skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sort of surprised that no one has countered with the quote often misattributed to Lord Kelvin. More interesting was the advice given to Max Planck:

One of Jolly's students at the University of Munich was Max Planck, whom he advised in 1878 not to go into theoretical physics.[5] Nevertheless, Planck's later work lead to the discovery of quantum mechanics.[5] Later in life Planck reported:[2][6]

As I began my university studies I asked my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly for advice regarding the conditions and prospects of my chosen field of study. He described physics to me as a highly developed, nearly fully matured science, that through the crowning achievement of the discovery of the principle of conservation of energy it will arguably soon take its final stable form. It may yet keep going in one corner or another, scrutinizing or putting in order a jot here and a tittle there, but the system as a whole is secured, and theoretical physics is noticeably approaching its completion to the same degree as geometry did centuries ago. That was the view fifty years ago of a respected physicist at the time.

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

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_geometry#20th_cent...

Math is not running out of problems just like physics didn't stop advancing (or merely become more precise measurement) in the 19th and 20th centuries. Something new an innovative might be around the corner — it might not. It might result in a new field entirely. It might not.
I'm unsure if there is much difference between charging at 50kw vs 150-200kw wrt long term battery longevity (I have primarily supercharged my 100D Model S for ~140k miles, and only experience ~7% pack degradation), although I do pick the V2/150kw chargers to let folks potentially under a time crunch use the V2/250kw chargers (when the station has both due to legacy posts that were expanded, which is common in the area I currently frequent). Also, better to turn the stalls over faster considering amortized capex costs (charging fast = less stalls needed).

We're somewhat spoiled that aggressive volumes of fast DC charging is immaterial on battery pack health in well engineered battery packs, as well as the rate of improvement in battery technology. Don't worry too much about it, enjoy a better UX and simply charge when convenient. Batteries are only going to keep getting better.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/14/another-tesla-with-over... ("Another Tesla With Over 400,000 Miles On One Battery")
I'm still sad that when Apple bought NeXT we didn't get Display PostScript --- it was so nice being able to for example program a custom line stroke in Altsys Virtuoso to display the length of the line and see it on-screen --- doing that in Mac OS (or Windows) required writing out a .eps or .ps file and then distilling to a PDF using Acrobat.

I really wish that there was a graphical programming/drawing program which would allow one to seamlessly switch between programming .ps (or other --- METAFONT would be way cool for this) code and selecting and moving the nodes/objects which would then cause the code to update.
The distinction between code and data is just an illusion. If the "code" is frozen but IO unconstrained, then it's just as if the "code" wasn't frozen.
This was inspired by another HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40972130

I thought it'd be interesting to try implementing the idea with just an LLM call.
Dynamic Selection with Flux
yes yes, I've seen that episode of Stargate too.
Wow, with that amount of driving you're going to be stuck with ICE cars for a while. I suspect you're a significant outlier though in terms of long trips per month.
> Training on human data makes them embody human values and makes them a complete non threat.

People can be threats, and when they are their values are part of what lies behind it.
Easiest to understand with a flashing + rotating light analogy.

When a rotating, say one turn in 10 seconds, green light is pointing north, a red light flashes.

If you see a green flash 1 second before a red flash, you're on the 36 degree radial.
You can post it on language learning subreddits on reddit, they could be interested in your app.
> I'm not sure there is enough pain for them to get replaced anytime soon.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-open-source
My Theory of Computation text mentions a lot of unsolved problems. Some are in CS of course, but I was just editing an example about whether for all n there is a prime between n-squared and (n+1)-squared. That seems like a problem a US sophmore could appreciate.
And why would you buy a Mac Studio? You could build a reasonable GPU-accelerated Linux box for well under $1500. For example: https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/BCWG3C/excellent-amd-gamingst...
it isn't, but i enjoy programming and would like to do more of it
It seems the search matches on the text of the option, not the section text. The text of the option is "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement" and the search for me brings up the option (and of course anything else that matches) when I search for any of that.
In full color vision sure, but not to the machines used to scan the insides of bags. You pretty much just get a silhouette.
I'm just saying that the domain that hosts the page and the domain that hosts the image are often not the same. Wikipedia hosts the articles, wikimedia hosts the images.

If a browser wants to be strict about what it loads, most of the web would appear broken. Maybe google could have the weight to force such change, but no way could mozilla impose such a strict rule.
If it's drywall you can use use a cheap stud finder or just yours ears and hands to find studs fairly easy. Plaster might be a little harder but still doable. Also, look for outlets as those are attached to studs. Depending on the age and construction of the house studs will be 16 inches apart.
How is causality possibly demonstrated in cases like this? It seems theoretically impossible to demonstrate causality here, there are a huge number of unknown variables in the system under study. So they must have just found a correlation in two data sets and best-effort ruled out known alternatives?

