skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been (I'm the guy on stage) thinking about this for a while: there's the old Steve Jobs quote of the 'bicycle for the mind'. Perhaps, we've somehow entered the automotive age.

I'm pretty sure that cars have done their fair share of bad things, and we should probably learn from that.
> there are no strict rules that can be applied

The rules are there for a reason. The tricky part is making sure you’re applying them for that reason.
The code in the examples doesn't even check the API response code, let alone the structure of the response.
This happened at intel and was very noticeable even back in 2010. Indians hires other Indians. At every company I’ve been at if you were not Indian you were not invited to the conversation. Sitting in meetings where you were excluded from 30% of the conversation was wild. I never felt like they were rude or anything though- just that I was an outsider.

Best team I worked with was very diverse and they actively worked to help each other get promoted and protect each other.
I think you misunderstood the context of 'thousands' - - "If anything, I think it could be literally hundreds or even thousands of potential people." - - meaning that, literally, thousands of DIFFERENT people, could be considered, as a potential possibility, of being a possible candidate, of being, Satoshi. Simply put :-P Not that 'thousands' of people are Satoshi, like you misunderstood. - anywho -
A good example of old and reliable technology is MIDI. They have been trying to replace it by buggy and overly complex standards for decades. Yet, the old 5-PIN MIDI cable (and associated protocol) keeps rocking.
> There are like 220 hiragana/katakana. You can't learn those in a week.

They're less than 50 each, plus a few diacritics. I did learn hiragana in 3 days, it's that easy. One just need motivation, and practice. People failing at it just don't put the work. Heck, I can read more thai letters than a relative who lives there for years and is "learning" the language because I sat and took a few hours to practice.
Scan them with what exactly? If you're hinting at AVs — I honestly doubt they could be useful against novel state-sponsored malware.
I assumed it's the opposite. The Allies got away with firebombing and nuking whatever they like. So they probably drew lines like, "Hey, you can't drop aid right next to the cluster bombs. Also when sieging a populace, they must be provided with food and given advance warning before bombardment."
How would you go about collecting the user requirements of the readers? Do they pay for the development?
Just too add an alternative addition based architecture into the mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqXwmVpCyL0
Says the organization which doesn't accept personal donations to fund Mozilla, and which doesn't seek government grants, like 'digital sovereignty' grants the EU might give to keep its citizens out of Sauron's dark eye.

You should be able to connect to your government's websites without being required to use a browser which is deliberately built to engage in advertising and which tracks you without real and effective informed consent.

Mozilla is saying that user-tracking is the only viable advertising model for any future web, and that even laws mandating only contextual advertising, with actual informed consent for anything else, is not something to consider.

I wanted to be able to tell my local schools to install Firefox instead of Chrome, because otherwise you are teaching the kids to depend and trust in Google. I cannot do that now, because I don't now trust in Firefox, which means placing my trust in one of the Firefox forks - and there's no way I can convince the schools to do that.

> And we’ll continue to explore ways to add advertiser value while respecting user privacy

That's exactly the chicanery I've come to expect from Firefox. I'm okay with advertisers which don't build up a tracking profile. For the ones that do - fuck them and drain their bank accounts.
In Big-O notation, O(2n) = O(n). Two times slower is actually not that much. If this slowdown results in better inference in the same number of training rounds or better-tuned weights with fewer redundant features, that can be a very worthwhile sacrifice.

It's also a complex optimization problem, not just about computing. Two times, the parameters take more than two times the time to tune and two times the working memory to train and use. There are also plenty of model training scenarios where data throughput from the dataset into memory and back out is the final bottleneck.

So, though I agree it is indeed a downside, I think it's a worthwhile sacrifice if the results they show are reproducible.
David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper Awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Have you seen s6?

I’d say it’s the modern-day equivalent of daemontools, and it’s under active development.

https://skarnet.org/software/
There is (used to be?) locale of "en_DK" (or English language for Denmark) that combined English month/day names with ISO8601 dates.

Maybe there needs to be an "en_ISO" ("en_UN"?) locale that has:

1. Currency of "$"

2. Numbers with decimal point as "." and group separator as "," and leading zero on (absolute) values between 0 and 1

3. Day names of Monday->Sunday and the equivalent abbreviations

4. Month names of January->December and the equivalent abbreviations

5. Times in 24 hour HH:mm:ss format

6. Dates in ISO8601 yyyy-MM-dd format.

7. Timestamps in "pure" ISO so yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss[.ssss] and with a "Z" or ±HH[:mm] for timezone adjustments.
If an addition-only LLM performed better, nvidia would probably still be the market leader.

