skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no solution in which society does not carry these people besides offing them. They are our burden.

Anywhere you would hold homeless people by force will be more expensive to staff and maintain in the long run than just giving them a shoebox with a bed and a hotplate.
It's never been about protecting users. It's about controlling users and protecting Apple's profits.
I think the "do the normal" thing is very easy to say and very hard to do in general. Should every case of `a / b` inject a `(b != 0) && ((a != INT_MAX && b != -1))`? If that evaluates to `true` then what should the program do? Or: should the compiler assume this can't happen. Languages with rich runtimes get around this by having an agreed upon way to signal errors, at the expense of runtime checking. An example directly stolen from the linked blog post:

int stupid (int a) {
return (a+1) > a;
}

What should the compiler emit for this? Should it check for overflow, or should it emit the asm equivalent of `return 1`? If your answer is check for overflow: then should the compiler be forced to check for overflow every time it increments an integer in a for loop? If your answer is don't check: then how do you explain this function behaving completely weird in the overflow case? The point I'm trying to get at is that "do the obvious thing" is completely dependent on context.
Yep, all of that is definitely on the table. Our first year on this property we actually did talk with someone about cutting hay on a 50:50 split. He used to lease this land and built most of the fences that are still here. It didn't end up working out that summer but we're keeping that in our back pocket for later.

As far as moving hay goes, we have bough square bails the last two years and aren't afraid of hauling it around by hand. If we bring someone in to cut and bail hay wed probably just spend around the same amount the first year around to buy a round bail trailer we could pull with an ATV or mini truck.
And yet they don't allow web browsers to use their own rendering engine or have their own extension system..
No, it addresses the sidewalks. People who steal things should be put in jail for stealing things, not for living in the streets.
It's probably more like 1000 x $1 billion ticking time bombs spread out over time, but that makes for a more confusing headline.
A single dose of Paxil (paroxetine) gave me mild (?) serotonin syndrome without dark urine. I was bouncing off the walls, felt a compulsion to exercise, and had altered consciousness.
I’ve found that it really matters a lot how good the LLM is on how large the corpus it is that exists for its training. The simple example is that it’s much better at Python than, say, Kotlin.
Also, I also agree with sibling comment that in general the specific task of finding peer reviewed scientific papers it seems to be especially bad at for some reason.
Yes, and rain fall causes the spread of fungal infestation as said above and it is why we farmers use drip irrigation when possible. FarmBot defenitly has a great marketing video, 3d animation and logo though!
As soon as I seen the headline I thought, "Falco?"

Nice to see, but people still want you to complete Elysian Shadows or give them their money back.

For the uninitiated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/nvf55t/video_ga...
Is it not possible for a website to tell the os, here use the maximum compatible font you have.
Instead of trying to use Google fonts ?
Note: Linux Mint 22 was recently released and is based on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble LTS. Mint does not use year-based versioning like Ubuntu does.
In waterpolo, you probably want the reflections from the bottom when treading water because it makes it easier to stay buoyant.
I swam in a competition at the Sydney Olympic Park, just a couple of years after the 2000 Games. It's mostly a 3 meter pool, with some shallower areas near the end; the impression was one of great depth (because it had the best water clarity I've ever seen in a big pool.)

Subjectively it felt like a very fast pool (I ended up beating my high school times, even 16 years later!)
Elden Ring is sloppy. Play Sekiro
A very expensive Tech Deck
Now your comment comes up in the first page
Sounds like they charged by the column but you actually paid with your souls.
Yep. DJB fell flat here. There were a lot of elitist religious opinions espoused without evidence.
Impressive: “Overall, more than 60% of funded generative AI startups and nearly 90% of gen AI unicorns use Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, including Cloud TPUs.”
Exactly this!

On another thread*, I mentioned that the XC2064 FPGA design is the paradigmatic example of an optimized minimal "hardware API", that, if you were interested in making new kinds of logic and memory-- okay you are prob thinking of higher level designs, but I want to throw out a relevant memorable example ASAP

*https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149882
It's funny but many people operate under this illusion that criminals don't read, or that they can only read step by step instructions that are labeled "FOR CRIME". Even laws get passed under this illusion.
Maybe in the space shuttle surroundings, white/black/grey are more common than yellow so a printout in yellow could be spotted more easily. May not be the main reason but a useful side effect of the color.
Drip irrigation is a once and done setup and also automated. I feel like this project is insanely cool, but ultimately not practically useful at the pricepoint.
And Europe has nukes, too. Not sure nukes give anyone an advantage there.
Yes. It's a good idea.

