skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry, the generation before you didn't have high hopes for your generation too. We are nothing special, the magic will keep on going.
>My biggest concern with my quality of life is I don’t feel safe (don’t ask).

Hypervigilance is a thing... your nervous system is highly tuned to identify threats. It raises your baseline stress levels. Another way to do this is to create a threat matrix and estimate the probabilities of the event happening and what you would do in response. This is basically retraining your system by taking executive control.

You might look into some therapy for this, some say EMDR can be helpful.
America's oldest tombstone came from Belgium and belonged to an English knight
I’m not blind or deaf, but the deaf community in particular has… a reputation…

I worry that so much of these “communities” exist as a cope for a shitty lot in life. Deaf community in particular has elements which are very hostile to correcting deafness.

And frankly, if I ended up going blind, don’t be surprised to find me lose the will to keep living if it’s uncorrectable. I wouldn’t blame anyone in this world who’d make that choice.
> Of course JavaScript was rare at the time.

IIRC for WAP the only way to use form elements was JavaScript as there was no equivalent of HTML <form> that would just submit the request automatically.
Right now the wind would go from Temelin to Regensburg and Nuernberg. They will be surprised. But the typical wind direction is towards Brno and Wroclaw, to the north-east.
It's really not a matter of interpretation. Geometric and exponential growth are well defined mathematical concepts.

Geometric functions can have exponents. This does not imply the function is exponential. These are very different things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
The "fixes your colorblindness" glasses don't work, and they're still a thing.
Astronomers detect supernova remnants using novel method
The underlying paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06504
Clickbait. Yes, there is a shift but it has little to nothing to do with AI. While there are entire companies getting hyped about generative networks and LLM's(read "managers thinking they will get a fleet of devs for little to no money"), those are the exception and will go extinct sooner or later - I can name a few off the top of my head.

There was a huge boom around Covid, sure, when infrastructure was clearly not ready to cope with the demand so as many people had to be dragged into the equation. There were also companies aggressively hiring tech people partially because of the demand but also to establish a monopoly. And the rise of one-online-course developer programs was the cherry on top. That was bound to collapse and Musk's campaign over at Twitter gave everyone the confidence that there's no need for anyone but a few managers and prompt "engineers". And we are reaching the "find out" part for all players involved.

If you are a tech worker with skills, then you have absolutely nothing to worry about: AI can only write trivial code which normally would be thrown at an intern - stuff like "write a function that takes in a hashmap containing key-value mappings and a second hashmap to swap out the said keys", which you will likely still need to tweak to make it safe. But for any serious or critical code, if you are relying on a LLM to do the logic for you, you are basically walking around blindfolded, holding a loaded gun pointed at your head. Sadly I know a lot of people who actively do that exact thing.

The other part is that the market is over-saturated with products that no one needs. How many more social medias do you need? None. How many more trading platforms? None. How many more messenger apps? None? Dating apps? None. Yet new, "revolutionary" ones pop out daily. Guess how many of them fail? Their marketing campaign was "blockchain" 5 years ago. Now it's "ai". My coffee machine needs neither of those, who are you trying to sell this to?

When it comes to the tech sector, people should understand that this is not a bottomless pit and it all boils down to a finite amount of people that will use your product(consciously or not). And by implications you need a finite amount of tech workers. The jobs have not dried up, it's partially normalization after the Covid hype and to a lesser degree managers thinking AI will do their tech work - the same people who have become Musk cult members. I used to work for one and guess what - the company he founded in 2017 with very noble intentions and received a really good funding is collapsing cause they are unable to roll out a product. Those are bound to fail either way.

As for courses - there are talented people who have only done a bunch of those, but they are the extreme exception and realistically most of the people who enrolled in those were simply there because they thought that's a cheap ticket to a 6-figure salary.
I see the necessity good intentions behind it, but also believe this singling out can lead to developing this sense of shame the user mentioned.
I guess generating an email link doesn’t work for WSJ anymore. No wonder traditional media gets its back kicked in.
It’s relative the potential threat the main target presents. So, the collateral damage is justified as long as it is approximately lower or equivalent to the lives saved by eliminating the threat.
what problems that are solvable with software are out there? Most problems society faces today is too much entertainment, too much technology, not enough peace quiet and solitude, low quality subscription slop.

Most problems in society today require less tech, less software, and better quality hardware.
> They were fine with two continents needing over a millennium to first hear about Jesus, but a plurality of worlds would be "irreconcilable."

I think there's many ways to think about this.

First, the place where Christ was supposed to have been born is "special". Clearly he (or god) chose to be born in some continent and not another. Now multiply to... how many planets are there in the universe? What's the chance that Earth in particular was a special planet to be born in?

