skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some perspective here, The US spends ~$90b on all higher education institution research combined each year with over half of that funding coming from the government. The 42 federally funded national research labs only had something like $29.3b spent on R&D in 2023 and only a portion of that is allowed to be spent on non-weapons research. Google alone is spending over $100b on just deep mind R&D this year. So, all academia and all the federally funded research labs would have to have agreed to stop working on anything else to pool enough resources together to provide equivalent support for deep mind. This would've required many government officials and entities to have the foresight to see the potential impact of deep mind and be willing to sacrifice all the other interests they have asking for funding. imo if federal government were funding deep mind this significantly in this alternate timeline it would be focused towards weapons research and wartime applications cause over half of the national labs funding is spent on weapons R&D.
I hadn't considered the privacy implications. For this to be workable, you'd need to pair it with near-ubiquitous use of some anonymizing overlay network.
The elements of networking style (1985)
Yep. And when wasmgc is stable & widely adopted, apps built using blazer will probably end up smaller than their equivalent rust+wasm counterparts, since .net apps won’t need to ship an allocator.
Or hackers can access AT&T systems, or access the DHL system using AT&T credentials?

Or perhaps there is a compromised subcontractor in the chain between the customer, AT&T and DHL...
> The focus on really understanding the problem tends to create more stable abstractions which do get reused. But that's emergent, not speculative ahead-of-time.

Thank you for putting so eloquently my own fumbling thoughts. Perfect explanation.
Isn't cocaethylene profoundly unhealthy? Even if both components were legal i don't think any country would allow them to be sold combined in one beverage.
When, in your opinion?
metaphorically, Rust train does not sound enticing.
TIP 401 proposed a fix for this but has not progressed so far - https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/401.md .
NATO is allied with many autocrats, especially the Gulf countries.
I know what purity is. It is a core principle of functional programing. So ”functional“ already implies purity, and ”pure functional“ implies exclusively functional (e.g. Haskell).
More info on our pattern here:

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/exit-a-page-qu...
About feet...

I was forced to write right-handed at primary school. I can't write with left, but I'm ambidextrous. At work, I've got my mouse to the left, at home to the right. There's an 'inventory' if you want to check, the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory: https://brainmapping.org/shared/Edinburgh.php

Anyway, back on topic. I play musical keyboards, so that definitely helps being ambidextrous. But I also play classical organ, and my feet have no preference. Left is just as agile (or clumsy) as right. But that's not different for right-handed organists. So at least in that case, there doesn't seem to be a connection between handedness and feetedness.

This is of course just some observations, but it is rather obvious that we do use our legs/feet a lot, and almost always in a symmetrical fashion. And for turning corners while running and such, we need to be able to rely on strength and agility in both.
OpenCyc is mostly just the core ontology (knowledge graph). I'm told it is nothing in comparison to Cyc. None of the interesting algorithms (just some basic inference). It was so terribly named that they had to discontinue it.

But I imagine it's still a great resource. Haven't played with it.
Thank you for the input Jarred! I felt something wasn't right.
I feel like social media is one of the main things folks want to be local-first. Own your own data, be able to browse/post while offline, and then it all syncs to the big caches in the sky on reconnect...
Ah yes, appeal to authority. No better way to admit that you are talking out of your arse.
What's the claw thing?
SambaNova does bf16
Exactly. More bullish means he uses and advocates for functional more than before. It by no means implies having ”moved on“ from inlining.
You ever played Bach?
Satoshi's email provider didn't use DKIM. Even if they had the keys would have long since been rotated.

That's OK though - you're the only one insinuating that I faked the emails, nobody else ever has. You won't come out and say it directly of course, because if you had to spell out this theory explicitly it would sound obviously idiotic.
both recently had success with adding JIT
Rises in life expectancy have slowed dramatically
A plumber is not worried about quality and the future well being of the home owner.

Similarly, a developer might not be interested in quality and customer satisfaction, but in doing the things that will yield him better outcomes: a better position inside the company, better payment.
> But some right-handers who have been forced to (by breaking an arm for example) can learn to write with the left hand.

I'm right handed and taught myself to write left handed out of boredom. In college I would just start taking notes with my left hand in classes where they prof conveyed information slowly enough that I had the time to do it. It was a good way to stay engaged and awake.

As a consequence I can still today, 25 years later, write with both hands (although to be fair, my handwriting is terrible with both hands so that could be why it's hard to tell the difference).
Thanks. Interesting to note the "interruption page" and "safety content page" parts, which I think deals with quite a few queries in the comments about how people will know what to do.

