skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea its tricky and costly. I believe we should bet on specificity to make this more optimal.

I know the trend with AI is to keep the scope generic so it can tackle different domains and look more like us, but I believe that even if we reach that, we'll always come back to make it better for a specific skill set, because we also do that as humans. No reason for an AI driver to know how to cook.

If we narrow the domain as much as possible it will cut the number of experiments it needs to do significantly

Edit: I wonder if its even going to be useful to devote so much resources into making a machine as similar as us as possible. We don't want a plane to fly like a bird, even if we could build it.
Yes, we are sure it's not as bad.

And you pipes shouldn't emit any measurable amount of microplastics. Any emission is a flaw somewhere that you are better fixing. But even with all the flaws, the microplastics are not even remotely as bad as lead.

Next on the line, yeah, eating dirt is safer than concentrated potassium cyanide, and swimming drunk in a water pool is safer than in a lava pool.
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The deadline has passed but the ftx site says:

>Can I still file a claim?

>The Kroll Portal will remain accessible after the Bar Date to amend or file a claim. Absent order from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, any claims filed after the bar date may be disputed.

So it might still be worth filling out the form - who knows.
@oulipo What kind of aluminum case do you have that withstands the temp of a burning lithium cell?
100% agree. Again, my position is that Google rightfully deserves all the criticism they get around communication and customer support. I just think it's a mistake to confuse that criticism with Google's change to enforce better security for highly sensitive permission scopes.
If your service manager cannot track forked process, that would be quite an issue anyway

"Daemonization" is nothing but fork + exec (and exit from the parent)

From the service manager, there should be few distinctions between this and, say, pgsql forking to handle connections. In both cases, I expect all child processes to be tracked.

And please do not tell me the "health check" part : having the main process alive is a broken health check, just like having a server powered-on is a far from enough
I mean always good to have options, but weekly injection is painless and more convenient, plus no need to worry about dosing inconsistency from taking pills on full vs empty stomach.
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In the same sense that if someone uses a third-party Google Drive client, the input of other collaborators on shared documents is exposed without their consent. (It was data about friends of users who authorized the application in Facebook's case).
A decimal type is sometimes orders of magnitude slower than integer do simple stuff like summing (at least in Postgres and Python).

This comes into play if you have to do aggregate functions across tens of thousands of rows and can kill performance compared to integers.
The 'survivor bunker' control computer that has maintenance every 5, even 10, years does have a different specification than one that must survive untouched, 'mothballed', for 50+ years and still work properly. In both cases I would prefer a standard modular interface, ideally a presently popular one like USB-A since I doubt it'll be a while before that's completely phased out. Even then it'll be someone's hobby project to have a not-quite off the shelf adapter.
This is a fair thing to point out! I as a user feel I'm being much more respected when I'm allowed to use some independent client software of my choices, than being told that "for my own good" I must use the absolute abomination that is most of the software provided by Big Tech firms themselves. Like, thanks for your opinion, Google, but 90% of these "security audits" are about box checking and ass-covering. It's the technology equivalent of all of the silliest parts of the TSA process, meaning that it contributes nothing to security while employing a lot of people to do valueless work at the expense of those doing useful work.
Would you prefer EZ pass lanes to disappear and everything be manual toll workers? I can say for sure the Golden Gate Bridge moves a lot faster now.
Show HN: I created a free iPhone app for speed cubers
Hey HN! I created a free iPhone app called SCComps https://sccomps.com/ that allows you to browse speed cubing competitions published on https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/. If you're a cuber, please give it a try! I’d appreciate any feedback or comments you have!
Someone might not expect sth like this from the "father of capitalism"

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”
Any chance you can do foobar2000?
Oh we do have rats but they live in the sewers and gutters where food waste ends up, not in the walls of our homes.
So I'm going to be that guy and say it:

Man, I'm happy we don't need to deal with this crap in Rust, and we can just use String::to_lowercase. Not having to worry about things makes coding fun.
Yeah, the game I linked to is in Rust/wasm, running solely in browsers :)

The interesting part of the collision detection code is here: https://github.com/dakom/not-a-game/blob/main/src/collision/...
Can you clarify when you're going to cease your public tantrums and your erratic idiotic behavior that is causing problems for Wordpress users worldwide?
Gas jumped to $4 during Katrina even in Texas, and that was when minimum wage was still $4.75/hr
My copper pipes have with some regularity gotten small pinholes that blossom from tiny drips into tiny high-pressure jets. (E.g.: https://whyrepipe.com/blog/what-causes-pinhole-leaks-in-copp...)

