skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are only so many places you can put your money--treasuries, bonds, real estate, equities, precious metals, crypto. With interest rates going down, fixed-income looks a lot less interesting, so... real estate? Equities?
Disgruntled are the Crowdstrike customers that had to deal with the outage. These employees have a lot of reputation to lose for coming forward. Crowstrike is a disgrace of a company and many others like it are doing the same behaviors but they just haven't gotten caught yet. Software development has become a disgrace when the bottom line of squeezing margins to please investors took over.
I've seen a hawk take down a rabbit, it's buddy right next to him ran around in circles for a bit because it was worried, and then started eating grass again as the hawk was pulling out the entrails that it didn't want right next to it. Definitely no mourning.
Tangent:

> PostgreSQL developers are oposed to query execution hints, because if a human knows a better way to execute a query, the devs want to put that knowledge into the planner.

This thinking represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the problem (query plan optimization).

Query plan optimization is a combinatorial problem combined with partial information (e.g. about things like cardinality) that tends to produce worse results as complexity (and search space) increases due to limited search time.

Avoiding hints won't solve this problem because it's not a solvable problem any more than the traveling salesperson is a solvable problem.
Awesome - very cool project!
Yes. It was a manufacturing facility and since the products were photosensitive the entire line operated in total darkness. It was two months before they turned the lights on and I could see what I was programming for.

This was the first place I saw standups. [Edit: this was the 1990s] They were run by and for the "meat", the people running the line. "Level 2" only got to speak if we were blocked, or to briefly describe any new investigations we would be undertaking.

Weirdly (maybe?) they didn't drug test. I thought of all the places I've worked, they would. But they didn't. They were firmly committed to the "no SPOFs" doctrine and had a "tap out" policy: if anyone felt you were distracted, they could "tap you out" for the day. It was no fault. I was there for six months and three or four times I was tapped out and (after the first time, because they asked what I did with my time off the first time) told to "go climb a rock". I tapped somebody out once, for what later gossip suggested was a family issue.
bug or feature?
Don't ask if AI can make art – ask how AI can be art
had missed it, thx.

Sir William, had he been in Uncle Sam's service, would've been a "mustang": the DoD equivalent of a brumby (and apparently uncommon —to the point of uniqueness?— in His Majesty's service).
We usually don’t think much about duplicate city names in America, but we sure notice that you‘ve taken all of ours!
yes, these are perfect examples. I was going to add people like Jordan Peterson here in Canada, but now I’m not sure if he’s entirely different. Maybe he would have qualified as a philosopher worth teaching people 2000 years ago. He’s certainly intelligent. Perhaps his model of gathering attention is the part that’s different, yet even that I’m not entirely sure of… But people like him do seem to be part of that new phenomenon that the internet has enabled.
> Perfection is the enemy of good.

Where exactly did I write anything about perfection? For me "AIs" are incapable of producing working code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41534233
Imho, your take isn’t as “petty” as it is goofy and unproductive. I’m saying this as someone who has rejected social media entirely and deleted it off of my devices like 10 years go.
The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville has these. Bad sound but the directionality works well. Want one of these in the bathroom so I can take a long shower and listen to podcasts without waking up my lovely wife.
In a huge library, just the time it would take to physically hunt down the sources (providing they weren't checked out), would eat up some portion of that unless you're actually running around. I'm surprised they didn't ask for a phone number and call them back, but that would have meant the library paying the phone bill back in those days.
Ah! I misread the parent, if thought he meant `if command` to look for a random command (e.g. `if grep`)
so, basically, beamforming but for sound ?
Claimants in LifeLabs health data-breach class action to get $7.86 each
> Excluding humanity of course

Only 14.4% of humans on earth [0] don't believe in some religion, meaning the majority feel that you don't actually die, but just go somewhere else.

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/374704/share-of-global-p...
Their laptop looks nice, too.
Iran successfully launches indigenous Chamran 1 satellite into space
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google employees support California AI bill
I don't touch crypto, but one thing I took away from its rise is thinking through what money actually is and what equity valuations actually represent.
Phil's writing on OS development is always a wonderful read.
That looks like a snippet from a command session which is a perfectly great place to be using sh syntax.

