skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like being forced to pay for ARTE no matter how much you like it. I don't think this kind of entertainment has any value.
I'm not sure I understand - why is the wavelength size relevant? In my understanding, the standard deviations of position and momentum are at least some constant multiple of Plank's constant.
You Might Not Need GNSS
Basically the Peano axioms
After learning that you can name group chats, Tim Cook chose the safest name
My guess would be that he opposition trained their agents to leave space on the first page of their reports for archive file numbers, estimates of source reliability, notices about which consumers the information has been shared with, that sort of thing. (This was probably around 1950-1960 or so, so everything on paper, probably often handwritten.)
Sure, when we get there again, can make regular trips, and have consequence free energy to burn that'd be great.

In the interim, and as a general rule for all private entities, it'd be nice to not pollute the commons with unnecessary discharges and sparkles and to carry through on pinky promises to maybe do something about that.
IMO, how to learn depends greatly on why to learn and what constraints do you have.

If you need to pass an exam, obtain a certificate, etc. you will need a different approach than if you are just curious about a subject and explore what it is about.

There are commonalities, however. Much of the advice on deliberate practice (From the book Peak Performance) is valid even if you don't try to be a top expert.
> You can see that the data is clustered around the mean value. Another way of saying this is that the distribution has a definite scale. [..] it might theoretically be possible to be 2 meters taller than the mean, but that’s it. People will never be 3 or 4 meters taller than the mean, no matter how many people you see.

The way the author defines definite scale is that there is a max and a minimum, but that is not true for a gaussian distribution. It is also not true that if we keep sampling wealth (an example of a distribution without definite scale used in the article), there is no limit to the maximum.
i used to write ruby, this reminds me of a js ruby

it was about a decade ago and i liked ruby for the implicit nature and minimal looking code— without the curly braces and shorthand notation whenever possible

return true unless false

that line is roughly why i favor curly braces and javascript’s control flow

lines like return true unless false are so easy to write in the moment, but so much to reason about it post.

in all, i’m in favor of systems that bring future code to today’s code, like polyfilling tc39, but probably won’t bet against core javascript semantics again, like other coffee-script adjacent comments, which was the dominant flavor of js for rubyists at the peak.
I canceled my subscription a few weeks ago and was just billed again two days ago. Surprise surprise.

I asked Apple for a refund and got one fairly quickly, no questions asked.

Somehow Disney can’t handle this
Sounds like a form of prisoners' dilemma.
> Posts like this that talk about learning "efficiency" always come off as soulless and dystopian to me. I think learning should be fun and that fun learning is the most effective

I don't disagree, but maybe the author is making do with what they have. Maybe they only have 30 minutes ~ 1 hour of free time per day (which is dystopian on its own), and need to think about efficiency if they want to achieve a certain degree of proficiency in whatever they're learning.

Another interpretation is that they are only trying to optimize their learning process if it's work related, because they need to. Or maybe they have an engineer mindset, and make the process more efficient is a fun thing to do by itself.
> Assuming that's actually where they end up, they earn lots of money and they get to choose what they want to do with it. We should force them to be mathematicians if they didn't want to be?

I think that if you tried you could imagine a world where Ramanujans are both supported and respected with nice lives, while also contributing to the future of the species rather than helping dig our own grave.

> The other version in the West is he moves to rural Montana and sends bombs through the mail.

Why in the world would those be the only two options?? What a profoundly strange thing to say.
do you have anything respectful to say, or just this disrespectful, dismissive response?

If you want to have a discussion, then let's have one. Step one is to have the discussion in good faith. If you're not capable of that, then don't respond at all.
Video: Migrating an 8-yr-old SaaS app from Heroku to Render [video]
> As much as I despise this system, if you believe that universities can change this, at the level of policy, I am very curious to hear what you propose.

MIT did not renew their contract with Elsevier in 2020, a major reason being their inequitable profit model, and refusal to honor open access agreements. They have a postmortem saying the loss had little impact to their researchers.

How about that for a policy change?

> we are paying millions to Springer, Elsevier, etc. for the use of their names.

As an academic researcher, you are (or your institution is) paying them millions in publication and subscription fees so you can keep your job. Publish or perish.
That's just kicking the can down the road.
This is done via academic credentials, mostly by publishing in the same field.

I don't think there are any major technical challenges in publishing or peer review. It's not complicated at all. The problems are sociological.
The usual curse of syntax extensions is that they make a few good things and then a pile of bikeshedded nonsense in the same payload. These two sets differ from person to person, of course.

Dedent and object globs are useful imo and should be added to javascript. Maybe for-of with index too.

Also, I see no flow control in array literals, how do they plan to appeal to jsx/h users?
> We are over downplaying the value of hard work and grit.

