skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think it’s because it only takes a small part of the internet to be outraged before it appears to be outrage. The twitter/x machine gets rolling with jokes and those get shared with a network effect. 100% of a room of 30 people won’t care about this. 1 goofball out of 100 makes some meme and shares it, that spins out of control and now there is a problem on their hands.

I could care less about this little clip. Personally I use AI to write letters to my elected officials, review the speech I had to write for the wedding I’m attending next week (and give me ideas for things I should have done differently like focus on the couples relationship instead of just stories I have with the groom), and help me write a children’s book for my daughter. All things I care about and I’m currently better for it and saved time. Say what you will
Displaying black on white in dark mode is still bad. In principle, CSS invert() should be able to do the trick for SVGs. You’d have to test it on all relevant browsers though.
It will actively take part in the design and construction of its next, superior bunker. (See construction of embassies.)
I didn't. There is no context there. It's not the whole group that were not reduced. Read the sentence again:

> food allergy was lower in the group introduced to allergenic foods early but the difference was not statistically significant

Group introduced to allergenic foods early. And of course if you control for kids that don't already display an allergy at the age that they're introducing it, you're going to have a reduced rate of allergy.

There's a reason they're saying it's not statistically significant...
Taiwan has enough cruise missles to blow any shipping blockade to smithereens in such a scenario and sink most of the Chinese navy’s large ships.
She used no punctuation ever. :)
I just used Gemini to write my hate mail, so even if nobody at Google reads it, I didn’t spend any effort it making it. I can’t lose!
Yup. I was mistaken about the problem.
There are even many good books free-as-in-beer online; the issue there is that in order to use them one has to already have learned how to learn from books.
> Harris Victory Fund accepts contributions of up to $929,600 from a person and $415,000 from a multicandidate committee (“PAC”). The first $6,600/$10,000 from a person/PAC will be allocated to Harris for President, with the first $3,300/$5,000 designated for the primary and the next $3,300/$5,000 for the general election. The next $41,300/$15,000 from a person/PAC will be allocated to the DNC. The next $510,000/$255,000 from a person/PAC will be split equally among the Democratic state parties from: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY. Any additional funds will be allocated to the DNC, subject to applicable contribution limits.

In other words they’ve got an algorithm for that.
> big waste

Storage cost has fallen exponentially for decades, https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-price-of-comput...
Ouch, please don't. Anything else like bzr or hg or svn will be easier to grasp than git, can work locally too (IIRC for Subversion) and not much harder than zip files — don't get them used to the wrong mental model and bad habits.
I doubt Wayland would be better at this?
With WASM it might actually run faster in the browser as well.
Yeah, I was expecting the same kind of argument from the author, not what he actually talked about (STEM workers have to commit to life-long learning, work long hours during crunch time, feel like on a treadmill because there's always the next release ahead, etc.) in the end.

When I look at the people who finished their PhD in biotech while my wife was doing hers, the overwhelming majority of them seem to be working as project managers (not necessarily, but most likely) in the biotech industry these days - but not as scientists or even engineers, which they should be MUCH better suited for, given their decade-long training and supposed major interest in science. I hope (and so does she, ftr) she will be able to avoid that fate.
P-hack?
I agree with your initial assertion and would note that things you mentioned seem more "active" than reading. You're more engaged with the activity than just flipping pages.

I've read a lot of stuff in life (like you, I'm sure), but it's still rare that I'd make it through more than a few pages of something without nodding off.

Even with books that I couldn't put down, I'd only make it through a chapter or two before calling it for the day; I need more engagement in my life, so don't feel alone if that's the same for you.
Why, from C to Zig, from Zig to Rust. Compile the Rust version to WASM to finally make it runnable in the browser.
I think AI is close to the point where synthetic users will be indistinguishable from real ones. To mitigate the techniques above and elsewhere in this thread, I think Apple will quickly move towards making the review process both highly automated and continuous.

It really means we need to lean into what ecosystem and government pressure we can apply to ensure the terms are sensible and fair because it will become nearly impossible to hack around them. (I do think many of these hacks are clever, I just don't think they will be enduring.)
Easier for the fantasy bad guy with explosives would be to have them in a solid state. Check mate, TSA and friends.
Heroku CLI v9: Infrastructure Upgrades and Oclif Transition
Citation(not interpretation)please? I don't think nobody could surpass Israel in the civilian casualty count. And in the hitting schools count, or in the hitting hospitals front. Not to mention the massive hostage taking from Gaza. And their abuse of those hostages at their military bases.

