skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems very obvious to me at least that the demand is here. I live in far-suburban car hell in the sun belt, and within a 10-mile radius or so I know of at least 2 different golf cart showrooms. These are essentially for getting around the extremely large agglomerations of gated communities here; you can go see your friend in Cedar Woods when you live in The Cay, you can drive out to the shopping district just outside your community, you can take your kids down to the pool instead of walking a mile. One big upside is that your kids can drive them, which helps a lot with independence.

The downsides, though, are as clear. These are not useful for serious transportation outside of the gated community agglomeration. To get out, you must go on a high-speed road (at least 45 MPH speed limit) where these minicars would not survive. So, most of the trips being replaced by minicars would ideally be walking or biking anyway.
"I highly doubt there are hundreds of researches earning millions." -- by doing purely academic research, maybe not. But, the number of people who have moved from academia to industry off the strength of their research and made millions is probably much larger than you think. I'd wager just in ML you could round up a few hundred between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google/DeepMind, NVidia, Meta/FAIR, etc.
One thing we I wish we would do with these tools is separate all the aria logic from the UI. We should put all that complex aria stuff into a library and then build different UIs on top of a shared, well tested code base.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/xi/aria-api
Thanks! Yes, I agree 100% on it being underrated.
All C's native datatypes should be avoided for cross-platform data structures (networking, databases, file storage) because the standard only guarantees minimum sizes. Additional problem is the endianess.

uint64_t is a bit verbose, many re-def this to u64.
> Wow ... big part of my childhood ... those robot ball things!

Yes! And the noughts-and-crosses game they played during the credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nJ2vyXKOOE
No, only dairy and egg products are labelled as such based on government regulations. Everything else is a number companies pull out of their butts.
Mann’s introduction to (I think it was) 1491 has a section on his settling on “Indian” as his term in the book for (most of the—there’s some nuance) indigenous Americans and their decedents, and he doesn’t go into great detail, but it reads like he kept using “Native American” around… well, Indians, with whom he was speaking to learn more about topics for the book, and they consistently rolled their eyes and told him to just say “Indian”, so after a great deal of this he finally relented and settled on that as the most-OK term to use. I recall it because I found the passage amusing.
Roku TVs "phone home" a lot. I had one with pihole blocking it's collection, but they still updated my menus to suggest garbage for me. I wasn't willing to let the device go un-patched and still be on my networks, so there was probably still data getting back to them. A computer is easier to secure but still has all the same issues by default. The difference is that a computer isn't designed to spy on you. Netflix in a browser is still going to tell Netflix about your viewing habits, but at least it doesn't tell Roku via screen scraping as well.
> unit 4 proved there's positive learning curve

Unit 4 proved that work units in a given project, sharing the same lapse of time and space, can benefit.
Extrapolating it to a whole set of projects is another matter (see the referenced study).

> a continental scale grid

Already exists and is continuously extended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Network_of_Transmissi...

> dunkelflaute

Its real impact (surface, frequency, duration...) is vastly overstated. In a glimpse: https://x.com/JonaSalKupper/status/1707035071394238889
This may work when the next token is a key concept but when it's a filler word or a part of one of many sequences of words that can convey the same meaning but in different ways (synonyms but not only at the word also at the sentence levels) then it's harder to know whether the probability is low because the word is absolutely unlikely or because it's likelihood is spread/shared among other truthful statements
It's still quite mainstream in domains where they manipulate a lot of money : banking/insurance.

The core systems of many old institutions still relies heavily on COBOL.
Did Hinton win for the restricted Boltzmann machine? I believe Paul Smolensky has some priority with the Harmonium, but Hinton certainly deserves it. But worth reading Smolensky’s paper, it is a classic!! https://stanford.edu/~jlmcc/papers/PDP/Volume%201/Chap6_PDP8...
Anything from the folks at Cook's Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen.

I love their recipe articles because they discuss what worked, what didn't, and why in the process of developing the recipe.

I rarely cook from recipes, but I have gotten an amazing number of good ideas and techniques from Cook's over the years.
"Triggered quite a lot of discussions" is an ultra-low bar. Lots of hysterical bullshit triggers a lot of discussion. Aliens, puzzagate, etc.

TMI was an expensive mistake but the public wasn't at risk.
apologies for the pendantic nitpick, but:

iOS is based on Darwin which is BSD based, and Android is based on Linux, which is heavily inspired by Unix.

