skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The human eye will see white when a pixel flashes through all of the colors quickly in time.
I would love a language that has this gradual evolutional abstracting as a core concern. That makes it easy. Where you can start from simplest imperative code and easily abstract it as the need for this arises.

For example a language that requires "this." or "self." prefix is not such language because you can't easily turn a script or a function into a method of some object.
Why is whom you are having sex with and libertarianism coming up?
There's no good reason for consumer nvidia cards to lack SODIMM-like slots for video RAM, except to rake in big bucks and induce more hasty planned obsolescence.
hmm? whats that
Gonna wait for LMSYS benchmarks. The "standard" benchmarks all seem unreliable.
As someone suffering from Long Covid, I was hoping that my symptoms would improve after getting vaccinated, as had happened to others before me, but alas that wasn't the case.

Then I learned that the vaccine wasn't a traditional one, and that it reprograms the cells to express the markers for the immune system to respond to. If the dose happens to hit a vein, and thus ends up reprogramming heart tissue, the consequences can be horrible disability ,or a quick death, even in a previously fit and healthy person.

No more Covid boosters or anything MRNA based for me. I've barely made it through this.
Since you say this is progress, do you mind elaborating on what exactly this is progress toward? Even if the ASF fully changed their name tomorrow, what actual positive impact is that going to have on Native Americans?
ffmpeg pulled from the cloud into your browser, but run locally
Great, there go the wolves.
a devzat regular made that!
It's a good thing that you don't need the community to do interesting things with radio signals, just an interest in doing so. Chatting with other people is just a nice side effect of working with signals sent over RF.

And when it comes to doing interesting things with technology, there are many other communities to collaborate with; someone might even build their own community of people who also want to chat over RF.
Yeah, not disagreeing with any of that. My contention is that it's not a _prerequisite_ to great accomplishments.
Mushrooms have saved more people than they have harmed, I guarantee you. I believe you have a very warped or misguided understanding of what exactly psilocybin is and I'd encourage you to learn.
> That's almost a tautology then.

No... it's not? Do you know what tautology means?

> If you only know one thing about someone, that's also necessarily the best predictor for anything about them.

Except it's not the only thing you know about them... so your point is kinda meaningless.

> However, it doesn't tell us much about whether wealth does concentrate over time.

There are soooo many studies supporting this, like the two I linked above, not to mention common sense.

It's like the most basic game theory + common sense - you have X people competing with each other, you give (0.001 * X) of those people massive advantages - who do you think is going to be winning?
> "It would still cause me a great deal of thought, but I think my answer now is it would be very difficult to leave my partner, to leave my people, for that amount of time, because it would be far more than a year," she said.

Simply select participants who are singles.
At the most basic level it's all about money. ATT had a monopoly on telecom in the US and had the money to set up the research labs. After that you need people that can recognize and fine brilliant people in their respective fields and giving them the resources they need.
You are forgetting a vital element: the C-suite must want to plow the money into research instead of lining their yachts and various houses with it.
"cushy" is how you describe it, huh? Well I chose to work in games so I knew I'd get the worst of all worlds working there, but I'd still keepo in mind

1. some workers are still doing full time jobs, some with families to care for. "a few hours" per app adds up quickly

2. SWE's are explicitly exempt from overtime in the US. And it's not unusual even outside of games to hear 50-60 hour work weeks. Or on-call roles. Probably even more in these times since company's "solution" to the economic changes is to lay off 75% of the workforce and triple the remaining 25%'s responsibilities.

3. it's not just top companies doing these hoops. Everyone copied the top tech companies without the top tech pay. 4-5 hours for Google is more than fine, 4-5 hours for some Law Firm that barely pays 60k in a high CoL area makes no sense.
It is solvable with enough capital investment though, question is how much will it cost to solve.
Related:

SSH has become our universal (Unix) external access protocol

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40995867
Bell Labs and things like it were around when the primary purpose of a business was to make money, and do it healthily, rather than to find a bigger fish. It's no wonder many of these companies were quite old. They created sound businesses.

For the giants of today it's all about milking existing products for all their worth. Not finding new revenue avenues. The modern stock market is to blame. If number goes down then the earth is on fire apparently.

The other aspect is, why try and innovate yourselves when you can wait for someone else to do it and then try and acquire them? It's short term thinking but that's what business is largely about these days.

Maybe this will change with time. I suspect it will as the world is on a track to become more insular again. This may drive innovation at home.
interesting... only as an ingress for the web UI or also as an API manager?
Commercialization, yes, but not necessarily further research.
You're assuming I have good aim.
Shorter range and shorter lifespan too :D
Way to change your habits is to control your environment (2014)
Nonlinear Computation with Linear Systems
you're only right about not being a physicist. sorry, had to have a laugh. What made you draw that conclusion?
It's not a common side effect of the vaccine though. It definitely is a relatively common side effect of actually catching the disease itself though.
I imagine they would do something like this: https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/datace...

