skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you publish in a peer reviewed journal?
The analogy is probably something more like:

Salt is necessary to bring out the flavor in pretty much all food. So no one who doesn't use salt has made a good meal.

Because salt is much more irreplaceable than allspice in cooking, just like writing is difficult to replace in honing ideas.
US intelligence community is embracing generative AI
Why artificially limit the (historical) set-of-all non-trivial revolutionary paradigms to the last century?

Current academia seem to treat the phd (implicit modern) as a minimal barrier to credibility (which is curious for several reasons). But given the modern phd is a relatively recent invention, this heuristic ought to exclude every paper written by those who predate this new form/ qualification. Of course, historic progress seems to be revered most of all

The point isn't to suggest that the modern form was beyond historical figures (though I suspect given the nature of earlier scientific progress many might choose to not endure the modern form), but more frame the question "had they (historical figures) been conditioned to think narrowly, within the contrived 'lanes' of modern isolated disciplines, would they still have thought as they did?"

All of Hofstadters "analogies which shook the world" (surfaces and essences) necessarily depend upon thinking across arbitrarily plural scopes of phenomena, and deeply — with commitment to the premise that the deepest understanding of our universe which that they might contribute to the endeavour, frames an implicit "universal general domain" of characteristic forms which apply universally. This is the opposite of isolated special-domain thinking/ stay in your lane/ etc

Education includes learning and conditioning. I wonder if the degree to which we stress test conditioning impacts ongoing learning, specifically open learning, learning across (artificial) boundaries of special-domains
Hopefully your v5e c5l fund will be a good fit for my s5p.
Renewables are competitive with just running a nuclear plant in some places.

Lazard is US focused but they put running a nuclear plant at 32 dollars and the cheapest wind at $27 and cheapest solar at $29.

That's not including any refurbishment costs. I think France publishes some numbers recently for the cost of their refurbishment program and I don't remember them being particularly great for nuclear, even if they met their cost projections.
And to add on this, a method for testing coding abilities, which programmers think very little of, since it does not show how good some is at programming, only at leetcoding
> Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement

Is there any data on this?
It comes with a lot of flexibility that the equivalent AMDX extension doesn't have, including being able to queue graphics shaders, not compute ones only.

As far as I can see, unnecessary latency isn't actually a problem.
Or is it? Jepsen reported a number of issues like "read skew, cyclic information flow, duplicate writes, and internal consistency violations. Weak defaults meant that transactions could lose writes and allow dirty reads, even downgrading requested safety levels at the database and collection level. Moreover, the snapshot read concern did not guarantee snapshot unless paired with write concern majority—even for read-only transactions."

That report (1) is 4 years old, many things could have changed. But so far any reviewed version was faulty in regards to consistency.

1 - https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6
> Alien Life looks like you could easily get lost in another world with this simulation. I remember awaiting the game Spore ...

I remember the (deserved) hype back then ...
Thanks for sharing your experience and links! Based on plyer's GH, it looks like you could use it to develop an iOS and Android app. If it supported more APIs (like Health Kit, accessibility), I would try it in a heartbeat.

https://github.com/kivy/plyer
Trust develops gradually via making bids and setting boundaries
Yes but I had to work quite hard to get it. You have to find a researcher interested in it. I did it because people wouldn't shut up about being concerned about my health due to my sleep, so I googled, found out it was a thing, and then started hunting down a researcher interested. I'm afraid who I worked with is no longer looking at it, so I can't pass you to them, sorry about that. :\
Think in terms of projections. Take a piece of paper. Poke holes in it to make the word “TEXT.” Face the front of it to the mirror - it’s reversed in the reflection, but in a way that matches the backside of the paper. Hole for hole, they are projecting onto the mirror surface. What you see is the result of that.
Well alright everyone grabs a couple of slices, I'd say typical is 8 slices per pizza right, so that works out to 8 people, which yes is what it means doesn't it? (Not literally 8 but in that 6-10ish region?)

My point was if you interpret it to mean a full meal for hungry people a two pizza team is like 2 maybe 4 people, because 'a pizza' is an order, unless these are enormous fast food 'party size' type pizzas.
Protocol reversal is not a DMCA violation. Otherwise MS would be in big trouble for when they reverse engineered the AOL protocol for the MSN Messenger.

You can't copyright a protocol.

So long as these systems aren't enabling pirating these classic games they are free and clear.
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didn’t read tfa but my daughter has always hated cilantro saying it tasted like stink bugs. about 12 here’s ago she was diagnosed with celiac disease. It was kind of crippling as a family to figure out how we could holiday together outside of packaging and carrying along foods. We discovered Italy is extremely celiac friendly as it is a nationally recognized disease.

