skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, if you ignore the fact that he displays blatant ignorance in the streams he does. And what reports are you referring to exactly?

It has nothing to do with musk, and that's the entire issue. The dude is obsessed with him, clouding anything he says about SpaceX. SpaceX isn't just musk. It's actually super cringe how he seems genuinely mad whenever SpaceX staff celebrates or when a success happens. Or when he literally makes up stuff as he goes while the stream happens ("wow this is super bad, this shouldn't look like this" or even simple stuff like thinking that the water release before launch is for cooling the engines (???))

It's not the first time thunderfoot has obsessed over someone, he used to do the same with Anita sarkeesian. And the same thing happened, it got to the point where it was so weird and obsessive that it made him lose any credibility.
If you find this interesting, you might also wanna suss out https://rescript-lang.org/

It is a shame that Bloomberg and Facebook made the whole situation pretty confusing though, but still, it is a nice idea.
I find the thought that government officials would routinely carry weapons is massively more dystopian than anything the BBC can come up with.
Ah thanks for the metaflooding!. was trying to achieve a balance between the 2, kinda like

“Number theory might be the future of physics, but fluid dynamics is the future of number theory”*

I concede to a weakness for triangles, such as this

< money >< math >< magic >

Napoleon’s sleep schedule: i’d only heard about the 6 hours of sleep (because thats the schleppy shit that VCs want to see in designori). That TIL has a delugional [aka magical] aspect, ac, thanks! Rriight, the logistics of iDevices seduce one with the allure of “High(-functioning) Culture”, the logistics of disposable commsats do not (yet)

(PPPS Compare with the more prosaic (but more sophicatedly structured) PGcal newtonian obssessions — NoTe:honest! in (conscious) bona fide hindsight this comparison was reached TIC

< minting >< natural philosophy >< alchemy >

)

PS:original(?) & utter speculation was that the political purges+relaxation to common sense “worked” for the revolutionary army, but not navy. Political commissars having an unexpected effect on routes to victory? (Too difficult/costly/nonsensical to give basic naval training to PCs. Naval anything is showing > telling.. do we even credibly remember what the legions marched to??)

*i havent delved at all into his work, Gisin is the almost-crackpot name to look up, major patch to K,AN is what he seems to be aiming for.

PPS: schlep has a “bootstrap”-py (as it were a schleppy term for magic) aspect: reducing schlep involves schlep
And beyond this, there’s very much a world where a few key people don’t discover Jeremy Ashkenas’ work - much of which, between CoffeeScript and Backbone, was the excitement that you could make JS feel agile - at the right time in their careers to push the industry in the direction where frontend developers become frontend engineers. We owe so much to these stepping stones.
The documents I copied are not as sharp as the original, so the photocopier must not exist.
> it very much seems like both position and momentum are things.

The operative word being "seems". Position and momentum (and indeed real numbers in general) are mathematical models that predict observations. But the observations themselves are the results of physical interactions that transfer energy, and those can only ever be discrete because energy is quantized.
Maybe, but TFA says at least in Ramanujan's case:

But he ignored all subjects besides math and lost his scholarship within a year. He later enrolled in another university, this time in Madras (now Chennai), the provincial capital some 250 kilometers north. Again he flunked out.

Maybe it would be different now?
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the news here is Apple is adding a hearing test app, and "officially" stating that you can use your Airpods Pro like hearing aids.

I mention this as you can use these today as hearing aids, you just need to use a third party app to create your audiogram. I have fairly bad hearing loss and use Airpods instead of hearing aids.
It’s awkward, sure, but other questions use commas in that way. Question 19, immediately prior:

> Draw in the space below, a square with a triangle in it, and within that same triangle
draw a circle with a black dot in it.

