skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then the government can tax that money, and that gives it non-inflationary spending room to reallocate those resources.

Hmm, why might it be important to have a non-inflationary means of spending? I wonder. Of course, the government can print money. They can't just print all the money they want forever with no consequences.

> For example, there’s a car company that’s using up most of the country’s steel supply. But the government wants to shift the country’s manufacturing from cars to other green industries.

A car company is not "using up" the steel supply. They are meeting consumer demand for cars. If consumers found green technologies more useful than cars, they would buy that instead, then the green technology companies would be able to outbid the car companies for steel and they would buy it. If they aren't it's because people find cars more useful than whatever "green technologies" are.

Also, if there's a high demand for steel, new steel suppliers can enter the market and increase the supply of steel. There's no need for the government to manage this and it's generally harmful for them to do so, since they are allocating resources away from something people have demonstrated they find useful and towards something they don't find useful. This is not optimal. We should want the resources to go where they are most useful and valued, not where some bureaucrat decides he or she likes them to go.
Note that this is regarding communicating to engineers about technical products. Which is not the same thing as communicating to non-engineers about technical products.

At least in IT (if not in TFA author's domain of chemical engineering), a lot of technical product sales has to appeal to non-engineers.

Sometimes appealing to engineering is just plain skipped. Like, the less the purchase is on the radar of customer's engineering people, before the enterprise sale is closed, the better.

This is one of the reasons that, if I found a startup doing B2B solutions, I'll try to market first to people within the customer company who have good understanding of the problem, even if I know they're not the final approval for the purchase.
Except that mDNS is required for loads of things (via DNS-SD, which is basically the main reason to use mDNS).
Let's say you have a library of functions you know how to integrate and differentiate. Something that happens a lot is that you end up wanting to do integrate or differentiate a product like x -> f(x)g(x) or composition like x -> f(g(x)) of two or more of the functions you know about.

For diffentiation there are two ridiculously powerful theorems which says that if you know how to differentiate a bunch of functions you can also differentiate any product or composition of these functions.

For a random other map there is no reason for this to be the case, integration is essentially "as expected" in that except in some specific circumstances knowing how to integrate f and g doesn't tell you how to integrate their product or composition.
"Shared source" comes from Microsoft's initiative, back in Ballmer's days when they were attacking Linux with FUD campaigns and patent threats (which continued well after their "Microsoft changed" marketing campaign).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Initiative

The software industry called their initiative for what it is. Whether it's "shared source" or "source available", it's a poisoned gift. In the case of Microsoft's shared sources, this was because it was opening up readers of that source to the possibility of patents lawsuits. I remember for instance that Microsoft was making more money from Android, by threatening phone makers with patents, than they did from Windows Mobile.
I thought the point of these was that you don't need to be an engineer?
As a vim user, this was my attitude about ctrl-b ctrl-b for pgup because tmux uses that. But I got used to it. Like many a screen convert to tmux, I used to map to ctrl-a, but I found myself actually getting pinky/wrist pain from using just my left hand. As a non-emacs user, I'm not okay with that :P So ctrl-b forces me to use two hands.
I've wondered if things might get bad enough to enable a fork of the web. It could happen 2 ways:

1) A truly user focused browser is created, the fabled "user agent". The ad-focused web doesn't support that browser, but websites that care about users do support it. Thus, people who want more than ad-drivel use the niche browser and have access to a web full of weird and non-profit-focused content.

2) Possibly a fork of the underlying technologies. Maybe the browser mentioned uses incompatible technologies or protocols. Maybe this new web is based on something other than HTML and JavaScript.

Probably not. It's a wild idea. It's probably too hard to do better than the existing technologies, and the effort required for such a fork seems ever less likely in this time of dissipating focus and hobbies.
I don't see how wanting a "blender for music" in response to this news is a non sequitur.
In capitalism if there are gaps everyone just gives up and dies. /s
The “age of the universe” estimate typically refers to how long it would take to brute force a cipher, i.e. try all possible decryption keys until a valid key is found. Such attacks are almost never practical because we can’t wait that long. So thinking of encryption this way, comparing encryption algorithms by their brute force resistance, is fairly useless. Instead, most real-world attacks rely on implementation flaws and side-channel attacks, which allow an attacker to make an educated guess or even avoid having to guess in the first place. These vulnerabilities can’t be so easily quantified in terms of how long it will take to break, which is why most algorithms don’t talk about it much in their advertising, even though ease of implementation and side-channel resistance are some of the most important attributes.

However, there are algorithms that do make a concerted effort to mitigate these problems and advertise themselves as such, such as Ed25519.
a good reason not to "Trust the science"

this is just the tip of the iceberg in the wonderful world of scientific papers

I love retraction watch
I will really miss this site. They did incredible deep reviews of tech.

