skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Points to be noted.

1. It took the end of ZIRP era for people to realize the undue complexity of many fancy tools/frameworks. The shitshow would have continued unabated as long as cheap money was in circulation.

2. Most seasoned engineers know for the fact that any abstractions around the basic blocks like compute, storage, memory and network come with their own leaky parts. And that knowledge and wisdom helps them make the suitable trade-offs. Those who don't grok them, shoot themselves in the foot.

Anecdote on this. A small sized startup doing B2B SaaS was initially running all their workloads on cheap VPSs incurring a monthly bill of around $8K. The team of 4 engineers that managed the infrastructure cost about $10K per month. Total cost:$8K. They made a move to 'cloud native' scene to minimize costs. While the infra costs did come down to about $6K per month, the team needed new bunch of experts who added about another $5K to the team cost, making the total monthly cost $21K ($6K + $10K + $5K). That plus a dent to the developer velocity and the release velocity, along with long windows of uncertainty with regards to debugging complex stuff and challenges. The original team quit after incurring extreme fatigue and just the team cost has now gone up to about $18K per month. All in all, net loss plus undue burden.

Engineers must be tuned towards understanding the total cost of ownership over a longer period of time in relation to the real dollar value achieved. Unfortunately, that's not a quality quite commonly seen among tech-savvy engineers.

Being tech-savvy is good. Being value-savvy is way better.
Interior designers hoard incandescent bulbs amid LED takeover
In a sense, it could be described as "fast thinking" and "deep thinking."
It's really surface vs. volume representations. Blender, Maya, and most 3D graphics programs, define surfaces. Modern 3D CAD programs such as FreeCAD, Fusion, and SolidWorks use constructive solid geometry, where everything is a volume. There are exceptions - SketchUp was a constructive solid geometry program, and original AutoCAD was just lines.

The big difference comes when you combine objects or operate on them. Surface-based programs are not that good at combining surfaces. CSG-based programs have to be really good at combining volumes, including subtracting from them. This requires a very difficult geometry program underneath.
> During the work day I need to provide results not just learn, or my employer isn’t benefiting from me in a way that justifies my salary

This is the thing to change. Make time on the job, or find a new job where you can do a reasonable amount of learning on the job. If salary is your highest priority, I’d suggest to change that as well.
The one example I can think of with a pre-seeded dictionary (for web, no less) is Brotli.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7932#appendix-A

You can more or less see what it looks like (per an older commit): https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/5692e422da6af1e991f918...

Certainly it performs better than gzip by itself.

Some historical discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19678985
I understand MySpace but what did IFTTT get beaten by?
Public funded, public benefiting space missions.
I think Doom in ascii is the closest yet https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii
So is the time passed since the release of MGS2 and the time between TPP and the tanker incident :)
Uh, what exactly do you think is "agreed" here? My claim is that idempotent processing can produce exactly-once delivery, and so the original claim that you "cannot have exactly-once delivery" is false.
You're just not being imaginative enough.

An example just off the top of my head is a game where you have to fight a medusa by relying on shadows/reflections only because if you look at it directly, you're literally petrified. Attempting to do that without proper ray tracing simply wouldn't be good enough.
People with low vision sometimes use glasses that are a little similar to this but are actual bifocals. The bottom component is ordinary glasses while the top component is telescopic. The telescopic component's focus can be changed, but it's manual. With special training, such glasses can allow¹ people who are otherwise too visually impaired to qualify for a driver's license to receive a limited driver's license with special training.

Glasses like those in TFA might be easier for drivers to adapt to, and their autofocus mechanisms might also be reusable for proper bioptic lenses, if that proves to be better for driving for one reason or another (i.e., some people actually need magnification, not just differentiated focus). I imagine if the manufacturer ever gets approval for such uses, those customers won't care too much what the glasses look like.

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1: https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/what-to-know-about-driving-...
This is the latest news I could find about snapdragon support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-SoC-Platforms

EDIT: looking at the tree of 6.11, these 2 laptops are still the only "supported"† ones

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

† as in bootable, but still don't work fully (e.g. touchpad not working, battery monitoring not working, camera not working, usb/hdmi not working fully)
Funny it just wrote this for me:

fn parse_image_url(html: &str) -> Option<String> {
let re = regex::Regex::new(r#"src="([^"]+)""#).ok()?;
re.captures(html)
.and_then(|caps| caps.get(1))
.map(|m| m.as_str().to_string())
}

Prompt was "write a function which extracts image urls from a given block of html"
SEEKING WORK | Lahore,Pakistan | Remote Location: Lahore/ Pakistan
Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies:

Frontend: JavaScript, typescript, html ,css, angular, angularJs, react, html, css

Backend:Python, Django, Django REST Framework, Celery, node js,nestJs

Email:abdurleo91@gmail.com

Resume:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BAzoLy9PVRRwcOPUDKmklx6y5BM...
If you aren't able to challenge yourself at your job through your work, I'd suggest you talk to your boss and say you're feeling you could do more and see if you can move to another role, or look for a new job entirely.

