skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would this work with peptide glass?

"A self-healing multispectral transparent adhesive peptide glass"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07408-x :

> Moreover, the supramolecular glass is an extremely strong adhesive yet it is transparent in a wide spectral range from visible to mid-infrared. This exceptional set of characteristics is observed in a simple bioorganic peptide glass composed of natural amino acids, presenting a multi-functional material that could be highly advantageous for various applications in science and engineering.

Is there a phononic reason for why antenna + window?
I was unable to find a scientific article explaining the data source in detail. Likely, they uploaded the reference genome.
Document it well. My company released an internal library, and I wanted to be a good employee and use it, but it was too difficult. There would be a standard component that takes a standard parameter, but it didn’t work. The documentation didn’t say anything. There were 3 different versions of the library, and I couldn’t tell which was the correct one, and none of them were well documented. I was able to hunt down the code to see how the component was defined, and found out they went out of their way to change from the standard, which they probably thought made it easier, but without documentation it sucked.

After spending several days to do what I could do in about 2 minutes with a public library that conforms to some standards and is well documented, I gave up.
We are lose reproductive fertility on earth too.
The new HSR trains in my country use similar tech to improve cell phone reception while traveling

https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/obb-puts-fi...
Deleted 80% of my project. Glad I could revert it but yeah pretty useless at this point
Agreed. The local market should just pay their citizens more, rather than import cheap labour from abroad.

The visa program should be reserved for truly the 1% of the 1% globally, not just cheap java devs to work on corporate CRUD apps.
This is definitely the same sort of take we have at StarTree (Apache Pinot, but equivalent to the Clickhouse story you have above). We're working now on making sure StarTree is compliant with PromQL (we just demoed this at Current 2024), plus also TraceQL and LogQL. Because, not surprisingly, query semantics actually matter!

https://thenewstack.io/reimagining-observability-the-case-fo...
okay, I should have been more thoughtful with respect to that. Will stay away from these topics in the future.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

I imagine a black back on the screen improves contrast when it is on, as well.

Guess I’ll throw a nice colored cloth over the screen when it is off for now :)
Why the hell does Copilot have the ability to write a story about a camel in a hat? My god the more I learn about these things the less seriously I'm able to take any of them
I think I had a huge lesson early on in life where I generated a huge amount of bitcoin in 2009 on some old pentium 4 CPU (you could do that back then!) and would have basically won the lottery if I hadn't basically just given it away to a friend of mine who was trying to do something (Which ended up being getting scammed by that butterfly labs scheme)... That friend ended up probably one of the most anxious people I have ever seen, ended up threatening to hit me over some petty shit, doesn't talk to me nor a bunch of our old mutual friends because he dragged them into the scam, and all this drama that I probably would have been subject to in some way had I been the one to blow that cash. Hell - I likely would have been dead if I was in my early 20s with that much money. Reflecting on who I am now vs who I would have been if I had done the "less regrettable" thing and been way too rich way too fast is fine, I think I just paid for having everything in life put into perspective and that's invaluable. I'm doing fine these days which is good enough for me.
Taiwan Company Disavows Links to Pager Explosions, Points to Budapest Company
The first team to start indexing data so it’s properly searchable again.
We've been around for a couple years now, wouldn't lie about the dev sign ups :)
Frankly, for any company above a certain size, this feedback is not helpful.

Having consistent, recognizable branding across different products is valuable not only in reducing duplicate engineering time (building X functionality 3 times) but also keeping customers (end users, perhaps paying users) happy, comfortable and familiar with the product.

I'm not advocating building completely from scratch unless you're a Fortune 500 company (and even then the value add is debatable), but rather starting from a known framework and expanding upon it.
"Killed" is a bit harsh, given that it's half of all Google's traffic. A huge chunk of that is probably from cell phones where IPv6 support is the norm.
I find it weird that a religious perspective on this issue totally ignores the existence of the Amish. As the rest of us die off from disinterest in raising children the Amish become the meek who inherit the Earth.

> What will life be like when a growing plurality of men and ­women have no children, not because of war or famine, but amid unprecedented material abundance?

It will be amazingly great: as children become rare they will become more precious (and the ratio of adults to children will grow) so each generation will have better care and education causing a positive feedback loop that will drive human civilization to unimaginable heights.
It took me until I was 19 to understand this and accept it. The reason for my failure wasn't because some higher was displeased with my lack of piety or because of some deep mysterious plan the universe had.

