skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover, I believe that one should distinguish between "language" and "words".

The parent article is mostly about thinking without "words", not necessary without a "language".

Some thoughts might be completely different from sentences in a language, probably when they have a non-sequential nature, but other thoughts are exactly equivalent to a sentence in a language, except that they do not use the words.

I can look and see to things that I recognize, e.g. A and B, and I can see that one is bigger than the other and I can think "A is bigger than B" without thinking at the words used in the spoken language, but nonetheless associating some internal concepts of "A", "B" and "is greater than", exactly like when formulating a spoken sentence.

I do not believe that such a thought can be considered as an example of thinking without language, but just as an example that for a subset of the words used in a spoken language there is an internal representation that is independent of the sequence of sounds or letters that compose a spoken or written language.
Ha -- I read the title and said to myself, "gotta be Maxwell, right?" The jolt of pleasure I get from being right about things like this is unreasonable.
Fair point. Even in America there is "Monster energy drink", and you might exclaim while watching sports, "man, that guy's a beast".

It's just hard to make words stick in general. The British made fun of "Yankee Doodle", so the Americans made it their themesong and marched to it.
Ezra Klein interviewed Charles Fain Lehman on a podcast titled, “The Hidden Politics of Disorder”. Charles brought up this exact point about the US struggling to find middle ground in regulation. I had t considered it before but it’s a really interesting point and I intend to agree with it from recent experience.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I referred to the mentioned guix there, not boot.
But to what end does it become Rae populism without people being informed on a topic?

I agree change has to come from somewhere, but it needn't be bottom up or top down. Writing silicon valley why not "middle out" ;)
So...it could help with sanctioning them? What information would be pertinent to this?
That’s small decision that should not take more than a few minutes to decide and try. It’s the kind of thing people do to avoid doing the real work needed
Keepass2Android can sync over ssh (sftp), Nextcloud and many other others. I'm sure you'll find something that works for you.
That's valuable insight, noted! However, I need users to sign up before using the scanning feature. Without registration, it would be too easy for users to bypass restrictions and misuse the app.
Unfortunately, what's needed is that the USians stop putting themselves as the main character and everyone else supporting. What's more interesting about this American identity is that the US and all other American countries have an almost identical history, the US is only the most prosperous ex-colony. But almost all countries in America were built in a similar manner. It is a continental identity as much as being European, Asian or African.
Starting in electronics 47 years ago, digital electronics clicked for me in a way that analog didn’t. My early analog circuits often used digital components to create clear deterministic behavior. The 7400 was my do everything black box and the 555 was the timer of choice when it became available.

But I always dreamed of a digital future. When I was very young, microprocessors fascinated but intimidated me with their need for special support chips, and I would design 4 bit computers I couldn’t afford to build using 7400 logic and 4 bit SRAM.

For a while, I strayed from the path and learned to program on my C2-8P computer that my brother and I bought. By middle school, I was more or less distracted, and came back to technology later with the TS1000 and later the c64. Eventually, the AT2323 brought me back into electronics with MCUs, and I found it was the world I always fantasised about as a 7 year old kid designing 4 bit ALUs. I don’t know why I missed out on the early PIC days, but I think it was girls, cars, and LSD, mostly lol.

Anyway, since then, I’ll unashamedly put a 6 pin mcu in just to flash a light, but I’ll make it flash in a better way, so that it grabs your attention when it is starting or stopping flashing, for example. Or it will flash in a way that communicates just a little more about what it’s telling you. I find with MCUs your stuff can be just a little bit better in a thousand subtle ways, and despite 10000x the parts count, more reliable and resistant to environmental factors. With modern mixed-signal MCUs that can drive 60ma on a GPIO, most things can boil down to a single chip with a few external parts.

Then you get to stuff like the esp32 platform, where for $1 you get a single chip solution that puts my first 486 PC to shame playing DOOM, even while bit-banging the video output. There’s no point in using something less capable unless you are making more than a thousand units, in which case you can still end up with a $0.10 risc-V running a respectable 24 mhz at 32 bits, with more flash and ram than my old C2-8P.
Water is also a convenient and accurate measure of weight if you know its volume.
Who is advocating for collective punishment?
> and Tesla has accumulated more relevant data than any of its competitors.

Has it really? How much data is each car sending to Tesla HQ? Anybody actually know? That's a lot of cell phone bandwidth to pay for, and a lot of data to digest.

Vast amounts of data about routine driving is not all that useful, anyway. A "highlights reel" of interesting situations is probably more valuable for training. Waymo has shown some highlights reels like that, such as the one were someone in a powered wheelchair is chasing a duck in the middle of a residential street.
In the United States? Come on. Boeing executives are not in jail - they are getting bonuses.
>Show me the commercial equivalent to the LG G4.

