skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once Bjarne Stroustrup's "Generalizing Overloading for C++2000" proposal is accepted, they won't be able to say no to moving beyond the PDP-11 instruction set and directly supporting tri-dereferences.

https://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf

>Instead, it was decided to by default limit identifiers to a single character:

int xy; // error: two-character identifier

>This may seems Draconian at first. However, since we now have the full Unicode character set available, we don't actually need hard-to-read long names. Such long names only make code obscure by causing unpleasantly long lines and unnatural line breaks. Multi-character names are a relic of languages that relied heavily on global name and encouraged overly-large scopes.
I haven't tested the app but the main service is pretty near natural language.
If 11labs app get to the main service quality and start accepting ePubs, it will be the death of Audible.
Reddit Battles Meta and Google Using Ads Based on Topics – Not Your Data
I think they are making the right choices to be fair. Life isnt long as a JS framework
Human medical errors have been one of the leading causes of death[0] since we started tracking it (at least decades).

The healthcare system has always killed plenty of people because humans are notoriously unreliable, fallible, etc.

It is such a stubborn, critical, and well-known issue in healthcare I welcome AI to be deployed slowly and responsibly to see what happens because the situation hasn’t been significantly improved with everything else we’ve thrown at it.

[0] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK225187/
Promising lung cancer vaccine trial begins in UK
I built a =few things in the past that would apply - but now with sensor availability - its far easier than when we built the Barimba Smart Rail for Bars in ~2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pTy1TB-2z8

And we did spatial RFID for warehouse (cannabis) tracking with Z-Slot level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXkNY0vTATA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7qvfm6vhF0

But the thing I was focusing on WRT Instant would be the ability to "Clone an AppIS" -- where when you fork an AppID, it dupes the tables into your personal account...

I havent fleshed out the thoughts on this too much because I am not sure if you can easily do that with Instant, as its a hosted thing....

(YC Rejected these) :-)
The article is about giving people the option to remove the built in phone app if they want to. The comment you replied to is saying that it would be useful for them, because they only get spam calls.

There is no need to bring responsibilities (or loved ones, or deliveries, or adults, or age) into this. Just accept it that some people will find it useful, and it will have zero effect on you.
NVIDIA? With the melting power connectors on their high-end cards?
Isn't that the point of semantic versions though? You can lock it if you need to.
It's one thing to get involved in a scam and another to steal people's money for your own ends. This guy stole from his family, church, and community. He's scum.
[dupe]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314674
Paris <-> Brussels/Amsterdam/Cologne used to be branded as Thalys and Eurostar used to refer only to the London <-> Paris/Brussels/Amsterdam services.

A few years back Thalys merged with Eurostar and then last year they started rebranding the former Thalys services as Eurostar, too, which probably explains the confusion.

Only the former Eurostar services (nowadays "Eurostar Blue") have the security theatre on account of the Channel Tunnel plus UK being non-Schengen, whereas the former Thalys services ("Eurostar Red") are regular train services just like in the rest of Europe (except for Spain, which does some security theatre for its high speed trains, too, although AFAIK a bit less intense than Eurostar, which in turn is less intense than flying).
Yes, our models are never complete. As someone here already wrote: "all models are wrong, some are useful".

What makes me optimistic here is that since the enlightenment we have a good track record with arriving at better and better models. In the language of David Deutsch: We are arriving at better and better explanations, where the quality of an explanation is determined by rigidity ("how hard it is to vary") and reach ("in how many situations does it apply"). His books "The Fabric of Reality" is a great book by the way, he describes how the theories of evolution, quantum physics, epistemology and the theory of computation are connected with each other. The bit about good explanations is from "The Beginning of Infinity", also a very good read.
Most are capable of losing it, very few are capable of maintaining their achievement for many years.

Rephrasing the famous quote, it's easy to lose weight — I've done it four times already, ranging from 95 kg to 60 kg over the course of the last 15 years. It's much more difficult to maintain healthy weight over the long term — the longest period I managed that was only three years. Even if you have all the information and know which problems obesity leads to, it's difficult to keep yourself from getting back into unhealthy territory unless you're willing to spend your entire life counting calories and tracking weight religiously.

It's something with the brain, it's insatiable and won't leave you alone until you stuff yourself to the point that you physically can't eat any longer. The last time I gained weight (from 68 kg to around 88 kg) I did it eating only healthy food in unhealthy amounts.

If I can get magic fix (like semaglutide) that would allow me not to think about food any longer and maintain healthy weight over the rest of my life, that would be great.
The comparison between historical hazards like toxic dyes and modern environmental issues is a gooood one! The evolution of our understanding of risk and safety.
I think you need to take a step back into the business realm first and ask this: what bullshit jobs go away with AI solutions? Those areas of software development supporting them are likely the first groups of developers that will become redundant.