Second, I think the tale of Christianity is meant to be both unique and universal. It's not "this is the shape it happens to have taken in our world", it's meant to be "this is the shape it universally takes" (e.g. "love one another [...]", what if aliens are biologically incapable of love? What if they are a hive mind? Etc). The lessons are meant to be for the cosmos. This excludes all other worlds, or at the very least it'd require a fundamental revision of what Christianity means.

Third, look at the time frames. How long did it take from Christ being born to natives in other continents being "saved"? Very little given the time life (not even human life) has existed on Earth. So if we're going with the "missionary" hypothesis, i.e. that people of Earth are supposed to evangelize to aliens all over the universe, how long is this going to take? Is this even technologically possible before the universe ends? Does this mean some aliens are doomed no matter what, because they live so far from us they'll never get to hear about Jesus?

I'm an atheist but I can see some sort of religion being created that encompasses all of the universe. It would have to be different to Christianity though. I think this is why these thinkers thought the "multiple worlds" hypothesis was at odds with their religion.
This entire website is a gem. At least in my profession, I wish more peers would focus on these things.
> J2ME is an unprecise term. I'd guess they mean J2ME/MIDP. The other profiles did even fly less probably.

Java’s attempt to make the GNU/Linux terminology nitpicking portable? ;)

Wasn’t there also CLDC, CDC etc.? I could never figure out what the hierarchy there was – was MIDP above or below C(L)DC?

All devices I ever encountered were of the MIDP and CLDC type, in any case.
Absolutely all valid points.

I will say (because you specifically pointed out you haven't checked - I do enjoy clear and honest communication online) that Obsidian at least deals with straight Markdown files, so while (per my current understanding) the program itself isn't OSS, the datafiles are all easily importable into other systems, and the files themselves are grep-able and mostly human readable (all text is there, but extra features and layout will not show up as nicely as in a Markdown-specific renderer) in any text editor.

Have a good day X)
Ask HN: How do you handle in-place cloud upgrades or parallel cloud migrations?
Biggest ever seen black hole jets; blasting plasma well beyond their own galaxy
I wonder how much articles like this are popping up as the hive mind of humanity becomes aware of the phenomenon that exceeds our physics watching us as years of government suppression finally cracks. Watching Lue Elizondo going on the daily show with his clinical understatement being met by the interviewer yelling "you're talking about fucking aliens man!"

Its been wild to me to see people start to grapple with the evidence. Good to know the thought of life elsewhere has a long pedigree.
I had a Kali Nethunter on a Samsung S7. It is mind boggling what you can do with a fully rooted android phone.
You have no information about where you are, who you are, etc. I might have installed this 15 years ago, but I would never use an app where it has access to my emails when I know zero about the company.

You start off saying "I" and then continually start saying "we". This might be some weekend project where you haven't gotten to any of that, but to trust something to read my emails, which contain so much personal information, is just a no-go.
"might" in OPs case suggest otherwise.
I love the idea of SMR, not only the run-safe designs but the idea that clusters of them could be installed in metro areas and eliminate the transmission loss from generating electricity far away and transporting it to the load. And by having clusters of small reactors it enables both economies of scale and makes it feasible to have standby units per cluster allowing spent units to be replaced without the cluster having a diminished load service capacity.

I'm sure the greenies will find some reason to hate this concept (despite it being a great ZERO CARBON electricity solution) but in the city I live there are already two decommissioned coal-fired plants which could be leveled and re-purposed in this manner -- and they already have grid connection right of way and some of the equipment. This is such an obviously winning idea it's hard to imagine why people would oppose it.
The referenced paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07879-y
Cool paper!

As a small comment, this seems closely related to another recent paper: History-Independent Dynamic Partitioning: Operation-Order Privacy in Ordered Data Structures (PODS 2024, Best Paper).

I'm not sure how they compare, since neither paper seems to know about the other. And I'm also not sure which paper came first, since the geometric search paper does not seem to post a publication date.
Space travel is not science fiction. Living somewhere other than Earth permanently is science fiction.

Science fiction often becomes reality. There are companies, governments, and NGOs working on extraterrestrial habitation as we discuss this. While it will be expensive and make many rather unhappy, it will likely happen… assuming that humankind doesn’t annihilate itself first.
Not only have you invoked Godwin, you have managed to compare Winston Churchill to Hitler!

That does take a special kind of ignorance.
I've been building solutions for real-time voice -> llm -> voice output, and I think the most exciting part of what you're building is the streaming neural audio codec since you're never actually really able to stream STT with whisper.

