skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple factors at play.

On the one hand, in the case of book bans, creating an actual state-mandated review board to make these decisions in advance would make it much easier to call this out for the censorship that it is while offloading the decisions to librarians or schools and making them liable for guessing wrong frames it as a matter of "personal responsibility" and framing violations as parents making themselves heard instead of the state intervening directly.

On the other, it creates a culture of fear around "taboo" subjects ensuring that those that would be held liable for transgressions (the teachers, librarians and school boards in case of the book ban) will over-comply and apply the most far-reaching interpretation of the law in order to minimize risks of liability because even when you haven't actually violated the law you don't want to risk having to demonstrate this in court. This is of course done in full knowledge of the intended but unstated parts of the law, e.g. if "sexual orientation" becomes a taboo subject that only means "anything other than perfectly straight" but also the mere status of being in a homosexual relationship or being trans will be treated as taboo and a risk of liability (which in turn influences hiring decisions as the legal risk of hiring discrimination is lower than that of an emboldened activist parent suing over perceived immodesty).

And finally of course as you say it creates an almost blank cheque presumption of illegality that can be used by weaponized law enforcement through unequal application of the law. This is perfectly exemplified by Russian laws that don't outright make it illegal to be gay but make it illegal to "promote homosexuality" where you then you simply sue visibly or openly gay people for "promotion" instead. In the case of the anti-abortion laws this can be as simple as having had a miscarriage or a delayed period and being forced to prove your innocence.
Hardly the same.

Your day to day DNA “leavings” aren’t neatly packaged up and associated with your other PII like name, location, email address, etc in a stolen, searchable dataset.
That doesn't affect my point that the North and the South cannot so easily be described as free labor vs. slave labor.

Just like how England didn't have slavery in the 1700s, but the English still profited from slavery elsewhere in the British Empire.
SDL3 offers a spir-v-cross reference impl as an optional auxiliary library.
> I Made Lots of Money Exploiting H1Bs You Can Trust Me Bro

Who dat?
This makes me think of the Roman Empire.
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> All around change for the sake of change.

More like change for the sake of politics, Apple didn't want to use any Khronos IP so the WebGPU committee had to work backwards to justify inventing something new from scratch, despite the feedback from potential users being overwhelmingly against doing that.

Then after sending the spec on a multi-year sidequest to develop a shader language from scratch, Apple still hasn't actually shipped WebGPU in Safari, despite Google managing to ship it across multiple platforms over a year ago. Apple only needs to support Metal.
Nicely done. I wish Peacock had used one of these during the Olympics / Paralympics, specifically one that has a visible chapter scrubber like these do. Watching a 6 hour stream with a dozen different matches meant not having any idea who was playing when. Hopefully they'll use one of these players next time around!
Related discussion from last month: Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41456073
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Fastly Instant Purge: Under 150ms for over a Decade
That's a weird metaphor considering the situation here was that a contract expired and they had months to negotiate. It's more like if you were in the middle of reworking your kitchen and while that was happening you were talking about doing the bedroom next for a cheaper cost. They said no but you thought you could get a bulk deal.

Now add that to a bigger time scale and mass inflation happened between the batrhoom and he bedroom. They have to charge more just to keep buying power.
It's definitely possible to do it - for me the key is to write the game and the engine together, and only implement the bare features you need. For the first game at least, the engine and the game are essentially the same thing. Also, forget about wiring an editor, just add debug functionality to the game.
are you not allowed to simply abandon the old pipes in place? Do you have to actually replace them?
The financial penalties are pretty nasty.

And it's amazing how financial liability has a way of getting things on a VP's feature radar that common sense doesn't.

The reason it was haphazardly handled prior was that there was no liability. Who cared? (legally speaking)

From working inside a T25 American retail company, I can say that we went top-to-bottom and rearchitected for traceability and hard deletes as a result of the CCPA.
Shipped applications disagree with you.
I think maybe opposed to some of the other opinions here, making your own engine is much easier than you think and has a lot of potential upside.

On a walk today I was thinking about something specific that I think is under-discussed. Yes people bikeshed etc. but when you create your own engine you are _fiercely_ aware of _everything_ it can and can't do. As part of this, it's very easy to feel fully in command of your own toolset, and as such able to exhibit mastery over that toolset.

Granted, the scope of possibility when you start out building your own tool is narrow, but in some ways that acts as an easier onboarding to expertise instead of getting dumped into something as powerful as Unity/Unreal/Godot with little orientation and lots of edges you don't know about. In using some super-general you have to carve out your own path through its features, which is cognitive load (and time!) you don't need to worry about when you create your own.

