skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, or maybe they would have struggled with the same challenges we saw Tupolev struggling with to produce the TU-4.

Practically, physical objects need built. If you're not doing it yourself you've got to work within the limits of your suppliers or push them.
Yes, and yes.

My project is an IoT node that requires secured and auditable software up and down the chain. We can't allow user replacement. We acknowledge that the spirit of LGPL3 is for a reason and it works for a lot of parties, just not us.
> The researchers used low-power light to break the chemical bonding of the plastics and create new chemical bonds that turned the materials into luminescent carbon dots. Carbon-based nanomaterials are in high demand because of their many capabilities, and these dots could potentially be used as memory storage devices in next-generation computer devices. [...]

> Potential for Broader Applications: The specific reaction is called C-H activation, where carbon-hydrogen bonds in an organic molecule are selectively broken and transformed into a new chemical bond. In this research, the two-dimensional materials catalyzed this reaction that led to hydrogen molecules morphing into gas. That cleared the way for carbon molecules to bond with each other to form the information-storing dots.

> Further research and development are needed to optimize the light-driven C-H activation process and scale it up for industrial applications. However, this study represents a significant step forward in the quest for sustainable solutions to plastic waste management.
and functions: WHY YOU SHOULD foo WITH bar
Colorful crayfish study challenges theory of bright colors as adapted phenotype
Shoot to kill or don’t shoot at all.

Strictly speaking, the idea is "shoot to stop the threat", and whether the target eventually succumbs or not is incidental. But overall, your point stands - the old idea of "shoot them in the leg" or whatever is NOT the desired strategy.
Now slightly more rare
At a previous job I complained to company leadership that we shouldn't trust email addresses without verification.

I think the company eventually required verification, not because their trusted employee told them, but because a security review of the product pointed out the lack of email verification.
- Todo: CPUs from graphene, quantum dot arrays, flash heating plastic yields Hydrogen and Graphene, liquid metal laser approach, fruit peel laser approach
Picking up the fight against deepfakes, voice cloning and generative AI
> All of this tells us why Mexico is weaker than the US.

> But not why it’s poorer.

The article's closing statement, just before the paywall.
Wasn't he literally banned on Twitter after posting a "stand down" video that afternoon?
lunar gravity
All machine learning is just embedding of various forms. If you have a way to translate disparate types of data into a common space, in ways that preserve inductive bias and information content, you can then combine them for downstream tasks.
> the group who buys the oil rights sells the oil, and they send a part of the profit back to the state

Source? (Not challenging you.)

> If someone "buys the oil rights" and doesn't sell any oil, they're cheating the state

I’d argue a better solution than thinning the buyer pool is setting a high minimum rebate, possibly one that only kicks in if the plot isn’t exploited.

Would also note that Wyoming’s revenue is from sales tax, mining tax and ticketing tourists. (Property tax is mostly minerals [1].)

[1] https://wyotax.org/research-education/wyoming-tax-faq/
You've got everything that you need in Synology.

* Use Time Machine to automatically backup your computer to Synology NAS

* Use SMB Share to manually manage big files or archives when you need it(use rsync if you lazy)

* Use CloudSync(synology app) to automatically back up your Google Drive to your Synology

* Use Synology Photos to (semi)automatically backup your photo library form your phone to your NAS

* Use Hyper Backup to backup your NAS to the cloud using S3/Backblaze B2/rsync.

One thing that might be missing is auto transcoding. 223J might not have enough power to transcode videos, but if you get somehting similar to DS920+, it can do transcoding for you. I've got mine setup with Jellyfin container, and it plays very well because CPU can transcode that.
the author is pretty confused, so the post is outright wrong

API version (as specified in AWS SDK etc...) != application version

There are some "Versioned SAAS" systems where a customer can specify software version running on remote server, but those are pretty rare and require expensive enterprise-level contracts.

For large vendors like AWS and Stripe, you have no control on real versions whatsoever, and all they promise is that existing API does not break. This does not mean that there will be no new problems introduced, it only eliminates one very narrow class of the problems.

A specific example from my experience: few years ago, AWS CloudWatch GetLogEvents switched from returning 10_000 log events per call to returning min(10_000, 1 hour of log events) per call. This did not break API interface at all - after all, the documentation says "limit: The maximum number of log events returned...", and not a single word mentions a _minimum_ number of log events. This did however kill the performance of my app.. and since this is SAAS I have no way to roll back the code to previous version.
Hi HN, I'm Roxanne.

My partner and I created Booky out of frustration with existing financial tools. As young entrepreneurs, we needed something simple and affordable that didn't exist, so we built it.

