skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quality and Quantity of journalists has fallen off a cliff over the past 30 years. In 1990's there were 500,000 journalists, now we have around 100,000. Investigative journalism, where you get a crew of people and fly them across the world, and conduct first-hand research, is basically gone.

It is surprising to me that this is not common knowledge and we have people disputing a basic fact.

Many sources, just an example: https://patch.com/ohio/miamiuniversity-oxford/journalism-maj...
There is a ton of content in multiple platforms powered by Open edX. Huge initiatives and universities around the world are using it.
I did the same. Glad it wasn't just me.
VAT is Value Added Tax.

What is value-add? Selling something for more than it cost you to make it, "adding value" as measured by revenues minus costs.

What are other words for that? profit, income

What are taxes on that? income taxes.

from the point of view of the govt, the VAT is just an ordinary income tax.

but instead of being paid by the businesses, it's paid by the consumers, discouraging them from buying high margin items, encouraging them to buy low margin items.
Yeah, after a while I also learned that 9x6 = 10x6 - 6 = 54.

And then I just remembered that 7x8 is "that other difficult number", because by that time I already remembered that 54 and 56 are the two most difficult numbers in the multiplication table. :)

Btw, same here, 9x6 and 7x8 feels much more natural than the other way round.
Which even works without an Internet access !
No you don't need more than that because electricity grids do not consist entirely of a single form of generation. Have you considered learning something about this topic before commenting?
I will never, ever forgive or forget the absolute amount of censorship and tolerance for punishing “wrongthink” during the lockdown years. Ever. It completely shattered my faith in the government and “Science”.

God forbid anybody show any intellectual curiosity if it went against the doomer dogma.

And the worst part is the people with the “wrong think” were right. Covid didn’t have a “4% kill rate”. It almost certainly came from a lab. The vaccine was not always safe and definitely wasn’t effective. Lockdowns didn’t work and neither did masks. Closing school for two years and keeping kids locked inside on iPads will fuck them up for the rest of their lives.

And saying any of that resulted in being banned, accused of “dangerous thought”, and being yelled at by society.
Probably the platform vs actor thing. Like hate speech on a platform that has some rudimentary reporting vs the person who actually wrote it. Most of the blame falls on the actor instead of the platform.
it doesn’t know. it also doesn’t actually “think things through” when presented with “math questions” or even know what math is.
It’s 13 better.
I'm going to have to remember that one.
Not for trouble on the civilian side of Boeing. How are things going on the miilitary side?
I'm not arguing the warning isn't useful, I'm saying if it's not accurate. It will get ignored.

You know there is a very high chance this megaquake will happen in the next 30 years, why don't you have water stockpiled all the time?

Because it's not an accurate enough prediction.
It was the first one I searched for. What a silly tool: Parity as a Service.
> sub-contacting is heavily related to political risk mitigation, as it’s a method of spreading project money across many political districts

Good point, I'm unclear whether Bechtel was awarded the contract by NASA/Congress after selecting its subcontractors or before. (And if having a roster of subcontractors was an implicit ask from NASA or a decision made by Bechtel to future-proof their contract.)

We see something similar with Boeing, and while that was also partly politically motivated, there was also the financial desire to be asset light. The OIG's story about "one subcontractor, [to] which Bechtel allocated approximately 46 percent of the fabrication work to" selling off "all of its shop space to a non-NASA customer because Bechtel's steel fabrication plan lacked a signed contract with the subcontractor" forcing Bechtel "to find another subcontractor with available shop space" sounds like incompetence, not savvy politics [1].

[1] https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ig-24-016.pd... page 19
while it’s true that spacex is a private company, it’s widely known that they are highly profitable. they have many institutional investors, and a long line of people that would love to be on their cap table.
Yeah, the took an age delivering it, then it came out and most of the early reports were “It’s still not ready.” and then I think Microsoft just gave up.

I think not supporting Linux was a tactical error, though. Some people will put up with a lot for Linux GUI support, and some of those people are the types who can resolve problems with your half-baked GUzi framework.
Ask HN: Share your experience with storing lots of binary data in the database
people use weird and rare bacteria bottles sold on amazon as tatoo ink
FE “theory” often contains biblical references such as “the firmament” which if you try to ask what that is you won’t really get a clear explanation. I can’t stress enough that zero of it is remotely coherent.
The Canadian brain drain, it fundamentally affects the Canadian culture and economy by the constant loss of talent and aptitude. The gravitational pull of the U.S. is too powerful. Even I studied at two elite US schools, which put me on a path to H-1B like my peers in grad school一 but I didn't pursue that for personal reasons.
https://archive.ph/Utu1d
E.O. Wilson's published work was read by Will Wright, creator of SimCity / The Sims / SimAnt, and the material is what inspired him to create SimAnt :)

Will has also stated that the pheromone system designed for SimAnt was repurposed to be used in The Sims! Very interesting stuff if you ask me :)
I sent a email yesterday to you guys to find a way I can help to build this pretty pretty cool idea.
I think the only case I can think of where AI will revolutionize positively is self driving cars. Revolutionizing transport will have huge implication. The next thing would be robots, but that's just making people lazy in the household and replacing jobs. Crypto, voice assistants, IoT, smart homes, are bad examples are these have a great chance to grow more still. They will probably replace smartphones as smartphones did with PCs.
Get a different brand of fountain pen recharges ?