In that case, “a square with a triangle in it” is fairly unambiguously the object, which would make the sentence construction “[verb] [adverb], [object]” — exactly the same as the second interpretation of “Spell backwards, forwards”.
Old but still good!
These people are still out there. When I was in high school we had the normal people, then people who took advanced placement stuff, then the "super nerds" who were at the top of all the advanced placement stuff with perfect grades, and then there was this one guy who was most of the way through all the advanced math classes at the nearby university. Same guy was in one of my English classes, and was failing. More or less he couldn't be bothered.

Sadly the later part of your comment may hold - I don't remember what ended up happening with him, whether he graduated high school or what. Hopefully at that level you just disappear into academia and not off the face of the earth in general.
How do you measure pi?
> Every company I go to, the base of knowledge of all the engineers is a complete crapshoot

Sounds like unfortunate companies to go to.

> much less teach them about it on the job

That is literally how and where people learn the job pretty much everywhere.

> it needs to be up to date

Yeah, it will never be.

> we need to prove people have actually read it and understood it

Why/how?
What if they aren’t the world’s smartest investors
https://archive.today/c32Vt
In this example, you invested $100 to get a $1,000 return. $99 of those investments failed, but the one that succeeded made up for the losses. You still have to factor in the losses, otherwise if you could have just picked the winner from the get-go, you would have done that and invested just $1, not $100.
"old" vibes, old -> trustworthy, primitive instinct
Link is not working. Correct Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03209-4
NIST is basically the publishing arm of the NSA, so it really depends on whether the NSA is taking the "protect national information assets" or the "attack foreign information assets" part of its mandate more seriously from year to year.
way cool! I hope to take it for a spin tomorrow!

Q: Does your team see potential value in a DSL for succinctly describing visualizations to an LLM as Hex did with their DSL for Vega-lite specs [1]?

[1]: https://hex.tech/blog/making-ai-charts-go-brrrr/
It's silly how privacy detractors try to associate so-and-so terrible group with any software that simply lets people talk without corporate or government surveillance, as if the concept of a private conversation is a strange and suspicious thing now.
Everyone here seems to have missed the significance of L.J. Rogers in this story.
No, there's only one solar system in the entire universe. There's countless star systems though, but only one of those stars is named Sol.

/pedant
Where to apply? Or is the door open on an invite-only basis?
Yep. I can avoid saying yes to all of the apps that want to access my contacts, but I can't prevent everyone I know, from doing the same :-(
What was the thinking behind making a de facto compulsory licence fee for something that is available to everyone anyway? And then having a big annoying system for enforcing and investigating payments? Why was this seen as preferable to just paying for public television out of tax revenue?
Anything in Schedule I is almost fully banned, though people will try hard enough to get around it that it doesn't matter.
Case in point https://x.com/paulg/status/1845936708488970606
I think even that's perhaps a warped anthropocentric view of intelligence?

Think about other earth-centric scenarios, and try and imagine if dolphins or octopuses or fungus or maybe even insect colonies or plant ecosystems had "won" and become the apex lifeforms on earth instead of humans. I wonder just how different concerns like "civilisations" and "war" and "nuclear power" would have played out in those cases? I wonder if assumptions like "industrial revolutions" and the inevitability of scientific discovery being used in detrimental ways like we have done with nuclear science actually correlate with "intelligence"?
Credentialism is for more than employers. When I need an electrician or other tradesperson to work on my house, credentials are beneficial. When plans are drawn up for a deck or extension to my house, credentials are beneficial when getting an engineering signoff. Knowing that the local medical facilties employ credentialed doctors is great when I need something done. Etc., etc.
So in grade 5 you maths is A++++ (like college entry level), you're excused from English, Civics and what not, and when by the time of graduation you've fizzled out (which most prodigies do) you're just an unemployable nerd.

School education standards are the barest minimum and anyone of IQ > 85 can make them.
Oh sweet Lord one of my proudest moments at a college that I used to work for was the getting to know you thing. The last question was always a "fun" question. Mine was why don't they make planes out of the black box material.