The longer I have a home, the more I realize every thing has its gotcha's.
Lead causing the downfall of two major empires in history would be very funny
Not sure the public is aware. And media is complicit since they are happy to use dark patterns to drive readership.
Yup, raylib is great. Sokol is another solid choice for the low level bits - that's what my engine is built with and it's excellent (at least for indie level games).
Probably enjoying the act of writing, not just getting the job done. I could get through a BIC in about a week if I really tried, but the ink and the feel are pretty horrible.
why should pre-2016 cloudflare be the only company with a commitment to free speech and platforming?
Transmit is as "easy" as one could imagine software of that type being.

You do have to know what a file is and what a directory is, mind you, which is something I can non-ironically say does rule out half of GenZ or anyone else raised in the postmodern era, where 'content' just lives 'in' an 'app' and can be searched for (and if you're lucky, found). But I don't think people of that minimum level of sophistication are in the market for products like Backblaze or S3 - they're just out there paying for more iCloud storage (or new laptops) because Apple said they are out of space.
This assumes that Google can be trusted with my data and other apps can't, and that I'm ok with Google assessing the safety of other apps. It's something that is automatic, and right now it needs to be explained.

Yes, assessing the trustability of apps is important. No, I don't trust Google to do it properly. Maybe I didn't choose Google because I find them the best, but because I have to (because Google, surprise surprise, forces itself down the throat of everyone, so the people I want to collaborate with use it).

Did my apps certify Google as a trustable provider ?
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Can't you just think for yourself?
It can be hard or impossible to measure certain things, and just as hard to pick the right measures. But, there are also cases where you can say all reasonable measures are worse in one instance than another. Less new ideas, less happiness, less stuff going out the door, less bug fixes. Especially possible when it’s a time window comparison. This sounds like one of those cases.
I love the idea behind this and thank you for making it MIT license.

I just happen to be working on a media app (a video editor) and previously I have built a few video players (in both Flash and HTML/JS). We actually tried to use web components on one player (back in 2015-ish) and they were a constant pain that we eventually discarded in favor of plain old JavaScript. Strangely enough, for my current media app I've been using web components (e.g. a video editor timeline) and so far it is going very well. I'm not sure what changed or if it is just the case that the slow advancement of the web has brought compatibility far enough to make it viable.

I've just skimmed the Media Chrome docs and have only taken a quick glance at the github repo, but I like your design principles and architecture notes. My main concerns about adopting something like this (especially since I have a lot of experience building exactly stuff like this from scratch) are extensibility (e.g. how hard would it be to modify my timeline component to fit into the MediaController paradigm) and file size. One advantage of doing everything oneself is that you have everything you need and nothing more. I'm sure Media Chrome has a lot of stuff I just won't need (but someone else will) - the questions is how much bloat I am taking on for things I won't ever use. And not just components I won't use, but unused features of the components I will use. Sometimes it is just a matter of existing unnecessary functionality getting in the way of a lower-level kind of extensibility.

As an aside, your `media-elements` repo [1] does not have a license file. I see in the package.json that the elements are also MIT but having an explicit LICENSE file is always appreciated.

That being said, this is a very tempting library. At the least I will probably steal the idea to wrap my components in a media-controller like element since I've been using the containing page so far to stich my elements together and I wanted a nicer abstraction.

1. https://github.com/muxinc/media-elements
Rethinking Authentication by Frank Denis [video]
The killer app for Wordpress isn’t comments, it’s their plugin ecosystem. Everything you’d spend a weekend configuring in Hugo has a plugin in Wordpress that your mom could enable in two clicks.

I use Hugo myself, but the user experience is much friendlier in Wordpress even if the footprint is unnecessary from an engineering perspective.
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I think it should be easier if the goal is just to get your data deleted. If you want to recover your account, that brings up some HIPAA concerns. But if you are just nuking it, that should be easier, right?
I wonder if this would handle small decimals.

Edge case?

I want to calculate the installments of 265 Wei (0.000000000000000265 ETH) over a period of 144 months
Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore
we just need to code up some llm-based, blockchain-enabled, genAI apps to automatically remove hyped tech from hn
Markup languages and SGML in particular absolutely are designed for digital text communication by humans and to be written using plain text editors; it's kindof the entire point of avoiding binary data constructs.

And to GP, SGML/HTML actually has a facility to define uppercasing rules beyond ASCII, namely the LCNMSTRT, UCNMSTRT, LCNMCHAR, UCNMCHAR options in the SYNTAX NAMING section in the SGML declaration introduced in the "Extended Naming Rules" revision of ISO 8879 (SGML std, cf. https://sgmljs.net/docs/sgmlrefman.html). Like basically everything else on this level, these rules are still used by HTML 5 to this date, and in particular, that while elements names can contain arbitrary characters, only those in the IRV (ASCII) get case-folded for canonization.
WebDAV is pretty easy to configure on all operating systems I'm aware of. You wouldn't even need a third party client.

