skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well "the gov" does run the system in Scotland. Scottish Water, which didn't suffer privatisation, ticks over nicely - providing high quality service at low cost and reinvesting any profits.

You're inventing a hypothetical nightmare scenario while ignoring a very real and positive one because it's inconvenient for your "privatisation = good" argument.
These fediverse changes in Threads are in Europe but not in the EU yet.
Threads itself is available worldwide, including the EU.
There is PayPal if you go to their donate page, literally big American corporate. As a European (specifically Dutch), I have always HATED credit cards with a fiery passion, and dealing with big American corporations and their messy and buggy experiences on the web. In this regard many foreign systems such as iDeal, UPI, WeChat Pay and Alipay feel like they are straight from the future. But to each their own.
Kind of like my plan to prove flat earthers wrong using long range rifles and the Coriolis effect at different places north and south of the equator, still waiting on Argentina to give me permission to bring a bunch of rifles to Tierra del Fuego.
Thanks for checking it out robzhu. Let me know of any feedback/issues :)
TockOS, Redox, Hubris,...

Window GDI regions, CoreWrite, Drivers SDK

Android

Copilot+ PC firmware
Oh, how I wish I had better access to the eBay data .. currently they limit you to 5k requests per day.
As a potential user of Ibis, how do I know they won't eventually drop support for other backends until it just becomes a frontend for DuckDB?
High-Performance Binary Search
The docs say it's framework-agnostic. I assume then that the editor would only be used for editing css, not html, but I'm sure the founder can correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm also curious how they determine where in source the code needs to change, because you could have (a) external stylesheets, (b) a stylesheet in the html head, (c) tailwind classes, (d) some css-in-js variant, or even (e) direct style application of dom elements in your javascript.
What aspect of the UK's nebulous "constitution" do you claim was violated here? (Or are you just reflexively/thoughtlessly saying "unconstitutional" because it would be a First Amendment violation in the USA?)
hollywood makes a 100 million dollar movie.

a company sends a robot to watch it. 7 dollars for a single ticket.

the world spends their ticket money on hanging out with the robot to hear about the movie.

i can't make heads or tails of what's next. i am as fascinated as i am petrified.
Easier said than done, they are not French after all.
British Rail has ceased to exist for quite some time
I’ve tried using LLMs to deobfuscate libraires like fingerprintjs-pro to understand what specific heuristics implementation details they use to detect bots.

They mostly fail. A human reverse engineer will still do better.
Like something for mobile phones using Rust alongside a managed runtime?
> I see it used more often by hobbyists interested in crowding out alternatives they don’t like.

Yes, that's what I was referring to.
I am a Fastmail user. I wish they would break out their Calendar from their Email app so that I could easily switch between them when composing emails and needing to reference my calendar (when mobile, using the app). I assume this is a pretty common use case - has anyone found a workflow for this?
Unison supposedly has an AST-aware version control system: https://www.unison-lang.org/
Yes, I'm in the UK, works here.
I'd give up Threads to be back in the EU :-)
> ...or visually impaired and thus use those announcements to understand what state the lift is in

...but only in lifts in the UK? No, that's not a credible hypothesis.
I think third-party cookies should be disabled out of the box but there should be an option to manually allow them for legacy applications (if there are popular legacy applications then Firefox could include some of them by default).
An option to filter by ECC RAM would be super helpful.
Systra also lauded his media appearances on their website: https://web.archive.org/web/20240829120751/https://www.systr...

> [Gareth's] passion and enthusiasm for all things rail are well-known across the sector through his weekly #Railnatter podcast and as a regular national press rail commentator
TIL the International Bank Account Number (IBAN) isn't truly international.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num...
The problem is to isolate the box enough. If you can heard the cat meow, then it counts as a "measurement" and the superposition disappears. If you can hear there is no heartbeat of the cat, then it counts as a "measurement" and the superposition disappears. If the cats move and the box wags, then it counts as a "measurement" and the superposition disappears...