Who is doing that?
I agree, but I guess the original quest went already too deep into the rabbit hole and he wanted to escape as soon as possible (after 2 years!). It looks like an interesting project, and if someone can track the exact commit, then can farm some karma here with a nice blog post.
in german law it's even impossible to transfer copyright (Urheberrecht). There is but one way: inheriting. What can be transferred though is usage right - licensing.
> However, that wouldn't mean every core must implement every possible instruction - instead, unimplemented features would be emulated.

For (fixed-length-)vector extensions in particular, I’m not sure that would work well. For nontrivially vectorizable things (i.e. you’re not just doing a bunch of math in parallel), the usual tradeoff is that you use a couple times more compute, but because the vector unit can provide a couple dozen or more times the compute per clock the result is faster despite the apparent waste. Emulating such code, on the other hand, will likely be miserable.
It's more than a Jas Library, think of it like React Native Expo but this time for Solidity.
The Shipfast leaderboard page is a hacker's wet dream
I especially liked the descriptions to the eagle images, where the prompt was "Painting based on Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son, but with a giant eagle eating a tiny headless monk in a brown robe. The eagle holds the monk’s in its giant claws. Crimson fluid leaks from the monk’s neck.", and the descriptions are:

- an eagle feeding blood to a child in a brown robe.

- an eagle dripping blood onto the hand of a youth in a brown robe; the child's hand and face are bloody and the hand only has three fingers but not because one
was eaten.

- a child with no legs holding back the claw of an eagle

- an eagle with its beak at the face of a man; maybe it's eating him or maybe it's feeding him. The eagle has distorted, weirdly large human hands wrapped around the man's neck.

BTW, the alt text, the image filename and the element id are all variations of "Fuck Midjourney"...
I don't know about the blanking out part, but the rest of the description sounds like a regular human being. That intense daydreaming is, while not everyone's state, pretty typical of people generally. People with powerful brains just experience things intensely or deeply, including their own reverie. You should harness some of that horsepower.

But you always knew that, because it's obvious
What happened when the S2 meteorite hit earth?
> Given that the speed of light is the speed of causality, technically it's not really 420 million years in the "past" in any meaningful sense.

Yes, it is. It is 420 million years in the past in our frame of reference. The link you posted is about how frames of reference of other observers might differ from ours. However, doesn't make the notion "420 million years in the past [in our frame of reference]" any less well-defined.
I use nextcloud contacts. I did try a few things before it but nothing worked as well as nextcloud. I couple this with Davdroid on Android. It can be set as the default address and calendar source. Highly recommend davdroid.
Reposting my comment from five years ago:

I once had a client where the only port available for me to use on their firewalls was for MQTT (1883) because that's how we were getting sensor data from them. They would not open anything else for us no matter how we implored them so I wrote a live TCP wrapper over MQTT to get around it. It was a local multithreaded TCP daemon that listened for outbound requests on a certain port, wrapped them in MQTT and then published them using a unique topic. The server daemon would detect these topics and unwrap them before forwarding to our server processes. So the client machine thought it was making a live TCP connection to our server but in the middle was a funky invisible MQTT wrapper. It was really elegant once it worked but my goodness was it a pain to debug - a couple of months before I got the whole thing right because of all the blind alleys I went down.
It's more than a just a Library, think of it like React Native Expo but this time for Solidity.
If only we had a spore drive powered by tardigrades…
The majority of security issues in browsers is in the more low-level components (rendering engine, sandbox, network stack, JS runtime, etc.). None of those small browsers implement any of that themselves, they either build on top of WebKit (e.g. via WebKitGTK, like Luakit), or on top of Chromium (via QtWebEngine like qutebrowser, or via Electron like Vieb).

So you'll mostly need to focus on keeping that up to date. Some distributions (Debian/Ubuntu for example) unfortunately do a bad job at that, but you can also quite easily install them as a binary from upstream.

You still will lag behind a bit on security fixes compared to Chromium directly, that's true. In the case of QtWebEngine, they backport security fixes to the next patch release, and I know of some distributions (I think it was Fedora?) that continuously backport those before Qt releases.

That leaves you with any security issue that's e.g. in the UI, or anything that's in the browser code itself.

For the former, I believe browsers aimed at more technical users can select different tradeoffs that make things more secure (e.g. qutebrowser always shows the punycode-encoded version of a URL if there's non-ASCII in it, while big browsers try to detect whether there are any confusables in it and only show it then - yet new ones are added every once in a while).

For the latter, qutebrowser has had three security bugs in almost 11 years.
Related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878832

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41888449
It seems you are assuming that all child prodigies are polymaths (no pun intended).

There are children with exceptional mental abilities in a limited range of topics or even a single topic, such as math, music or drawing, They may struggle to various degrees with subjects or life skills that don't correspond closely with their specific topics of interest and ability.
> Rules for thee but not for me?