You can do that self hosted or via fastmail or similar
The Boomtown That Shouldn't Exist (2017)
This is serious, right? There really still are lead drinking water pipes used in the US?
Citizens United has got to be one of the worst and most anti-democracy rulings of the Supreme Court ever.
Show HN: I built an AI-powered recipe assistant
Email me at sage.cookinghelp@gmail.com and mention Hacker News! I'll give the first 100 people who do a month free.

I built Sage Cooking because my wife and I love to cook, but we're both slightly picky eaters. It's a next-gen recipe manager powered by AI, fine-
tuned on techniques from top chefs and food scientists. I wanted something that would let us cook great meals tailored to our preferences and remember recipes we love.

Key features:

AI recipe generation using culinary expertise
Recipe editing for personalization
"Cook by photo" - upload a dish pic, get a recipe (surprisingly accurate!)
Browse thousands of pre-generated free recipes

We've been using dev versions for a couple months, comparing against ChatGPT/Claude. The recipes and ingredient choices are noticeably better due to the fine-tuning.

It's pretty straightforward, but powerful. Perfect for picky eaters or anyone wanting to elevate their home cooking. Curious to hear what HN thinks!
Biotech designed first-of-its-kind therapy for rare cancer; waits for patients
You can still download specific files from torrents of many files, yes. You can pick a subset of files to download.

In theory, you could extend torrent clients to support archiving some subset of the files. You just tell it to keep around 100 GB of files in a 10 TB torrent. Since the client knows the status of each chunk in the swarm, it can make smart decisions about which chunks to download and seed. Clients already let to set preferences to seed the "least-seeded" chunks. So this isn't so far fetched.

The big problem with this is that it lets you work only with a fixed archive. Torrent files can't be mutated after they are created. So you'd be able to get people to archive a fixed version of a shadow library, but not an evolving one.

In practice, this should be fine enough. If we had high assurance that all the books added to the library before 2022 (or something) were copied in 50 machines, that's quite useful.

Being able to layer deltas on top would be amazing - you could evolve the collection as new books are added.
Another link.

https://inspirehep.net/files/3e7c3bd810a4730714d3b2394fed57e...

A proposed collider would float below the surface to avoid problems with marine commerce. The cost the estimated around $30 billion dollars. It is not clear what the recurring operating cost would be.
IIRC the way Facebook's "platform" stuff worked was that when one user authorized an application, it got to see all their friends' data. Farmville had to be able to access your friends list to see who you could send a sheep to, you see.

Nowerdays this seems like an incredibly dumb idea, sure, and personally I disabled it entirely the moment it came out. But we can cut them some slack, because back in ~2006 facebook was a new thing, for young people - and nobody was sure where this new "social media" thing was going to go.

On top of that I believe Cambridge Analytica did the usual "personality test" trickery where you fill out a survey, then it won't show your result until you hand over your details and accept some legal mumbo-jumbo.

So your Great Uncle wanted to know what harry potter character he was, clicked a consent button, and Cambridge Analytica got your PII.
I feel like you should submit your own blog posts here!
inetd, the "super server" from 4.3BSD, supported this in addition to handling the listening socket. For reasons I don't fully understand, inetd fell out of favor despite having been installed and running by default on pretty much every *BSD and Linux server for decades.
Breaking down the "Cathode-Ray Tube" effect (2023)
If you've had a baby in recent years, you'd know that pediatricians in the US often already do test for lead levels.
No, the problem is that the human programmers are the ones doing the learning. That's not artificial intelligence, that's just regular human learning.

The algorithm is: identify pixels that are chromatically different from the surrounding pixels. And that's it. That's not AI, that's an algorithm. Any changes come from the human programmers manually changing the algorithm, not from any self-increased capabilities acquired through machine learning, etc.
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Anyone know what the specs are, e.g. number of states, symbols, and tape size?
Apparently Automattic states she's back working for them: https://x.com/automattic/status/1843750645037445200

So then what is WordPress.org in this context?
You can use GitHub issues for each blog post and then use it for comments. See here: https://www.richyhbm.co.uk/posts/using-github-issues-as-comm...
Not as far as I know.

Facebook provided a general API for apps, not some kind of data feed. The API required user consent from the app user, though almost certainly not informed consent.

The API also provided too much data, in particular on the user's social graph, which is why a single user giving uninformed consent would lead to data being extracted for multiple others. But even if the app had informed users about intending to steal the social graph, most users would still have consented. They would not have read the text, or not cared. Just click ok until the computer lets you do what you wanted.

So we really do know that the only way to safeguard the data is to design safe scoped APIs for the typical use cases, and keep dangerous unscoped APIs around only as an escape hatch with much stricter security and safety requirements.
Five times ICANN deleted a ccTLD, and what it means for .io
>AFAIK synchrotron light sources are tools for materials science and other applied fields, not high energy physics. Did I miss something?

