skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They can't comprehend it in the same way that we can't comprehend actually believing religion the way medieval people did. It's not coming back.

Who's "we"? There's billions of people today who really do believe in religion the way that medieval Europeans did. The middle east is full of them, and there are multiple countries where the religion and government are inextricably joined together (such as Iran and Afghanistan). Sure, a large portion of the people in liberalized Western nations no longer believe that stuff the way medieval Europeans did, but there are many others who still do. The US has many of them too, trying to control government policy according to their beliefs.
I definitely agree with your overall sentiment but if you actually care about your project go with one of the 3rd party standard cell libraries, i.e. https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=dwc_standard_cell

With the foundry provided library you get what you pay for...
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> I believe this is where our cognitive abilities essentially run up against the incompleteness theorem.

I believe what it's running up against is culture.

https://hbr.org/2018/03/what-breaking-the-4-minute-mile-taug...

We are conditioned to be dumb. To be clear, I'm not saying it's necessarily intentional (though I am very suspicious), but it isn't physics or (only) Mother Nature that's caused the problem, it is our own actions, or lack thereof. People cannot think about consciousness skilfully for the same reason most people can't think about physics skilfully: it requires particular education. And it isn't just consciousness that requires special education, have you seen the train wreck that politics/geopolitics and economics are? Heck, we can't even reproduce any more in a lot of Western countries.

> There’s no way for us to define the system from inside the system.

How could one know such a thing? Plus, Humans "define" things all the time, there is no requirement for any the stories we tell each other to be correct. People (and the smarter the better) seem to downright revel in it.

> Like trying to define the boundaries of the universe (with the caveat that of course...

Yes, of course.

See how easy it is!

> just we never experience it directly

How could you possibly know the entirety of all human experiences? Let me guess: a story? Perhaps one based on critical thinking and science, that makes complete sense (so it must be true, as per critical thinking)?
To the contrary, this crowd is one of the most pleasant on the internet in 2024.

A prime example of why gatekeeping is necessary and working.
This is either one of the other universities or the old TUM campus. The computer science department is located in Garching and this also where many of their events are, as you can see from their events page.

https://www.tumuchdata.club/events/

But as others have pointed out they had and have many events in other locations as well. From the events page you can see that Google and JetBrains hostet them among many others.
> How is it at the expense of the public?

"According to the 160-page report, the employees found evidence that Mountain View was demoting its competitors and placing its own services on top of search results lists, even if they weren't as helpful." https://www.engadget.com/2015-03-20-ftc-report-google-search...

Then there's search results which are mostly ads and sponsored listings, not actual search results, and that's deliberate: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

And search results from content farms are prioritized at the expense of actual results: https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/google-promotes-sketchy-pr...

Ands a decade of AMP hurt the web, and publishers, and sites, and... https://wptavern.com/amp-has-irreparably-damaged-publishers-...
> every single site with user generated content was a garbage dump with 95% fake accounts.

This is quite the claim. Certainly doesn't seem to align with my experience. Do you have a source?
You're comparing the success case of donations against the failure case of profit side projects.
Re, the link: for those not familiar jwz is not a fan of HN. The link will show an image decrying HN as "finance obsessed man children" if you have HN in the Referer header. Copy and paste the link to see the article.

Re, jwz's point: I'm very surprised the article and the comments there have not mentioned the management coup at Mozilla. Unfortunate, but I think it just gets worse from here.
> With AI no skills are needed, you just type a prompt and get some result.

With photography, no skills are needed; you just point the camera and take a picture. Right?
Ah, I see. Well, the data has an intrinsic dimension of a specific size. You don't get to choose that. And, in any case, you want something quite a bit larger than the intrinsic dimension, because deep-learning needs redundancy in its weights in order to train correctly.
I always knew HVAC systems were alive! Guess I can finally explain to people why I got into hvac/building tech in a cool way… thanks.

In all seriousness though:

What else does a valve come with, necessarily, for it to be a valve - some form of actuation, for without actuation, it is just an aperture or a wall. It is actuation that gives it its “valveness.” And for there to be actuation, there must be some mechanism for driving that actuation: in other words receptors/sensors. Without a sensor, it’s just a flap flailing in the noise, pure chaos. Even a simple one-way valve, diode etc has this notion of sensory reception present physically embodied in its architecture (where the signal and the modulated flow are one and the same in the case of a one way valve). All that is just to say that we can kind of think of a valve as the simplest cybernetic system, ie sensor + actuator. And on the other hand, like you suggested, we can probably boil any cybernetic system down into a network of valves in some abstract sense, things that receive flows modulate them (whether discretely or continuously, analog or digital, soft or wet or hard or dry), and route them according to other signals, etc etc
Yes that is right. When we calculate the annual price with monthly prices, it comes out to $48 per year. I just reduced the price on the annual plan.
That is basically the business model of Subscribe and Save without having to build a product. They give you a discount because they bank on you ordering more often than you typically do.
I'm very surprised the article and the comments there have not mentioned the management coup via shogun CEO replacement at Mozilla. Unfortunate, but I think it just gets worse from here.
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Skeptical here as well, no one is proposing a serious mechanism for damage like "you left gate oxide uncovered by silicide so it contaminates the CMP machine" or whatever.