Also just a note that the first two GOV.UK links under "Research on this pattern" don't include live examples any more.
Sure, the "biggest problem with TCL" is some minor syntactical annoyance that you'd get over within the first hour of using it.
Ask HN: Outstanding PhD thesis from Computer Science in last 40 years
Am not writing one, but my daughter would be writing in sometime in her field. I thought I will brushup myself on CS Ph.D thesis. Being an engineer, never looked at thesis or research papers in detail. Thank you.
> nuclear can be turned modulated pretty fast too, look at France

Nope. Albeit being shock-full of nuclear reactors... France always maintains fossil fuel active in order to load-follow. Add 'peakers' (needed during peak-demand) and here is the result:
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy?Metric=Share+of+...

Details: there are safety-related limits (power modulation proportion, duration of a pause needed after each modulation, modulations frequency...) to nuclear load-following capacity, and the very combustible status is a major parameter.

Pertinent document (French ahead!): https://www.sfen.org/rgn/expertise-nucleaire-francaise-suivi...

« un réacteur peut varier de 100 % à 20 % de puissance en une demi-heure, et remonter aussi vite après un palier d’au moins deux heures, et ce deux fois par jour »

Proposed translation: "a reactor power output can vary from 100% to 20% in 30 minutes, then after 2 hours can go back to 100% at the same speed, and can cycle this way 2 times per day".

This is quite a good performance when it comes to load-following (French engineers are very good at this), however it is insufficient in the real world (save any ridiculously expensive over-provision of nuclear reactor, most idling) and very weak compared to gas turbines performances.

> Edf indeed needs to sell as much as they can

No. EDF always needed to sell as much as they can, even before AREHN, because maintaining a high load factor for their nuclear reactors is financially key. An idle industrial reactor is a financial disaster.
The reason why my idea is just an idea and yours is a business is yours is a lot more realistic, but I'm happy to hear that something like it exists. I had lost hope that I could find real challenges in my work but now I see that I must look harder.
I do, but only because it's a stupid-ass shortcut I keep triggering on accident.
"The Wall" from Marlen Haushofer was one of the best experience I had with a book in a long time
It's not available in this case, or every case. When available, you can search "The data was provided by" in https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites
https://lawsofux.com/postels-law/

is another, all somewhat circling around the same issues
ISP's don't mind customers hating them as long as they don't leave, and in many places they can't because theirs is the only game in town, or there is one other player that screws over their clients in exactly the same way.

They have used deep packet inspection and traffic shaping for ages to screw over Over The Top competition to their own services or tier their offerings into higher priced slightly less artificially sabotaged package deals.

I realy like what the libreqos people are aiming for, but lets not pretend ISP's are trying to be great and just technically hampered (and yes, I'm sure there are exceptions to this rule).
True but do all those peeople now pay $100 a month to Adobe? Hardly.
>Just look at the mess of Imperial units in the United States.

The US doesn't use Imperial units; it uses "US Customary" units. They're not the same, though there is some overlap. Imperial units are used in the UK, which is why they're called "imperial" (from "empire"--the British Empire). Imperial inches, for instance, are the same as US inches (2.54cm), but UK/Imperial gallons are quite different from US gallons, which is why the miles-per-gallon ratings for cars are so different between the two countries.
This study suggests 25% among top-rate boxers: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286024810_The_influ...

Which is still higher than average, and around the level seen in more violent societies. I think it makes sense that it wouldn't get up to 50% since you're sampling from a smaller pool in the first place.
If the government wasn’t allowed to hire from private, it would be starved of talent. That would be a great scheme to hobble any agency you don’t like.
>Wasm has verification specification. This verified subset makes security exploits seen in those older technologies outright impossible

Both Java and .NET verify their bytecode.

>Wasm bytecode is trivial (as it gets) to turn into machine code

JVM and .NET bytecodes aren't supercomplicated either.

Probably the only real differences are: 1) WASM was designed to be more modular and slimmer from the start, while Java and .NET were designed to be fat; currently there are modularization efforts, but it's too late 2) WASM is an open standard from the start and so browser vendors implement it without plugins

Other than that, it feels like WASM is a reinvention of what already existed before.
ARRAKIHS: Understanding the Nature of Dark Matter
When you say they don't work, do you mean they don't cut, or they just feel awkward?

If they don't cut, it's because your fingers are pulling the blades apart instead of pushing them together.

If they just feel awkward, it's because the blade that is on "top" is obscuring your view of the cut, because the sharp edge is facing away from you.

Rotating the scissors doesn't turn them into the other kind for the same reason that rotating yourself doesn't turn you into a mirror image.
Do you have a source for this?

asm.js (the spiritual precursor to WASM) worked pretty much the same, and an awful lot of languages were compiled to it.

