skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and both techniques can be combined, which common with LCD screens, although it does sometimes lead to visible moving patterns when viewed close up.

There’s more flexibility with tunable wavelengths, though, since there will often be multiple solutions for what colors and intensities can be combined to create a particular photoreceptor response. By cycling through different solutions, I wonder if you could disrupt the brain’s ability to spot any patterns, so that it’s just a very faint noise that you mostly filter out.
Agreed. This is very well written.

I discovered the joy of Go from dealing with JavaScript promises while writing an API service in Node. So many painful runtime errors uncaught or unlogged because promises don’t (or didn’t) require the catch callback.

I think inverting the programming perspective to default to sync instead of async is more productive for web services development, than perhaps for UI.
cut.
What's even sadder is that this is said in an economic and regulatory environment that has gradually winnowed away all the examples of businesses that made the argument even the slightest bit compelling if you squinted
As someone who had the exceedingly rare opportunity to experience professional context Prolog.

Lol.

Lmao. Even.
Just wanted to say that I really appreciate the SMD marking database link you posted a while back.
https://archive.ph/dBnYB
This is exactly it. You could show me the best, simplest, most elegant tool ever and my first reaction is going to be to throw up in my mouth as soon as you say "hey, check out...", because the last 50 things shown to me have all traded 100 lines of code for 500 pages of bad documentation while everyone around me fucking gaslights me into thinking I'm an idiot because I find bad APIs and documentation harder to work with than code.

I still have loads of fun when someone introduces me to a problem and lets me actually write code to solve it. That just doesn't happen in 2024 workplaces though. If you want programming work to be fun again, you need to start there.
So far ever since the initial release of gpt 3.5 turbo every ""upgrade"" has mostly been an actual downgrade. I have a battery of tasks that the initial 3.5 turbo (Nov 2022) was able to perform but the newer ones very consistently fail at, regardless of prompting.

I've been moving tasks from 3.5-turbo to Llama3-70b for this reason.

Very curious to see whether this time it'll be an actual upgrade instead of a downgrade.
Yes, we should bend over to serve HTML. It is "the medium" that dictates what we should and should not do /s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40999480
Is it still a thing? Before covid, even central Europe suffered from the drunk Brit invasion, but nowadays it seems they have moved on.
India's biggest crypto exchange WazirX loses nearly half its reserves
A web page full of information is complex? All webpages used to be like that, nobody found it complicated, I wouldn't mind going back to more information dense pages.
The hospital toll is only 2 (other sources claim 3) dead. https://t.me/vitaliy_klitschko/3267

This is tragedy. I find it so weird, though, - rocket hits hospital (!) and only 2 dead, both adults, and 16 injured.
It hit me that there's a treasure trove of possible cool websites you can find just by looking at hostname and other DNS fields.
Technicians in the lead instead marketing men.

Public money instead short fad hunting venture capital
Yes.

Less and even less.
For Bayesian Inference, the example in the Wikipedia article is good (who doesn't like cookies?): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference#Examples

When gathering more evidence, you'd use your new belief about which cookie bowl Fred has as P(H1)=0.6 and P(H2)=0.4
The original touch interface.
And now sinking again. [0]

[0] https://archinect.com/news/article/150417670/san-francisco-s...
Vienna is great, too. Prague and Vienna have a lot in common (great beer, for example).
Some of us younger folk know the song too: it’s been playing in my head as I’ve been browsing through this thread.
Is it me, or is the "$1,816/mo HOA" fee just insane?
Grinding leetcode doesn't convert you into a "good programmer", and conversely memorising leetcode solutions doesn't make you a "bad programmer". The leetcode assessments done by companies are encouraged to be gamed by the companies asking for them anyway.

> It will get you a lot further in the career, plus it is morally better to be good at something and contribute meaningfully compared to doing just enough for a paycheck.

I've met virtually nobody that has said leetcode has got them further in their career except for passing a gated interview. Honing your craft and being good at something has nothing to do with leetcode.