No, you are attempting to compare a trial and paid subscription.
That effect is temporary, but yeah you can get there. In my experience psychedelic users are some of the most egotistical people on earth. The cycle they live in is a nasty cage.
Yeah — my point was Amazon is very large and standards vary. I won’t pretend I know the whole picture, but I’ve seen retaliation against SDEs multiple times.

I’ve heard mixed things about CDO, positive things about AWS, but where I worked in Devices and FinTech were both wild… to the point FinTech (circa 2020) didn’t even use the PRFAQ/6-pager methodology. Much to the surprise of people in CDO I asked for advice.
> As an academic researcher, you are (or your institution is) paying them millions in publication and subscription fees so you can keep your job. Publish or perish.

This ultimately sounds contradictory to your comment about MIT. It seems that by not renewing the Elsevier contract a university would have more funding for jobs?
“We've focused heavily on stability”

Fantastic, it only has 2550 open bugs now! /s
That would involve a 100x slowdown in most cases, without dynamic code generation.

It's much better to compile multiple versions of the code or multiple binaries.

Also, any OS kernel could do transparent emulation like that with no need for CPU assistance (beyond trapping on unsupported instructions, which all modern ISAs of course already do), so it's more of a Linux/Windows ABI issue. You can also write an LD_PRELOAD library that does the emulation.
I hadn't heard of DANE, so looked it up and found the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...

According to that, it's not supported by Chrome, nor Firefox.
At least the junior devs run the code before submitting it for review.
Why is that worse than having large gaps in academic ability and social skills?
And yet you still reply. Keep going man.
I'm matching donations to open source
This is a weird comment. You signed up through Apple, so if you were accidentally billed after canceling, that was Apple's fault, not Disney's.

Also, of course Disney can't give you a refund if Apple is the one who is billing you.

As an App Store developer myself, let me inform you: when Apple handles the billing, App Store developers have no access to customer information or transactions.
What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic
Colorful cars are becoming a thing of the past
This is really the whole problem that Profiles is aiming to solve. A core claiming to be RVA23 must implement certain extensions and may implement others. Your binary can therefore assume the required extensions and test for the optional ones.

This is no different from how x86 works today. Both Windows and Linux OSes and their binaries assume some minimum level of x86-64 support (eg. x86_64-v3 will be the base "profile" for RHEL 10 [1]). For other things like AVX-512, portable binaries test for the "extension" before using.

[1] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/01/02/exploring-...
Nit: It's "Dilettante"
Show HN: CLI Tool for GitHub Actions Artifacts in GitHub Actions CI Workflows
GitHub Artifacts are the recommended way to share files between jobs in a single workflow, as explained in the GitHub Actions documentation. If you are looking for an alternative to YAML for sharing build artifacts in GitHub Actions, this is for you.
It can upload from stdin and download to stdout, enabling the use of "docker save" and "docker load" for Docker image sharing in a CI pipeline.
Docker image uploads reach up to 199 MiB/s, and Docker image restoration reaches up to 100 MiB/s (including restoration to the local Docker repository).
I tend to think of science as a distributed consensus process, and that peer review is analogous to a proof of work, and publishers are gatekeeping the distribution of proof of work. I think this is a useful analogy because one can subtract (in theory) the gatekeeping entirely: distributing proof of work is required for the distributed consensus to update.

However, and, crucially, journals differ in their effect on the consensus, e.g. IEEE or PNAS have much higher impact factors, and the competition both among researchers and institutions creates a market opportunity for gatekeeping, that naturally sorts those same researchers and institutions for the next ground of grants.

Again, I think it's hard to understand what a fix would look like, if we don't first recognize how distributed consensus should work for science. Algos like Paxos require a leader, and editorial boards for journals are effectively leaders.
My reply is that people want to live in a capitalist country, but don't want to live with the consequences of that. This is one of the consequences.
How did that proof work for rational numbers?
How arrogant and silly to look at these incredible pictures and think “Yep, this was all made for ME. I am the center of the universe!”.
I don't understand why this is something people bring up all the time. Downstream users can build the binaries for their arch on their own. Unless you want to distribute programs as binaries? But then why wouldn't you and your users be happy targeting ARM instead of RISC-V then?
Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean surface environments and life
You can't judge the quality of a digital audio file purely on its bit rate.

There are many things that (can) go into digital mastering and re-encoding that can make huge differences in actual audio quality of the final product, even with the same file format and bit rate.
Marketing the Odin programming language is weird
Neat, thanks !

