skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the default name for the command (sl) conflicts with a command-line tool that's essential for my workflow: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Yes and it's fairly intimidating (but I am a bit squeemish), the "painless" they refer to is that the applicator will have a lot of surface area which pretty much drowns out the pain of the needle prick.

It was painless, but painless does not mean no needle.
Not sure about XBox but PS5 has rest mode to keep updated. Only uses ~3.5W/hour until it’s actively downloading and installing something which means turning it off is basically pointless unless you’re looking at months of inactivity.
I think this ignores that marketing is essentially insidious. The goal is to get you to do more of x. We spend a lot of life building up the mental tools and energy and math skills to understand whether we actually want to do x or whether someone has simply suggested it very strongly.

Asking a 3 year old to develop that mental faculty just because we are a new generation learning new things feels incorrect.
This was wonderfully hard to find out. ChatGPT tells me that NASA employees a detention pond to treat water after a deluge. Found this french post about the construction of it all: http://www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/espace_US/shuttle/ksc/S...

Interestingly, ~70% of the water is evaporated during a launch.

SLS's main engine is hydrolox fueled, so it's byproducts should be water and hydrogen. But the SRBs have a lot of nasty ingredients like perchlorates.
Guidelines for consistent grading in LLM evals
Regarding Python: Official Python docs are actually very readable, and give quite a kickstart in a short amount of time: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
Chickens are indeed dinosaurs by all means, so sure, from chickens.
Poland already has one of the biggest military drone and radio manufacturers - WB Group
Everyone still uses the 'hg' command and edenfs, but I think those are just UI for sapling? I might be mistaken.
> If Russia attacks Poland, there will be a nuclear war.

How do you figure? Even if NATO actually invokes article 5, nuclear doctrines of involved countries do not suppose immediate nuclear escalation from a conventional war. Of course, risk of nuclear war goes up if Russia invades, but it doesn't automatically go all the way to 100%.
Yes, I don't really expect anything beyond "Woah eating sugar raises my sugar".
I wouldn't trust any analysis that SpaceX submits itself given Musk's long history of lying, including right now on this very subject. Others have pointed out problems in the way the water is being sampled (surface water vs ground water) but I'm not an expert. It is certainly possible that no serious contamination has already occurred.

But the way it works is not that you dump stuff out of your factory and then, after getting caught, try to run some tests to show it's okay. It's almost impossible to remove contaminants out of the water after the fact so the way it works is that you go through a process with the government where you show that you are not going to dump contaminants into the ground, then they issue a permit, then you can discharge the water. Otherwise you would have people doing what Musk is doing now, which is to dump the water first and if there is any irreversible contamination say "oops, my bad".
Can you describe in more detail how you achieve 50 contact-hours cost-effectively when students outnumber teachers 30 or 40 to 1?

Can you also substantiate the claim that 50 contact-hours is sufficient for students to become "self-teachers" and that they actually do that?
Yes, you have to declare PRIMARY KEY columns as NOT NULL. There's lots of little caveats like this about SQLite3. So what.
I once again feel that a comparison to humans is fitting.
We are also "trained" on a huge amount of input over a large amount of time.
We will also try to guess the most natural continuation of our current prompt (setting). When asked about things it I can at times hallucinate things I was certain to be true.

It seems very natural to me that large advances in reasoning and logic in AI should come at the expense of output predictability and absolute precision.
Please remember that comments are supposed to get more interesting as they nest more. That guideline helps keep discussions from turning into flamewars or reddit style jokes.
Metabolic entanglement emerges during evolution of a. microbial community
I'm not super up on the latest gaming, but I imagine that procedurally generated in-game characters that you can have a voice conversation with are just around the corner.

The ability to have a conversation with a character with a back story is definitely going to be an interesting addition in the bery near future.
New battery replacement is $99 for pro max models. New Pro Max starts at $1200 goes up to $1600.
No and anything like that is turned off and it's iOS so I trust that they don't do anything behind my back like that.

I also have no social media on my phone, everything is locked down and all the privacy options are enabled.
Record levels of solar-related deaths this year spawned calls for increased research of the sun to identify potential solutions, with some groups calling for sun-related regulation to reduce the shockingly high death tolls, including those related to heatstroke and famine, as well as longer-term issues including skin-cancer. Hurricanes are also considered a major issue given their proximity to the Capitol.

Also at issue is the large amount of the chemical element hydrogen which makes up the sun, which is a significant fire hazard, though some in the scientific community downplay its risk.

The issue is expected to be especially significant in this election year.

Left-wing politicians in Congress are calling for more sun research funding to provide greater clarity on the issues facing voters, though several of their more extreme members have already introduced competing bills to the House floor with proposals to reduce solar intensity, increase shielding around at-risk neighborhoods, or mandate warning labels in key locations.