I think there will be an inflection point with things like insurance claim processing, non-sales call centers, help desk/IT (any non-physical elements), time tracking, payroll and HR. Those areas of business are the ones that are cost centers, aka SG&A (sales, general and admin costs) in the corporation's P&L statements. Look at software jobs that support these areas of businesses.

If all the mundane tasks in those areas are mostly handled by AI with consistent, repeatable outputs then its cheaper and changing systems will be faster. The largest cost of changing systems in those areas is re-training staff on a new system. I think this means rapid consolidation of solutions in those areas (i.e. VC/BigTech money scooping up companies).
I see three cannabis leaves.
It’s possible someone deployed ai to follow your digital shadow around but this is purely hypothetical. Do you have similar experiences on other platforms? I am only chiming in because at one point of my experience here I felt the same as you do. Only later realizing my “tone” was the culprit.
"the sole fiduciary duty is to deliver profits" is a reductive meme at this point. The problem is putting short-term over long-term, and that's a choice Boeing executives made. Of course the system incentivizes this, especially if you get away with it. But they didn't.
If you stopped people from doing this the easy/obvious way, they'd attempt it in a worse and more hacky way.
> Well, at least the petrochemical people flooding the world with microplastics also have it in their bodies.

Hate to smudge your consolation, but the tech is probably there for them to filter their blood now, or it will be soon. [0]

Course, it will be far too expensive for poor people.

Still! At least the microplastics in their brains will be harder to clean! [1]

... Seriously, these people need stopping. They're never going to stop on their own.

0 - https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8929/3/3/28

1 - https://www.smh.com.au/national/human-brain-tissue-made-up-o...
Do you feel like you shouldn't use it because of the author's politics? It's not like he gains anything from you using it. Even if he gained money from it I don't think there's any reason to believe he'd use that money to further those political opinions.
Show HN: OBS-into-discord. Send OBS into Discord with re-encoding.
FWIW, one of the only English-language sources I can find on Google claims around 8700 are in use: https://www.spotzi.com/en/data-catalog/categories/postal-cod...

Don’t know where this discrepancy is coming from, but ~8k to ~30k is quite a jump.
It was about time. We definitely wasted a bunch of time making a server side arch for pretzelai.app because claude (unlike openai) didn't have dangerouslyAllowBrowser option. No idea why this took them so long
I don’t think it’s cheap because VC money is subsidizing losses on every token. It’s getting cheaper because models and infrastructure are becoming more efficient.

And I really don’t think any of the AI API providers can “capture the whole market”. There are at least 3 of ballpark equal capability, so I don’t see how dramatically raising prices is compatible with dominant market share.
Part of good engineering is having a solid understanding of your business domain and being able to spot things that just don't smell right.

An experienced professional software engineer on an industry standard salary, having been provided with nonsensical or missing requirements, should know when to impute and when to raise an exception. I'm not at all confident that a $9/hr engineer will do that.
Or the PostScript equivalent:

/poop { pop pop } def % number two
/pooop { poop pop } def % number three
/poooop { poop poop } def % number four

Inspired by graaand tradition of Lisp: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_car_c.htm
> how do we still not have a stable extensions API?

Mostly because they allow you to do anything possible to the shell via extensions that is exposed. If they'd limit the APIs to a stable subset it would be much more limited in what you could do with it.
I do not understand how you can pack 1536d into 192 bytes ???
That some entirely impossible?

> Vector search, on the other hand, requires reading a lot of small vectors, which might create a large overhead. It is especially noticeable if we use binary quantization, where the size of even large OpenAI 1536d vectors is compressed down to 192 bytes.
Dataset size: 2M 768d vectors (~6Gb Raw data), binary quantization, 650Mb of RAM limit. All benchmarks are made with minimal RAM allocation to demonstrate disk cache efficiency.
Show HN: Field* – Explore a map of 1.8M songs based on audio similarity
This project builds upon cosine.club - an amazing music similarity search engine posted the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072062) which works by comparing audio embeddings between songs with this new model from essentia/upf https://essentia.upf.edu/models.html#discogs-effnet.

I wondered what these embeddings would look like when visualised (using UMAP). Would genre "clusters" pop up? Would similar genres appear next to each other in the embedding space? It turns out they do!

I've ended up using this a lot for discovering new music - there's something really useful about having discovery unbiased by song popularity - hope you enjoy!