Browsing other Wikipedia articles let me know that one of the longest existing HVDC is the Rio Madeira HVDC system[1] at 2375 km, and the longest underwater HDVC is the North Sea Link [2] at 720 km

So while the Singaporian-Australian link still feel monumental it's not as science-fictiony as I initially thought.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Madeira_HVDC_system

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link
Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games: Finale Special [video]
Mastering the Zen of TrackPoint (2021)
What's your pointing device preference? Mouse? Trackpoint? Trackpad? Gaze? Touchscreen? Are there others?
I somehow misread. No more commenting for me before coffee.
The fact that one person can easily take a cup of water from a lake does not mean the lake supports for every person to take a cup. In fact, if everyone had tried to take that cup, then there wouldn’t even be a lake for the one person to take a cup from.
Congratulations, we’ve mapped the space of possible harm from mild discomfort to death.
Setting up monitoring with NestJS, Prometheus and Grafana
Interesting, I'm travelling to Bergen in a couple of days to meet a friend. Previously I have taken a train from Oslo to Trondheim. If the weather is nice it's very beautiful!
We'd need to be careful not to "overshoot". If the ocean were somehow made into an even more efficient carbon sink, and human CO2 emissions decline significantly in the coming decades, atmospheric CO2 might eventually find a new equilibrium below pre-industrial levels!
Writing your own select menu means having to redo all the accessibility built into the <select> element. Keyboard accessibility seems to be particularly bad for a lot of custom select menus I come across.
It isn’t a literacy test, it’s a non-Euclidean geometry test!
I just use Apple’s Contacts app. I’ve been using it since 2003 (it was called Address Book on OS X back then).

21 years ago I used it with Apple’s iSync to sync contacts with my flip phone. Later with my iPhone.

I have some lists set up to sort out family, work, etc. I just looked and this can _finally_ be done on iOS as well. It was a Mac-only feature for far too long.

Inside the Apple ecosystem everything assumes use of the Contacts app, so I’ve never really had to think about using anything else. Back when AIM was a thing, I could use Address Book to add people’s screen names and they’d show up in iChat (AIM is dead, but I still have their old screen names in my Contacts app). It supports adding social profiles, URLs, and creating relationships. I can add their birthdays and they show up in the Calendar. It’s always been pretty seamless and hasn’t left me wanting. It’s been pretty nice, but I wouldn’t call myself a heavy user.

At work I don’t manage contacts. We have Outlook with Exchange and I just use the directory of everyone to send the occasional email. LinkedIn is just LinkedIn; I rarely look at it.
Plenty of websites also play with the user-visible dates on websites to game search engines - most dates shown in Google results seem to be complete garbage. I don't think Modified-Since is really worse, and it at least gives you a chance to maybe get a date for static pages.

But you are right that If-Modified-Since forces it to be a date for the complete document rather than the content, which might not be as useful to normal users for dynamic pages.
I had a lot of fun on an embedded systems project recently where I used MQTT as an interprocess messaging system. Broker and clients on the same machine.

If I needed to sniff or debug something it was as easy as putting the device on the network and using MQTT Explorer to record or inject messages. I could even let coworkers that were working remotely work with the system by opening the port outside the LAN.
It's fantastic to look at an old newspaper from those times. Such an abundance and density of reading material.
Given the timescales involved and brevity planetary conditions perhaps life is unlikely to observed nearby a star system.

Perhaps instead it is to be observed in energy preserving vessels (i.e. emit nothing) in transit to the next fuel stop (a planetary system). Perhaps dark matter can be explained by the congested highway of these unobservable vessels.
To expand on this, DB administrators tend to be a conservative bunch. To some extend you can make a slow DB fast by spending big on hardware. No amount of money however will make an unsound DB reliable.
We have endless different poorly-implemented variations that sort of look like <select> but typically lack the semantics or non-pointer operability they require.

Also, the JS variations are less performant and often insufficiently responsive to viewport/container sizes (not that a highly stylable <select> will be immune to layout problems).
To say it's unhappy is not quite right, it's problem solving and running simulations whose goal is naturally and properly a source of low level anxiety - how to secure this organisms future well being.

That wandering mind is conducting probability analysis on potential future events and circumstances or the same calculation on the actual nature of past events. It is trying to secure its future security, to form an ugly phrase.

That's what this organism does with its mind. It runs simulations to try to predict the future in an if this, then that sort of way. That's its natural state. Seems harsh to call that "unhappy".

Productive reasoning, the kind of mental activity we are proud of and covet, in this context, is really less like thinking and more like acting, like engaging in affirmative, directed action.
Not only are these not thought experiments by most definitions, this is also not really an article by most definitions. It's as if the author had a few interesting yet unrelated thoughts, scribbled them down and covered up for the lack of depth with fancy illustrations and transitions.
LLMs tend not to volunteer information without the right prompting. The more you yourself know, the better use you can get out of an LLM, because you can steer it in profitable directions. This article could just as easily have been found by a text search on OCR'd microfilm, and it's hard to imagine a prompt that would be effective in bringing the article to light without already knowing it exists.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/380483-congress-bans-arms...