skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have to manually delete data from topics, you are doing Kafka wrong. The whole point of it is high speed data throughput, so that something automated does it for you downstream.
I've been coding professionally for 40 years and especially don't care for how the management of software projects has evolved. Rather than design, I've seen the emphasis shift to process and testing, necessarily in the guise of 'agile' even when the design goals don't fit well with the agile manifest (like ML or scientific programming). The inability of IT management to imagine an approach to software other than "one size fits all" has left me increasingly disengaged in work that used to be fun every day.

Of course, the shift in the past few decades from coding-from-scratch to cut-and-paste has also pushed me out of the 'flow' of slinging code that I long enjoyed. So maybe the insistent adoption by management of agile-oriented groupthink and processes should be a clear message to me that resistance is futile, and it's time for me to make way for devs who are happy to play a game whose rules have changed, one that I no longer enjoy as I once did.
Researchers demonstrate how to build 'time-traveling' quantum sensors
This is true, but doesn't really get to the question of how it serializes modular synthesizers
Cigarette sales and lung cancer mortality in the US
I use VuePress[0]. You can find the source code for the site here[1].

[0] https://vuepress.vuejs.org

[1] https://github.com/khaledh/khaledh.github.io
I use both scripting and models to generate diagrams and I think there's space for some simple balance. Basically there will be things we repeat often enough, where we want a fast, detailed, repeatable solution. And there will be one-offs you will ask for and if it's wrong, you'll fix be hand.

There's space for both and we'll probably migrate the best ideas both ways. (can't wait for a local fine-tune which can do ad-hoc diagrams with a pleasant layout in excalidraw format) I don't think either way is going away soon.
> Putting your money where your mouth is isn’t free.

This is a 17-year-old kid making a $15 donation.

It isn't like he pulled together $250k to donate to some super PAC.

Meanwhile:

> Former student Max R. Smith remembered Crooks as an intelligent classmate with conservative political leanings. Smith recalled participating in a mock debate in a course they took together, where their teacher posed questions on government policy and had students stand on opposite sides of the classroom to signal their support or opposition.

> “The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side,” Smith said. “That’s still the picture I have of him. Just standing alone on one side while the rest of the class was on the other. ... It makes me wonder why he would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate.”

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/thomas-matthew-cr...
"Agnostic Phase Estimation" (2024)
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13... :

> Abstract: The goal of quantum metrology is to improve measurements’ sensitivities by harnessing quantum resources. Metrologists often aim to maximize the quantum Fisher information, which bounds the measurement setup’s sensitivity. In studies of fundamental limits on metrology, a paradigmatic setup features a qubit (spin-half system) subject to an unknown rotation. One obtains the maximal quantum Fisher information about the rotation if the spin begins in a state that maximizes the variance of the rotation-inducing operator. If the rotation axis is unknown, however, no optimal single-qubit sensor can be prepared. Inspired by simulations of closed timelike curves, we circumvent this limitation. We obtain the maximum quantum Fisher information about a rotation angle, regardless of the unknown rotation axis. To achieve this result, we initially entangle the probe qubit with an ancilla qubit. Then, we measure the pair in an entangled basis, obtaining more information about the rotation angle than any single-qubit sensor can achieve. We demonstrate this metrological advantage using a two-qubit superconducting quantum processor. Our measurement approach achieves a quantum advantage, outperforming every entanglement-free strategy.
I moved to the US to work for a big tech company. I don't regret it. The US has far more opportunity for smart & ambitious people than anywhere else.

It definitely wasn't comfortable though - you leave all your friends and family behind and need to make new friends and family.
I agree with your last point—the Solar Council should have provided conditional aid. The most basic assistance could have removed the justification for cannibalism.
This is interesting - Could you expand on the relationship between cameras and wasted time?

What qualifies as wasted time and how are cameras a contributing factor?
Love the idea.

Not sure if the Demo represents the final state but please add an option to adjust the text speed, importantly, including an option to show the text immediately. Yes, you can double click but that is unergonomic and adds an delay. As a fast reader, I skipped over most of the explanations because I just couldn't tolerate it. Also add the option to progress the dialogue via key press instead of mouse. And the text needs a margin left and right.

This stuff might sound minor but can make a huge difference in player retention. Definitely looking forward to trying your game out once it has been polished a bit more.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40949564

^ read. The OP responds in the thread.

tldr, literally what I said:

> It also makes everything slower (arguable where that ends up, currently significantly slower) overall.

longer version:

If there was no reason for it to be slower, it would not be slower.

...but, implementing this stuff is hard.

Doing a zero cost implementation is really hard.

It is slower.

Where it ends up eventually is still a 'hm... we'll see'.

To be fair, they didn't lead the article here with:

> Right now there is a significant single-threaded performance cost. Somewhere from 30-50%.

