skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. But simulations of this nature give potentially useful hints on where physicists should look next
You are using the word "fitting" rather loosely. We usually "fit" models of fixed function form and fixed number of parameters.

You are also glossing over centuries of precedent that predate high-energy physics, namely quantum field theory, special relativity, and foundational principles such as conservation of energy and momentum.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

There's always risk in running complex untested software.
winner of the dumbass company name ever
I can pull out my decade old Sony and it absolutely beats a new iPhone on image quality. Zero contest. Phone images only look ok because they are mostly viewed on a small screen.
Andrew Adamatzky in Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake: Fungal Computing [video]
You are right, perhaps "guess" is the wrong term, I meant that it is unreasonably hard to identify and remember which is which.
Certs should be checked against a CRL and CT for revocation, and expired certs should never be accepted, for this reason among others.
All domesticated species have wild ancestors, even in the cases when after domestication they have diverged enough from their ancestors to be considered as being now distinct species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_junglefowl

While the ancestors of horses have been hunted to extinction a long time ago, the wild cows that have existed in Europe until a few hundred years ago (a.k.a. aurochs) and the wild pigs that still exist have remained genetically close enough to their domesticated relatives that frequent interbreeding between them has happened, during the many millennia since the domesticated cows and pigs have been brought to Europe.

The chicken breeds that were previously widespread, before their replacement with the optimized modern breeds, had a behavior very similar to their distant South-Asian ancestors and they were quite capable of taking care of themselves, when given an appropriate space.

There is no relationship between vegans and industrial farming.

Nevertheless, nobody could be truly vegan centuries ago, without acquiring serious health problems. Veganism has become possible only after the development of the industrial technologies required for the production of the supplements needed to provide various essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals that either do not exist in plant food or they exist in too small quantities and which either cannot be produced by humans at all or they can be produced, but in too small quantities for ensuring a good health.
> This new pi value should land us on the precise nanometer on a planetary rock of a sun located some 18 trillion light years away.

What does this mean?
Can you expand on that with some examples or links?
100% agree. If users want to remove a feature that funds maintenance and development of the project then they should really just fork it.
> walk away from the terminal

What do you mean, this is the best part of the job, the part I look forward to most each day.
why would they? juniors are a drain on budget
Thanks, that's why I wish they delved into the topic further as I'm certainly no expert in chemistry or growing cannabis. When I meant "activated" delta 9, I meant decarb'd as you said. Not sure where I'm giving misinformation apart from that.

Would you say that vapes and edibles in this loophole inherently have to be sprayed with chemicals, due to how these inherently must be decarb'd, and due to the very low yield of other cannabinoids like Delta 8 in cannabis?
There are things like IVAO/VATSIM networks which allow you to communicate with real people playing ATC. Back in the days (like a decade ago) there were also some speech-to-text based addons, which allowed you to do (very basic) things like go through checklist with a copilot, tell them to adjust flaps, put landing gear down etc. Not sure how much they've improved since.

But I agree, this is one area where LLM's could have major potential.
As sibling says... they have high resolution, but terrible optics. Fixed aperture, bad in low light, and all the photos get a similar.. flat... quality to them that they then alter heavily in software with various computational photography / "AI" techniques that ... well, they're fine, and good for the market they're after, but it's limiting.

Even a 15 year old interchangeable lens camera with a lower MP sensor can produce better pictures than a phone, esp if you want to do things like background blur / bokeh which is not possible at all with a phone (though they emulate it in software).

Hell lately I've dug up an old Canon Powershot 12MP CCD digicam out of a box, and put a hacked firmware on it (that can shoot RAW and let you do proper manual control of the lens), and gotten really interesting results. That thing has a tiny sensor, but having actual aperture control makes a big diff.
My take, in a few years many "frameworks" for front end and back end will be LLM based. Areas where you document your tables with pure language, what tables are ok to be manipulated by what kind of user. And LLMs will make a REST/GQL service exist from all of that.

For the front end, I believe that front-end frameworks will rely on LLMs to costumize the look and feel. It will also allow you to define "forms" that know how to call the right back-end service, as long as you give it the appropriate doc links.

I think the no-code revolution may get a huge boost now that llms exist. It will take 2-3 years before this is commonplace.
I probably don’t understand, but how is a star energy flowing into visible space? The matter is already present and visible in space. It isn’t going anywhere or coming from anywhere mysterious. It’s visible radiation from processes occurring in stars. Black holes seem to be more than light or energy dissipating, though.
It takes a lot of energy to pull CO2 from the air since it is only 400ppm. It also takes energy to make hydrocarbons. This means they will be really expensive. They might be used for classic cars but can’t replace fossil fuels.

