skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a partial answer for that. ;-) For at least some functions, iterative solutions exist which converge to correct solutions. For at least some iterative solutions the rate of convergence (the estimated error bounds) is a continuous function: it can be seen that convergence proceeds normally (I should be more careful with that word) as long as the estimated error bounds for the iteration is larger than the computationally induced error. I'll hazard a guess that with constraints some formulations which model a three body problem are solvable to the point where the estimated error bounds approaches the computationally induced error due to floating point imprecision.

The thing about the three body problem, same as here, is that there are regions in the initial position and velocity space where very small changes produce extremely large differences in function output.

There has been some work / recognition of the value of topological understanding to orbital mechanics, although I can't find whatever I read a few months ago. Best I could find was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_geometry and this DDG search looks promising: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=symplectic+integrators+solar+syste...
C++ has become such an unwieldy monster that even though I've been primarily a C++ programmer from the very start of the language and am an expert in it, I've come to dread using it or maintaining software written in it.

Anything that stops or slows down the madness is welcome.
Airships could potentially be electric and solar powered. That would insulate it from fuel cost fluctuations. It would also resolve the issue with refueling.
It’s a sort of “ackchyually” distinction. In colloquial speech “tense” may refer to any grammatical form of a verb that implies a tense, even though the form may also express aspect and mood. In linguistics, as in any other academic field, people usually try to be more precise (https://wals.info/chapter/s7).

Studying linguistics is already confusing because the boundaries between morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics are not so clear in the first place, so getting rid of any ambiguity is important to linguists, but those things aren’t important to people who simply study the language to speak it.
I think the air gradient folks do some collaboration and it's possible you could get your sensors linked into a bigger net by contacting them: https://www.airgradient.com/research/

Edit: Also MIT did this recently: https://news.mit.edu/2023/low-cost-device-can-measure-air-po...
It depends on her storage needs. If she’s making files she’ll probably not want the 64GB version. So you’d be looking at the 256GB base for $500 or the 128GB 11” Air for $600. That’s not that big a jump for the added utility.

I agree with the other poster; maybe look at refurb and a 2nd gen pencil.

Or just don’t get one. But it sounds like this is on the short list to buy for you two.
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. The body is extremely complicated and cannot be reproduced for testing. Testing and treatment has a cost not just in money.

If 99% of the time it's just a symptom of being obese, is it really a good idea to put 99 people through unnecessary procedures because 1 other person has a fixable problem? What if said testing procedure has a 1/1000 chance of perforating the colon and causing a serious problem for those 99 people without a tumor?
Spotify criticized for letting fake albums appear on real artist pages
space? or energy?
ooh, dentists are very well educated in empathy and morality. They even have to take an ethical oath before they get their license. So is not lack of education, is greed and maybe a ton of student debt (or both).
Groups can be defined both by people's intrinsic properties that they can't change (e.g. sex, race, age, sexuality, heritage) and their beliefs which they can definitely change (opinions, philosophy, religion).

It's OK to make fun of hippies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
Operation Elop [pdf]
I was able to pre-order the book just fine — it didn't prompt me for any promo codes.
And here's the correlation coefficient between countries:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Correlation-coefficients...

Like today we will need peaking capacity in the future, likely either based on hydrogen, synfuels or biofuels.

What we don't need is nuclear power plants which sit idle at all times unless there is a winter dunkeflaute across half of Europe.
Preventing Out-of-Memory (OOM) Kills in Kubernetes
insane release
That's a wild take. Hedge funds and PE have corrupted and taken over said pension funds then pushing funds into these usurious ventures by claiming that the pension fund "needs to keep up with the market" is another huge sign of decay.
Wasn't there a recent article that said it was best to measure blood pressure lying down?
Think you've got that reversed. The Manhattan Project kicked off the Atomic Age, and sentiments were largely positive until the height of the Cold War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Age

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-atomic-bomb-and-the-nu...
and then he launched a bunch of dumbass initiatives, and Peter Thiel power-played him out, and ditched "X".

his real victory was surviving long enough to make money from the merger and not get totally fleeced on the way out.

and given the number of Russians using Starlink, I suspect it's a matter of time before his clearance is revoked and the US FedGov backs away further from SpaceX. wouldn't be surprised if there are ITAR violations there, too...
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth
It's a bit like dropping a kid into programming without foundational courses on anything. They'll learn from the "outside inward". As I did, before doing a CS degree. 12 year old me knew Excel, so I understood function calls with parentheses are a thing, but didn't have any idea what programming really means, but built HTML+JavaScript pages through trial and error. I didn't know what compilation is, didn't understand that lines in the code are executed sequentially or in parallel. I could configure port redirects in the router to set up multiplayer games without understanding what "protocol" or "port" meant.