Booky is a user-friendly fintech app simplifying accounting for founders and small businesses. We offer an intuitive interface that allows users to see what's going on at a glance, a fast way to organize revenues and expenses, and a one-time payment option. We also ensure that all data is encrypted and secure, giving you peace of mind.

We made an accessible tool to help entrepreneurship (as we know, it can be tough!).

All feedback is welcome and appreciated!
Results that we, the taxpayers, already paid for.
>If a lease has value to me remaining undeveloped, and it has value to them being developed, then shouldn't we be able to compete to see how much the market values those priorities?

No, because the actual amount the lessee is paying is the $19/acre, plus the taxes on the oil they extract. The fact that the $19 is a separate transaction is just an accounting convenience.

The state could say "place bids of price per acre plus taxes. Highest bidder wins. We'll refund taxes up to the amount you paid in the bid." It would be inconvenient for multiple reasons, but it would average to the same thing, and it would stop the conservationists cold. The fact that the state doesn't do it that way and so the conservationists can pay the price per acre by itself is just a loophole.
For a moment I thought it was about HN.. for some reason.
I find using cargo watch really helps with my perceived compile times - it runs a check then build on every file save. By the time I open a new terminal to test things out it is ready to go!
People do that, and find very tricky bugs. One person did it by line-by-line translating C code into TLA+, another by representing the state machine in Coq and checking for predicates validating it in the source. But I don't think a visual representation of the state machine would have diagnosed the bugs the formal checkers did.

https://probablydance.com/2020/10/31/using-tla-in-the-real-w...

https://probablydance.com/2022/09/17/finding-the-second-bug-...

https://archive.is/sEXqu
Didn't used to be this way. I recently looked at my mom's 1960s history book from 5th grade she found in her old things, and was pretty surprised at how the reading and content seemed be aimed at a similar level as 8th or 9th grade when I went to school in the 90s.

And what I experienced when I worked in schools in 2021 was far lower standards than even then.

I wonder if it just has to do with the low hanging fruit effect -- productivity goes down as you extend from harvesting just the lowest hanging fruit to all the fruit, even the most marginal.

When my mom went to high school, she was the only one in her family who went. In the time and place she grew up in, going to high school was as rare and impressive as getting a postgraduate degree is today. Only students with sufficient motivation would even attempt high school. Needless to say, you don't have to worry about disruptive kids or keeping them motivated in that environment.
Show HN: Structured editor in a code notebook [video]
Yes it's strange to tell a dying person "this drug is too dangerous to try because it may kill you".
The only way to incapacitate him fast enough that he couldn't fire off any more shots was to kill him.
But eventually less rare, once they get the barbecue going that is.
No one has the time to be an expert on everything. Learn a few things very well. Learn enough of about a dozen other things so that you can carry on a meaningful conversation in any of them. Peripherally Learn a few details about the rest so that you don't look like a deer in the headlights if someone mentions them in casual conversation.
DEI / MEI culture war aside:

> After years of corporate ownership, culminating in Yahoo’s sale to private equity firm Apollo, TC has become a milquetoast site focused on big raises specially placed by expensive PR people and random tech news that has been neutered into pablum. The current editorial structure, controlled by one or two old-guard TCers and a lot of older editors hired by editor Connie Loizos.

sad to realize that this is exactly what i was feeling about TC in the last 3-4 years. is it salvageable?
> "you'll basically have zero wlb for the first 2-3 years while we are getting this fab off the ground"

This doesn't sound like you were interviewing for a typical job with Samsung then. Getting a fab off the ground seems to imply it's a newly constructed, or under construction fab. You were interviewing to be part of the crew that builds and sets up a new fab.

There's a reason salaries for this type of work as so large...
>On HN I've seen the reading that Culture humans are pretty much housecats to the Culture Minds.

HN is the only place I've seen that take. It may be present in the books of the series I haven't read yet, but I feel like it was mostly one person's interpretation that gets repeated here.
Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs
Agreed on that, but this is Google, do you really think they couldn’t have made this easier if it wasn’t in their best interest not to?

One would think, maybe even expect, a single setting in a single place would control this. And that their docs would be correct.
That's not relevant here though, because their function is continuous and they're fitting to an arbitrary shape. It's not a "perfect science," so there would be wiggle room.
Except they don't know if either they or the cancer dies in either switch state.
> and which shouldn't be used.

my rule of thumb is that if its name begins with str then it shouldn't be used.
I am 100% convinced that these kind of approaches will be what delivers ML research from the current resource-hungry and ungeneralizable status quo. Low-dimensional Euclidean geometry is special. Higher-dimensional Euclidean spaces are less special. Most real-life data is high-dimensional, not at all smooth, and possessing a structure you cannot call Euclidean with a straight face. Look at what works with tabular data (which is probably most of what practitioners work with in the wild). It's gradient boosted trees, not neural networks.

