skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is also true of clauses in grammar. the use of clauses makes it possible to write an infinite number of sentences using a finite number of words, each of which is drawn from a finite vocabulary, but whose assemblages are more infinite than the stars in the sky which so drew the attention of archimedes when he approximated the finite number of grains of sand that would be required to fill up the observable universe, a calculation which unfortunately he got low by several orders of magnitude due to an unfortunate lack of evidence for the hypothesis that the stars were other suns, not to mention the idea that some of the nebulae in the sky were entire galaxies of other stars, a fact which wasn't known until only a century ago

the previous sentence contains 125 words, and it should be evident that it could be extended indefinitely in any known human language (except possibly pirahã) without doing any violence to the rules of grammar, though perhaps great violence to the canons of courtesy to readers. if we use shannon's early estimate of 11.82 bits of entropy per english word, in english there are about 2¹⁴⁷⁸ ≈ 10⁴⁴⁵ perfectly unremarkable sentences of that precise length, a number which (it should be evident) grows exponentially with the sentence length

so, while i agree this concept is genius, it is part of the invention of language as we know it, and no isolated human tribe without language has ever been discovered. it probably dates to so-called behavioral modernity, at least 50000 years ago—probably longer than that
you are missing the point: if you don't have a business case for spending $1k/year then your problem is not worth solving
Async Dataflows in Hamilton
Hey folks! Wrote a post on using Hamilton's async integration to build lightweight, scalable, and self-documenting LLM pipelines in python. Would love feedback/interest!
Show HN: Personal website inspired by Apple notes
i stan apple notes, so i built a new personal website to look, feel, & work just like it. it's fast, fully interactive, & can be navigated entirely via keyboard shortcuts. it was a lot of fun to build. i wrote more about the implementation in the linked page.

check it out!
Indeed it has with iodine[0] being a popular example.

[0] https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
Sounds like a good argument for using a CDN. Or to phrase it more generally, an intermediary that is as close as possible to the host experiencing the fluctuating bandwidth bottleneck, while still being on the other side of the bottleneck. That way it can detect bandwidth drops quickly and handle them more intelligently than by dropping packets - for instance, by switching to a lower quality video stream (or even re-encoding on the fly).
Most financial technologies take years if not decades to fully propagate through the system.

Contactless cards in the US for example, first rolled out in 2007.
I suspect this is an internal sabotage from devs not agreeing with it - plaintext is easily observable and people can figure it out, causing a PR damage; encrypted passwords are basically untraceable.
It’s illegal to dispose of your EV battery in such a way that it ends up in landfill. At least in the EU. It’s also very dumb as companies would me missing out on a lot of money by processing those batteries for their precious components.

Most of the lithium ion waste comes from consumer electronics still, not EV. Things like laptops and phones being tossed, instead of taken to appropriate recycling facilities. I think this will change in time as it becomes more normalized to do so, maybe even a dedicated “electronics collection pickup” recycling program.
Example #4,928,422,857 of people's inability to think about rapidly changing quantities.
If we treat specifications written in gherkin syntax [0] as documentation, then the cucumber framework can match a line or stanza of gherkin to a test function [1].

I admit that, while I write instructions for how to test specific functionality in gherkin, our company would not countenance publishing a non-narrative description of the system's behavior to our client's employees.

[0] https://www.manning.com/books/writing-great-specifications

Given a work order xx
and xx isExpedite
When an operator prints the jobcard
Then expect a label in the footer that says Expedite

[1] https://cucumber.io/docs/cucumber/step-definitions/?lang=jav...
No, Log10(infinity) = infinity.

It allows us to represent numbers using log symbols. Symbols required = O(log10(N)). Or put another way, the max number we can represent with S symbols is exponential in S. N = O(exp(S)).
Anyone know if there has been follow up to Caroline Thomphson's work after she passed away?

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150
I agree...mostly.

Of course, doing this adds overhead to the developer at the time the code is written. Instead of just writing 'bool', you need to go into the header and define a new enum and decide what it and each of its entries will be named, and make sure that it is propagated up through any dependencies that will interact with that function and so on.

Frankly, that can be a lot more work - especially in a large legacy code base.

Sometimes just a simple Bool is easier.
Good thing all networks everyone connects to are always known by that user to be secure
That's standard for all password managers IIRC. If they can get your into your vault without your master secret then it is a bad password manager.

What has happened to some password managers though is that they don't store the metadata encrypted (like username, website name, etc.) so that leaks have revealed which sites you use but I don't think any decent password manager has leaked passwords without a client being hacked, right?
Sure, but the AI fails as much as it needs to, and nobody starves. It can have awful output forever. That's the polluting machine.
YouTube is returning 403 to NewPipe and other 3rd party players
They're apparently going hard this time, no known way to play anything anymore.

