skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asteroid Ceres was an ocean world that slowly formed into a giant, murky icy orb
Can you share your reasoning behind the tagline? It seems like a hard sell, which doesn't necessarily help the otherwise gorgeous looking website and solid-seeming API choices. Like;

JWT-Based Authentication: We won’t support JWT-based auth unless provided by a third-party plugin.

Right there you've missed something that, say, next-auth covers natively + extensively. What kind of "comprehensiveness" are you targeting?

EDIT: Wow, just want to double down on the "gorgeous website" comment after clicking through your docs. Well done, inspiring work! Clear, concise, and eminently navigable.
Local ML isn't a CPU workload. The NPUs in mobile processors (both laptop and smartphone) are optimized for low power and low precision, which limit how much memory bandwidth they can demand. So as I said, demand for more memory bandwidth depends mainly on how powerful the GPU is.
Human invisibility? Scientists figure out how to 'see' through mice
I am scientific Python programmer. 99% to 100% of my programs require parallelism, but it is ALWAYS embarrassingly trivial parallelism, nothing is ever mutated and I never need locks. Right now I am forced to use multiprocessing to get the performance, with all problems of multiprocessing, the major one being that I need to use more memory. For me using multithreading could mean the difference between running out of memory and not running out memory. The GIL removal matters for people like me, the proponents of the GIL removal comes from the scientific community.
Still want one.

And this vector right here.... that's the milky way's orbit about the greater magellanic cloud...
Related: It's a mystery to me why Python doesn't provide interpreter binaries for linux. (They do for Windows)
`Phase of the moon` has an entry in the Jargon File, meaning "reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine."

It is a reference to a real bug from long ago.

I would not be surprised if this was included as an Easter egg in a debugger, as a reference to this legend.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/P/phase-of-the-moon.html
You're probably thinking of "The Island"[1]. Good movie, I saw this myself a long time ago.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/
Rust vs. Java: Decoding the Battle for Long-Term Success
Yes, this is the way. On a screen with mixed frequencies = a variable resultant. add a third dimension = voila.
I knew this decades go - makes me wonder why it was missed?
More coffee, maybe a pizza party. That'll fix me right up.
So, we dont have a company website due to only starting off with 2 people and started growing and fast. I need to get on that as its everyone's first question usually. But im open to answering any questions you might have.
Housing the samples in a controlled environment for an extended period of time is likely way more expensive than sequencing. I suspect the samples are discarded once genotyped.
I have some difficulty with estimating how heavy Recall’s workload is, but either way, I have little faith in Microsoft’s ability to implement this feature efficiently. They struggle with much simpler features, such as search. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people disable the feature to save battery life and improve system performance.
Health insurance companies are prohibited by law in the US from considering preexisting conditions.
Autossh – automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels
Why did it get flagged? Is it not allowed to post links in comments? Or drive links specifically?
Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps
I moved up north and was astonished at how invisible black people were. I went from living in a southern city, having black teachers, and black staff members, and black waiters, and black managers, to living in a midwestern city where there was a definite black part of town and the white part of down, and rarely did they mix.

It felt more culturally segregated than anything I experienced in the south.
The processors that hit this wall have many many cores per memory lane. It's just not realistic for this to be a problem with 2 lanes of DDR5 feeding 4 cores.

These cores cannot process 8 AVX512 instructions at once, in fact they can't do it at all, as it's disabled on consumer Intel chips.

Also, AVX instructions operate on registers, not on memory, so you cannot have more than one register being loaded at once.

If you are running at ~4 instruction per clock, to actually go ahead and saturate 40 bits per clock on 64 bit loads, you'd need 1/6 of instructions to hit main memory (not cache)!
I can't wait for these captchas to get even more hostile to visually impaired users and others who have accessibility concerns...
Wild that I got a downvote for sharing my enthusiasm with the OP. The amount of unprocessed trauma and misery in this community is impressive.
Comparative critique is far more persuasive than a series of baldly asserted and sweeping pejorations.
I agree.

_Animal Farm_ was taught to me by my capitalist and authoritarian teachers as an anti-communist screed. The problem with the farm is that the pigs end up being capitalists, though I have never seen or heard of the text being taught to children as an anti-capitalist text.

This culture does a very good job of assuming that the field of possibilities can easily and quickly be reduced to two choices and, further, that we're forced to choose between the two and, finally, that anyone who thinks there are additional possible choices is "being childish and unrealistic".

I find the US to be highly authoritarian, full of easy examples double-thought and duck speak.

