skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they choose a friendly path no one will believe them. They would need to change their political class and write into their constitution clauses that punish any attack on their neighbours or even calling for such an attack as high treason. That would be a good start, but I have a feeling they are going to try to keep everything as is.
Seems like there is no conclusion to the post and no follow-up articles.
"Paris" wanted this. They went through a lengthy and arduous application procedure to be considered as a host city.
I don’t want toilet paper every 4 weeks, I want it when I have 2 rolls left. If we’re away, that might be 6 weeks. If we have family visiting it might be 3 weeks. If I buy toilet roll in the shop, my subscript still comes unless I cancel it.

To be clear, these are minor complaints, but they are the things that asking Alexa to order should solve
gp has a leg to stand on only if they regularly audit the contents of their site packages. Otherwise you're totally right.
There's on ongoing hot war with Russia right now.
Yeah that's what the Olympics are always like. They're vanity projects. They don't bring in money
I always had the feeling that Le Carré's portrayal of Eastern European adversaries was too kind. He clearly underestimated the influence of alcohol over private and professional lives in those lands.
90% of our education system is really just watching over the kids/teenagers so they don't cause trouble while parents are at work. I don't see AI doing that.
If there's something you can easily say on HN without the slightest piece of evidence and without fear of being called out is implicating Russia in any situation like this.

This thread reads like a propaganda fair sponsored by Western governments.
It's a beta that is.... approximately 19 years behind the competition.

A beta that is kinda embarrassingly less cooked than multiple commercial and open source offerings which, mysteriously, provided both desktop and mobile web versions without fuss on effectively day one.

It screams that Apple has under invested in this solution.

This is more of an alpha released to the public. If they consider lack of mobile browser support feature complete (the industry standard state before beta), they are in deep shit.
!remindme Jan 20
Yes especially given apparently this was set up because linkin is too spammy so this is positied as an alt… that still wants linked in.
Show HN: LanguageMe AI- Custom readings and smart flashcards to learn languages
Attention all language learners! I built an app that allows you to generate reading material according to your language level, then learn that content with spaced-repetition flashcards.

I’m an avid Mandarin learner. For me, I’ve found the two most effective methods to learn vocabulary are:
1. Reading content that I’m interested in and is suitable to my level.
2. Flashcards that show words in context, and appear at increasing intervals (spaced-repetition).

So I built an app that combines these two methods. Generate a reading about a topic you love -> click words you don’t understand to add them to your flashcards -> study the flashcards -> repeat.

The app uses GPT-4o to generate the readings and flashcards, OpenAI’s TTS to speak them, and OpenAI’s Whisper to track words as readings play. It supports 65 languages.

It’s called “LanguageMe AI” and it’s available on the Apple AppStore. It requires creds to login but no email verification, so feel free to put in anything you like.
The complexity of truth doesn't fit in a headline, let alone attract enough clicks to win the competition for eyeballs and virality - which means that even if someone somehow succeeded in telling the whole truth in a headline, that article would lose in the race for eyeballs to the clickbait-headline version, which means your eyeballs would (statistically) never see it, and only the clickbait version.

I'd say "welcome to the web" but this was true in 1800s newspapers as well.
I would expect some increased tourism?
I can see why you would have trouble gaining customers without deception when you are not even able to answer a simple question honestly.
I could have been more clear but you misread. Olives are fruit, too.

An unpitted olive in a jar of pitted olives.

An unpitted cherry in a jar of pitted cherries.
> Yes, car noise is annoying but the alternative is much much worse.

No, it isn't. When you solve a problem, the answer is not to panic and legislate that the problem must never be solved. If you have other problems, work on those.

We already have plenty of technology for dealing with roads that are dangerous. In general, we handle them by preventing pedestrians from using or crossing them, and providing over- or underpasses. This is superior in every way to adding noisemakers to cars. But it's not necessarily the best solution! It's just one that (a) we already have, and (b) is better than what you're calling a superior alternative.

The only reason anyone even considers noisemakers is that they're used to cars that make noise. But a history of doing something the wrong way is a terrible reason to avoid doing it the right way.
Yes, between Ukraine and Russia. I believe that any act of sabotage inside EU should be responded with similar act inside Russian territory.
Absolutely. It’s kind of amusing to read a post that’s kind of dragging the wrong tool for the job, and then recommends another wrong tool for the job. The whole time I’m just yelling, “This is a geodatabase problem!”

There’s the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way. Wrong but faster!
I'm guessing they are scans from the magazine, which probably didn't have all pages in colour.
I counted one trillion or 9! * 3!^8 * 2 : the 8 because you have can choose 3 independent permutations of columns inside column blocks + 1 permutation of column blocks, plus same for rows. Then only one rotation should be counted, because flips are included in col/row permutations.