Playing on the website without an account still works.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11254

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10397

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/issues/3606
I can hear the regulators in Strasbourg typing up complaints and fines now.
> If anything in life can be reasoned by first principles

Big if.

> mathematics

Specifically on the topic of mathematics, we know that there are statements which are true but cannot be proven.

> would an AI that is able to reason at 100% accuracy be capable of understanding our world in all its detail and derive ideas and outcomes from it

Assuming the big if is true, as if we were writing a science fiction novel, I guess maybe, but why would we expect it to be fast?
> compiler has no way of knowing if a function will later be a signal handler after linking, or even dynamic loading

You could check it at runtime.

Just like with array bounds checking, in many cases the compiler could sometimes prove the runtime check isn't necessary and eliminate it.

> Which functions are async signal safe varies with the operating system and runtime

Annotations could enumerate specific platforms where it is safe or unsafe. Or you could annotate based on specific attributes of platforms that make it safe or unsafe.
Ah!

So, Ruby is a bit weird: the Ruby community itself tends to be much closer to Perl than Python, that is, the language doesn't mind embracing many ways of doing the same thing. However, the Rails community tends to curb this attitude a bit by being really strongly about conventions, and following them.

In practice, this means that a significant amount of the community uses one of the two rules:

> Use {} for one line blocks, use do/end for multiline blocks.

or

> Use {} for blocks that produce a value, use do/end for side effects.

The latter is called "Weirich style," after a very prominent Rubyist using that style.

Hilariously, your example would be code that could go either way, depending on which style you choose. Though I would think that people who subscribe to the first rule would write it

3.times { print 'Welcome ' }

as the "one line" really kinda leans this way.

Anyway that's as far as I know, my Ruby knowledge is about 10 years old at this point, so maybe things have evolved since then, but I haven't really heard of any changes here.
Amazon really missed the chance to call their network Sub-Etha. Or the Sub-Wave network.
Nice demo. I like the implementation.
As with almost every food recall, your chances of getting sick or noticing anything is close to zero.
Where I qualified, there’s a mandatory speed limit of 45mph on all roads (even motorways) a year after qualifying. When I was finally free of this I had absolutely zero respect for why speed can be dangerous and how. The rules had created the incredibly dangerous combination of experience driving but no experience driving at speed, and teenager brain.

Shackles off, I drove at 60mph on country roads. It was always fine! Just like when I did 45mph everywhere!

Until it rained, and at a tight corner I nearly wrapped myself around a tree.

I didn’t fully appreciate the speeds I was going to be doing because I never was trained at them. I had no idea how it actually felt and how to understand when I could use speed and when I could lay off, because the limit was there.

It was so suffocating that I never really experienced understeer or circumstances where I was in danger, because the mollycoddled experience hid me from understanding what those dangers are and how to anticipate and prevent them.

Limiting speed is an answer, but I don’t really think it’s a good answer. The most dangerous crashes (rural) will still happen and be easily fatal at 70mph.

Trainee pilots will get put in dangerous feeling situations all the time; the instructor can put the plane into a stall or a dive - a terrifying situation that you should never put yourself in in the first place - and teach you how to recover.

I always thought driving instruction could do with something like that, because while learning to recover a plane is a lesson in and of itself, experiencing that sinking feeling and imagining it in circumstances where you’re under less control is a crucial lesson and disincentive.

Instead, youths experience that lesson when they see a rapidly approaching tree or brick wall instead of a tire wall.
Dubai is gonna make for some very striking ruins in a few decades...
Assuming OP is correct, your last sentence implies this isn't the solution being used.

Additionally, many (citation needed) Youtube videos have people talking in them; this method wouldn't help with that.

Isolating vocals in general is significantly more difficult than just relying on frequency range. Any instrument I can think of can generate notes that are squarely in the common range of a human (see: https://www.dbamfordmusic.com/frequency-range-of-instruments...)
How do egregiously failed execs continue to get funding and high profile gigs? It's not just with Humane. I've seen this with the Better.com founder, his second failure after UNCLE, and with execs from MSFT Xbox. I can't for the life of me understand how they continue to get opportunities.

And how do I get in on it?
yeah, that’s how i ended up buying it. reading it (along with the exercises) is quite rewarding indeed. i feel that the description of caches should have been more detailed though. curt-schimmel’s book comes to mind here…
That would be in Moscow, correct? Because it would be unheard in a small industrial town I am from.
Love the chain of sources: Business Insider article is about this paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49753-5

which for that factoid links to

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02602

which for that just links to a BBC article with a doctor saying the "value everyone quotes is about"

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56574779
You think reducing carbon emissions is about 'owning' some group of people?
I find the title of the article to be confusing/ambiguous. If you're not familiar with the company, "humane" could easily be read as an adjective here.
HP to discontinue online-only e-series LaserJet amid user gripes
unless it was brought over by the flying saucers

(now where did i put my aluminum foil)
I really like the API brownouts trick. GitHub have been doing this for years, a few examples:

- https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-11-05-github-servi...