I am not an expert, but this[0] looks like a commercial equivalent. And on my searches seems to be less expensive (although both are quite expensive)

[0]https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16889356840
Because then you are doing a different thing than I did there.

The universal load function specifically not only injects the data on the server before serving the page but then also runs on the client once the page is loaded.

In my specific case the client side version hit a different api, hosted in a different region. There are different use cases for this though.
You slowly build a relationship with it and understand where it will fail.

I drive my 20-30 minute commutes largely with FSD, as well as our 8-10 hour road trips. It works great, but 100% needs to be supervised and is basically just nicer cruise control.
I just use SyncThing to distribute my KeePass vault to exactly and only those devices where I need it. Works great for me. YMMV depending upon your needs.
Decoding Emotions: Unveiling Facial Expressions Through Acoustic Sensing
A crutch, I think. Or a crotch; I don't judge.
There has been a lot of talk of silos in the company I work for and the need to break them down. This looks like it could be a big part of why they have been so hard to tackle.
I was actually listening to it while making breakfast as well, so the idea of an extended morning briefing resonates with me.
I'll look into it, thanks for the follow-up!
Funnily enough, white people were a minority in the French Empire of the 19th century, where Vernes wrote his books. You should read about the second revolution of France, in 1848, where women's role in creating the IInd Republic was instrumental, and yet were refused the right to vote. Underlining those thematics in Vernes books is still interesting, it doesn't have to be relevant to today.

Also, what's that thing about academia and politicians being "anti-white"? This sounds weird.
> After the system error, I lost all trust in FSD from Tesla.

May I ask how this initial trust was established?
What is the big headache? I'm curious to know, because I can't see it. I started my first business at a very young age, and had a lot of people around me in my life who tore up heaven and earth, really went ballistic, because in their world you work for somebody else - preferably the government - and receive a salary and that's it. To try to start a small business was one of the worst sins, and surely the IRS and competitors and employees would sue me out of existence just for having a business.

I still don't know what it was (is) with these people? Maybe a religious worshipping of the government and a fear of the IRS that are greater than the fear of God? Thinking that if you make a slight mistake, you'll be imprisoned for life. That was the impression they give. And when developers talk about the big headache of charging for a piece of software, I can't help but thin back to that.

The truth is – and you know it also – that if you sell software for $10, $20 or even $100, there is no contract nor much headache. You can give the money back to a customer who isn't satisfied and that's it. You can have your customer service as minimal as you prefer. You can also legally earn quite a lot of money on it as a side business before having to think about taxes or incorporation. And when that day comes, well congratulations, now you're supporting yourself as an independent developer!

The headache is only in your head.
Why not? Plenty of examples in history where it was the way - and if it was never a viable strategy it wouldn’t have a name.

I’d rather see no one profiting from producing culture than orgs like Random House.
> Couldn't you have the laws of physics change based on your speed but without changing based on location, direction, or over time?

No you can’t, that’s basically what e.g. the Levy-Leblonde reference proves :).

I encourage giving a read if you’re interested! The proof is just a few pages long, and doesn’t require more advanced mathematics than the average intro to special relativity.

If you’re willing to give up either causality itself, or the invariances of physical laws we discussed above, then of course many other alternatives open up.

> Also infinite speed of causality doesn't have to imply infinite speed of light, does it?

That is correct!

Without experimental data, we can just prove that there must be a “speed of causality” that is constant for every observer in a universe with the properties we discussed above.

That there exist “photons” in this universe that manage to travel at this speed is an experimental result. The exact value of that upper “speed limit” is also an experimental result.
Ask HN: Does GenZ still read blogs?
Character matters: https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1g7fdsy/elon_musk...
I guess it depends on what kind of accuracy you're aiming for. The density/weight of water changes depending on temperature, salinity, pressure, impurities and probably other factors.

So if you're either deep into a volcano or on the top of a cold mountain and need 0.001g precision, you might want to find an alternative way :)
> Not just 99%, but 99.99999999% or however many you want.

Badly enough, even that's not true.

We have a frame of reference given by the cosmic microwave background. When you move faster and faster at some limiting speed will create pions that will slow down the particle creating an effective slower max speed.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/speed-limit-below-sp...
In other words: bitwarden/clients is GPLv3; any Bitwarden client as a functioning whole is proprietary; the CTO does not see a problem with this; issue locked.
It's all acceptable if it at least is documented explicitly and correctly. But I do think sveltekits documentation is a bit sparse and doesn't go into detail about such things.