Then at university I learned it all from the ground up, clearing many misconceptions. But my misconceptions also were helpful. When we learned about OpenMP, I remembered I had thought that "for" loops would run in parallel. And indeed it turns out it was possible to run them in parallel. Or I had misconceptions about pass-by-value and pass-by-reference but at least had a prepared mental framework for this when we formally learned about it.

Biologists arrived at the scene similarly, without manuals or foundational courses handed over by God. So it had to start with this "competent ignorance" at first. You don't quite know what you're doing but it works. And then you figure out the building blocks.
Yes. You can use a PO box, but since all past addresses and changes are visible in the database, you have to get the PO box _before_ you get your very first license, in order for it to be meaningful.
In which countries are they legally identical, or even mostly identical, to the customs facilities commonly found in international airports?
Related:

A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31511361 - May 2022 (132 comments)

A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21116948 - Sept 2019 (153 comments)

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6325996 - Sept 2013 (35 comments)

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212949 - Nov 2011 (150 comments)
Presumably Google wants VR headsets to run Google's own version of Android, perhaps called Android VR (or the like), though I haven't heard of a VR version of Android developed by Google. Previously they developed Android TV and Android for smartwatches. Even a version for cars I believe.
The longest train journey possible in the Netherlands would be about 4 hours. People would rather just eat something at the train station.
Besides train are as packed as a Tokyo subway.
[dupe]

More discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848298
Cracked founders!
I loaded tamagui.dev, onestack.dev and a random youtube video (not playing): in order, 107Mb, 48Mb, and 219Mb of memory. Lighthouse scores are good. Profiling shows near 0 main thread work at all while scrolling or doing common actions, no memory leaks I can see after moving around the pages. Loading many JS files is not bad so long as it doesn't waterfall, actually good practice to an extent, and we have no waterfalls and prefetch everything on hover.

I don't doubt you saw something, I'll keep an eye out for issues. I checked in Safari and it looks similarly fine there.
It feels like 2004 again
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840769
Curious, what happened to their previous homes ? Did they become Airbnb rentals on the cheap too by any chance ?
Technically yes if you have an entire fleet to both spread the load following across and their manage their fuel cycles since they get less flexible the further into a fuel cycle a reactor is.

Economically? Load following with nuclear power means an even worse business case than running at 100% 24/7. And nuclear power is already a laughably bad business case when running at 100%.
Pretty sure theres no stage manager, hard pass. Sticking to my 6.
Possibly the OnePlus 6? This isn't an area I'm too well versed on though
Evaluating Fairness in ChatGPT
I would prefer the UDP Protocol over TCP like in Bedrock edition. Im pretty sure many PVP players would love this. Here is much non sense in the Minecraft protocol and things made to work not to be optimized (deadlines). At our discord we even already have a sticker :mojang_nonsense: which will be used quiet often. I also don't understand Mojang's tactic with packet changes, It sometimes looks like they care about Packets not being broken and being backwards compatible but them sometimes they change the whole Networking system (1.20)
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter

What has changed?
The Cybernetic Hypothesis
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781635900927/the-cybernetic-hypoth...

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/3504/The-StackOn-Soft...

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56791

Platform Capitalism
https://www.wiley.com/en-in/Platform+Capitalism-p-9781509504...
It means the nuclear power plants shut down and then start losing money hand over fist, eventually closing.
The A-series chips only support screen mirroring; with the M-class iPads you can have stage manager and multiple windows across two displays; and the main display runs at native resolution. It’s a far better (though still flawed) experience.
What was the function of the bosses in Sweden? How closely do they follow their reports' work? How involved are they with their reports' performance evaluations, and how many times per year was the evaluation? Do they push for their reports to get promoted, or help them get their achievements published or widely presented? Do they provide any help with complex administrative issues like immigration, medical or parental leave, etc.?
Very clean, it just works!
I’ve found a CO2 measure for 16€ at my supermarket. Of course I’ll never know whether it’s accurate ;)
It's not universal, but gingivitis (a minor gum disease) causes inflammation (thus pain). Some people are more prone to it due to their teeth arrangement. Some teeth tend to trap food, which then rots, promotes bacteria, and so forth. Flossing helps alleviate this. The initial floss tends to be strikingly different to the follow-ups (not unexpected). More bleeding and more pain (because of existing inflammation), also more gunk and funk (rotten food particles and bacteria).

One notable effect when regular flossing is sustained is that your whole mouth just feels generally less sensitive and healthy. Less pain when you chew, your breath feels fresher for longer. The reverse can also be noticed when you stop flossing.