However it's worth not also gaining a false sense of security vs. state actors who buy software and hardware exploits from shops like Zerodium generally don't always require intrusive physical access to implant malware or extract information, or who use the local carriers to do the dirty work for them.
I feel like this would have done well on kickstarter as a reasonably priced fidget toy. $250 is nuts.
I think "cup" is one of these American units, it's about 236ml
I would argue that California really isn't that progressive even in the blue cities. And when things get really progressive, like with SF's school board, voters take it back. Actually the SF schoolboard election where non-citizens are allowed to vote probably helped that swing, since Asians and Latinos (more likely to lack citizenship) are more conservative on average (try telling a Chinese parent that math is racist...).
More Top Secret F-35 Stealth Fighter Data Given to NATO Members
Nor are we perfect and we've been wrong about much in nature more often than we've been right over the past many millennia. The previous poster didn't imply either case regardless. The post simply pointed out an assumption being made.

Frankly, I prefer the way that thinks of 'ex post facto' explanations for nature. At least that keeps us hypothesizing and not sitting there tooting our own horns.
Wait, so if I open my MacBook it is still under warranty ?
Pointing to a national debt without context does not make a point, much less prove the system is breaking.

Global inflation has very little to do with any one governments choice in economic policy. However it should be said that the current state of inflation would make the problems caused by the widespread adoption of a inflation "proof" currency significantly worse.

Tax rates and distribution are an incredibly subjective and political issue. Given any tax policy there will always be a healthy split of experts and laypersons who think it is woefully low and those who think it is grossly high.
> As long as you don't damage anything when opening up electronics

Considering the nature of hard drives, I think that would fall under damage caused by opening.

My understanding is that they are not in a vacuum, but they are super-clean. The air/gas inside is an important part by preventing the read/write head from touching the platters as they rotate. If a consumer opens it up, then dust is introduced which will cause problems.
> 1. You don't really need the output to be good or correct

> 2. You don't have confidentiality concerns (sending data off to a cloud service)

At $PREVIOUS_COMPANY LLMs were straight up blanket banned for these reasons too. Confidentiality related to both the code and data for the customers.

The possibility that "it might get some things right, some of the time" was nowhere near a good enough trade-off to override the confidentiality concerns.

And we definitely did not have staff/resources to do things local only.
I’ve seen this “misunderstood genius” argument so many times I think there needs to be a law to refute it:

Never attribute to competence that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
The question is dumping for what? If they’re selling treasuries to buy reserves or US equities then they’re still long USD. To actually unwind their dollar position they need a counterparty who wants to buy dollars with a non dollar denominated asset. No doubt they can do that to the tune of a few billions, but who’s the counterparty looking to buy hundreds of billions of dollars that way? The only obvious (to me anyhow) candidate is Japan, but they would both have to overcome some historical baggage to pull off that play. And even then it’s not just a matter of selling. The game changes when you’re big enough to be a marginal price setter.
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Banning house building is not related to tax policy
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And this is why the new search engines like perplexity and searchgpt are going to eat google's lunch.
Why Old Sports Photos Often Have a Blue Haze (2015)
The Eye of The World was published in 1990, and PGP 2.0 was released in 1992, so they're not really that different in age. :p
Seems pretty unreliable. At least I know a recent Google Play Console reviewer was located at the Google office in Lisbon. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple used reviewers outside Cupertino.
Tapes/stickers are relatively easy to bypass without being evident.
This material is intended for specialized applications and probably fairly low volume as a result. Recyclability is probably not at the top of the priority list for features.
Yes, compute is absolutely the limiting factor today. Not only because the space of hyperparameters is huge and having more compute would make it easier/possible to explore. But also, weirdly, because inference becomes increasingly important for training, which means even more compute! A lot of work these days goes into getting better data and it turns out that using an existing large model to create/curate data for you works really well.
The US desperately needs some DMA-like legislation, one company shouldn't be able to hold 60%+ of US users hostage when it comes to installing the apps they want to use.