These innovations don’t always have to be “marketed” to be shared. Things like this get developed and used internally, and then sometimes the company likes to brag about their accomplishments, even if it’s not an externally facing product.
Whatever the drift would be, inorganics would drift less than organic materials.
You only need to mix two different wavelengths to render any human perceptible color. They give you four parameters to work with (wavelength1, brightness1, wavelength2, brightness2) which makes it an underdetermined system with an infinite number of solutions for all but the pure, spectral boundary of the gamut.
OBSESSED! She did SO good!

I taught young girls to code (founder of nonprofit Girls Code Lincoln, based in Nebraska USA) for the past few years - I love this! A few resources that you may be interested in sharing with her, age appropriate for her:

Youtube series that we did where our students interviewed women in STEM - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-32uv45Ln4VJGhVr_jr6...

Podcast series where we talked about historical women in STEM + a current woman in STEM - we recommended people listen to this in the car when their kids are there. https://girlscodelincoln.buzzsprout.com/

My email if you need anything at all, or would like further resources for your daughter. aakriti@TheNonprofiting.Org / info@GirlsCodeLincoln.org

TED talk that I did about HOW to get your daughter interested in STEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guoLTuW8AX4&t=10s
How I see the music industry of the future
The other day I made a song on SUNO (suno.com/), a generative AI tool and holy moly did it deliver... In about 30 minutes, I had created an alternative pop song that is almost indistinguishable from a live recording. As I was making the song, I felt like I (a guy with no musical ability) was working with one of the most talented (and patient) bands to bring my song to life through brute force trial and error. This experience has singularly changed how I see the future of the music industry.

In the future, I don't think musical artists will make songs. I think they will make models. Those models will contain all of the information needed for generative AI tools to quickly and accurately create music that reflects the sound and compositional qualities that define that artist. AI tools will create new original music spontaneously that is customized to the listener, perhaps taking into consideration the listener's mood and activities. Net net, the principal unit of economic value in the music industry will shift from being songs, to models.

It is a brave new world.
> I got a PhD in condensed matter physics later on but never got a really good understanding of the phenomenon but I think it has something to do with

The color of most* LEDs is controlled by the band gap of the semiconductor they're using. Reducing the temperature of the material widens the band gap, so the forward voltage of the diode increases and the wavelength of the emitted light gets shorter

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/003189...

*: With the exception of phosphor-converted LEDs, which are uncommon.
Since we're reminiscing...

https://donkeyontheedge.com/mahir/
Mistral just released a totally open 12b model
This is not really how these models work, if the sample is out of distribution then it would usually perform worse on the task assigned.
Horrible scrolling site. Don't recommend.
> Sometimes I wonder if it's the money per se, or what brings in the money, or both.

Yes:

> One could draw a snap judgment from this analysis and conclude that money, in fact, simply buys happiness. I think that would be the wrong conclusion. Clever sociologists will always find new ways of “calculating” that marriage matters most, or social fitness explains all, or income is paramount. But the subtler truth seems to be that finances, family, and social fitness are three prongs in a happiness trinity. They rise together and fall together. Low-income Americans have seen the largest declines in marriage and experience the most loneliness. High-income Americans marry more and have not only richer investment accounts but also richer social lives. In this light, the philosophical question of what contributes most to happiness is just the beginning. The deeper question is why the trinity of happiness is so stratified by income—and whether well-being in America is in danger of becoming a luxury good.

* https://archive.ph/4ofJ6 / https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/happiness-...
Compared to most websites, that is superb!
Given his recent prominence, JD vance talks about this a lot in hillbilly elegy
What do you see as wrong with society and how would you fix it?
I was thinking about a very small version of this topic the other day--how can you re-create the intrinsic motivation of a startup in a large company? My conclusion was you just can't. The combination of scarcity, urgency, and potential opportunity present in startups seems to catalyze something that can't (at least maybe not ethically) be simulated.

Maybe in the large what we really need to get it together and pull these things off is immediate existential threat e.g. a world war or crisis of similar magnitude.
Extravagant, wasteful wealth obviously exists, and yes, waste is bad.

But if your goal were, for example, to provide air conditioning to most of Mexico, I don't think reusing existing stuff is going to do it. You're going to need manufacturing.

You'll also need some way of making sure that effort doesn't get redirected, because it will attract people trying to get a cut of it.
There's also the not all small factor that there was glam to Lisp.