Conservatives members of Congress deny that the sun is a significant source of risk, or in the event that it is an issue, that Congress should enact legislation to address the problem. "US citizens are aware of the risks, and should be able to exercise their god-given rights to do as they please in the sun."

On the far right end of the spectrum the senator from South Florida has introduced legislation to reclassify hydrogen as helium, an inert gas that poses no burn risk, and has industrial and commercial uses that would be a boon to US industry.

The senator was quoted as saying, "We've got to prevent foreign helium from undercutting the US market, and so my bill would radically increase the supply of this critical element used in birthday balloons while protecting US jobs from unfair competition." The senator had no comment about reports of contributions to his campaign from the American Society for the Suppression of Helium, Oxygen, and Lithium in Energy imports.

/s
All of Big Tech companies use hive repos, I mean monorepos, and Git can’t cope out of the box with that (except maybe at Microsoft since they have some people working on that).
I just don't undertand how Microsoft puts up the pithy 'Game Bar' and calls it a day. Put up a proper entertainment center UI for Windows that integrates stores, I shouldn't have to install Playnite or anything, which has its issues. Make it optional like PowerToys if you wanna be unrealistic about not 'cannibalizing Xbox sales' or some such nonsense. I should be able to game from any store or pop open Netflix without dealing with Windows 11's UI at all.
More accurate than what? Statistics "explanation" is something which is technically correct. But it also doesn't present the full picture — for example, the fact that LLMs clearly build an internal mental model of the question they're talking about.
Unrelated: So what are the leading theories on Voynich?
Wind turbines do not produce a lot of energy in total so you need a lot of them.

Thousands of tons of concrete are poured into the soil for the foundation of one wind turbine, and the foundation is likely never removed, creating ecological implications.

And wind turbines also can not be recycled and go to landfills.

With nuclear energy, the newest 4th generation reactors are closed systems that consume their own nuclear waste, so there is no final disposal problem.
But I don't think those terms are accurate. If I say "John Doe was born in 1987", that's a perfectly sensible sentence, even if I don't actually know when he was born and even if it turns out he was actually born in 1971. A nonsense sentence would be something like "John Doe cat five green explicate" or "h4stga3jkui7rutjdyrst".
You don't have to trust SpaceX. You have to trust " TCEQ, the FAA, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ". Some of those reports are public.
Sorry, I have a lot less faith in corporations, businesses and entrepreneurs than you do.

Those entities only goal is generating ever increasing profits, all else be damned, no matter the harm they cause to society and employees.
An incredible amount of effort was made to avoid spending quality time with their children. Is this something to celebrate?
Big big monorepo and lots of effort invested in making mercurial usable with said monorepo. Off the shelf git wouldn't work. There's also 10+ years of operational experience with the mercurial toolchain and that has some value.
Java does "abstract" the operating system away from you and in systems programming with java you can end up with leaky abstractions.
The process is not some bullshit exercise, it is to prevent contamination of the drinking and food supply.
It's about the supply chain and patents. Japanese companies have cornered the world in both -- if they get traction on these technologies, they are poised to profit much more than they would if say Toyota succeeds at selling full evs.
"listen to what close() says"

and

"don't believe what close() says"

are two different things.

The article is only (initially) talking about the first, and that is valid.

The second is just second-guessing the OS and hardware environment, and is invalid.

Here's the rule to figure out if you need fsync() or not: "If you think you might need fsync(), you don't." ;)

There are almost no cases where you should worry about the underlying layers. Basically if you aren't writing the filesystem itself, then you shouldn't be calling fsync().

You have to check what open()/close() etc said, but if close() said it worked, then it worked. You're done. The fact that lightning might have struck the drive just exactly then is not your problem and not something you should try to do anything about.

Unreliable networks, busses, batteries, etc none of that changes this. Those things all already have their own layers with their own responsibilities to be doing all the necessary testing and verifying and retrying before they return a success code to you.

There is open(...,O_SYNC) and mount -o sync (udev rules) for the case of a camera or thumb drive connect by usb etc.

It's not merely that you don't have to, it's that it's actively wrong to. fsync() is just joggling someone else's elbow while they're trying to do their job, and if it seems to solve some problem, that actually just exposes that you have some logic or order of operations problem and you aren't doing your own job.

"trust the other layer" or "trust the api contract" is unrelated to and does not conflict with "Be forgiving in your inputs and strict in your outputs.".

It just means:

Do: Check the returned error from, say, malloc().

Don't: Get a success from malloc() and then go try to do things to prove that malloc() actually did work.

That would be insane and impossible because it would have to apply equally to everything, including every single keyword or function you would use as part of the verification. How do you know when you so much as set a value to variable that it actually got set? If you printf the variable to prove it, how do you know printf didn't lie?

The logic for trusting close() is no different from the logic for trusting malloc().