Similarly, two companies, Apple and Google, shouldn't be able to keep 15% to 30% of all revenue generated in the entire mobile app market.
> They’re built on React Native, a cross-platform framework based on JavaScript, and use Microsoft’s CodePush SDK which allows developers to update parts of the app without having to send a new build to the App Store

I don’t see a reason to name Microsoft’s solution specifically.

Firstly, there are other alternatives; also, Microsoft is shutting down parts of their offering; finally, JS apps are comparatively easy to update - even without a tool like this too.
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Watering is definitely a solved problem in agriculture. There is absolutely no scenario where two plants growing right next to each other would need drastically different amounts of water. The project, founders and company are utterly useless.
Git is pretty unnatural, but CVS? That is much closer to the "copy a shared file back and forth between people", except with nice things such as "keep track of who is editing what", "know what the latest edition is", and "keep track of the history".

That said, if I was going to start out teaching someone coding today, version control would be timestamped .zip files.
To this day, I am disappointed that Maemo/Meego didn't prevail in the mobile OS market, same thing with Palm/HP's iteration of webOS.

It was truly a great experience being able to use your standard Linux tools as first-class citizens on your mobile devices.
> An EU-style arrangement seems ideal in the medium term. It lets Taiwan have a positive long-term influence on Chinese politics, while preventing HK-style crackdowns in the other direction.

That's a total nonstarter though. The CCP is not going to subordinate itself and cede power to some EU-like supranational authority that it doesn't utterly dominate, and it has also demonstrated how much its own guarantees are worth (with the HK crackdown).
Well yeah for hobby use you're right that it is "normal" that it took a long time to get there. But professional use is completely different. That's the part they are referring to I'd say.
Highest-end fidget spinner I’ve ever seen. Instantly appealing to my inner 6-year-old.
It can definitely lead to under-optimized code, but on the flip side, prematurely optimizing can waste time and lead to overly complex code that is difficult to maintain. The key is to know how much to optimize and when.

The point of the article isn't to show you how to produce a shoddy first version as soon as possible, but rather how to avoid things like analysis paralysis and prematurely focusing on style over substance. This applies not just to code but to pretty much anything you create.

By completing a skeleton as soon as possible, you get a better idea of the different components you'll need and how they will interact, before you flesh any of them out. I think there is real value in this approach.
If something is good for compiler developers, it is good for compiler users, in the sense that it makes it easier for the compiler developers to make the compilers we need.
A side-rant on another naming thing: People are already promoting traditional distributed databases as "private blockchains", which is a bit like announcing "Radium Toothpaste now without Isotopes."

They didn't solve the difficult trade-offs of New Thing, they're just relaxing their requirements so that they don't have to use it at all (reasonable) and don't want to admit it (annoying.)
Not vouching for the election result, however, some kind of correction for multiple comparisons is probably needed here.

There are a lot of different ways in which election results can 'look fishy', especially if you take combinations of different districts looking suspicious into account, and so on. Looking at digit distributions (Benford's Law) of various numbers (total votes, percentage), looking at exact numbers of votes, looking at exact percentages of votes, errors looking too much like a normal distribution or some other theoretical distribution, etc...

Since Terry Tao likely heard about this particular proposed anomaly and then looked into it, there is a selection bias: if a different metric had looked fishy, it would have been reported instead. But it is hard to know how many different things were looked at and not reported on because there was no anomaly. The end result is effectively cherry-picking the one thing that looks worst, and then doing statistics on that without all the other negative results being corrected for. This sort of thing plagues a lot of statistical research unfortunately.

That's not to say there was necessarily integrity in the Venezuelan election, but this type of analysis has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Yup! Hyrum's Law :)
If you have to ask what it's for, you don't get it. It's art.
I agree with you, but I don't see how this is relevant to the article.
Chinese Sea Dragon Commandos Show Off Drones That Look Just Like Birds
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They do indeed that rule. It’s somewhat controversial internally and I can imagine it eventually going away, but is there now.