I don't, however think folks are being manipulated: I think that the fundamental authoritarian move is that folks here have manipulated themselves. To me, that's close to the point of 1984. Or Mark Fisher's books, or Ursula Le Guin. I'm in the middle of Butler's _The Parable of the Sower_ and it's feeling like that self-deception is core to what is happening in that book as well:

folks reducing the world to some pretty horrible binaries and then becoming happily ensnared in the ensuing problems.
I personally know two PhDs who faked a large portion of their data in order to complete the dissertation process. The reality is that you can get stuck in the research phase because genuine, large sample-size quantitative data is often extremely difficult if not impossible to obtain, and in the cases I personally know, they simply mocked it in a realistic way. And there’s no way to know since the surveys are often anonymous.
They are saving the JIT on release for 3.14! Sssshhhhhh
In study sessions in school I would sometimes look things up by thinking "it was on the lower left about this far into the book." I remember studies done years ago that showed reading a physical book improved memory and learning due to the geometry and positioning reinforcing the neural paths, and anecdotally that was definitely the case for me. I don't think I'm hallucinating them, this article cites several studies that support that. Anyone who suggests PDFs are just as good "because they have pages" is missing the point - they aren't physical objects, and that matters.
What did I do to you?
https://nitter.poast.org/RobertMMetcalfe/status/183970360110...
Deep analysis of the optical architecture of Orion, Meta's AR glasses prototype
1. Recapitulation of our childhood is particularly strong in my generation. For example, even after the Transformers movies, we obviously thought it wasn't enough like our memories, so we made Bumblebee.

2. Software for some 80s systems is ubiquitous.

3. Sound blaster hell/IRQ hell is a real thing and DOS is frustrating more than fun.

4. Prior generation computers were made for work and fun was a rare side effect of letting off steam.

5. Since Windows 2000 modern computers run the same software, so your retro is limited to beige boxes with flaky capacitors.

6. Non-wintel 90s+ computers are interesting and are indeed becoming a focus of retro computing. Power PC Macintosh, Acorn, BeBoxes, NeXT, SGI, even HP and DEC RISC computers are finding enthusiasm.
By "normal" I mean that it's .. normal, not exceptional. Nobody will bat an eyelid if you tell about your summer cottage. It's not some rare privilege.

Many summer houses have shared ownership with a wider family. Say, your parents got one and now you own it with your siblings, each getting their own time there or agreeing when to visit together.

Even when you don't own one, you will very likely have participated in the summer house culture. It's very much part of the mainstream culture like sauna is. Maybe you visit your relatives' place, or you may opt to rent a place for a week.

Personally I feel renting is the best option as you can visit different places each year and avoid the maintenance burden -- and they obviously need active maintenance. But some do prefer a familiar place where they can spend all their holidays, and in some cases all weekends too on top.
OP said effectively zero, not zero. These are semantically very different.
Permits = tax dollars for the city directly. Most cities can only survive by further expanding their tax base and new growth put under long term bonds are one of the easier ways to do that.
In this case, it might matter that mathematics aren't strictly speaking, a science.
Really feel like this story backfires when you remember that people did go to the moon. It only took 63 years to go from the first airplane to landing on the moon.
And what is that going to do about flooding and storm surge?
Yes, but those casinos didn't go bankrupt from players collecting too many winnings. It's still a business and if you don't get enough customers in to keep the lights on you fold.

Customer acquisition and retention is still hard. Especially when you're not the only gambling parlor in town. You're selling an addictive product which is extremely effective over a population but you don't have a moat to make sure they're addicted to specifically you.

But government and society don't care about a specific business, they're counting the number of people addicted by the industry in total.

This thread is fun because the kind of black and white thinking neuro-spicy internet commentator on HN doesn't have an intellectual framework that can capture why alcohol, cannabis, and Oxy might be allowable but not heroine. And then an analyze gambling and sports betting in that framework. It's why the arguments keep circling forever.
So, biological ransomeware? “Send $amount Bitcoins to $address and we’ll send you the antidote.”
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41675405 . The Yahoo article link there is also not paywalled.
How long until I get revenge on this world full of immoral people?
> Think about it this way: just because someone wrote hello world in c and then a compiler translated that into assembly, doesn't invalidate the quality of that assembly code being open source!

Meanwhile:

> The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program.

https://opensource.org/osd
I have, often, come across comments on HN threads that corporations that are driven only by money are evil. For example, many threads with Google, Facebook, et al have expressed such sentiments.

If we agree that to be true, then WPE should also be considered evil, shouldn't it? Then, why so much defence for them and all vitriol for Matt?

And, if we accept that WPE are right to focus only on the legality of their action, then should we not apply the same logic to all corporations when they focus on maximizing their revenues and profits?
I think most rust projects still depend on clang's vector extension when SIMD is required.
From the ICO website:

> The GDPR is retained in domestic law as the UK GDPR, but the UK has the independence to keep the framework under review.

The UK GDPR. It’s like the GDPR, only with a Union Jack and a bulldog slapped on the side.

