skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI-accelerated Nazca survey nearly doubles number of known figurative geoglyphs
One thing I’ve always felt is that the relative difficulty of each task seems to have flipped? I could write a bird classifier in my sleep using fastai, but I have no idea how to do a GIS lookup.
TBH, I have adjusted my programming recently to write more stuff myself instead of finding a library. Its not that bad. I think ChatGPT are really good at these at those types of questions since it can analyze multiple from github and give you an answer averaging them together.

Also, if you just have a really well defined problem, its easy to just whip out 10-50 lines to solve the issue and be done with it
The graveyard of features in nightly is actually pretty big. Important stuff like specialization is forever stuck there.
the starkest part of this sort of thing is just how there is no shame instinct at the upper levels of Big Company management. you need to internalise that any system that you imagine might be bound by embarrassment or shame at the top is not and won't be.
Main drawback is the need for timestamps. Most crontab files or expressions I've seen didn't have them.
Doing this takes time and energy that I really don't want to spend on a TV that I expect to sit there and do what I want in the first place.
At some point, schools were filled with students who wanted to go there. As more and more years in school become mandatory, you'll see more and more students doing the least amount of work. They don't want to be there. It's always been like this, we've just scaled it up by a lot (at least in Europe) lately.

The burden of proof of abilities will keep going up as more advanced tools are developed.

Employers will find new metrics to judge people based on. That's probably where coding interviews came from. Perhaps we'll go back to nepotism, or a social networking "achievements" web site; LinkedIn but with verified credentials. Maybe we'll all have to be published in a journal to show our abilities.
Because it's easier to understand later on when it's not spread out
Thank you, I learned something new. And overall if you’re going to have the death penalty , probably a better process than a single judge deciding.
Agreed, though by "parsing" I meant to include easy steps like cfg checks. In fact, cfg checks should probably be done at the same time as parsing and disabled items should be discarded as soon as possible---though I don't know whether that is already done in the current compiler, or whether it's beneficial or even possible at all.
commercial dumb panels are far more expensive and tend to lag behind in actual display technology.
As a consumer for me the end result is equivalent- I don’t want any cascading events near my soft parts regardless of them resulting in explosions, fires, or flares.
> If you owned one of those units, could you just get outvoted a lose a million-dollar condo like that?

You'd have a share of the claim on the value of the land.

Presumably everyone voted to tear it down because the building costs more to maintain as-is, than to tear down and rebuild.
I still use the iPhone earbuds I got with my iPhone 5S (the ones that come with the Lighting-to-3.5mm adapter). That said, it only takes one mishap for them to be irreversibly wrecked.
> Note: You do _need_ an iPad or an iPhone to accept the terms and condition to download apps. I had to go through the trouble to logout my iPad account and then to login my uncles new apple account on my iPad, just so he could use his new Apple TV.

Classic Apple. "Don't you dare buy our hardware unless you're ready to go all in and buy all of our ecosystem!". Does the Apple TV have similarly bad UX as an iPad, in that if for some reason it can't install an app it just spins a wheel forever, without any feedback about what's wrong? I had that when trying to install Apple TV+ (yes, they suck at naming things) on an iPad, it was failing because I had no payment method set up, but graciously refused to tell me why. Similarly, Apple TV+ has a fun bug that if you try to download too many things at the same time (say, you're at the airport and want to download a season of a series before a flight), after 2-3 it fails with "download failed" and the only solution is a full restart of the iPad.

For all of those, there were years' old forum posts describing the bugs and the "solutions".
Tried the 1B model with the "think step by step" prompt.

It gets "which is larger: 9.11 or 9.9?" right if it manages to mention that decimals need to be compared first in its step-by-step thinking. If it skips mentioning decimals, then it says 9.11 is larger.

It gets the strawberry question wrong even after enumerating all the letters correctly, probably because it can't properly count.
Given what I see in Facebook comments I'm surprised the AI doesn't just respond with "Amen. Happy Birthday" to every query.

They're clearly majorly scrubbing things somehow
RTEMS is great, especially impressed with the reliability and performance of the RFS Filesystem:

https://gedare.github.io/pdf/agarwal_comparison_2019.pdf
yeah i mean that is exactly why distillation works. if you just were one hotting it would be the same as training on same dataset
It's not just file watching, that would be the watchexec crate, while cargo-watch properly integrate with cargo. Moreover cargo-watch also includes:

- proper CLI support, with help messages, subcommands and so on

- support for reading cargo's metadata

- logging

- support for dotenv files

- proper shell escaping support

- and it seems also support for colored terminal writing.

Moreover both watchexec and cargo-watch end up depending on winapi, which includes binding for a lot of windows API, some which might be needed and some which not be.

