skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't totally follow how this is relevant to the thread? If you make your own game engine, you can design it to display the voxels however you wish. It seems odd to dismiss Minecraft-like games as unsellable when many Minecraft-like games have sold very well by expanding on the gameplay and visuals. There is no reason why the developer in this article can't do the same.
Run locally: divides your book according to chapters found in document metadata, chunks those into sub-sections, create bulleted notes with a model fine-tuned for the purpose.

Ask arbitrary questions to every part of the book, instead of asking a question to the whole book at once. (can be used in education, for dataset creation, etcetera)
As an anxious parent and an academic scientist, I did a deep dive into the peer reviewed literature on causes of SIDS when I first became a parent, which admittedly was a few years back.

I came across what is called the "Toxic Gas" theory of SIDS, which is admittedly not part of the major recommendations for avoiding SIDS in the USA- but I read all of the literature on it, and I found the evidence quite convincing, and the dismissals to be lacking. There were however dismissals in many popular review articles and mainstream recommendations, but they never presented an articulate rebuttal of what seemed like a reasonable concept, and convincing evidence.

The idea is that fungi in an older dirty mattress metabolize flame retardant compounds and produce toxic gases, which were measured in high concentrations with a mass spec on the surfaces of mattresses where infants had actually died from SIDS[1].

Other studies found correlations with mattress age after controlling for other variables, and decreases in SIDS rates with interventions based on non-permeable mattress wraps [2, 3].

Thinking about it fits neatly with some of the other risk factors you mentioned, as they reduce airflow, or put the infants face closer to the mattress surface.

I think it needs a lot more systematic studying, but it seemed convincing enough for me to buy a new mattress without phosphorus, arsenic or antimony containing flame retardants.

I'm not 100% sure about this theory, but I would not let any infant in my care sleep on an old mattress, or a mattress with potentially toxic flame retardants.

Surely there isn't one single "cause of SIDS" as it is just death, and any person can suddenly die at any age for any number of different reasons.

[1] Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: a possible primary cause
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001573689...

[2] Used infant mattresses and sudden infant death syndrome in Scotland: case-control study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC131017/

[3] Cot Death—Cause and PreventionExperiences in New Zealand 1995–2004
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1359084040001683...
Just google "self rocking bassinet", but that is also why I asked - so if you are confident enough to say it's not true, then please explain.

Does it just come down to a different controller/set of algorithms for governing the rocking/white noise capabilities? The product itself doesn't seem to cost $1700 dollars to produce - it seems to be a bassinet on rollers with a motor attached that can play sound.
I grew up not far from Port Arthur TX. I am not surprised it is listed as a pollution hot spot. When I was there the beaches were always covered in oil and the air was thick with whatever the refineries released at night. I only knew it smelled awful and I later developed asthma. If it wasn’t for the refineries, there would be no jobs and no reason for my parents to have moved there. I mostly fault the bean counters. I know they can operate safely. They are just saving a few pennies.
Likely most people don't know what you're referring to and assumed you thought the advice was bad.
To be clear, while Mr. McDonough has been involved in the recent Nix community drama, the current post regards the Python community - Tim Peters is a Python core developer.

I joined HN today because I learned that there have been threads discussing this situation. I was also personally involved. I have my own blog post about Mr. Peters' suspension at https://zahlman.github.io/politics/the-psf/2024/08/10/open-l... .

I would say that Mr. McDonough's interpretation of the Work Group's actions and reasoning is likely more accurate than my own, and he gives far more character evidence to support Mr. Peters (actually, I cut out my own in editing, mainly out of concern for length). On the other hand, I've tried to present a narrative that makes it clearer who said what and when, with citations to the best of my ability. (However, this only covers things said on the Discourse forum itself; I was not subscribed to any corresponding mailing lists, etc.) And, of course, it's written from my own perspective, and following on from a piece about my own banning.
You can start by ignoring it
No standard ways of interpretation will make up for a poorly-written statute - and, with all due respect, that's what your hypothetical example is. In liberal democracies, we expect our representatives to pass only laws that have low ambiguity, and sometimes require third-party review to ensure this.

Why would any legislature pass a law delegating responsibility to a non-existent agency? How could this legislature pass a law with clearly contradictory stipulations regarding temperature? Then, finally, for what reason would intent clauses be written if they were then be entirely ignored?