Hydrogen or ammonia have advantages that can be made from water and nitrogen. Ammonia may be good for ships and planes since can be liquid at cold temps. But can’t substitute in cars.
Yeah, I think this is 100% it but I’m not aware of any standards. I have spent a bit of time watching wildlife ecologists do bird banding at one site and they had a log of all the rings, so they could identify them by sight. Because there are limited color combinations, they segmented by species, sex for some species to make it easier. Common CS algorithms show up everywhere in the real world :)

I wonder if different ecology/conservation groups coordinate their algorithms and databases.

I participated once, but oh my god was it terrifying. The care with which one needs to remove the bird from the net and handle it is unnerving, especially with tiny songbirds. Weighing them is really cute. Massive respect for people who do it day in and day out.
Only if you want a substring with separate ownership though - a string_view doesn't have to be NUL-terminated.
One thing I find funny about this, we are essentially bundling sqlite in probably 30% of applications at this point.

Chrome, Firefox, Safari, NodeJS, Dropbox, Teams, Slack, Spotify (basically anything that uses Electron)
Cooperative Interruption of a Thread in C++20: Callbacks
When I browse my local electronics web shops I see a lot of devices that couldn't boot a Linux kernel, some of which I wonder whether I could drive with a small consumer grade solar panel.
multiply all estimates by 3.
I'm not sure his name is long enough for this to be an issue.
"The first models of the Elektronika B3-21 had a red LED display. The comma used one full position in the display. Later the display was changed to green fluorescent but this made its operation slower by 20 %"

The red ones go faster after all (waaagh).
Uh sir. I already have a phone that does this.
if you're trying to steal, wouldn't it be best NOT to publicly dump it, and just quietly use the breached material?
It's really too bad though that the short string optimization capacity is neither standardized nor user-controlled.
"Coloniser" is a tricky word.

Historically, colonization included two very different types of societies- in America, it was primarily poor European peasants moving to undeveloped land and starting farms they worked themselves and pursued an independent future from their former country.

But it was also things like Belgian Congo where a relatively tiny number of Europeans set up governmental & social structures which were exploitative of the local population and extractive of the resources to go back to the colonizing country.

It's unfortunate that we conflate two very different things with one word. Most of the colonists/pilgrims/pioneers/settlers going from Europe->USA were essentially refugees fleeing poverty, persecution, war or starvation in their home countries who were making a new permanent life for themselves. This is in stark contrast to most of the colonization of Africa (whether from Europeans or Arabs) which was primarily military and governmental people who retained allegiance and connection to their home country and often intended to return home after serving some time in the extractive colony.

And of course, in modern usage, it gets used for everything ranging from white rappers to muslim communities in London, so you need a lot of context to assess the intended meaning.
This is helpful, thanks. And I assume that no one imagined that you would need more variants of strcpy to begin with, strncpy is a pretty good name too, and then it's hard to break the pattern. Similar situations with lots of other names.

I just wish that C style used fewer single char names and hard-to-decipher acronyms. Smart programmers can't read minds either...
Not the commenter, but I appreciate their sentiment. If the headline was something like "Caltech unifies two of their astrophysics models to bridge the gap and increase understanding of cosmology" then I'd say they're being snarky for the sake of snark. But the headline as is... Yes we've seen that plenty from University PR lately and it doesn't grab my attention anymore
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
> A camera should be by definition running on dedicated camera firmware, and nothing else.

Says who? There's no intrinsic reason a camera couldn't run with an Android OS. In fact, there's a lot of good reasons why you would want that - simpler development platform, reusing existing drivers, etc...
Q: what made you choose Nim over Swift?

(since they seem very similar at this point, yet Swift is more battle tested)
Ask HN: Experiencing Gmail Issues?
In trying to troubleshoot, I wanted to ask: are other people experiencing issues with Gmail? I'm getting this error using the web client: "We’re sorry, but your account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the Google Workspace Status Dashboard for the current status of the service. If the issue persists, please visit the Help Center." Google Workspace Status Dashboard doesn't seem to list any errors, so that's a clue it might just be me. I've tried logging in and out. iOS client works fine. I can access other sites like calendar and drive.
Python's equivalent of LabView would be Airflow. Both solve the same CS problem (even though the applications are very different).

Airflow it almost universally famous for being a confusing, hard to grasp framework. But nobody can actually point to anything better. But yeah, it's incomparably better than LabView, it's not even on the same race.
this is the main explanation that makes sense to me
> Scientists Say New Gene Editing Tool Is Like a 'Word Processor' for DNA

So they still need an Excel and a Powerpoint for DNA to have something useful. /s
HTML5 says it "must not be used by authors", but it still describes it as a tag, and describes what an implementation must conform to. I guess it's open to interpretation what "valid" means. But it is an HTML tag described by the HTML standard (both HTML5[1] and the WhatWG HTML spec [2])

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110405/obsolete.html#t...