This could also be worse if the offial windows crate by Microsoft was used (or maybe it's already used due to some dependency, I haven't checked), since that's gigantic.
I see it's still up after 20+ years: NeHe at https://nehe.gamedev.net/

In 2005-ish I followed what is now called "legacy tutorials" and I just learned a lot about how rendering pipeline works in OpenGL + some basic 3d math and physics. The rope tutorial (https://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorial/rope_physics/17006/) was my favorite.

Also, my highschool math teacher was in awe when I was so familiar with vector math and matrices and it was so easy to grasp the concepts in class because I could visualize everything. This is a nod to a previous post here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40983734
An LLM will tell you how to do the GIS lookup, but ironically as privacy laws become better it will genuinely become a harder and harder task unless the user explicitly wants you to do it.
> Passing the Turing test has always been a non-binary thing

Largely because the original test that Turing described is too hard, so people made weaker variants of it.
AI-empowered next-generation multiscale climate modelling
You could try Chromecast. I've used it occasionally, never had any issues with UI, pretty smooth with no lags or crashes. It does have the Jellyfin app on it too.
I agree, and I wish manufacturer didn't force this retroactively on already bought items...

Unfortunately, if I were to replace I'm not even sure I can find something that doesn't or won't do this in the future.

So perhaps we'll start seeing consumer routers with this blocking built in. (would be a nice logical add on to help sell them)
Rust isn't an Exciting New Language any more. It's in the "work towards widespread adoption" phase. Slower feature development is natural and healthy, the stakes are high, mistaken design choices are much more harmful than low velocity at this point.

I'm not excited about Rust because of cool features, I'm excited because it's a whole new CLASS of language (memory safe, no GC, production ready). Actually getting it into the places that matter is way more interesting to me than making it a better language. That's easier to achieve if people are comfortable that the project is being steered with a degree of caution.
Mirroring is not difficult, I've done it in order to perform code analysis on plugins at scale.
Hard edged, per-pixel light blocking is impossible for the foreseeable future. What's possible today, and what Magic Leap has, is diffuse dimming of large areas of the display.

The problem with light blocking is that when the blocker is millimeters from your eye it is completely out of focus. Unlike for the display, you can't use optics to make it appear farther away and in focus because the direction of the light it needs to attenuate can't be modified (or else your view of the world through the glasses would be warped).

For a near-eye light blocker to work, it would need to be a true holographic element which can selectively block incoming light based not just on its position but also its direction. Each pixel would essentially be an independent display unto itself that selectively blocks or passes incoming light based on its direction, instead of indiscriminately like a normal LCD. I have no idea how such a thing could ever be fabricated.
I use the same endpoint to populate my profile readme: https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer

It has been working well for me. Saved me a ton of clicks over the years I'm sure.
Those of us who moved on and accepted a degree of madness call ourselves SRE. It's supposed to be Site Reliability Engineering... but find it's just as well to replace the 's' with 'software'... or 'shit', if we're honest.

We do sysadmin but Ops, too. Central point for all organizational baggage. Everyone outsources their operational garbage, had to make a catch-all role.

Developers don't have release management skills? Security incident broke all your compiled software? Sold an impossible arrangement?

Doesn't matter, SRE will do anything to keep the business running despite the business!
If functions are "fn", then coroutines should be "co". In terms of verbosity, Rust turned into Java.
That's true, but I'm not sure what your point is. The prosecutor did prove that, convincing a unanimous jury that he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Perhaps you're thinking of it as a self-incrimination issue? That's a misperception I've seen before, where people generalize from Fifth Amendment protections to a broad rule that criminal defendants can never be at a disadvantage for refusing to explain themselves. That's not the case. If the prosecution says you obtained some items by taking them from the victim, and that's the only reasonable explanation the jury hears for how you got them, it's 100% within bounds for them to infer it's the correct explanation.
Related discussion:

>Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598 (2023)
Oh ok i get it, i didn't understood your point. I totally agree with your vision.
TVs becoming ad platforms is frustrating. Even high-end models are turning into tools for ads and data collection.
I wonder if TV manufacturers can be sued for adding crap like this after you already bought the TV.
I have an LG - 2012ish - and still receiving software updates from LG. I let it connect to the internet, and with the right TV settings, I’ve never seen it show me ads
> Since then, I've let myself get impolite at timeshare salesmen. The high pressure sales start at those tables, even before you get invited for the pitch. They abuse the tendency for civil people to be polite and redirect civility to continue the pitch. (And the slickest of them will guilt trip you on being nasty to explain yourself ... at which they can keep pitching ...)

Treat them as you would any other predator, like a lion, a grizzly bear, or a mugger. Because that's what they are.
Yeh. And it’s very good imho
You do have good points as well and it depends heavily on how disciplined the std lib makers are. Go for example has a very clean and stable std lib.

