skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I do understand how ridiculous this sounds. But its just math. I ran the beginnings of the equations thru 2 other A.I.s as well and they independently corroborated these findings. Their take was that the results need to be tested but up to that point the math is sound they claim. I only want to find a human expert to look at the equations. That's all. Just so I can be sure I'm not holding something useful and its not being utilized. Literally I'm begging for help.
Starbucks commitment to sustainability is a total BS if their CEO commutes from home to work 1000 miles (almost) daily on a private jet. What is his carbon footprint anyway?
I use to like Gnome 2. Simple, clean and efficient. When Gnome 3 was launched, I was already using a mac book, so didn't try it.
Julia and Python: Slowly Converging [video]
More like which niche. I find transit advocates do a lot on mastodon. There are also a lot of great open source projects (the curl maintainer posts some interesting stuff). Those are niches I'm interested in though, YMMV in anything else.
How do they treat immigrants and racial minorities? Unless you're implying those aren't the most vulnerable?
I've been using a very simple app called "OTP Auth" since I heard Steve Gibson talking about it on his Security Now podcast.

It's a few dollars, works well, and I've been really happy with it after using Authy for years.
So a long way of saying "Nope" to the actual question?
Great read, although a shame that it didn't go any further than adding the write cache SSD solution, which must have been many years ago. I was hoping for a little more recent info on the EBS architecture.
Effects of 90- and 30-min naps or a 120-min nap on alertness and performance
I don’t see your games, I am sure you care about them sincerely, I see the other “polished” titles and I’m familiar with the Roblox funded development that paid for the creation of the more polished games. I can’t pass criticism on games I haven’t played, such as the the ones you listed. Roblox’s strategy sometimes works sometimes doesn’t, so difficult to generalize. Overall there’s a reason we have never heard of a single game on the platform.

Bloxburg feels like the least janky experience. But overall just moving around using virtual joysticks on a phone is really janky.

Another POV is that the overall catalog of games is very large. Many high quality options to go through before playing your first Roblox game. Even on phones, even free to play. With your level of experience you know that of course every kid would have more fun playing something like Clash Royale or something in the Apple Arcade, the issue isn’t that kids are stupid or tolerate crappier stuff like you imply elsewhere, but that you are not allowed to market expressly to them even in platforms like TikTok where there are many kids.
>Same feeling you get looking at the airbrushed art on a state fairground ride.

That's a great way to describe it. A lot of articles and youtube pics are using these images lately and they all give that sort of vibe.
The Only JavaScript Feature That Was Deprecated
Google avoids "link tax" bill with deal to fund California journalism and AI
Glad to hear the experience so far has been good!

> larger aggregates and more complex queries

Currently Instant supports nested queries, pagination, IN, AND, and OR. We have an internal implementation for COUNT [1], but need to update permissions for aggregates.

We're always hacking away on blocker features. If we can't get to it in time and it blocks your app, you can reach to the admin SDK for an escape hatch [2]

[1] The 'admin-only' count starts here: https://github.com/jsventures/instant/blob/main/server/src/i...

[2] https://www.instantdb.com/docs/backend
Is there an open, simple, handheld gaming platform that is cheap, and has good documentation so hobbyists and kids can make games for it?

I know people will say pick up a cheap Android phone. And perhaps they're right, but Android is not simple. It has so many things going on that you just can't write a C program and start playing with it. You have to learn a dozen Android quirks and deal with the Android operating system.

Is there something where you can just upload a program to flash and the device just boots into the program and you start playing?
"How to Make Mathematicians into Programmers (and Vice Versa)" – Will Crichton
Aha. Yes, well, The one I found I vaguely read and thought it might possibly help at work.

The one you referenced I pushed I front of my teenager daughters nose and said “read this it’s important it’s about you”

Thank you
This is a wonderful piece of software. So easy to use and customize.
Somehow the compiler needs to either have the whole program in one single go--every last source file at the same time, all with exactly the same build options--or there needs to be a way to combine the results of multiple compilation steps.

Even with modern LTO, the compiler doesn't typically see _all_ files in the program at the source code level. Just many. Usually the C-library and C++ library are different.

So as long as various languages don't build the entire program in a single compilation and assembly step, we will need something that combines the results.

That's the linker.

Even building everything statically doesn't eliminate the need for the runtime linker, unless one hard-codes the exact address where a program can run.
That runs counter to security measures like ASLR.
notably sony also made a handful of "yaroze" units for hobbyist developers. you couldn't ship, but you could write, compile, run and i believe share within the yaroze community.

yaroze was outside of my budget, but thankfully there was another option, there was a commercial game cheat device that could be reflashed with a "caetla" rom which when hooked up to the parallel port on a pc, could be used to ship binaries over from linux. the gcc-mips toolchain worked a treat and there was a header file laying around that implemented the user space wrappers for making system calls into the in-rom kernel.

my fun exploratory project: porting the mpg123 decoder over to the psx1, thereby bringing mp3s to the living room. i was able to get it to decode one frame at a time very slowly on the r3000 (25mhz) cpu with no fpu, but didn't have the skill at the time to embark on an optimization project that maybe could have made use of the rudimentary graphics acceleration (it was some kind of limited integer math accelerator, iirc).
Yes rightly pointed out, the regulators are the ones that crack down/fine/impose restrictions.