It's really hard to do much productive thinking outside of a full time job. Trying will make you burn out pretty hard. Use that time to fullfill the needs your job can't. Go to the gym, socialize, etc.
How did this guy not know how large language models work? Fancy compression algorithm for all written knowledge, how could it invent that which was not an input ?
Well that's the thing, there is a tiny market for your art historian or english Phd or whatever humanities specialty. And to get english professors you need english Phds and english students, who need an english professor. there is a need albeit a small one.

the universities also fairly say "choose your major we can't choose it for you"

so if too many people go for that english degree, at best you can make them aware the job market is tiny. But it is their choice to take their shot at their passion, a hypercompetitive field, not far different than being a hollywood actor.

the issue isn't any of that, that's all fine, the issue is why does it cost a gorillion dollars to get that english BA degree.

the spirit of it all is "pure learning is purely good, let us have you learn", and so we have english majors, that's all fine spirited, the issue is somewhere along the line someone at this so-called non-profit decided it costs 9999 gorillion dollars to reimburse the educator for this degree
What kind of battery are you imagining doesn't eventually degrade?
For certain input distributions, a guaranteed output bandwidth is impossible. For instance, suppose that you had a function that, given a vector of N integers chosen uniformly from (0,1,2), returns a single unbiased output bit. Then, exactly half of the 3^N input vectors would correspond to each output bit. But this is impossible, since 3^N is always odd, so this (0,1,2)-function cannot exist for any fixed N.

Now, suppose that you had a function that turned N input bits with a 1:2 bias into a single bit with no bias. Then you could use this to implement an (0,1,2)-function as above, by collapsing inputs 1 and 2 into input 1. Since such an (0,1,2)-function is impossible, the 1:2-biased function is similarly impossible.

This argument holds for any i.i.d. input source that can be generated from a uniform-integer source with an odd number of possible values.
How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
The page explains how to send some data collected by some program to some host, but not what exactly that data is (uptime duration only or also load information or identifying information?) for what purpose and what that server does with it.
FfGEMM: Finite Field GEMM for Matmuls
Yeah, it's not a great standard choice, pretty much any alternative is going to be nicer.

But the difference is relatively small, because I'd rather be using GUIs for anything nontrivial.
The point is that the battery is a consumable part. It should be easy to replace.

Not everyone lives near an Apple Store, and phones are so essential to people that they're not likely to be prepared to mail their phone off for service.
Modern CSS reset is Flutter
I think the point was the difficulty and expense of replacement, not that the battery degrades.
The OP didn't imagine non-degradable batteries, just easily replaceable ones.
Why did you throw Tor in there?
The very cool Bonsai dealer(?) I once bought a tree from summed the bonsai pruning tips for my limited memory as, (1) no criss-crossing branches, (2) nothing pointing down, and so far, those have proved very useful to me, but I've enjoyed reading more and more styles.
Crisis at Jewish Chronicle as stories based on 'wild fabrications' are withdrawn
How would you know the original site if it's a common asset?
The batteries are now designed to be replaced. See iFixit’s teardown of recent devices.
>But they want to sell entire $1000+ phone upgrades, not replacement batteries.

A comment like this is on every iPhone story and once again I have to ask, who the heck is willing to keep their phone if they can buy a $30 replacement battery on Amazon, but also would rather pay $1000+ for a replacement phone instead of buying a $120 battery replacement from Apple or less at any number of 3rd party mall vendors?

And how many of these people are there that the income they generate from buying a new phone every 2 years that they could have otherwise replaced the battery in if only there were $30 amazon replacements is enough for Apple to be purposefully with no other reason assembling the phones the way they do?
I like sports, not spectator sports. Sports exist to be played, not watched religiously. It's one thing for you to watch your kid or husband or wife play, sitting down watching a TV show is off putting to me.

When I'm around men that talk sports teams, wear sports jerseys and that, I just kind of zone out. It's just a circus to me. I get that it can be a fun time. I don't get why someone would absorb it (or any fandom really) into their identity. Very strange thing to me.

