skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are likely several > earth-mass objects in our solar system that are as-yet uncatalogued, and almost certainly many hundreds of dwarf planet-mass objects too. Granted, they are further out, but their influence is almost undetectable even over millions of years. It's pretty unlikely that the presence of an earth-mass black hole for just a few years (since it would likely be moving many times solar escape trajectory) would have much in the way of a measurable impact.
Can Multimodal LLMs "See" Images? A Deep Dive with ASCII Art
Pleasantly surprised that this site’s still around. I remember seeing this back in college, and it was one of the catalysts that got me into building sites and this career in the first place.

(I’m 30 btw, so this site’s quite old by internet standards.)
But the width and signedness of a bitfield are defined at compile-time, while in this example they need to come from a format read at runtime.
These AIs can generate images that are quite different to anything found in the training set. This case seems more about overfitting.
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Whether it's the "right" level of oversight is another question entirely.
Blokada (blokada.org) is another good alternative.
Why don't you use regex for all editing in the single-cursor case as well then?
A serious issue with pond evaporation is that it wastes all the waster. The DLE approach evaporates 98% less water. It's increasingly being used even in places like Chile where evaporation can be used.
We could definitely use this talent on the BSD's
People are missing the point that it is creative and gets the job done, conversation pieces can go a long way.
His personal feelings aside, see this comment [0] for the possible legal impetus.

If this is in-fact applicable to Linux kernel dev, then this may occur in other projects as well.

> In that case that effectively makes Linux a NATO-adjacent project

I would argue that being forced to include some specific maintainer would make that possibly more true than being forced to exclude. Hmm, does that make sense to anyone else?

Additionally, if I understand the situation, the users who are being discussed can still contribute, just not as official maintainers?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932912
I am back to being a child asking a million questions about everything. It’s so much more rewarding to be curious when you get straightforward answers instead of SEO spam. I love that I can ask follow-up questions.

It also saves me a lot of docs and StackOverflow lookups. I started asking about things I know the answer to in case I missed a library feature or a more elegant approach.
It doesn’t say “all”, it also doesn’t detect a someone in the closet, unless they’re transmitting.
In all fairness there probably aren't any images of Gordon Ramsey riding an Ostrich on the moon in its training set either but it manages that.

I tried this prompt several times in Ideogram, both as realistic and also design-based images and it couldn't do it at all.

I haven't yet tried it with a more elaborate prompt but it's interesting to me that it can do the most incredible and amazing things but can't do something that sounds simple.
This is pleasingly insane, congratulations! Is there a program to test the fairness of a given dice or coin? Is that a program that's even feasible to write?
They weren't. It was just another Russiagate-like hoax which was spread around in turn by much more competent Western propaganda outlets.
Only if it’s transmitting, this detects rf. It can’t detect ears.
That seems to be recorded by tapping into the telephone wire, I meant from RFI.
Sanctions have effectively improved the situation for Russia and the World outside the G7, so I reckon this new round of sanction elevators is going to be a huge detriment to the West and frankly Russia will be better off realising that the West is self-destructing
Interestingly, the concrete channel looks similar to those in Central Asia. (The latter have holes in them to let water seep into the ground.) Street view: https://maps.app.goo.gl/pvrsiYMCfeADo8NL6
This is not the way to have a conversation on HN.
There is a good talk about this computer here https://youtu.be/K2chYqir53U, in the vein of similar talks about the commodore 64 and gameboy, that goes very in depth on the inner workings of the galaksija
So a toroidal illustration of our trip around the sun with the “amount of sunlight” graph along it … someplace.

Sounds neat!
> Maybe you can say that g(x) = 3n, in which case any f(x) that is O(3n) is really just O(n)...

In practice 3x operations can make a world of difference.

3x SQL queries, 3x microservice calls, missing batching opportunities, etc.

Sorry but this kind of theoretical reasoning wouldn't move a needle if I'm reviewing your PR.
Ah my pet peeve reaching the front page again…

The “coloring problem” has nothing to do with async at all, it's just about making effects explicit or implicit in the code.

In Go or Rust, returning an error is also a “color” that spreads out to the top of the call stack. Same for checked exception in Java. Unchecked exceptions are like blocking functions, it's invisible so you don't have to manually annotate your functions but as a result any function can now fail without the programmer knowing it.

JavaScript having async/await but unchecked exception may sound bit paradoxical in that regard, but every language has a combinations of both explicit and implicit effects: Rust has both async/await and explicit errors, but it also has panics (implicit errors) and implicit allocation for instance.