Next gen nvidia chips would have more adders and fewer multipliers.
everyone will have a different engine. Some people will want to properly learn music theory and chord progressions and proper maintenance of a guitar. Others just want to learn 4 chords and use it to sing to their favorite pop song. Both are valid.

That's ultimately what one crowd wants. They want to deal wth minimum or no code, move around assets in a scene, and try to recreate a level in their head. General purpose engines abstracted the need to learn the code, which was never of interest to most people that just want to make a little game.

My only reservation is knowing when to pick the right tool for the right job. I wouldn't throw Photoshop at someone who just wanted to add some filter on a few pictures if some free phone app (probably a built-in one) worked for them. Likewise, I sure wouldn't tell someone who wanted to make a quick pixel art platformer to download Unreal Engine. Even Unity is a bit overkill. Flash used to be that "iMovie" of 2d games, and we never truly filled in that void when it died.
The compressor stations are alongside the gas pipeline network. These put in the energy needed to keep the gas flowing over long distances through the network.

Without those it would be just like a very very long garden watering hose that has a trickle of flow compared to a short one.
People joked maybe the Nobel committee is holding some AI stocks. Now I start to wonder if that is true...
If I read this correctly, they'll fertilise their daughter with frozen sperm from her deceased brother? That's like, post-mortem incest. The risk of cancer will be higher.
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"We recommend training and hosting L-Mul-based models on devices integrated with specialized architectural designs. Patent pending"

(from footnote in method section)
Did you try https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html? Ever since I found about it a few years ago ISO has been painless.
This is legitimately deserved though.
While I am skeptical about yesterdays award in physics, these are totally deserved and spot on. There are few approaches that will accelerate the field of drug development and chemistry as a whole in a way that the works of these three people will. Congratulations!
Satoshi Nakamoto is defined as: Any DEV that participated in Bitcoins 1st year of development.

Leave it at that.
Racism is embedded in human nature and in every culture. Though it takes different forms. I don't think "Indians" deserve any special mention on that one.
Mozilla's title, "A free and open internet shouldn't come at the expense of privacy", is very misleading about the content of the article. In plain speech, the article's about Mozilla looking for new ways to deliver ads in web browsers. Maybe this is a suitable place for mods to override the original title and write a non-deceptive one.

edit: Here's a few other threads on the same topic (of Mozilla's advocacy of a "privacy-preserving attribution", or "interoperable private attribution", of browser ads):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643991 ("Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature (noyb.eu)"; 14 days ago, 130 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971247 ("A word about private attribution in Firefox (reddit.com)"; 85 days ago, 102 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954535 (""Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you" (mastodon.social)"; 87 days ago, 187 comments)
The reason is quite simple. You need to be a writer, an artist, map designer and a musician if you want to make games. If all you know is writing software, then working on an engine is less asset intensive.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on Open BSD?
I am looking for a new OS to base my work on.

I did some rudimentary research and came to the opinion that OpenBSD might be the most secure OS.

I am looking at.

- security (from hacking and spyware installations)

- usability (Tails is not practical in my case)

- availability of important tools I use.

Anyways after some research I later came to choosing between either Trisquel or OpenBSD (maybe FreeBSD)

I have not used BSD before. But it seems it's the most secure OS out there.

My questions.

1. What has been your experience with OpenBSD?

2. What are the pros & cons of using Open BSD?

3. What laptop would run OpenBSD best? (I am looking at the Razer Balde)

Given my requirements, do you have any other technologies you recommend I use?

Was choosing OpenBSD over Trisquel (Trisquel is Stallman endorsed) a better choice for someone who is concerned about privacy & security?

Thanks.
Nobody (important) wanted that, though. It was done only because the cloud wasn't available, the moment it became available every big company migrated.
My guess would be that a lot of non-Indians at these companies are rejected on the basis of "vibes"; which is slightly different from racism as I explain below, although it probably ends up having the same net effect as overt racism.

As an Indian, I've observed that collectivism and subservience towards authority figures are taught as virtues; this obviously makes it quite easy for employers to extract unreasonable demands such as long working hours, transgressions of ethical limits, things that are "bad", but that generates benefits for the employer.