For similar reasons I'm _also_ making my own engine. It's 2D-only engine that uses lots of modern C# features to make for rapid programming of 2D games. For the game I'm making with it to start, I'm using literally every feature of the engine, which is something I don't think I'd ever be able to say for something more general purpose.

For anyone interested:
https://github.com/zinc-framework
I feel like at best we'll get a soft delete
I find the zero safe level needlessly shock oriented.

Many things have no safe value but a low level is less likely to play a major role in a life than another risk.. Cars, guns, opioids, suicide, cancer, maybe the last two have a minor lead influence, mostly outweighed by alcohol.
Might be a minimum for a money library (not completely sure what the absolute minimum would be). It would be an application design choice to not use one and stick to general fixed point/Big Num constructs.
Are we sure that microplastics from the new pipes aren't just as bad? Can you make your water reasonably microplastic-safe by running it for 2 minutes in the morning?
They exist so the obscenely wealthy can have financial privacy via shell companies, and the non-obscenely wealthy can be financially surveilled.
There are an unknown number of hollowed out tree logs still in service and being used to transport drinking water.

https://www.kake.com/news/wichita-used-to-use-trees-as-water...
Show HN: Giving an AI Agent a Wallet
We've been exploring the intersection of AI and internet-native payments. Here's a demo of what we've built:

Our agent starts out pretty basic - it can chat, but can't access the internet. Then we give it a lightning wallet.

This simple addition, combined with the L402 protocol, opens up new possibilities:

1.The agent can now pay to use external tools

2.It accesses a web scraping service protected by L402

3.It scrapes web content and summarizes it

4.You can watch its wallet balance change in real-time

L402 is key here. It's a protocol that implements internet-native paywalls, allowing for seamless, programmatic payments.

We've put together a short video demonstrating this process:
https://youtu.be/wQ9rf5HtuhQ

For those interested in the technical details, we've open-sourced the code:
https://replit.com/t/fewsats/czjf93/repls/Web-Scraping-Agent...

Key components:

AI agent: A large language model with chat capabilities

Wallet: Lightning Network integration for payments

L402 protocol: Enables internet-native paywalls

External tool: A web scraping service protected by L402

User interface: Shows the agent's thoughts and wallet balance

This demo shows an AI agent using one pre-integrated L402 tool. Next, we're working on agents that can discover and use any L402 tool on the fly. What possibilities do you see in this approach?
Foreign operations are manipulating social media to influence your views
Following you probably costs more per hour than buying a whole country's DNA from a broker. And definitely costs more than a leaked dataset.
Our (1) infrastructure is ancient. PG&E started the Camp Fire wildfire in 2018 when a electrical transmission line built in 1921 failed (only lasted 97 years). That killed 85 people.

1: America for sure, I would suspect other countries might not be as bad, as they would have generally electrified more recently- just not that many electrical transmission lines in Romania in 1921- and are more likely to have had to rebuild after wartime.
For those who don't know, DuckDuckGo provides an app tracking blocker for Android that implements itself as an on-device pseudo-VPN and blocks known tracking services. No containerization/sandboxing, but it's a start.

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> One issue I’ve heard from F# devs was the lack of ability to comfortably call C# asynchrony methods

This is no longer the case starting with F# 6: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/whats-new/fs... C# and F# can now transparently interoperate using the same main Task<T> type (in the past, this was done via community libraries for C#->F#, and F#->C# was always possible with |> Async.AwaitTask).

For advanced usage scenarios, there also exist https://github.com/fsprojects/FSharp.Control.TaskSeq and https://github.com/TheAngryByrd/IcedTasks

> Would the async experiment also imply better interop between .NET languages?

This is a good question. If a language already uses Task<T> and ValueTask<T>, the interop is already a solved problem (like with F#). However, this could allow to completely remove or at least significantly simplify the implementation for emitting state machines / resumable code / coroutines for asynchronous methods for any language that targets .NET 10+ (it will most likely get into 10 but is not guaranteed yet from what I've heard).

For example, a guest language could simply choose to emit calls to async methods with special modreq(?) attribute and the runtime would handle suspension, creating the closure for the state captured by asynchronous continuation and then subsequent resumption without any additional work of that guest language to be async-compatible. You could likely even write that by hand in IL with ILAsm. This is a significant improvement for a .NET as a hosting platform, and arguably makes it better than JVM at some high-level scenarios (because for low-level it already supports almost the entirety of what is expressible with C plus struct generics, and for FP it supports tail. prefix for call* opcodes for mandatory tailcalls required by recursive functions).

