skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you frame changing vocabulary as a shibboleth that point of view is inevitable, but that doesn’t make it accurate. This is a view of other people on the same spectrum as accusing them of “virtue signaling”, and is equally worth ignoring.
Yes, and I guarantee the first comment on that future HN article will be: "In mice" and dismiss the study.
Good news is tuna is not the only form of seafood you can eat! Perhaps you can try channeling that outrage into real tangible activism, any minute now.
> Can you forge metals in a highly controlled and directed magnetic field where you can orient the grain/alignment of atoms/fields in whatever direction you want.

This is how you make magnets. "Soft" ferromagnets have small, round grains that rotate to reinforce outside fields. "Hard" ferromagnets have permanent fields of their own and long grains that can't reorient.

Forging with a field has a very low impact on the material properties because of how weak a magnetic field is compared to the forces moving atoms- same reason steel loses its magnetic properties when it gets hot.

> what happens when you make damascus from varying plated that have particular alignments/grains

"Damascene" is the layered look most often made from acid etching sandwiched and forge-welded layers of different steels. Damascus is a single alloy for which the pattern is named.

Since in both cases the material is melted together, it's far too hot for any magnetic properties to have any impact.
Oof, thank you for the correction.
I see this pattern a lot, and I find it telling:

- someone claims that Gen AI is overhyped

- someone responds with a Gen AI-enabled service that is

1) really impressive

2) is currently offered pretty much for free

3) doesn't have that many tangible benefits.

There's many technologies for which it's very easy to answer "how does it improve life of an average person": the desktop, the internet, the iPhone. I don't think Udio is anything like these. Long-term, how profitable do you expect a Udio-like application to be? Who would pay money to use this service?

It's just hard to imagine how you can turn this technology into a valuable product. Which isn't to say it's impossible: gen-AI is definitely quite capable and people are learning how to integrate it into products that can turn a profit. But @futureshock's point was that it is the AI investment bubble that's losing hype, and I think that's inevitable: people are realizing there are many issues with a technology that is super impressive but hard to productize.
As a YTMusic user, it's not much better, (probably worse with multiple uploads of the same song by regular people) but it doesn't happen often enough to be annoying to me.
I have seen (ad hoc) implementations go quite bad many times. I encounter them quite a bit as a distributed replacement for some type of db transaction where the db is something like rds; someone thought to be smart and write 'things at scale' (they read on reddit etc) while a db transaction would've been the correct solution and they didn't need scale anyway (or underestimated the current db capabilities for mysql/postgres).
The problem is with smoking, you can go "cold turkey" and the cravings will go away after a while and you just have to avoid starting again. Not easy but achievable.
With food, you cannot stop eating so no "cold turkey" and you have to keep a watch on what and how much you eat all the time. Much easier to slip.
Not to mention the variance in food calories for similar looking foods that can easily tip you over the max goal.
It is like walking through a mine field all day every day, it never ends, you are never "out of it".
Mostly because they see themselves as invisible, have basically no security posture, and are often either operated by the owner, or by a bunch of foreign tech support goons who have unlimited access to your data.
The modular design allows for easy customization to meet specific testing needs. Whether dealing with different SerDes chips or unique data transmission requirements, the ECFG Frame Grabbers can be adapted to suit various scenarios, enhancing flexibility in testing.
Congrats sir!! What comes next? Do you view this as the end of this line of research or just the start of something new?? What consequences are there from this?? Hacker news is fantastic in that we get to rub shoulders with the greats like here and tptacek. -Armond
Look, that's a great proof and all but it has nothing to do with the situation at hand. Just because mathematics say there can be two maximal elements doesn't mean morality agrees - and this is the domain of morality, not mathematics.
You can see how dramatically the actual data changes sort performance in e.g. this (summary of the current unstable sort in Rust, ipnsort)

https://github.com/Voultapher/sort-research-rs/blob/main/wri...

Notice how random_s95 is worse (not by much, but it's there) than fully random. random_s95 is 95% sorted data, but 5% unsorted, simulating a common "sort, do stuff, append, repeat" pattern we see in a lot of software.

In contrast the sorted cases are almost instant, and random_d20 (only 20 distinct values, chosen at random, but as a result the sorted output needs much fewer comparions) is very fast.
I really liked the explanation. It’s a proof I could actually follow. Kudos to the author and to thunderbong for posting it!
Your comment is reminding me a lot of the ideas in a short book called “Program or Be Programmed” by Douglas Rushkoff. I think specifically it’s the idea about how digital technology has a “social bias” that can conflict with the interests of businesses on the internet.
Update: After a tough 24 minutes I have fixed the bug! Apparently it's an issue with old versions of Bun so I had to upgrade, but I also added a `--help` flag and usage.
Fairly certain selling people's credit card data is illegal and something Anthropic will not be doing.
RTO is actually energy positive from a heating/cooling point of view (i.e., excluding transportation). People set their home HVAC to "away" to reduce use, and the central HVAC systems found in commercial buildings are far more efficient than home systems.
This post seems to be saying that AI opened up a new avenue for people to demand free work.