I'd say there are varying levels of automation, where even to this day within low/medium risk, ~30% of cases get to manual review, and with some that number can be even higher!

Yes sanctions is one area where the human touch is very important! Definitely a high risk category
TBH if that's the totality of the battle plan, that'll be fantastic news. The "stolen election" ruse only came so close to working last time because he had his hands on the levers of executive power, and could thus disable/sideline all of the usual law enforcement while fighting it out in the court of public opinion (what the baseless court cases were for).

But really the only way we're going to get out of this societal catastrophe is for Trumpism to be resoundingly rebuked at the ballot box. The Republican party needs to choke on the inevitable results of this festering radical populist destruction that they had been stoking but containing for decades (eg rush Limbaugh), until it finally escaped.

And please don't read my comment thinking I'm sitting here positively pro-Democrat or pro-system. As a libertarian, I've got many indictments of the current corporatist anti-individual-freedom system, the two party duopoly, the "deep state", etc. But staring down the choice of the destruction of the American bureaucracy in favor of cult of personality autocracy, I've begrudgingly had to support the solidly conservative option of the bureaucracy. And I'm willing to admit that it had been far too easy to take it for granted.
> Boeing buys politicians

Boeing's power doesn't come from buying politicians, however one describes that. (They're not accused of paying bribes. Most politicians don't wind up working or speaking for Boeing.) Boeing's power comes from its facilities and thus jobs in every pivotal district. That gives them votes and voices.

Space and defence are niche topics. Most voters are civically unengaged. Those that are tend to engage on social issues. Once language is introduced, a Congressperson who doesn't really care about the bill getting ten calls going one way and zero another is probably going to vote 'aye' because it's a costless give.

(Presently, their GR team is taking a page out of Arianespace's book in positioning them as the only alternative to Elon Musk.)
Zwift is pretty great for all of that. The biggest challenge I had with the whole ecosystem is finding something that doesn't have a monthly sub. I don't really do a lot of the racing / social aspects -- and I really only use it in the Phoenix summer when it's just too hot to go outside and hike. What I've found that works for me is cancelling Zwift in the cooler weather and using courses and workouts on my Garmin watch or Edge computer, which works and is free.
Interesting point about the recursion, that’s an issue. I think the reason is that it has aerospace heritage, I think explicit iteration control is important there. Having no good way to represent recursion is limiting for general purpose though.
They didn't really explain why graph coloring can be done quickly in this case. I'm not familiar with graph coloring theory, but I know the general graph coloring problems are NP-complete. I'm guessing the reason you can use a greedy algorithm to get a decent coloring quickly is because you know the graph is planar, and because you don't actually care about getting a minimal coloring.
Or could be a browser preference that then send an HTTP header ? Wait https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DNT
EFS supports 30 GiB/s throughput now. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-ef...

Otherwise instance drive and sync over S3.
Don't do this! You're going to have a bad time. Install only what you need.
without the shareholders there's no company
For those who don't know the current records well, from Wikipedia[0]:

The men's world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Jamaica's Usain Bolt in 2009, while the women's world record is 10.49 seconds, set by American Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988[a].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_metres
[a] is a footnote on the wikipedia page, discussing the validity of the record due to wind speed measurement concerns; read the page and footnote if you care about that level of detail
Words used in trade don't just appear organically, either. Someone with some kind of reason-- whether it's being funny, selling a product, or wanting to say things in a way that doesn't offend someone else-- coins them, and then depending upon the overall zeitgeist they become heavily used or fall into disfavor.

The use of gender neutral language as a favored practice has been largely settled in English style guides everywhere since I was a small child, and I am old. To a pretty big portion of the population, "chairman" sounds dated.

It's worth noting excessive prescriptivism cuts both ways. Once upon a time the singular "they" was widely accepted and used; then it was deprecated in favor of just using "he"; now people want to tell us using "they" to describe a person of undetermined gender is just wrong. Language is how we use it, and it's better for it to not contain excessive constraints or connotations that are unhelpful.
Elixir is really fun. It hits the same spot for me as Ruby does for many others, bringing joy when writing it.
That and this wonderful tongue-in-cheek advice:

> Writing your own PlayStation game in C is actually very simple: all it requires is to make no mistakes whatsoever.
I saw the mention of Google's CEL for authorisation and permission, however would like to know a little about security. Apart from the appId, can I restrict call to db by domain etc. Firebase has protection on such things . somebody should not just take the appId and start calling db.
It’s another way to reduce the number of applications a job gets
I frequently have to send e-mails from different addresses, so it seems I need to have manage multiple .conf files for this to work correctly? Example:

- login user: example@example.com
- alises: *@example.com, postmaster@example.com, abuse@example.com ...