As I said, this is not universal since not everyone has the same teeth arrangement. Which is one more argument in favor of not waiting for evidence. It's considerably cheaper to just get some 3$ dental floss, try it for a month, and see for yourself.
Interesting thanks for sharing - maybe I'll try again with another device.
This is like claiming to know the future.

Nobody knows how much population growth we need. In the future we might not have enough bright minds around to solve our resource crises. We might have a global epidemic that causes us to miss critial population thresholds that severely drop our quality of life.

I think that if we want our species to escape this rock before our sun wipes us out (or sooner), people should be having kids.
No - space and time are continuous in quantum mechanics, despite the fact that other quantities such as angular momentum and energy are discrete (quantized). Relevant comment from Luboš Motl, a string theorist who produced a proof that, under some assumptions, quantum mechanics on discrete space and time is inconsistent, echoed by Peter Shor: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/9077
Optically Actuated Soft Microrobot Family for Single-Cell Manipulation
> you can bet this isn't the exit most parties wished for. Although by this stage the founder(s) is probably happy to find a buyer who will retain their team.

I've seen a startup that was bootstrapped 10 years ago but took on too much money and ended up getting acquired for "undisclosed sum" but at the same time everybody knew the investors were just recouping their money while founders got nothing (they had sold their equity for raising more money as their costs were way up but nobody was buying their product). Cue local news reporters don't know the nuances so they'll just announce "Startup X acquired by Y, wow!"

Founders place a lot of emphasis on getting "acquired" but there is roughly 95% chance of you selling at breakeven where the terms leave you with a year's worth of salary as a junior SWE

Get ready to see a lot more of these "acquired" news coming out in the near future. something around less than 1% chance of getting more money than you put in.

Startup has horrible odds especially if you are building a simple GPT wrappers
Hijacking Bitcoin: By Roger Ver [video]
Lots of LLM applications involve using an LLM to process external data, which makes it part of the prompt. Intuition driven by systems where instruction/code are strictly distinct from data input for processing may be failing you here.
> So, after DNA analysis, scientists discover than man-eating lions were eating humans! Who'd have guessed!

The point seems to be developing novel analysis, not so much interest in what these particular lions ate, which was documented anyway. I wrote a bit longer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41850781
And then you find out about Santa Claus and Easter Bunny.
The author doesn’t criticize the use of AI. It does criticize putting technology over user experience and there is a wonderful quote from Steve Jobs that illustrates the point.
I'm still curious what all these companies exactly want genAI for, but I doubt it's about ads. And the other kinds of AI aren't driving the new power usage.
> You move on to more accurate and focused methods of testing

Yes, AFTER the imperfect tool gives you something to worry about. So you still need the imperfect tool, which is what I think a lot of people are missing in this conversation.
More or less; they’re not literally the same tokens as “a”, “b”, “c” but I’d speculate the mapping is learned from some other examples of ASCII (or just Roman letters) being repeated in other obscure parts of Unicode — Gothic glyphs, bubble letters, etc. Once the model has seen enough ASCII represented as Unicode code points whose tokenizations alternate between meaningless and meaningful (e.g. “~l~i~k~e~ ~t~h~i~s”) it learns how to read it regardless of what the ”~” is.
Show HN: I made a tool to extract clean text (or Markdown) from ANY website
For the least price sensitive customer in the world: The US navy. That doesn't tend to translate into working products on cutthroat markets.
Show HN: React-Pulsable – Add Pulsating Effect to Any React Component
Hi HN,

I released React-Pulsable GitHub last year, and after seeing it in action across a few projects, I wanted to share it with a wider audience. It’s a lightweight library that lets you easily add customizable pulsating animations to any React component, helping to highlight elements like buttons, icons, or any UI component.
Key Features:

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Great for adding subtle yet engaging effects to your UI

Here’s an example:

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Now that it's been stable for a while, I’m looking for feedback and ideas on how it can be improved! Feel free to check it out on GitHub (https://github.com/abdheshnayak/react-pulsable).
The larger question is why would one need AI if the underlying problem of SaaS sprawl and data silos could be addressed without AI
I grew up without any dental coverage and you are right; if you say first thing "I have no coverage and pay for everything out of pocket" you typically get a very different experience.