Fortunately they are pretty relaxed about what you mean by God. I’m a pantheist (everything is God and individual consciousness is an illusion) and AFAICT that’s fine. Nobody dug into my beliefs you find out exactly what I thought.

I think the key intention is that you can’t be a hedonist who cares only about yourself. You need to care about living a life of service to something greater than yourself. I’m on board with that.
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I see no sibling comment here even with showdead on, but I could buy that (there's a lot of papers and only so many parameters, after all- but you'd think GPT-4o's search stuff would help, maybe a little better prompting could get it to at least validate its results itself? then again, maybe the search stuff is basically RAG and only happens one at the start of the query, etc etc)

Regardless, yeah- I can definitely believe your point about corpus size. If I was doing, say, frontend dev with a stack that's been around a few years, or Linux kernel hacking as tptacek mentioned, I could plausibly imagine getting some value.

One thing I do do fairly often is binary reverse engineering work- there's definitely things an LLM could probably help with here (for things like decompilation, though, I wonder whether a more graph-based network could perform better than a token-to-token transformer - but you'd have to account for the massive data & pretrain advantage of an existing LLM).

So I've looked at things like Binary Ninja's Sidekick, but haven't found an opportunity to use them yet - confidentiality concerns rule out professional use, and when I reverse engineer stuff for fun ... I like doing it, I like solving the puzzle and slowly comprehending the logic of a mysterious binary! I'm not interested in using Sidekick off the clock for the same reason I like writing music and not just using Suno.

One opportunity that might come up for Sidekick, at least for me, is CTFs- no confidentiality concerns, time pressure and maybe prizes on the line. We'll see.
By the end of the first sentence I thought “that sounds like engineering” (the real kind). I know people still dealing with this kind of thing!
Oh, the shipping! Now, from the customer’s point of view.

My youngest worked in a furniture chain over the summer. And they got sent a big, heavy furniture set from the central warehouse, which the store actually didn't want. So, they sent it back. The problem was that the system didn't allow them to say: please, don't send this again. And the non-natural intelligence at the central base decided to send this set again. When my youngest started working - they were loading this set back for the seventh time.

Why 'loading'? Because no one could find a way in the program to send this ill-fated set back on the same truck that brought it. No one, except my youngest, that is. He managed to find the combination of keys and checkboxes that allowed them not to unload the unwanted set and ship it back on the same truck - and he immediately got a raise.

I suspect the set is still traveling. But now they only load-unload it at the central warehouse.
That's such a weird rewriting of history. I know blaming VC is very fun and all, but Bitbucket, originally centered around mercurial, had just as much resources as GitHub and even more. Tons of early contributors to git and the ecosystem were from google and Microsoft. Microsoft started using and shifting towards gif when GitHub was still a baby, etc.
next step: not using git ;-)

i considered a few times to make an alias like this but i feel like git is so precious to get right that i would rather type out each command just to "feel" what i'm doing and be active in it.
> The good thing about FOSS is that those in power can easily be changed. Perhaps it's time to fork, fix, and fight back.

Huzzah! Lead on, then.
Eye of Sauron: Hidden Spy Camera Detection with Memory EM Radiation (2024) [pdf]
So that you’re not rolling around on the soil and compacting it, or squashing seedlings?
To some extent the Elks is a healthy community. Our lodge is definitely a place where kids can hang out together free from interfering adults - that’s what our kids do there with their friends all the time.

We show up, they run off and do their thing with the other kids. We find them when it’s time to go home.

It’s a place with a fence so they can’t wander of, where you know everyone is safe to be around, and where you know if something bad happened another Elk would see and sort it and and come tell you.
h/t walterbell (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149870):

> For all spy cameras.. raw image.. encoding and compression.. takes place in an inbuilt read-write memory whose operations cause electromagnetic radiation (EMR).. Whenever the visual scene changes, bursts of video data processing.. aggravate the memory workload, bringing responsive EMR patterns. ESauron can detect spy cameras by intentionally stimulating scene changes and then sensing the surge of EMRs.. Experiments with 50 camera products show that ESauron can detect all spy cameras with an accuracy of 100% after only 4 stimuli, the detection range can exceed 20 meters even in the presence of blockages, and all spy cameras can be accurately located.