I posted this in some other thread:

I am not a Rust expert but the thing with the standard libraries is that it only has peer dependencies with itself and they are all synced to the same version.
Meaning if you only use the std lib you:

1) Will never include two different versions of the same peer dependency because of incompatible version requirements.

2) Will usually not have two dependencies relying on two different peer-dependencies that do the same thing. This can still happen for deprecated std lib features, but tends to be a much lesser issue.

These two issues are usually the ones that cause dependency size explosion in projects.
Ireland is the ideal country for EVs, with our temperate climate and small size. We also don't have a large fossil fuel resource. We got government grants to install a home charger. Quick and easy. There are many public charges points but in the last 6 months I have noticed much more contention and have to wait frequently. Also more broken chargers. Sign of increased adoption I guess... But if we can't make it work here, I won't work anywhere.
Another vote for infuse
At least in my experience, Go packages and Rust crates are much coarser than NPM packages. (Look at actual direct and indirect dependencies in cargo-watch to judge it by yourself.) I think Go prefers and actually has resource to keep mostly centralized approaches, while Rust crates are heavily distributed and it takes longer for the majority to settle on a single solution.
You see, the "struggle" in learning that comes from trying to form concepts out of text you read from books or from teacher's voices you listen in school instead of a complete audiovisual intuitive feed like VR will provide, is actually necessary. Your children will get impaired if they don't build the skill to learn from non-tech methods. Schools in India (and mostly Asia) enforce chalkboard and pen-and-paper methods of instruction at all levels, and I believe kids are better off for it. Ed-tech had insane hype in India at one point, with startup players getting billion-dollar evaluations, and it turned out to be a massive bubble that burst and broke the country's startup economy. I believe one of the main reason for that is that ed-tech solutions simply aren't as effective as they are imagined to be.
As someone who doesn't know much about types, do SBCL type declarations provide as good type-based development experience as OCaml and Rust?

And perhaps I wouldn't get your answer, I mean is there something fundamentally inadequate in the way SBCL declares types? I think there is a phrase for it in CS theory.
The previous governor stayed the execution and created the commission to investigate which lasted 6 years until the new governor was elected. The new governor disbanded the commission. They were from different political parties and probably had different views on the death penalty / the use of state resources.
You can simply not connect it to the Internet. You can also root them (did it to my LG one.)
In SICM they frequently make use of a kind of implicit applicative lifting (I can't remember what they call it) where you apply a vector-of-functions as if it were a function itself. In psuedo-Haskell:

lift :: Vec (a->b) -> (a->Vec b)
lift [] a = []
lift f:fs = (f a):(lift fs $ a)

so that you can write natural-looking multidimensional physics expressions like

((fx fy fz) r)

without having to invoke macros or restructure the expression to please the compiler. I dearly wish you could do this in another scheme but so far I haven't found one. Iirc it's required for using the magnificent `scmutils` package too.

For example, `guile-scmutils`[0] says:

> Functionality not available in the port:

> Scheme extension to allow applying vectors/structures as procedures. For example rather than

1 ]=> (pe ((up (literal-function 'x) (literal-function 'y)) 't))
(up (x t) (y t))

> you must use

guile> (pe ((lambda (t) (up ((literal-function 'x) t) ((literal-function 'y) t))) 't))
(up (x t) (y t))

[0] https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~gildea/guile-scmutils/
The practical interface for Android is Binder, which has an interface that can be made amendable to a richer language.
So, it's a lot like newstand (or grocery aisle) popular magazines did back then, back in the Elvis days.
Anyone on HN running models on their own local machines, like smaller Llama models or such? Or something else?
> There's a bunch of sub-par programmers, who don't use the old, well documented, stable, memory-safe functions and techniques.

…which are?
You are mixing up knowledge and reasoning skills. And I've definitely met high schoolers who were smarter than PhD student colleagues, so even there your point falls apart. When you mangle together all forms of intelligence without any straight definition, you'll never get any meaningful answers. For example, is your friend not intelligent because he's not a world-elite level chess player? Sure, to those elite players he might appear dumb, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have any useful skills at all. That's also what Turing realised back then. You couldn't test for such an ambiguous thing as "intelligence" per se, but you can test for practical real life applications of it. Turing was also convinced that all the arguments (many of which you see repeated over and over on HN) against computers being "intelligent" were fundamentally flawed. He thought that the idea that machines couldn't think like humans was more a flaw in our understanding of our own mind than a technological problem. Without any meaningful definition of true intelligence, we might have to live with the fact that the answer to the question "Is this thing intelligent?" must come from the pure outcome of practical tests like Turing's and not from dogmatic beliefs about how humans might have solved the test differently.
We do some parsing "underneath" disabled cfg checks, in order to support user-friendliness features like "that function you tried to call doesn't exist, but if you enabled feature xyz then it would". But we do discard cfg-protected items before doing any subsequent heavier operations.
the Nielsen thing feels like it's not compatible with EU regulations, is it?
Anyone discussing theporndude.com? It's a simple porn directory site, but I think the interface design shows a very clear information !
Streetcars can be up to 100m (300ft) long and fit 1000 people, saving costs for drivers.

