skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The automotive industry has lost one of the great saviors of speed.

The article glamorizes speeding.

Here's one reason not to: Imagine a speeder hitting someone, and the difference between the innocent person being OK, and being disabled/killed, was the speeding. That's not hard to imagine, and seems to be a frequent occurrence in the US.

Another thing to imagine: Imagine that everyone obeyed speed laws. Wouldn't there then be more pressure to make the laws more sensible?

Instead, we have dangerous speeding by random people, who feel justified in it, and a ton of people individually and unilaterally trying to apply their own judgment of what speeding of theirs is safe for others.

Personally, I sure don't want the stupidest and cockiest people deciding what's safe for 'themselves', and applying it counter to the expectations of imminent victims. When we normalize speeding, that's what we get.
> You opened by saying you aren't doing God of the Gaps, but here you are doing it.

No! There’s a difference between a thing happening, and symbols we decided mean something bearing manipulated. The assigned meaning isn’t real in the way an actual process is. A flip-book of a person jumping rope isn’t a person jumping rope.
A quick victory over Russia is crucial to the integrity of the Russian state or otherwise instability will continue to increase. I am already hearing about gangs harassing funerals and hospitals.

With oligarch forming PMCs, we might even see a period of warlordism.

Russia could of course get out of Ukraine today, but we do not control Russia. Let's hope that defeat for Russia will be soon instead of later.

In any case, state collapse is an unlikely possibility but one that couldn't entirely be discounted.
TypeScript Validators Feature Comparison
An app with typescript validators features tests. The test case is based on real use cases but is kept generic. Tests more advanced stuff like algebraic data types, template literals, nominal types, and recursive types. It's not a performance/size benchmark; there's a really nice performance benchmark app that exists already (I linked it there).
If it's in a verifiable external source (Consumer Report for instance, not some lady's Amazon affiliate links blog), then I would say it's never shilling.
> LLMs radically accelerate the learning process.

Absolutely false, at least for students as someone who has to deal with a lot of students. They learn nothing from pasting in a homework problem into ChatGPT.

Even for professionals, looking at my colleagues I'm not convinced AI tools are doing anything other than making them dumber and lazier. They just throw whatever at the AI, blindly trust it and push through with it without looking at the output for a millisecond before making it someone else's problem.
I find speed limits immoral. The idea that broad swaths of New Mexico or Texas or Arizona should not be American Autobahns is reprehensible.
This is equivalent to the problem of maximum entropy Markov models and their application to sequence output.

After some point you’re conditioning your next decision on tokens that are severely out of the learned path and you don’t even see it’s that bad.

Usually this was fixed with cost sensitive learning or increased sampling of weird distributions during learning and then making the model learn to correct the mistake.

Another approach was to have an inference algorithm that maximize the output probability, but these algorithms are expensive (viterbi and other dynamic programming methods).

Feature modeling in NNs somewhat allowed us to ignore these issues and get good performance but they will show up again.
They afaik never said that they ‘fixed’ the issue where they’re sending Google your every visited url.
why was this flagged ?

there is no poor energy rich country. with the U.K having expensive energy it means they're slowly becoming a poor country. it already feels poor as it is. But this will accelerate the rate
This.

I love the way Linus rants in public.

When I was 24, I got a rant in private from PG, and it was pretty shocking at the time:

"You guys just set a new all-time record in
losing by being based in SF and skipping
events at YC. I doubt it will ever be surpassed.
Peter Thiel was speaking today. When he
described the kind of companies he liked
to invest in, he was describing Jobpic. So
after his speech I jumped up and excitedly
told him about you. He was very intrigued
by the idea. I went off to find you to introduce
you, and you're not here.

At least now I'll have a really good story when
I tell each new batch that they'll miss out if
they live in the city.

--pg"

3 notes:

1. He was right, my cofounder should have been there (I couldnt be there).

2. The hyperbole made it memorable. My friends still tease me about this "playing hard to get with Peter Thiel? Ballsy"

3. The only sad thing is people are afraid to be like this in public, and put on a more politically correct face in public. Linus has had the guts to be the same person in public and private. Something worth emulating.

Related read: https://breckyunits.com/assholes.html
Three grams of explosives in each device used by a hostile military organization.

I don't think it could possibly be more targeted. Literally just devices issued by Hezbollah themselves to their own members.

Maybe it wasn't perfect. That seems to be the bar you are setting.

But much closer to perfect than I would have imagined possible. And closer to perfect than I think most people would have imagined. Maybe that is aggravating to people ideologically set against literally anything they might do.

But far superior, and less disruptive to innocent people to tactics used elsewere by Israel. Far far more more targeted and less disruptive to innocent people than the tactics used by Hezbollah themselves.
> Do people really fall for scam like that?