[2]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#the-ma...
Not surprising at all. Inferencing against foundation models is very expensive, training them is insanely expensive. Orders of magnitude more so than whatever was needed to run the AdWords business. I guess I should modify my original post to "in exchange you get to use our service at a somewhat subsidized price".
To be clear: Neither blink nor marquee were valid tags under any HTML standard. They always were non-standard browser extensions.
Computer science prof discovers why whales keep washing up on East Coast beaches
They put in scheduled fix the course burns, as there's a lot of uncertainty outside the math - the fuel burns probably can't be controlled to 5 sig figs, for example. Also, although I have no idea if this matters, N-body orbital mechanics itself is a chaotic system, and there will be times when the math just won't tell you the answer. https://botsin.space/@ThreeBodyBot if you like to see a lot of examples of 3-body orbits. (maybe just in 2d, I'm not sure).
Certainly, but that goes a bit against the idea of incredibly strong types that people often visualize in their mind.

Irony being what it is, most strongly typed programs that I have been introduced to were incredibly tight knots that were not easy to refactor. Many of the restrictions in the types would be far too strong from what was needed by the program, and refactors grow in difficult to explain ways.

This is all to say, the discourse here is fraught with nobody acknowledging that "well done" programs of near any paradigm/style are well done and work. Evidence is often used that languages that allow looser ideas are more numerous than those that don't. This ignores that lack of existing programs in the strongly typed world could also be lack of ability for many people to deliver using those practices at all. Which, in turn, ignores that that may be a trade off that is worthwhile in some industries. (I suspect it goes on.)
> I wouldn't call it a rant, but rather a polite request for HN policy to change.

Which is made by blocking people with no ability to do anything about it.
My Pixel takes reasonably good images, even printed some in A4, at A3 they suffer. That is for the camera generated JPEGs, the RAW files are all but unusable.

It shows that smartphones use small, and crappy, sensors behind even smaller, and crappier, lenses. Phone got a long way, and there is a reason they replaced point-and-shoots. They are still a far cry from "real" cameras.
Take a look at the Alice camera: https://www.alice.camera/

Basically an add-on for your phone that adds a serious interchangeable lens sensor.
WebGPU-distribution is news to me; thanks for the link!
Why does it need to conquer the world? I just want to deal with sane, performant software.
What is flowing is basic matter out of which all is made. It breaks down to more basic components as it leaves one space and flows to the other the theory says. Once these basic components enter the other space they assemble into configurations compatible with energy of the other 'space'.
This is a poor argument.

Firstly, "how many characters can someone have in their legal name" is decidedly not infinite, because it has to be sufficiently short that some governmental entity was willing to record it.

Secondly, as a reply to a comment (quite reasonably) pointing out that 60 unicode characters may not be enough for a surprisingly large number of people, this makes even less sense. Memory and storage space are not infinite, but 128 bytes per name is still unreasonably low. One could buy a single 12TB hard drive and store the names of every single living human, allocating 1.5KB per person.
Thanks for the Monday morning laugh. They should have used this method of communication in WWII instead of those signal lights! /s

And someone posted the other day that there was no way humans would be creating new works anymore because of AI...
My roommate in college had, while in high school, gone for a Guinness World Record memorizing the number of digits in pi. He memorized them out to 800 or so, then discovered another had memorized it to thousands, so he gave up.

In college, he figured out how to write a program to compute an arbitrary number of the digits of Pi. I asked him how did he know it was correct? He said "just look at it. The digits are right!"

We were limited in the use of the campus PDP-10 by a CPU time allotment per semester. He was planning to blow his allotment computing pi, he figured he could compute it to 15,000 digits or so. At the end of the term, he fired it up to run overnight.

The PDP-10 crashed sometime in the early morning, and his allotment was used up and had no results! He just laughed and gave up the quest.

Later on, Caltech lifted the limits on PDP-10 usage. Which was a good thing, because Empire consumed a lot of CPU resources :-/
While it doesn't tick all the boxes you're talking about, you might be interested in the Pixii rangefinder cameras.

Damn expensive though.
well, there are a few things you could do short of publicly dumping a ton of private information to achieve the same or similar goals:

-publicly announce that you've breached X amount of data, and provide hashes of the files and tell the breached entity to confirm the hashes are accurate otherwise you'll publicly dump;
-publicly prove you've accessed the files in a way that requires breach notification laws to be triggered -- so the company is forced to post embarrassing announcements but the actual risk to the underlying people in the dataset is reduced

what I don't understand is why you have to screw over all of the little people and individuals by just making everything public.
I say this every time anything black hole related hits HN: I want to be yeeted into a super massive black hole. I want to know what is there. I might die at the event horizon in an instant as it might be a cosmic/causal/quatum firewall due to all the light being trapped there.