If someone asked "I wrote some rough designs and interfaces, can you write me an app for free?" The author could easily detect it as a request for free work. But because the first part is hidden behind some ChatGPT generated code and the second part is disguised as a request for help, the author would be tricked into doing this free work, until they detected this pattern and write a blog post about it.
Ditto.

EDIT: figured it out. My Zed settings was broken, because it tries to create a settings file in "~/.config/zed", and my entire "~/.config" directory is symlinked somewhere else, so macOS permissions broke Zed's ability to create that config file. So I gave Zed full-disk access in the macOS "Privacy & Security" settings, Zed is now able to make a config file (which is where the model is set when you choose one), and everything is hunky dory.
If you intend to start your own business, I can guarantee you that product manager experience is 100x more important than Machine Learning familiarity. My $0.02.
Not to mention, good luck finding adequate controls in humans.
Yup, high voltage has special challenges because even super tiny leakage currents (which are normal unless extreme precautions are taken) transmit significant power and cause extreme breakdowns rather quickly in most materials.

At very high (million+ volts) we’re talking even quantum tunneling effects producing enough current to cause material breakdowns. It’s pretty nuts.

It’s a big reason why glass and ceramic are so commonly used at those voltages as insulators - they are one of the few materials stable enough and electrically insulating enough to last long term.

Splitting things up like being discussed works when it’s possible to do so without creating even more leakage current paths, which is extremely difficult to do with sizable equipment in the million+ volt range. Folks eventually were able to do so, which is why HVDC eventually became a thing, but it is far from easy or cheap. My understanding is almost all HVDC lines run at lower voltages than their equivalent AC counterparts do as well, due to these technical limitations.

HVDC currently tends to be used for longer runs, where AC inductive losses exceed the equivalent capital costs challenges HVDC has. AC has significant inductive loss issues when run under ground or undersea.

At low voltages, those same leakage currents can’t transmit enough power to damage things or even cause measurable power losses, so don’t matter.

These effects starts being noticable in the > 1kv range, significant in the > 10kv range, quite problematic in the > 100kv range, and very difficult (maybe impossible using known material science in some scenarios) to deal with in the >= 1MV range.

Semiconductors have the added challenge that they often have noticeable leakage currents even in the low voltage ranges (even with specialized designs) and it makes it even harder.

[https://www.nationalgrid.com/sites/default/files/documents/1...]

Additionally, Arc faults in DC transmission infrastructure are extremely difficult to control, as unlike AC there is no zero-voltage crossing point (as there is no waveform, in general). So unlike AC, arcs are not likely to self extinguish, and require complete interruption of current flow. Which is actually a really hard problem to solve for several reasons at the power levels involved here.
You're not charging enough, you need to weed out the poor losers. Sad (and maybe rude) but true. The more you charge, your customer base will shrink, but the quality of customers will increase exponentially.
You cannot be serious?

Do you think the problem will go away over time? Are you OK with having fewer things that you can eat without poisoning yourself? Do you realize we only have so many reservoirs from which calories can come from?

Take care where your rice is grown.
Not that this was your point, but you can't absorb carfentanyl through your skin.
SVT-AV1 can achieve better quality for the same encode time as x265 at every point of the encoding curve. Alternatively SVT-AV1 can achieve the same quality for better encoding time:

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/02/21/video-engineering/av1-...
I noticed on their github they don't have projects or discussions. Their pull requests have several instances along the lines of ugly but works for bug fixes, you seem familiar with the project, are they resistant to modern python standards(and CI/CD) or is it just house style and not knowing better?
I'd love this service but how are you going to handle bots?
I wanted this for my personal website which will maybe receive an email once per month in the best case scenario, but with lambdas there is always the risk of having a malicious actor coming in and pushing your bill to astronomical levels
Scientists have evidence to explain why billions of crabs vanished around Alaska
>They are however the one point of authenticated and payment-based contact between all Internet users and the greater cloud.

Yeah but we need to diminish their contact with authentication and payments. They have little to no understanding of security.

Like you might be thinking "Oh just have comcast do this" and they could probably cobble something together with only a massive data breach once in every 5 years.