To me leetcode is simply a means to get past gated interviews; if memorising solutions does the trick then I'll continue to do that. Honing my craft as a programmer and being a "good programmer" is something I work on in which leetcode bears no relevance.
They found sulfur. Saved you a click.
TW is still thoroughly infiltrated by PRC intelligence, if there's credible hint they're moving from nuclear latency/threshold to actual nuclearization (PRC redline), the relevant facilities would be destroyed - no need for PLA boots on ground or telescoped build up, every inch of TW is within 10 minute strike of mainland based ordnances. TW nuclear turnkey potential isn't as fast as PLA rockets/bunker busters.

Unmentioned aspect of US axing TW nuclear program in late 80s, was CSIST / INER (Taiwan nuclear program) was already monitored by PRC intelligence and post Nixon normalization US intel cooperated with PRC intel to shut the program down. Unwritten between the line is PRC, having closely monitored TW program would have probably nuked TW first if US didn't compel TW to end the program. US Inspection / IAEA went in the dismantle the program, no doubt verified by PRC intelligence, it's unlikely TW can rebuild to nuclear turnkey faster than PRC can mount an invasion. And realistically TW can't fend off a PRC invasion without US involvement, and if US involves to assist TW nuclearizing then TW going to get nuked, and US + PRC will stare down MAD.
Lost a useful exclamation during submission "‘You look great! Ozempic?’ The new minefield of weight-loss etiquette"
Well, you did nerdsnipe me too :) I haven't looked at this in awhile, and my curiosity is re-ignited.

The most basic style of proof in a lot of nonstandard analysis is (1) lift your problem to a nonstandard space, (2) prove something interesting in that space, (3) hopefully project something interesting back down to the problem you actually care about.

E.g., in nonstandard real analysis you can look at a real-valued function like f(x) = x^2, pick any epsilon z, and compute the hyperreal analogue (f(x+z)-f(x))/z = 2x + z. This is within some infinitesimal of 2x, so you use some machinery you've built up to conclude the derivative of the real-valued function is 2x.

The graph lemma above had a similar flow. Create G*, find something interesting, project it back down to G, finish the proof.

That's certainly not the only proof style. Nonstandard topology combines basically all the normal compaction theorems into one, for example, and that's a bit more intricate.

Even such crude techniques can bear fruit quickly though. Menger's theorem was proven in the early 1900s, and only extended to infinite graphs in the late 1900s. That 3-step proof process with nonstandard graphs makes it a bog-standard freshman exercise for locally finite infinite graphs, and only a bit more involved for the full generality originally proven by Erdos and friends.

I don't have any deep insights beyond that. The Springer GTM series has a nice intro to nonstandard analysis (not actually graduate-level IMO, a mid/advanced undergrad could use it, which is a nice level for that sort of book), building it up in a way that you could probably work with nonstandard extensions of other infinite structures (like graphs) without needing many/any other resources, especially if you've done much with building models of other theories via set structures.
Um, no? Unlike with toilet seats, tons of people got it this way. There were even cases of hospital outbreaks due to insufficient sterilization of reusable syringes.
What's the ideal end acenario if someone does successfully smack them back down to stand by their original promises? And what's the worst case scenario if no one stands up to them?
The UX is fine for people who are used to a culture where they see massively information-dense, brightly colored, and spacially organized things all the time. There's a strong cultural correlation in UX design, and what works in one country often doesn't work in another. I've worked on a few websites that are accessed globally and it's common that a 'one website for everywhere' strategy yields poor results. You have to consider much more than just language when you go international.

Accessibility is a problem but that's due to browser developers not really considering other cultures properly. My Japanese team never found a good solution to that.
Many rust belt cities are de facto segregated by class and race. I’m not familiar with Pittsburgh specifically but just glancing at those listings I suspect they may be in “the ghetto”.
I wonder what happened with those patents. Could a company license them to patent trolls? Otherwise, I don't understand the purpose of spending a lot of resources to come up with a bunch of bs patents.
Really, you don’t want to fill out a permanent change of address form with the USPS.