Mail addressed to "ex@example.com" is delivered to "example@example.com" inbox. But instead of replying from "example@example.com", I would prefer to reply via "ex@example.com"

Thunderbird offers the feature to modify the "from" header for each mail (which is nice). So I am curious how I would be able to do this with Aerc without having to constantly fiddle with the configuration files (ie, create new conf, add conf entry, ...)
Notes from My Time at Figma
Ask HN: What is a good Reinforcement Learning Course?
I am looking for a good reinforcement learning course that teaches all the basics with a good hands-on coding component. Ideally following a top-down approach, more like the equivalent of the Practical Deep Learning for Coders course from fast.ai
>in order to switch between applications, you have to use tab or get into this desktop section by clicking on said icon

What I do is to configure the first 5 function keys to switch to the 5 apps I use most frequently. f2 (not Ctrl-f2 or Alt-f2, but plain f2) for example switches to my browser.
I really want an ActiveRecord-like experience.

In ActiveRecord, I can do this:

```rb

post = Post.find_by(author: "John Smith")

post.author.email = "john@example.com"

post.save

```

In React/Vue/Solid, I want to express things like this:

```jsx

function BlogPostDetailComponent(...) {

// `subscribe` or `useSnapshot` or whatever would be the hook that gives me a reactive post object

const post = subscribe(Posts.find(props.id));

function updateAuthorName(newName) {
// This should handle the join between posts and authors, optimistically update the UI

post.author.name = newName;

// This should attempt to persist any pending changes to browser storage, then
// sync to remote db, rolling back changes if there's a failure, and
// giving me an easy way to show an error toast if the update failed.

post.save();
}

return (
<>
...
</>
)

}

```

I don't want to think about joining up-front, and I want the ORM to give me an object-graph-like API, not a SQL-like API.

In ActiveRecord, I can fall back to SQL or build my ORM query with the join specified to avoid N+1s, but in most cases I can just act as if my whole object graph is in memory, which is the ideal DX.
I told it to "create a bunny" ... and it did. And a pretty good one too. I'm impressed. 5/7
This is the obvious result of letting people who have zero training or education in how you "do science", do science. Science is a process with many pitfalls and ways to fail by accident, even if you genuinely wanted to do it right. Why do we expect people with zero prior experience to get it right?

Product people don't want to do real science with their "data" anyway, because then they might not get the answer they want!
The advertiser's objections must be implemented with actual words since the semantic layer is not yet computable. Maybe an llm could associate "die" to "unalive" and treat them the same way for the purpose of advertiser demonetization; time will tell and as censorship tightens the circumlocutions will broaden.
I think it's the name of Vietnam's currency.
Even with the most advanced pre-genAI technology, making sounds and images is a manual craft that requires one to develop not just technical skill / tool knowledge, but the concepts to define and articulate what you actually want. Intentionality and vision. The “what you want” becomes more complex and nuanced just as much as the “what you can”, by necessity.

GenAI not only fills in the blanks for “what you want” based on a vague text prompt, with the lowest common denominator of its training data, it provides no means or motive to develop intentionality. In its current form, it’s a cognitive dead end, endlessly providing a statistically smudged shadow of the detailed knowledge and conceptual space that gave birth to the data it was trained on. A picture is worth a thousand words, and today’s cutting edge models still forgot most of them.

It could get better. But it could also stagnate in a very dystopian way if it discourages learning traditional art without becoming a real alternative that continues to produce artists and not just consumers.
Not quite. They do have the nitrogen in the air they brought down with them in their lungs. Repeated freediving can cause the bends.

https://www.tdisdi.com/pfi-diver-news/freediving-and-dcs/ has some tables for freediving surface intervals
Idk if it’s the best recommendation in the space but there are consoles like the Miyoo Mini (and many more) that are capable of running anything from Atari to PSX in the palm of your hand.
That surprises me a little. From the Wikipedia article[0] I'd expected jumbo frames to be only about 5% more efficient.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_frame
I completely agree. It’s a fairly bad take whenever people say “you can do both”, because it really doesn’t work that way. Like theoretically you could, but chances are, one will negatively affect the other part.

My sister, in her late 30s with 3 children, always emphasized how she wouldn’t be successful if she didn’t have unlimited support from her partner in terms of income and career. But that’s very rare for an average family.
Let’s not forget https://web.archive.org/web/20210308033218/https://github.co....
This is another instance of an insidious modern meme that states that people with non-mainstream skill X should be okay with it dying out because it's not mainstream. It's just a long-winded way to call something irrelevant without actually saying that.