WASM does provide a more predictable compilation target to be sure, but I don't think it actually opens any new possibilities re what languages can be compiled.
Relax. Still your mind. You are in a calm place. Now, think of all the numbers you can. But do not think about the number seven (7). Do not think about the number 7 (seven).
loving this, and we should all do more stuff because 'its funny' - would make the world a better place
This looks like an invocation of a C++ CUDA kernel through an FFI. It is not running k or q directly on the GPU.
That's why I have the "eat everything I kill" bit. When I leave they will be much less funded and much better prepared.
Same as with cookie banners. Much as I appreciate the intent of the law, any regulation based on disclosure / consent / name-and-shame is bound to fail or make things worse when enshittification is already the standard rather than the exception. There is simply nowhere for customers to take their dollars instead, when manufacturers start rubbing their dark patterns in their customer's faces, as per legal requirement.
Quantitatively this replacement is already done (renewables produce way more than nuclear) and is running (nuclear produces less and less), right now, nearly everywhere (explore using 'Change country or region'): https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...
Bufferbloat and Internet Speed Test
Compare:

- Sport Bar

- Lounge Bar

- Cafe Bar

(All from real german bar names.)

- Rosis Bar

Rosis could just as well be a word like Sport, Lounge or Cafe.
I've been lucky enough to photograph pygmy seahorses in N. Sulawesi. They are tiny, and superbly camouflaged. Observing their mating habits is an incredible achievement. Kudos to Dr. Richard Smith. I look forward to reading the upcoming enhanced edition of "The World Beneath" on November 19th.
Statistically most indians are Non-vegetarians(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country#India). Various estimates mostly around 20-40%.

Statistically i "think" more people are killed by terrorist attack then cow vigilantes.
Twitter will pay its Premium users to engage with each other
Its a cat and mouse game. Generally, these large companies use information asymmetry as a tool in the war
I also prefer not to have to think too hard when reading a headline. "7/67" saved me from thinking "10.4%? What's N?".
I also shared the code of proof-of-concept so you can play with it/modify by yourself if you have some spare time: https://github.com/jmaczan/text-to-ml
So many left-handers here that feel disadvantaged in our right-handed society. If you ever want to do one thing where you feel you left-handedness gives you an advantage, pick up Kendo (the Japanese swordfighting). You have to wield your sword like everybody else but the aiming is done with your left while the right just provides the power for the stroke (the katana is a two-handed weapon). Since you are not supposed to fully power your slashes anyway, I felt being left-handed is a slight advantage in Kendo.
I don't think they can do that, because they do not store plaintext addresses in their database, merely hashes. It certainly reduces the impact of someone hacking HIBP.
That’s funny: https://x.com/0x440x46/status/1824145776295154084?s=46
It still has exceptions- but exceptions are normal. Errors are normal.
How would one do : https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/ in python?
> There’s a prominent exit button that closes the modal faster than a page navigation or finding the close tab button.

I spent about 30 seconds figuring out how to close it. The icon in the top-right? No, that goes to the start page. Perhaps the icon in the top-left? No, that goes to the main menu. Clicking outside the modal, like most other websites? Nope, doesn't work.

Turns out the close button is the half-circle at the bottom of the modal, which is exactly the same color as the rest of the modal. It's pretty obvious once you see it, but it took me way too long to find. They should've either placed it in the top-right like literally every other close button ever, or made it bright red so it's impossible to miss.
There's more to a good pair of scissors (eg: Dressmakers scissors) than you may have considered.

Left and Right handed versions are asymmetric mirror images of each other than cannot be rotated to match.

Consider:

* Smaller top loop for thumb.

* Larger bottom loop for fingers.

* Loops have width and are bevelled; wider where the thumb first enters, narrower on the side the thumb comes out, these are shaped for comfort and control.

* The action of moving a thumb and fingers "up and down" has a slight twisting action to it that is factored into how the anvil and cutting blades of the scissors are arranged so that the left twist causes the blades to run tight against each other when left handed and mirrored for the right twist of the right hand.
"Content warning: This blog post references domestic abuse and violence but doesn’t go into specific detail.

I’m not an expert in that topic at all, so I may not use the preferred terminology in all instances. Sorry."

What the hell is this?
Page title: Bufferbloat and Internet Speed Test
Still contained within you. You’re the singularity.
It is not even hard to find these things, especially if you have some contacts; we definitely cannot handle the work and it's visibly accelerating. There are so many systems where the original team is no longer there and everything 'runs'; especially with VPSs, ec2, docker, kubernetes etc, things are just running blackboxes and when there are changes that don't automatically work and break things, no-one has a clue what to do. A lot of bitrot as well; we had a client who use codeigniter ancient version in 500+ internal and external applications running on ancient php (not supported) etc and with IT demanding updates to the infra, things started failing fast ; a lot of these systems were manually installed on servers that are basically forgotten until something goes down. There are 100s of 1000s of companies in the world that have situations like this and I cannot even attempt to estimate the costs of downtime, hacks, 'must rewrite' new consultants coming in, 'must rewrite' resume driven new employees etc.
>Wades-Giles is closer to English-friendly, but it has a lot of flaws. It has no notion of intonations.