They should have, because now people have a misguided idea of what this wip release is... and that's not ideal; because if you install it, you'll find its slow as balls; and that's not really the message they were trying to put out with this release. This release was about being technically correct.

...but, it is slow as balls right now, and I'm not making that shit up. Try it yourself.

/shrug
Where I'm from there is a group of companies that buy old brand names to sell generic crap. You can buy shitty Vaio notebooks and some other brands.
Vacuum Tube PDP-8 [video]
- "Learning quantum Hamiltonians at any temperature in polynomial time" (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02243 ..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40396171

- "Bridging coherence optics and classical mechanics: A generic light polarization-entanglement complementary relation" (2023) https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev... ..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492160 re photonic phase
> What has that broccoli ever done to you?

False equivalence; generally disingenuous. You're a troll?
I’d stay where you are — Moldova? Georgia? Montenegro? — and either work on an open-source project you care about or start one of your own on the side.
See also: https://www.hackster.io/news/mike-rieker-s-pdp-8-v-swaps-dig...
The first thing I though was this guy lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Mazepa
I support Ukraine btw.
Might be relevant but there was this old submission [1] debunking the facts behind "Why We Sleep"

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850
Can’t argue with the math but there are still risks (inflation, the government that issues your currency, etc). I’ve seen people sell all investments to buy all the supplies they need to live out their lives, and I used to think it was insane. But it is just a different sort of hedge.
Show HN: AI pic detection 100% on-device (iOS $)
Please check out my app called TruthPix. Focuses mainly on profile pics & distinguishes b/w GenAI content and real pics. Tested on tools based on GANs, diffusion models, latent space manipulation...
Runs on-device with ZERO network connectivity.
The Wing Gambit
> Educating Users

isn't dumb, because "users" are proven to be the weakest link in the whole security chain. Users must be aware of the workplace security, just like how they should be trained w/ the workplace safety.

Also, there's no security to deal with if the system is unusable by the users. The trade-off b/w usability and security is simply unsolvable, and education is a patch to that problem.
The original arrangement was that the seperate and independant States|Colonies were seperate and independant States|Colonies working together in a collective Union that wouldn't overrule or take away from the seperate and individual State|Colony part.

Like a neighbourhood action group, or twelve distinct farming families working together on an agricultural Bulk Harvesting collective, etc.

The decisions of the collective were to be made (hey, check the paperwork, it's still around) on a weighted vote per State basis .. it was never the case that if one member bred exponentially and had way more kids than all the others put together then that member State would get all the decision making power.

Clearly time has marched on and people now think of The United States of America as a single country .. it's not, nor is the European Union.

But maybe it is time to update the paperwork and common rules?
Fyi decimation means reduced by 10%. The term comes from executing one in ten soldiers in a unit that refuses to follow orders.

Anyway, I'm curious how an AI would look for someone embezzling funds. There's more to the job than just memorizing calculation pipelines. I know I wouldn't use an AI accountant unless the state accepted liability for its failures.
Yeah the problem is that europe is doing the right thing BUT the US says fuck it do what you want. So it forces europe to have to compete on the same bs market as the US.
I believe that explaininjs is making a pedantic/semi-tongue-in-cheek joke about the gimmick of Jeopardy where the clues are "answers" and contestants buzz in to respond with the "question". https://youtu.be/KDTxS9_CwZA?t=156
ZeroMQ: High-Performance Concurrency Framework
Steam reviews can be useful depending on their content and their general direction, particularly if they mention specific things they do or don’t like, and there are consistent things popping up. Game devs are not flush with money and I’ve never seen a flood of suspiciously positive reviews.

Steam also has the features to do social proof of reviews. The reviews contain metadata about if the person got the game for free, and if you click the profile associated with it, you can see all the games a user has played and their achievement progress, which can help signal if they are a real gamer, how far they've gotten in the game they reviewed, but also how far they get in other games they've played to check that they're not a sock puppet.

This has enough value that Epic displays a star rating that is allegedly user generated, but because it doesn't indicate who is doing the reviews, and there is no text, their star rating is a lot more suspect.

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Modding support is also a player feature. Official, well supported modding can make or break a game, and Steam facilitates quite a lot in that regard; Nexus, as an alternative, is ad supported and caps download speeds for mods unless you shell out for a premium membership.
Tbh I would be happy with anything as long as I get a little space to be creative, solve challenging problems, have the opportunity to learn new things, have good engineering practices, etc..

I do not expect it but if I get to work on problems even a hundredth of the magnitude of curing cancer - that is a huge plus too.

The kind of work that kills me inside is CRUD apps that need to be done in two months, no time for tests, no time for good engineering practices, etc... Which honestly is a lot of the work available over here.