What I can imagine, is that the foundry only tests their magic OPC algorithm with DRC clean inputs. If your mask isn't DRC clean, who knows what's coming out the other side.
Actively in-progress, actually. [0] Since about 2016.

[0] https://gws.phd/posts/fortran_wasm/
Yes, the edge does get blunt. And you can notice it in close up photos. However, does it get blunt enough to affect performance?

After all, it's not like a knife trying to cut through a piece of meat
Help change that by supporting open platforms over closed platforms. It's that simple. Put your money towards fairphones and pinephones and not iphones.
FWIW I've had good experiences with Tauri so far. It's great being able to call back easily into Rust code and I haven't had any real issues with the wrapped web view.

At this point I'd start with Tauri first and only switch to Electron only if I really need something only Chrome supports or if I need to support Linux. I guess the webview story there is not so good.
You’re criticizing German for not already having the capacity in place to meet a future demand? It’s not enough that Germany is currently a huge net exporter?

“So the plan right now is to replace the coal generation with natural gas generation, and color the pipes in green paint.” - eh no. This is not “the plan” although getting rid of all coal is part of the plan.
A big part in that was ISPs who often enough deliberately killed self-hosting with dynamic IP allocation and asynchronous upload/download rates, necessitating hosting somewhere else, which came with an extra cost, either in ads or in money.
>geeks and nerds shouldn't be gatekeepers about what the entertainment is, or the literature, because that cuts out a lot of people who should feel included.

But the sports fans never felt this way, and were always happy to cut out the geeks and nerds that didn't give two shits about the sportsball game they watched that weekend. Why should the geeks and nerds need to worry about including the sports fans, but not the other way around?

>I think social media, politics, streaming services, etc. have totally blown away these shared frameworks in society, and it's kind of a bummer, even though it's great to have lots of choices. People used to watch the same TV shows and talk about it the next day.

When Game of Thrones was the new hot TV show, it seemed like everyone and his dog was watching it, and that included the sports fans and the nerds too.

>I guess sports is basically the last thing that's shared.

Back to my first point. I don't know any sports fans in my circle of friends and work colleagues (who are all techies of course). If any are, they keep it to themselves, thankfully.
People always say that like it is a problem.

I shit on Firefox every damn day, but that's because I'm a tech-brain(rot) weirdo. Truth is I absolutely love it. Firefox, or one of its derivatives, is the main (often times only) browser on every device I own. I literally wouldn't buy a device if I knew I couldn't install Firefox.

Right now, our options are a world without Firefox or a world where Firefox is supported by the dominant market player. Maybe that changes in the future? Maybe it doesn't. But a chance for a future that isn't just the children of KHTML can't happen if Firefox doesn't exist.

The obvious Apple in the 90s comparison comes to mind.
Highly recommend reading the comments if this general area of development (state of network "accelerators"/NPUs) is relevant to you. Regardless of P4TC, they're quite educative.
> Actually the one interesting point made is that nobody can track whether you're tuning into a particular station

That’s a juicy enough piece of information that they probably have something for it. Does the radio emit any heterodyne signals when tuned to particular frequency? Maybe a super-sensitive satellite, drone or other sensors can pick it up.

Another option I could think of is to somehow infiltrate and compromise popular short wave radio models sold. Make them emit some signal marker which would identify the radio station it’s tuned to.

Pretty far fetched but the three letter agencies have spent money on crazier stuff than that in the past
> does it get blunt enough to affect performance

Edges matter on ice. And yes, the difference is noticable (if the edga has been blunt "enough").
Did you release that and does it still work? I would absolutely love a way to test DHCP and PXE virtually. Or if there's a better way I'm not picky about implementation details.
This may be controversial, but I find 2-character indented Javascript, coming from my 4-character indented Java, for the projects I work on, as much of a shock as moving between braces and Python. Particularly if it has been subjected to an opinionated formatter that just doesn't match my personal style. Completely unreadable, I mumble under my breath. And then my eyes adjust to it for a bit, and after an... hour? (maybe) of coding in the (ahum) "hostile" style, it's familiar (again) and we're on our way.
It's a community project and Spotlight wasn't the first app launcher either.
On hard packed snow and ice, the difference is pretty stark. On softer snow or powder, the difference is substantially less noticeable.
If I’m watching a video longer than 10 minutes or so I usually use a Firefox popout window.
This place would be worthy of its own HN post
It's not funny, it's reasonable. Russian invaded Ukraine. I don't care about "phone calls".
> I guess there are cases where someone believes something "superficially" but deep down knows they're wrong.