They sell that information. Or license it. Or whatever they call it when they are holding booths at advertising and marketing trade shows.

You want to fill out a temporary change of address, renew it the one allowable time and then ghost USPS.

By then you should have updated your personal and business contact info with any group you care about.

USPS is one of the largest distributors of spam in the United States.
One lesson I continually take away from early Apple is how well rounded the core folks were in things other than technology. Design, religion. Typography, fashion, literature...really the genius of Apple was human-ness brought to bear on technology.

These days the technology shapes us, and companies push us to adapt to their tech offering. Thou shalt have the shitty Aptos font. Thine eyes will be assaulted by advertisements even in your most reflective moments using our devices. Etc.

SJ was a grade A ass** in a hundred ways. And Apple isnt the Apple of 1983. But trying to imbue computing with the human spirit was a massive contribution to society, and I hope we can continue to drive that forwards.
They fail operationally at serving the customer in those cases. But if the % of that happens is low enough, then strategically it doesn't affect them.
> any hope for general convolutions (or at least more general ones than with circles)

Interesting question.

Knuth's METAFONT can describe glyphs not simply as filled outlines, but ALSO as strokes of pens shaped by circles, ellipses, and EVEN convex polygons (e.g., a an acute triangular wedge perhaps).

And the description of a METAFONT glyph is all parameterized (it's really a program! -- hence the META) so there's not even an actual outline for a glyph but a tunable family of glyph variations.

METAFONT's model is humanistic as human ideographs and letter forms were (once) scratchings, engravings, and pen strokes. However the shape of movable type, as captured with Bezier splines by TrueType and Postscript outline glyphs, lack a first-class stroking capability.

So could you support the humanistic METAFONT-style approach efficiently in today's world of GPU rendering? Yes, if you could, as suggested above, efficiently convolve a pen's shape with a stroke trajectory.

Circles for pens are no problem; and ellipses are just squished transforms of circular stroking. But (convex) polygonal pens for stroking?

Polar stroking provides a starting framework for such a convolution approach for convex polygonal pens (say, a triangular wedge or other convex polygonal shape). Step in small changes in gradient direction change. Rather than assuming a conventional circular or nib pen shape, snap each tessellated rib to the closest polygonal pen vertex. The result is the polygonal convolution you seek.

So a question almost nobody is asking: What if we could revive METAFONT for the 21st century?

Imagine a Jurassic Park scenario applied -- not to dinosaurs -- but rather to Knuth's Computer Modern.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
I wouldn't be surprised tbh.
> but my lived experience tells me these systems are all too human-driven to reliably work

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The good news is that if you are good with people then the systems work very well!
They don't have to provide bulk-mailing services to non-government entities. This is where someone says "Mail one of these advertisement packages to every person in this district", and it's not actually addressed to you. This would raise the cost of mailing spam to the same cost as mailing real letters.
Many many Japanese websites do not work. They have idiosyncratic navigation and dense and convoluted signup processes. Japanese user are used to this friction but websits do not succeed because of this complexity, they pass because of tolerant user base.
Yeah, who needs information and functionality? The whole web should be one ceaseless Instagram feed on an iPhone. /s
And this will probably mark the end of Apache. All good things come to an end. I never even associated their name or symbol with native Americans. This is idiotic.
Unfortunately, some of the most popular/problematic software (default Windows video player and explorer) does not support `sidx` boxes.
Considering the staggering numbers of Ukrainians killed, maimed, displaced, deported, and more, in the fight for independence from terrorist Russia, referring to that country with its correct name is a sign of respect and acknowledgment.
This was my experience too, at about the same time. I should really dig back into it at some point.
Is this surprising? Tastes change over time. My grandfather, born in 1906 was a big fan of Enrico Caruso. I'm sure Caruso was amazing when he was popular, just like Guns & Roses were popular in their heyday, and now no one cares. Time passes, tastes changes. This is life.