- https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-10-brownout-notice-api...
Haha joke’s on me I guess, not reading the _headline_ and skimming the intro so not getting the point.
But this doesn't contend with my point? A sibling point brought up confusion of cardinal and ordinal numbers. In modern english, I challenge you to find a good understanding outside of advanced practitioners on the difference.

I think it is fair to say that my statement is too strong to say it is wrong. My assertion would be that it is more complicated and almost certainly there is a lot lost in translation along the years.
I was thinking about this kind of thing. Another idea might be to introduce artificial latency and gradually increase it over time? Maybe dial up rate-limiting? I'm not really sure if this is a better or worse idea, though.
Meanwhile, in reality, the offshore development firm being paid per line of code from Linksys farmed the work out to juniors who haven’t graduated and couldn’t care less if something is encrypted or not.
The 2011 part is what makes this outstanding, the iphone had been released only 4 years before; the majority of lithium ion we were using was likely laptop batteries and cell phones that lasted a week on a small battery.

If anything, i would expect that recycling would become more commonplace with the larger scale of EV batteries, Electric bicycle batteries, and power stations.

And the key part is, the advantage of lithium ion is that the same sized battery provies 10x as many charges (and more energy density) than its predecessors NIMH or NICD)
an hypothetically interesting wifi situation

SSID = [google] agrees to the following ToS.

psword = use of this password confers in perpetuity, unlimited use of any and all google products and services with no cost or liability, as the owner of the password sees fit
thank you! i was wondering about that
The Castillian lisp is only popular in some regions of Spain, and did not originate from people mimicking a king.

It's still a better lisp than CL though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Spanis...
Reasoning is heuristic in nature, so unless an AI has a complete understanding of every situation possible it cannot be relied on for accurate reasoning. The world is too complex to present perfectly reliable reasoning, and you can't Monte Carlo simulate your way to the single authoritative truth.

Plus, LLMs are so inherently stupid that I don't think we have to worry about "AGI" for another 10-20 years. All anyone wants is their glorified markov chain anyways.
You should post a screenshot of what you're seeing, because I don't see any ads or spam phishing results.
Arianespace is just the launch provider. They don't even build their own rockets. "French space policy" is essentially their product.
Discussion (134 points, 8 hours ago, 122 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40914029
> one of the major problems here is that small banks are often not staffed for adequate cybersecurity for global operations like these; they do just fine doing hometown community banking, but are very vulnerable to being cracked like this. Yet another reason small banks that are providing big-bank services should be regulated like big banks.

Exactly — people are responding to me with comments about how SVB failed, or how the Goldman partnership isn't going well, but like... looking at Evolve's website I know for a fact they aren't hiring solid SWEs for cybersecurity.

I understand nobody's perfect, but this is the "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" ideology at work. If you chose Goldman and they got hacked, sure, I'll say "well you couldn't have known" — but if you choose a random bank based in Memphis I've never heard of, I'll naturally be more like "wtf."
Big fat eye roll. The service will be redundant before it is even launched.
Show HN: SyncLite: A Novel CDC and Replication Framework for Embedded Databases
Today the vast majority of lithium-ion batteries come out of phones and laptops, and those are generally too small and annoyingly packaged to recycle economically.

Battery packs from cars are a different matter and there are already pilot projects that are recycling them. I think in the future these projects will grow as the economics become more favorable. They're basically just mining the materials out of an extremely rich deposit.
There are nice residential areas, such as Pacific Heights and parts of the Sunset.. But where are the nice, homeless-free office areas?
I don't totally get this point of view. What if your job involves evaluating things with trade offs?

OP didn't say they disliked TypeScript, just that it might not be the solution for all problems.
I'm surprised at your note about noise. I saw a Falcon 9 launch at Vandenberg and it was the loudest thing I've ever heard in my life by far.
I care about catching guilty people, but I think we must protect the innocent from harassment as much as possible. I value liberty more than punishment.

Would you support this countrywide? Would you also support something like increased internet surveillance? A digital stop and frisk of every person, so we can catch all the digital bad guys? If so, why not? Because you might get caught up in it? I'm wondering where your line for these sorts of impositions is. It's easy to be for something if you don't expect to get caught in it.

I know that if I was mugged I might be more prone to accepting this sort of liberty loss, but that wouldn't be because I changed my ethical stance, it'd be because I was hurt and scared.
If it's really accessible from *.google.com, wouldn't this be simple to verify/exploit by using Google Sites (they publish your site to sites.google.com/view/<sitename>)?
Yes. It would be the same as resetting your email password and needing to login again on your devices.