Use a pencil instead ??
Added above.
Not until post-scarcity (if it's even achievable).

Until then, Gresham's Law is at work, and cheaper products and services that are of barely acceptable quality along their happy paths are going to dominate markets.
A tech report that should have been a blog post is a great way to juice your citations. I know because I have done it twice.

Development performance does matter in situations where, for example, you're running an elaborate test suite on your laptop. In that case they should also test OrbStack though.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

5000x faster CRDTs: An adventure in optimization (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33903563 - Dec 2022 (22 comments)

Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28017204 - July 2021 (151 comments)
Not him, but why? Cheaters in multiplayer games seek a gain for themselves at the expense of everyone else playing. They provide no benefit to a community and it's not something anyone should be even remotely proud of, even if they put a significant amount of intellectual effort into doing so.

A few years ago, I used to play EFT with friends after work and putting my kids to bed quite frequently. For a group of friends living quite far apart it was one of our favorite gaming experiences as a group. But our feeling on it soured as the game was slowly but surely taken over by large amounts of cheaters in every single match we played. The developers weren't able to deal with it at all and eventually we all quit playing. There's nothing that takes the wind of your sails in gaming like sitting down to unwind for the hour or two a week of free time with your friends and just being completely unable to enjoy that time because a significant portion of the lobby is made up of selfish cheaters. I can remain friends with someone who cheats in a multiplayer game but I never play with them after finding out they did so. I don't hesitate to report accounts. There's no benefit to you as a player keeping them around unless you're somehow making money off cheat sales.
Have a family member being treated for Helicobacter pylori right now! He was very worried it was cancer as the symptoms seemed to align. Interestingly he is allergic to penicillin which is complicating the treatment.
How does it compare to uipath when it comes to orchestration? In my experience, a lot of the low code tools don’t make it easy to monitor automation health, validate outputs, and set retry policies… that’s an area where I’d kill to see a tool that improves on the incumbents.
Are curses part of the enchantments ? I think I noticed those
Space Elevator Academic Challenge 2025
The first challenge, for High School students, is to develop and design an “intermediate space settlement” on the Space Elevator’s Apex Anchor to house over 10,000 individuals. This will act as a “waystation” for missions to the Cosmos. You will need to consider what the design, missions, structure, organization, architecture, life support, etc., at such a waystation would be like. How big would it need to be? What would be the optimal size? How will it take advantage of the massive lift capabilities of the Space Elevator providing a Green Road to Space?
weird, I've lived in the US most of my life and I think pretty much everyone washes their hands?
For my kids, I have a virtual light switch in HomeKit called "Shower Is Safe". It's pinned to the top of the Home app.

I use the Home Assistant integration to fetch this data and run some calculations on the past few minutes of lightning activity. Since the API returns lightning strike time and bearing from a given location, I can (in combination with wind direction) determine if the lightning is approaching or receding.

If it's approaching and less than 30 minutes away (or if any strike is within 20 miles in any direction), it turns off the light switch. It then waits until it's been receding for at least 15 minutes (and with no more detections within 20 miles) before switching "Shower is Safe" back on.

I can (and do) override it if I notice it's potentially hazardous to shower.
Pavel Durov Interview about Telegram [video]
Tattoos are certainly something where you have to be extra careful because of the potential health effects of bad needles or bad ink. And it's difficult to vet these things.