And to top it all calling a United Nations agency a terrorist organisation. None could afford to do that.
I don't think Google is dumb enough to scrape "Orange Site" to train their bots.
It will convince humanity that an AI is conscious and should have personhood and civil rights - same as other human classes which didnt for a while.
The time window we are looking at is too small to draw any sensible conclusions and nature is constantly adapting to the climate changes.
I am certain it tested excellently. Infact, it is the job of not only the marketing team to make sure the testing team comes back with a positive result, but also the testing team. Why would anyone want to have their stuff come back with a failure?

The problem is the testing itself. We see this in political polling, where the poll surveys come back very confidently stating x y and z people are n points ahead among demographics a b and c. The problem is that time after time again the pollsters are made out to be weathermen forcasting rain during a heatwave a snow during a drought with lots of gesticulation but no substance. Their methods were wrong, and they picked the safest modeling to use so that if they were wrong they would be only sort of wrong, until it got to be a pure flip of the coin as to if it would rain or not.

The polls and tests and all this "data driven" hogwash are not testing for truth in the market, they are testing for truth in how things test. And as software developers know - the real testing happens after QA.

Too many predictors and fortune tellers are trying to sell a nice thought with plywood beams holding it up. In the past it was hard to actually go and quantify how poorly the rest result matched up with reality, today it is a lot easier to see a failure after a poor showing - but somehow we are still eluded in the testing process.

Fire them all. Have google gemmini make a thousand ads and run them in a thousand places and then figure out which ones are hitting the mark after the fact. It would be cheaper than sitting around for months trying to synthesize the perfect ad in vitro just for it to be poorly received and the entire investment wasted.

Pollsters, focus testers, marketers, they all have this same problem of thinking their lab still can accurately quantify the external world. They can't, and I dont have a solution (i will never respond to a poll, even for money).
Excellent question.

Local neighborhood libraries could have their own curated digital archive, as cache for fast local search, and archival backup for long-term resilience.
This could be a difference between West European communists and North American communists. For Europeans, the USSR was a place you could visit and where you could meet ordinary people. Before the war, many had moved to the USSR to build communism. Many faced the purges, and some came back disappointed. And many of the purges were public matters reported openly in newspapers. The reality was well known, but most communists chose to downplay it. Despite its faults, the USSR was the most successful example of their ideology.

The rift between West European and Soviet communists started forming after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. The invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 was the final straw, as almost every communist party condemned the USSR.
> No, no one past middle school cares about the color of the bubble.

This is just objectively not true. The nature of green vs blue messages feeds into the in-group out-group dynamics that humans (children and adults alike) are prone to.

This is by design. This works well for apple.
Uh, for the record, like... I've been more than open about my past history with ES, and have spent the last 2+ years straight giving back to the Dreamcast community, supporting every game and project I've been able to find time for, fixing many bugs that have plagued this scene for decades and becoming the developer with the second-most commits to the KallistiOS repo in just 2 years, beaten only by the lead maintainer with over a decade of work...

But yes, way to take the spotlight away from the developers who are pouring their hearts and souls into this project, of which I'm only an insignificant part of, to bring up some irrelevant shit from my past which I have owned up to and am literally working to correct by supporting projects like this... total douche bag move. Makes me feel sorry for the rest of the team, tbh.
It uses most of the CPU power because to be able to offer refactoring services the IDE needs to maintain a indexed representation (database) of the source code. Because of that indexing work, even in large codebases you can call up all the call sites of a method or many other things and the results appear in a fraction of a second. If the IDE had to read every source file to do that every time, refactoring support would be impractical.

The flip side of that is that most of the work the IDE does is understanding the source code as it changes and maintaining those indexes, including indexes of all the dependencies. Delphi just did not even try to do that work, and Delphi apps typically had few dependencies if any anyway.

IntelliJ being slow isn't my experience. But I know it can get very slow in some cases, like if it's running out of RAM. Make sure to respond to notifications if it says it's running low on memory.
The article fails to mention other projects creating new cities from scratch. China has Xiong’an and there's Songdo in South Korea. so in contrast to Betteridge’s law, the answer is yes it’s possible, but not without some failures. A reason things cost so much in America is endless lawsuits, taking up precious time while projects slowly churn through the court system and other bureaucratic hold-ups, with residents hoping to tie up the plan forever, resulting in it not happening any time soon, for better or worse. The nearby Bay Area has a housing crisis, as do many other places, so this project aims to bring some relief to that. it's certainly an ambitious project, so we'll have to wait and see what happens.
See my other comment, on the backend they’re splitting donations above the personal per candidate per election limit across multiple candidates and elections, while allowing the contributors to specify a custom split that remains within applicable limits.

The duopoly knows how to siphon the cash as required.
Agreed. 50 bucks is not expensive for what could be a valuable investment. It's on my TODO list. If it works well to teaching me mathematics, then I'll keep using it.