Also, I'm convinced that all professional sports are fixed and that there's a lot more going on off camera than we think. I think that's true of anything worth a lot of money that happens in the public eye.
I'm glad you like his style! I find him incredibly approachable and clear for some of the reasons you outlined above. He also take great pains to be a clear communicator, which you can see in pieces of media like his appearance on Sean Carroll's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0evRaWV_HU

Anyway, I was not a philosophy undergraduate and so a lot of my exposure was either to popular level works (surveys, etc), or big historical names (Descartes, Hume, Plato), or to very specific areas of research (I was big into metaphysics and philosophy of mind "realists", like Chalmers, Searle, Flanagan etc), and skepticism about intuition, or sense-data, or even skepticism about a priori truths had just never really occurred to me. That's more of a self-own than anything, but we first-years in grad school had a course together where someone in the dept. would take us thru a deep dive in a very specific area by way of a brand new book. For example, the year prior to my arrival they read thru a "Climbing the Mountain", an early draft of the book that would eventually become Parfit's "On What Matters".

Anyway, my year all picked "Describing Inner Experience", and this would become my introduction to an ultimately useful view that opened the world of CogSci to me since assumptions I had (which can probably be described at Cartesian) no longer posed powerful arguments against a more empirically-minded look into how the mind works. So, folks that I previously disregarded like Dennett, Wittgenstein, the Churchlands, were now gateways into Smolensky, Prinz, Carruthers, etc.
I didn't say or, I think, even imply that "any metaphor will do". And I'm also not saying that war doesn't exist, or that dancing will somehow replace war.

I said "it's certainly possible to use different metaphors to describe or model the same situation." Then I described some situations where dance, not war or physical conflict, is used to settle disagreements.
That's a problem of aim, not spray formation, and thus beyond my expertise. The Rayleigh regimes produce large droplets (mainly diameters similar to the orifice) and not a finer spray that could go everywhere.

Also: Peeing into only the bowl won't necessarily minimize the mess. Air gets "entrained" into the water and that creates splatter. Best practice is to target the porcelain inside the bowl (just above the water line) and adjust the distance so that the stream has broken up less as droplets will create more splatter than a solid stream.
I mean, that's a 4 controller console vs 2 controller consoles... Games were made with that in mind. Can't have everyone on a PC but there are obviously beloved multiplayer PC games.
Tiling is old news, bring on scrollable window managers.

I honestly think scrollable VM is the future of window management. It just make sense to arrange windows like that instead of cram multiple opened windows in a fixed area.
Of the 40 or so definitions of consciousness, I have no reason to think any is either necessary nor sufficient for any of the things we want AI to do that Transformer models can't (or can but badly and we want them to do better).
How easy would it be to add AR to this in future? It seems like small enough that you would not need too much extra mass from displays.
I thought the issue with this nowadays was that hardware support for suspend-to-ram has been increasingly removed from hardware.

At the same time, S3 sleep worked just fine on supported hardware 10 years ago. So what does suspend-to-ram have to do with Linux 6.11 in particular?
Microsoft plan to end kernel-level anti-cheat could be massive for Linux Gaming
> still vulnerable to two generals

What makes you think the 2GP is relevant here? The 2GP has to do with coordination and consensus, not exactly-once delivery.

> TCP is implemented in the kernel with a buffer, the kernel responds with ACKs before an application reads the data.

True. Why do you think that matters?

> There is no guarantee that the application reads from that buffer

So? What does that have to do with exactly-once delivery? Even if the application does read the data, there's no guarantee that it does anything with it afterwards.

> The kernel is handling at-least-once delivery with the network boundary and turning it into at-most-once with the process boundary.

OK, if that's how you're defining your terms, I agree that you cannot have exactly-once delivery. But that makes it a vacuous observation. You can always get at-most-once delivery by disconnecting the network entirely. That provides a 100% guarantee that no message will be delivered more than once (because no message will ever be delivered at all). But that doesn't seem very useful.
I got fitted with these last year after finally losing the ability to focus on small text at reasonable distances. They work shockingly well for me. I don’t recall there being any period of adjustment at all.
If you have time to compute geometry multiple times in one frame, don't you have room to just increase fps?
> designed to be replaced

With which effort?

> See iFixit’s teardown of recent devices

Care to provide a link?
> If arguably the person with the highest IQ currently living, is impressed but still not fully satisfied that a computer doesn’t give Nobel prize winning mathematical reasoning

No offense, but every part of this characterization is really unserious! He says "the model proposed the same strategy that was already identified in the most recent work on the problem (and which I restated in the blog post), but did not offer any creative variants of that strategy." That's very different from what you're suggesting.