So in practice the experiment only works with very small systems with a few atoms. Each year there are experiments with bigger systems, but they are usually frozen and very small. Perhaps one day we will be able to do the experiment with tardigrades.
Want a Rich, Rustic Taste of Spain? Head for the Hills of La Rioja
>as it seems to anthropomorphize LLM in a way

"hallucinate" does the same thing, fwiw
A not very insightful article on a serious problem, assembling facts in no particular order.

One pet peeve I want to point out.

It is true that a number of (violent) organised crime groups in the Netherlands have a background in smuggling weed. (Weed is essentially legal to consume but illegal to grow in the Netherlands. Thus there is an associated underworld.)

Some of these groups then pivoted to the more profitable cocaine trade as demand for cocaine grew in Europa. These groups already had a criminal logistical network in place, positioning them well to profit from this new business. Note that, because of the specifics of container port cocaine trade (high risk of losing big shipments, higher punishments and police-related risk) it tends to be a much more violent business than the old weed trade.

However, I'm skeptical of the causal relation that is sometimes suggested between the semi-legal status of weed and the cocaine-related organized crime.

This reasoning implicitly presumes that if there was no previous legal consumption of weed that there would be a) no underworld related to growing weed and (i.e. the demand for weed would not exist) and b) organised crime related to cocaine would simply have skipped the Netherlands.

This seems extremely unlikely given what we know from every other country on the planet. Weed consumption in the Netherlands is not particularly high compared to other countries and I see little reason to think that banning the consumption of weed would have made the demand for weed suddenly disappear.

A very good test of the thesis can be found in Belgium - a similarly small country with a similarly large harbor - which never had legal weed consumption and has the exact same issues related to organized crime and cocaine trafficking..
How would the government be able to hide that? There is oversight of the Treasury by the OBR and there is more than one political party in the UK, opposition MPs happily point out all the failures of the party in power.

My view is that it is easy to accuse government services of being dysfunctional because there is far MORE transparency than for private companies. Bankrupting a water company can happen in plain sight by a private company because money that was supposed to be used to, you know, build a functioning sewage system is fed through a maze of offshore accounts for years.
> The primary issue I've got with the .NET ecosystem is actually closely related to that. Because it's so easy to import native libraries, often there's no .NET version of a library and everyone uses the native one instead. But if I actually want to build the native one I've got to work with ancient C++ build systems and all the arcane trouble they bring with them.

What is the reason to continue making statements like this one? Surely we could discuss this without trying making accusations out of thin air? As the previous conversation indicates, you are not familiar with C# and its toolchain, and were wrong on previous points as demonstrated. It's nice to have back and forth banter on HN, I get to learn about all kinds of cool things! But this happens through looking into the details, verifying if prior assumptions are still relevant, reading documentation and actually trying out and dissecting the tools being discussed to understand how they work - Golang, Elixir, Swift, Clojure, etc.

> You seem to have misunderstood. The fun part of the maven ecosystem is that a dependency doesn't have to be a jar, it can also be an XML that resolves to one or multiple dependencies depending on the environment.

Same as above.

> JNA

I was not aware of it, thanks. It looks like the closest (even if a bit more involved) alternative to .NET's P/Invoke. Quick search indicates that it comes at an explicit huge performance tradeoff however.

From https://github.com/zakgof/java-native-benchmark?tab=readme-o...