That said, I think it's also important to be able to learn from books, which is a useful skill in my opinion.
Not really spread like a virus but rather imposed from above.

I've worked in organizations where the worst possible thing you could do is not report something negative to your boss. Not reporting carries way worse consequences than the consequences of whatever the original problem is. In such organizations people aggressively forward bad news upward.

I've also worked in organizations where leadership does not want to hear anything bad. Their attitude is that the purpose of their underlings is to fix any problems and if any bad news percolates up to the top, then it's a failure of the people doing the reporting and they should be punished. Such organizations basically end up purging honest management and rewarding liars and yes men.
> Simply connect the first time from a known-secure connection.

No, that's not a solution. The point is to treat the Internet as an untrusted network.
It is perfectly possible to write a function in pure Java that would never terminate when called with parameter values outside of the domain for which it is defined. It is also possible for it to yield an incorrect value.

Your statement that such a function would throw an exception is false.

Ensuring a function is only called for the domain it is defined on is entirely at the programmer's discretion regardless of language. Some choose to ensure all functions are defined for all possible values, but that's obviously impractical due to combinatorial explosions. Types that encapsulate invariants are typically seen as the solution for this.
> UN chief appeals for global action to tackle deadly extreme heat

Burning some oil fields has no effect on global warming. /s

We really need some land or some new resources for our companies. Request denied. /s
Scouring trade route history is a two-edged sword: which way did influence run?

I’m sure ideological archeology can solve that though. That path also has a lot of history.
"so I'm glad to see the exposure of the Olympics is making Google rethink this."

Are they rethinking? Because their response seemed also completely out of touch.

Their response is:

"AI can be a great tool for enhancing human creativity, but can never replace it."

They think it's about replacing creativity, and seem to be clueless that people are outraged about replacing genuine and rare human interaction.

The message from the girl to her role model doesn't even need to be creative, it just needs to be genuine - that's the only thing it needs to be!
This kind of thing, much more than LLMs, makes me worry about AGI takeoff.
Beryllium Copper lining baffled me.

Way softer metal than Tungsten.

I guess its about the density?

Beryllium Copper is one of the highest temp coppers but that ain't saying much for something that generates millions of degrees of plasma....

Beryllium Copper is tough and used for non-sparking tools.
I don't see it handling millions of degrees.

Tungsten seems like a good switch... Imagine machining it though...
It will convince humanity that it would be safe running a generation ship of volunteers (it says it will guarantee their civil rights) and will then leave humanity behind while colonizing it's own section of the galaxy.
So it's just a author talking about his book where the central point is that we're "failing our STEM" majors because according to one figure as many as 70% of "STEM graduates" don't end up working in "STEM jobs".

I'm just generally not a fan of this kind of absolutist thinking.

"STEM" is a massive umbrella that encompasses dozens of fields, many of which might not have a robust undergraduate-to-employment pipeline the way that something like CompSci did until very recently. Lots of STEM undergraduate degrees are not by themselves that useful for employment, but generally are part of a track which includes postgraduate education.

It's not that crazy that some 18 year old might think they want to be an MD or PhD, but have changed their minds by the time they complete undergrad. Also lots of Science and Engineering departments at universities have degree plans which are coded as "Science" or "Engineering" degrees but are academically much less rigorous than other programs at the college. Graduates of these majors typically don't end up in jobs that would be coded as "STEM jobs" in official statistics.

So what's the takeaway? That often people end up in careers that differ from their education? Ok sure, but is a sensational title like "Wasted Education" warranted?
Ethical use and deployment of facial recognition technology
The first ever British Standard code of practice focusing on the ethical use and deployment of facial recognition technology (FRT), developed on recommendations by the BSIA, has been released today by the British Standards Institute (BSI). (April 2024)
Doesn't Zig compile to WASM too?
So true.

Especially with term highlighting, makes it 2x easier to read and keep the information flow to process (and funnier?).
The symptom was the website wasn’t loading, just spinning forever.

Looking at the http logs, around 5pm an ip address started spamming a whole bunch of requests to the same url. The same ip was doing pretty normal stuff on the website about an hour earlier.

My theory is holding down F5 key would cause the page to reload about 30 times a second. The website was not able to handle that many requests per second and it effectively became a denial of service attack.

This was around 2007-2010 and I think by now browsers have stopped repeating a reload if the F5 key is held down.
> Firstly the 60% have chosen iOS. They are not "hostage" they can leave.

Competition laws are about fostering competitive markets. Customers and what they want is completely irrelevant past establishing that the market is not competitive.
I think it’s because of how expensive AI is to develop, how easy it is to sell the idea of a thinking machine (and the implications of having the first real AGI) to investors, and how thirsty tech is for another platform for 20 years of rampant growth now that it seems social media is starting to dry up.
Writing a quick Github gist, sorry haha, I'll post a link here in a few minutes.