I think wreath products relate to the second sentence; see this page, which mentions the same result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_Sudoku#The_sudo...
Here is a much better blog post on the topic of optimizing geometrical operations with Rust. If I remember correctly some of the commenters of the HN thread even delivered better "pure" Python versions than the optimized Rust proposed by really leveraging Numpy.

- https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2023-03-rusty-python/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367520
Python is slower than most things.

I have this thing I do where I'm using a json file basically as a database. Doing it with pure python was annoyingly slow so I wrote a simple(ish) wrapper around the boost::property-tree library (which does xml and json as both are needed for the project) and have been happily chugging along for years now.

I do wonder how much easier it would be to do the same thing in rust as I've found half the battle is tracking object/class lifetimes across the C-API barrier. As a side note, I'm also really good at hunting down segfaults...
Obviously it's not about the 0.1% that are athletes, but about the 0.01% that are making big money out of it. And the one caring for those are the one governing us.
Only a fool would look forward to that interpretation, hopefully someone with a thread of common sense still has some kind of authority.

But I'm sure they'll get their war one way or the other, seeing how everyone is so looking forward to it.

Two words, Deer Hunter; and this one will likely be worse.
HN only gets about 5M unique users out of the 5.44B on the internet. Usage of the site is < .1%. It's hard for me to accept that, but by your logic it is basically extinct now. It's time to move on. /s
> Do you have any idea how much it costs to lay out, print, and distribute a 200+ page book?

Are you saying that a vast majority of 200+ page books are sold at a huge loss? Because I've bought many 200+ page books and never paid $100
People get hung up on the unfair White advantage in chess, but actually it's not large enough.

In tennis, on every point there's a big advantage to the server. Not because he "gets to go first" but because he gets a second chance in some situations. You can prove this: in high level mens tennis the server wins ~70% of points [0] but on a second serve - equivalent to playing without the second chance - he wins almost exactly 50% [1]

This creates a tension in every game where one player is attacking and expected to win, the other player needs to "break" him at least once or twice in the course of the match to win the overall contest.

Chess is similar, but worse because of the possibility of draws. 60-90% of top level chess games end in draws.

Computer chess is even worse again! 95%+ of top computer play ends in draws. Organisers of engine tournaments have solved this: they let the computers play from positions considered advantageous to white, usually where they expect White to score ~75%. They play each position with both White and Black. [2]

This wouldn't be a popular or practical change for human play. But that's not the point, letting White take back his moves à la tennis wouldn't be a change people would accept either. The point is that chess isn't in need of evening out the first-move advantage.

[0] https://www.ultimatetennisstatistics.com/statsLeaders
[1] https://www.braingametennis.com/the-art-of-winning-2nd-serve...
[2] https://tcec-chess.com/articles/TCEC_Openings_FAQ.html
Wouldn't it be easier to port the code to Julia? Had the chance to use it for some control theory problems and it feels much more modern and sane than Python - especially under the hood.

On the other hand multiple dispatch and the way imports are handled left me quite confused as a beginner.

But it's powerful and also very fast, especially for plots.
It is you who is trying to weaponize everything else, including the Olympics movement. It was your choice to make Olympics political and full of military messages, and then you act surprised when they start blowing up in your hands.

You did not have to weaponize everything yet you did.
Exactly I already pay for my fare and the government is already heavily subsidizing the transport company using my taxes but somehow I still need to pay with my attention? Fuck that.
This is exactly the kind of window manager I've had in mind for years for the OS I'm making. Glad others feel similarly. Here's to hoping I get that far!
I can assure you that in The Netherlands, the rich people live in the cities. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague. You need to earn in the top 5% if you want to buy a place there. The people commuting into the city by car provide the services for the people living there. Police officers, healthcare workers, sanitation workers, teachers. Those people don't live in the city and with their work schedules often can only go by car.
It actually was pixel art, hand ( or rather mouse) crafted by the artist using a real picture for reference. I remember reading an article way back when where they interviewed her about the artwork. Amazing artist who I think at the time worked for Electronic Arts, but was pretty prolific in the Amiga space back in the day.
A company only cares about money, always have, always will. The way you make them care about their actions is by taking away their money, it's all pretty simple.