And for those in the camp of "function coloring considered harmful" (which I'm not a fan of but to each their own), you could even have a guest language that completely hides the fact that it performs such async calls underneath.
What type of pipes did you have? How did you know they had lead issues?
My trading algorithms have been profitable, and I enjoy the freedom that money brings. I appreciate the things it allows me to buy and the experiences it unlocks. More importantly, it positively impacts the people around me
Pimping my Casio with alternate motherboard and firmware (2022)
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Started good by mentioning the data wall, but finished bad. It's not the DNA, we share most of it with other species. DNA can't contain human culture, and if it could, we would have been as capable 200K years ago as today.

It's the one thing we have and they don't - language. During our 200K years our species has accumulated concepts, models, methods and values. We put them in language form and transmitted them across generations.

The main problem of course is search. We search for understanding, and do it collectively. A single lifetime would not suffice, it takes humanity across many generations to travel the road from caves to AI. That is why language is key, allows for iterative improvement. It also articulates search space, goal space and action space. It is symbolic and discrete, that allows for exact replication. DNA shares the same qualities with language - isn't it interesting?

Imagine you make a discovery, but having no language you can't reproduce the steps again, because it's all fuzzy. Or you can't teach anyone else. Language, with its symbolic structure is necessary to reproduce complex sequences of steps. Without it our exploration would not yield the fruits of exploitation. We would not benefit for unreproducible discovery.

I am against all kinds of essentialism. Chomsky thinks we have innate grammar, but forgets about co-adaptation of language for learnability in children, and about learning from our five senses - they provide a better explanation than innateness.

Searle explains our special status by biology, we have biological brains that's why we genuinely understand, he rejects distributed understanding but can't explain how come no single neuron understands on its own anything.

Chalmers thinks there is an inexplainable experience (qualia), but doesn't consider relational embeddings that can model qualities in experience. Relational embeddings are created by relating experiences against other experiences, creating their own high dimensional semantic space. No, it's not panpsychism, the whole universe doesn't need to be conscious.

And this time, in the article the magic is attributed to DNA. It's not that, it is search. We search and learn, learn and transmit, cooperate and reuse. Its not even a brain thing. It's social. We need more than one brain to cover this path of cultural evolution. Progress and language are not based in individuals but in societies.

My point is that from now on we hit the data wall. Imitation is thousands or millions of times easier than real innovation and discovery. AI will have to pay the same exploration price, it will have to learn from the world. Of course, new discoveries are not written in any books. They have to be searched. And search is an activity dependent on the environment we search in. Not in brains alone, or even DNA. AI will search and create new data, but it will be a slow grind.
That's sort of the idea behind a Wiki, isn't it?

There was an effort many years ago to provide browser extensions that allowed users to mark up, edit, and annotate existing web pages in a way that would be visible to the community of users. It never went anywhere, unfortunately, probably because it would have gored way too many sacred oxen. (And/or it would have been co-opted by spammers, turning it into a social networking/reputation management project.)
>I'm just struggling to build a picture of how exactly the network accomplishes this.

I mean, intuitively it would be trivial for the model to just optimise lambda to zero during training. Then you essentially have built a vanilla transformer with an overcomplicated parameter pruning mechanism. Pruning is already pretty well established in the literature as something that works surprisingly good for reducing parameter counts up to (hold on to your papers)... about 40%. In practice the model probably doesn't work exactly like that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it just approximates the normal transformer in the end anyways.
One small bit of feedback: you should look into using adoptedStyleSheets. They're very well supported now, and give a nice perf boost for repeated elements. You can fall back to <style> in the shadow root if the user's browser doesn't support them.
Interview with Arnold Rauers (Tintytouchtales) on mobile game architecture
Data usually leaks from production though, no? So in that perspective it's not pointless.
I would assume they do leach microplastics and nanoplastics and require third party proof that they do not. From what I can find on the internet plastics leach micro/nanoplastics period. https://safepipingmatters.org/plastic-pipes-microplastics-im...
I guess the point of charging the company at the time of disposal would be that they'd be earning interest on that money in the meantime. So they'd be incented to make it last longer.

It wouldn't work for several reasons though, not least because the company could cease to exist before the product failed.
Depressing: kids in Herculaneum Missouri had blue violet gums due to the lead dust.
No. Because the keyboard while faster is not instrumental in finding new stars. ML is instrumental in finding new stars and new planets.
Key difference: Denazification was imposed on Germany from the Allies. There was no such force during reconstruction.
Not that anyone is disagreeing, but it bears repeating: This is a lack of any real pressure from regulators, not a technical challenge. Or rather, there may be technical challenges but they absolutely can be overcome, and aren’t being tackled right now very simply because the business doesn’t care. As is so often the case, the business must be made to care.
Only for consumer-grade stuff, which is basically disposable garbage that's obsolete the day you purchase it, which is about what you get for $350 at Walmart. For any actually decent laptop designed for enterprises/businesses, this is not true, they still have steel hinge pins and plastic-over-metal hinge bodies. Doesn't really matter if you buy Dell, Lenovo, Apple, business-quality laptops don't have these issues, but they do start at around $1000/unit.