On the other hand, European and American societies generally focus on individualism and autonomy, which obviously causes a conflict when an Indian hiring manager sees anything other than complete deference to them as a threat, and proceeds to reject such candidates.
Spanner is one thing I'd say they invented but they built a whole bunch of really neat stuff in order to be able to run search, back in 1998. that they're this behemoth conglomerate that it's cool to hate on doesn't erase the fact that they had to build all sorts of new things when they were just starting out.
Wolfram has always been difficult for me to follow. I think it's because he tends to drone on, I don't know why. I don't think even he knows why. My understanding of what I have managed to listen to or read is that being who we are, we don't process information fast enough in order to see much of what is around us, even while it is happening before us. An example is to take a minute under consideration, you can think about how long a minute is. It's tangible to us. It's not very long. But if we think about how long a femtosecond is, it is not tangible at all. We can't experience a femtosecond. We can experience a whole bunch of femto seconds, but not just one. This is just one example of what I perceived the meaning of his thinking to be. Is that wrong, or so far off? Not only can we not experience a femtosecond, we will never be able to experience a femtosecond because our brains are simply not fast enough and aren't built to exist at such a scale. If that's what it means, then does that mean that he is referring to our ability to exist in certain scales, and our tendency to know the scale in which we exist? And, to exist outside of that scale, requires different computational parameters? Additionally, is this an extension of dimensions, just in time, not space? Does he differentiate between the two?

I know that the perception of scale has more to do with, well, perception, whereas computational irreducibility (as I understand it to be, anyway) is more of a function of natural processes....or THE underlying function from which all other functions stemming from that, are built upon. ... Right? Between that and perception of the scale in which we have evolved to exist in, it seems like they are at least closely related...

Some of what has been discussed here in the comments has me doubting my understanding, is the reason I ask.

To extend my question, could computational irreducibility help to explain why the Universe tends to "recycle" so many parts of itself? Is that some sort of telltale sign that when we see these patterns (golden ratio, fractals, recurring structures in naturee), we are looking at a fundamental aspect of the universe in some form, or it's computationally irreducible equivalent, or is this to be determined?
«“…a balance between commercial profit and public benefit is critical … “ to creating an open, healthy internet.»

Just nah. Public benefit and openness should come first. Commercial profit should be made around that. They should not balance each other.
https://tina.io/ tinacms is very modern & well built, git markdown typescript. and headless or with template components.

it's such an epic feat, how programmers have grown up to manage source over time & changes. i very much hope this richness cam extend beyond code some day, stop being arbitrary UI we craft & become good data structures that transcend each application.
I could open it.
I know I'm going out on a limb here, but is it possible that the prize has been awarded sarcastically?

Like, let's survey what our PhD students plan to do next in their careers. Oh wow, 62% say they are going into... AI? Well damn, why don't we just give the Nobel Prize for that, if it's such a hot field in physics right now?
No, it actually makes it "worse" in that most usual DVD players and drives will do a "best effort, but keep going" type of read which may result in a pop or skip or desync for a moment on playback - but these tools are archival and refuse to read if they can't read correctly.

It's actually quite annoying at times, for example it's often better to rip audiobooks with iTunes and then grab the files and delete it from iTunes than to use something like XLD directly.
Gboard double-sided version
Maybe the transformers authors will win Literature.
This is unfortunately a widespread practice even in less tech heavy companies. It starts with a very aggressive C suit or manager responding to everything 24/7, supported by “cheap” labor who say yes to everything and promise the World, usually extra complicated. Fast forward a couple years and the company/project is a expensive hell-hole of disfunction and suffering. CEOs and the board also are to blame for this, they are aware, they just don’t care as they like people who say yes and don’t give them any bad news.
Damn, that guy is citing sources, must mean he's wrong and there is no need for you to examine any of the vibes-based assumptions you are making about the real world then.
It is closer in analogy to making your own gear cutters. If you know how, you can make any gear you want.

If you have a gear hobbing machine, you can only make standardized gears and the only thing you can influence is the size of the gear.
The physics prize was a stretch of the definition of the word "physics", but this one is purely about chemistry.
>collectivism and subservience towards authority figures are taught as virtues

Remind me to never fly on a plane piloted by an Indian flight crew.

