skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does having a "Wall of Shame" make sense? Basically put details on a shared google sheet with names, details etc., so that:
a. Other freelancers can avoid them.
b. They know about it...

Would that work?
LA should urbanize like Seoul did (2020)
Heynote was exactly developed for this purpose. Just one big buffer with sections and lots of shortcuts and nice little additional features: https://heynote.com/
They are still two different filenames (and two different inodes), if you want to intercept openning them.
Could the gallium anomaly be explained by something far more prosaic? For example, in water, there are all kinds of species of different anions and cations present, existing in equilibrium with each other. Water forms complex semi-crystalline structures by virtue of hydrogen bonds. Although they are not true crystals, the supramolecular structures of individual water molecules and the valence species create a sophisticated structure, even in a seemingly homogenous substance.

Now, consider if something similar happens with gallium. What if the electron configuration of gallium's orbitals means that gallium, in its liquid form, also has various anions and cations? Moreover, what if gallium can form analogs to hydrogen bonds, leading to semi-crystalline or structured forms?

This structured form could provide some shielding to the gallium atoms, making them less likely to be converted via neutrinos to germanium. Instead of impacting a nucleus at the expected rate, the overlapping orbital bonds and electron resonance might offer a form of shielding. This shielding could make the gallium atoms more stable and less reactive, thereby reducing their conversion to germanium.

While this idea applies a chemical concept to nuclear chemistry or physics, and may not align perfectly with the traditional views of high-energy particle physicists and astronomers, it offers a potentially more prosaic explanation for the gallium anomaly. This perspective might not have been top of mind for those focused on high-energy interactions and could be worth considering further.
I've seen little evidence that the smartest humans are able to dominate or control society as it is now. We have 250 IQ people alive right now, they haven't caused imminent destruction, they've actually helped society. Also gaining power / wealth / influence only seems a little connected to intelligence (see current presidential race for most powerful position in the world, finger on nuke trigger).
> [1] edit : I meant "did NOT know her well". I hope my sentiment was reasonably clear.

Then maybe just edit the text. The HN pathology of footnoting doesn't need to be universal.
In my teens I was obsessed with LDAP and shared authentication across a fleet of Linux machines, it sounded pretty cool. In reality I never actually had to administer or setup LDAP. It was popularised by Microsoft with advent of Active Directory in the 00s (I believe AD came out with Windows 2000 Server).

Those days I didn't really understand the notion of a tree-like directory. Nowadays I'm think we're better served with a SQL queryable RDBMS to store directory-like data, and modernising the query language using JSON over a HTTP(S) transport.
Famicase Exhibition (2020)
I'm not a web developer. Would you mind explaining how I'd use that snippet?
I loved the author's example of Orcas, which may have more raw intelligence than a person -- still waiting for world domination (crashing yacht's doesn't count).
> This general phenomenon of paradoxiciality

That was supposed to be "parasociality".
We'd call them TV stations.

I mean, we call social media companies social media companies despite them being ad funded.

We call newspapers newspapers despite them being ad funded.

We call sports teams sports teams despite them being ad funded.
What I hate about stderr is that it's character-based, not line-based.

I often get output from multiple threads or multiple processes garbled together on the same line. I know how to fix this, but I feel my OS should do it for me.
It doesn’t seem that’s the issue. 60% of lines are buried but it’s mostly the newer developments paid for by the land developers:
https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-ce...

That said, I’d expect to be able to see this effect on the outage maps and I don’t.
Ha! That’s the hype there. They made predictions, like any other model out there. Their models are better but not close to what we get out of xray crystallography which is a painstaking process.

Protein folding is nowhere near a solved problem. A third of proteins don’t have high enough accuracy.

https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2020/12/02/no-deepmind-h...
Tangential: How do some sites manage to open other sites in new tabs without confirmation in 2024? Popups need explicit confirmation since 200x??
There’s also the whole world of Java software and engineering which all pretty much Just Works on Windows.
I agree that TV stations and websites don't have to be purely vessels for advertising, but in today's climate of slim margins – due to an expectation that everything is 'free' – and sliding ethics, advertising lends more and more bias to operations. And that bias has been there as long as there has been advertiser funded operations.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/news_hole

We could just return to a culture of paying for things (that are conspicuously not tracked) and this whole imposition of advertising in our daily consumption can go away. But the vast majority of people simply don't care.
> Plus there are plenty of people who order Starbucks drinks through an app and never actually meet the barista who made them.

Yeah, that's a really strong counterargument.
For example for this story one would place the number 40952952 from the URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952952 at the end of the given URL such https://hnrss.org/item?id=40952952
Setting env can be tricky as fuck
I would argue you no longer need a framework when using CSS grid. Creating template areas once per breakpoint and assigning them once per container really is all there‘s to it. Sure, you can build another abstraction on top of that, but I doubt it‘ll get any simpler than the underlying handful of grid declarations.
If you want to see them all:

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/11/18
I'm not sure that I understand how we can change it from your reply, though; or what we could change.