If it became unwieldy you’d turn it into a script:

#!/bin/sh

beautify() {
sed -e ‘
s/ugly/beautiful/g
…other stuff
‘
}

select() {
awk ‘
{print $2, $4}
…other stuff
‘
}

mycommand | beautify | select

For me, now it’s starting to look like it could be safer to do these things in a real language.
I'm saying that a (different) regulation, standard, and inspection, should apply to the whole software bill of materials, as it relates to the critical-ness of the product. Like, if security is important, the security-critical components should be inspected/tested. That's how you build a building safely: the nails are built to a certain specification and the nail vendor signs off on that.
Weir may have invented a new genre: STEMcore. His narrator-protagonists face a series of puzzles which they resolve with imaginative STEM skills and... well, that's most of it. I mean, he sets up a pretty good near-future world and gives the protagonist one big problem to resolve that helps drive tension (making it a quick read), but ultimately you're reading a short story that ate a physics textbook.
Nesting Allocators (2023)
It might be useful to stop looking up “property” in dictionaries and encyclopedias, and instead learn what the word means.
he did try to gain financially. he forked bitcoin into Bitcoin Satoshi Vision.
Chinese-made port cranes in US included 'backdoor' modems, House report says
Zip-Stream-CLI: Stream, Extract, and View ZIP File Contents in Your Terminal
Zip-Stream-CLI is a powerful Node.js tool that allows users to stream, extract, and view the contents of ZIP files directly in the terminal without needing to download the entire archive. With support for various file types like audio, images, PDFs, text, and code, the tool is highly extensible through a modular handler system. Whether you're dealing with large archives or just want a quick preview, Zip-Stream-CLI provides a seamless experience for developers and power users who need to access ZIP content quickly and efficiently.
That means people still buy books, not that they still read. What percentage of people who bought Atomic Habits got past the first chapter? Completion rate may have been very different 20 years ago.
Grace Hopper – Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (1982)
No BYD?
For one thing a technology that puts immersive worlds into the hands of ordinary people could make immersive worlds much more interesting.
A catastrophe reveals the ecological and monetary value of vultures
I'm building a language learning app based on podcasts and I used "The Podcast Index" first but, as I understand, The Podcast Index is not currently scraping Apple and many of the podcasts in their index are dead. For better or worse Apple podcasts is the "de facto" index of podcasts, so I had to build my own podcast index based on itunes data.

You can see a comparison of the different indexes (indices?) at https://podcastindustryinsights.com/
He attempted to sue Bitcoin core devs to alter the algorithm to hand over Satoshi's coins. On the basis that he lost the keys and that the maintainers have a duty to him to help him recover them.

Every part of the lawsuit was just batshit insane. The most insane part was that an UK court allowed the lawsuit to be heard, and forced dozens of people not living in UK to pay big money to defend themselves.
Well said!

I am already in the latter half of my fifties and find articles/discussions like these irksome and a sad reflection on the state of knowledge of the Programmers today.

Everything is merely cookie cutter recipes, patterns, cute jargons/acronyms, a general lack of understanding of computation models/paradigms, an inability to disambiguate actual concepts from language constructs, a lack of knowledge of fundamentals/important nuances all of which leads to simplistic cargo-culting.

There seems to be no emphasis on thinking through the problem and a solution but only an eagerness to reach for the latest faddish framework/library/pattern to put together something and "make it work". Reminds me of Tesla's observation on Edison;

“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.”
Probably to discourage spam
ahh okay, I thought we were still in progress on that one. We haven’t really stopped since we started, so it’s kind of kind one big miserable period.
We'll just need to set an orange traffic cone on every hood, if Cruise is any indication.
> And the CEO based out of wherever but not Seattle is just a huge spit into everyone's face.

The news reported that the new CEO said he chose to be based in Seattle.

From Seattle Times:

Kelly Ortberg, the new CEO of Boeing whose appointment was announced Wednesday morning, has chosen to be based in Seattle.
How America's universities became debt factories
There are real dragons handling AsyncException vs Exception, with extremely poor ecosystem understanding about how to deal with them properly.

There's also the huge performance divergence between IO exceptions (fast) vs a mtl stack built around Either which will have huge problems successfully inlining and thus be slowwww.

Indeed this is a great example of how Haskell can have serious performance issues in areas that would never occasion a second look in other mature GP langs. Who ever heard of well-modelled error handling having performance problems? Only In HaskellTM
Fwiw lrad is regular speakers. Not ultrasound. Just tweeters.
This reminds me of when I played around with laser diodes as a kid (of course to burn random things).

I ordered a powerful green laser diode from eBay, wired it up and pointed it at some black paper, hit record on the camera, excitedly connected the battery and... nothing. I checked the wiring, all was good. I looked in the end of the diode, I could see a faint red glow inside, but nothing else. I must've got a dud unit.

Later I looked at the recording and my heart sank. When past me connected the battery, the room immediately lit up with a bright white glow. The diode emmitted an intense beam of infrared light... and I pointed that thing directly at my eye.

There wasn't a wider point to that, this just reminded me and I wanted to share. I suppose be careful of what you can't see.

I got lucky. That sort of thing can cause big problems. Especially those that stay unnoticed until old age. Hearing is also one of those.
This must be clarified -- I was talking about the CHIPS Act money, not the new money mentioned in the linked article. Has the CHIPS Act money not been disbursed yet?
Noted, appreciate your opinion.