But we know we can't call it that, so we dress it up in pseudo-intellectual bullshit, citing "pragmatism" and using misdirection: "oh, but who can actually appreciate such an obscure thing?" It's exceedingly presumptuous on the speaker's part.

The world's a big place, but it's only as big as we perceive it to be. Don't let people who need it to be smaller tell you what to think.
I don't know how true it is but when I was a kid, I remember seeing an illustration in a book that showed this technique to demonstrate how Maasai boys killed lions.

Kill the lion and you go home as a man; don't kill the lion and you're a meal.
Not quite!

Fintechs often still have humans review docs, websites, perform web due diligence etc. Efficacy has vastly improved at these validation steps with the assistance of LLMs.

Interesting to hear that your previous bank has automated all of low/medium risk already, from what we have seen more traditional banks are far behind fintechs and are more risk averse in using new technologies. Nice to see that's not the case with all traditional banks.
A fee, I suspect, that exists solely to be waived.
https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
They do use automation, OP is just straight up clueless.
Problem with Rescuing Stranded Astronauts: Spacesuits Aren't Compatible
Sean "Diddy" Combs Revealed as Part of Investors in Elon Musk's X Launch
Because you're in an exam, and you cannot really draw a straw. So you have to choose a number randomly, and pretend you chose the short straw if it's a 0. And then hope you're the only one.

The article also discussed how it'll work if you prepare beforehand and actually can draw a straw. Spoiler: you might want to cheat if you chose the short straw :)
He had a ton of proprietary code after a while so he did do some non-social stuff. But that was his main area.
You might want to take a look at the Analogue Pocket.
Not 80 years ago. Into the 1980s and 90s. I can give specific examples.

A thing to keep in mind: sweeping zoning changes don't happen that often! Once every 20 years --- not exactly, but roughly --- is about right. And over the last "80 years", they've tended to ratchet. Most major metros have never had a period of pronounced housing deregulation (like other industries did in the 1970s and 1990s), so insane decisions made in the late 1940s remain in effect today, but get retconned as if the quality of live protections they promise were part of the original deal, and not a knock-on effect of a system of residential apartheid.

There is no question that restrictive zoning (and its constructive equivalents, like setback requirements) satisfy real, valid preferences of some existing homeowners. That's not the debate. The debate is whether states and localities owe those homeowners the satisfaction of those preferences, and at what cost. The existing residents advocating for density are essentially free-riding. I don't have to blame them for doing that to see that it's not something to valorize.
Thanks for creating Firebase!

It's really the definition of an managed database/datastore.

Do you see InstantDB as a drop in replacement ?

To be honest I don't want to have to worry about my backend. I want a place to effectively drop JSON docs and retract them later.

This is more than enough for a hobbyist project, though I imagine at scale things get might not work as well.
Tell HN: Vercel flags accounts using protonmail
I attempted to sign up for Vercel today using my protonmail account, and was flagged on the sign up page with a message that I would need to email registration@vercel.com to proceed. I emailed them asking to register, and they responded a day later saying I'd need to sign up with a different email provider. I'm not sure why they would go out of their way to flag proton?
There are also seeeeeveral LOVE2D libraries with overtly sexual names. The most egregious example that comes to mind is the (now defunct compat library) "AnAL." There's also HUMP, Pölygamy, Swingers, Adult Lib (debatable but close enough), Gspöt, Möan.lua, fLUIds (also debatable, but there's a clear theme here), and yaoui.
Is there any information about the tilting in the demo video? How does that work?
It's not math at all, it's words being generated by an LLM that cannot do basic arithmetic to save it's life. You don't run an equation through 2 other AIs to validate it, you test it against relevant constraints. This is basic validation you are capable of doing yourself.

On top of that - if you're reluctant to post the results online then why would you give it to a random individual? You can post your "findings" now and absolve yourself of any doubt, or take my word for it. AI generates bunk. The chances of it being right are practically lower than Siri or Clippy.
The cost of a human operator is not even remotely close to as important a factor as you think it is.

SF recently acquired 33 new buses for $1.7 million apiece. Throw in maintenance and fuel costs and it’s easy to see that amortizing over a driver making $40/hr plus benefits is just not that big a deal, especially if you’re now adding a suite of sensors, electronics, and computing hardware.
Deranged? Seriously?

Did it not occur to you that the statement was humorous hyperbole, did you actively choose to reject the idea, or are you commenting in bad faith?
They'd still be usable by devs. We'd get VS code on the App Store and some kind of iOS-style ability to run unsigned binaries on some limited number of computers with an Apple Developer subscription.

As for why Apple doesn't care about devs, I don't know, but they are not afraid of massive, breaking changes. Remember a few years ago when they permanently deleted the entire MacOS game back catalog by removing 32-bit support?