I wonder if there’s any correlation between celiac and or related auto immune diseases and celiac palate.
How does one cheat at the SAT? I get that there is a huge cottage industry of SAT prep, and while a little bit analogous, it definitely isn’t the same as cheating.
It does have UCSF which is tier 1; it’s just medically focused.
> for the new insurmountable levels of responsibilities right?

As it turns out, companies that don't concentrate all of the power and decision-making in one person tend to avoid ending up with "insurmountable levels of responsibilities".
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Can someone help me understand why this wouldn’t be desirable? If the sanctions are ineffective, why not pursue more effective strategies with proper incentives?
same thing happened in philly about the same time.
Maybe I was particularly unfortunate, but none of my human teachers had any of those features. There was one inviolable source of truth in my classrooms - the examination syllabus and the accompanying textbook.
Also: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-290-russian-doping-ass...
But RDBMS'es are often also distributed. So what is mongo now?
Hey, this looks fantastic! I really appreciate minimal software that does what it sets out do well without bloat. I noticed that your GitHub README states "Collect Emails: Create your simple mailing list". It just so happens that I just released a tool for completing the next piece in the puzzle by taking those email addresses and automatically sending a notification of your new articles to them in a newsletter (assuming Nucelo supports RSS). Check it out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898313 if you think it can be of help to you.
It will be called Formica but I have a lot of work yet to do on it. It is set to be quite heavy and complicated, 2+ hour playing time. If you are interested, you can follow all my board game design stuff via @RoscoSchock on Twitter.
Show HN: Probabilistic Chess
A fun new variant of chess that adds probabilities into the mix. The rules are simple:

* Each square on the board has a probability of successfully moving to it.
* A happy-face dice roll means the move was successful. Otherwise, the move isn't played and it's the opponent's turn to play.
* You win by capturing the opponent's king.

For example, if you attempt to move a pawn from e2 to e4 and e4 has a 60% success probability, you will see a dice roll animation. The dice will have a 60% chance of landing on a happy face and a 40% chance of landing on a sad face. If it lands on a happy face, the move succeeds. If it lands on a sad face, the move fails, the pawn returns to e2, and it's now the opponent’s turn.

There are some interesting changes to chess that comes from having move probabilities:
* Checkmate does not win the game; capturing the king does since there's no guarantee that capturing the king will succeed.
* You can make moves while your king is in check.
* You can make moves that put your king in check. This is a gamble but it can make sense if the king is on a low probability square.

AI Opponent
I tried a few different approaches. The best one so far is a probability-aware alpha-beta search which uses a combination of expectation maximization and stockfish to play. Everything is implemented in client-side Javascript and WebAssembly.

I put more details on how it works in this blog post: https://marc.ai/probabilistic-chess.html

Developing Probabilistic Chess has been a lot of fun. My dad and I have spent over 30 years working on programming projects together and a big part of that was focused on ML and applying it to chess so building a new variant of chess together has been great.

I'd love some feedback on this game.

This was inspired by Cameron Sun's excellent probabilistic tic tac toe that he posted on HN recently.
Hammurabi didn't adjudicate things himself, despite popular belief (based on stories about King Solomon?). His kingdom had a panel of judges to hear cases -- and the Code had laws to keep them honest. Apparently, the judges often ignored the code in their rulings, however, indicating that judicial corruption is as old as civilization itself.

But yes, not burdening the judiciary with frivolous trials is as good a reason for a high evidentiary standard as seeing that justice is done and the innocent not unfairly prosecuted. Part of the reason for the infamous Japanese high conviction rate, for example, is because the Japanese system won't bother to arrest or charge you unless their case is very solid.
very, very early on in Signal, back when it was still called TextSecure, they did actually federate with other servers, in particular with servers run by CyanogenMod (predecessor of LineageOS, briefly a commercial startup, now defunct).

https://signal.org/blog/cyanogen-integration/

It seems like this was a very bad experience for Open Whisper Systems which is why they don't like decentralization.

Maybe the arguments for and against have changed since then.

But it's not like they just refuse to try it for no reason.
https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilizon )

Also from a few days ago - Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717398
I just want to learn. I am finishing a small project. I want to learn from others.
This French company exports a few modern games…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft

I know it’s not exactly what you meant.
My kates auth zen operator doesn’t support I ate teenen.

It works ok as long as there’s nobody named Katherine.
Yes, but the model has asked that the community stops using this image. It should be pretty easy to find an image that can serve as a standard, and that no one objects to.
> We did measure significantly bigger memory usage with IndexMap and needed to revert back to HashMap eventually.

That is strange and I’d assume the maintainers would be interested in the information.

By my reckoning HashMap would be consuming about capacity * 10/9 * (8 + sizeof key + sizeof value) while indexmap should be consuming capacity * 10/9 * 8 + capacity * (8 + sizeof key + sizeof value).