The OP says in the signup that if you meet up in person and tweet a photo, he'll re-tweet you through the meet.hn x handle. Sounds benign, and it mostly is.

I'm just personally uncomfortable supporting an otherwise good cause wherein x.com gets more attention and data about the good folks on HN, because I really don't trust them and their data governance.
Because Starlink is an ISP and refused to follow the judges order to block x.
It’s a bit more complicated. POSIX shell != bash, for example the default shell (/bin/sh) on macOS is now zsh, on Ubuntu it’s dash. Bash may still be installed, but may be years older than 2024. At a certain point, you’re better off embracing a dependency that just does everything better, like Python or Oil shell, for example.
For one reason or another, the drives tended to age out at the same time. Firmware bugs are just hardware failures for solid state devices.
Tesla's sales were mostly in cities (where people still buy sedans), and they were mostly taking away business from foreign manufacturers.
I worked with a group of other Americans in a part of Switzerland for a bit and we noticed that, even on relatively busy roads, if we even approached the curb from the sidewalk, cars would all come to a stop. Even if no formal cross walk area was nearby.
Podcasts should be thought of as limited runs, not like never ending radio programs. That's just the reality, regardless of the original intentions.

I think the move to announced seasons is a good middle ground. It tempers expectations and gives creators a break or stopping point.
Reference areas were (and some still are) situated near tremendous libraries of reference books (like Encyclopedias, telephone directories, almanacs, etc.) and those were usually sufficient to address many of the types of questions the author lists. If you ever go to a rare book library, like the Lilly at Indiana University, the Beinecke at Yale, etc. (which you can visit for free!), the old school rare books librarians are still adept at using their reference books to answer questions pertaining to their trade. Those reference books are also highly sought after by said librarians and other book collectors.
"Design It Twice"?
Where Humans and Neanderthals Mated
Investigating Cleo
For me the best way was always personal recommendations from friends, sometimes also if a host of one show was a guest on another one.

I tried to build a better way to see what my friends are listening to with https://lastcast.fm, but I've since shut down the project.
> "Designed" is not right. What gives "AI models" (i.e. deep neural nets) a hard time is that there are very few examples in the public training and evaluation set

No, he actually made a list of cognitive skills humans have and is targeting them in the benchmark. The list of "Core Knowledge Priors" contains Object cohesion, Object persistence, Object influence via contact, Goal-directedness, Numbers and counting, Basic geometry and topology. The dataset is fit for human ease of solving, but targets areas hard for AI.

> "A typical human can solve most of the ARC evaluation set without any practice or verbal explanations. Crucially, to the best of our knowledge, ARC does not appear to be approachable by any existing machine learning technique (including Deep Learning), due to its focus on broad generalization and few-shot learning, as well as the fact that the evaluation set only features tasks that do not appear in the training set."
Then it would need a GPS-backed proof to allow more location changes while preventing abuse. There's always an intended use case and corner cases which could be handled via support ticket, thus passing through human judgement.

If there is a secure app on your phone, then how can you have multiple accounts?
Oh, I see. Makes sense. I wonder if dust really can infiltrate a drive? Hmm.
Well, in this case, we know one side (pro-company) fucked up big time. The other side (anti-company) may or may not have fucked up.

That makes it easier to trust one side over another.
Disney, DirecTV strike deal and end dispute, restoring access to ESPN, ABC, etc.
Twitter/X keeps spamming me with NSFW things so I deleted it
For 68k, MinivMac seems pretty darn great?
While I agree with this, I have quite a few cheap items bought at NewYorker (a European fast fashion chain) that have long outlasted “quality” brands that cost 5-10x as much.

It seems like even long standing brands have enshittified to the point where fast fashion doesn’t seem much worse quality-wise.
> In one instance, the lawyers set about trying to disprove the legitimacy of handwritten notes. ... Sherrell’s team tracked down the printer of the notepad in China, proving that the exact version of that notebook had not been released until years after Wright’s claims.

lol
Exactly. A _person_. That's enough information to satisfy curiosity. No need to publish exact names.
So, what do you do once you’re on the map and so are other people?
And if you're domain is really worth that much, you can sell it before it expires.
If you want a great script user experience, I highly recommend avoiding the use of pipefail. It causes your script to die unexpectedly with no output. You can add traps and error handlers and try to dig out of PIPESTATUS the offending failed intermediate pipe just to tell the user why the program is exiting unexpectedly, but you can't resume code execution from where the exception happened. You're also now writing a complicated ass program that should probably be in a more complete language.