But once Anand left, the site started dying. They posted 1 review a month, and didn't even cover the iphone or galaxy or pixel launches. How on earth was that meant to survive?
Yeah, a lot of people will talk about being afraid of dying alone, but I'm pretty much just afraid of dying. The circumstances of my death are really just a light seasoning compared to the main fare that is the terror of that death itself.
Sure, but the least we can do is support the few sane places that still remain, like rtings. Lest they follow the way of AnandTech and we're forced to scroll through hours of video to get the same information contained in a ten-minute text article, with interactive charts and comparison tools.
> the cable TV bundle again?

No, that's why I didn't write that. Spotify allows nearly everyone to put their music on the platform. Just this week I listened to some music with <1000 plays that I found in a random video somewhere. I choose what I want to listen to and a part of the fee I pay gets transferred to the creator. I don't need to buy 100 different subscriptions to labels and musicians, it's centralized.

(Yes, I know Spotify isn't perfect and that there are valid criticisms of the platform. I'm not using it as an example of a perfect end goal, I'm using it as an example of the only thing right now that gets somewhat in the neighborhood. And in the industry there are multiple platforms who distribute mostly the same content with only some 'exclusive' releases. Which is what I'd like to see for the web.)
He effectively controls both
Does anyone involved with MediaWiki here know how this could affect CirrusSearch? Once ES became non-OS it kinda went to hell. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch
I mean, HN keeps saying commercialism has destroyed the web and anyone who creates content for it should do it for free as a hobby or not at all. So I guess someone here with enough free time and enthusiasm is bound to do just that.
Yeah, this is an underrated aspect of all the managed hosting options out there. If vendors made it easy to deploy their code, folks would be far more willing to run it themselves. But just rolling out a simple production-ready cluster of most software is a nightmare of complexity. (Note that while open-source software is often not great at this, proprietary software is often just as bad or worse. This is not a side-effect of open-source. It's a failure of prioritization of the operator experience.)
Love the Oregon Trail and Powell's--it's a magical book place.

I had a chance to work with one of the original Oregon Trail creators on a board game concept these past three years. Don is a true pleasure to work with and has a sharp mind plus great stories. Highly recommend HN folks look up his GDC talk or send him some work (he's open to select projects) https://www.linkedin.com/in/donrawitsch/
> It’s interesting to me that in spite of the fact that the LLM does so poorly with number sequences in general, it does pretty well with variations of the Fibonacci sequence.

Not surprising, since the Fibonacci sequence will be in the text swallowed by the LLM.
Gen AI Open-Source: Licensing Dumpster Fire
>Videos absolutely suck for transmitting information, compared to text.

It depends on the information. For DIY information for example i find it much better to see someone show how to lay brick or frame a wall than to read how it is done.
Honestly its easier to point out the ones that aren't...
https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
At the start the railway infrastructure was also privately owned (Railtrack), but that collapsed after less than 10 years and became National Rail. This was a sign of the failure to come.

There are a mountain of restrictions on the franchisees because having an interconnected system of railways with the management of different parts delegated to separate private companies makes no logical sense.

The only way it makes sense is as a vehicle to extract wealth from the state and the people (ticket prices); and transfer it to the private owners of the franchises, and the private professional services companies via all the consultancy fees and red-tape the system generates.

Owning rolling stock is where it is at now for wealth extraction. As far as I know this is not something that is going to change with the current plans to expire franchises and bring the management back into public ownership.
by definition?
I have about 110 feeds that are ingested by my YOShInOn RSS reader. I have been messing around with that code lately after a haitus so maybe I'll have an OPML export for you this weekend. I haven't been reading it too avidly so lately I do a cycle a week that imports about 10,000 articles, it picks 300 articles (based on a content-based recommender) to show me and starts a new cycle when I get through that. I probably look at another 100 articles per cycle on different screens.

Everything that I submit to HN was selected by that system, then selected by me twice.

I'm using Suprfeedr for ingestion which costs about 10 cents per feed per month which feels like a huge bargain for busy feeds but is prohibitive for independent blogs that get a post a week. It sends articles to a webhook, those go into Amazon SQS with a 14-day timeout, I can just pull articles out of SQS when it is convenient for me rather than writing a polling head end. If I had a better head end I'd probably subscribe to another 2,000 or so independent blogs.
Can you clarify that statement?
I tried migrating our markdown docs-as-code to use Docusaurus, we have somewhere around several hundred pages, and the build times seemed very long (5-10 minutes) compared to a simple bespoke python-based static site generator. Is that common in people's experience with docusaurus or perhaps there was an opportunity for optimizing or making it more efficient?
This statement is confusing to me. I never found the old situation confusing, until Elastic started adding invented licenses and trying to claim openness while monopolizing the right to host their software. That was confusing.
naming things is so hard.
React Functional Components vs Class Components
Apollo 11 Code with Comments
It was totally predictable that many of the same people who hated on the cable bundle also hate on a fragmented streaming landscape even though they probably pay significantly less than they did for cable TV unless they also pay for live TV anyway. (And they'd also hate on an all-inclusive integrated streaming service for the hundreds of dollars a month it would cost.)
Historic ARM Presentation to Apple Computer – 1992 [video]
I like to read the pro-nuclear articles, and the more I read the more I'm convinced they are trying to scam the governments/citizens. In the last 5 years or so they are asking for:

- We want a minimal payment around 80€/MWh because we provide base load. (Average price in Europe this year is 65€).