Early Internet discourse around programming was dominated by people who had ties to elite universities in the 1980s, who yearned for the times when the US Government was throwing an abundance of money to the AI industry of the time.

They were the ones rubbing elbows with researchers from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley, who were using specialized hardware and software beyond the capabilities available to that of developers working on more mundane applications, all graciously funded by DARPA initiatives.

That experience was, in truth, unrelatable to young people reading the recollections of ESR and RMS of the period, the in-jokes of these people, their ideas and interactions, but the tales of Lisp, the Lisp hackers and their fabled Lisp machines would be extremely appealing to someone who was very passionate about programming, striving for excellence as a programmer, and to advance in life through merit. Paul Graham would seal the deal with his essays.
With seventh person seemingly cured of HIV, signs of hope for a broader cure
They can't do it without getting sued for copyright infringement. That's not quite the same.
Thanks.

It says "for California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Oregon, Texas, and Montana residents only".

The rest of us should talk with our state lawmakers?
Clickbait title: USPS did not share anything intentionally. They negligently allowed tracking pixels from certain companies on their Informed Delivery page.

Of course, it's terrible from a privacy point of view, but let's be honest and call things as they are.
>Actually, in most countries, the public agents are forced to pursue persecution whenever they are aware of a "crime"

Source?
Interesting. Do you know if it affects it's anti-rust properties after you work it / make it martensite?
I think the 'hide' button should be used more by those who don't wish to see a comment or submission.

I would like to see the statistics of how many 'downvotes' are used on a daily basis in 2024 compared with previous years, as I have a suspicion that it is just being used at the detriment of good conversation (heated or otherwise). And if this is the case, just remove the feature if it no longer works like it used to.

Edit: There we go with people downvoting. Couple more and you can hide away my opinion (which has no place on HN, evidently).
Without deeply researching the topic, my understanding is that Bell Labs didn't really "open source" everything or really most things. Just look at the later law suit over Unix.
Wow, I guess automakers really killed off their linup the last couple of years. Nissan versa still exists at least. As well as a couple year old toyota yaris, ford fiesta or honda fit.
Additionally, Pixar has a really good and robust coding lesson - called Pixar in a Box - https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar
Not sure if this is quite the right aged resource for her, but might be nice for you to have in your back pocket.

Happy to help with pointing you to any resources you may need to keep her engaged!
Can't say I really dig using runtime type checks as a get out of jail system for harder to verify problems. The problem I have with that methodology is it creates errors that could have otherwise been caught statically.

Consider, for example, the given example

let a: Int = 1
let b: Any = a
let c: Int = b

In this simple case, it seems like everything works fine. But what if instead of `b = a` we had `b = foo()`? Now all the sudden discovering whether or not `b` can be safely assigned to an `Int` depends entirely on what `Foo` returns. If foo returns `Any` then you can have a mess where some refactoring ends up having a hard to detect bug.

Consider, for example if foo is changed from

foo() { return 1 }

to

foo() { if(bar) return "a" else return 1 }

That could be fine given foo is already sending back `Any` but now when `bar` is true that string returned could cause a runtime exception far from where `foo` was defined.

To me, this seems like giving up a large portion of the benefits of having typing in the first place.

Dart 1.0 had a similar system with "optional typing" which was ultimately axed because of issues like these [1]. In my view, this sort of type system is `Any` creating optional typing.

[1] https://news.dartlang.org/2017/06/a-stronger-dart-for-everyo...
I've heard this theory before, and it doesn't make sense to me.

Finding a good match is hard. The vast majority of relationships fail, most of them rather quickly.

I don't think dating apps need to go out of their way to preserve their user base. It sounds as if people believe that there's some perfect matching algorithm that the dating apps refuse to use, lest everybody suddenly get married.

Male and female users do end up being in conflict on dating apps -- the former getting too little attention, the latter getting too much. And the apps are rife with spammers and scammers, which are hard to clear out when the accounts are free. I think that suffices to explain why people get frustrated with dating apps.
NASA's Curiosity Rover Discovers a Surprise in a Martian Rock
What if you family and friends can't do that and you think your duty is protect them?
The more nightmarish thing about Clojure is realizing that, in truth, you have no idea what all these dicts you are passing around the terse, nil-punning functions of your codebase hold at any given time.
... pure sulfur crystals.
Fair point. He's 8.