Now, in practice, companies seem significantly less scared of the ‘UK GDPR’ than its full-fat European progenitor (probably for good reason; even before brexit, ICO was one of the less aggressive regulators, with its largest GDPR fine ever only being 20mn pounds), and of course the EU has a number of _newer_ consumer protections in this general area (DMA, DSA, AI Act etc) which the UK has _not_ implemented, but, for the moment at least, the UK still has some degree of data protection.
I wonder if we are within a century of having pulsar detection on a chip.

Document enough millisecond pulsars and find your position anywhere in the galaxy.

When signal reception and computing power get powerful enough, put it on your wrist.
Video of Y Combinator Demo Day from today
After trying Rust for a while, maybe they’re right. One of the reasons I don’t think I could work with Rust is that Go has spoiled me with fast compile times for so long.
Are you aware of widespread fraud in the data associated with insect population decline? Or are you arguing that science is just inherently fraudulent or unreliable? These sound like pretty extreme responses of the type ancaps gave for years to the claim that global surface temperatures were rising. Those looked pretty quaint even without the benefit if hindsight.
The part about the supposed features of WiFi 7 looks like a hallucination or perhaps only a misinterpretation of proposed features.

How to do the actual sensing functions does not belong in a communication standard. What has been proposed, but I do not think that the standard amendment has been finalized, is to make some changes in the signals transmitted by WiFi stations, which would enable those desiring to implement sensing functions with the WiFi equipment to do that, without interfering with the normal communication functions.

So if Intel would create some program for Lunar Lake CPUs, possibly using the internal NPU, for purposes like detecting the room occupancy, that application would not be covered by the WiFi standard, the standard will just enable the creation of such applications and such an application would be equally implementable with any PCIe WiFi card conforming to the new standard, not only with an Intel CNVi card, whicd uses an internal WiFi controller.

However it is correct that there are 2 kinds of Intel WiFi cards that look the same (but they have different part numbers, e.g. AX200 for PCIe and AX201 for CNVi), but one kind of cards are standard PCIe cards that work in any computer, while the other kind of cards (CNVi) works only when connected to compatible Intel laptop CPUs.
What about the overwhelming majority of startups, which are poorly funded ?
I'm happy to use compilers for register allocation, even though they aren't particularly good at it
Because you loose high % of users on each hoop they need to go through. Removing friction is one of the major ux tasks. This solution would have 80% falloff if it's not something users really want and can't find anywhere else.

This is why 90+% of our users login with one click google, it's just too much to manually insert data.
That is fascinating as a way to back into article writing. So it just creates a structured talk page update on potentially relevant articles with the fact? Is the idea that you would use your talk history as a todo list to make edits? Because it’s unlikely the community would run with someone else’s fact suggestion unless the article had frequent discussion but not enough that most relevant facts had already been evaluated.

I come across many articles that could have a fact edited in by an LLM without much risk of worsening the prose. But that idea could have have been strongly opposed in their discussions.

My other thought was that this should be adding to Wikidata or that other project that represents WP articles as structured data.
I'm partial to Mellel. It's pretty snappy. It has a different approach to styles, though, which gives it a bit of a learning curve, but it feels very direct.

https://www.mellel.com/
I'm fine with them living there as long as the rest of us don't have to pay anything to bail them out when the inevitable hurricane or tornado comes through. These aren't like earthquakes and volcanoes that are relatively rare. They literally have a hurricane season. Imagine if we had a volcano season.
I liked the dialogue-driven format of this and the others in the series (I've read Schemer and Learner too), at least once I got used to the split-mind feel of it, but I feel it would be better as an interactive media instead of the books.

There's an expectation that you're following along and typing nearly every line into the appropriate REPL. I found this difficult to do while juggling the hardcopies and not any easier on an ebook reader -- I could stop worrying about cracking the spine but the digital copies I sampled or purchased always completely ruined the typesetting. All the REPL interactions are transcribed as images, and the constant focus-and-pinch-zoom disrupts the engagement.

I ended up just reading through and hoping to catch enough of the gist of things then doing my usual side-project-as-learning instrument thing. I hope somebody tries to build an interactive playground for this book or the Little Learner, complete with guiding dialog.

The typesetting in the hardcopies is really unique and impressive.
Yes, why not? If it's not something prohibited by the license, it is permitted.

Also, if open source companies wouldn't do it, some open source projects would never reach any kind of maturity if the company creating such project faces the competition who just live off the work of the original team who don't contribute back to the project.
You almost always have to for good perf on non-trivial operations
Simple--you work towards making password compromises less fruitful.

MFA is a step in this direction, and done right, it should be able to alert admins and users alike that compromise and stuffing is in- progress.

Password managers and generators can make unique passwords easy as pie, thereby reducing the rampant reuse, and unwillingness to reset passwords when necessary.

Magic links and passkeys can make passwords obsolete. CAPTCHAs interfere with automated stuffing operations.