I failed for a much more mundane reason - I didn't work hard enough, or I didn't have the right tactics/strategy or the dice roll simply didn't go my way. In the first two cases I know what I need to fix and I can fix that. In the third case, I simply must shrug my shoulders and move on.

But I was no longer sitting there unhappy about some extra terrestrial being not giving me the help I asked for. The religious mindset was making me unhappy because it made me think I had no control over my life, someone else did.

Once I accepted that I had control of my life I was much happier and also more successful.
You can operate the 4S with one hand without shifting your grip. It still (barely) worked with the 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0gtsjfy7E (the diagonally opposite corner was already really stretching it)

It isn’t workable with larger screens (even the mini):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K3lTwGxMTk
The paper claims to generate energy "without a temperature gradient." If there's a hidden temperature gradient somewhere, then the paper is still incorrect.

Given the extremely small power levels, I expect that if it's not a hidden temperature gradient (eg between local air temperature and local radiant temperature, similar to PV) then they're actually seeing some sort of static electricity or air movement effect.
This is great!!! Diatoms are one of those cool little facets of nature that I would hazard most people don't know about.

My favorite images of them are from electron microscopes. They look like biological crystals or something.

https://www.google.com/search?q=diatom+sem&udm=2

I used to have a link to a collection of them but can't find it. Yes this is a pinterest link lol

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/beautiful-sem-image-of-a-diato...

While you're at it, check out snowflakes under a SEM.

https://www.google.com/search?q=snowflake+sem&udm=2
Translucent Website
I had to google ansible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible
We have social security in the US. If you think people should be putting more money in so they mostly automatically get more money out after they retire that's "just" a political problem. Setting up a parallel mandatory system just seems like an unnecessary complication.

There's nothing especially magical about 401ks. Yes, many companies match contributions up to some level. And there are some tax benefits but it's mostly about saving for retirement. It's not like defined benefit plans were anything like universal in the US--mostly big companies for employees with relatively long tenures.
I remember those silver-gray displays in old calculators fondly, and love the word “transflective”!

Thanks for the Daylight Computer link!
This is super nice, and I'm a big fan of the detailed readme with screenshots.

I'll definitely be trying it out, although I do have a pretty nice setup now which will be hard to pull away from. It's ansible driven, lets me dump a compose file in a directory, along with a backup and restore shell script, and deploys it out to my server (hetzner dedicated via server auction).

It's really nice that this handles TLS/SSL, that was a real pain for me as I've been using nginx and automating cerbot wasn't the most fun in the world. This looks a lot easier on that front!
Testing AI-enhanced reviews for Linux patches
That’s not the only real danger.

The angle grinder can suddenly shift in practically any direction. It’s very easy to lose control of it.
I'm all for more innocuous cell antennas. I'm just not convinced in this case. Just looking at the picture it seems neither innocuous nor particularly transparent even thought it's on glass. Maybe they can make the connections less apparent without exposed coax, and maybe they won't need to add (extra) windows on top of windows, and maybe they can make the conductive areas more transparent, but this is only useful as a proof of concept.

Let's see what they can do for a commercial product. Usually, there are tens of antennas on a single tower so they can't all look like this. Also, I'm going to assume that you have to keep anyone from getting within 3 meters just due to radiated emissions, so don't go just looking out that window!
Most of these guys are beyond arrogant. They think they know better than the experts that work for them.
Deno 2 Arrives with Long-Term Support, npm Compatibility
The '719 patent seems remarkably broad to me. Like, most games use a kind of dual sync state resolution, right?
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7702719B1/en
Can Java rival Python in AI development?
I enjoy playing Palworld. I can’t stomach the thought of playing yet another Pokémon as I know it will be the same game with differently named gym leaders. Palworld is fun because it isn’t Pokémon. That YouTubers will be YouTubers has nothing to do with it in my case.
Yes indeed!!
I literally said "hey how are you" and it immediately replied with something like "I've been reading a lot about the ongoing war in Ukraine" and it just escalated from there. Very strange experience!
I agree fully but this thread is about why there are fewer tech jobs. Everything is a cycle. New tooling improves developer efficiency, management looks at this as a sign that they can hire less and scale back, devs get overworked, management struggles against the reality that they need to hire again. This happens all the time.
As a shareholder, I usually do not want dividends. If a share buyback increases the stock price, then I don’t have to pay any tax. If a dividend is given to me, then I have to pay tax…but why would I want to pay tax now if I am just going to buy more shares with the post tax dividend money?