Some things seem to be invariants here: people need to get paid (or they will do something else); corporations are a good way to organize people to get paid to do something, whereas government is not; corporations are not organized for the public benefit and have to be balanced out by some other institution for public goods, like roads and many others, where aligning incentives through the market is too difficult.

What do you disagree with, in all that?

Now from the example you cite, and so many others, one direction we might take is that actually DoD projects are what works and so we just need to do more of them. This actually worked okay for the early history of the internet and we got quite a few decentralized, trustworthy communication mechanisms as a result -- the core internet protocols, email, the web. That seems to be tied to a certain era, though; so that's why I'm looking for alternatives. One option would be to do something like a museum: a non-profit that takes money from the public (sometimes as tickets and sometimes as grants) and then pays people (directly or through contractors) to accomplish something in the public good.
There was a lot to like about Slashdot's moderation and meta-moderation scheme.
too late to edit

Turns out that M1 can track the history of indirect branches just fine, but it takes 3 cycles for a correct prediction. With threaded jumps, the M1 gets a slightly higher hit rate for the initial 1 cycle prediction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40953764
Exactly. It's amazing how many people seem to be missing this.

I think a big problem is the amount of companies rushing to add AI to it's products when it's not really that good at the moment or not really that useful so there is somewhat of a backlash against it and people hearing the headlines about AI changing the world, seeing that AI has been added to a product they use, testing it and seeing it's useless and then wondering what all the fuss is about.

I stay up to date with AI news, I follow it quite closely and I interact with chatbots somewhat, however I've yet to find it useful in any real use cases for me, since I don't code and the answers it gives for everything else are usually fairly generic nonsense, but it's amazing just that they can do that and the improvement is there. Image generation is pretty crazy too, video is getting there and audio for sure is going to be done, so I wonder what happens to the music industry? Instead of having Spotify you can generate your own music on a whim. As a music lover, that is going to be very odd.
Interesting that it only happens on the west coast, eh? You’ve never seen a homeless person anywhere else?
Nice tool. I feel generators are good learning tools, but once you grasp the syntax and features you gain more flexibility and are able to connect code to a concrete visual in your mind.

The chrome dev tools are also useful as it allows you to modify a grid in place to instantly see your changes.

I wrote a post on grid here:

https://cssprinciples.com/3/grid/
They do, *really*
I don't get why the EU isn't paying their salary, frankly.
I found 2 bugs:
- the width is not responsive, if you resize the browser window the boxes don't resize.
- the boxes are shorter than the containers (for me, on Chrome on macOS) so every new row is a bit higher on the grid. On row 5 the boxes are basically positioned one whole row above.
I use a short userscript to “mark as read” comments on hover. They just get a different color so I can hop around and know where to resume. It’s particularly helpful with active threads where new comments appear in the middle.
Because the browser is slowly becoming the OS anyway, and the reason why is that it’s way easier to distribute an application via the browser than natively. No app stores, no downloads, no updates, no installers, and mostly consistent across devices.
I'm a big fan of Sublime Merge

https://www.sublimemerge.com/
No, I fully expect it to come back and be implemented.
Announcements about announcements. I thought it was against HN policy.
I still have all of the Calvin and Hobbes books in storage. Some of the black and white pages were carefully watercolored by me as a teen.
Can they understand the functional impact of different protein chains, or are they just predicting what amino acid would come next based on the training set with no concern for how the protein would function?
Is it me or are deep learning papers getting more and more hyperbolic in their use of language? Check out the first sentence in the abstract:

Transfer learning, where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task before being fine-
tuned on a downstream task, has emerged as a powerful technique in natural language
processing (NLP).

You could re-write that without the pomp:

Transfer learning is a technique where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task before being finetuned on a downstream task.

And you lose none of the meaning for dropping the "powerful" bombast. What is "powerful" anyway? Is this a research paper or a social media post?

This is really something I've noticed more and more lately -see e.g. the recent paper on the blindness of vision LLMs:

https://vlmsareblind.github.io/

Whence I quote (the abstract):

... tasks absurdly easy to humans
... The shockingly poor performance ...

And many more in the body. What's with all that? Aren't results enough to draw attention to your research work anymore?
Some delivery apps like Rappi sometimes require delivery man to take a photo of the order upon delivery. Unfortunately, mail doesn't deliver a hot cheeseburger in 10 minutes.
Mozilla is an ad company under the new leadership, hence the assumption.