There is a fundamental mismatch between the data we usually work with and the spaces we shove it into. Tools from algebraic topology and geometry are old hat in physics. If anything, they should be even more useful in ML.
Google brings up a site showing that Wyoming does make money from taxing the oil: https://pawyo.org/facts-figures-2023/
That graph is US only
Point well taken, golang feels painful to use compared to java due to its weak type system (to be fair, I have NOT used it since generics were added, so I don't know if that helped a lot -- that was always my main pain point, it made collections kinda useless -- it's not a coincidence that java added generics (1.5) soon after it added collections (1.2))

Anyway, I'm not sure if this is a situation where the extra power of Rust's type system could not possibly be made more performant and it's just a natural tradeoff, or whether it's a thing where it's a matter of time before Rust (or some competitor) catches up and we can have it all
I'm turning in my physic card. (stareat*ground)
> Part of my motivation to go into writing code in the first place was that I noticed software getting worse and more user-hostile in the 2010s and I wanted to change that. Turns out the people making software worse think the stuff that makes it worse are "best practices"

Yea, this has been the biggest change I've witnessed during my career. When I got into computers and programming, it was all about empowering the user, helping the user solve their problems, and providing the user with the tools that make the computer do what he wants it to do.

Now, the software industry is mostly about empowering the software company (and its "partners"), solving the company's problems, and making the user's computer do what the company wants it to do. From the software company's point of view, the user is seen as either 1. an annoying middle-man who just happens to (for now) possess the computer and/or 2. a cow to be milked for money, attention, engagement or time.
Show HN: I scraped 3.2B TikTok profiles and 9B posts to build this search engine
B = Billion

Aiming to scrape 1 Trillion TikTok posts by this year.
If you haven't seen it, the Interface Builder got its inspiration from this Interface Builder written in Lisp: https://vimeo.com/62618532 The version in the video actually ran on a TI MicroExplorer Lisp Machine NuBus board in a Mac. There were other ports which ran directly on the Mac in Lisp.

The thing was shown to Steve Jobs and he hired its main developer, Jean-Marie Hulot.
Okay - but what happens when your doctor is getting bribed to say you're dying to get you to try expensive experimental drugs with no evidence of working?

In the best case, you end up bankrupt. In the worst case, you end up bankrupt and dead.

This is only a slightly more extreme version of the Sackler problem.

Deregulation sounds great if you believe everyone is logical and has accurate information to make decisions for themselves.

I'm sure there must be a much better solution than what we've got for the people who are dying.

But I doubt the answer is to just let drug companies sell anything to anyone and make Medicare pay for it.
Wow that's a terrible way Google managed customers security, selling them to an incompetent buyer. So many red flags pushing me to stop using anything Google.
Seems like a strong LLM could act as a host.
I will only react to the last paragraph, but imho, the decline of religions has no causal relationship to the decline in birth. I do think they might be correlated, but my example is that France is way less religious than Italy or Turkey, and kept their fertility rates above 2.1 longer. Also, recently France had a small increase in religiosity, while its birthrate declined.
Looks like Zen 5 will now have 3 integer multiplication ports? Hopefully that yields a reciprocal throughput of 2/3 of sequences of mulx instructions!

EDIT: With the 8-wide dispatch system, I suppose it can actually target Apple's silicon when it comes to asymptotics, no?
Cell companies will sell connectivity to whoever will buy it though. Cars, watches, and anything IoT they can get their signal to.
People that registered those domains and got hacked bought them from Google, so trusting google was the security issue.
I remember reading about a woman working at Amazon that was put on a PIP because she was missing to much work for her cancer treatments.
There is a logic in grouping the same businesses together.

If a dispensary opens at, say, E 14th St in Manhattan, New Yorkers will know E 14th is the place to buy weed.

So if you’re looking to open a dispensary (regulatory hurdles aside), you probably want to locate at the place New Yorkers go to get weed: E 14th.
Weird: HN is supposed to be technical but the people behind Asahi Linux have proven themselves to be technical wizards; meanwhile HN seems more interested in money and pseudo-libertarian politics than transformitive technical excellence. But such is our age.
> Could you imagine being the first person to ever explore an underground cave system on another planet?

I think there's a documentary on that: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
Mrrrow
16 decimal places (really about 15.9 decimal places) is what you get with double-precision floating point.

Double-double would be about 31 digits, and quad precision would get you 34.

Single-precision gets you a bit more than 7 digits.
My Nikon D5300 had GPS back in 2013.

It's the only thing I miss having upgraded to a D500 some years later.
If Typescript counts as gradual typing, which i think it does, then many seem to be very happy using it. I have skimmed over more than 1000 blogs of HN, didn't see any posts about disliking Typescript, and many people use it.