The way you're talking, it sounds like it'd be actually impossible for him to meaningfully say anything negative about AI. Presumably, if he was directly critical of it, it would only be because his standards as the world's smartest genius must simply be too high!

In reality, he's very optimistic about it in the future but doesn't find it useful now except for basic coding and bibliography formatting. It's fascinating to see how this very concrete and easily understood sentiment is routinely warped by the Tao-as-IQ-genius mythos.
> 710kg for the Deutsche vehicle is only for the payload, that doesn't include the weight of the vehicle

for StreetScooter Work
Curb/Unladen Weight: 1,275 kg (2,811 lbs)
Max Laden Weight (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating): 2,130 kg (4,696 lbs)

NGDV with an ICE (according to the OP)
Curb/Unladen Weight: 2,523 kg (5,560 lbs)

> I found a PDF fact sheet for the vehicle

That datasheet appears to be for the Work L which is a different model: "Shown in September 2016 at the IAA Commercial Vehicles trade fair, the Work L prototype is a longer and slightly higher vehicle with almost double the cargo volume"[0]

> I wouldn't be suprised if that comes down to a combination of capacity, safety requirements, and maybe top speed needs in the US compared to the average European city

I'm not able to judge capacity or safety requirements, but the Work's maximum speed is 120 km/h (75mph).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter
I don't think "dorky" is the right word for these glasses. Anachronistic is better. And that can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on one's perspective.
America's Digital Shield – Protecting Democracy and Digital Safety
Doesn’t the vibrant market in second-hand iPhones suggest that they tend to not become e-waste particularly quickly? The phones tend to get software for much longer than most.

One can pay for a battery replacement, or sell/trade-in a device. Selling may lead to the battery being replaced by someone more willing to do it, or to other refurbishment.
Their visible cameras are $7k, I'd be surprised if this is less than $15k.

Assuming the Berlin patents have expired, a visible light or "night vision" near IR camera made from commodity sensors and on-device stitching is about $100-200 BOM which could be a $500 premium cat toy (and thus actually affordable as a tactical tool for users other than funded US/EU police). I've been finding gear for community safety guys in South Africa and it is amazing how much can get done with cheap consumer gear now.
The IRS vilification is gross.

I had a relative who was a revenue agent with a couple of highly specialized areas of expertise. When he started in the mid-80s, his unit had about 250 agents nationally. When he retired circa 2010, there was 4.

He retired earlier than he wanted because the travel was difficult and he was developing some health issues. The cases they prosecuted were people cheating society out of hundreds of millions, or in one case, billions of taxes. He characterized the scope of what wasn’t even looked at as 15k cases annually where at least $10M of taxes were notn paid. They didn’t even bother to think about anything less than $100M.

We should be vilifying the people doing this. Some of these crooks avoid taxes equivalent to 10,000 or more well paid professional like myself and my colleagues. You also have issues with some cases where the tradition of allowing Senators to nominate US Attorneys and hyper-political judges means that certain crimes are effectively not crimes in certain districts.
That's what I mean. The Jensen inequality applies to any distribution, but the intuition presented in the post is only good for simple distributions and all examples are gaussian/binomial-like. It would be difficult to raise the same points with something multimodal or arbitrary.
I wonder how much of this is an intrinsic limitation of LLMs, and how much that interdisciplinary thinking and mashing together of problem domains is missing in the training data. It's a pretty rare thing, and the only times these analogies and linkages become noted is when they happen to work out (and they don't seem so far out of left field anymore once this happens).
I follow this

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/custom-css-reset/
I don't understand why this is news? This could have been said by any one particular contributor from HackerNews but just because it's from Terence Tao it hits the front page? I understand that the guy is a great mathematician, but why is his input on this any more valuable than the myriad of discussions about o1 from other professionals on here?
> who the heck is willing to keep their phone if they can buy a $30 replacement battery on Amazon

How about reusing an iPhone by someone else?
A fertilized egg (zygote) is one cell.
Show HN: Tagle – Discover Social Profiles Locally Based on Shared Interests
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Why I built it:

Most social platforms focus on global interactions, but I wanted to create a tool that helps people connect locally through shared, genuine interests. It bridges the gap between the online world and real-world interactions by highlighting what people actually care about.

Looking for feedback:

I’d love to hear any feedback from the community— thoughts on the concept, ideas for improvement, or even potential challenges I might face. The app is currently available on the App Store, and I’m eager to learn what works and what could be better.

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How can a question of perception be answered outside of a perceiving system?