The problem with any discussion around electronics longevity is that it's a bimodal market. You have the stuff that generates the bulk of revenue, which is generally meant to be purchased as a "fleet" by businesses or MSPs, and you have the stuff that generates the bulk of the actual devices, but at most lower BOM cost (meaning lower quality) which is targeted at "consumers". Anybody who is even a little bit technical has already noticed this simply due to the difference in experience between the laptop they're issued at work vs what they may have once had at home, and likely has opted to bite the bullet and pay for quality.

Once you are on the higher end of the bimodal distribution, longevity is a significantly different challenge. I have an X230 laptop I bought new in 2012 that is still in use weekly and functions completely fine. My much newer M3 Macbook Pro is significantly more powerful, but is completely unnecessary for what that laptop is for. That's 12 years of usage without any sign of slowing down, and since that X230 is my car laptop I use in my race car for tuning and data monitoring, I can guarantee it's had a lot worse than "3-4 drops" over the last 12 years, including surviving a crash in my old race car.
One of the issues with user replaceable batteries is waterproofing (IP rating).

My first smartphone was a Samsung Galaxy S1. It had an easilly swappable battery which was great because time between recharges was much shorter in those days so I had 2, one in the phone and one in the charger.

But once I got the phone wet just using it outside in the rain. After that it refused to charge for several days until it dried out.

More recently I've dropped my phone in water and it was perfecty fine with no drying time at all...
I have been cursing for a long time over the death of Frontpage. Yeah we made fun of it because the HTML it created was/is awful. But what it also was was a program that normal businesses/people could use to update a small and cheap website without having to worry about security beyond picking a good password.

I have been looking for a good alternative that can create more correct HTML and which gives you more options than Words HTML exporter for a couple years now.
In Defense of LeetCode Interviews
From page 11: "OSI was designed primarily around the dumb terminal connected to a mainframe."

Also from page 11: "'session' meant something related to attaching videotex terminals to mainframes."

And yes, all Ceefax terminals were Videotex terminals, but not all Videotex terminals were Ceefax terminals.

I might recommend that instead of guessing what the session layer is, you (or more appropriately, Mr. Graham) go and look at what the specs say it is and what it's used for. The X.225 spec is available for download at https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.225-199511-I/en. X.215 is available at https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.215-199511-I/en.

The OSI session layer is not related to HTTP session cookies as the original author proposes.
Isn't that normalization in high dimensions pretty much the whole point?

You don't care about differing radius at all, and the angle between the unit radial vectors directly correlates to the "great circle distance" between the points on the surface, right?
There are many useable batteries that die an early death by being part of a pack where one cell dies. I have scavenged many of these packs and tested each cell, keeping those at 80-90% and have bought battery plastic carcasses for my power tools that have enable me to save a fair amount of $$ over the years. These were all spot welded cells. This indiegogo has cell mounts like flashlight, and cells are pushed into cell sockets and seem to make spring connections. As long as these spring connections are low resistance for the anticipated 5-10 Amp current = excellent idea. I would like similar cell carcasses for all common power tools to be made this way? I suspect battery sales are make lots of $$ for tool makers. The carcasses from Ali-Express use spot welded connections, but ali also sold me a spot welder and nickel straps for this use,
> I have never heard that Hopfield nets or Bolzmann machines were given any major weight in the history.

This is mostly because people don't realize what these are at more abstract levels (it's okay, ironically ML people frequently don't abstract). But Hopfield networks and Boltzmann machines have been pretty influential to the history of ML. I think you can draw a pretty good connection from Hopfield to LSTM to transformers. You can also think of a typical artificial neural network (easiest if you look at linear layers) as a special case of a Boltzmann machine (compare Linear Layers/Feed Forward Networks to Restricted Boltzmann Machines and I think it'll click).

Either way, these had a lot of influence on the early work, which does permeate into the modern stuff. There's this belief that all the old stuff is useless and I just think that's wrong. There's a lot of hand engineered stuff that we don't need anymore, but a lot of the theory and underlying principles are still important.
Good luck in NYC lol.

If you could even attempt it, it would take 100 years.
I've been really interested in things like raylib [1] and other minimal C libraries for lower-level game-engine-like capabilities. There is a widening middle ground available for developers between writing your own engine completely from scratch and using a full-featured engine like Godot, Unity, or Unreal. There was always stuff like SDL but these new minimal libraries hit a sweet spot for a lot of cases.

1. https://www.raylib.com/