I personally live explicit effects, but at the same time when you have too many of them (for example I'd like to have effects like “pure”, “allocating” and “panics”) they start to cause combinatorial explosion of cases in libraries accepting closures as parameter.

Algebraic effects supposedly solve this particular problem but I'm not sure the additional conceptual learning effort is sustainable for a mainstream language, so in the meantime I think every language must keep its amount of explicit effects under a certain threshold.
Yes. I said enemy, not in open war. Borders are closed. Russians are engaging in sabotage and misinformation operations. They are also ideological enemies of any individual who wants to live free.

The perfect counterarguments from Russian friends:

1. Authoritarian regimens need security guarantees or their attacks against smaller countries are the fault of the West

2. Western liberal democracies are not perfect, this means that they are just as bad as Russians.
There's no need to dream about it, it already exists: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/

I used to use it when I wasn't on grapheneOS and needed to block internet access.
To be fair, I’ve never seen socialized healthcare conflated with communism. Most people seem to understand the difference.
When? I graduated in 1977.
Given that you have USB-C /Thunderbolt, you could buy a dock and a notebook stand.

I personally don't like external Docks at all, i prefer displays with integrated usb-c pd docks.
The way they communicate doesn't really make it clear whether they refuse to work with sanctioned companies, with all residents of the sanctioned countries or with all nationals of the sanctioned countries wherever they reside. For some individuals it can indeed be tracked that their employer may be sanctioned, but IMO community should not be left guessing
At 5:44, the vid shows a webcam facing up to photograph the bottom of the coin/die through the shaker window. I guess there's some CV to read the item.
Colonial American homes are not so short ceilinged that the average person, even today, needs to watch their heads. Ducking in doorways isn't a big deal.

Yes, standards for comfort were different back then but you don't see things get built that are actively hard to use unless there is some very serious thing you get from the tradeoff (like the deck heights in ships) because things need to be used to produce results. In a world where stuff is expensive and labor is cheap things get build such that the ability to apply labor to them is not a bottleneck. For example a work station that can be effectively operated by larger people tends to permit smaller people to work really fast without conflicting as much if the situation demands it. Some tool that operates by human muscle power and is just the right balance of mechanical advantage vs speed for the smallest man in normal conditions can be worked by a woman or child in ideal circumstances or a normal may may be able to work it for extended hours under normal conditions. Whether the tradeoffs make sense depends on the application.
It just feels like you have taken a stance that this is useless and anything anyone says or does is not going to dissuade you from it. There are several people who are pointing out up and down this thread several different projects to you built in short times, but you keep saying nothing is impressive to you. To be very honest, this behavior is irritating.
The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug
There's RethinkDNS [1](not affiliated to them, just like their software). Sometimes it gets killed on my phone, but otherwise it's a great replacement, adds some much-needed features like proxies and wireguard VPNs on top of a DNS and app level control.

[1] - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/
Another great advantage is that autocratic governments will not allow anything to be published that wouldn't conform to the party agenda.

For example, after Xi decided to use traditional Chinese medicine as a propaganda tool, a lot of articles have been published showing the supposed effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine.

Although it makes sense for an autocratic government to use science like this, eventually it will poison the pool of 'knowledge', and all their science is basically useless.
This aligns with my experience using image generators —- I can get them to generate really weird unique combinations of things (ie “an octopus dancing with a cat”) but when asking for a relatively common image with 1-2 unique aspects they seem to just generate the common image.

The folks who were able to get it by having ChatGPT generate a really detailed prompt is kind of interesting. When I’ve tried writing my own detailed prompts, it seems like the limit on detail is relatively low before it starts going completely off the rails.
what if you accept post for legit reasons?
Slightly but this is not a real Problem AS long AS they were not used too heavy under too high temps.
In Flanders Fields
"After 16 years of development, Postbox Inc. is winding down its operations" is the link title they use on the eM Client website, linking to the "acquisition" announcement on the Postbox website.

Not the exact same title as on the announcement on the Postbox website, but far more accurate - and relatable. Maybe they used different drafts of the announcement text?

I think the difference in wording is telling. You would expect "After 16 years of development, Postbox Inc. is winding down its operations" on the Postbox Blog and "Postbox has been acquired by eM Client" on the eM Client website. But it’s vice versa.
SymGen: Towards verifiable text generation with symbolic references
I will not renew my family plan due to this and will try to use a fork of the last available FOSS version.

This was your moat. You just set yourselves up to be forked away.
Which aligns with this piece in the story.