"Now let's look into performance of the native call only, stripping out the struct allocation and field access:"

Native call only (average time, smaller is better)

JmhCallOnly.jna_direct 1373.435 ± 70.343 ns/op
JmhCallOnly.jna 1346.036 ± 72.239 ns/op
JmhCallOnly.bridj 383.992 ± 50.000 ns/op
JmhCallOnly.jnr 298.334 ± 48.785 ns/op
JmhCallOnly.jni_javacpp 56.605 ± 8.087 ns/op
JmhCallOnly.foreign 49.717 ± 6.667 ns/op

This uses Win32 API. I will post numbers in a bit. .NET interop overhead in this scenario usually comes at 0.3-2ns (i.e. single CPU cycle which it takes to retire call and branch instructions) depending on the presence or absence of GC frame transition, which library loader was chosen and dynamic vs static linking (albeit with JIT and dynamic linking the static address can be baked into codegen once the code reaches Tier 1 compilation). Of course the numbers can be presented in a much more .NET-favored way by including the allocations that Java has to do in the absence of structs and other C primitives.
I have developed a simple simulator [0] to estimate the theoretical power received by the target for a given hardware configuration:

- the global position on the planet

- the date and time

- the size and position of some background elements

- the number, size and position of the panels in the grid

The solar power estimation uses :

- the Python code provided in this article [1] to estimate position of the sun (thank you John Clark Craig)

- the simplified formula [2] to estimate the direct insolation from the sun position

- a custom light projection implemented using Panda3D game engine [3]

[0] https://github.com/remipch/solar_concentrator/blob/master/so...

[1] https://levelup.gitconnected.com/python-sun-position-for-sol...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_insolation#Simplified_f...

[3] https://www.panda3d.org/
About the same time that LLMs were starting to make the news, I was spending a lot of time with an elderly relative with severe dementia, and was struck by the fact that LLMs are doing the same thing she is: the word is "confabulating", meaning to come up with stories and rationalizations to fill in gaps in knowledge and memory.
I completely forgot I used to have one of these. I had one of the monochrome models, but not entirely sure which one. I honestly didn't get as much use out of it as I thought I would.
I think you have to look at this in the context of an entire bundle or project, and then you have to weigh it against the download speeds you’re generally expecting for the users of your site or app.

I agree that as a blanket statement “gzip is enough” is not technically correct, but I think it’s largely correct in spirit, in that people tend to reach for minification by default, without really thinking about what they’re gaining.

If minifying saves you 200 KB overall, for example, and you expect your average user to have a 200 Mbps connection, you’re saving a grand total of 8 ms on page load, which is an imperceptible difference on its own. In exchange, you’re getting worse debugging, and worse error reporting.
That's the thing though, I still want my data to be relational so NoSQL databases don't fit the bill. I want to interact with a relational database via something other than the SQL language and given that this language already exists (Postgres compiles your SQL into an IR that uses these primitives) I don't think it's a crazy ask.
We are looking at first generation tech and pretty much every human would recognize the "before dragon" scene as being the same place as the "after dragon" scene. The prominent features are present. The model clearly shows the ability to go beyond "image-to-image" rendering.

If you want to be right because you can find any difference. Sure. You win. But also completely missed the point.
Isn't heat transmitted by photons? In that case, isn't it inevitable that heat destroys entanglement? Because the transmission of heat means some photon has to interact with one of the entangled particles.
Instant bookmark, thank you!

Wishlist: please allow filtering by Intel / AMD CPUs and Intel / NVIDIA / AMD GPUs. It's IMO important to know how many open drivers can the buyer use on Linux / BSD.
Not only that, they’re getting worse. Look at the list of the 20 most destructive wildfires:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires?w...

And check the years. All but 1 are in the past 25 years.
... it's the emotional tone, particularly in 2024.
> Violent crime should be virtually non-existent in America. The fact we have it at a much greater rate than other developed countries is a flaw in our people and culture, not our economy.

What's your proposed solution? The Puritans tried, and the Taliban are trying, to change human nature, with only limited "success" (if you want to call it that).
Yeah, what raverbashing said. Let's say it is systemic. Let's say that boosters that have flown more than 10 times have a high rate of collapse and explosion when they land on the barge. OK, so? Why does the FAA care? It's not like the explosion endangers aircraft - the airspace should be cleared because of the booster's descent anyway.
> Except for the fact that almost no TV supports it.