And exactly: I reject C. I reject the monetization of the web. It didn't need to happen; we just wanted it to happen in our greed. We bit the apple. Money is the root of all evil. It ruins everything.
The Archimedes Dial in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
And we have also learned to use taxonomies and hierarchies and sets. Therefore the intersection between the set tv stations and the set ad companies is the set ad-funded tv stations. Ad-funded tv stations are a subcategory of the larger ad companies category.
I wholeheartedly agree on mechanical keyboards.
Separate error output was around for at least a decade before this. I know MTS had it in the 1960s, and I don't think it was their original idea. I used a CDC for a while and they had it too. So while this is the story of how standard error was introduced into Unix, it is not the origin story of the concept of standard error.
True, but it doesn’t seem that’s the issue. 60% of lines are buried but it’s mostly the newer developments paid for by the land developers:
https://houstonlanding.org/to-bury-or-not-to-bury-how-can-ce...

That said, I’d expect to be able to see this effect on the outage maps and I don’t, at least from an eyeball perspective.
How SQLite works – Richard Hipp [video]
D. the main problem with ads is that they stimulate more unnecessary consumption

Ads are the wrong monetization model for the web. Instead of paying for information directly, you are now paying for information by buying something physical (most ads are about physical items). In this resource-limited world, this is clearly ridiculous.
I skim top -> bottom, read what catches my eye, skip the reply tree to posts I'm not interested in, and when I am not getting value I stop and move out, regardless of reason for not getting value (direction the discussion takes, posting quality, my mood or attention, etc). I almost never revisit later, I don't use any navigation helpers like [-] or prev/next.
Sure, older tools are also feasible on windows. But if you are going with clang or GC, why bother? I guess you could do java dev on windows as well as other platforms.
“Advertisers are responsible for the 90% of the web which is inhuman, outraged, clickbait garbage” isn’t the endorsement you think.
Humans have tools, AI is no different. The sole human born out of the womb might not be able to beat AI but we’ve augmented our ability forever.

Guy beats powerful AI at go with computer.

The alpha go team used a computer to beat Lee

https://www.ft.com/content/175e5314-a7f7-4741-a786-273219f43...
> let's drop the charade that everything is above board here.

OK. Since you're opposed to merely alluding to things (your italics, which I find funny), could you please state explicitly the misconduct you are alleging?
I wrote what I meant to write. It is interesting that the first words you put in my mouth involved public funding, however.
I'd argue that OS X (to use the nomenclature of the time) 10.0 was alpha quality software, and even 10.1 was at best what we now would consider beta software. OS X was not usable until 10.2 (and that's when many major software such as Photoshop and even Apple's own Final Cut Pro received their first native OS X port), but even 10.2 didn't reach feature partiy with classic MacOS. It wasn't until 10.3 Tiger that you could safely recommend to friends and family to upgrade to OS X.
They already had success by their definition: having a fun project and learning stuff while working on it.
Not everyone is a greedy capitalist
For better or worse - excel is how most businesses and especially finance still run. It’s very ingrained and unlikely to change any time soon.
Scientists turn white fat cells into calorie-burning beige fat
And WSL.
Calvin and Hobbes was also a major source of happiness during my youth. At one point I think I could have quoted you every strip.

I fancied myself an artist when I was a kid and had a regular comic called "Teco And Jix". It was an obvious ripoff of both Calvin and Hobbes but had very violent storylines. When it came time to create my first "internet name" (for AOL AIM), I went with TecoAndJix and it has remained my digital pseudonym to this day! I even got it tattooed one not-sober evening in the Navy...

Thank you Bill Watterson.
In an AI powered world it’s just a matter of time before the liveness checks used today (take selfie video and perform actions as instructed like “turn your head to the right”) can be perfectly replicated. Supposedly the livness checks will get more complex and try to stay ahead of the AI scams.

In my opinion we logically end up needing something that looks like a pre-arranged Proof of Identity (Aadhaar, Clear) or Proof of Humanity (World Coin, etc.)
I have a version of Anthropic Artifacts working in my project here. Claude generates the code (backend or frontend), I wrap it into a little package, boom, instant deployment.
Crypto exchanges have this now too. :D Thank god for KYS regs.
By that time, large companies have concocted a method to make popular websites inaccessible without using the proper ad-tech API, just like DRM.
I see it in the Amazon app. Thanks for pointing this out!

I also checked the Amazon website today and now I see the old search box. I would guess they're doing A/B testing right now.
I dropped my Nokia E71 once. It had a leather pouch. But to use it, it was out of it, and I dropped it from my hands. Screen wasn't cracked. Minor scratch on aluminium. But some of the keys in qwerty row were broken, including the important 'e'. I sent my device in for repair. A month later I got it back. The problem was gone, but a couple of months later the very problem returned. With a mechanical keyboard, you can replace individial switches.