I wrote seven pages with diagrams, charts, and explanation of the weights and air resistances of various metal alloys that most planes are made of. There were foot notes and an additional two pages of citations.

And on the tenth page was just one line, "I made all of that up. I hope you enjoyed reading this."

I got so much hate mail from the physics department. It was amazing.
Some of my team worked with Marissa at Google, and I worked with the former CTO of Sunshine which is why I originally tried it.
But that’s the point. Look at all these American workers who quit and we can’t find qualified candidates to fill their vacant positions, so that, Senator, is why we need your vote to expand the H1B visa program.
Alpha-GPC is just choline, so you can get it by eating eggs. Amino acids and mushrooms are also quite accessible.

Modafinil is straight up better than caffeine though, which is a crappy and addictive stimulant.
I'm somewhat lost in the details, but IIUC, you are confused for the "use" of the macro in the file mkgs.ss The fist part of that file is a transpiler, that transpile it's second half from pseudo-scheme to c, and then the c version includes the definition of the macro and uses it https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/blob/fc577f234171af80859...
You are missing that these are now cleared as hearing aids by the government.
IIRC nicotine is the most effective nootropic by far, the problem being that it's super addictive.

But none of them work as well as sleep and exercise.
Code that changes introduces new bugs, new bugs can be new security issues. A lower velocity would hopefully mean less changes but higher quality, more thoroughly tested changes.
My source of truth is a self-hosted Radicale CardDAV server with git revision control of vCard data in the backend. Clients are anything that speaks CardDAV, including Thunderbird or DAVX on Android. Raw vCard data is only a "git clone" away, and is an input to scripts to handle birthdays and mailing list updates.
> But what if those just aren’t interesting to someone?

The school I went to grades 1--12
tried to be especially good
so taught Latin, French. Some of the girls were in ballet. MIT came
recruiting. The year before me two guys went to Princeton and ran against each other for President of the Freshman Class (whatever that meant!). In my class, one guy (did nearly as well on the SAT Math as I did!!!) went to MIT.

In one of the early grades, I got dumped on (adenoids, couldn't hear well until that got fixed). Apparently the teachers talked to each other and had me with a dunce cap until I proved otherwise. In 1st algebra, discovered math: I liked it, was good at it, was the best in the class, proved myself, got sent to a math tournament, couldn't get dumped on, etc. Continued that way: Was so good at math that I got an unspoken but powerful by in any subject, e.g., English literature, I didn't like.

Got sent to summer math/physics enrichment programs.

So, for that example, for

> But what if those just aren’t interesting to someone?

some schools will let a student who is good at some one subject get a by in other subjects.

Really, schools, K-Ph.D., have a tough time finding any students really good in even just one subject, are thrilled when they find one that is, and don't want to block him/her because
he viewed fictional literature as a not very credible presentation of common reality?

That by pattern continued: In grad school, they insisted that I take their computer science course. My background in computing was already nicely above that course, and I'd already taught a similar course at Georgetown. Soooo, mostly laughed at the course: E.g., they had a test question about Quicksort (very common topic then), and I answered with material they didn't know.

The best case of by: Took a reading course; decided to address a question in the pure math of optimization; two weeks later had a surprising theorem and from that an answer to the question. The work, clearly publishable, was instant news all over the department, some profs angry that I had done well, others pleased. Angry/pleased, the work got me a general purpose by, a gold crown, immunity from any criticism, and an unspoken, implicit, easy path to the rest of the Ph.D.
Nice!

I see that it supports FDD only (no TDD) and is limited to 20MHz, so some limitations.

I see that it can do some amount of real-time decoding, which is interesting. In cell towers, a big part of the processing is done by fairly general-purpose processors, but still much more tightly integrated with the hardware than this software is.
> What's not inevitable is that it can thrive, and survive to a galactic scale. That's not even yet certain for us.