Unless indexmap reuses hashbrown directly in which case you’d get something like capacity * 10/9 (16 + sizeof key) + capacity * sizeof value.
The source you picked was 2,000 words and did not contain define or any related word. Respect other people's time please.

The only creative interpretation of robots.txt I saw was allowing people to opt out of AI uses by disallowing Google-Extended though there is no Google-Extended crawler. This did not manipulate the definition of a web crawl.

The question was not why are LLMs bad.
Ask HN: Tech cos that improve e.g. transparency, fairness, true democracy?
There are many tech companies working to improve things like convenience for consumers (e.g. Amazon), or productivity for workers (e.g. Figma)

But are there any notable companies working on things that will improve people's lives in other ways? In ways that will improve society?
Shallow comments are always bad, but a thorough examination on what’s triggering that infinite loop, if that’s really type case, would be great IMO, regardless of what the article is discussing in the first place.
> - they are less interesting to small talk with because they leave little room to engage

I would rephrase this as "introverts are generally uninterested in pointless small talk".
In the near future you will have essentially free energy during the day or when it's windy. What do you do with your 90% capex nuclear fleet then? You can throttle them for most of the year, but that just increases cost per kWh until they're not competitive with storage.
>Interpretations of quantum mechanics are testable, they have to produce quantum mechanics, which puts a very narrow constraint on possible theories.

No, this is not what anyone means by a theory being testable. An interpretation of QM by assumption reproduces all the same results of QM. That's why its an interpretation. In the same way, the p-zombie thought experiment by assumption reproduces all of physics without any deviation. QM interpretations and the p-zombie argument are on the same footing here.

>These type of theories do not have to obey any constraint, and you can trivially produce an infinite amount of them.

This just shows a lack of understanding of what the p-zombie argument is claiming. Perhaps revisit your initial misconceptions rather than piling on the mistakes?
How to be the best programmer, according to Daniel Terhorst-North
Yea a cool example, and sure there are others around this time where "we" figured out previous thinking was just fully wrong. But the author then also says:

> There are thousands of other examples.

Really? Thousands? Are they all similarly examples of pre-scientific method/ pre-industrial revolution knowledge? How many of these "thousand" examples have happened since 1850? Why didn't he list any that have happened in the last 50 years?
This seems quite broken on iPhone (iPhone 12, iOS 17, Safari browser). Trying to add a task ends up blowing the model up too big and it’s impossible to scroll to or even see the button to add the task.
Aurora: A fluorescent deoxyribozyme for high-throughput screening
There's now greater capacity† in grid batteries than pumped hydro, and the former is increasing rapidly.

† note "capacity" has a sometimes misinterpreted meaning here. It means instantaneous generation and/or the opposite how many watts can be taken off the grid for later. Pumped Hydro can discharge for longer, but in a world of cheap intermittent generation, this isn't particularly helpful.
Wow, this has potential to be a major breakthrough. Just for spectroscopy particularly for Florescence based methods, including Near Infrared applications. It will also be nice if it finds use in optical networking.
Is it that they can't fly at all or is it just dangerous to do it?

The article says they can't lift off but I don't think that's correct. In the case of airplanes they just need more runway, helis should just need more power?
People don't usually distribute Postgres (unless you count read replicas and cold HA replicas). But well, people don't usually distribute MongoDB either, so no difference.

In principle, a cluster of something like Mongo can scale much further than Postgres. In practice, Mongo is full of issues even before you replicate it, and you are better with something that abstracts a set if incoherent Postgres (or sqlite) instances.
No, it's application programming interface.
I also used to go to meetups every week in Portland during that time!

It was great, free beer and pizza definitely helped me when i was struggling to get my career off the ground. Janrain had a great meetup space (old Nike basketball court with risers) with awesome tech topics that exposed the vast world of tech to a noob like me. Puppet Labs, Urban Airship, and New Relic also had top-tier meetups. Intel in Hillsboro was usually worth the MAX trip out there. Tons of swag, food, and opportunities for employment.

The real issue with these meetups is that the money dried up. Most of the meetups had recruiters who were desperate to hire and sponsorship helped fund these meetups. Now that WFH is widely acceptable, there’s little incentive to court talent locally. Zoom meetups feel inorganic and lifeless, although they cost very little. There was a gold rush feel during the 2010’s, but I feel like that time is over. Cost-cutting, outsourcing, and the AI hype are leading to software becoming a less prestigious career than it once was. I don’t see this optimism coming back any time soon.
> If I were Team YouTube, I’d get loading="lazy" on there to help with performance right away. No need for videos that aren’t even visible on the page to load right away.

This would hurt advertising impressions.
Moxie wrote about why they stopped: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
French here, never heard of any connection with werewolves. Only that it was either an immense wolf or possibly a hyena brought who-knows-how from Africa.