Sticking a webcam shot through an AI filter is a pretty low bar. What makes it art that anyone other than the creator would care about is the real-time rendering. Thats the art that people are interested in discussing.

People do all sorts of walks as art. Whether thats Drag or a parade where the art is to make the walk interesting, or walking through the desert, laying on a bed of nails where the "walk" (or laying down) isn't necessarily interesting but the passion is.

Pressing the Bing button is unlikely to evoke any passion except from Bing product management.
Recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926472
If I understand correctly, most land lots are in local coordinate systems and use ground-based anchors as reference, not geographical coordinates (sky, GPS). When there's a slip, the only difficulty is to re-mark the zigzag.

That works very well for Australia that moves northwards at 10 cm per year, IIRC.
Show HN: Open-Source CLI Copilot Built on Zsh-Autosuggestions
I mean not in my contacts.
Is it? Do Fedora or Ubuntu provide an API like that?
I'm especially interested in hearing people's experiences from Saudi Arabia
If that is truly the case: either people in Russia are unable to construct logical chains and understand why certain things are happening (and in that case one should seriously question their ability to contribute meaningful code). OR, they do understand the reasons but choose to support their leader's actions (in which case them having privileges in the project is a major security risk). Which one is it?
Bookcase: Turn any phone into an e-reader
We went to Hot Springs Arkansas once and were upstairs in a historical gymnasium and it was hilarious how low everything was. Punching bags and rings and stuff that were about nose high and we were looking over the top of all of it. They said it was because everyone was so short back then.

We take for granted all the advances in better nutrition and other things we just experienced in the 20th century. An unprecedented era in human history we don’t thank our lucky stars to have been born in enough.

Some good discussions with references here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1ao9uhc/...
"Disability at Cambridge has increased more than fivefold, and is now declared by some 6,000 students (roughly one in four)"

That really surprised me. At my university a long time ago they accommodated disabled people mentally and physically very well but as the exceptions. The numbers were much lower than today. Amongst students I do remember conversations that one should game the system and claim one had dyslexia to get extra time during an exam (no one actually did it though).

Not saying that today's students are gaming the system. It appears that the system has changed the nature of the game. There are no exceptions to be accommodated. Many would see this as a good thing in some areas.
Hmmm not sure how to digest that comment. I absolutely see a lot more volume of "patio" homes with the total house ~800-1k sqft. Home builders are a bit of a laggard to demand but they are adapting to the new environment and smaller homes are in pretty significant volumes. This is happening in multiple states/markets. They very bare bones homes, sometimes a small backyard, sometimes just a patio. But they are incredibly cheap, you will get a 1,100 sqft 3bdr home for ~$200-220k. Thats a DFW price.

So I cannot take your story as face value.
Yeah, I don't disagree with your assessment. It could have been handed both more bluntly and yet with just a little more grace than what we are seeing.
So at most 5 euros per day you say? maybe only if you eat lentils or something idk.

2 eggs = .8 euro

250ml milk = .8 euro

300g chicken breast = 2 euro

1 large tomato = .8 euro

150g cheap cold cuts = 1 euro

I'm already at 5.4 euro and that's not even 2000 calories, add butter, olive oil, other vegetables, bread and you easily reach 8-9 euro per day and I bet Romania is at least 20% cheaper than most EU countries

So please englighten us, give me a menu that's 2k calories, has some animal protein in it and costs less than 5 euros
And if China hacks CloudFlare? I guess we're all fucked.
Well it's a device for people sitting at home alone. So yes I agree. But not just because of bubble spending.

Now that we are all more social again, the point of a device that shuts you out of the world is a bit... less useful.
> Children in particular were way smaller back then

I noticed this in the records of the Royal Navy in the 19th century - after a few years of the Navy feeding them, a lot of those kids had just shot up.
I know a company that uses bitwarden due to mindshare for openness reasons.

Using BW privately is a bit annoying, but fine. Using it in an enterprise setting is a huge pain in the ass.
yes, but german law also protects the sanctity of my home, and the measures to allow surveillance need to be in proportion to how they affect the sanctity of the homes of the general population. the legal possibility to home surveillance does not imply that everyone has to keep their doors unlocked (unencrypted communication) nor does it require for the government to have a key to everyones door (backdoor to encrypted communication) and the government has to accept that in some homes surveillance is physically not possible without alerting the subject (nor is it even legal in all cases).

if these principles hold true then the general population must be allowed to use unbreakable encryption for their communication, just as i am able to build my home in such a way that hidden surveillance is not possible.
I think there is a large pool of near minimum-wage white collar workers who wouldn't care about that difference when it comes to executing on their jobs. These are the folks who are already using VBScript, AutoHotKey, Excel wizardry, etc. to automate large parts of their job regardless of any risks and will continue to use these new tools for similar purposes.
> the compiler

I love when people say this as if there's exactly one compiler with a fixed implementation for whatever opt pass.
Babel Tower is falling down, falling down, Babel Tower is falling down.
FWIW, anyone reading on a monochrome e-ink device will have similar issues.