This is what I would call "magic" or implicit behavior. It seems very nice to have that at first but in reality after significant use of something there will come a point at which one wants to fully understand how it works. The magic then needs to be demystified.
And here you're assuming that making software engineers more productive would be a service to the world. I think the jury is out on that one as well. At least for the majority of software engineering since 2010.
Remembering Andy Grove, the Teacher (2016)
no, I mainly switched to reading physical books from the local public library. the oxford a very short introduction series has been a nice drop in replacement
Ask HN: Are tech-interviews broken? Is there a market-gap to fix them?
Is there a martket in the curated or personlised tech-hiring space? I am thinking to start a consulting business around technical hiring ie. software engineers.

I have collected my thoughts on the same here-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ejU6kyHlblB5aRd3tLuWoJ2DnOLpaQ9D/view?usp=sharing

Is this idea worth pursuing?

If this existed, would you potentially consider hiring an agency for the same?
On linux, there is sendmmsg, which can send up to 1024 packets each time, but that is a far cry from a single syscall to send 1GB file. With GSO, it is possible to send even more datagrams to call, but the absolute limit is 64KB * 1024 per syscall, and it is fiddly to pack datagrams so that this works correctly.

You might think you can send datagrams of up to 64KB, but due to limitations in how IP fragment reassembly works, you really must do your best to not allow IP fragmentation to occur, so 1472 is the largest in most circumstances.
Wow I really like this model. Maybe months is a bit extreme, I wouldn’t even tolerate my brothers living with me for months. But that’s more about me feeling obligated to host, than them being annoying.

So if I set aside my feeling of obligation, just considering who would I not mind running into at all hours of the day, and who would I not mind feeling a bit more exposed to… Living with people tends to create compromising situations that the workplace does not.

I can honestly think of a couple folks this would work with, which makes me feel incredibly lucky.
Factually, whites were a minority in the French Colonial Empire of the 19th century.
Ah, okay. Thanks for clarifying, I was getting confused. But guix is free software, too, no?!
Winners of the 2024 IFComp
While it is true that most of the election-year policies are promises that end up not being fulfilled, the policies that are chosen by the candidate to push the most are also a reflection of their character and beliefs. And just like you've to distill the fake from real promises, you've to do the same for the character they project, because how they present themselves is not always any more real than the policies they promise.
I think the volcano might be useful - we could use the heat to steam distill the water, then on our trip up the mountain we could take a quick stop at sea level to conduct our measurements.
How would you compare two infinities?
E.g. speed of light inside a moving train vs speed of light outside of it.
Yep, this is accurate IME.

In modern corporate blameless culture, nobody takes the blame. Now this has its own variety of issues, it’s not perfect. But if you look at blame culture, then exactly like OP said, you have to stop building and start protecting. You know who has time for that? The underperforming lazy employee.
It turns out that commanding the resources extracted through private monopolies isn't so different from deciding how to spend the revenues of taxation.
Policy is a stick. Useless without a person willing to swing it consistently and fairly.
With such vague arguments, it's not even clear to an outsider what each of their preferences are.
As someone not from the US, Naval's tweet is pretty disgraceful.

>Vote for freedom, entrepreneurship, meritocracy.

>Vote against serfdom, censorship, bureaucracy.

This is saying nothing, and depending on which side of the fence you sit on you are 1000% going to read that and think yeah that's my person in the "FOR" option and the "BAD" side is the other person in the "AGAINST" option.
> I have no view on the technical merits of the suits or the program.

I am just an online space nerd, but, for one thing the SpaceX suits don't have the insulation required for the wearer to be in direct sunlight. It appears that they still have a ways to go before being as useful as the standard NASA EVA suit.

I think the look will change dramatically once they are at a point where it has the same usability as the NASA EVA suit. It will have to be thicker for one thing, won't it?
https://nitter.poast.org/paulg/status/1847225545299251597
But are books and blogs even in the same info sphere? It seems to me that they address quite different information needs.

Also, I'm wondering to what degree social networks (tiktok etc.) have replaced blogs as a main source for information, whether appropriately so or not.
Neat. Also, all the copper coins (1, 2, and 5 cent) are 1.67 mm thick, so three stacked is half a centimeter to good accuracy.
Very useful information, I used it around that time period with a lego balance scale to measure weights of various drugs in high school.
I expect insurance to figure out the relative risks and put a price sticker on that decision.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing – in some video contexts with some video codecs you may care more about latency and may be able to get a video codec that can cope with packet loss instead of requiring retransmission – except it seemed it wouldn’t apply too much to Netflix where the latency requirement is lower and so retransmission ought to be fine.

Maybe one advantage of HTTP/3 would be handling ip changes but I’m not sure this matters much because you can already resume downloads fine in HTTP/1.1 if the server supports range requests (which it very likely does for video)
Can't recommend Newsblur enough. I have been a customer since Fastladder was shut down. I love their integration of being able to use pinboard.in within the web interface to bookmark articles. An essential part of my web productivity flow.
Current Xbox head is former director of their internal studios org. He doesn't know how to foster 1st party AAA(A) titles.
A different product would be evaluated differently based on its usefulness and quality compared to free options.