Yes. It wouldn't be a thing otherwise. I know at least two fairly intelligent people, one literally being a Mensa member, who fell for sextortion emails and got their files encrypted.

Scareware is based on social engineering, and is crafted to trigger emotional response, not educated one.
Cargo/Rust is brought to you by a lot of the same minds that brought you the train wreck known as Node and npm.
In the sense of labour productivity, measured in output per hour[1]. The products could be anything, but I'd guess they're primarily services like finance, technology, media etc.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity...
It was, and at that time it suddenly became much harder to do a web search on how to do anything in their UI! Turns out, Shortcut is not the most Google friendly name.
When we normalize 55 mph speed limits on roads where 80 mph is completely reasonable, that’s also what we get: plenty of people breaking a bad law. (If over 95% of people break that law, it’s clearly not codifying what behavior society expects/demands of its members.)
Any diffusion models out there that work well for generating stylized graphics? Think the stuff on your typical SaaS website
That's academia for you...
Who was the one who eventually was able to change it?
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Would it have turned out differently if they sold the vehicles as-is and included a "truck conversion kit" with the parts they used to turn them into light trucks? My thinking is based on the Subaru BRAT and its two bucket seats attached in the pickup bed.

I'm assuming it's cheaper/easier to sell light trucks than passenger vehicles in the US. (I'm aware of the difference in emission regulations)
> people will build stuff like aluminum smelters and desalination plants to use the excess energy, and electricity will cost money again.

But will electricity cost enough to justify the huge upfront cost of nuclear plants?

If we have the wealth to build capital-intensive projects that are marginally cost effective, it might be easier to build smelters and desalination plants that only run at 40% capacity, when the sun is out.
Great feature from the Bun team.

It's worth noting that similar functionality is what allowed PHP to be useful well beyond its original capabilities when companies hit scale and needed more performance out of it. Companies would just write a C module for their critical path code, and load it in as a PHP extension.

An article from Facebook in 2010 about them writing and using a custom C extension for PHP, that was probably the precursor to JSX:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/10158791323777200/

An article from Zend in 2011 about how to write a PHP extension in C:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110222035803/http://devzone.zen...
It's way better to iterate and improve existing systems. But you need to do so in the context of those projects: in Linux when a maintainer wants to make a change to a system they are maintaining, they have to provide patches for other systems which are affected by the change. So if Rust lands in any section of the kernel, then the maintainers of related systems will either have to:

A: never make any changes to the system they are maintaining, or

B: learn Rust.

Neither of those options seem reasonable, so it's a difficult problem. So if the contingent of people who want to see Rust in the kernel is large enough it may be better for them to fork the kernel, as it's unlikely that advocacy will have enough of an effect.
As long as AI-bros are pushing for making AI models seem like more than they are to pad their wallets, there'll be someone like me pointing out that, no, it's not "hallucinating", it's spitting bad data.
Sometimes the only winning move is not to play.
I agree. People who like Pivotal Tracker (like me) for its focus and simplicity would not enjoy Clubhouse.
That's almost certainly true. Depending on your preferences, there are just a ton of perfectly serviceable options out there, including what you're handed at trade shows. I have some Nalgenes that are sort of the standard for hiking (and fit my water bottle parkas) and otherwise mostly random stuff I've been given.
It's a side project but you are calling them coworkers and a company with company's goals?
> As I said why would I even care about those in this context?

See "South Africa, Apartheid, Boycott" for an idea of why organizations might choose to withhold sponsorship for activities in a country that restricts the rights and liberties of certain subgroups.

The Python people are not going to be the ones to precipitate change in Tanzania. No one organization is going to be the one.

But it's not outside the realm of possibility that a coordinated effort of many organizations might, and you have to start somewhere.

The early SA boycotters were right in their actions, and eventually helped accomplish worthy and historic change. Contrasting their actions with your own choices or inactions can be a lot of pressure on people who want to do the right thing.

Taking the "why would I even care about those in this context?" approach can be pragmatic and reasonable, or it can be enabling and cruel. It depends on your priorities and perspective. Yours may differ from theirs.

I'm responding only to the posts in this thread, I know nothing more broadly about Tanzania or DjangoCon.
What does this do that Protobuf doesn't?
A generic for Lisdexamfetamine was recently released this year but it is still expensive. Its debut also triggered the end of the manufacturer coupon for low income individuals without insurance so many people now pay more for the generic than they paid for the brand name drug.

I'd say more importantly, while many prescriptions are cheap, they're still gated behind a >$100 doctor visit. Just getting basic antibiotics for strep or fluconazole for yeast infections can be too expensive, not because of the price of the pills but because of the price for a doctor to write a prescription.

http://redboxrx.com , etc. helps with this but the costs are still not great compared to ordering internationally through Indian "pharmacies".
The two images shown in the article using the new method are sort of… stylized or slightly cartoonish in a way that the images they generated without using their method are not. Their images also have a “perfectly framed, looking straight at the camera,” which looks a little artificial. The images not using their method have a more natural look (although, obviously, they have the issue with the duplicated subject).