Aesthetically it's a matter of taste, but I've certainly seen tattoos where I thought they improved the person's appearance. Though Sturgeon's law does apply.
So, drop food on kitchen floor - pick it up and eat it (without washing) good or bad?
Cf. also http://tom7.org/bovex/ (a layout engine that tries to achieve a similar effect by rephrasing the input using an LLM).
HN automatically removed the timestamp query parameter, so here's the link to the talk I wanted to share:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIIJU-ZYL_M&t=1850s
You clearly were not on “the other side” of the mainstream Covid narrative. There absolutely was plenty of banning going on.
I’m not sure privilege is the right way to think about this- but chronic stress definitely shifts the world to being unenchanted. I remember living in an enchanted world as a kid, and it can return with something as simple as a breathing exercise, meditation, or sitting in a forest hot spring.
It's actually a lot more interesting than what the article explains here. The immune system essentially goes through a process of hypermutation and can be compared to a hashmap which is populated during the first few years of one's life. After that the hashmap is essentially frozen. This is why early immunization is very important because being exposed to mild pathogens when young helps one's immune system recognize and deal with similar pathogens later in life. The immune system only gets worse over time which is why eventually most viral infections overwhelm the immune system and either cause death or cancer.
The UK prisons are a total clownshow atm, recently there was a string of female prison guards that were jailed for having sex with (male) prisoners, filming it, and of course smuggling drugs, etc. Also Prisons have run out of space so many offenders were let out early.

- https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/02/inmate-filmed-sex-wandsworth-...

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-67955865
Colombian here - that phenomenon has been present since I can remember. Lots of upstart people here wanting or feeling like they're part of the culture of the USA just because. Go to r/Colombia and see how many of those Dunning-Kruger commenting balls of ignorance profess a stupid and weird hatred for communism and socialism, and they don't even know what those words mean, let alone tell them apart.

Another part of it is that the "international" section of our media is just about regurgitating whatever they say at CNN, FOX or whatever they have there, so the information almost always is arriving already biased (for example, they made here a big deal about the mishap of Biden's mental block at that debate, but they have never mentioned all the links between Trump and Epstein). Though I'd concede the phenomenon has aggravated due to social media, our hiperconnected reality and the increased amount of people moving there, legally or not.
No, pay for all of it, not what it costs you to maintain while your properties balloon in value far more than any rent you could have collected on them. You are no more ethical than any other landlord so please stop pretending to be. You and real estate investors like you are contributors to the homelessness problem.
What’s to stop you from Just getting it again two days later?
I’m dealing with a similar thing with poultry right now. If I eat it too frequently, it gives me ridiculous, flu and allergy-like symptoms. However, now that I’ve basically eliminated it from my diet, I can eat it on occasion without much issue.

It took me forever to figure out because poultry is often a filler meat.
Author here. Yjs has also been rewritten in rust (yrs) and it’s significantly faster than the JavaScript version.

I’ve also got a new, totally different approach to solving this problem too.

It would definitely be good to update the benchmarks. Everything has gotten faster.
How is a third party service going to solve language barriers or prevent a random foreign government from having or passing new laws that cause problems for you?
The customary place to put those is in the attic, where they can be easily found.

https://alsyedconstruction.com/what-is-attic-stock-in-constr...
Disclaimer: not an expert here so could be very very wrong. This is just my understanding so happy to be corrected.

Another would be that something like fused multiple add would have different (higher if I recall correctly) precision which violates IEE754 and thus vectorization since default options are standard compliant.

Another is that some math intrinsics are documented to populate errno which would prevent using autovec in paths that have an intrinsic.

There may be other nuances depending on float vs double.

Basically most of the things that make up ffast-math i believe would prevent autovectorization.
I could see that working if your head is locked in a vise, but otherwise that's hard to believe.
Somewhat?

Mono is still really the only way to run older .NET (pre FOSS runtime/Core .NET) on non-Windows platforms.

So Wine has historically kept a fork of mono for use within Wine for supporting .NET apps.

Modern .NET can be built for Linux, etc so this is less relevant now but there are still a lot of apps that depend on old .NET and Wine still gets value out of that.

There are a bunch of downstreams that get used for various purposes (Microsoft uses mono for webasm embedded .NET for example) so it makes sense to give over ownership of Mono to the Wine community as they are best aligned with the original upstream's intended use case (as a full replacement for .NET).

So yes it's on life support but arguably more in the sense that it has since specialized into a bunch of downstream projects. The upstream will probably mainly be used for coordinating common improvements that all of the downstream forks care about (which are mainly Wine and Microsoft).
I’m waiting on Panasonic (Panasonic, was it?) to act on their trademark to have interactive ads on their TVs. You have to yell a product name or marketing keyword (McDonalds! PlayStation!) out loud if you want the ad to stop. It stays if you can’t or don’t yell :)
When did this change?