Our responsibility is just to stay within the bounds of defined behavior and not make any assumptions about anything that isn't promised.
EDS
I have a PS5 Disc edition and play mostly physical games, so we're looking at what, at least £800 with a disc drive add-on? Insanity.
I love this and I've thought about making something similar just for myself, because I miss fucking around with DVD cases, but I also don't want to own a large library of DVDs and blurays that takes up too much space.

I need to do this finally.
Why I Prefer Exceptions to Error Values
If I can't find an RSS link directly, I generally copy the root URL into archive.org and search for all URLs matching "xml", which includes content type, not just URL names.
Everything about this manuscript is so mysterious, the origins, the language, the plants and other drawings; still not mysterious enough that you would that it would be impossible to find a solution to all of this, I can understand the passion some researchers have for this manuscript, is there anything close to the Voynich manuscript?
Except the press release outlines how they literally have their outflow water tested. Are you lying?
I never said that there isn't need of any further study into LLM's. What I did say is that doing a study in which in which the results are skewed by avoiding using one of the most fundamental best practices for interacting with LLM's, as easily derived from a surface level understanding of one of the most basic principles of LLM's, well that is just irresponsible.

The author clearly had some understanding that context windows could influence their results, but they still decided to release an analysis that does not separate one data gathering technique from the other, allowing them to cherrypick LLM answers from either technique as needed, depending on whether they want to show more or less hallucinations.

It's not that we don't need a study, it's that we don't need bad studies.
I suspect the truth is somewhere in between, but parent's comment that

> By SpaceX's logic any factory would be able to dump toxic water into the ground as long as they sourced the input water from the city's drinking water distribution system.

is patently wrong and unfortunately undermines their entire comment.

I believe SpaceX is stretching the truth and trying to sneak by with improper permits, but also people lying about what SpaceX is doing is not helping keep them in check and gives them ammunition.

Of course water in contact with the flamey end of a rocket has chemicals not found in drinking water, that's not really relevant. What's relevant are the actual levels in that water.
We built a whole type-checker on top of SQL at http://deepchannel.com, even for dbt projects (which are sql templated with jinja). It's a shame the company had to close a year ago.
Imagine the benefit to the child if their parent was sitting next to them reading, or building something together out of blocks
I'm honestly tempted for this very reason
Not according to the tests SpaceX submitted themselves. But if it were you would first show that to the EPA and then they would give you a permit to go ahead.
This looks like a less ergonomic version of Rust's SQLx (https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx) but a more robust version of TypeScript's sqlx-ts (https://jasonshin.github.io/sqlx-ts/). Sqlc seems to copy the latter's unfortunate lack of inline SQL statements. Still, seems promising.
I see it as expensive mostly because we have not had any drop in price this generation.

For example, take last generation. The Xbox One launched at (all USD) $500, $400 without Kinect once that was an option. PS4 launched at $400. The PS4 Pro also later launched at $400, The xbox One X launched at $500.

This is a $200-$280 (including adding the drive) jump in price and the base model is still the same price or more expensive in some places than it was at launch.

On the flip side, I also do worry about what exactly we are seeing from Sony again. We know that Sony can get cocky when they are on top (See PS3, cross play, etc) and make decisions that are not good for gamers. I worry this is a sign that they are going that way again.
Titanium is really soft metal. Stainless Steels can be much much harder than Ti alloys. Or, if they really wanted to make it a luxury item, how about tungsten carbide? I'm not sure why the obsession of Titanium is still a thing, other than I guess consumers don't understand material science.

> maintaining all-day 18-hour battery life

My Garmin Epix Gen2 lasts _literally_ 3 weeks without charging. Granted the app ecosystem between the two isn't really comparable, but the Epix does all of the core functions of any iWatch better... and it has a flashlight.

Once Apple gives up on their "thin" trend and focuses on battery life I'll switch.
Except there is a qualitative difference in the class of knowledge that a statistical word generator and an expert system would generate.

Just because a LLM _can_ offer valuable and insightful information, doesn't mean that it doesn't also hallucinate. The most troubling factor here is that often the hallucinated content also looks like valuable and insightful information, but is just incorrect. This is the use. You have to hold that awareness whenever interacting with these systems.
F1TV and YouTube Live (esports).

YouTube for recap highlight.

Some random sites for soccer.

I mostly discuss with my partner.
The devices I listed slightly miss the mark, they aren’t exactly what the first comment was about (products that violate the purchaser’s privacy be products that violate the privacy of everyone that happens to be around them).

Still though, I think this is part of how the general public experiences privacy violations. Not from some opsec or cryptography point of view. But because privacy violation devices are dorky and attract unwanted attention. They are dorky, because cool, fun things are often illegal or at least you don’t want them recorded and posted to Facebook for your extended family and employers to see. They attract unwanted attention because nobody wants that.
What's New in Unicode 16.0
They mentioned it is the overhead of the hashing that makes it slow compared to the trie.
Every US launch site is next to a de facto or a de jure wildlife refuge.