Roads works are expensive [citation needed], and buses are heavy [citation needed], so they cause lots of damage over time. These costs are often not tracked correctly. Metallic rails require far less maintenance, but have a higher initial cost.

Trams can be quieter than ICE buses.

If build appropriately, Teams can even take sharper turns than buses.
Whereas the Governor’s statement does say that information provided to the police by one witness was not known publicly.
As far as I know Apple’s first party tracking allows it to

1. Show ads for apps in AppStore

2. Show ads in the News app.

What else are you thinking of?
I was there this spring. It is wonderful. There is nothing to do really, you wander around and slowly the scale of the sculptures, the viewing distance from the pyramid and mounds, the serenity of the nature seeps into your brain and for a time you surrender to that indescribable feeling that arises from being immersed in something big. Big in terms of scale but also in intent from the makers.

It's a bit like being in a cathedral, a hilly forest and a big, silent city at the same time.
There are supplements/medicines which can help recover from sudden hearing loss, eg caused by loud noises - the sooner taken, the better. It's best to get advice from a doctor (I'm a random person online) but I've read about N-acetylcysteine (NAC), and apparently steroids are also a go-to treatment by doctors. NAC in particular is available without a prescription (as a dietary supplement). So if you think your hearing might have been injured, don't wait.

(I also don't want people to read this and just think taking only NAC without asking your doctor what the best treatment is, is a good idea; since it may depend on the cause. Probably taking NAC is safe if you can't get to a doctor right away).
Squash all the commits I worked so hard to make atomic?
We don't have a better system at the moment, accepting its judgements is reasonable in light of that. And backseating when we're probably missing 90% of the evidence presented at court is unlikely to be any more accurate.
> Rehabilitation has not been shown to work regularly in practice

It works when it's done right [0].

One of the main reasons it fails to work is when the justice system itself is perceived as unfair [0]. So, things like inconsistently applied sentencing (!), systemic racism (!), over-the-top punishments (!) even in cases with significant doubt (!), etc...

0 - https://www.innovatingjustice.org/sites/default/files/docume...
OMNI Magazine archive (30 GB, CBR & PDF): https://archive.org/details/omni-archive/

Video series (6 GB): https://archive.org/details/omni-the-new-frontier
At this point I'll never buy another Samsung product.

If my computer goes to sleep, the Samsung monitor I have will be distorted and non-functional when the computer wakes up, for a duration of time relative to how long the computer was asleep (i.e. how long the monitor wasn't receiving a signal and was "off"). I've missed meetings at work because I cannot use the monitor for literally half an hour. Of course this started happening just after the 1 year warranty period ran out.

My Samsung ~58" TV has black lines forming across it after just ~3 years. The lines are gradually increasing in number and strength, so I guess I'm going to be buying a new TV screen soon.

A family member has Samsung oven (???) which has its interior light blinking on and off intermittenly when you open or close the door. The oven's LED screen is like 10% brightness. Their Samsung fridge is the worst-designed fridge I've ever used, making the approximate worst possible use of the space the appliance takes up. The best is their Samsung microwave: when something is done being microwaved and you take out the food and close the door, the microwave runs again for ~1 second. Like... really though?

There was a time Samsung made some good stuff, but for me they are not worth giving a moment's consideration anymore, sadly.
I don't know.

For some, hindsight is saying that it was a big deal. You'd expect that group to be resolute that early access was needed. It could easily have been offered to the elderly. That's pretty clear cut. For sure, if it had gone bad, there would have been naysayers ... but that could have been mitigated by allowing individuals to choose for themselves, and restricting early access to the elderly.

The other group who didn't think it so pressing could easily have been satisfied to wait.

So although hindsight is 20/20, it's pretty clear that Public Health acted against both groups' interests here.
chromecast (the hardware thingy) has been discontinued
Overoptimism in machine learning for fluid-related PDEs
I don’t think the point is about GPS, it’s about GIS. So it’s not the navigation problem, it’s a “is this point in this polygon” problem. Which is… a bit easier
I'm glad it was helpful!
Nothing difficult about it.

1) She has a very good big picture view of the market. She has probably identified some very specific problems that need to be solved, or at least knows where the demand lies.

2) She has the senior exec OpenAI pedigree, which makes raising funds almost trivial.

3) She can probably make as much, if not more, by branching out on her own - while having more control, and working on more interesting stuff.
That's about the time teen magazines emerged, isn't it. And the subsequent explosion of trends and rumors mags.