It bothers me how what actually happened (“correlation found”) gets translated into a story read by the public (“x causes y”) when the average person likely has no sense of the relative strength of different types of findings which are all messaged as “x causes y”.

This seems to happen a lot in climate science, cosmology and social science due to the physical or ethical impossibility of running controlled experiments. I really don’t think the general public understands the scientific method well enough that this distinction doesn’t need to be pointed out when results are published in the media.
Resumable Full Refresh Data Syncs
Ask HN: How to Get 100 Organic iOS Downloads This Week
I have set myself up for this challenge, and this is all I have to do for this week. I am updating the linked article as I go, and I didn't get any downloads on Monday. If anyone has unique ideas of how to get organic leads I would really appreciate it.

Thank you..
Assuming you're male, get your testosterone levels checked and consider getting some testosterone replacement therapy. I'd prefer that to SSRIs etc.
the article is great, but reading some of the anti security comments are really triggering for me.
Automerge: A library of data structures for building collaborative applications
I like Brandon Acker [1] for classical guitar. He also does a lot of material on earlier plucked string instruments like lutes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@brandonacker
That depends a lot on the domain of the code.. just saying they are massive problems is plain wrong. There is a huge percentage of applications that need not care about GC at all.
A couple big caveats here:

* cdecl is a platform specific calling convention. There is no standard C ABI. cdecl is a wintel thing, not the standard C calling convention. On Linux, this is the System V ABI for instance. On Windows ARM, it's also not cdecl.

* Specifying calling convention at all is a compiler specific extension. There is no standard way of specifying a C calling convention without `extern`.

So specifying cdecl gets you the right calling convention on some platforms and ties your code to some specific compilers. The only portable way to specify C linkage in a C++ program is extern "C". You will always get the right ABI for your platform and it will work on every compiler.

> So I stand by my point that in practice you don't need `extern "C"` for passing C++ callbacks to C functions. You can pass a lambda function just fine, and when it doesn't work the compiler will tell you.

The compiler will very often not tell you. It will complain if the lambda can't be coerced to a function pointer (because it's a closure) or if the argument or return types are wrong. An incorrect ABI will usually be accepted and will just do the wrong thing or crash at runtime. The C++ standard says that language linkage is part of a function's type, but very few compilers actually support this.

Your position works sometimes for some compilers and some platforms. I assert that it's better to use standard C++ features and just work everywhere.
Would the researchers work to smooth/slew the time on GPS/NTP or does it even matter at this point?
> Setting aside what happens for the uninsured (which is important, I'm just trying to simplify for my own understanding), isn't this mostly the levying of costs of very expensive drugs onto the insurance providers, rather than the patient? Meaning the "victim" of the price gouging is the insurance company?

The article touches on this, but perhaps doesn't spell it out sufficiently:

1. Insurance companies have their profits legally capped

2. To get around this: somehow (merger, purchase &c.) end up with Company X that owns both an insurance company and a PBM

3. The PBM price gouges the insurance company, increasing PBM profits (which is legal, unlike increasing the insurance company profits)

4. The Insurance company passes the price-gouging on in the form of increased premiums.

5. Company X makes more money by charging higher premiums, just like it would if it had (illegally) increased the profit margins of the insurance company.
AI, yes. The AI safety argument is that AGI might use "wars, pandemics, and climate change", among other things, which naturally moves it to the front of the queue.
> no evidence

Saying "there is no evidence" is sloppy cable political TV tier rhetoric. There is absolutely evidence[1]. You and others may not find that evidence convincing, or otherwise think polygraphs shouldn't be used, but nevertheless it exists. A brief survey of the evidence suggests that the polygraph is probably slightly better than chance, but with high enough error bars that we should be very cautious about its use.

[1] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/10420/chapter/7
What led you to consider an EV for a temporary 2-month car intended for lots of long-distance winter trips?
What I mean by weaponizing is that it's used to do things like target me for advertising, adjust credit ratings, set insurance rates, and even get a job with certain companies.
Almost never in my experience.
> And Mozilla leadership is associated with radical left politics

> Maybe check out ... LibreWolf

GNU says hi.
Probably like 2/3 of the people I know that I would consider to be racist or hold racist beliefs would call themselves racist, or at least say that they have some racist beliefs.

Probably half the other 3rd are predominantly those that are racist specifically toward white people.

When you create a space where people can be sincere, you would be surprised how self-aware they can be. At least I am.
In the posher lanes around here (in the wealthy home counties) every single house now appears to have a charger, and the main difference between them is whether there are one or two electric cars parked outside.
> I can make the choice to install software. I should be able to make the choice to upgrade it as I choose as well.

I think that's completely valid.