Doesn't Typescript offer seamless interoperability with vanilla Javascript?
>which means the AI is either "hallucinating (lying)" or some internal systems on Google's servers are outright malfunctioning*

I'm not sure how that is implied.

>Many AI systems do use user interactions as part of training data.

There is no evidence of that being the case here, and none of the mainstream AIs do that yet. They'd be much more useful if they did.

>So at most you might guess those documents aren’t directly being used for training

Or we can actually know that, because that's the case.

>AND they will never include conversations in training data but you don’t know.

Conversations aren't part of this discussion at all, so I'm not sure what you're trying to imply, but it's wrong.
Because selling domains is their core business. Not a google project that will be cancelled in a few years.
The solution to the Trolley Problem is to perform a "slipping the switch" maneuver.

The solution for terminal cancer patients is to let them use any experimental services they please.

Next.
I'm here for this. If only to highlight the amount of data leaked willingly. That said, I'd there a breach of service doing this?
The landlord could put panels on it, and pass the lease fee on, and advertise the house as, eg "$1000 a month plus $100 FLAT FEE ELECTRICAL! You never pay more than $100 per month for electric AND IT'S STEPS AWAY FROM EVERYTHING" or some such
If you do, be sure you're on the side that is intentionally trying to find vulnerabilities, not the side trying to defend against them.

The defense side sucks. You have to deal with security vendors that are eager to sell you snake oil. You have to actively fight against management that wants to save money. You have to fight against users who don't care about security.

If everything goes smoothly and you have no security problems, the bosses wonder why they even pay you. If you have a security incident, the bosses wonder why they even pay you.
That isn't exactly true. Floating point error is only really unbounded if you hit a cancellation (ie subtracting two big numbers), which you can avoid by doing some algebra.
author here: probably not.
Let's not do the usual thing of allowing Jobs to get away with claiming other people's advancements. VB and Delphi by '97 already had that sort of interface builder - arguably much better ones. NEXT was trying to catch up with what Microsoft had already done on Windows by then.
I think this is a misunderstanding. People are already having a whole lot of promiscuous unprotected sex. The function of PrEP is to make that sex safer.

My friend used to volunteer at an LGBTQ support shelter. She knew gay men who had promiscuous unprotected sex 20 years ago. Some of these people had been so marginalized by society and abandoned by their families that the connection from their random sexual encounters was the only thing they had. She knew a guy that was willing to do it no matter the risks. One day he found he had contracted HIV, and not long after he committed suicide.

I’ve been to sex parties before I was on PrEP, and the arrangement is the same. Have a conversation about testing, and if everything sounds good have unprotected oral or use condoms for penetration.

The difference is that now with PrEP this feels much safer as one of the most significant STIs is no longer nearly as easily transmitted.
OpenAI is a non-profit.

(Kinda like a penguin is technically a bird.)
Write spike stories like fairy tales
> No one tried.

There were many attempts, some listed in other comments[1][2].

> 2024 models aren't much better than 2014 models.

Depending on the type of photography that you do, there were significant improvements[3]. Not to mention mirrorless replacing DSLRs.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970059

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970490

[3]: https://fstoppers.com/gear/decade-evolution-cameras-now-vers...
There is the "right to try" act in the US.

https://www.fda.gov/patients/learn-about-expanded-access-and...
For ~$30/mo in the US per device, hence why most people cannot justify owning multiple LTE-connected devices.
I also assume it is the video creator that does this, but the point is it is out of your control. Creators can revoke access to videos at any time, so if you really want to save it you need your own copy.
Bret Victor might argue visualizing a program is still "drawing dead fish".

The power of visual programming is diminished if the programmer aims to produce source-code as the final medium and only use visualization on top of language.

I disagree. We frequently break up large systems into chunks like modules, or micro-services, or subsystems. Often, these chunks' relationships are described using diagrams, like flowcharts or state transition diagrams, etc.

Furthermore, quite often there are zero direct code references between these chunks. Effectively, we are already organizing large systems in exactly the fashion the op is proposing. Inside each chunk, we just have code. But at a higher level viewpoint, we often have the abstraction described by a diagram. (Which is often maintained manually, separate from the repo.)

What exactly are the disadvantages here?
Guiness is not an "authentic" record-keeping organization, in that they largely don't attempt to maintain accurate records of "the most X" and "the fastest Y". Rather, their business model is primarily based on marketing and publicity stunts: a company makes a ridiculously large pizza or whatever, and pays a very large amount of money to have Guinness "verify" their record for biggest pizza. A Guinness world record is just Guinness's record; it's commonly different from the true world record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records#Change_...
> It remains pretty potent if you save up enough of it.

That's... not what potent means