Sadly, that's looking less and less likely as time goes on.
I think one problem with the idea of learning the language of captive animals is that it runs on the assumption that animals have an inherent language. There was some research centuries ago that involved raising kids without exposure to the outside world of languages in hopes of learning what our "natural" language was. Turns out there isn't one.

And I think the same applies to animals. Bird songs have already been noted to have accents by region. We'll probably end up finding out that if animals do have complex language, it's something they develop through community exposure just like humans do, and it'll vary by area. Crows in Texas will talk very different from crows in England, I'm sure.

With pets, most of them are kept isolated from the world at large. It wouldn't surprise me if dogs raised by people have very stilted or nonexistent language compared to feral dogs. Maybe 200 years from now, we'll see the modern concept of raising dogs completely alone as inhumane and sending them off to doggy daycare a couple times a week to learn the local dog language and "culture" will be normalized.
Can’t believe people still treat this kind of messaging about AI as expert opinion and not as advertising in its purest form. I guess those are the same people who see something profoundly meaningful in machine generated strings.
Still works better than the uwa door card readers
Is there a good tool for scraping a multi-page website (e.g. documentation) into plain text to send to an LLM?
Recent related submissions:

World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41751568 (October 2024, 51 comments)

Can autoimmune diseases be cured? Scientists see hope at last
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39116387 (February 2024, 72 comments)
Using AirPods as ear protection for concerts was new to me!
To add to this I feel the need to point out that the writing skill demonstrated by the average mid-length Hacker News comment is above the level you’d need to pass grade 12 English in Ontario. It’s an extremely low bar!

Of course, if English is not your first language then you’re not required to take this course. You have an alternate path which may be a lot more work for an English-language-learner but it doesn’t demand the critical reading and writing skills you would need for grade 12 English.
I think that too. That it's surely meant to be something. But sometimes I think what does "meaning" even mean? Does universe really have any "meaning", the term that humans invented and that even they are unsure of? Then, I think it's a big randomness, a random accident, a big joke, just happening with nothing to make sense of.
US Election prediction markets diverge from poll-based models
If you are optimizing for finding geniuses like R, you may be right. Many probably fall through the cracks of the educational system. But I don't think this is what we are or should be optimizing for. The vast majority of people would end up unemployable if they weren't "forced" to study things they don't enjoy because some skills are just more employable than others. You're lucky if you enjoy engineering/science, but not so lucky if you only care about art literature.
The Cosmic Deep State went to great lengths to make all of this very.... big.
does anyone else just get "OK" displayed when clicking thru?
Amoung the people who are interested in science? Yes. But to the general public? No.

I don't think a non STEM guy would know Ramanujan or C V Raman.
The mosaic contains 260 observations made between 25 March and 8 April 2024. In just two weeks, Euclid covered 132 square degrees of the Southern Sky in pristine detail, more than 500 times the area of the full Moon.

This mosaic accounts for 1% of the wide survey that Euclid will capture over six years. During this survey, the telescope observes the shapes, distances and motions of billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years. By doing this, it will create the largest cosmic 3D map ever made.

So my question is, what comes after Euclid?

Will the next one capture better details further out (if further is possible)?

Kind of like James Webb compared to Hubble.
Wondering is the what.
opinions on the suggested fail2ban and ufw?
I like to look at the backgrounds of the people who win the Nobel prize. Everyone is interdisciplinary.

For college and life in general, I think main skill needed is emotional regulation. Everything else flows from that.
For “everything is an expression” https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions may be of interest, though discussion seems to have paused.
Taking a look at the index, a couple of issues which would make it not in my interest:

1- very heavy on process management. Not against studying it, but 70% is a lot. Also it isn't a very objective area of knowledge, there's hundreds of ways to skin the pig, which probably explains why it takes so much space.

2- a whole chapter about architecture, which isn't a very well regarded as an independent branch of computer science/systems engineering knowledge.

3- at last, in the technical section, databases shares a section along with fundamentals like processes and operating systems?