Instead, just check $? and whether a pipe's output has returned anything at all ([ -z "$FOO" ]) or if it looks similar to what you expect. This is good enough for 99% of scripts and allows you to fail gracefully or even just keep going despite the error (which is good enough for 99.99% of cases). You can also still check intermediate pipe return status from PIPESTATUS and handle those errors gracefully too.
Not sure why this is downvoted. It is well documented that most cheap android tv boxes have more or less the same trojan preinstalled. Is it due to malice of the manufacturer or most of them seemingly all taking the same pre-infected android base , who knows.

Linus Tech Tips made a full video on the subject. They seem to lean to the second option.
> But there seems to be an emergent discourse in fandom about the legitimacy of the authorial position.

My impression is that this is more a consequence of the rise of sequels (and prequels) than of interactive media, in combination with the internet facilitating fans to communicate with each other at an unprecedented level. The longer a franchise is going on, the more likely it is for it to become incoherent and to diverge from the expectations of those who absorbed the previous installments, in particular (but not only) if different leading creatives are involved over time.
> If multiple actors can play Hamlet, why can't there be multiple interpretations of Kirk?

Just don’t call it “Hamlet”! Copyright infringement aside, Star Trk wasn’t that great, as Charles suggests, it was all we had.
If I don't know their username, how can I look at what they post about? I think lots of people on HN are curious and inquisitive by nature
Swift Deployments: Are They Swift or Recklessly Rushed?
I'm not sure which part of Arthurian legend your mentioning as original here, because Arthurian legends are... A rather deep well with no real canon as such. In the oldest versions, there is no sword in the stone, for example [0].

Along that line, Lancelot, who everyone knows, was a self-insert fanfic at one point. [1]

[0] L'Estoire des Engles

[1] Lancelot, le Chevalier de la charrette
> Would you pay 10x (or more, even) for these systems?

if it's critical to your business, then yes; but you quickly find out whether or not it's actually critical to your business or whether it's something you can do without
Isn’t the entire idea of the podcast index that they aren’t relying on a single platform for their source of truth? Podcasts are decentralized by design so in theory all links to podcasts should be scrape-able in some way (just as Google scrapes websites). One of the sites the podcast index should scrape is Apple, but it should by no means be limited to a single platform.
I’m not sure if you’ve seen the news over the past decade, but most low cost labor countries like China are aeons ahead in automation. They’re just optimizing further and further, while the West just offshores and outsources everything.
> A legal notice on Wright’s website¹ now states that he is not Satoshi and that he has been ordered not to carry out any more legal proceedings based on these false claims.

I can see the notice, but how does that work? Did the court order that specific phrasing and page? Have they seized the domain? Are they going to run it indefinitely? Is there anything stopping Craig from purchasing a new domain and using that?

¹ https://craigwright.net
Nice little thing, congrats to shipping :)

I find it ironic that there are many cities with N hackers on meet.hn, yet most are not attaching any way of contacting them, nor do their profile have a way to contact them.

How are you (the people without contact details) expecting us to meet you if you don't add a way of meeting you? :)
the listed dp strategy fails if you consider a related problem where we collapse the list of pins every time we hit any so that surviving pins remain adjacent to each other. in this modified problem, you can get a score of 2 with [-1, 1, -1] by hitting the center pin, then hitting both remaining pins, whereas in the original problem you can only hit the center pin in the optimal sequence.

a naive approach would involve looking at the 2**n set of "which pins are remaining", but I think you can do this in quadratic time with dp with the observation that you can only take r_{ij} iff you knock down all the pins in between i and j, and that necessarily precludes taking r_{kl} for i < k < j < l, so you can do a sub-dp to find the optimal value of knocking down those in-between pins.

can we do better than quadratic for this related problem? wait, also, I think my solution only requires a linear scan in addition to the recursive call but if we're not careful I think it quickly becomes cubic.
This looks awesome!

Many languages are missing visual UI editor, and also a good GUI framework. Are there any plans to add support for other languages besides javascript/typescript? is it possible with community contributions? Like go, zig, C#, C++, etc... ?
Those guys are just scroll urchins. Those in the know will tell you the real clackers are Winton, Carlton and Emery of the Smoking Gnu.
Well, the timeline of when the apocalypse happened is a bit weird -- like did it happen in the lifetime of Max himself or not? And is Max supposed to be exactly the same person in each movie? I'm not even talking about the actor change in Fury Road -- I mean in the first he's living in a grim near-future (but not destroyed) Australia, and the following movies present an ever more sophisticated post-apocalyptic society with their own cultures and traditions that would need time to evolve. It isn't even clear if the characters in the recent two even know about pre-war civilization. One of the trailers for Furiosa claims that it is set 70 years after the apocalypse. So how could she have met young Max in Fury Road? He'd be in his 90s at least.
Would be trivial to prove but he can't. Like saying you own a particular house but you don't have the key to the front door.