> requiring months of cleanup

no it didn't.
I imagine this is why in certain fields with a regulatory structure people pop in and out of industry - money, sadly, is that recognition, although it is recognition in the end.
I have been on your site for <60 seconds and have already been blasted with 4 fullscreen popups asking me to subscribe to your newsletter. No thanks.
They have had years to apply for the permits, no fast tracking was necessary, they just didn't feel like doing it.
Linux 2.6 internals were very different from 2.4 internals which were hugely different from 2.2. Programming for the three was almost like targeting 3 different kernels.
Half of builders went out of business in 2008 and 1/3 left the trades.

We only just recently reached the level of new home starts we were hitting pre great-recession.

We have a decade's worth of supply deficit and in most locale's aren't doing much to overcome this.
Hallucination is creativity when you don't want it.

Creativity is hallucination when you do want it.

A lot of the "reduction" of hallucination is management of logprobs, of which fancy samplers like min_p do more to improve LLM performance than most, despite no one in the VC world knowing or caring about this technique.

If you don't believe me, you should check out how radically different an LLMs outputs are with even slightly different sampling settings: https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling/index.xhtml
I don't own a car or need one so yes that.
If you teach your children to treat everything gently from birth, they won’t even know how to abuse things. They’ve never learned it.
For anyone else confused why it's assuming I've got an Indian passport when all I indicated is that I have Schengen access: this website is specifically for when you have an Indian passport and the selected visa(s). Note the .in domain. Or just read the text which says "designed for Indian passport holders". Don't be like me.
https://www.eff.org/issues/legislative-solutions-patent-refo...
I expect their plan is to deploy this in rental car fleets. You won’t earn a discount but the rental car company will get a kickback from Ford for their fleet purchase. Think RyanAir but cars.
Zirconia kitchen knives are very hard and they are less fragile than diamond.

They have the advantage of keeping a sharp edge for a much longer time than steel blades, but they cannot be sharpened again with simple tools and for some purposes it may be inconvenient that the zirconia blades cannot be made as thin as the best steel blades, due to the risk of breakage, and there are also less choices of blade forms, e.g. there are no bird's beak zirconia blades, which is the best shape for peeling and paring vegetables.

High-quality zirconia kitchen knives, like those made by Kyocera, are very pleasant to work with. Diamond blades could not feel much different, even if they should remain sharp for a longer time, but with a higher risk of breakage when mishandled.
Show HN: AI Election Predictor – Test Your Voting Demographic
I've built an MVP that uses AI to predict voting patterns based on demographic data. You can try it here without signup: https://tinyvotes.com/

What it does:
- Input parameters like age, gender, state, county, education, and income
- AI predicts and classifies voting choice for that demographic
- Global counter shows aggregated voting statistics

Tech stack:
- Frontend: Vite for fast development and optimized builds
- Backend: Firebase ecosystem
- Firestore for real-time database
- Cloud Functions for serverless logic
- Cloud Storage for parameter and prediction logging
- Firebase Hosting for deployment
- AI: Leveraging both Grok and Gemini for predicting and classification

Why I built this:
- Curious about the intersection of AI and political forecasting
- Wanted to create a tool that could potentially offer more granular insights than traditional polling
- As an immigrant, I'm fascinated by the diverse political landscape of the US - This project helps me (and potentially others) understand the complexity of American demographics and voting patterns

Some interesting findings so far:
1. Not everyone in California votes for the Democrats, contrary to popular belief
2. The combination of younger age, female gender, and lower income shows a higher probability of being undecided
3. Most intriguingly, the AI sometimes predicts "undecided" as an outcome, despite not being explicitly prompted with this option. This showcases the LLM's ability to capture nuanced political stances beyond simple binary choices.

I'm particularly interested in:
1. How accurate do you think this kind of tool can be?
2. What are the ethical implications of such predictions?
3. How might this impact traditional polling methods?

All feedback welcome - on the concept, implementation, or potential use cases.
In the same vein, text magnification should be also tied to parental permission?

I mean sure, parents should know about such problems, but I think should rather come from visiting a doctor, when the parent notices health issues.
That's why I never get the Max and wish the Mini had seen further improvements.
LÖVR (MIT) was posted last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41446248
Thanks for the downvotes for pointing out that, as part of the target market for this product, I scratch my head a bit as it touches more in the PC territory than cheaper consoles did in the past. If you bought both this and the PS5 you're already at ~$1200, and a great PC build can be had for close to that. I think it's totally legitimate to point out this starts to encroach on the pc's territory.
1. Anything that in YAML that is not explicitly a number, add
quotes to ensure it is treated as a string.

2. Use monotonically increasing variables for versions of software.