So technically, we are "all running some unix os on our phones"... perhaps you mean some open-source OS? Even then, Android markets itself as being open-source (although I imagine they must add some closed source stuff on top of it).
you need to gradually replace renewables, especially for a grid that was gradually deployed.
You still can stockpile nuclear, France does have several years worth of fuel for such emergencies.
France reprocesses only part of the fuel, is expanding Orano facility, but why is this relevant? They do it and they get additional un-enriched uranium stockpile. WTH dude? Are you just throwing random antinuclear statements around? Only in german forums i've seen such strong antinuclear opinions
Like Java, but nicer. Used for Android app devel. Me, I would not call it multi-paradigm, because it really feels primarily like Java (though with many niceties), i.e., it is single dispatch ('this'), objects and classes everywhere. It is completely compatible with Java, and you can mix the languages freely (this is done in Android). It does have standalone functions.
AWACS can't lock onto a stealth plane from that far away.
The Price of a Mega Millions Ticket Will More Than Double to $5
> If your refuse requests during a partition, you conserve Consistency, and you lose Availability. If you keep accepting requests during a partition, it's the opposite.

I agree

> High latency is considered a partition in CAP.

Can you support this claim? I don't think this is true unless you're specifically talking about high latency between nodes rather than latency between the sender and the system.
Is there any way to replicate this with existing models, or are we going to need to wait for models to be trained in this style?

I'm imagining a smaller model examining the output tokens of a larger model and metaphorically slapping it on the wrist with a ruler if the output tokens start drifting off topic. Not quite the same, but an entertaining thought nonetheless.
Elon Musk’s underground transit system.
I wonder what is lost here. Surely there's a trade-off...

I'm wondering if there's any effect of "creativity", or ability to interpolate between concepts. Hallucination and creativity feel very related to me. I understand hallucinating as simply being misaligned with the space humans feel appropriate to interpolate between
SMRs are being touted now, but (1) they aren't that small, and (2) they have to be grouped together or else fixed labor costs become unacceptable per unit of power output. The result is a collection whose power output isn't too different from conventional large reactors.
The closest near peer to the US is China which strategically is significantly inferior to the US and would very much not like to get into a nuclear exchange. But conventionally it has more vessels than the USN, and with nearly all of them near China while the USN is all over the world, they have an advantage early in a Taiwan war. Conventional wars between nuclear powers can be fought and won.
Rust. I've already re-written several of my decent sized research programs to Rust, and plan to finish converting what's left soon.

Rust isn't perfect (no language is), but they do seem to try much harder to not break backwards compatability.
I prefer mid-scale services. For a given app, there shouldn’t be more than 20-30 of them (and preferably around 10). Each will still have clean ownership and single responsibility, but the chaotic quadratic network effect will hopefully not get out of control. Cleanly defined protocols become a necessity though.
YouTube is now hiding the skip button on mobile too
No you couldn't. Windows doesn't have any bearing on outcomes, whereas machine learning methods directly impact the data and probability inference.
Not a direct answer, but Ethernet is sometimes brought up as a successful example of Worse is Better. At one point Token Ring was a serious competitor - it had careful designs to avoid collisions when the network was busy, prioritize traffic, etc. But it was comparatively slow and expensive. Ethernet just says "eh, retry on collision.". And that simplistic foundation has carried on to where we have a standard for 800 Gigabit Ethernet.
Both Hopefield Networks and Boltzmann machines trace their origins and motivations to Statistical Mechanics and Spin Glasses.

Coincidently, Giorgio Parisi got the 2021 Nobel prize for his work on spin glasses
https://www.budgetbytes.com is a good option for a collection of cost effective but generally good recipes, though the author goes light on seasonings to keep costs down. I also have a large collection of William Sonoma cookbooks that was just on sale on Humble Bundle. I really like their "x of the day" series: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/search/results.html?words=of...
Yeah, vastly overstated... at this point you're not serious dude.
I'm also very aware of european grid, but I guess you didn't read the part that you still need huge overcapacity
> phenix and superphenix were closed mainly for political reasons

Phénix is not pertinent, it worked perfectly but was a research reactor (small, expensive...).

Superphenix never reached the industrial stage, even the enterprise exploiting it (NERSA) never said so. They simply declared that they were willing to continue and hoping to reach the goal (13 years after first reactor divergence, 24 years after project start, with gigantic amounts of money poured at the project).
It's a different attention mechanism with a different map setup, so fundamentally a different type of model
Sorry that bus (the culture mentioned in the article) has long left. The new company culture is more obedience.
I think you are right, API is the most important part; internal implementation can be optimized later.
Ask HN: Clicked Inc asking for sexual orientation when registering
Upon registering for an account on Clicked.com to access intro cybersecurity courses, I encountered a field inquiring about my sexual orientation. I'm uncertain as to why Clicked.com would collect such data. I wonder if this is a growing trend among career-oriented online platforms (or anything common really).

Is this asked for diversity and inclusion purposes?
Are they simply collecting data to resell or marketing purpose? What is your take on it?
This is something I am aware but there is no support for this rounding scheme at the moment.
I agree that fork was an awful default.