I have website served through S3 and Route53. Seems to only cost 50 cents per month per site, plus the $12 per year per site for the domain.
Do you mean the state of the art java AWT and/or Eclipse toolkit?
Life is a video game (here's the cheat codes)
>$7.5 billion to build 8 billion ev charging stations?

ev charging stations are under a dollar each? where can i get one?
this gets discussed, or at least mentioned, often on hn, e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651093 (this very faq)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773880 (jart's commit)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605970 (tom7's gnujpl)

and bonus: recently i've been enjoying http://arlyle.sdf.org/

(unfortunately, links do not work in preformatted text on hn)
It's a real shame tattoo ink isn't regulated in the US, at all.
I use simplenote.com with the nvpy client. Both are free.
X and Tesla are some of if not the most pro-American values companies in the world. Sorry if freedom of speech offends you but that definitely puts you at odds with the American Founders and myself - an American.
> you're going more granular, you have Newfoundland, which is very different from the rest of the Maritime provinces (they have their own dialect of English)

Just a heads up, Newfoundland isn't a part of the Maritimes at all, and those from Newfoundland will certainly remind you of that if you lump them in :)
I don't find llama3.1 noticeably worse on 8 bit integer quantised than the original fp16 to be honest. It's also a lot faster.

Of course even then you're not going to reach the whole 128k context window on 16GB but if you don't need that it works great.
Once a (DNA) virus incorporates itself inside your DNA and that cell divides you are never getting rid of the virus
From the repo:

Data is served through a public MQTT server (dedicated to serve requests for this component) - thanks to geohash-based topics and some other optimizations it greatly reduces amount of data sent to clients comparing to direct websocket connection to Blitzortung servers (it is also required by Blitzortung data usage policy - third party apps must use their own servers to server data for their own clients).
Right, and that's basically what it does in plenty of other domains now, when you ask it to deal with something quantitative. Pretty cool.
> The ship has long sailed. EU decided that our laws will be applied maximally - to all EU citizens regardless of their location and for everyone within our territorial control.

Ships that have sailed can still be sunk.

> And if other countries like USA have conflicting laws like Patriot Act then companies can be even forced to divest from EU or split their businesses so that USA branch can not enforce USA spy laws in EU.

How is this supposed to apply to a small business with one employee?
Well, to be fair .NET Standard wasn't a framework, it was a standards/compatibility label and compilation target.

.NET Standard includes various versions of things that MS doesn't even touch.

I stopped doing .NET stuff before .NET 5 so I'm not hugely up to date with the latest shenanigans.
Bacterial does, viral does not appear to. I am a survivor of bacterial meningitis and sepsis at eight months and fortunately do not experience any known side effects. However, the IQ effect is sobering.
When I was at university, some of my classmates were admitted right after high school, others failed, waited for one year while having a job, and then applied again. The difference between those who had one year of work experience and those who had none was profound; the former were adults, and the latter were kids; it was as if they had five years of age difference, not only one.

I wouldn't underestimate the professors though. Doing research (that is their actual work; teaching is just a hobby) can be hard work.
Very cool. Good luck! I used to work on this. Your synthetic dataset pipeline is really neat. A foundation model of molding defects might be feasible.
I hope you will also work on the whole inline quality control problem. From what I saw of the field, sometimes you only get the final quality days after painting, finishing or cool down of big parts. And the quality metric is notably undefined for visual defect, using the cad render as a reference is a good solution. Because plastic is so cheap and the process so stable, I have seen days of production shredded for a tiny perfectly repeated visual defects.
Injection molding machines are heavily instrumented [0] and I tried to mix in-mold sensors + process parameters + photo + thermography of hot parts [1] (sry it's in french, might find better doc later).
[0] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
[1] https://a1rb4ck.github.io/phd/#[128,%22XYZ%22,85.039,614.438...
Maybe we should diversify, and have 20 separately elected governments each getting to spend 1/20 of the current budget.
Lilypond makes gorgeous music. However, getting things besides music to look good is painful at best and sometimes impossible. I spent hours trying to figure out how to get a good looking lead sheet setup (music, chord name, lyrics). Especially font sizes and spacing. Ugh. Good luck getting an annotation (such as "intro" or "chorus") anywhere less than about 2em from the top of the staff...

I think they've changed things in the five years since then, so I think I'd have to do it all over again.
Many many right wingers in Canada do not understand that. They truly believe the government is requiring Facebook to block all Canadian news. I know this because I live in a small town and have talked to these people. It’s also plain to see on any local Facebook group when the topic comes up.

I agree it’s a foolish law, but there’s rampant misinformation being spread about it.
Even if you got the vaccine, you can still get shingles
As soon as I read that article about how Ozempic seems to age your skin dramatically, I felt like the wind had basically been taken out of the drug. Just count your calories and work on developing good habits.
The reaction to George Floyd in UK was quite strange, with "don't shoot" protests and "defund the police", when the UK police is not even armed and gets paid like half of their American counterparts.
These wafers only have 44GB of RAM though. Very curious why the quantity is so low considering the chips are absolutely massive. It's SRAM though so very fast, comparable to cache in a modern CPU. But I assume being fast and loading the whole model there is the point.