Also, federal US capital gains tax rate is 20% only for those earning $518k+ per year if single and $583k+ of married filing joint. Otherwise, capital gains tax rate is the same 15% as qualified dividends.
> Care to share any of the reasons?

Governments being laser focused on building a specific domestic industry and winning. I.e., as you point out, Samsung. It's hard to win a battle where an entire country has decided to push to become the best in the world in one field.
>Does that describe Laser Chess?

Yes. Very much it does. It's been 35 years since I played Laser Chess, so perhaps there are some minor differences in the rules. But it describes a game so close to Laser Chess that it immediately brought the game to mind.
Sometime in the next twenty years. Economically viable fusion power is always 20 years away and has been for the last 50.

Frankly I’m thrilled to see them wasting a bunch of time and money on it.
IBM may not be the world leader any more in a number of ways, but that doesn't mean they're not relevant to all of their customers. So maybe the x86 will just limp along, but it's still doing pretty well. By the end of the 80s, the RISC guys were going to dethrone the CISC monsters. It's taken them decades to get this far.
> You think you're old?

This wasn't meant to start a competition on who's older. I was just meaning to express the fondness of my memories about J2ME and those times.
Browser extensions: The hidden privacy risk affecting internet users
Imagine if big corp waited until "the web was strong" to go online, they'd have been dead in the water. Sears was fully positioned to be Amazon, and look at them now. It's just not good business sense to not explore new things and invest in R&D - of course not every investment will pan out but you don't want to miss the important ones.
I worked with him once on a job -- incredibly nice guy and obviously talented developer who used to work for the French agency responsible for the Scala Play Framework. https://github.com/lichess-org/lila and https://github.com/lichess-org/scalachess are great resources for anyone ever curious to see a production quality Scala3 web application using Cats and all the properly functional properties of the language.
It’s not. There’s LetsEncrypt, ZeroSSL, BuyPass, SSL.com, and Google Trust Services[0]. The ACME protocol is standardized and you can point your client at any of these at any time, and other providers can begin providing certificates at any time. Some tooling[1] even uses other providers by default.

[0] https://acmeclients.com/certificate-authorities/
[1] https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/Change-defau...
I'm surprised spotlight, with the exception of Slack, doesn't just do this fine enough. What was so frustrating?
It doesn’t match HN guidelines of using the original titles.

It’s the submitter editorializing.

I’ve been using the new UI since shortly after it was released. I knew the day was going to come they would retire the old one so I figured I’d just start getting used to it.

It’s been long enough I don’t really remember the difference but I’m quite happy in the new one at this point.
I didn't come up with the word transflective BTW. It's just what the industry calls them, and you can actually buy them from niche vendors.
As far as I know, that's not the case. The tokenizer takes a bunch of characters, like "berry", identifies it as a token, and what the LLM gets is the token ID. It doesn't have access to the information about which letters that token is composed of. Here is an explanation by OpenAI themselves: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-... - as you can see, "Models take the prompt, convert the input into a list of tokens, processes the prompt, and convert the predicted tokens back to the words we see in the response". And the tokens are basically IDs, without any internal structure - there are examples there.

If I'm missing something and you have a source for the claim that character information is present in the input after tokenization, please provide it. I have never implemented an LLM or fiddled with them at low level so I might be missing some detail, but from everything I have read, I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way.
Is this account a submission bot of some sort?
RIP PT. I can't tell you how much this piece of software changed my life. Working at Pivotal (the very early days of Cloud Foundry), taught me so much about how to develop software and products. It taught me how to work closely with people (pair programming for the win!). How to iterate and pay attention to velocity. How to write stories. How to polish a turd over time. I use these skills every single day.