So frustrating. I'm using a 42" LG OLED TV as a monitor right now. Very nice monitor at half the price of the same panel in a "real" monitor. I'm driving it with an AMD card at 60 Hz for exceedingly stupid reasons.
If that frustration means that I have to log in with the same creds to two sites like Atlassian and Trello, then I'm okay with that. In fact, I would really like it if I didn't have to go to Atlassian at all and just be able to log in to Trello itself. But that's a different topic entirely. For the great majority of people it's the same email and password for every site they visit, so it's easy for them. Then there's the other end of the spectrum of people that use password managers and have dedicated credentials for every site, but it's also no big deal for them because they use the password manager to handle it.
I wanted to add this, but that data is almost never entered by sellers.
I love the idea. I'm working on something in the same general category, but a very different approach and I love seeing how others are tackling this problem. Over time I suspect we'll see more tools that attempt to bridge design tools with dev tools - every time I crack open Chrome's inspector, all I can think about is how amazing it could be if it was intended to be used by design teams.
Kernel code shouldn't need a 'good and fast' allocator though, since preferably it shouldn't heap-allocate in the first place, or at least not frequent enough that allocator performance matters.
I admit it's not often I see a direct panic. But I do see bugs caused by memory issues relatively often. In fact two weeks ago I made a patch for a memory issue in a wifi driver that caused it to drop connections. The long list of CVE is more direct proof though. By far most of them are memory safety issues.

Suggesting making a new kernel is just total FUD. This is a multi decade project. It's like saying to a person who want some legislation in their country to change "why not make your own country, may the best country win". It's just so far removed from reality I'm very surprised I have seen this argument more then once.
Using what, the legacy app flag?
> all they can do is, in fact, sample from a compression of historical texts using a weighted probability metric.

I don't think that's all they can do.

I think they know more than what is explicitly stated in their training sets.

They can generalize knowledge and generalize relationships between the concepts that are in the training sets.

They're currently mediocre at it, but the results we observe from SOTA generative models are not explainable without accepting that they can create an internal model of the world that's more than just a decompression algorithm.

I'm going to step away from LLMs for a moment, but: How are video generator models capable of creating videos with accurate shadows and lighting that is consistent in the entire frame and consistent between frames?

You can't do that simply by taking a weighted average of the sections of videos you've seen in your training set.

You need to create an internal 3D model of the objects in the scene, and their relative positions in space across the length of the video. And no one told the model explicitly how to do that, it learned to do it "on its own".

I think the same principle applies to LLMs.
My favorite artist at the time was Mike Young https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/designgraphik-2001

Serving 3 is in there, too bad serving phour doesnt seem to be.
If there's only one way to do it, or a developer familiar with the field would independently come up with the same way of doing it, then the "copyrightability" of the result comes into question.

This doesn't stop you getting yourself a legal headache though, of course.
I have an instagram account that I don’t use. No uploads, no real profile, I never like or save anything etc. I sometimes use it to log in if I need to view something that’s locked behind sign in.

Earlier this week I got a notice my account was banned for trying to circumvent meta’s rules and other bans. They said this was serious as anyone caught trying to do this would have a lifetime ban across all accounts. If unappealed it would be considered permanent and irreversible.

Well, getting locked entirely off Meta’s platform sounds like it could have annoying side effects in the future (access to Facebook, WhatsApp, whatever else they eventually acquire) so I went through the annoyance of appealing it. I had to give all the info I previously chose to not give them. Email, phone, even a photograph of my face so they could confirm identity. With that they reversed the ban within seconds.