(Protip: If you can't stand up to your captain, your plane is going down.)
These two aren't mutually exclusive.
An attempt to redefine online chess (my 2nd startup)
I've been working on a new concept for chess matchmaking, and it's pretty simple: instead of just pairing players based on rating, we also match them based on their knowledge of the game. Right now, the target audience is mostly beginners who want to improve. So, for example, if you're strong with openings but still figuring out the midgame, you'll be paired with someone at your level for openings. We’ve got it working for openings, midgames, and endgames (that's all we've coded so far ).

The idea came from noticing that a lot of players—especially beginners—might have a good grasp of one part of the game but struggle in others. Traditional matchmaking based on rating can be frustrating because it doesn’t account for these imbalances. By focusing on specific phases of the game, we hope to make matches feel more balanced and fun.

We’re still early in development, but I think this could be a useful option for beginners who want to improve their chess game in a more structured way. What do you think? Does this kind of matchmaking sound like something you’d try?

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No, not in every language like in Kotlin.

I’ve never seen this amount of bikeshedding like in Kotlin. It’s as if whole identity of Kotlin developer is based on “do it differently from Java” which is super ironic for people who use JVM language.
David Baker (and colleagues) have always done good work. I guess google have done some things also.

(lol - one of the PDF attachments to that page is 'Illustration: A string of amino acids' : actually it's a bit better than the title implies :).

Actually, Figure 2 - "How does AlfaFold2 Work?" is impressive to fit that on one page. Nice.
Steamdeck performance and frame analysis – Metaphor ReFantazio
And the literature Nobel will go for ChatGPT
>That’s completely besides the point.

I think it's a worthwhile thing to consider instead of dismmiss.

>But it’s not easy and I wouldn’t recommend that somebody who just wants to make a game go down that path.

Nothing is easy in game development. You can focus on whatever sector you choose, but don't expect an easy ride. That's why my honest first step to "how do I become a game programmer" is to fire up a terminal and write a Hello World in C or C#. I always approached concepts bottom-up, personally.

>I’m pretty sure some of my favorite games like Hollow Knight would have never been made if they decided to just build the engine as well.

Well, it sure is helping with Silksong, that's for sure.

But as a fun fact: Hungry Knight was made in Flash. I'm sure the devs would have found a way if they were determined enough if they didn't choose Unity. It could have been done in Game Maker or Construct or even good ol' Monogame (I believe Celeste used that).
I was just wondering when they were going to award the alphafold2 guys the nobel after after seeing Hinton win the physics one. 100% agree, all three of them totally deserve this one. Baker's lab is pretty much keeping Deepmind in check at this point and ensuring open source research is keeping up. Hats off
I am not sure that retrieving it is the correct word. In term of efficiency you have to take into account the overhead of multiple files, some in cache, some not vs 1 single probably already cached file

Also https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
Right, but it has to be *good enough*. My issue isn't that they didn't do more work, my issue is that they didn't even report work that they did do that communicates the impact of the literal proposed method.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783013
This does not distract from the potential usefulness of the effort, since the work does not at all depend on some word's definition, so this is merely a side note, "FYI": It appears that the "common" in common sense does not exist. It could only be found in "plainly worded, factual claims about physical reality"; "We also find limited presence of collective common sense, undermining universalist claims and supporting skeptics." (from the study abstract).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/30/i-took...

The article links to the study.

> Common sense is not that common: a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania concludes the concept is “somewhat illusory”. Researchers collected statements from various sources that had been described as “common sense” and put them to test subjects.

> The mixed bag of results suggested there was “little evidence that more than a small fraction of beliefs is common to more than a small fraction of people”.

What this study does show that is relevant for the submitted article is that whatever he trains the AI for, it may not be something "common".
I don't know what your comment has to do with my comment.
Next up: The Nobel peace prize is awarded to ChatGPT, because virtually all communiques and peace treaties will be generated by lazy lawyers.
Rich, coming from a company about to get in bed with advertising companies.
There's also great support for rp2040 (and Pi Pico W with wireless) in Zephyr rtos too! https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/boards/raspberrypi/rpi...
incorrect, this is a re-implementation of rust by designed to be included in gcc, not the original rust compiler.
Discovery and improvement of "under-specified aspects of the current implementation" can have a large practical impact, and implementing a standard (the Rust language) more than once so that it ceases to have a dominant "current implementation" (rustc) is even more important.
I see lots of potential here.
Chakra UI v3 introduced so many breaking changes