I was just assuming (maybe incorrectly?) we're talking about what should be happening in general (so what the experience for the layman should be). Now whether that applies to Librewolf is another story, but arguably it becoming fairly known, it should.

Side-note: In Waterfox, I've re-added the ability to disable auto-updating completely. I completely understand the want to manually update software.
Boulder County Housing Authority is selling off affordable apartments
That is because "Allow web sites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement" doesn't have the word "advertising" in it. Granted the current phrasing a bit awkward and may have a certain degree of deliberateness behind it.
Ideas do not come from nowhere. They are the conglomoration of thoughts and feelings obtained through experience. If you lock yourself in a room having done nothing you will be left thinking about how you're locked in a room doing nothing.

Go do something else entirely, you have no idea what will grab your interest or what will come out of it. You could for example start going to music shows, end up really interested in playing an instrument, and end up wanting to create algorthithmic music, or creative visuals. But don't do it this for the end goal of wanting to program something, there's so much more to life.
I'm particularly excited about the new house keeping scripts in this release. Peertube especially when using object storage has a tendency to create "zombie" files where it'll forget they exist. This usually happens when a transcoding job fails or when you force re-transcode a video. Before this release there wasn't any way to go look for those files and delete them but now you can.

If you're curious about Peertube. A friend and I have created an hosting service for fediverse applications. We provide fully managed hosting for Peertube which you can try free for 7 days. Check it out here https://fedihost.co
Show HN: Cargo Upgrades Action
I might just still be too tired from just waking up, but I can’t for the life of me find any details on that site about what models are actually being served by the horde?
The headline made me think there were going to be specific "safety risks" mentioned, but there do not seem to be. I am not sure what justifies the phrase "safety risks", "safety" especially. It makes us think of like, safety to humanity from AI or whatever, but the most focused upon thing in the article is SEC-related stuff; I'm not sure if the word "safety" is meant to refer to securities/financial related stuff, or meant to refer to other stuff?

(Note, I am personally a pretty anti-AI person honestly I went to the article hoping to get more ammunition on it, wondering what the "safety risks" employees were worried about were, disappointed to not get info on that, unclear if it was a thing or not).
Tailwind is a CSS framework and not HTML.

Tailwind and CSS have nothing to do with semantics of a document outline and its markup.
Ok, sure, but that's exactly what I said: simply outlawing advertising leaves a lot less wiggle room than allowing it but with some minor semblance of consent.
Any chance you could run this on the Effect codebase? Definitely an example of a project that can be hard to navigate due to its scope and gaps in documentation

https://github.com/Effect-TS/effect
The cosmic beings running the simulation may not be constrained to discrete simulations at all.
Our Wandering Path to Supporting 1000s of Domain Names
I have Thinkpad which is supposedly built to run ubuntu as well and even certified for RHEL and Ubuntu. It doesn't work so good, though. It works, but there are rough edges around sleeping, external displays, power management.

I feel that it has nothing to do with manufacturer, though, just not good enough Linux support for laptops.
Inkbase: Programmable Ink (2022)
I start to feel this is all marketing. Pretend it's dangerous, so it implies it's beyond what we imagine.
Because on our end, on the reality of a B2B product used daily, finding use cases for the limited OpenAI we have access to is far from trivial.
I think there probably are safety risks that I worry about too; but I don't think this article mentions them or is clear on what safety risks employees were worried about, if any, despite having the phrase "safety risks" in the headline?
If this ever makes it to market, I hope they give us 100x the battery life, so we only need to charge a phone once per quarter, rather than making the battery tiny so we still need to charge every day.
I think it'd be interesting to compare against F#, especially since Godot already has first-class support for .NET. When the bindings get fully fleshed out, what will OCaml bring to the table to warrant the extra hoops for the user that has no prior preferences for either languages?
Silicon Valley's tech titans line up to donate to Donald Trump
Genetic cloaking of healthy cells opens door to universal blood cancer therapy
I learned Django when I first started programming 13 years ago. It's still the best! And JS/CSS/HTML have only gotten better (Flexbox and Grid etc), and have done so in a backwards-compatible way. React's fundamentals haven't changed much in a decade either. Nor have SQL and the popular DBs (Sqlite, Postgres etc) So, I feel like as long as you ignore the hype frameworks, things haven't changed much.
The Camelot of collaboration (2001) [pdf]
The struggle to understand why earthquakes happen in America's heartland
> Existing languages get new features

That's how you wind up with C++
Unironically telling someone what they should be thinking while complaining about social media's influence.
None of those appear to be advertising companies.
Carefully concealed backdoor fake AWS files escaped mainstream notice
> It’s clear in retrospect that we should have communicated more on this one

Oh maaaaaaaaaaaan do I despise hearing variations on this "non-pology."