However, changing the default silently just means people's code is going to change behaviour between versions, or silently break if someone with an older version runs their code. At this point, it's probably better to just require people give an explicit choice (they can even make one of the choice names be 'default' or something, to make life easy for people who don't really care).
It might help to first understand both pieces said essentially the same thing and came to the same conclusions. They both also look beyond a single war and a single operator

Using italics was unnecessary
The 3G was really the game changer. I held on to my Treo until then.
I'm looking for specifics. I use GTK myself.
Building a Game with .NET MAUI: Part 1 – Sensors
I may be wrong, but 2024 isn't yet a full year.

Moreover FR/DE isn't the main path anymore, and as DE sometimes plays as a gateway we have to take the complete balance into account.
The hookshot also is a weapon in OoT.
Show HN: Kabit – A Simple Habit Tracker
I have used a lot of habit-tracking apps and most of them are filled with features that are not useful to me, sometimes UI is a mess etc. I wanted to build an app that was simple and useful. I wasn't sure about GPT ability but wanted to give it a try. There was a lot of trial and error, especially in figuring out the logic of the streak counter, which took a lot of time. I have spent some time polishing the UI as well. Although not a perfect app, I think I have a good tracker. I am planning to add more features and would love to know your thoughts and feedback. Thanks
https://www.uhaul.com/Tips/Storage/What-Security-Features-Ar...

I can speak for U-Haul specifically because I have used them and a customer can see the sensors in their unit. The sensors are deactivated when a customer checks in.
Not really related to physics per sec, but to let physicist to get out of research in physics. The most self-denial award ever. But machine learning deserve a prize. Just this … anyway congratulations
What would I take with me? My photos and email will move just fine. The last app I bought was a while ago, and it was an app to block Google AMP. I’m honestly not sure I use any other paid apps.
Article seems to talk about the "flat chat-like" view (called conversation threading) rather threading in general. Threading as seen in mutt theoretically exists since email was standardized in RFC 822 (predating even Usenet) due to Message-ID/In-Reply-To/References fields in header (which mutt uses).
That's all true, but it doesn't do anything to diminish my suspicion that there is a fair amount of coattail-riding behind it.
"Protestors are protesting against things that they think are seriously wrong."

OK, but that was sort-of my point. The more outrage, the less you need to really think about things.

"err, yes, popular anti-slavery movements played an important role in the abolition of slavery"

That is a chicken-and-egg question. Why did those mass movements only emerge at the time of the Industrial Revolution, and why did they emerge first in places that were influenced by the Industrial Revolution the earliest, while other places (Russia, the Ottoman Empire, the Qing Empire) only followed suit after their own industrialization began?

I don't think the arrow of causality is so simple here. A hypothetical society that abolished slavery, serfdom etc. in the 15th century could easily prove non-viable against its slavery-powered foes, which had more brute force at their disposal. By 1820, the situation was very much turning around and it was the modern, personally freer societies that were more effective in commerce and at war.

Notably, even though Victorian Britain was very anti-slavery, starting with the monarch herself, it had no moral qualms against subjugating a quarter of humanity in another form of submission. Which tells me that it was less about morality (equality) and more about practicality of the situation.
I don't think it is possible to come up with a definition of "Zionism" which will please everybody. But defining it as "Jewish nationalism" is very mainstream – both Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia open their articles on "Zionism" by framing it as a form of nationalism.

If some binationalists want to call themselves "Zionists", it isn't my place to tell them they can't call themselves that. But other binationalists disagree. For example, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (professor of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University) is a binationalist, and I've read some of his writings, and he is rather critical of Zionism, and presents binationalism more as an alternative to Zionism than as a form of it.

I don't agree that donating money to a school in Israel aimed at promoting peaceful Arab-Jewish coexistence necessarily implies any particular position on whether the State of Israel should exist. If someone donated money to a school in Northern Ireland promoting peaceful Catholic-Protestant coexistence, I wouldn't assume that donation implied any particular position on the future constitutional status of Northern Ireland (whether it should remain part of the UK, or become part of a united Ireland, or even some third option such as shared sovereignty or independence).

I agree that a consistent antinationalist can't support Palestinian nationalism, but I think such people exist. I already mentioned Raz-Krakotzkin. In principle, I support neither Zionism nor Palestinian nationalism, but nowadays my own emotional sympathies are more with the Israeli side. That said, I get annoyed by Zionist language such as "Israel's right to exist" because frankly speaking I don't think any state has a "right to exist". But saying that doesn't mean I support the dreams some have of "dismantling" Israel–I think that would very likely end in genocide

I don't think non-Satmar-affiliated Haredim are being "inconsistent". Both sides agree that the establishment of the secular State of Israel was a mistake, but now it exists, it is a fait accompli, and it would be wrong to permit its enemies to destroy it. Where they disagree, is on how far one can permissibly go in relating to it (such as by accepting money from it or participating in its elections). I don't think either camp is being inconsistent, they just have a difference of moral and halachic opinion. There are similar debates–over how far you can go in compromising with a practical reality which you believe to be ultimately wrong–in other religions too.