The monetary damage from bad PR when caught clearly isn't enough, but when you have regulators like the EU who impose massive fines as a percentage of gross revenue, suddenly every company becomes super careful about what they do. And those regulations are there because it's in the selfish self interest of the electorate to not get poisoned :)

We don't live in the natural world, we bend it to our will. By recognizing what's the default we can leverage that to improve on it more effectively. If you know a bad person will do bad things, you can plan for it and make sure nobody gets hurt. Pretending a bad man isn't bad is just optimistic delusion and why libertarianism doesn't work in real life.
Should be a no-brainer in any U.S. state with ballot measures.
This. While reading the post, I wondered when he'd mention something about spatial databases or spatial indexes.
In fairness though, the best destination for an HS2 would clearly be St Pancras, not Easton - connections you can make with a suitcase are what make rail palatable vs flying or driving. There is a special place in hell for whoever put stairs at the entrance to the Circle line in St Pancras!
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Absolutely no idea :D but if you were able to quantify it somehow I think the results would be fascinating.
What has that to do with anything? I stay with that accusation as long as there are accusation of Israel being an ethnostate at least. With so many languages an ethnostate is seems even more unlikely, but that is another matter.

Fact is Israel is the country most friendly to any minority in the wider region and the adaptation or ignorance of facts here is quite telling.
Private wealth, not national wealth. Despite the poverty of his country and decades of isolation, Kim Jong Un is a billionaire who lives an extremely comfortable life.

If you are untouchable, don't care about the people, and can keep the people in check, the economy doesn't matter. You can live in wealth and comfort, while your people face famine and poverty. And the situation can be stable for many decades.
Tutorial on building a GPU compiler back end in LLVM (with language front end)
This was widespread attacks at key points that are by their nature physical. You need a lot of people to do this though, and while trains are affected there is no affect on cars and coaches, or planes, or the metro or rer etc.

Crowdstrike, yes, that showed how fragile the IT ecosystem is, and I’d like to see the CTO and CISOs being held to account for the single points of failure. It will never happen though.
fs corruption due to power loss happens on ext4 because the default settings only journal metadata for performance.
I guess if everything is on batteries all the time this is fine, intolerable on systems without battery.
I don't quite follow how the number "0" character in this example image is portrayed: https://cdn.berkeleygraphics.com/static/images/marketing/cod...

In 2 lines it seems to have 3 separate forms?
The US, UK, Netherlands, France, and Latvia have boots on the ground.
Hotel occupancy rates are down 25% https://www.euronews.com/2024/07/02/paris-hotels-struggle-wi...
> If they cannot achieve that objective they want to go down in flames with the rest of the world.

I think this level of unserious analysis is deeply unhelpful. You know people in Russia have their lives and goals, they are not suicidal maniacs. At least read some Russian media with google translate
I've just tried it and it looks good. Will probably sign up.

If you can get this to work for patent searches across multiple languages, you'd really have a killer product. Patent searches, via an attorney, cost thousands of dollars each and are nevertheless frequently imperfect. (I had a patent denied because somewhere, in a throwaway paragraph buried in the 100-page description of an entirely different invention, something similar was briefly mentioned and never referred to again.)

I'd gladly pay $100/month for "Deep Patent Search," and more than that if it's really good.
Apologists of what? There is no evidence that this was done by Russia, so nothing to apologize really.

How far gone do you have to be to call "Russian apologists" people who are horrified at calls for a nuclear war?
I was taken by surprise too by the false dichotomy presented:

> 1. Try breaking the data into chunks, and then using multi-processing (ugly in Python) to leverage a more powerful cloud virtual machine, sticking with matplotlib

> 2. Write a very small native custom library to do the math we want, using threads

There are a many more ways you could try to go about this, off the top of my head: numba, pypy (or other alternative python), jax/torch/tensorflow, multiprocessing, joblib.
If you have the infrastructure already, they bring in money. Salt Lake City and Atlanta I believe were both able to make them profitable or at least mostly breakeven.
Yes, he is still butthurt about it. This is from 20 days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887244
Traditional RAID1 will mirror whole drives, yes. BTRFS RAID1 will mirror chunks of data (iirc 1GB) on two drives. So you can have e.g. two 1TB drive and a 2TB one just fine.
To understand anything Russian government does, you need to understand that they aren't a government in the way Western democracies / republics / monarchies understand the function of the government. For someone with largely humanistic outlook on life, the function of the government is to try to make sure that what's being governed prospers. Prosperity may be understood as "more riches for the rich" or "redistribution of wealth" or anywhere in between. But the basic idea is to make things better, at least for some sub-group of thus governed subjects.

Russia is operated by straight-up criminals. And I don't mean white-collar corrupt politicians. They are literally people who committed often very violent crimes. For instance, Putin is implicated in a number of "hits" on law enforcement officers, investigators etc. He was not the one executing the "hits", but he was likely directly involved in the crime. A lot of his associates have done often long time behind bars. For example, his puppet assigned to rule over Ukraine (the one who was deposed in the "revolution of dignity" which set in motion the present conflict) started his career as a gang robber: he, with his friends broke into an apartment, tortured the owners while taking their belongings.