One challenge is the amount of distractions today (internet, devices, etc.) seem to have greatly shortened children's capacity to 1) handle "boredom" in creative ways (like trying to solve a problem, as per your experience) and 2) have the sufficient attention span to see things through. (I used to spend hours as a teen doing math problems on my own because I enjoyed it; but this was pre-internet and my parents didn't even have a TV (out of principle). There was only books, math, and my bike. I feel like kids today are at a huge disadvantage.
I interpret the article to say the "myth" is exactly true. It may also be true that Semmelweis could have done a better job communicating his findings and persuading others. But that doesn't take away from the truth of the basic story.
I might have put my brother out of the airlock at some point in childhood.
I recommend that you check Souffle programming language out, here: https://souffle-lang.github.io/index.html

* It is a dialect of Prolog

* It reads from and writes to SQLite database format as well as CSV. This allows you to preprocess or postprocess data Souffle produces, or Souffle reasons. E.g. you can generate bunch of data in Python, output Sqlite, reason in Souffle. Load reasoning output back into python via sqlite.

* It is pretty feature complete when it comes to logical reasoning, and transactional database management. You get best of both Prolog and Sqlite worlds.
Except that's supporting the ego of a particularly questionable billionaire instead of being truly R&D for its own sake in advancing technology.
> I'd rather have the healthy and energy of a 25 year old and live in a world where there are people far richer than me than be a frail 80 year old where at least I know there aren't any trillionaires.

That's a very specific scenario, where everything happens to be going great for you. Do you honestly believe wealth inequality has no negative consequences for those at the bottom?
Down voted. What a surprise.
> to leave my people

Being single does not equip one to leave behind their friends and family.
What Does EU vs. X Mean for the Future of the Internet?
Unfortunately that's the Google of a decade or two ago. Today's Google is very focused on cost-cutting and I can't imagine them investing in new future-focused projects like those which are not under pressure to turn a profit any time soon.
I have no better comment and I must scream.
I mean, I gave you multiple examples of some of the most powerful people that ever lived, none of which fall into this category you call the 'norm'. You just completely ignored that and continued with your baseless fantasy.
It took me a day of futzing around, and then a drive out to Chicago Heights and around the block where the VOR transmitter is. I manually tweaked the timing to adjust for the different delays in the detector chains.
Veritasium viewer?
Or people who wish they were.
Bob Newhart has died
I feel this every time people complain about homeless people in LA pooping on the sidewalk.

They have no legal access to a toilet, so where do you think they are SUPPOSED to poop?
you are not wrong, but you are missing the argument
Humans perceive all stimulation in the same raito of the L, M, and S cones to be the same color, but with different brightnesses. So only two dimensions are nessesary to represent human visible colors, hence HSV or L*a*b* space.
if a dating site is going to be successful people need to have a P.M.A.

PMA?

I can say that women report over and over that the men they meet often have very poor relationship skills. Perhaps that's not surprising: the men with good relationship skills are in relationships for a while, but men with bad relationship skills will be back after one date.
Fantastic.

Did anyone else have nostalgia for the Thinkpad track point?
There is a bit of a line to be drawn between 'valuable antiques' and things that are 'archeological' though. Lots of people are happy to find bullets and belt buckles from 100 years ago vs specifically looking for iron age artifacts.
I really don't like passkeys because they rely on nothing I have, and are controlled by the whims of a few large for profit corps
It's the circle of life, companies eventually get captured by accountants and lose their initial spark. Even companies like Microsoft had an era of exciting innovation.
Beautiful animated short on 4G/5G infra insp. by Frank Lloyd Wright's style
Another example of dragnet spying. People are too stressed to care
I started working with a hyperspectral imager a while back and the idea of storing image data in 3 wide bands seems so odd to me now. Just the fact that my HSI captures 25 distinct 4nm bands inside a single 100nm band of what we are used to with a 3-band image is awesome.

Sorry, I get excited every time I work with hyperspec stuff now and love talking about it to anyone that will listen.
How can a tracking pixel cause a customers postal address to be sent to Meta?
this seems like an unrealistic scenario, nobody is that dumb?
I think the parent has the right idea. Partly at least. I mean, there's no denying that since covid in 2020 the web has changed and there's a lot more anger out around. It's not just Hacker News which has changed, it's other platforms too. For example, have you tried to add a comment to a youtube video in 2024? Shadow banning and misuse of downvoting / reporting isn't just limited to HN.
> What does this mean? It means that SSH has authentication built into the protocol. When you join ssh-chat, not only do I know who you claim to be, but I can also permanently and securely attach an identity to your connection without any user intervention on your part

This, known as fingerprinting, is collectively considered a bad thing. I am thankful this isn't elsewhere
Agreed. Claude is full of censorship and filtering. That made it too untrustworthy for me to continue evaluating. I found more success with Dolphin and Mythomax but I’m still searching for the best.
You pick the Valuation, I set the Terms (2016)
Those geostationary sats sound really interesting, but I've struggled to find any remotely modern tools or DB's to find visible sats - is there a current best of breed I can look at?
Yes, but that's true of everything. Solar power will help.