It's never "Wow, we fucked up by doing something harmful to you." It's always, "My bad, I failed to explain exactly why you're wrong to think this is harming you. I take total responsibility for not explaining why this is actually good for you. I'll try again."
Microsoft faces UK antitrust investigation over hiring of Inflection AI staff
Yes, I'm the developer of Waterfox :-)

> Plenty of feature trade offs to compare though with Librefox.

Yes, for sure. Definitively different goal alignments.
What exactly was a shitshow in Sweden? So far in my experience it's quite a breeze to start and run a business here.
This could easily be enforced now. I don't get how it isn't.
Could we also have outdoor 'drapes' in the form of LCDs or DLPs?
I bought Dell 3410 once which was shipped with Ubuntu. I closely inspected that Ubuntu, compared it with vanilla Ubuntu install. All I've found are branding packages (desktop pictures, etc) and one package which blacklisted some module. No secret drivers, no secret kernels.

Can't comment about XPS, but I feel that it'll be the same.
5.0% vs 5.4% of cars on the road?

That's probably the slightly higher incomes in Germany.
Great point, it reminds me of when I read about how "trials by ordeal" sometimes worked.

Consider the boiling water/oil thing: If you're innocent, you can "stick your hand in and not get burned."

What they did was, they faked the water being hot by blowing bubbles in it. All then that was needed was for everyone to "believe it worked," The innocent sticks in, and then the guilty confesses.
Missed in my other response: Double gives about double the precision, not 4 times, that of a single:

"The 53-bit significand precision gives from 15 to 17 significant decimal digits precision (2−53 ≈ 1.11 × 10−16). If a decimal string with at most 15 significant digits is converted to the IEEE 754 double-precision format, giving a normal number, and then converted back to a decimal string with the same number of digits" (from Wikipedia)
It can be done in iOS: in Settings -> Screen Time -> Content & Privacy Restrictions you can disable almost any app, including Safari and App Store. Ask a trusted person to set a Screen Time Passcode (and keep safe backups) and you'll have pretty much zero opportunity to waste time on a phone. (You'll probably waste it on a laptop instead.)
I don't want to be snarky, but I do seriously wonder how many people really cared about calculus when Newton/Leibniz developed it. It honest couldn't have been more than a handful because Newton slept on it for the better part twenty years.

I honestly think Math as a field has always been defined by "problems that only a handful of people care about".

The only exception I can think about is maybe basic addition and multiplication.
Privacy group complains to UK regulator about Meta scraping user data train AI
Detroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of Face Recognition Technology
This is actually something I find hard to resist in myself as an aging software engineer on HN. When I was young, articles would describe “obvious” things in excruciating detail, and I’d be grateful, because they were often things I didn’t know.

Now when I see articles about things I find obvious on the front page — particularly if they’re topics I’ve seen hit the front page before (which, mind you, means “any time in the last 15 years or so”) — I have to resist an annoyed gut reaction. The fact that knowledge and skills seem obvious and boring once internalized is a kind of terrible quirk of the human condition.
It is very nauseating for me, just like previous Sora videos. I have watched it from start to end, don't want to see it again. The high speed parts going through the ocean were specially sickening.

Kling (the Chinese Sora basically) is publicly accessible and I don't get that feeling from Kling's videos.
People don't realise the social stigma around HIV/AIDS is falling
Yes, TEMPORARILY, lol. Awkward for who?
L1 charging is not horrible; if the battery is flat, I get a complete charge (volt, 50 mi) in 10 hours. If I had L1 destination chargers 80% of the time, I'd be okay. I believe we could use combo L1/L2 charging to reduce the grid load and service more cars if one could spread the energy among the sockets depending on usage. small number of cars, L2 speeds, large number of cars, L1 speeds.
Worse is better in programming languages. You decide "I'll use python because everyone else uses it" and then you waste a week of your life debugging when some asshole on your team has mutated a dict that you passed into a critical function and you didn't notice.
If a double had happened to give 14 significant figures the article would list the exact same "why" 14 is enough. I.e. the article explains why it's more than enough, it doesn't explain why it's the exact number of digits used.
The problem is unfortunately a human one. As soon as someone figures out the 11 herbs and spices to unlock AGI, no matter how good their safety systems are, someone else will run off and build their own, without the safety systems in place.
Sounds like every experience of mine with desktop Linux. Excitement, initial success installing, days of esoteric troubleshooting, then disillusion and abandonment.
Any police reports on this?
Thanks, Trump!

Seriously. It's amusing that Trump essentially legalized hemp/CBD.
United States vs. Progressive Magazine (Wikipedia)
The Moral Machine (MIT)
Ly: Display Manager with Console UI
Using Democracy 4 game to simulate UK government runs
Apple's new China problem: ChatGPT is banned there