These people have a mental model of the world defined by the prison lore. They have a bizarre set of rules which define what honor is: "honor" (the prison kind of) is the central value / virtue in this system. In this model, the world is divided into "suckers" and "men". "Men" are allowed to humiliate the "suckers" in whatever way they want. In fact, if they don't, they might as well join the "suckers". In this system, anyone who shows any kind of compassion to the "suckers" is him/herself a "sucker". Europeans or anyone who wants to live in a society that values any human life thus is automatically a "sucker".

This is why Russians think and treat Europeans with contempt and disdain. They don't think it to be immoral to steal from a European, or to assault one etc.

It's also "honorable" to accept the risks associated with humiliating the "suckers". To prove how much of a "man" someone is that is. It's actually better to die while proving your place is among "men" than to surrender and live like a "sucker". So, they don't care about international consequences of their sabotage in France today. At least not in the sense how another European country might've cared, should they engage in something similar.
The "get caught" part often doesn't happen. And even if they do get caught, as long as the main objective is achieved, it can be promoted as a show of strength so that next time the victims will play ball even before force is applied.

It's the mafia style, everyone knows who whacked whom.
There are more than enough people in the west who genuinely support Putin, let alone have more nuanced views.

He doesn’t need to pay people to defend him on tiny internet forums.
I would also think the "locating" aspect plays a role. Things can easily be lost at the bottom of the sea, isn't there a history of nuclear bombs that were accidentally lost at sea and never found?
In Paris? Doubtful.
It's not like Paris need the olympics to be full of tourists.

I read of very good editorial a few weeks ago regarding these games and how unliked they are in France. The journalist remarked that hosting the games is mostly a PR move from a city and, that if there is one thing Parisian could be counted on for, it's not caring about their own image in the rest of the world, leading to some kind of paradoxical situation here.
So using the example above. You lost USD 10,000 and you get USD 10,000 Credit that you have to earn out. You happen to face bad luck and a series of bad trading decisions. Instead of earning USD 10,000, you actually lose USD 2000 more. The next month, the USD 2000 is credited given the period to earn back the USD 10,000 has lapsed and now you have a chance to earn back USD 2,000.
I’m really confused. Solomon Hykes is typically credited as the creator of Docker. Who are you? Why is he credited if someone else created it?
That's low-end Zynq and Artix and I'm thinking more >676 Kintex, though I appreciate any discussion on sourcing.

In the way that that Aliexpress vendor lists the 7010 parts at 1/10th the price of LCSC, some of their $20-60 listings are also shockingly cheap in comparison.
> there are limitations to debit cards (e.g. you can’t rent cars)

This sounds pretty specific to the USA. Here in Europe you certainly can rent a car with a debit card.
It's really for the local politicians who have likely paid billions of euros worth of other people's money for the glory of holding an Olympics. The modern Olympic movement went off track when it decided to move the event to a new city every 4 years with new stadiums instead of maintaining a permanent Olympic location like the ancient Greeks did.
It's more that it's liable to struggle to guess how to spell tokens [10295, 947] (or whatever it is) since there's no a priori reason that it will learn to associate them with the exact right tokens for the individual letters in the right order. If it's trained on bytes though, it doesn't need to infer that. It's like asking a smart, semi-literate person a spelling question- they might have a rough sense of it but they will not be very good at it.

Once it is just counting lists then it's probably drawing on a higher level capability, yeah.
Love the idea - any plans to launch the application on the Play Store?
SpaceX Falcon 9 returns to flight after identifying probable cuase of anomaly
Thanks!

I think there's an assumption (that I used to have) that open source is somehow inversely related to business model.

However, before TigerBeetle was founded, I came around to the understanding that, in fact, "open source and business model are orthogonal".

What I mean by this is that startups might say that open source is too expensive (who will manage it for them?) and that enterprise might say that open source is too cheap (who will scale and support it and connect it to all their other systems for them?).

So the business model is what solves both these problems: providing a valuable product around the open source that serves a real need, honorably at a profit, that customers want to pay for, because the alternative is either too expensive or too cheap.
It really depends on where in the city you live - I live in the north of Paris and so far this has not affected me in any way. In fact, I already went to a couple of Olympic matches (a bunch of sports have started already), and I'm enjoying it immensely.

The city center had restricted access for about a week and is completely inaccessible for 2-3 days, which sucks for the people that live and work there, but it's a far cry from the `several weeks` you mentioned. I think folks are blowing the impact of the opening ceremony way out of proportion.
Hardly the first.

Using chemical (Novichok) and radiological (Polonium) weapons to conduct assassinations (and causing civilian casualties) was an attack on NATO.

Blowing up Czech and Bulgarian ammunition depots (causing deaths) was an attack on NATO.

Attempting to assassinate German and Bulgarian arms manufacturer CEOs was an attack on NATO.

Not all "attacks" are immediately risable to the level of war, but lets be real here.