In conclusion, I think that your hypothetical system of government has greater problems than any inherent difficulty in expressing legal intent that may exist.
For what it does, it’s slow. I used Jetbrains IDEs and I understand the slowness because of all the linting and indexing. But I bear with it because they are tailored to the language that they support and provide you with great utilities. VSCode tries to be the kitchen sink and it’s not great at either. And it’s not just code editing, every interaction with the interface feels slow. If I have 12 cores and 32 GB of ram, slowness for the same thing I was doing on codeblocks with a P4 and 1 GB of ram is the last thing I would accept.
I like Zed too and use it on a daily basis. I've always wanted to take the opposite journey where I leave Zed/Sublime for Vim. While I have always to become a Vim expert, I never put in the time. There just hasn't been a situation in my career where I wish I could type faster than my thoughts. But maybe I'm just a scrub in this field.
It’s named Dockerfile. However, I suspect if it’s named jinja, the Docker parts won’t be syntax highlighted!?!?
Trust me. I feel the same way.
I’m curious why you only used the stroller 4 times. We also decided on a very expensive stroller and infant cat seat, and we’re pretty happy with them. Assuming the stroller continues to work well for 3ish years I think we’ll have no regrets.

Of course, we don’t know how happy we’d have been with a cheaper option. That probably would have been fine too. But the build quality seems noticeable and it doesn’t feel like we got taken advantage of.
The aftermarket for these things means that the cost winds up being split between multiple parties in a lot of cases.

Anecdotally, most parents within my circle bought their Snoo used and sold it after use. I bought an unopened snoo from facebook marketplace for $X and sold it after 6 months for $X-200.

I was a little annoyed that Happiest Baby is meddling with the resale value (because I was expecting to be able to sell it on after a few months of use)

IMO even though the product is overpriced, I'd have happily paid 5k for the extra sleep I believe it gave me.
The Register is one of the few websites on the internet which makes tech articles worth reading. They make the reader realize the significance of tech, who might otherwise pass it off as nuances which only nerds should be aware of.
Do you feel that way about shushing?
> both armed with nuclear weapons,

> and each dependent on the other for its prosperity given the depth and breadth of their economic relationships

Two reasons (mutually assured destruction, economic suicide) why they’re unlikely to go to war.
Interestingly some places give legal effect to those preambles it seems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble#Legal_effect
Rote memorization is absolutely a mainstay of learning both openings
and endgames.

It’s usually a part of tactics training as well although not as purely, the polgar sisters for instance were drilled on the same chess positions day in day out in a spaced repetition system. This is going away a bit because chess puzzle databases have so many unique positions that there’s less need for repetition.
> In December 2000, Magee suffered a heart attack and died on the operating table only to revive and being told that he would have to do the same operation in ten years (he didn’t). When he returned to work, he stated publicly that he disagreed with the editorial direction of The Register.

thats what you call "a change of heart"
I have no idea how anyone could count on long-term yields with crypto but I guess it's a good tool if you're deep into crypto.

Would be helpful to be able to adjust the 11 year timespan. Considering the large number of entries/pages, a search filter would be great, too. And more filters in general.

As someone who doesn't bother with crypto out of my feeling that it's a gold-like non-productive asset, are there any crypto financial products out there that invest in real companies, real estate, etc?
Cool, congrats on releasing. Have you seen graphile worker? Wondering how this compares or if you're building for different use-cases.
They only care about their bottom line and are not doing anything the governments aren't doing. The US government, for example, is happy to trade and deal with our own despite the latter's horrific human rights record. Somehow that subject never comes up in their talks.

They were happy to deal with the CCP for decades and that only started changing when it became clear that China is turning into a major global power that will not simply roll over and do what it's told.

Basically every other country of any international prominence behaves in the same way, I'm not singling out the US.
The thing is, your iPhone would still work very well if you sideloaded this app that was banned in Brazil.

Even if you installed something malicious - something that should be a widespread problem on Android but isn't for some reason - the app would still run in the same sandbox that stops it from do a lot of bad things. iOS/Android is not Windows and Apple will always control that sandbox and OS updates.

But I'm not going to insist on this, it's your phone after all... I just look at what happens in some countries where you go from a good situation to a bad one pretty quickly (eg: Russia, some things in the US, etc) and suddenly Apple bans a VPN that lets you read outside news and things like that and you're essentially f*cked. I don't see how being in this position is good for anyone.
Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
You imply there is some moral relevance to commerce. There is not. You either own a thing to control it, or you do not. I'm not saying relying on goodwill and enforcement is naive, but you always have to keep the possibility in mind that somebody somewhere will implement some new feature locking you out of the experience you expected, unless you own the thing.
No, we don't just want to increase suffering, we do actually want a solution.