I lead a small team, and I've managed to get the higher ups in my current company to introduce some good practices and build something sustainable and not just a tech debt ridden monster of spaghetti code.

But it's an uphill battle, and I would love to work in an environment where things like that are not uphill battles, or at least that the hill is less steep.
Yes, GP is exaggerating or a bit clueless about humans

> > That there are no altruistic actions by a business [...] This is 100% true
I let the interviewers to get me prepared. I first interview with the worst employers and record or take notes of the interviews. I'm not afraid of letting them know that I don't know. Then I do my homework and research, try out, and take notes of the solutions. I memorize the notes for the next better employer, rinse and repeat, until I get a job. I've been able to try new careers that way.
Oh, the threat isn't to the user. They don't care about accounts they have abandoned. The threat is to services that suffer vote manipulation, spam, etc. The benefit of this approach is that you've got a bunch of abandoned accounts that were organically created (captchas solved, residential IP ranges, etc.)
We must always remember that all models are wrong, though some are useful.
Human history in the very long run (2021)
Nope. Thick layered ceramics are still pretty much the best stuff to stop high energy rounds. Got 2 sets of AR500 plates myself.
1. There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them.
If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a lie.

It's just a technical implementation detail. And I'm not hiding it; I'm describing it in the post.
I cannot describe the implementation detail in the short title.

It's just that you decided to believe that it's a lie, saying it very confidently, and taking down the post that was received generally very positively.

2. It's not a subscription, it's one-time purchase of hours.
Looks very cool, what inspired you to make this?
Applying optimal portfolio theory to the long history of market returns suggests that the most risk-efficient allocation is something like 60% stocks and 40% bonds. The diversification reduces volatility faster than it reduces the overall return, so equity-like returns can be regained by using leverage on the portfolio.

Following this advice today is tricky thanks to the persistent yield inversion: you obviously can't improve returns by using short-term borrowing at 5% to invest in long-term bonds at 4%.
I suspect if many people knew how much their phone was broadcasting to the world around them they'd be quite unhappy. I know I'm rather disgruntled at how much my phone talks and how little I can control it outside of manually toggling it on and off with use.
Nothing says it has to be unlearnable or change at whim. Imagine your bank's website allowing you to say "show me what I earned from Wilco last year" and have it make the UI selections to achieve this.

We will absolutely see these type of interfaces. Imagine how much Photoshop could be improved if you could simply ask to surface the tool you need instead of rearranging the interface yourself and hunting things down. Just like we expect apps now to be able to use the net, not just info on our own machines.

You can already ask ChatGPT about many interfaces in popular software and it will give you step by step instructions for nearly any scenario. Soon, apps will integrate the understanding with the button and menu selections and offer to do it for you.
In the GUI, the file manager always shows you the folder contents, often with thumbnails.

Making the CLI safe at this point would cause issues people might be less careful on systems without the safe configuration.

There's a ton of possibilities with the CLI, but the more you configure it, the more nonstandard stuff you have to learn and remember the differences when you SSH into some other machine...

I think it would be fairly easy to create a GUI framework for everything an average user would want to script, that isn't already covered by a GUI app, with some kind of package manager for CLI-to-drag-and-drop bindings, but it doesn't seem like anyone has done it, at least not in a FOSS form that got traction.
Of course, but you know what they're saying.
What if we made human colonies on icebergs?
I'm still going, but the biggest issue I'm finding is that knowledge keeps turning over. I have made big efforts in the past to learn technologies, languages and libraries that became obsolete then starting all over again. Software Engineering now is completely different to what I started with.

I have more Project experience but technically I dont know much more about Cloud, JS frameworks, modern DBs etc than someone 30 years old. Ironically my main advantage seems to be I can focus more and work longer hours than younger people who seem to value WLB much more than we used to.
Concorde B allowed a Pacific crossing in a technical sense, if you did a technical stop in Anchorage or Honolulu. And then only to Japan, but not to Korea or China.

In the 90s and 2000s you would have had 747s and a340s doing that nonstop without Anchorage or Honolulu, so if anything that would have made concorde B have an even shorter shelf life.
Serbia. I do have a side project but burnout is hitting me hard currently.

I would really like to hear about your reasoning as to why you would stay.
about 15 years ago the joke was, `cat /etc/services | mail apply@ycombinator` as at the time it seemed like startups were just doing file transfer, email, network file systems, etc. it wasn't far off, as unix is file based, and the internet is also file based.
Do you implement the Jeopardy!-style buzzer lockout or can contestants hit their buzzers as much as they want without penalty? https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/behind-scenes/how-does-jeopar...
Nanorobot with hidden weapon kills cancer cells
There is . it is called the General Math section. what is more funny than a 2 page proof of the Reiman Hypothesis?
This won't work correctly because after the first command, part-2 will no longer be an ancestor of part-3. It will try to rebate commits that already exist on the target, leading to unnecessary and difficult merge conflicts.
I honestly don’t believe that’s true, tbh.
> It definitely wasn't comfortable though - you leave all your friends and family behind and need to make new friends and family.