I wonder if it is an unavoidable result of their method, or if it is just a little issue (of course it is hard to get infinite compute as an academic, maybe they just need to train more. Is that a thing? I don’t AI).
agree,

- in the benchmark "zstd 0.6.0" ( Apr 13, 2016 )

- vs. latest zstd v1.5.6 ( Mar 30, 2024 https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases )
I'd love to see the code for this app you've made, could you link the repo?
Predicting Malicious Behavior on X Before It Happens
I did. It’s like 20 % an Arc clone, and 80 % of UX papercuts. Like, you can’t have ‘add tab’ button on top when the new tab gets added to the bottom. Or that one sidebar button opens a side window to the right of the sidebar, while another below it opens the favorites to the left and moves the whole sidebar from underneath your mouse.

Looks like a minimal effort css restyle of Firefox.
AI models let robots carry out tasks in unfamiliar environments
How to Write Developer Documentation
Hubris, followed by Nemesis when you accidentally delete that important config file that causes an outage. What if and backups are always a good idea when deleting via shell
When Do Kids Start Playing Pretend?
I have two visions of this.

One, it reminds me of that "worlds longest song" or somesuch thing, where they play a note every 10 years.

The other is just a picture of someone, asleep at their desk, a pile of calendars with days checked off tossed to the side, random unwashed mugs and such all dimly lit by a desk lamp and see the `$ make linux` finally return to an new, unassuming `$` prompt. Like Neo in the Matrix.
> What’s the advantage for me with ipv6?

I don't know what your situation is, but I'm a regular programmer-type employee who has been through more mergers than I ever expected to. Every company I've been at used IPv4 addresses for the systems on their internal networks.

I've observed that one of the things that takes the longest to sort out after the merger "closed" (or whatever they call the "It's official. We now own you." phase) is merging the two company's internal networks. While some of the delay comes from removing redundant systems and "harmonizing" security policies and the like, the IT folks who I talked to about the process always told me that the thing that takes by far the longest time is IP address management... specifically, having to renumber networks and the systems on them, and reconfigure or reinstall the software on them to account for the renumbering.

If you're using IPv6's ULA addressing for your internal networks, the odds of an address collision are very nearly zero. With IPv4 addressing... unless your network is tiny, the odds appear to be very nearly one.
Bash also allows you to use \rm to override the alias. Comes in helpful at times.
In the "Why MIPS?" section:

> some have shitty addressing modes necessitating that they would be slow (RISCV)

What is wrong with the RISC-V addressing modes?
Dunno, all the nuclear advocates seem to contrast it with wind/solar, which are also much cheaper and quicker capital investments.
You are correct in your example and yes, it should feel wrong. That workaround is totally fine though and most small companies will do something like how you have described.

In your example, using multidimensional accounting you could book one entry to "Travel Meals Lodging" GL account and have the dimensions "Program", "IRS Exempt", "T&E Subcategory". This creates a one-to-many relationship with the transaction instead of having 4+ GLs. You could book to one GL "Travel Meals Lodging" with the dimension values "Program Non Exempt", "Non IRS Exempt" and "Meals". You could design the dimensions differently, but I am just trying to give you an example.

No, I am not aware of an SMB package that supports this. It probably exists but from what I understand it makes the database more complex (cube?) and everything more compute intensive on the reporting side. Thought I haven't looked into it much - if you find anything, let me know.
Brave is VC funded and needing to extract a billion of value. Just like Arc.
Postal Service insists it's ready for a flood of mail-in ballots
It does get a lot right and feels smooth in ways that Chrome, the various Chrome-clones, and Firefox just don't. It's also ironically the only browser even trying to feel native on Windows, using WinUI/WinAppSDK for its UI there, despite originally being Mac only.

It's unfortunate that other cross platform browsers have such a strong tendency to phone in these little things, because they really do add up to make for a nicer experience.
Reading through this post reminds me of how the gaming landscape has evolved over the years. As a long-time World of Warcraft player, I’ve seen so many changes in how we approach the game — from how we level our characters to how we tackle high-end content like Mythic+ dungeons and raids. I remember back in the days of The Burning Crusade, when just organizing a raid was a challenge in itself. We didn’t have the group finder, and getting a full group together required coordination, patience, and a lot of time.

One story that stands out for me is when my guild and I were trying to clear Karazhan for the first time. It took us weeks to master the mechanics, and even longer to get everyone geared up for the final bosses. It was an intense experience, but the feeling of finally clearing that raid was unlike anything else. Fast forward to today, and the game has changed so much. With new expansions and content, there’s a lot more to do, but sometimes, finding the time to grind through it all can be tough.