Finally, I don't think we should allow the word "Zionist" to be defined by those who use it as a pejorative. People who rant about "Zionist Occupation Government", etc, are just using "Zionist" as a codeword for "Jewish", in order to obscure their own antisemitism. They aren't saying anything useful, and so should just be ignored. But non-pejorative critics of Zionism, from Joel Teitelbaum to Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, are worth listening to, whether they ultimately are right or wrong.
> Exceptions opponents have devised many ways of dealing with errors in constructors. They all boil down to this pattern:

myobj obj;
obj.complete_initialization();

Do they? How about the constructor-that’s-not-a-constructor pattern:

myobj::create(…);

And have that return an option or result type? This is the normal way to do this in several languages (Rust, but also plenty of functional languages), and C++ can do it too, awkwardly, using private constructors and public static helpers. (Awkward because the object may still need to exist, temporarily, in a partially constructed state outside a constructor.)

I wonder whether coroutines in C++ could pull this off without being too tedious.
The Private Life of Telegram's Founder Adds to His Troubles
Unless the hardware employs some variant of encrypted RAM, see cool paper by the NSA from a few months back that includes benchmarks in FPGA and silicon https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1240
We Compared ScyllaDB and Memcached and We Lost
Ask HN: How to deal with a bad company structure?
Hello,

I've been in an apprenticeship for a year at a company. It is a serious game company, that uses Unity.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the company is going to fail because of it's structure, which I'll explain :

- two apprentices, one developer (me) and one 3D artist.

- two co-presidents, a woman who takes care of all the HR stuff and a man who looks for projects for the company.

- the tech lead, who's supposed to be my mentor but doesn't know anything about Unity and isn't actually hired by the company.

Now on paper this could work, but we're lacking in expertise so bad. The 3D models and texture are unoptimised and end up costing me time to code workarounds. My code is pretty bad. I had done Unity projects before this apprenticeship but I had never done a full scale project before, all on my own. It's gotten to the point where the project is a mess but there's no real option to make it better because they can't afford the time it would take me.

Not having a mentor makes it really hard and stressful, as the decisions that I make (and that I've made) can end up being a detriment to the project but no one of expertise can come in and say "Don't do it that way" or something like that.

We're struggling to meet the clients' expectations because of this, and I'm struggling at work because I am 80% of the time alone in the office (both co-presidents have other activities more important than this company, and me and my colleague don't get along that well and our school schedule makes it so we are in school on different weeks)

What I want to ask is, how do I cope with this? It's making me kinda depressed and the impostor syndrome is getting really bad. I feel like I should jump ship but it's also a great opportunity to get a degree. Any advice is appreciated.

Also, sorry for the throwaway account, and thanks in advance for your time
I understand, but picking out random six letter brands on Amazon is not the competition most US customers are looking for.

It’s not feasible for people to go to China, inspect the manufacturing processes, and figure out what is worth what. There is a whole business there of purveying goods, which is what brands like Amazon and Kroger and Kirkland all the way up to LVMH.

With the advent of the internet, that business is no longer restricted to physical stores, so technically, anyone can make a superior product and sell direct to anyone. There were stories of Kmart and Walmart and whoever else bullying vendors because the vendors used to get nowhere without shelf space.
Karnak, the ancien site in Egypt and Carnac, the ancient site in Brittany
> The 85% charging limit has prevented the battery from degrading much over the years

Sorry, what is that? Is this something everyone knows, or some secret lore. I keep meaning to look up the basics of batteries and prolonging their life, and still haven't got their, so this comment triggers me (in a good way).
Probably not international in context. Most IR receivers go behind a special semi-transparent plastic. That's also the cheapest place to put an LED. I think there are films you can get to block non IR light. Some tvs also have a connection to add an external ir receiver.
Skimming through the source it seems to run 'car' and 'person' objects through llava with the following prompt:

- "person": "get gender and age of this person in 5 words or less",

- "car": "get body type and color of this car in 5 words or less".

So YOLO gives the bounding box and rough category, while llava describes the object in more details.
I wonder if they ever gave a Physics Nobel to a person who held a patent! People like Graham Bell never got recognized by the Nobel people. I get the impression that Physics Nobel prizes were more or less given only to University professors. They didnt seem to particularly care for people with grease on their hands
Archived website can be accessed at https://ryujinx-emulator.com