Also if you're interested in how ai is impacting music beyond uninspired "song generators" we're working on a series of open-source ai/music experiments at https://vroomai.com/
It's a fair and valid comparison, and we're tracking this and other comparisons here: https://kardinal.dev/docs/references/comparisons

Regarding how Kardinal compares with vcluster, both aim to provide multitenancy within a single Kubernetes cluster, but they approach it differently.

vcluster is designed to offer a full Kubernetes experience to each tenant, including their own API server, control plane, and other Kubernetes-level components. This makes vcluster an excellent choice if you need strong isolation or want to test Kubernetes-specific features like custom CRDs or operators.

Kardinal, on the other hand, focuses on application-level multitenancy rather than providing the full Kubernetes stack to each tenant. This makes Kardinal lighter-weight and more efficient if you're primarily concerned with deploying and testing application-level changes.
Which books last and which don't
>All one will be able to say is that somewhere out there in the computational universe there’s some (typically computationally irreducible) process that “happens” to be aligned with what we want.

>There’s no overarching theory to it in itself; it’s just a reflection of the resources that were out there. Or, in the case of machine learning, one can expect that what one sees will be to a large extent a reflection of the raw characteristics of computational irreducibility

Strikes me as a very reductive and defeatist take that flies in the face of the grand agenda Wolfram sets forth.

It would have been much more productive to chisel away at it to figure out something rather than expecting the Theory to be unveiled in full at once.

For instance, what I learn from the kinds of playing around that Wolfram does in the article is: neural nets are but one way to achieve learning & intellectual performance, and even within that there are a myriad different ways to do it, but most importantly: there is a breadth vs depth trade-off, in that neural nets being very broad/versatile are not quite the best at going deep/specialised; you need a different solution for that (e.g. even good old instruction set architecture might be the right thing in many cases). This is essentially why ChatGPT ended up needing Python tooling to reliably calculate 2+2.
I like painting, and have always liked emerald green: https://www.winsornewton.com/na/articles/colours/spotlight-o...
I interpret that comment as you're not going to be using every silicon block that the GPU provides, like video codecs and rasterizing. If you've maxed out compute without going over the power budget, for example, you'd likely still be able to decode video if the GPU has a separate block for it.
Setting aside the logo itself, where I'm not sure how I feel about it yet or whether there's a need for it, you're losing me with this point about Unicode.

The rationale for having symbols I feel is so self-evident it shouldn't need any explanation. You know the save icon, you know the power button, you know the Twitter, well, X logo. You probably know the 'share' icon. I don't know if anyone's going to buy that it's bad to have a simple universal icon closely associated with a specific thing that we want widely known. And Unicode has an advantage over images of being, in a sense, more universal and more accessible.
You don't even need to write out fediverse, "fedi" is broadly recognized as an abbreviation.
I'm guessing the being awake and fresh at 3am within a few seconds of the incident occuring part.
Only acceptable if you can also spell it "cdddar".
Sorry to poop your party, but the heck is Wayland? Is it supposed to be a "product" as in a product to be packaged and sold for serious use?

From what I see the Wayland project began in 2007/2008. It is 16 years old now and still doesn't seem to be a capable replacement for X11, as in whatever it is X11 does that some people still prefer to use it.

Is this really normal? Is there some wishful thinking and hoping against hope and reason Wayland can and will ever be ready to do what a lot of computer users want, ie being a good substitute for X11?

I'm sorry but I'm so disappointed with this mindset in Linux users. Even with the backing of Intel and later Redhat, ie IBM or whoever it still seems to be hovering between a beta and gamma state.

Wouldn't it simply have been better to steadily hack, improve and involve X11 for the last 16 years?

Frankly I think the major companies which claim to have been backing or supporting it for the last 16 years have simply been playing Linux users, just winding them up.

Please don't tell me that if over the last 16 years some effort had been made to evolve X11 more progress couldn't have been made.

Even Emacs has made some progress over the last 16 years.
Why would that be worse when you have screenshots of everything they saw, typed, uploaded and broadcast? Passwords give you an account - this gives you everything done with the account. And all documents that were viewed, plus where they came from. This is way beyond passwords.
That sounds fine to me. But legal gambling preys on vulnerable people, too. Gambling is highly addictive.
As a journalist myself, I’m going to defend the article writers here. I’ve had heated discussions with editors about not changing my titles or words, and how I’d rather they didn’t run it and simply not pay me (I’m freelance)

And then it prints with my name and a ton of changes I never saw. Words I have never used, implications added. Its frustrating but I don’t think there is much I can do
Also traditional mining has environmental impact
> I wonder how much the UK paid for the LNER lines, e.g. from King's Cross up to Waverley Station in Edinburgh.