Unfortunately the world is full of people like yourself only capable of seeing those with whom they disagree as amoral monsters, thus no solution can or will be reached.
I think that it's ugly but okay-ish right now. What is very very bad is the tooling, and someone should remember people that Facebook and Google do things that serves Facebook and Google-scale needs (billions of users, thousands of devs working asynchronously, no time).

What I end up thinking (maybe i'm wrong) is that node.js must be nuked out of backend and on frontend maybe some of the devs should use either a number of libraries under 15 and write custom code for the rest, or use a language that transpiles to JS like TS, flutter, nim, Go or what have you.

Maybe JS should be nuked out of tooling too, sometimes it's actively damaging and sometimes dead slow. Use something else if wrangling asset files are a problem.

If you want a DX where backend is frontend, you must use the only three mantained languages that can do that without trying to actively damage you or users, which are a Smalltalk (like Pharo), a Lisp (like Clojure/Clojurescript) or Java.
Landing at McMurdo Station seems a lot like landing on a giant, slow-moving aircraft carrier.

I wonder how similar their ILS is to the ILS used on navy aircraft carriers?
Stinkflation.
There is probably a market for 2-4x more expensive carbon-neutral aviation fuel. Most other fuel-consuming vehicles are better off going in a different direction, batteries or hydrogen fuel cells.
Can this be set for a specific process (or process group/tree), or only globally?
https://www.theregister.com/2007/04/20/cf-y5_toughbook/ this review of the Panasonic CF-Y5 is one of the highlights of the genre (I had the good luck to own one):

> The exterior design of the machine's casing is reminiscent of a Sherman tank cross-bred with a 1970s sports saloon, while the lid opens with the grace of a bank vault door. Yet the designers have managed to make the machine look attractive all the same, the overall effect being what you'd expect from GI Jane in a glittery ball gown.
One would think that the e-bike is what would really revolutionize transportation in the third world, especially a place like Ethiopia that doesn't really see snow.
NT and intel didn't catch up SGI/Mips and Dec/Alpha until the Pentium III, and in the case of the Alpha, even the 800MHZ one was subpar against the Alpha.
> Citation needed? This is the sort of thing that people use to argue against sleep training, too, but I don’t believe much evidence has been found for that.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4088358/

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0504767102

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7502223/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9599775/

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203758045

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8250458/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33924970/

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-67860-2_...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14984130/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infant-touch/
It's not absurd. Unit test are expensive and slow you down while at the same time not targeting the part of software where bugs occur. It's usually HOW functions are composed that cause bugs, not the functions themselves. Contracts rest the interaction of components while unit tests don't.
Google really doesn't want people to know what goes on in pay to win games.

While they aren't outright fraud, they are right there. And those apps probably make billions a year.
I've often thought this was the case. Tangentially, when I don't get enough sleep, and my executive function is impaired, I tend to drift into involuntary daydreams. The content of those daydreams trends to feel like simulations of future events and possible outcomes. I can't say it's related, but I often wondered if my brain is saying "If your not going to sleep enough, so be it, I'll try to squeeze in some simulation tasks during the day". When I was a teen, I'd daydream about skateboarding. It could feel so realistic that I could get a "jump scare" in imagined situations that ended in me hitting the ground.
You could even layer in PostgREST for a nice HTTP API that is available from any language!
BTW tons of Gopher users from SDF (gopher://sdf.org , use the search option at Veronica) have screenshots and daily usage of SGI machines with modern software ported into Irix.
Learning openings beyond a very basic level is not going to help the club player very much and it’s generally a good way for them to waste their time, at least from an improving your ELO perspective.

Being the best out of the opening will typically put you a “quarter pawn” ahead, maybe putting you ahead as white or equalizing as black. Then if you’re a novice you will immediately hang a knight and end up 2.75 pawns behind. Then your opponent will hang a bishop and you’ll be a quarter pawn ahead again.

The other problem with learning opening theory against novices is you will learn 30 moves a side of Ruy Lopez opening theory and your opponent won’t get 10 moves without leaving theory rendering your study moot.

There’s far more emphasis on memorizing openings at the grandmaster level because people are playing a tight enough game elsewhere for that slight advantage to really matter, and because of all the pre-game preperation where teams of grandmasters and chess engines will come up with novel moves to throw an opponent off balance while the star player memorizes the lines. To the point of grandmasters like Bobby Fischer complain it ruined the game and inventing variants like chess960. All super grandmasters have outlier memorization abilities.

Generally club players just need to rote memorize not too deeply and understand the broad sweeping ideas and key moves of the openings (when white does that, counter them with this). That should allow them to come up with reasonable moves on the fly which might be the best or third best moves. Memorizing fewer openings at first is probably better. At the more casual level memory is much less important.
What is stored is not the tokens, but all keys and values of all attention layers for each token.
It is, but “write” doesn’t have an error code it can return on out-of-memory.