You will be missed old friend. Nothing else comes close.
> maybe longer if there is continued demand for it

But almost certainly not. The writing's on the wall.
Is it possible to create a mesh 5G network run by volunteers supplying their connectivity, thus remove the need for mobile network operators?
This is debatable. Perhaps the poor quality management issues and lack of rigour that have been seen in various Boeing production facilities are a case of normalization of deviance. However, the original problem with the 737 MAX was the top management decision not to invest in a new airframe design for cost/strategic reasons, to oblige designers to implement various unsafe workarounds to accommodate larger and more fuel-efficient engines that made the plane unstable, and to ruthlessly silence engineers who argued that this was unsafe. This problem was compounded by the FAA's move to increased delegation of safety oversight to designer-manufacturers, which left it with insufficient ability independently to assess the new design. These are both big, important decisions made by top leaders of the two organizations, rather than the slow progressive evolution driven by people's efforts to optimize their bit of the workplace which characterizes drift to danger.
If there were a way to 100% avoid getting caught when committing illegal acts, no one would ever get caught because everyone would do it
2nd-gen Starlink satellites emit 30x more RF interference, blinding telescopes
Also spending a lot cause higher credit card bills.
Miles driven is probably the more impactful stat, which appears to have crossed this particular threshold (more miles by EV than petrol) in 2021. Numbers seem to be yearly though (graph is down below that monthly sales stats derived graphs)

https://robbieandrew.github.io/EV/

Would be nice to see the hybrid broken out by estimated electric-only percentage.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
Fun fact: US government agencies are required to progressively migrate to IPv6-only environment, beginning with completing at least one pilot of IPv6-only system by FY 2021: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/M-21-0.... Apparently, National Archives decided to pick archived Clinton White House website for this: https://clintonwhitehouse1.archives.gov/
Thanks for the tip, but don't take everything so seriously. Some of what I say is obvious satire, and humor.
Who are these experts saying AI isn't a good R&D investment? Like I understand an LLM is just a token predictor but it's a damn useful one if you use it right, and all the other applications are still improving too (some examples in another comment of mine)
Software testing practices are still pretty controversial.

I spent about a week redesigning the interfaces of a security-sensitive system to make it testable and developing a test harness, the actual implementation was about a day of work. I felt it was a great use of time.

I have not found an answer for testing React components that seems like a good use of resources. I've tried numerous test libraries from Enzyme to react-testing-library and found them all to be terribly flawed (sorry, if you think "I shouldn't have to modify my code to write tests" and then tell me to "use data-testids" that's the end of the conversation. I have an hour to write a test, I don't have two weeks to diagnose how a third party library I use interacts with the Rube Goldberg machine react-testing-library uses to emulate ARIA support)

Code that is basically "functional" and doesn't interact with a large mysterious system is straightforward to test; a lot of UI code has the issue that it not only calls a mysterious large and complex system but it also gets called by a mysterious large and complex system. I'd really love to have a system that would give me a heads up that some CSS I changed has a spooky effect on a distance on part of the UI because of the complexity of selectors but that's asking a lot

https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/key-points-of-working-...

makes the strong test that tests have to be really fast because you should have hundreds or thousands of them that run any build. Feathers makes the best intellectual case for testing when testing is difficult that I've ever seen, but some of the tests I'm proudest of could never run quickly: I built a "Super Hammer" test that ran a race condition prone system with 1000 threads for about 40 seconds that wouldn't have been effective if it was dramatically shorter. You might do 10 builds a day so you could easily do 2500 builds a year and that adds almost 28 hours of waiting a year -- that's just one test but it costs $2800 a year for a fully loaded FTE who costs $100 an hour and probably costs more than that because the long build sets idle hands in motion doing the devil's work and probably wastes several times more time than that.
It absolutely can if those companies want to do business with EU citizens.
Not GP but in similar setups I've had good success with using the FWs (typically Fortinet or Palo Alto) as the NAT64 gateway. Hosted services that require 1:1 NATs also end up there anyways so it's a good fit for DC.
> Theoretically its preferred way of talking is would be the average of all the training data

This is incorrect. Furthermore, what the LLM says is also determined by what its user wants it to say, and how frequently the user wants the LLM to post on the internet. This will have a large effect on the internet’s word frequency distribution.
No. The article is about windows as active antennas. Meanwhile, trains now start having permeable windows that let the radio coverage from outside through. Train windows are metallized to protect from the sun - unfortunately blocking radio waves as well.
Ideally, don't start from scratch, use as much industry standard software as humanly possible. For example, check the headless UI libraries in React ecosystem.
> In the future, I will make another mistake, and I will be regretting that instead of this.

Why not regret all of them? I'm yet to see my capacity for regrets get saturated