As many others here stated, there are free trustworthy alternatives like PlantNet and iNaturalist. For now, even Google Lens is more reliable… until Google gets flooded with bad data and AI generated images of plants.

$3 seems like a better entry point for a product to test the market. Equivalent to a cup of coffee in most cities.
Note that Mercedes does take liability for accidents with their (very limited level) level 3 system: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892154/mercedes-benz-dr...
This feels like a job ripe for startup disruption.

LLM documentation generators tend to benefit from context, and nothing provides better context than a mostly functional code base. The best part is the code doesn’t even need to compile for the LLM to build the context needed.
Many engineers don’t truly care about the correctness issue, until it’s too late. Similar to security.

Or they care but don’t bother checking whether what they’re doing is correct.

For example, in my field, where microservices/actors/processes pass messages between each other over a network, I dare say >95% of implementations I see have edge cases where messages might be lost or processed out of order.

But there isn’t an alignment of incentives that fixes this problem. Ie the payment structures for executives and engineers aren’t aligned with the best outcome for customers and shareholders.
Because it is produced as cheaply as possible to survive the warranty to make most profit.

And when a bike costs more, as a layman, you have a hard time judging if it costs more because of more profit or better quality.
Yes. And the commenter is pointing out that if Guix has a bug, and the available fix is via non-free firmware, they will not pull in the fix. Users thus continue to be affected by the bug.
Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
I recently came across the concept of "useless" programs - pieces of code that serve no practical purpose but are fun, creative, or challenging to write. These could be anything from elaborate ASCII art generators to programs that solve imaginary problems.
I'm curious to hear about the most interesting or creative "useless" programs the HN community has written. What was your motivation? What unexpected challenges did you face? Did you learn anything valuable from the experience?
Some examples to get the ball rolling:
1. A program that prints the lyrics of "99 Bottles of Beer" in binary.
A text-based game where you play as a semicolon trying to find its way to the end of a line of code.
A script that translates English text into Shakespearean insults.
Share your creations, no matter how quirky or impractical. Let's celebrate the joy of coding for coding's sake!
Another SyncThing user here, it works well with KeePass.
This is how I feel reading almost all discussions in regards to US politics. It's so vague and handwavy sometimes I feel like even if I read the news I have no idea what one is talking about. Why do people feel the need to not be direct? I don't get and my gut feeling is that this is very US-centric.
I wonder if there’s some way to reduce this server-side memory requirement. I thought that was part of the point of sendfile but I might be mistaken. Unfortunately sendfile isn’t so suitable nowadays because of tls. But maybe if you could do tls offload and do sendfile then an OS could be capable of needing less memory for sendbufs.
> right turns on red

This is a idiosyncrasy of the US (maybe other places too?) and I wonder if it's easier to do self driving at junctions, in countries without this rule.
An even better example is the city of Chongqing. Looking at pictures of Chongqing from when I was in high school, I would say what stands today is simply not possible. Yet there it is.

If you cut out consultancy firms, we would still not be able to do anything close to that in America. There are many reasons. None that I would expect to figure out and resolve anytime soon , if ever.
Ticket machines are still something foreigners can be expected to interact and need help with.
As proof of concept, it is quite cool.

However for going into production with something like this, maybe writing everything in Assembly, and not just some parts, would be much better.

But after a quick search it seems the macro assembler story for RISC-V isn't that great.
> A superstar can outperform maybe 3-4 juniors but that's about it. The jobs isn't that hard and there are only so many hours in a day.

There do exist (I would even claim "quite some") jobs/programming tasks where superstars are capable of, but a junir developer will at least need years of training to be able so do/solve them (think, for example, of turning a deep theoretical breakthrough in (constructive) mathematics into a computer program; or think of programming involving deep, obscure x86 firmware trivia), but I agree with your other judgement that such programming tasks are not very common in industry.
By "true" hackers, I meant the old-skool type that learns things on the fly from limited resources and then uses creativity and problem-solving skills alongside their newly-minted knowledge to create nifty things or solve thorny problems. :)

Guessing from the rest of your comment there, with the nifty examples that you might be one of those "old-skool hackers" yourself. ;)
books in general, no, but in my experience the oxford very short introduction series is because it covers the same type of writing of the blogs I would read, the typically short form niche expertly things on substack/medium/blogspot/etc etc. not a lot of people seem to be familiar with the series, I wasn't until I randomly saw a dedicated corner at my library
https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-...
they have almost a tiny book for any specific niche subject and until I run out of books in this list to read, I don't really have a need for reading blogs anymore
Sure, but Mac and Linux runs better on 8 than windows on 16