The largest services are also developing sophisticated measures of device fingerprinting and trust, of which attestation is the endgame. Y'all don't enjoy credential stuffing or data breaches, but love rooting and rail against attestation, so do you want to have your cake and eat it too?
Fraught with quirks sounds quite ominous. Quuuiiirkkksss.

I agree though.
How to Land on the Moon – Project Apollo Retro Tech [video] [1979]
> This will absolutely go in missiles to handle GPS jamming

Depending on when the tech is available, preventing GPS jamming of drones is probably much more urgent in Ukraine.
It's not technically a Google spin-off. Google and Sergey Brin invested in it, but it was never part of Google.
Building an open-source full-frame CCD camera PART II (2024) [video]
I see. Most of the things you list I think I could do better on my own. The case of X from industry Y sounds interesting, but I would still prefer to hear from a real human being from industry Z. If no one is available, of course, a statistical model may indeed be helpful -- I still do not think it is worth boiling the oceans, though. :)
I've been using SunVox on and off for like 15 years now. I'm not really musically inclined, but I always come back to toy around for a bit. The creator is the sort of mad genius type, he seems to have made his own programming language and cross-platform rendering toolkit to make it all work and has a number of projects based on it. Because of this, SunVox is available on basically any platform you can think, including both major mobile OSes app stores and Linux for a few dollars ($5, iirc) and is definitely worth it. If you're familiar with a sequencer workflow (other notable projects: LSDJ [^0]), it doesn't seem too "out there", though the built-in synthesizers tend to lean towards a more airey feel. Highly recommend loading up the example projects, lots of people (including the creator) have some samples in there to poke around with. It's really interesting seeing how different people use the tools provided to compose, sometimes taking wildly different approaches to get similar results.

TLDR: download it and load up the sample projects, it's really fun

[0]: https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/index.php
Drand/tlock: Timelock Encryption made practical
Even that is unlikely. We don't yet know what exact information is enough to recreate a human (or his twin) but by now we know that DNA alone is not.
Of course I will lose it - literally every day at least few neurons die irreversably.

My higher purpose is having fun, but I associate the fun quantity of myself with ability to process Math information. Mathematics is the coolest thing among anything I know.
Comfort tale or not, my country banned it completely 40 years ago by popular referendum. I don't think the economics were what people had in mind one year after the Chernobyl disaster.
The bug in the Paxos Made Simple paper is that Lamport forgot to mention that, upon accepting a proposal, an acceptor also implicitly promises not to accept any proposal in lower ballots. It's discussed at length here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29880949/contradiction-i...
Points on the Earth's surface are experiencing an acceleration- after all, after 12 hours their velocity has changed direction by ~180 degrees.

You can detect Earth's rotation with a sufficiently large pendulum[0] or a good gyroscope. Something with enough inertia will tend to refuse to rotate with the planet, which lets you compare the two and infer the absolute rotational speed of the planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum
TBH, Intel ISAs have never been very stable, the mixed AVX flavors are just the latest examples.
If the data was publicly leaked then this argument would have some merit. But it wasn’t, the only people who could have accessed these passwords were insiders, and those passwords were used to protect data that many of them would have access to anyway.

There is no evidence any unauthorised party gained access to any private data as a result of this incident. There is no evidence that any authorised party misused data as a result of this incident. A “breach” that involves no unauthorised access, and no misuse is not a breach.

A control failure occurred, and it was remedied in the most appropriate way possible.
I found that the line "science is a certain kind of persuassion" quite informative. I was not aware of such a skeptical thread of thought near science
Data centers are more constrained by availability of power, and the matching cooling, than the actual bulk cost of it.

For example, I've been in situations where we had to deploy fewer hard drives per server unit than we otherwise would have, just because we knew we couldn't power & cool the racks if we fully stocked them.
I worked through this a few years ago and it is wonderful, but I found chapter 9 on the replace function totally impenetrable, so I wrote a blog post in the same dialogue style intended as a gentler prelude to it. A few people have emailed me saying they found it and it helped them. https://ahelwer.ca/post/2022-10-13-little-typer-ch9/
It's hard to feel bad for people that willingly gave their DNA samples to a private company. Come on y'all, use some common sense.
Definitely. And I also found the title quite misleading. It's the auto-vectorization that this presentation is trying to cover. Compile-time SIMD OTOH would mean something totally different, e.g. computation during the compile-time using the constexpr SIMD intrinsics.

I'd also add that it's not only about babysitting the compiler but you're also leaving a lot of performance off the table. Auto-vectorized code, generally speaking, unfortunately cannot beat the manually vectorized code (either through intrinsics or asm).
Just make sure not to fly to Hong Kong from there.
You mean, “at present”..

No way to know how the regulation will change in the future depending on the amount of lobby dollars that are thrown.