Have you some sort of proof that people can accurately read the behavior of their mind (including the subconscious)?

You are making the claim, where is your (non-narrative based) evidence?

>> on an absolute scale, how bad is he?

> Twenty-three.

> To make my point more explicit: I don't know how to answer that question "on an absolute scale" since so far as I know there isn't any sort of generally agreed absolute scale for rationality.

The curiosity you exude is overwhelming.

> I'm not sure what the relevance of a debate between Neil deGrasse Tyson and Curt Jaimungal is to the question of whether Richard Dawkins is any good.

It is a demonstration of how dumb a scientist can be and still be widely respected if not idolized.

> You seemed to be saying that there's something particularly bad, intellectually, about atheists and scientists

Yes, it is the irony. Approximately, science improved upon religion, but they mistake their relative superiority/intelligence as absolute.
Those are only universal because they were so successful. The things that are most universal in the US are also the ones that have been the most exported. Hamburgers and fried chicken weren't common in Europe before the US was involved in European wars and reconstruction. Honestly, even finding high-quality hamburgers in Europe outside of the Anglophone countries is something that happened in the last 10-15 years.

There are a lot of things like that -- you find chili in Europe, but you don't ever find good chili. Same with, say, pies. BBQ even less. And zero gumbo. Or fried okra. And so on.

Ooh, here's a fun one! Craft beer. It's pretty interesting watching American beer styles migrate over to Europe.

(I've spent about equal parts of my life in the US and Europe, and am a pretty avid cook.)
Compact Discs with Hidden Pregap Tracks: How Did They Do It?
This comment is pretty amusing, seeing as Apple "Sherlocked" Watson with the predecessor to Spotlight
I think (GNU) Emacs bankruptcy is inevitable in the longer term
I love these projects but when I have had a need for a display at home, I struggled to find a case! Small displays complete with a case, that was also slim and of decent material, seemed incredibly elusive.

I suppose the modern workflow is to 3d print one: but perhaps other consumers, like me, buying a $20 SBC and a $20 display have not outlayed for a 3d printer... Or purchase a 3d printed one to spec? Unfortunately I don't yet have the confidence in the quality of materials of a purchased 3d printed item, nor enough familiarity with the materials and process to choose from the many options online. They also did not seem particularly cheap.

Most recently, I ended up finding a 2nd hand (refurbished) small tablet, and simply used that as the display for a small system. It pulls the display content over wifi and displays it in a browser, which is incredible overhead for such simple content. But it is slim, has a touch screen, comes complete in a case, and was cheaper than purchasing a similar waveshare or other unnamed-brand display with a matching case (where one could even be found!)
It's even harder to imagine India without chillies.
> two different Python programs show zero differences under a white-space-suppressed diff.

This must surely be a bad thing? How would this signal an unfortunate indentation change between:

if foo:
bar()
bar2()

And:

if foo:
bar()
bar2()

???
I would rather like to see a file explorer launcher such as Listary [1]. The ability to quickly navigate to files and folders is much more important to me than launching apps.

[1] https://www.listary.com/
Its the nature of the beast. For a while I used a custom ublock filter to strip out the recommended videos section, the comments, whatever I considered junk pixels. Now I just pull the video to /tmp/ and don't have to deal with buffering (somehow still an issue in 2024).
Small private communities are contrary to some of the most important, biggest promises of the Internet (and the web): that it would be open and really big. It was supposed to be a place where some kid in rural Africa with only 8 years of schooling could learn how to be a software developer, or where people could naturally find and join communities too small to have a local presence (eg people really into collecting vacuum cleaners).

I don't think it's just an advertising/cancel culture problem. It's partially a problem with the internet being so decentralized that spammers and scammers can operate with impunity, pushing a ton of work onto people running online communities because countries like India and Russia don't properly go after cybercriminals - even if someone SaaSified forums, this is still a significant burden.