It's not just the dentists that are perfectionists, but culturally perfect teeth is an expectation in a lot of the world now. I get it; a kid who's hesitant to smile because they're embarrassed with their teeth is heart-breaking, but it's also very expensive.
Those invisible letters have codepoints of ASCII letters + 0xE0000. For example compare "U+E0054 TAG LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T"[0] vs "U+0054 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T"[1]

A simple assumption of "codepoint is 16 bit" will be enough to decode. You can see this in python:

>>> x = '(copy message from article here)'
>>> x
'https://wuzzi.net/copirate/\U000e0001\U000e0054\U000e0068\U000e0065\U000e0020\U000e0073\U000e0061\U000e006c\U000e0065\U000e0073\U000e0020\U000e0066\U000e006f\U000e0072\U000e0020\U000e0053\U000e0065\U000e0061\U000e0074\U000e0074\U000e006c\U000e0065\U000e0020\U000e0077\U000e0065\U000e0072\U000e0065\U000e0020\U000e0055\U000e0053\U000e0044\U000e0020\U000e0031\U000e0032\U000e0030\U000e0030\U000e0030\U000e0030\U000e007f,'
>>> "".join([chr(ord(c) & 0xFFFF) for c in x])
'https://wuzzi.net/copirate/\x01The sales for Seattle were USD 120000\x7f,'

maybe authors worked with Windows or Java too much? :) I always thought wchar's were a horrible idea.

[0] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/e0054/index.ht...

[1] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/54/index.htm
> It makes sense to update the model with apple intelligence but that might not be enough for a lot of people to upgrade.

that's fine? it's a very mature segment - medium-price small screen tablet. it hasn't even really been updated since 2021, and that was basically new case+usb-c.
The performance differences look pretty impressive from the benchmarks. I do notice that world generation and saving features are missing though, and these tend to be pretty expensive operations. Chunk gen especially can bring a weaker VPS to its knees. I'm sure the benchmarks were taken at an idle state, but I'd be curious to see how it compares once those features are included and being used.

I don't see it listed, but is there support for block breaking/placing yet? Presumably this would require light recalculation and a chunk update on the server.

Finally, do you plan to add advanced features like scoreboard, teams, or command block parsing in general? Mojang has at least open-sourced Brigadier for that.

Cool project. Hope to see it mature to the point of making servers easier to run on low-end hardware.
Yeah I covered on device. Okay, lets call the rest cloud shit. Yeah, like I said, confusing comment. They said open source and on device and talked about the quality issues with the cloud shit they're using that certainly won't be resolved by using on device models. shrug
Show HN: HireNorm – Unified Job Board Builder, ATS and Coding Interview Platform
I was inspired to create HireNorm to address limitations in recruitment and applicant tracking software that I witnessed while working in the Tech industry. I felt such software was skewed toward recruiters and they didn't offer much for interviewers like me who played an equally integral role in the tech hiring process.

HireNorm aims to change that by being an all-in-one hiring platform that will simplify and streamline the hiring process for candidates, hiring managers, recruiters and interviewers starting from job posting all the way to interviewing step. I hope it'll be a welcome addition to the competitive HR software B2B SaaS industry landscape.
Not even particularly new. I remember seeing it used talking about Counter-Strike pros in the early 2000s
The only learning resource I have continued to pay for is O'Reilly Learning. I have been a customer since it was Flash-based "Safari Books Online". There's a ton of content and they've expanded slowly into online courses/video/audio books as well. Definitely worth a look.
I do think there is a huge difference: for a traditional software parser, you can always fix it to exclude the incorrect input, or at least understand what the theorical parsing limitation is. Accidental complexity is not really an argument because at the end of the day you can still find the issue even in the most complex of inescrutable software.

Can you really fix a black box model in the same way? Maybe the answer is yes for this particular encoding issue, but can you e.g figure out how to prevent the model from 'parsing' malicious paint marks on a traffic sign, without (a) using yet another black box to prefilter the images, with the same risks, or (b) retraining the model, which is going to introduce even more issues ? We have had examples of OpenAI trying both methods, and each has been as fruitless as the other.

It is not at all like software security fixes, where generally one security fix introducing other security issues is the exception rather than the rule. Here, I'm claiming, it is the rule.

The fact that you don't know how to process the inputs with an actual, scrutizable algorithm may imply you don't know how to sanitize the inputs with one, and then all bets are off.
I think the instant pot is too imprecise a tool for cooking by recipe, it’s for speed and convenience. I’ll improvise a curry with what’s on hand, sometimes the result is fine and sometimes it’s great :)
You don't need to change fuel cycles to reduce the output of a nuclear plant. You can accomplish it by more aggressively cooling the water in the steam turbines, effectively wasting heat (and thus generating less power).

Nuclear is a bad business case compared to a fossil fuel grid. Solar and wind backed by fossil fuels are a better business choice, too. But when it comes to a fossil-fuel free grid, it's the only viable option if you don't have a big source of hydropower nearby. Batteries can't deliver the required storage capacity. Remember, the world uses 60,000 GWh of electricity per day. And as transportation and industrial uses of fossil fuels are electrified, that'll increase.
Hi. Im so happy there are so many people liking the project, The Project is still pretty WIP but im really working hard on this, i finished my exmans last week and currently in holidays so commits are again back to normal :D