Those are becoming somewhat more prevalent these days.
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GDPR is not enforceable outside the EU.
You're looking at income quantiles, not wealth quantiles. It's misleading. Rich people don't earn salary.

A startup CEO probably gets a salary of like $250k, not much different from a senior SWE. However, the CEO has stock options worth hundreds of millions.

And those are ISOs, which are subject to favorable tax treatment...

...if you could exercise them for pennies, which is exactly what the CEO gets to do, because he gets the options before they ramp the valuation.

Rich people do not make high incomes. Incomes are taxed. Rich people keep their money.
iOS 18.2 lets third-party web browsers add web apps with custom engine in the EU
Would anthropometric modeling result in a better analysis than letting someone proficient in swordplay of the right size (i.e., tiny) handle the object and expound on the issues and feel of the weapon? The model would have to reason like a (skilled) swordsperson to be able to be of use beyond establishing the physical limits.

“Oh no, they could never have held them like that, because [jargon]. See? [demonstrate]”
I meant this proper as in significant marketshare.
The ban wasn't a ban on home computers but rather a ban on foreign imports.

One could argue that it spawned the creativity of domestic creatives who built the home computer anyway with the available resources.

I'm not personally favouring protectionism of this sort but we have to be fair to the thing we're criticizing and there is plenty to say about the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia without having to resort to claims that they wanted to ban home computers for the sake of it
Understand, sure. Care, no. All nations and ethnicities have tons of grievances in their closet. That is how you get centuries of warfare and jingoism. China had a good thing going, they decided to change for this aggressive path.
They presented a working version of the new Lions OS, for embedded and IoT systems, based on sel4. See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ka_8kHTj4

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPlocTZEp0
I've never lived in St. George. But I think it's different from SLC... but not that different. SLC is bigger, less LDS, but still heavily culturally influenced by them. Also, it's a lot colder. That can affect you, especially in the winter months. (Also, it sits in this valley, and the air pollution builds up there.)

I don't know where else would be physically close that would be better, though. Las Vegas is its own bundle of cultural pathologies. Grand Junction? Barstow/Victorville/San Bernardino?

Wherever you go, you're going to need to make some contacts and turn them into friends. Well, you have the starting point - contacts - in St. George. I would carefully think through who you know, even as acquaintances, there in St. George, and think honestly about how hard it would be to replace them, and how much more adrift you'd be without them.
Stat. Patterns in the Eqns of Physics and the Emergence of a Meta-Law of Nature
Abstract:

Physics, as a fundamental science, aims to understand the laws of Nature and describe them in mathematical equations. While the physical reality manifests itself in a wide range of phenomena with varying levels of complexity, the equations that describe them display certain statistical regularities and patterns, which we begin to explore here. By drawing inspiration from linguistics, where Zipf's law states that the frequency of any word in a large corpus of text is roughly inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table, we investigate whether similar patterns for the distribution of operators emerge in the equations of physics. We analyse three corpora of formulae and find, using sophisticated implicit-likelihood methods, that the frequency of operators as a function of their rank in the frequency table is best described by an exponential law with a stable exponent, in contrast with Zipf's inverse power-law. Understanding the underlying reasons behind this statistical pattern may shed light on Nature's modus operandi or reveal recurrent patterns in physicists' attempts to formalise the laws of Nature. It may also provide crucial input for symbolic regression, potentially augmenting language models to generate symbolic models for physical phenomena. By pioneering the study of statistical regularities in the equations of physics, our results open the door for a meta-law of Nature, a (probabilistic) law that all physical laws obey.

(my emphasis)
Work from Home and Productivity: Evidence from Personnel and Analytics Data
A radio will beat starlink on ping times. Even a simple ham bouncing a off the ionosphere can win out over an orbiting satellite, at least for the very small amounts of data needed for a trade order. The difficulty in such schemes is reliability, which can be hit-or-miss depending on a hundred factors.
For those who haven't heard of Threes, I highly recommend giving it a try. It's the original game that 1024, 2048 etc were cloned from (and I think it's still the best by far). Wikipedia has a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threes#Legacy