It's hard to come up with a definite single figure, because you'd have to go all the way back to the original railways in the 19th century and trace your way through all the upgrades that happened bit by bit since then, plus figure out how to handle inflation/purchasing power etc. across such a long time span.
You mean in percent? Decrease? Increase?
Please add a "(2020)" to the title, only noticed after reading this and looking for details about the actual vuln to check if I had something to update...
On whole failure of the goal. Change a plane in big way, but try to get it act like it did not change. To avoid explaining and training pilots. So instead of training pilots to expect plane to act certain way in certain scenarios, it was instead fixed in software and hardware. But well that combination was done poorly and it should have still been explained.
Well, we don't know if they did. We do know that Boeing employees (including one of the whistleblowers) have attempted to raise such issues internally for a long time, but mostly went ignored, moved to a department where they can't complain, or fired.

So purely on the power differential, a $9 engineer wouldn't make a stink. Says nothing about their work ethic or ability to see disaster (at least upon integrating code, probably not literal disaster) coming.

And also, how would they have known they're just using one AOA input, and a component above them isn't already delivering a value that's known good - these are not the kind of engineers that'd know that.
Console Hacking 2016 (33c3) [video]
> “With safari, edge, and chrome, you can use a janky extension to redirect it - at least on desktop.”

In iOS Safari too… it’s janky indeed. Everyone and their grandmother won’t use it…

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/kagi-for-safari/id1622835804?l...

There’s also the “xSearch” app, for other / custom search engines: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/xsearch-for-safari/id157990206...
The Orion Browser [1] has rudimentary WebExtension support on iOS despite being a Safari wrapper. Apple's policy also doesn't prevent browsers from bundling adblockers in, which both Brave and Edge do.

[1] - https://kagi.com/orion/
If this finding is confirmed and if such diamonds could be accessed
Fine. I won't eat the books then if they're poisonous.
We also fail horrifically at recognising exponential growth, or understanding its implications.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Bank_of_China_r...

Another example from China where two vault managers stole money to buy lottery tickets.
Because law enforcement in the US is corrupt and incompetent. They prosecute those who undermine them, instead of scammers who undermine American citizens. It's crazy the number of cases I see towards those who convert Bitcoin for US dollars due to circumventing MSB laws that allegedly enables money launderers but have no proof, while there are those who are provably stealing money who never get caught or even investigated.

Just try and find a case of fraud that was reported and successfully resolved by the FTC for an average American. I know people who have collectively lost over $1m who have never, and probably will never, see any resolution to their case. Some scams even have public founders and work using traditional financial rails.
Yes I couldn’t agree more. I wish there was more support for this; like for example a system where users can be sure that the key cannot be stolen by the app.
more racism and hate basically.
Exactly right, and what I would add is that this is a Poe's Law thing.

I might even offer a corollary to that law, which is that the more unclear a statement is, the more inscrutable a it's intent, the more likely the original author will insist that it was 'obvious' sarcasm.
The turtle will catch Zeno any day now. Those savings in decades are not in the same order than all the fossil carbon that was extracted each single year on them. In fact, neither is with how much we increased the extraction, for most of the single years of that period.

And I am talking about fossil carbon, something deeply buried for millions of years, and added to the cycle, not circulating differently the carbon that already was in it. Most of that new carbon was extracted in less than a century and burned, staying for a couple of centuries more.

And speaking of recycling carbon, it is not even in the order of carbon emitted by positive feedback loops, what is emitted by permafrost thawing, what was emitted just last year in Canada fires is all orders over the effort of decades.

There is a big elephant in the room. While it is there, all effort will be mostly meaningless.
The previous icon (the pentagram) was better because the things were actually connected. The new one has 3 disconnected stars.
A product of market control
find the tester page here - https://rachelbythebay.com/fs/
You will need to use the contact form to get a key that will enable you to use the service then you can plug your key into the url provided to see your test results page. Ez-pz.
Elon Musk: "For maximum confusion, I'm renaming Twitter to X."

Fediverse: "Hold my beer."

Every time I try to suggest someone use the Fediverse, I have to say about 2 sentences just to name the thing I'm talking about, which they're more likely to know as "Mastodon". I don't see how pulling a "the artist formerly known as Prince" will help this branding problem, rather than hurt further.

Advocating this logo-in-text for branding is as confusing to me as the people who keep self-destructively saying "free software", to mean a very important and huge distinction from what every reasonable person assumes that "free software" means.

It seems less like evangelism, and more like exclusionary -- a small in-group shibboleth, or secret handshake.
They wrote "holding your breath _longer_", which I think just means slightly longer breaths so that you float up, complementing the floating device.
I'm not at all confident that a $9/hr engineer can do that.

You don't hire somebody for a price like that because you intend to listen to their feedback and treat them like a valued member of the team. You hire somebody for a price like that because your LLM hasn't quite reached the level you want yet...or frankly costs more to run.