The most talented artists of the day tend to work in whatever genre is popular in their era, or create their own to push music forward. They aren't looking to clone music from centuries ago.
I mean if Trump willing to sign over TW to PRC, PRC likely more than willing to ship over all the EUV machines and paperclip TSMC engineers to US and take the semi L for a few years in exchange for interference free reunification. US even gets to keep the billions of of undelivered weapons TW prepaid for. Hell Xi'll personally throw in PRC's 800B of US debt and Pandas for every US zoo. Art of the deal.
Ah, the glorious peace of Vietnam and Iraq. I can’t wait for us to be “protected” by more unhinged violence against some far-off nation.
Bangladesh Internet Goes Dark as Widening Job Protests Kill 25
We don't mind information density, but most people find it easier to process less information.

The youtuber mentions that "Asians" can process information faster than "Americans"

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Pretty common in SF unfortunately.

Real estate in SF is completely broken unless you make 7 figures a year. At which point one can join the game to make it even more broken.
Long Covid puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling
Ah yes, Japanese databases that have maximum length for password and weirdly limits what characters you can enter. Banking systems that still link your information against your name, ending up in hilarious situations. Forms that won't fit your name, so you end up doing the snail mail method instead. Not sure about the local laws, but white hat would have a field day with Japanese services and web sites.
So the outcome is that if somebody does find something then it gets reburied or destroyed?
Not only its carrier-locked, it is sometimes model (variant model) specific so after unlock you are still stuck with that carrier because the other carrier will not take it.

For instance, after 1 year T-Mobile paid service it finally unlock your phone, thinking about moving to AT&T. AT&T and its MVNO Cricket Wireless actively disconnect your service when you put the SIM card to an "unsupported phone" just because it is not on their list.
Within solvers, you can do something called "node locking", which means you "lock" a tree in the game node to play a fixed strategy. You would typically lock it to play as you suspect your opponent plays. This lets the solver calculate the optimal exploitative solution against your specific oppoents.

Piosolver, the first public solver and the one mentioned in the article, has this feature.

However, what often happens is if you lock one node, then several other nodes in the game tree over-adjust in drastic ways, forcing you to lock all of the, which may be infeasiable. As a result, Piosolver recently introduced "incentives", which gives a player in the game an additional incentive to take a certain action . For example, you may suspect your opponent calls too much and doesn't raise enough, so you can just set that incentive and it will include that in its math equations and give you something similar to an exploitative solution with a much simpler UX.

This feature was literally just introduced a few months ago so it's still very much an active area of research, both for game theory nerds, and people trying to use the game theory nerd research to make money !
Ditto. I have some not-small systems based on s3, lambda, SNS and SQS that have been running for years without issue - just quietly, and inexpensively doing their jobs.

New stuff I’m building is putting StepFunctions in rather than Lambda if at all possible, and DDB alongside S3 for indexing. I expect these to be nearly maintenance free (no runtime updates, no package updates, TTLs to expire data).
what would be your argument for saying Google has been on a downhill slope ever since?
I would not split it between the team. I would us it to hire individuals on the team on paid, scoped contracts with clear deliverables for work that hasn't been done yet. You can rotate who you hire as you get more funds.
The original GPT-4 was an upgrade IMO. GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o were downgrades. GPT-4o seems especially bad (on text-to-text).
By 1984 AT&T had been listed on the NYSE for over 80 years.
> If it was, you and the horde of brain fogged vegans should pick apart such an simplistic argument.

I'm unsure of the meaning you are trying to communicate here, would you mind stating it more precisely and unambiguously?
Does Refusal Training in LLMs Generalize to the Past Tense?
I wish there was something where I could transcribe iPhone voice memos to text.