- We want our obsolete centrals to have their lifespan extended to (depending on the source) 50, 75 or even 100 years. At 80€/MWh guaranteed.

- We want the government to deal with the residues. Maybe we pay half the cost.

- We want the regulators to ease safety requirements, so our building and manteinance costs are competitive.

And now:

- Do you remember we wanted our centrals lifespans extended? Now we want them demolished and replaced, because after 40 years they are old. Government should pay/finance it, even when budgets blow up 5x.

- Do you remember that we wanted to be paid extra for being the baseload? Now we want to be the whole grid, 70% is not enough. At 80€ guaranteed, no competition guaranteed, financed by the state, and if anything goes wrong we won't pay shit.
Same here. I started my PhD with the full intention of doing most of my research with Julia (via Flux[0]), and while things worked well enough there were a few things which made it challenging:

- Lack of multi-GPU support,

- some other weird bugs related to autograd which i never fully figured out,

- and the killer one: none of my coauthors used Julia, so I decided to just go with PyTorch.

PyTorch has been just fine, and it's nice to not have to reinvent to wheel for every new model architecture.

[0] https://fluxml.ai/
A developer's guide to getting started with Imagen 3 on Vertex AI
Thats’s what I’m saying: “adhere to” in this context doesn’t mean “do your best”. It just means the medicine taken was incorrect, regardless of how that happened.

If you accidentally get the wrong medication at the pharmacy or is poisoned then you didn’t get exactly and only the prescribed medicine.

It’s not a sentence blaming anyone. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is. What matters to the doctor is whether the medicines and doses are correct or not. If there are bad side effects when the medicine schedule is followed then it may need to be revised. If the doctor concludes the schedule wasn’t followed then the side effects don’t necessarily mean the medicines or doses must be changed.

That’s all it is. It’s a note from the doctor to himself and other medical staff. The important bit is that another doctor shouldn’t rush to conclude e.g that the dosing must change.
You can write hello world in TLA+:

Main == PrintT("hello world")

You can't write much else, because print is the only implemented command (no input commands even), but it's clearly not just a program that reads newspapers out loud. There is an execution semantics and so on, as found in typical programming languages. It would not be hard to add input, implemented as a "hack" along the lines of print, although of course TLA+ is nondeterministic like most logic programming languages so there is some tricky semantics.

I'm not saying TLA+ is a good programming language - it is more along the lines of Brainfuck or TeX, "use it only out of necessity or masochism". But at least in my book it is undeniably in the category of programming languages.
It already exists, it's called Geminispace: https://geminiprotocol.net/
Or more specifically whether you want to put people first, or some idealised structures with hidden issues.
Leader election and distributed locking reduce to the same problem… which is proven to be impossible. It means in some edge case it will fail on you, is your system handling those cases?

I didn’t read past this:

> Systems like Apache ZooKeeper or Postgres (via Advisory Locks) provide the required building blocks for this

Zookeeper is the original sin. Convincing a whole generation of programmers that distributed lock are a feasible solution.

This is my biggest pet peeve in distributed systems.

——

And if you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll trust Kyle K. of Jepsen fame:

> However, perfect failure detectors are impossible in asynchronous networks.

Links to: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lorenzo/corsi/cs380d/papers/p225-...

https://jepsen.io/analyses/datomic-pro-1.0.7075
I agree, but unfortunately that support doesn't seem to be widespread enough to sustain these kinds of things.

At this point, I think efforts would be better placed in making a method that enables videos to be viewed in a way akin to text. AI transcription tools are getting there, so I think it might just be a matter of time.
Was the market asking for tech review videos, or was the market asking for a platform that helps select, curate, and present content?

If this trend were merely about format, then websites that just host videos would be a viable model - they're not really. I think this is more about the power of platforms than of the format.

I'm sure the format _also_ helps, given how donation-dependent small-scale publishers are which works best if publishers are humanized, but I'd guess the more impactful matter is the way platforms can keep consumers onboard and help them discover new publishers than the format.
On the aircraft in question (the 757-200) there are 3 altimeters (captain, FO, standby/backup) fed by two different colocated static ports (that were both taped over). The transponder sends the altitude reported by the captain's altimeter.