All in all it looks like a dictionary/checkbox built by a comittee rather than a consistent perspective on software.

And as a textbook it's got problems as well as mentioned, it has a doubtful taxonomy and too heavy on process engineering.

Tl;dr: I'm getting Orange Eating 101 vibes https://youtu.be/pR6z-gm5_cY?t=38&si=F7knCRNcFET7nki7

Anyways, my 2 cents, won't be reading it.
(2021)

Some previous discussion on original url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715268

And this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782849
> there no large artificial structures or billboards anywhere we can see.

I half suspect the aliens who can construct structures large enough to see from lightyears away are by far most likely to be building Dyson Spheres around stars which make them significantly less likely to be seen rather than something we'd notice.
This is just not the case.

The US has lots of infrastructure that needs repair or replacement, but there are very few areas that do not have clean water, or reliable electricity (Sans extreme weather which causes disruptions in every country), and roads and bridges are all safe to drive on (when was the last time you read about a bridge that collapsed from lack of maintenance?)

The US has its issues, but it does actually have a huge amount of superb, world class infrastructure.
You're assuming it's luck. But maybe we're actually good at identifying boundary-pushing geniuses? There are huge, huge incentives for being good at that.
Point the camera at the door, use the camera to detect if the door is open.
10,000 people is as many people as some entire towns, I don't think society would hold together very long if it were true.

100,000 supposes that there are... hmm... about eighty thousand non-evil people in the world, and (odds are) exactly none of them are Marshallese and about 2 are Samoan, to give a sense of how silly this is.
Scope change is really not a foreign concept in the field of software engineering, including politically driven
Dupe (147 points, 16 days ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41751568
Wow what a hit piece from Wired. And not even a month after their article "Seriously, Use Encrypted Messaging".

What the hell happened? Do they hate someone at SimpleX? Or hate Jack Dorsey? This is not journalism...
Yes, lots of intrusive emotions. The regular voices did not come until after a press gang became involved. Arizona was building a hooligan army.

Before that, a constant confusing gauntlet of dars, odd happenstance, and games.

Thought control has become completely a black art. People will commit sex crimes as sacrifice, so their ilk know they can be trusted. It is everywhere.
NIST does a lot of really neat work outside of crypto standards. Judah Levine and all the other
metrology folks are awesome. It's unfortunate that they get grouped together by comments like this.
Allegro – New Open Source Text to Video Generator from Rhymes AI
> Signs of brain inflammation were present up to 18 months after first contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Is anyone still recovering from COVID after 3+ years? If it's not permanent is it still to be considered a brain "injury"?
Folks sometimes think that unions operate by threat of work stoppage and they dictate all terms to the company’s chagrin. However, people who have been at those tables realize that unions operate by compromise. If you unionize with the hope that this will get you 100% WFH, don’t be surprised if you end up with hybrid and your union is telling you it’s a win. And the next time your contract is renewed your union might be trading WFH days for a greater employer paid portion of your medical insurance when it skyrockets.

I am not saying don’t unionize to get WFH, but realize all you are doing is giving them one more item as currency for the next time contract negotiations come around.
Voult juh äsk zät in China, tu?
I wrote a scraper to create vCard contacts from Facebook a few years ago when I still used Facebook.

https://github.com/txtsd/fb2vcard
Except for Apple stuff itself. Cancelling an Apple Arcade trial for example immediately cancels the trial right then and there.

Rules for thee but not for me?
Well kinda in my second point but yes correct. I mentioned as I kept assuming you couldn't use these as such yet, but have been using happily for months now after I realized the functionality was all there.
This is the script that "debloats":
https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts/b...

It's not very complex.
> If it's not permanent is it still to be considered a brain "injury"?

I'm not sure I understand the assumptions behind this question. If I sprain my ankle, that is an ankle "injury," even though it is not permanent. What am I missing?
To Know or to Do: Timing and Awareness-Intent-Creativeness (AIC)