I would pay for an app that did this.
You can volunteer for comms at stage rallies, we always need volunteer hams. My first stage rally experience, over 10yrs ago now, was sitting around the campfire in the Mendocino forest with a bunch of hams the night before the event. They had good whisky, too. :)

Feel free to email me, email in profile.
I've been to Moldova this year during my 15-countries 2-week solo road trip. To be honest it was hard to find interesting (for me) places to visit there. I found Old Orhei, which they try to make a big tourist attraction, to be kinda boring, same for Stephen the Great Central Park, but really liked brutal building of Chișinău State Circus and Romanița Collective Housing. I've skipped Mileștii Mici Winery, as it didn't work with my timing, kinda regret it. And yeah, that's all, in the entire country, I haven't found anything else interesting. So no surprise tourist don't come.
IBM had this sensor on their laptops too, around 2 years before Apple added it to theirs: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS#Other
Pycon released keynotes, sponsored talks and lightning talks shortly after the conference, but took a long time to release the "actual" talks. So if you're thinking "haven't there been PyCon 2024 videos online for a while now?" This is why.
Pretty risky strategy. Tech companies colluded 15 years ago to the point where they got hit with anti-poaching lawsuits. Seems they forgot they did all that and paid so high so other companies don't grab top talent and proceed to become competitors.

It may be too late to compete with FAANG, but the rest of the market will still pay decently to keep and retain talent.
Human vision in the yellow (~590nm) region is known to be extremely sensitive to particular wavelengths. Observe how quickly things go from green through yellow to amber/orange!

So this is probably a nonstarter.
> What's interesting about this is the minimum defense frequency is based on what the strongest hands you can possibly have in that situation are and the opponents possible hands do not even factor into it.

This is actually not quite true. MDF is purely a formula based on pot size and the bet size (pot size / pot size + bet size). The fact that it doesn't consider various ranges is why it's not really useful - it was a simplified formula used to try to understand the game before solvers existed.

There are situations where your opponent can bet any two cards profitably and you do have to fold - imagine they bet the size of the pot, but have the better hand 99% of the time, you're simply forced to let them bluff the 1% of the time they're bluffing. MDF is a pre-solver concept and not an especially useful concept in the modern game.
The Assyrian Renaissance
This topic gets rehashed pretty frequently, what other languages have very different designs? I remember someone linking to cool Mongolian sites with vertical script.

Also I like "outdated" Japanese designs, I wish websdesign was more cyclical like fashion and we'd circle back to earlier web. I don't care much for LLMs, but I do like getting blocks of text returned, reminds me of simpler times.
I Am Rich App
That’s useful feedback, thanks!
Imagine believing this wasn't the product of corruption and nobody got kickbacks for letting this "mistake" happen.
My favorite of his, and I’ve read most of them.
I wonder when she grows up and starts spending all day on HN like us, she would be really glad to see this post and the appreciative comments here :)
In China, everyone can tell you are a foreigner because of the ethnical/racial differencies.
If I had to guess, the kickback isn’t from the auth provider.

Maintaining a system takes people & resources. For 40+ years, there’s a push to not allow the government to actually hire and manage those itself, but use commercial entities, because “big government is bad”.

So it is easier to get the approval to pay x2 as much for a 3rd party than do it for half the budget internally. And as things need to be done, you end up saying f*k it and help ruin public service because it was mandated you’ll do so.

And then you end up with shitty services, which was the intent all along: it’s not about big government, it’s about outsourcing government contracts to you and yours.
Definitely needed when you must order a new keyboard
Voices like those from Natives in Tech would just get downvoted to oblivion and greyed out, no matter how civil and guidelines-compliant. This is a place where the marginalized are erased.

Think of engaging with HN as venturing into hostile territory and you won't be as disappointed.
Teams easily, IMO
See also: https://matrices.app
For some NoSQL champions it may still be eye-opening that with SQL you can push down resultset correctness and processing logic to the cabinets, instead of implementing all this (again) in the application layer...
That's partially true. Self incrimination refers to testimonial acts, and turning over data on a hard drive (or a physical key) is not a testimonial act.