignoring the consequences of actions. I'm also not claiming to have a formula, or system to achieve this. I'm saying we discount the possibility of anything new or different at our own peril. I just can't accept that "God made us violent, so stop worrying and love the bomb" is the only conclusion a truly serious person could come to.

> What is your comment? No one can choose on behalf of others. You can only choose on behalf of yourself. Hence the issue.

I agree that there is no simple solution to ending humanity's destructive tendencies because society cannot change from the top down, only the bottom up (or inside out if you prefer).
I didn’t check, but iirc it was an fp16 model checkpoint which we converted to int8 for inference, so I assume 140GB?
This is how it should have been done to begin with.
At the same time, there’s a Show HN on the front page today with an app that lets you buy people’s email addresses, packaged as an innovation in AI powered search.
I don't understand, where is the AI + LLM part
> e.g. part-time front-line customer service will prefix a statement with "uhhh..." if they don't actually know what they're talking about, even if they do have trouble answering accurately

You can literally prompt GPT4 "Prefix a statement with uhhhh if you don't know what you are talking about" and get similar behavior.
And then a second more simple
Query ‘find me people who have posted on Mamba architecture and might be looking for jobs’ and got;

We have analyzed 695 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 1 minute ago and took 50 seconds to complete.
Attempts were made to close the campaign funding loophole in the US. Sadly the supreme Court says money is speech and cannot be restricted.
I had never heard of Google drawing until now. Interesting.
Federal whistleblowers are entitled to damages of missed future pay, court rules
Yep lots of companies are (rightfully) being careful about 3rd party AI tools. You're sending valuable company assets or in some cases even PII (though probably not for Figma) to another party and you're basically hoping they aren't being careless.

Total security (and possibly legal) nightmare.