That’s why I’ve started using World of Warcraft carries (https://wowvendor.com/shop/wow/) for certain content. It’s been a huge help in staying competitive and keeping up with the latest gear, especially when life gets too busy to grind for hours on end. It’s allowed me to enjoy the game at my own pace and focus on the parts of WoW that I love most — like raiding and PvP — without feeling overwhelmed. The game has evolved, but those key moments of triumph, whether through a carry or a guild run, are what keep me coming back.
As an aside, since I was trying to install CuPy the other day and was having issues.

Open projects on github often (at least superficially) require specific versions of Cuda Toolkit (and all the specialty nvidia packages e.g. cudann), Tensorflow, etc, and changing the default versions of these for each little project, or step in a processing chain, is ridiculous.

pyenv et al have really made local, project specific versions of python packages much easier to manage. But I haven't seen a similar type solution for cuda toolkit and associated packages, and the solutions I've encountered seem terribly hacky..but I'm sure though that this is a common issue, so what do people do?
1.5 still has this issue, particularly with specific subjects (i.e. the owl) any time you step significantly beyond the stock resolution (i.e. 1024x512). SDXL, while more stable, can also suffer from this.

The trouble is really the "window" by which the model operates in.
do you really want to have a discussion about 'thought' and 'mind'? i don't
> his pithy approach to interpersonal relationships

He deliberately worked on improving.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apolo...
The dig at Nokia for specifying the jurisdiction seems unfair. Licenses are just words on a screen: they mean what the court in a jurisdiction say they mean. Sue in the right jurisdiction. Entire paragraphs can be scratched out (and whole pages added) based on how the case law in a jurisdiction says certain words have to be interpreted.
Right, and? Will that also be socialized? Or will they have to build their own grid?
The Odysseus Black Box – Curiosity as the drive to be changed by the world
> If it's part of every modem/gateway router, there should be so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.

The bandwidth you care about in this scenario, where you don't have backhaul, is in the air. And very limited.
Browser is an user agent. Chrome is an advertisement company agent running on your PC, collecting data for that advertising company.

People often confuse these two, but they’re the polar opposites.
> Rust's main problem is that libc is effectively the system API on POSIX.

True, that is what makes things harder for Rust in practice.

But interestingly, theoretically speaking it's more C's problem rather than Rust's - a legacy effect originating from the UNIX-C co-evolution. Good design
would command a stricter separation of concerns/sub-systems (some LISP machine people will disagree, and I say it because there are a ton of them on HN, of course).
Microsoft NIHS (not-invented-here-syndrome)
It's a shame we don't do fuel reprocessing in the US. Generally those rods have quite a bit of usable fissile material left it's just fallen below the economic threshold where it's better to replace them than continue using them.
Back of the book index or inverted indexes can be stored in a set store and give decent results that compare to vector lookups. The issue with them is you have to do an extraction inference to get the keywords.
> TypeSpec's standard library includes support for OpenAPI 3.0, JSON Schema 2020-12 and Protobuf.
Firefox seems to be borrowing some of the UI features slowly (at least the vertical tabs). And at least the Mozilla Foundation is very public with their wants and goals.
I'd go for a "real device cloud", AWS/testgrid/browserstack/whatever.

However depending on your users' demographics, it might be a good idea to take a look at https://dontkillmyapp.com/ and get few used devices from huawei/xiaomi to run local tests as well, generally the farm experience wouldn't exactly match local experience (e.g. what happens when you leave the device without usb connection running overnight, what happens when you leave device unattended for a week). US/Europe? Don't bother. EMEA? Maybe get a couple devices running lineageos/grapheneos/calyx as well. China? There's https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/mobile-testing but it wouldn't match real user experience due to how dpi/GFW is set up.

Also check out https://developer.samsung.com/remote-test-lab and https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/digix-lab/ if you want to save some bucks on renting stuff.
How do they know this?

What are you talking about?

What other operation ever conducted do you think even comes close?

Thousands of detonations and a fraction of 1% with any effect off target? What other operation do you think comes even close?

Canned talking point? Try like basic reasoning instead
The best Windows imo
That doesn't change my opinion at all.
Waiting for the day when the entire AI industry goes back full circle to TF-IDF.
This came up a few months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206124
I use 1.5 hundreds of times a day outside this resolution, it must be the subjects I'm using. And that you mention it, SD XL was awful at it.
> firestore has a tendency to not abide by the system proxy settings in the Swift SDK for firebase, so going off my hunch, i wrote a frida script to dump the relevant calls.

As someone who has done some reverse engineering of macOS apps but haven't used anything beyond Charles' macOS proxy feature, this looks very painful. Is there a proxy app that maybe acts as a VPN so that basically every HTTP request is guaranteed to go through it, so that you don't need to write a hundred lines of bespoke Frida just to capture requests?

Edit: On second thought Proxifier should work for this purpose.