When you put it like that, yeah, I was kinda being stupid. During my stint doing research at a synchrotron light source I was constantly told to focus on thinking like a physicist (rather than as a computer engineer) and most of the work of everyone who wasn't a beamline scientist was primarily physics focused, which is what led me to think that way. But you're right in that it might not make much sense for me to say that makes them high energy physics research tools first.

>I am also puzzled by the "many particle colliders". There is currently only one capable of operating at the high energy frontier. It's getting a luminosity upgrade [1] which will increase the number of events, but those will still be the 14 TeV proton-proton collisions it's been producing for years. There is some hope that collecting more statistics will reveal something currently hidden in the background noise, but I wouldn't bet on it.

The RHIC is also in the process of being upgraded to the EIC. But overall, yes, that's why I said they were in a 'weird' spot. I too am not convinced that the upgrades will offer Nobel-tier breakthroughs.
Surely Facebook and YouTube should follow? I mean they have basically entirely copied the TikTok content model for their "shorts" - and pushing it on their existing audiences.
History of Reddit's Lostwave Community
The City That Loves Its Housing Crisis
I moved my DNA data from 23andMe to Genomelink ~5 years ago. Sort of saw it coming.
Exactly: access to networks of power.
Is there any plastic that is just carbon chains? My understanding is all plastics contain additives. This [1] is just one study of many that show HDPE (and other plastics) leaching phthalates. Please don’t come at me or anyone with the ad hominem attacks. This is something I have looked in to in the past, and is of great concern of mine.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848201/
Get ready for lower crime rates! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesi...
HIPAA also includes the right to correct incorrect information in your records. 23 may have to get unconventional to verify the individual but they're a DNA lab and have everything they need to make a positive confirmation.
This is possibly a very naive question, but wouldn’t that be an issue when coming back through customs?
I don't think "everyone being equal" was ever a stated or practiced goal in communism. Even if the means of production was owned by laborers (the state), all aspects of society is still ordered hierarchically in all real-life examples of communism. The Soviet Union, China, both had/have big businesses with company leaders, bosses, middle managers, and so on. Not to speak of the military forces, academia, or the arts. If anything, the communist nations had meritocracy instead of equality. At least in how claimed their nations were organized, and many times in practice as well.
> Even just on the crane level, you can just keep unloading stuff to shore, and wait until vehicles pick them up. If they are slow, just keep on unloading until they catch up. Chance of stalling ops is close to zero.

It's not done that way, much. When a container is taken off a ship, it's usually placed on something that moves - a truck chassis, a railroad car, or an AGV. If you clutter up the dock with containers, unloading will stall.

Using human-driven trucks on the dock side: [1]

Full automation with AGVs: [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=youKZCUZGlw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_rlLyelQo
It's because the assertions around inflated key metrics have one of two outcomes:

1) Their research and conclusions are incorrect.

2) Their research is correct and Roblox's ARPU is significantly higher than reported.
Yes, the situation superficially resembles Cambridge Analytica, but there's a few differences here. People aren't building detailed dossiers of themselves on Google Drive like they were on Facebook, and Transmit is a client app that is honest, open and up-front about how it uses your data - to move it in and out of Google Drive.

To be clear, the problem with Cambridge Analytica was not Cambridge Analytica. The problem was - and still is - Facebook's habit of getting everyone to overshare and self-surveil. There needs to be some control and vetting over the apps that have access to your data but not so much that actually honest developers are quitting the game.

My guess is that Google just doesn't want third-party clients (you can't shove "AI" or "Investor Advertising" into it), so they're slowly turning up the heat by abusing the data scare.
Why not reuse the whole frontend then?
Yup went to uniqlo while in Kyoto and bought some pants.

They're my favorite pants now
Hey Philippe! Very nice to see this from you. Looks great.
If you're into cooking a Japanese steel knife
The editor is part of it but I think the complete lack of where to even begin structuring one's game code in absence of some kind of formalized scene graph is a huge part of it as well. Scene graph editors make seeing “what exists in the game world right now” very visually apparent and easy to understand: “well, there's this root Node, and within that there's these different Nodes, and some of them have child Nodes which represent…” and so on and so forth. I recently replied to someone on X [0] who was starting from the Raylib 2D platformer example and asked, earnestly, “so I have this constant array of five rectangles representing platforms… how do I go from this to ‘defining my game's world’”?

It's just data. In its most basic form, a game world can be represented as just arrays of instances of structs, and then you loop over those arrays and call a function on each element to simulate the “entity” that struct instance represents, and then again to render it onto the screen. Sure, you eventually might want to do something more complex than that if the need arises, but most people would be surprised at just how far you can go doing only the simplest possible thing.

[0] https://x.com/rezich/status/1841889141505851680