But think about all the guys in the sticks dealing with Joe Blogs Wisporium or Texas Petes flying internoobs. These solo operators often cant work out telephony or iptv. Having them middleman payments for an extra tax or service is a huge extra risk. I am not even super comfortable with them holding PII or Credity cards as it stands.
I’m aware of a lot of this dynamic and have written extensively about it elsewhere - in this case though, especially looking back, it was ridiculous. I was extremely stressed about finals and didnt know what to do. Was borderline homeless and struggling to support myself. I had never seen a counselor or therapist before and was mildly depressed. she asked me a few leading questions like “how would you feel if you failed your finals and dropped out?” and I said something along the lines of “I guess I’d feel suicidal.” then, “do you feel suicidal now?” and I said I wasn’t sure. Then she goes, “so you cant tell me if you go home right now, you cant guarantee me you won’t kill yourself?”

now at this point I had zero ideation even, no plan, no intentions of killing myself, but being a pedantic dork studying philosophy I said I wasn’t sure about that, because I really wasn’t sure what to say. 10 minutes later a cop shows up, puts me in handcuffs, parades me off campus in them and people I knew saw it. I had absolutely no clue what was going on and had to sign papers I didn’t want to sign and when I protested the answer was basically “you can come voluntarily or with force, your choice.”

It ended up doing far more harm than good for me. I know physicians personally that will often throw people into 72 hour holds in the ER “just to be safe,” either not understanding or caring the long term consequences of being put in an involuntary hold. These same physicians have told me she did the “right” thing but anyone with common sense and experience could figure out very quickly I was not a danger to anyone. I was just trying to find some help because I was overwhelmed.
Are Interstellar Quantum Communications Possible?
"No user-serviceable parts inside", and nobody qualified to work on it within a 1000 mile radius.
Same here -- I tried the x86 build as well with the same result.
I'm sure this has already been invented, but I don't know the proper terminology:

Two or more motors with different characteristics that are somehow geared together, so that the X% errors in speed/position of a more-powerful motor get fixed by simultaneous activation of a finer motor (possibly in "reverse") and so on down the chain.

I suppose it hits diminishing returns whenever the main source of error comes from all the connections or gears.
Post history has importance when considering whether someone’s ignorantly sharing partisan propaganda or not. Don’t feed trolls.
Self-Hosting DNS
My journey of DNS, including self-hosting with Pi-hole and AdGuard Home, using paid services like NextDNS and AdGuard DNS, and public privacy-respecting resolvers.
Because there is no apparent acute symptom of microplastic contamination inside our bodies that have been identified yet. If microplastics have even a fraction of the harm of actual carcinogens like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (which can lodge in DNA strands), we'd be witnessing mass illness events already.
> I'm especially interested in hearing from founders, researchers, journalists, and other people who frequently need to gather specific information.

I wonder if those types of people would even be willing to trust any responses?
Yeah, no. Credit agencies weren’t hapless victims of market forces.

> Another email between colleagues at Standard & Poor's written before the bubble burst, suggests awareness of what would happen to the securities they were giving top ratings to: "Rating agencies continue to create and [sic] even bigger monster--the CDO market. Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters."

They were willing participants precisely because they were making huge fees to look the other way.

> One study of "6,500 structured debt ratings" produced by Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch, found ratings by agencies "biased in favour of issuer clients that provide the agencies with more rating business. This result points to a powerful conflict of interest, which goes beyond the occasional disagreement among employees."

These kinds of things are deals negotiated at the highest level of the companies involved. Credit agencies were paid to give the crime the banks were doing a veneer of respectability.
This is the only comment that matters in this thread.

The US currently can only put 50 something hulls in the water, so even if they ALL somehow converge on TW, that's not enough to keep that factory busy for more than a week.

Also to contrast, equivalent Tomahawk production is down to 55 last YEAR, despite current urgency. Plus the Ike CSG just used up about 150 in that yemen excursion.

The real tragedy is all the STEM in the US can't seem to muster up the competency or fortitude to compare these basic numbers in any public facing material.
I always liked the idea for your service but the pricing didn't work (to be clear: it's not your fault, I'm not sure it is solvable).
I wanted to use it for my personal website which will receive maybe 10 emails through the year (if I'm lucky), but at $5/month I can just spin up my own VPS, which can do way more than sending me emails.
Even most unsupported titles work. You can enable the setting to allow running unsupported games with proton as well. If a game doesnt work, you can refund it with "it doesnt run on Linux" as a reason. Of all the games Ive tried, only had to do that for three.
Yes. My understanding is that Spotify is reliant on a system used for radio broadcasts. Paying pennies to broadcast songs was already the structure. Artists make their money from merch and live gigs as it always has been. But now they can also target me for advertising based on the bands I listen to, to sell me merch and live gigs.