Edit: https://gist.github.com/adtac/eb639d3c707b55a28f0ee9a420aa7e...
This is pretty persnickety and I imagine you're aware of this, but free is a weak symbol on Linux, so user code can replace it at whim. Your foo cannot be statically determined to be UB.
> What is [Country X] currently doing about it, then?

> What is [Country X] currently doing about it, then? I'd assume Country X is currently banning/disincentivizing cars, cement, AI clusters, plane travel, and all kinds of much easier measures than literal nuclear attacks on other nuclear-equipped countries.

Country X in this case being India, here's what they're currently up to: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/02/climate-policy-india/

I was wondering if I'd emphasised strongly enough "in the scenario where AMOC has collapsed and Europe tries to resolve this by overcoming it with extra greenhouse gas emissions". This scenario is trying to correct a local 2°C reduction with enough extra greenhouse gas for a global 2°C *more than today*. Current temperatures are about 1.25°C over the pre-industrial average, so that brings us to a minimum lower bound of 3.25°C over the pre-industrial average. This is in the region of "about half the world population experiences deadly humid heatwaves every year, the Himalayan glaciers stop supplying fresh water to half of the Indian population, marine ecosystems collapse, nearly all crops are negatively affected and yields fall rapidly, 18% loss of global GDP": https://unclimatesummit.org/comparing-climate-impacts-at-1-5....

We're not currently on a course for that in the first place, the current policies reach 2.6°C relative to the pre-industrial average (1.35°C relative to today) by 2100, so what India (and everyone else) has to do to prevent that is… basically what everyone is already currently doing. Though we can do better, and we should, because 2.6°C over pre-industrial (1.35°C over today) is still pretty bad.

But if it came to that scenario? That hypothetical where the European continent (including the UK) gives the world a two fingered salute? The negative consequences of being on the receiving end of the UK and France nuclear arsenals, would still be less bad for India and its people even if they acted unilaterally than allowing the extra impact of that much additional greenhouse gasses. Never mind that all those problems with an additional 2°C beyond current would cause to everyone else which means that the USA won't be on Europe's side if Europe was hubristic enough to try to solve this with geo-engineering rather than something less drastic.

And I did also only say that as a follow-on if "Not selling them stuff to burn" was shown to be insufficient. There are of course many stops between "don't sell them stuff" and "nuke them", I didn't feel it was a good use of time to enumerate them.
Amazed at the engineering commitment to Shogi (Japanese chess) games. Can anyone comment on the cultural impact of playing shogi on your tv, with a plastic corded controller?

The ability to plug in a coprocessor many times faster than the main CPU is such a fascinating option (used all through the 80’s too, eg the Z80 boards for Apple ][) only to be limited to a niche genre…
A line printer sounds nothing like a dot matrix printer. They're much, much louder, and it's a continuous buzzing noise, like a chainsaw. Also, the output appears at a similar speed to a dot matrix doing a form feed.

While the sound of a dot matrix printer can be kind of therapeutic - I remember debugging by printing, where the sound of printing and the time waiting could be used to mentally debug the problem, so you almost knew where the bug was without even looking at the print out, a line printer is the complete opposite as it's so loud it's distracting and the output gets spat out so quickly you don't have much, if any thinking time!
i'm actually quite curious how it would perform relative to the C version. the article shows 1000x particles, but LittleJS has demos with a couple orders of magnitude more than that at 60fps.

e.g. https://killedbyapixel.github.io/LittleJS/examples/stress/
Could you link to the panels you bought or similar ones?
Reading is widely, massively promoted in schools, for all the right intentions (it really is a very important and enriching foundational skill), but to such an overwhelming extent that we sometimes forget that reading is a form of consumption, not a truly unalloyed good. The art of consumption - whether media, food, sex, resources, or otherwise - is in consuming the right amount of the right stuff.
It's not, it's drastically faster. The TI-83 is a device I have to pick up, probably fetching it from a drawer first. Calculator app starts in a few hundred milliseconds from the moment I finish typing "Cal" in Mission Control, which itself is only a few seconds after I decide I need a calculator. Generic tools can pay a performance price for that generality and still win. A dedicated device just cannot beat that speed no matter how many ASICs it uses.
> Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage

911 ?

It is the same everywhere. We must fight terrorism (at least some part of it). /s
They are supposedly going to guide this plasma beam in a torriod shape.

What if it crashes into side of vessel?

Tungsten might be good liner but they lose the beam and.......
https://statisticsbyjim.com/hypothesis-testing/p-hacking/
CCP*
Not kick out, explicitly filter for academia.