I can imagine, this is something that scares me. How was it for you? How long did it take for you to get yourself situated in the US?
Have you seen PlantUML?
But unlike “AI”, unlike “Crypto”, the internet wasn't initially hyped through the roof, and people had no expectations of it, and it came from academia/military, and not “OMG! I'm an buzzword spouting entrepreneur and I need me some investment dollars so I can grow and cash out and retire.”
Also depends on who's perspective you have in mind: the Girls in Tech founder's, or (most of) the (big) donors'
Show HN: I'm measuring energy usage with time during command execution
Hello! This program called 'etime' is a tool I've been building to measure energy usage with the 'time' command.

I've been interested in measuring the total amount of energy my desktop uses when running certain processes that are compute intensive - especially as it relates to execution time. [0]

This project uses the API behind a smart plug [1] and the start and end times of a process to compute joules and watts used by that process. It overlays the 'time' command to collect 'user' and 'sys' time information too!

Writing the program has been exciting explorations into shell built-in redirections and build setups for testing and releasing. [2]

It's also been useful in solving my initial interests and hopes!

[0]: https://o526.net/code/emporia-time/

[1]: https://www.emporiaenergy.com/emporia-smart-plug/

[2]: https://github.com/zimeg/emporia-time/
Wow, ok. No commercial marketing?

How about conferences? I’m sure none of the corporate sponsors have any marketing reason to contribute. <https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/conferences-worldwide>, <https://javaconferences.org/>

Or magazines? Surely they were entirely supported by their subscribers, not their advertisers. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_magazines_pu...>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_computer_maga...>
You have to realize even juggernauts like Apple are unable to influence other juggernauts like Broadcom.

4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907591 :

>Broadcom bluetooth/wifi chips ran out of firmware hot patch ram slots long time ago. Company seems to be too cheap to respin the rom mask with all the fixes baked in. From what I remember even brand new iphone x ships with no room for BT firmware patching.

>RECON 2019 - Reversing and Exploiting Broadcom Bluetooth (Jiska, Dennis Mantz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Mi8_9ABCc

>35C3 - Dissecting Broadcom Bluetooth (jiska mantz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nI9ok7iQg
Maybe this is naive but couldn't you use the same approach with profiles collected at runtime as PGO like LLVM/GCC? In my experience it can help quite a lot with guiding inlining both by hand and via a compiler.
Numerous issues, what voice for George Eliot?

J.KRowling's books, as mentioned, are famously well read by Stephen Fry and Jim Cook, both male voices for an initialed (but female) author.

But what then for J.KRowlings Cormoran Strike series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith?

Female or male voice for modern crime fiction male detective novels?
23 bil in 4 years? That seems like a good deal.
It is a hobby project, it is crowd-sourced, and I am selling tech services (not subscriptions).

And I don't see any lie there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40964863

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963194
Great, you build only store and retrieve functionality. How:

1. Do you identify which types of content your users use the most?

2. Do you find users who are abusing your system?

3. Do you load and process data (even on a customer by customer basis) to fine tune models for the QA service that you offer as an optional upgrade? Especially when there could be gigabytes of data for a single customer

4. Identify corrupt data caused by a bug in your code that saves data to the db? You're not doing a full table scan over hundreds of billions of records across almost 500 logical shares in your production fleet

These are just the examples I came up with off the dome. The job of the business is to operate on the data. If you can't even query it, you can't operate on it. Running a business is far more than just being a dumb CRUD API.
The recommendation AI portion isn't much related to generative AI, where the former connects existing data points and the latter creates new data points.

This TikTok ads team job post[0] does, however, mention "AI-powered smart video generation (we are also exploring AIGC)" (AIGC = AI-generated content) which implies to me that they are looking to genAI to make new content.

[0] https://careers.tiktok.com/position/7189645714418141499/deta...
....You might want to look it up before making such extraordinary claims of your own.

It's called the "Rust Belt" because it's where we had booming local manufacturing (the iron) in the postwar years that gradually declined over the course of the Cold War (turning to rust).

Hell, by 1995, some parts of the Rust Belt were already starting to recover, though others remain hollowed out to this day.
A motor for cell-free metabolism
I heard that GPS is one of the few applications in daily life that needs to consider relativistic effects. So, the generated data must have already excluded these relativistic effects, right?
they're honeypots.
This is called "moving the goalposts", and however good your underlying point about Amazon's perfidy might be, it does nothing but make you look like you're wrong and you know it.

You were wrong about the Rust Belt, and it's OK to admit that and move on.