Or maybe I’ll float for a few seconds or minutes or who knows how long until I hit the singularity.

Or maybe there’s no singularity and if I — by some miracle — can avoid the singularity because it doesn’t exist and instead is a ring-ularity maybe I can be ejected into a parallel universe or something.

I wouldn’t be able to tell a soul about what I learned. But I’d at least be able to say my favorite line from all books: “… it’s full of stars!”

P.S. the universe gets bonus points if i can emerge as a monolith.
I really like Logseq, and I feel it's the only one of the note-taking tools that has the tradeoffs I want (outliner, local-first, focuses on content on a block-by-block basis, has backlinks), and I always keep coming back to it, but recently there's been not much happening, and the mobile app has been slightly broken for me for a while now (when opening a note I often can't add new bullet points, so I end up writing notes in an invalid format).

I'm really looking forward to their db-oriented version which is supposed to be merged into main (here's the long-lived branch[0]) this month. Presumably that will bring the project back up to speed, since that branch is currently almost 4k (!!!) commits ahead of main.

At the same time, I'm a bit worried about how the company is gonna sustain itself. After all they raised quite a bit of money ($4M 2y ago), while at the same time I'm not sure how large a market there is for commercialisation of an open-source PKM app like this. Esp. since it looks like its market-share is maybe ~1/10th that of Obsidian (based on most popular plugin download counts). TFA is kind of related to this.

While Obsidian is great from a sustainability perspective (it seems to me), it unfortunately comes short of being a good outliner.

[0]: https://github.com/logseq/logseq/tree/feat/db
Happy to help, another link you might find useful on the topic.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/14/new-grid-forming-invert...
Why were the deaths at all the other rowdy protests downplayed?
> Someone flagged what I thought was a good comment so I couldn’t respond to it unfortunately.

The best and the worst comments tend to be flagged. Not sure why we aren't allowed to continue the discussion within 'flagged' comments. Just hide it for those who don't want to see flagged threads and let the rest of us continue on.

> Birth rates crashe when people generally feel like there is no future for the current type of society or future societies that their current societies are headed towards.

Perhaps in certain instances in the past, but I doubt it. The current birth rate decline is a result of intentional policies of the elites. Starting with Europe and the US in the 60s and 70s and then these policies eventually got exported to or forced upon our 'allies' or major trading partners. The implementation of these policies varied from pushing '2 is enough' style propaganda to encourage couples to limit the amount of children, propaganda programming to encourage females to put off child bearing to work and of course enacting drastic policies like the 1 child policy ( the 1 child policy wasn't a chinese policy but one of american/european demands for opening trade and attaining foreign investment ). You can see it with bangladesh, india, etc. They are being forced to adopt 'child planning' policies by the US and Europe in exchange for investment. No doubt africa will get the same demands in the near future.

The birth rate decline isn't some natural quirk of society. It is a result of a planned systematic state policy. Everything from education to propaganda encourages men and women to have less children. What's laughable is that the same propagandists are scratching their heads wondering why fertility is declining all the while pushing propaganda to decrease fertility.
You should write a blog post on this (not joking at all).
Usually you settle on one or two “go to” functions, if you don’t write your own wrapper function anyway. Given the subtleties of their semantics, fully descriptive names also seem unachievable. But really, familiarity comes with repeated exposure. If you use these every day, you’ll learn rather quickly.
> Dark matter is strictly defined by its effects

All physical entities are defined by their effects! Suppose we found axions and they had the right mass to be dark matter. Would that mean we now "really knew" what dark matter was, in your sense? No, it would just push the defining effects further back - because all an axion is is a quantum of the (strong CP-violation term promoted to a field).

Just like the electromagnetic field is the one that acts on charged particles in such and such a way, and a particle is charged if the electromagnetic field acts on it in that way. There's no deeper essence, no intuitive "substance" with some sort of intrinsic nature. All physical properties are relational.
I'm not familiar with those functions, but I had the impression they actually shouldn't have the same name.

Since the Rust function has implicit/automatic behavior depending on how it's state is and how it's used by the callsite, and since the C one doesn't have any implicit/automatic behavior (as in, separate/explicit lifecycle calls must be made "manually"), I don't even see the reason for them to have the same name.

That is to say, having the same name would be somehow wrong since the functions do and serve for different stuff.

But it would make sense, at least from the Rust site, to have documentation referring to the original C name.
Are we assuming all users will be on modern browsers with modern hardware?
This just doesn't seem to work at all, nothing I search for gives a result (I even tried the example "rent car").

I also don't understand how to add a chat
Maybe not, but it's something I've been doing since I was a junior dev. I've rarely had any pushback on it.

Regardless, I suspect that most senior devs have quite a lot of negotiating power.
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