However from a product point of view I wouldn't necessarily want to pipe that into an LLM and have it reply, I think in a lot of use-cases there needs to be a tool/function calling step before a reply. Down to chat with anyone reading this who is working along these lines!

edit: tincans as mentioned below looks excellent too

editedit: noooo apparently tincans development has ended, there's 10000% space for something in this direction - Chris if you read this please let me pitch you on the product/business use-cases this solves regardless of how good llms get...
> Using small wealthy countries with populations smaller than our states

I don't know which countries you're talking about. Sweden has a population of 10m, which would make it the 10th largest US state. Norway's 5.5m people would make it the 23rd largest.

Even if we go really small and rich, Luxembourg's population is 670k - that's more than Washington DC (not a state, I know), Vermont, and Wyoming.

The only really wealthy European country that's smaller than a US state is Iceland.
The Michigan Left
Historically, at its inception, .NET's GC was written in LISP and then transpiled to C++ with a custom converter. It is still a single-file implementation, but I'm afraid it's not 1000 but 53612 lines instead as we speak :)

Well, that's not one file per se and there is more code and "supporting" VM infrastructure to make GC work in .NET as well as it does (it's a precise tracing generational moving GC), so the statement that it pushes complexity onto the the user and underperforms could not be further from the truth. None of the JVM GC implementations maps to .NET 1:1, but there are many similarities with Shenandoah, Parallel, and some of the G1 aspects. In general, .NET is moving in the opposite direction to Java GCs - it already has great throughput, so the goal is to minimize the amount of memory it uses to achieve so, while balancing the time spent in GC (DATAS targets up to 3% CPU time currently). You also have to remember that the average .NET application has much lower allocation traffic.

In addition to that, without arguing on pros and cons of runtime simplicity (because I believe there is merit to Go's philosophy), .NET's CoreCLR implementation is anything but simple. So the statement does not correlate to reality at all - it makes different tradeoffs, sure, but together with CIL spec and C# design it makes historically better decisions than JVM and Java which lend themselves into more naturally achieving high performance - no interpreter stage, only intermediate compilations have to pay for OSR support, all method calls are non-virtual by default, true generics with struct monomorphization and so on and so forth. Another good example of the runtime doing truly heavy lifting on behalf of the user are byref pointers aka 'ref's - they can point to _any_ memory like stack, GC heap, unmanaged or even device mapped pages (all transparently wrapped into Span<T>!), and the runtime emits precise data for their tracking to update them if they happen to be pointers to object interiors without imposing any measurable performance loss - it takes quite a bit of compiler and GC infrastructure to make this work (exact register state for GC data for any safepoint for byrefs, brick tables for efficiently scanning referenced heap ranges, etc.).

List of references (not exhaustive):

High-level overview (it needs to be updated but is a good starting point): https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core...

Implementation (the 53612 line file): https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/coreclr/gc/g...

.NET GC internals lectures by Konrad Kokosa (they are excellent even if you don't use .NET): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i1Nv7wGsjk

Articles on memory regions:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/put-a-dpad-on-that-gc/

https://maoni0.medium.com/write-barrier-optimizations-in-reg...

https://itnext.io/how-segments-and-regions-differ-in-decommi...

Articles on DATAS:

https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/9.0/p... (quick example of the kind of heap size reduction applications could see)

https://maoni0.medium.com/dynamically-adapting-to-applicatio...
Operating on the wrong body part – what can be done to prevent it?
I will work for a non-technical founder who has connection to a market I'm interested in.
Boeing is far from an anomaly. They’ve just reached the stage where it’s noticeable.
> I worry that so much of these “communities” exist as a cope for a shitty lot in life

I mean... that's what they are, in some ways? I don't see how coping is a bad thing?
Brazilian Marco Civil da Internet[1], the local Internet law, stipulates providers must provide records if presented a court order (Art. 10, § 1º). It also says (Art. 12) failure to comply may lead to the following sanctions, in that order: I - formal warning, II - fines up to controlling group 10% total revenue, III - temporary suspension and IV - activity shutdown at last. So in fact there is proper legal coverage.

[1]. https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2014/lei...
This is anecdotic, but personally I'm seeing much more recruiter activity on my inbox. Specially targeted recruiters for startups.

The trend has been going up for the last few months. It's looking like the startup scene is about to warm up again (in the next year or so).
The description of the game sounds really interesting. Is there anything like it on the market today?