Note from a dive in the rabbit hole of the French Wikipedia page: it seems it was truly a wolf which was - according to its autopsy - 1m long "from the base of its tail to the top of its head" and weighed more than 50kg.
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Give Yourself the Green Light (1954) [video]
Brotherhood of the Wolf is rad.
This post is mostly half-truths, I'll just stick to the core errors:

> Of course you could say that this is a badly run company, and to avoid arguing what that means, let’s stick to the definition of managerial competence as the ability to set and achieve objectives. Whatever objective you are expected to achieve, a bigger budget makes it easier.

Yes I would say this is a badly run company, and for some reason they just glossed over that. Probably he glosses over the "set" part of objectives and focuses only on achievement, when setting the right objectives is part of good management. Also bigger budgets don't make every objective easier to hit; it's certainly easier to make $1M of revenue with a $2M budget than a $500k budget but it's not necessarily easier to make a 20% profit.

Let's distinguish between two kinds of management and managers. There's high-level strategic stuff (ie should we deploy this proposed product line) and more operational stuff (which vendor should I pick). Likewise there are different kinds of objectives. A bigger budget will make some objectives easier, like a revenue target or a shipping date. But it won't make it easier to hit a certain profit margin or return on capital target [0]. For-profit companies should always be focusing on returns on investment. For government/non-profits the overall principle is to use money effectively; measuring that is harder but it's definitely not making Tom Everyworker feel good about his clean code. It's delivering value to somebody who doesn't work at the org.

If the senior management has set terrible objectives, and middle management achieves them effectively, then yes, bad things will happen. I would call this bad management; even if most of the managers are good the management overall is still bad. Bad middle managers might be better for the org overall in this case, if we assume workers are all angels who dream of nothing more than doing the "right thing", all agree on what that is somehow, and agree with the authors definition.

On the other hand, if senior management knows what they're doing, they'll set good objectives. It will involve profit not just revenue. It will involve delivering products/features customers want, not delivering things they don't care about, and doing so at a low price. If a division doesn't bring in profit directly (eg IT) they'll figure something else out which rewards good behavior and doesn't punish it. And then competent middle management will achive those goals effectively, and achieve the goals of the org. Note that making Tom happy and letting him ship as much code as he wants is at best only a small piece of those goals, so Tom might actually be unhappier in this scenario.

[0] Assuming there are no accounting shenanigans involved, which again, is part of good management.
Because you rotated around the vertical axis to look at the mirror. If you did a headstand to face the mirror it would look upside down.
Where I live, self-checkouts almost universally have a "Use my own bag" button, that prompts you to place your empty bag on the scale and then tares it after you press the button to continue.
Given SerenityOS's stance on gender-neutral language[0], I think it would be safe to say the use of the Lenna image was deliberate. There's been backlash against using cropped pin-ups as test images since at least the 90s[1], this isn't something they would have just now discovered.

[0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24647

[1] https://youtu.be/yCdwm2vo09I
Shorepine/Tulipcc: The Tulip Creative Computer
This is the same as?
:
https://physicsworld.com/a/new-titaniumsapphire-laser-is-tin...

which has a readable :

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07457-2.epdf?shar...
It's the same rational companies apply when they pay new hires more than existing staff for the same job.

Both the governments and the companies are counting on the underlings to stay put.

While it is harder to switch country than it is to switch employer, the optimal strategy for the citizen/employee is the same in both cases:
Hop to the better deal as soon as there is one available - show no loyalty, you'll never get any in return.
>Mass import of unskilled migrants, especially young military aged men, is indeed net-negative

And yet this is what EU keeps doing to its own detriment.
The solution is simple: vet the talks, vet the presenter, and don't focus on technology that is popular for grifting. Sorry, but I've been to enough JS/TS meetups to know what's happening. But that world is full of marketing and people who want funding. Compare this to a BSD meetup or a 2600 meetup. Nobody's trying to sell you stuff there.
Counterproposal: Keep the Lenna image, but balance it out by adding a second test image with some opposite-flavored eye candy: https://i.imgur.com/TIMyJsW.png
Very nice work! It could really help with supporting accessibility. Cheap and useful enough I subscribed for a year.

Copying a color as an html color would be useful, too, for developing web apps with Capacitor, etc.
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How the Dutch became the tallest nation on Earth
That’s been resolved for a long time now (not to say that MongoDB is perfect, though).
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The mirror reflects, but your brain interprets it as a 180° rotation around an axis in the plane of the mirror, perpendicular to the line between your eyes.

The mismatch reverses the text.
You make a good case for why being on Mars is dangerous.

My point is not that it's safe, but that there isn't much to do there, and very little unforeseen happens.

I assume no one goes to Mars without the resources to live safely and feed themselves. If we're talking about some adventurers hijacking a Starship, I fully agree that they're in for a world of stress :)