Back to newspapers. Traditionally if a news paper article takes my fancy I pay a small fee to access that paper and not establish a long term subscription for just that paper. A spotify type service could easily hand out credits in the same way.
Dual-booters are a hardy folk. They'll persevere. I had the distinct pleasure recently of creating a Windows install USB without using Windows to create it. Damn near impossible.
Ask HN: Did Google search change (for the worse) today?
Normally when I search for something like:

`site:reddit.com some term`

that's limited to reddit.com. but it has pages from many other sites now

also, `-term` didn't seem to remove terms anymore

bug? on purpose?
But you're building on the context of knowing a different language.

Picking up the second, fifth, or nth language is easy, as long as it isn't the first one.
> Of course then there is also that one guy who fidgets around on stage for 10 solid minutes, before we are treated to a tiling window manager with eleventynine terminal windows and a hundred nervously fat-fingered xrandr command lines. Everyone in the audience chuckles and shakes their head "Linux people, typical...", and the guy on stage, already sweating blood begins the presentation.

Lol exactly. These people cause everyone else to think that's what Linux is like in 2024...just because you can doesn't mean you should, especially with the OP. Why use some arcane commands instead of the easily, single glance solution? We're not talking about advanced power user cases, just a simple day to day check...
I'm guessing you've never actually been at sea in the region during the tropical monsoon | the annual cyclone season.
Why do you accuse me of being against addressing these issues? I am merely pointing out these are not existential crises because there is currently no evidence supporting such claims. It may change in the future, but until then I'm not jumping on this ship.

Ultraprocessed foods are already poison and most of us, probably including you, are consuming them regularly. Are you OK with that? And what is this talk about caloric reservoirs? Humans 8000 years ago had far fewer options and they still survived long enough to pass cultural lineages down to us. Most of your "caloric reservoirs" did not exist before the 20th century because the science and industry that created them did not exist.
Cool. I could also build a rocket and go to the moon but thats not really the topic here.
If you are building an API and have decent docs, it's a totally ok trade off to say "i'll lose some customers this way, but I'm not providing support". And just be upfront about it. Some stores have a no return policy with no exceptions. They lose some customers, it's ok.
I will never trade liberty for the easy fix. That side road you are so willing to take could very well be what ends the democracy that you’ve lost faith in. What comes after is something much more sinister.
Nonsense. Creating a throwaway account takes a couple of minutes.

What a strangely deranged view of the world some people have.
This misses the main point of the euphemism treadmill - to teach every new generation how horrible the previous generation is for daring to use words that were standard when they grew up, and surely everything will magically become better once they all die off.
Nice play on the Million Dollar Homepage. It looks like that guy made some serious coin with the idea. Yours is a lot more humble, so it might take a little longer than they did.

You could make a code snippet to populate a digital picture frame by polling once in a while and updating the picture if the site has a new one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
Intel failed to predict the timeline branch in which i686 arch had cmov so they had to roll back and replay it.
What's the chance this was an independent event?
The massive decline in employment of disabled workers is the most concerning thing I saw.
Why just one dollar? I sense a missed opportunity...

1.dollarhomepage.com

10...
The big problem is that Python is used in a lot of different contexts and has too many valid ways in which people are able to build, compile, release non-Pythonic extensions in their package. Original way for packaging code was effectively an executable script which made some things easy, but other things much harder. Modern efforts are trying to limit the flexibility of the package definitions without breaking all of this legacy code. I unfairly think of Ruby as only for Ruby on Rails, so only ever dealing with the web domain.

Here is a story about the nightmare it takes to compile the Fortran code that supports much of SciPy (backbone numerical computing library with algorithms for wide swaths of disciplines)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38196412
Anything which could transmit meaningful power to the ground is going to have no issue destroying anything approaching it from below.

And why wouldn’t one of those powers be the ones installing such an installation in the first place?
Seems like thats how the market is currently structured. Most of those paywalled sites are already dishing out endless streams of emotive bs.

What I want, is the ability to not pay a subscription that includes the emotive bs, but to read only the content I want.
This is an interesting topic, but I don't think the article effectively conveys its message.

The title focuses on good and bad refactoring, but most of the content discusses good and bad design. This means that many of the bad examples are inherently bad, regardless of whether they were refactored from another version or written from scratch.
The introductory comic and the conclusion mention how to perform refactoring, but the rest of the article drifts away from this and only discusses the resulting code.
The first pitfall mentions changing the coding style, but the explanation actually addresses the problem of introducing external dependencies.
The fifth point, "understand business context," should actually be "not understanding business context."
If we perform refactoring incrementally, it's inevitable that there will be some inconsistencies during the process. Therefore, the third pitfall, "adding inconsistency," should include additional explanations.

In summary, I think the article would be more helpful if it focused more on how to perform refactoring rather than criticizing a specific piece of code.
What Happens When a CEO Destroys Evidence in an Antitrust Trial?
It's plenty real, and it matters for more than just strength. Cold rolled grain oriented electrical steel has better magnetic properties than non-oriented steel and is used in some applications where the field is in a straight line.