As I wrote elsewhere in this thread: two steps forward, one step back. Or: you win some, you lose some.
“According to researcher Scott Reynolds Nelson, the actual John Henry was born in 1848 in New Jersey and died of silicosis and not due to exhaustion of work.[4]”
> Usually, ths simplest solution is best and your approach exemplifies it: no need for a special application, simply open the text file and then go to work.

I agree. The "tool" I have simply maintains text files and provides a streamlined way to display/edit the current one, switch to some previous one and switch back.

I made it to manage context switches. IOW, it's not to serve as a journal, it's to serve as a swap partition for my brain.
An airplane is more or less just a horse in the sky.
>It took me a while to realize that there is a "prev" and a "next" button next to every comment.

That feature is relatively new, Oct ~28th 2021 apparently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29023087 so it mat not have been you missing it.
How was the Zig experience? I am looking for an intermediate Zig project to practice Zig. Does this require advanced features of Zig?
This business model is starting to remind me of printers that disable themselves if your ink subscription payments lapse, even when there is ink remaining in the device.
No, you're right. I'm referring to the deployment complexity of said development environment though.
Went there as a kid. Can confirm it was insanely good.
We kind of live in an alternate to that alternative reality.

A lot (most?) of Be engineers ended up at a company called Danger, which was bought by Google a few years later, and they all went on to be the original core team of Android. Some BeOS technologies even ended up in Android such as its Binder, which from memory the Be engineer working on it open sourced it just before Palm bought Be, and then he used the same code in Android.
'Amazing' new technology set to transform the search for alien life
I’m not going to refute your points. If you’re going to wear rose-tinted glasses about all of the bad parts about python, that’s fine, I also like python.
DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (1985)
What's rose-tinted about "one of them downloads dependencies automatically, the other one doesn't"?
Phenology of amphibian species from South Korea using open-source data
Leaked for maximum power of suggestion because a blog post without strict definitions for Reasoning would cop a lot of flack. This way you are hyped to think of their progress as totally encompassing your widest definition of reasoning that no one else has yet achieved.
IN the city. With sustained high winds for hours. And Houston has LOTS of big trees next to power lines.
There's also this infamous textbook: https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/06/25/1/index.html

>Why is this important? As I read the book (and if you read my notes, you know where this is going) I started to notice something in the wording and tone. The further I progressed the more I became convinced of it, and I think it explains how he managed to mangle the explanation of C pointers so badly.

>I don’t think he understands the call stack.

[...]

>Suppose you’re used to writing BASIC for small memory electronic devices and you learn about C. You read about pointers and realize something: it’s possible to write a subroutine that can change variables without knowing their names. It’s manna from heaven! You don’t have to devote global variables to being the “parameters” of your subroutines anymore. Life is great.

>This is the mindset I think Traister had and never got past.
If only the actual intentions were indeed good.
the problem is that the requirements take 6 months to elucidate from the incoherent ramblings of the users, and by the time you've figured it out, the business has moved on and has new and incompatible requirements. so your software is late, doesn't meet the requirements and doesn't even work.
Which is wrong because in order to make money in AI, you have to raise money from VCs or make money selling products. In crypto, you just sell unregistered securities using unregulated exchanges.
Everyday Russians, including scientists, should feel consequences for their government's murders.

Except for the ISS (complicated, as noted), I'm astounded that anything goes in or out of Russia: people, goods, services, atoms, electrons.
Was a Dad joke
I have been using one since it came out. The touch scroll strip is very spotty, not sure how much of that is software, but fine product otherwise.
I think US agencies are wonderkids, the fact that they've been found to spy on all allied countries but then convincing the world that the danger is China and Chinese companies is a masterpiece
AI phone scams comes to mind, in fact we're partly there with some people using voice ai to impersonate the voices of loved ones:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ai-phone-s...
No, Verizon throttles traffic to popular video hosts, and every significant video site uses adaptive streaming that lowers video quality in response to slower connections.

https://www.verizon.com/support/knowledge-base-233798/
Nope! I want to add all the other flows.

nvidia is the absolute lowest I believe. I wanted to do it first to know if it was worth building.
You can find their names here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07090

The anonymity on the web page may be due to requirements of the venue where the paper is currently under review. Sometimes there are rules against advertising preprints under review. Or maybe they have a link to the web page in the submission and want to keep it double blind this way.
If and when that ever happens I'll be dead by then, so no :)

But I hope humans of the future can standardize around something. It's better than the alternative.
The key question to me is: "Can I shut down my job at the end of the day and forget all about it until the next day?" No matter how flexible a job may be, if I need to be constantly thinking about work and monitoring it, the work-life balance is not there.
I use the HACK app, a hacker news reader app, for android. It has collapsing sections and jump to next top level comment. Between these two functions reading long threads even with deeply nested comments isn't too bad.