This is why the crew trusted the captain's altimeter over either of the other two because it precisely lined up with what ATC was telling them. Neither set of parties knew that they were the same incorrect figure derived from the same source. The captain correctly diagnosed that the entire pitot-static system had gone to shit, but still trusted ATC's figure, right up until they started hitting the ocean, even with the GPWS alarm from the (correctly functioning, entirely separate) radar altimeter blaring in the cockpit for over a minute.
Life of the universe: 4 x 10^17 s

Attoseconds in a second: 10^18 as

Plank times (pt) in an attosecond: 2 x 10^27 pt

Still plenty for improvement
Since the application itself is making the DNS requests, it is completely building the relevant OS networking features, including hosts file support.
So not going to be using that.

Also, I know this is probably a losing battle, but there’s a very substantial difference between something you decide is secret leaking and something you decide to secrete leaking. The former is likely bad, the latter is likely gross.
The Neural Light Grid: A Scalable Production-Ready Learned Irradiance Volume
Fluoride Exposure: Neurodevelopment and Cognition
I won't lie. I am a bit worried about this, in the sense that some nights I am having a hard time trying to sleep. I studied Computer Sceince and I have been working as a Software Engineer for almost two decades now, but I am super worried that I will be completely useless in the next years.
Ah, nice. I initially interpreted silver as age (grey hair) but that made me intrigued: age can make you jaded but can also give perspective to appreciate the good.

It works on different levels, I guess. =)
Yes. And the wife (presumably) ruined that. The journal note isn’t about whether the patient did their best to follow the schedule but whether they ingested the medicine in the schedule and nothing else. In this case the doctor concluded they had not. So they hadn’t adhered to the schedule. Whose fault that was isn’t relevant to the journal note (nor implied by it)
Remember when Target had to dial back it's personalized advertising because it was creeping out customers? The meme example was a dad getting mad that they sent pregnancy related stuff to his daughter after their algo figured out she was pregnant before he did.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
My experience is that for 95% of people under the age of 30, their media consumption is almost entirely video. That's simply the way it is, fortunately or unfortunately. And these tech review YouTube channels seems to do quite well for themselves, dramatically better than the equivalent text-only sites.
"The NTP monograph concluded that higher levels of fluoride exposure, such as drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter, are associated with lower IQ in children.

The NTP review was designed to evaluate total fluoride exposure from all sources and was not designed to evaluate the health effects of fluoridated drinking water alone.

It is important to note, however, that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ."
I interpreted it to mean "many shiny new tools" so that any project just feels like "nothing special" any longer, queueing up with all the other shiny tools.
This is why the proliferation of these custom licenses is yet another self-own by these companies. To HashiCorp, their own products are special unique flowers and deserve their own license, but to their customers, HashiCorp is just one of dozens or hundreds of vendors. Adding layers of confusion and risk to using their software is not going to encourage anyone to try it out.
Some macro-trends that must have contributed:

* Rise of social media

* Popularity of short-form video

* Significant deceleration in single-core performance gains

* Focus on fashion (e.g. colored LEDs) over performance in computers

* Popularity of smartphones/consoles
I'd like to see these billions
Maybe, but a solitary life doesn't have to be a sad one.
Unsurprising - people don’t pay, and their audience is perhaps a bit more likely to use Adblock, not to mention the decline in news in general.
Multi-Level Feedback Generation with LLMs for Empowering Novice Peer Counselors
Is it possible to upscale image to 64k?: Adima AI Image Upscaler
I came across an exciting development in image processing that could be a game-changer Adima AI Image Upscaler. It’s pushing the boundaries of what's possible by upscaling images from 4k to an incredible 64k resolution in a single step.

This level of upscaling is unprecedented and could redefine industry standards. The ability to expand a 4k image to 64k with outstanding detail and clarity is something that could have wide-reaching implications in fields like digital art, photography, and scientific research.

Key features:

Unprecedented 64k Upscaling: A breakthrough in achieving ultra-high-resolution images.

Batch processing: Efficiently processes multiple images at once.

Advanced filters: Includes noise reduction, sharpening, and color enhancement for superior image quality.

High-performance: Designed for speed and accuracy, even with extremely large files.

This innovation feels like it could be a significant leap forward for anyone dealing with high-resolution images. Curious to hear what others think—are we on the verge of a new standard in image upscaling?
I believe the common problem is when creators who submit their work on HN don’t open with what differentiates their version, thus exhibiting a lack of awareness about existing solutions. And there is a cost in attention for HN readers to figure out if there’s anything new and interesting about the work. There is an expectation that HN submissions should be worth the reader’s while.
Analysis of Greek prehistoric combat in full body armour