The whole crux of overcommit is that the affected process doesn’t get a chance to gracefully fall back or shutdown on OOM conditions at defined places in the code (like at invocations of malloc).
She's suing Google for the 5M she lost because "she believed Google was successfully preventing scam apps from becoming available on the Google Play store." and not because it took them so long to take the scammer's app down. If they'd done it within 5 minutes it wouldn't have stopped her from losing her money.

I think google should be held accountable for not removing a malicious app from their app store within a reasonable amount of time, but I'm less sure that Google should be on the hook for the money scammers take. Google can and should do a lot more to prevent malicious apps on their platform, and they should be required to respond quickly when the ones they failed to detect are reported to them, but a play store that only allowed/contained apps that Google was 100% confident could never be used to scam another person wouldn't be very useful.
"This brought him into contact with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. Despite his fame, his accountant did not allow Page to have much money, so he approached Magee for a loan to buy an esoteric bookstore. The loan was never repaid."

I hope to have one paragraph in my obit as cool as that.
Whosever's law of headlines, answer is no.
Fork is copy-on-write. The problem is that there's no way for fork() to know how much memory the child process needs. It might call exec() immediately, using very little memory. It might keep running, mostly sharing pages with the parent. It might touch every memory page, requiring a lot of memory.
Sleep Resets Neurons to Keep Learning Possible
While I've generally not been especially fond of the author's sensationalized approach to content, nor do I necessarily agree with the political bias therein, I have certainly found it to be generally honest to a standard not reached by many other news bloggers. The only real factual issue I had this with particular piece is that it inconsistently refers to the 3-month suspension as a "ban".

As another commenter said, the cherry-picking is explicit in the article. But I'm writing more to assure you - as someone who was personally caught up in the situation - that the other points offered are about equally laughable. Some of them are hard to imagine as problematic even as stated; some of them appear to be multiple points referring to the same incident (e.g. "Use of potentially offensive terms, even when self-censored or alluded to indirectly." appears to also be about the SNL skit case - the point of referring to that skit was to clue the reader in to the self-censored word); and the rest - well, there are clear candidates for what incidents they have in mind, and it's simply absurd to frame them as their list does.

Unfortunately, a significant amount of the relevant forum content has now been hidden from the public eye (including many of my own posts, and posts where Mr. Peters defended me). However, archives certainly exist - I saved my own posts (and have been planning to release them for nearly a month now, and am about to do so), and it's possible to use the Python Discourse forum in "mailing list" mode, so there will be people out there with their own private copies in their email clients.
> The conservative is usually to maintain the traditional balance of power where bosses get the big slice of cake.

That may be the usual definition of Conservatism in 'progressive' circles but it bears no relation to the actual definition. Also, this is now the second time in less than a week that I see someone coming up with something resembling this definition of Conservatism. See my previous reaction [1] to this failed definition of the term for an example of what the term really covers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249430
Depending on what kind of document it is, I often resort to extracting its contents with pandoc by converting it into markdown, and then replacing the original description. Makes search work properly too.
At no point does this article attempt to define the term "micro-library".

Perhaps we should start there.
If available memory means physical + swap then you're saying the same thing as pcwalton.
Very true. Their journalists understand the technology they are writing about and explain it clearly. They also provide background and a bigger picture. One can view them as sceptical, perhaps even jaded hacks, but what they write generally stands the test of time.

In my opinion, it is the best tech news website.
What makes the last screw the identity? Why not the second last screw? What if you put in the second last screw after you removed the last? What if I put in a nail? Maybe nail some cork to it to make it float?
https://x.com/propheticai/status/1803811493881798701 & http://bit.ly/3WumKvu

Prophetic is developing a non-invasive neuromodulatory wearable. The device uses various “reading” neurotechnologies— including EEG and fNIRS, as well as a “writing” neurotechnology— transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS). Our aim is to develop a viable neuromodulatory brain-computer interface for consumer use that is 1) closed-loop, 2) non-invasive, and 3) possesses a temporospatial resolution meaningful enough to induce discrete states of consciousness—such as lucid dreaming—with precision.
Ooh that is an interesting focus, I personally love sharing and reading about startup ideas and can't get enough of that content online.

In case it's interesting, along this direction there's halfbakery, pg's essay on how to find startup ideas, YC's RFS posts, and more recently the Startup Ideas podcast/youtube channel which features guests sharing ideas they've been thinking about.

Edit: I see you updated the site with example problems, those are great. I could see this being a great structure for collective solution ideation.