If a password is so precious that you share it plaintext with third parties it is a bad usecase for a password.
Hi, this sounds like an incredible opportunity to do applied AI research. I already applied for the MLE role but thought to reach out here as well to show my interest.

Cheers,
Amir (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir-refaee/)
It seems bad enough that Google has access to it to justify ripping it out.
Does it matter what their strategy is? This is vaporware. People consume information through search engines and platforms. If there's a market for fact-checking AI, it'll probably be developed in-house, since all the big companies have in-house tech. The most they can hope for is to grab as large of a bag as they can before this bubble pops, or hope they'll get bought out in a few years.
And in the P=?NP case Aaronson uses, the answer wouldn't be "P=NP" (a classical answer -- totally useless) but the actual function NP->P.

People just instinctively know that you need to know which side of the disjunction you're on, and they haven't been trained in classical logic to forget it.
I agree. Nim’s booleans are an enum too: https://nim-lang.org/docs/system.html#bool
Shoutout to the Maya who also had zero (as a placeholder in base 20 number system), it seems by at least 36 BC
Hi Lisa,
I have sent an email, looking forward to hear from you. I have been into similar industry since 6+ years where I have helped teams to build high quality AWS based cloud platform using API's.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Rahul Joshi
Does nothing beat “An acceptance that everything is impermanent”?
IIUC this is one of those projects that the governments fund when the free market solution doesn't exist.

Sure, Falcon 9 or Soyuz exists but those are foreign entities that might become unavailable due to politics, therefore a local solution must be developed even if its not the most cost effective. It also must help train and retain local talent and distribute funds to participating parties.

So, it may be a bit expensive but in the end you get a rocket, a workforce who knows how to design and build rockets and they happen to spend the money they receive locally.

IMHO they should invest in video production and art too, no one ever comes close to Space X in that department.

edit: Wow, so much negativity for a successful launch.
Elderly Japanese people are getting arrested on purpose (2018)
I can tell my pc what ca to trust, so yes i can make it to…
I love fun projects like this.
Show HN: Team-Oriented Tldraw
Hey y'all! We're working on a graph-based Firebase (instantdb.com) and team-oriented tldraw felt like a nice example of a multiplayer app with relational features.

We're fans of tldraw and use it for wireframes in our design docs. We thought it would be neat to use Instant to 1) add multiplayer to tldraw and 2) use links and permission rules to build team features.

You can make a team, invite others, create boards, and draw together. Sharing this as a showcase of what you can do with Instant, hope y'all enjoy :)

Give it a whirl: https://draw.instantdb.com/
See the code: https://github.com/jsventures/instldraw
Being willing to touch third party code.

There was a situation where the higher ups wanted us to have a specific feature, and the literal only two available options were to either fork the SDK of a commercial SaaS, or to not have that feature at all. That SaaS's support team confirmed they weren't going to implement that in their SDK.

There were two dev teams involved in this, and every person from these two teams (except myself and another dev) were strongly against the fork, but didn't suggest any other option to have that feature, and of course not having this feature wasn't even an option, but then they didn't suggest any other way to achieve it.

It was like looking at third party code was heresy for them. Not best practice, antipattern, and other expressions like that were thrown around.

The amount of frustration from that whole thing is something I don't want to experience again if possible.
Thanks, you articulated that much better than I would have.

The manuals for Affinity products are pretty good, and I agree on the price being worth it for the quality and usefulness of the software.

For me Publisher fits a good niche. Since V2 I use Designer for planning woodworking projects and it’s quite competent for that task (they’re simpler 2D plans and diagrams to track my cutting sheets).

One more Lightroom alternative for you to consider would be RawPower, which actually does a great job handling different raw formats. I know the devs have a new app but I haven’t tried it.
You also could probably block this with a policy file.

The extension ID is: nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/?policy=ExtensionIn...
Yep. Waterfall is everyone's favorite kneejerk whipping boy.
I was recently on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, and they sold "Starlink powered" internet service for $40 a day. Interestingly, they seemed to let notification service traffic through. Any data delivered through a platform based notification made it through just fine, including large images in a youtube notification.

I assume it was to entice you to buy the wifi for some important notification. Or just so you would GET that important notification in the first place. Either way, probably eminently abusable on android at least.

That said, who the hell buys overpriced internet connectivity on a 7 day cruise? I have an addictive personality and spend pretty much all my free time on Youtube or Reddit, and it was refreshing to be without. I especially felt sad about all the young teens who were obviously scrolling tiktok or instagram. What parent buys their child a $3000 cruise ticket and then also pays an additional $300 per child for them to completely not do it? Cheaper than a week of babysitting maybe.