How could it? English is not a tonal language at all, so how could you possibly represent tonality with Latin characters, in a way that English speakers with no extra training could read such text and pronounce the Chinese word in an acceptable way? I don't think it's possible. It's just like trying to use Japanese characters to represent English names: a LOT is lost in translation, because there's simply no way to represent all English sounds in Japanese, since Japanese has far fewer possible sounds than English.

>It could go the other way if Mandarin is the dominant trade language.

But it's not, English is, like it or not. If you want to communicate with someone in any random country in the world, you have a very good chance of doing so if you speak English, regardless of your or the listener's native language. The same isn't true for Mandarin.
VerifAI – biomedical generative question-answering system w referenced answers
Lot of negativity in the comments here. The disease is likely to kill you without treatment and the "cancer" is not solid organ cancer like most people are used to thinking of but mostly (5 out of 7 cases) myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) which is different and curable in some cases, as this paper demonstrates. If it were me, I'd take my chances.
Deeply disappointing. The only reason I have a IA account is to upload correct book covers to obviously wrong or poor quality books on the Library.
In spite of this horrible outcome, can this tell researchers anything about what causes the cancer? As in, if they know what happened (the problem with the insertion of the gene) then does that tell us anything about what might cause a cancer, and with this knowledge help prevent it or treat it in others?
Read the blog's "about" page.
This is genuinely an interesting take on both the rise of Trumpism as well as Marxism and the continuing threats to liberal democracy in the modern age.

I had studied the Zealots and the Cathars in history class (great high school!) in relation to the history of religion and politics, but never joined up the dots like this. Lots to think about.
egyptian mummies in the 17th century? o.0
God is everything.

Perhaps the limit of that curiosity is akin to control but anything that can be imagined will be imagined and explored and rendered in some sense to experience. Imo.
Before the current Chromtastrophe, multiple companies maintained their own, fully independent rendering engines, according to web standards.

Microsoft didn't stop developing EdgeHTML because it's too hard, they stopped because Google kept giving them the fuck around on sites like YouTube.

The whole point of web standards is that you can have multiple implementations for the same thing - there's zero reason that post-Google, Blink needs to be maintained by a single entity.

Microsoft can maintain their own fork of Blink, or bring back Edge, or adopt WebKit, or whatever works for them.

Opera and <insert laundry list of chrome-but-not-chrome browsers> have the same options, sans EdgeHTML.

The whole reason these companies are using Chromium/Blink is that Google has a stranglehold on web standards, and by being a me-too Chrome-alike they get support for Google's half baked ideas for free, to prevent the ever-fickle user base from switching browser because their browser doesn't support the latest half-written web standards draft.
I haven't looked at Linux kernel sources, but I read about this "linked list" usage in the kernel. Embedded link pointers is also a good point.

Do you happen to have a good example for it?
Exactly. They specifically omit political campaigns so that they aren't covered.
There is also this one from Italy:

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_Buton

(Which is a actually buyable product that appearantly is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, coke leaf import company in europe. It's a lovely liqueur)
The Waveform Bufferbloat test page (https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat) has some recommended routers for mitigating bufferbloat, but the first recommended one (Eero) has apparently already been revised and the new version's capabilities are not as good as they once were. The second one (Netgear Nighthawk) seems to have terrible software and support.

So I'm looking for some opinions, what's your experience? Casual googling seems to suggest that the best solution to implement traffic management would either be a dedicated machine with something like OpenWRT or an all in one solution (ie. a Firewalla gold + some AP to provide wifi).
Those bemchmarks are theoretical numbers. Results of calculation made by software that is not used for actual work.

I want comparison of Photoshop or Firefox with bunch of tabs.
We don't have enough time to convince them against a whole ecosystem built around false assumptions. But we don't have to either, since we're in position to force them to change their methods. And the reason why we're in this position is because they've fucked up their WP install in the first place.
1. A large number of people who need this service are likely to be victims of various forms of coercive control. This is a decent, quick summary of what that means in practice (PDF): https://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/One%20minute%20guides/One%20Mi...

2. I don't understand this comment. Surely this is a perfect example of when you want a component to work as well as possible, including UI research?

3. The mAjor point here is that the functionality of the escape key is ambiguous. It can do various things in various contexts, so you can't rely on people to use it for that, and visitors can't rely on it because it might just e.g. minimise a maximised window on MacOS, leaving the website on-screen.
Most people who couldn't afford IBM PCs and resorted to ZX Spectrum and clones, had to use the cassette if they wanted to use any kind of software.
Figure out how AI can help the blind and the deaf. Take up ceramics. Write a travel book. Tinker with low-cost robotics. Volunteer for some environmental restoration project - the riverbank ones seem interesting.