> You choose to be either the US or the USSR (In a one-player game, the computer takes the other side. You can also play against a friend.) In brief, you decide whether to support or undermine the governments of each of 60 countries; you can send economic or military aid to either government or rebel forces, conduct covert operations to destabilize unfriendly regimes, apply diplomatic pressure, sign treaties, station troops. The object is to increase your sphere of influence and international prestige-at your opponent's expense-while avoiding nuclear war, in which both sides lose. The dynamics of the game consist of challenging your opponent's moves; at every step the other side takes you can choose to send a diplomatic protest, which can expand into a full-scale crisis. Your opponent has the same opportunity. It's a grand global game of "chicken," played for the highest stakes possible.
Yep, I had a similar thing happen. I asked it to give me a set of regexes and after spending a couple minutes trying to correct it, I just wrote the script myself. It's neither useless nor the all-seeing eye. Instead, it's just a tool.
Craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring–like Saturn
Meet The Models [video]
This diagram looks weird to me, looks like being lazy counteracts the effects of being cheap, so that being both is less dangerous than just trying to save money or effort alone.
From the article:

>Using models of how Earth's tectonic plates moved in the past, we mapped out where all these craters were when they first formed. We found all of the craters are on continents that were close to the equator in this period, and none are in places that were closer to the poles.
John Hughes deserves to be a pauper for what his films have done to American society. The way that American children have systemized and perfected bullying culture is disgusting and needs to have been shattered two generations ago.

Bullying to anywhere near the same extent as you see in America is so alien to most of the rest of the world. Do you know that nerds have the total opposite reputation in most of the third world compared to America?

Kids in school who are bullying blind kids are sick and deserve the full wrath of their superiors who ought to be catching this.

We should not just accept the idea of our youth being little shits. This is not a clockwork orange, and they are subordinate to us, not the other way around.
Support for IPv6
I doubt being able to solve real problems for other people by using technology is a skill that will go obsolete any time soon.

Unfortunately at the moment we have several trends in the industry that interfere with matching up people who have real problems and people who can figure out how to solve them.

Years of cheap money have flooded the industry with low-skilled workers, completely broken recruitment, destroyed any kind of trust between employers and employees, and created astronomical expectations of compensation in some parts of the industry that were never competitive outside their own bubble.

Then there are the hype cycles. Right now the big one is AI. As usual there are plenty of people in management positions who don't really understand the issues at all but have delusional expectations of game changing results that will let them dramatically downsize their teams without losing effectiveness. Obviously sooner or later they'll learn or they'll fail but in the meantime it's another barrier to good people finding good problems to solve and getting real work done.

If you're good and you're looking for interesting work then I suggest considering smaller employers. The era of the Big Tech free lunch is over and it's probably not coming back any time soon. Meanwhile there are people all over the place still trying to solve important problems who will value experienced colleagues who can get things done.
Is does this utilize the knowledge graph features or is it just for tracking.
Reddit would be an option wouldn't it?
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Generate security requirements for every new feature built by your developers.

It accepts documents (design docs,tech specs, HLD, LLD), diagrams (architecture diagrams) and Jira tickets as input. Produces Security requirements and Open questions as output.

They are powered by LLMs, so we have a 5-scan limit for all new users. You can request access for more scans though.
Metal pollutants associated with progression of plaque buildup in the arteries
Tragically, I'm deep in the weeds on a fun BIG project at the moment. :-P

https://rerdavies.github.io/pipedal/
The page you cite gives the formula for exponential growth as:

{\displaystyle x_{t}=x_{0}(1+r)^{t}}

Um, right, let me translate that into something that can display here:

x(t) = x(0) * (1+r)^t

Well, if you look at the formula I gave for compound interest:

x(t) is the value at time t,

x(0) is the value at time 0, namely $1000,

(1+r) is 1.05,

and t = n, the number of years.

So, from your own cited article, how is that not exponential?

Or were you agreeing with me, and disagreeing with glitchc?
Yes, I actually do think that Israel is installing backdoors and explosives in 10x more things than they have activated in their current war against Lebanon.
Yes? I don't see a problem with this line of reasoning.
If blind communities are like some deaf communities, they may have a strong separatist bent which does indeed allow their child to avoid integrating with the rest of the world if they so choose. This is an option.
There's some pretty detailed information in the GDA documents on the site:

https://gda.rolls-royce-smr.com/documents
I got 100% easily, literally all the clean high quality voices are AI and all the voices that you can notice lower quality microphone are human. You don't even need to pay attention to how they pronounce
I find this kind of thing fascinating. In the BDSM rope bondage world there is a lot of ceremony and almost theatrics about safety. But there's actually no real safety, because the participants keep doing things everyone knows is unsafe. The Takate Kote tie is probably responsible for 80% of nerve impingement damage in rope bondage, yet it's wildly popular because people find it pleasing and they keep coming up with new variations on it. Every time you bring up its danger, people like to shout you down like you're over-reacting and they're sick of hearing from you, and then they go give some poor newbie wrist drop.
reminder that cannabis has been distributed quite successfully and broadly for hundreds if not thousands of years, all without blockchain.

blockchain is the solution to exactly nothing. zero things are better with blockchain. zero. in the case of hiding cannabis use, the problem is that it is illegal despite having valid medicinal uses.
The duplication crisis: the other replication crisis
Yes, that dependency was there by mistake and has been moved to devDependencies in 2.0.11