It's also kind of a UI problem: if Google search starts to suck and gets filled with trash, as has happened, it breaks the core pull-model of the web. If Reddit starts to suck and get filled with trash, as has happened, it breaks the core push-model of the web. Together the two kind of Embraced-Extended-Extinguished the web, but maybe something like an RSS reader, different web client (eg a browser that didn't nudge you into making google queries as the main way to operate it), and more capable search engine would be able to fix these.
It’s difficult to respond to someone who claims that “Sweden and Norway both have recently declined to expand their interconnects with Germany. They don't want their local markets to be swamped by cheap low-quality power during the summer,”

Elections carrying electricity do not have the quality of being “cheap” or “low quality”. If you’re convinced that there is some measurable difference between an electron produced by a hydro-power turbine and one from a coal plant, then I don’t think we have any basis for further discussion.
> Like this site, one of the highest signal to noise ratios on the internet because no one has any incentive to game it.

There's tons of incentive to game it. If it wasn't, why would all kinds of startups and tech companies have alert bots and slack channels implemented to allow their employees to swoop in and participate in HN threads that are relevant to their marketing interests?

IIRC, the one's who've come clean about doing that have been fairly scrupulous about, but I'm sure they're just the tip of the iceberg.
I don’t even like to be in the same room as a decent amount of cilantro.
Really? Makki ki roti is a pretty key part of Punjabi cuisine.
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I'd also recommend KVM/Libvirt and OpenVSwitch. Especially it combined with Netplan it becomes trivial to set up and use.
I know who Lionel Messi is, and I read the article that he walks better than other people run (he walks to the right place, while they run to the wrong place). But, what do you mean he won the World Cup in a spectacular fashion? Link to a video of that?
I listened to the recorded message Matt Blaze links to and, as a native spanish speaker, what struck me most was that the female voice had such a distinctive Cuban accent. She does not pronounce it "Atención, Atención", but rather "Atenció, Atenció" which is how a Cuban would sound.
How frequently do you need to tune? I usually only tune at the beginning of each season. Does tuning also prolong the longevity of the board? This article doesn’t seem to address that.
Then they can sit around and wonder why they're having so many housing problems, and all the social and economic problems that stem from that. The solution is simple, and from what I've read, some places have done some work towards loosening restrictions, with good results.
Try taking a slice out of a block of ice with a butter knife. Try again with a sharp butchers blade.

The difference is quite pronounced.
Awesome! I think the next step for this project would be to implement a proper DRM kernel driver and device tree overlay, instead of copying the framebuffer in userspace.

For reference, take a look at the Beepy display driver module: https://github.com/ardangelo/sharp-drm-driver. It's for a monochrome Sharp memory LCD, but still uses the SPI interface on a RasPi.
I've used a Raspberry Pi 400, an Adafruit CYBERDECK HAT and a Joy-IT 3.5" display to make a small, portable computer for when I don't need a laptop: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/10/cyberdecking-raspberry-pi-400-o...
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I don’t do much backend work at the moment but I found using JSONB fields for prototyping endpoints to be quite handy. Once I had a feature figured out and working, I’d create a proper schema.
While “security by obscurity” may be good for some spy agency as an additional layer over a system that would remain secure even if it were published, most people are right to say that “security by obscurity bad!”, based on the known history of such systems.

The reason is that, without any exception, every time when some system that used “security by obscurity” has been reverse engineered, regardless if it was used for police communications, mobile phone communications, supposedly secure CPUs etc. it was discovered that those systems have been designed by incompetent amateurs or perhaps by competent but malevolent professionals, so that those systems could be easily broken by those who knew how they worked.

“Security by obscurity” is fine for secret organizations, but for any commercial devices that incorporate functions that must be secure it is stupid for a buyer to accept any kind of “security by obscurity”, because that is pretty much guaranteed to be a scam, regardless how big and important the seller company is.

Obscurity is OK only when it is added by the owner of the devices, over a system that is well known and which has been analyzed publicly.
Only if your purpose is to create the best geometry solver. If you're trying to improve the general intelligence of a frontier LLM, you're probably better off feeding in the synthetic data as some combination of raw images and text (as part of its existing tokenisation).
I also developed a word search game and was interested in a methodology for determining what words are "reasonably findable".

The best I could come up without going through the dictionary word-by-word like you did was to use data from actual games played, to see what words were actually being found by the players.

Here is the word frequency from about 900 days of daily challenges (about 15 players per day), ranging from TEE found 4636 times to LAWYERED found once:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OY32E-JyHh2C4A_1ADy4...

In this game the goal is not completion but to get a high score that you can compare against others (and yourself from previous days). So far I haven't done much with the list of word frequencies except an experimental feature where you can see stats about your game using "commonly found words only", e.g. what percentage of commonly found words did you find.

You can try the game here:
http://crosswordislandhopper.com/playGob
And the daily challenge:
http://crosswordislandhopper.com/dailyChallenge
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