It’s stupid how much power they hold for your online social presence and how irresponsibly they wield it.
I love how simple this site is. It's fast, no navigation, etc. Kudos!
yes, indeed, that's is also what I am curious about
Brain Cipher claims attack on Olympic venue, promises 300 GB data leak
Another person mentioned this, so I will add this as soon as I can.
You can still sue the company for other reasons - for example if they stole from you the employee.
OFC most of the fediverse has blocked threads already.
Unless you are getting ready to hire a lot of developers, or churn a lot of developers, the three OS choices mean 3 versions of the same image/script to get setup. That now becomes another application you have to manage. The setup docs are more of a live training not a waste of time. Their setup time will never be zero as they have to setup logins, verify license keys, etc, for all the tools that are installed.

The internal IT team should already have a way to configure security software and such but will also not want to manage a specific group setup for likely a small amount of people.

Reference.

https://xkcd.com/974/
It's just a rule of thumb, like anything else. In most code, "why" is the hard part; I see that you are incrementing that account by a penny from out of the blue, but why? When you are in code where "what" is the hard part, like an implementation of a book algorithm or some tricky performance optimization, then by all means comment that.

Really all this rule amounts to is

// Increment by a penny
accountValue += 1

is a pointless comment, please don't do that. Schools had a way of accidentally teaching that by too-rigidly requiring "commented code", in situations where there wasn't much else to say, or situations where the students themselves didn't necessarily have a strong sense of "why". Any comment that isn't just literally "this is what the next line does" is probably useful to somebody at some point.
The estimated living wage in Manhattan is about $43 per hour. So are you proposing that restaurants in Manhattan should be required to pay that much for unskilled labor, regardless of the value they generate?
Proof-of-concept code released for zero-click critical Windows vuln
You’re correct - was just something which is stopping people to try the language. And with that you implicate less users, less matured toolkit etc.
Not sure I get your point. Total Cookie Protection doesn't get rid of third party cookies.
Some use cases are described in the blog post.

I have wanted a feature like this before and worked around it by replying to the email but sending the reply only to me.
Cant recommend anything based on intel N100 enough. Power draw is about 13w but absolutely excellent performance. Bought several "Firebat" ones from AliExpress
> when the government contracts out services to the private sector it hold them to a high standard

PPE Medpro?

The fundamental problem with this kind of neoliberalism is that if you don't trust government to manage something directly, then outsourcing it doesn't help, because the management oversight still has to be done, but now it happens indirectly.

It only works if you can have an actual market with actual market forces. What tends to get built is a "fake" market, where instead of individual service users picking their preference you get a tendering process. The rail tendering process is a fake market: the trains are owned by ROSCOs (banks), the rails are owned by the state (Network rail) because the private operator skimped on safety then collapsed, and the TOCs transfer all their staff through TUPE every time the franchise changes. All that changes is the livery.

Specifying through contract is a lot less efficient than direct management (see Coase, theory of the firm). This is why Tube privatization failed; they got up to hundreds of thousands of pages of contract before realizing it wasn't going to work.
Iran's Pioneer Kitten Hits US Networks via Buggy Check Point, Palo Alto Gear
Great question, a bunch of reasons:

1. The value prop of Ibis is to avoid vendor lock-in and allow users to more easily swap out execution engines that meet their needs. So it's valuable to the project to have "competing" backends supported (e.g. DuckDB, DataFusion, and Polars for local, and Snowflake, ClickHouse, PySpark, Databricks, etc. for distributed) -- the idea is a standard like Apache Arrow that everyone adopts to stop this cycle of tightly coupling a dataframe interface to an execution engine
2. Ibis is primarily supported by Voltron Data (my employer) which is itself a vendor, so the real worry would be that Ibis drops all backends until it only support Voltron Data's engine (Theseus)...
3. ... but Voltron Data cannot do that for a number of reasons. First, Ibis is an independently governed open source project. Second, it would not make any business sense. You can read some more on that here: https://ibis-project.org/posts/why-voda-supports-ibis.

The general idea is to add more backends, not remove them, but pandas is a special case where it introduces a lot of technical complexity with (arguably) negative benefit to potential users -- the DuckDB backend can do everything the pandas backend can do, but better