skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The barrier to entry has always been the winning factor for lot of rapid growth businesses. In previous era, it was ability to afford massive cloud infra and army of expensive SWE to build global scale distributed systems. AirBnB, Uber, Lyft, Stripe, Paypal, Google, Netflix and all the “internet” tech had many competitors but only these could afford the cloud scale growth and overtake the market.

In LLM era, it is the compute cost of the hardware that is differentiating the barrier to entry for winners and anything that do not have massive budget for both training and marketing are never heard of unless they are in self-hype narrow field(Cursor).

It is also sad that, AI is hyped to progress environmental and medical research and there were some impressive feats, but all the hype and money is literally going to chatbot shops, hence marketing budget is also another barrier to entry.
C++ was, for a long time, syntactic sugar on top of C
AI art: The end of creativity or the start of a new movement?
The site may be wrong and thanks for the inputs. However you can compare it to a French plan of 14€ per month for 140GB (and then throttled) by example and there are maybe cheaper prices per gb.
In many parts of the world voter registration is a perfectly normal practice and no one challenges it. The biggest reason for having it is that it disallows voting multiple times.

What in your opinion makes the voter registration disenfranchising for voters?
Not only the it seems to be AI generated, it seems these guys don't even know about best practices or even what works. e.g. It contains archaic comparison of optimizers and its pros and cons, but for LLMs no optimizer other than Adam and new ones like Lion works.
Have you been checked for ADHD? I think this is a common problem for people who has ADHD, I got diagnosed in college, that's when I realized normal people don't have that much thoughts usually.
I think fuzzfactor was sarcastic. But yes.
Your game would go from playable on a smartphone to requiring an rtx 4090 and 64gb of RAM (ok, slight exaggeration). But it would certainly look amazing.
I wholeheartedly agree with your last paragraph. The consequences of being banned/blocked by your IDP and the inability to contact customer service are both severe. Also, it seems like you have to choose wisely as it’s not clear that most websites support you changing your IDP.
> Really? I wouldn't think the sun is nearly massive enough to do what would be required here.

You "just" need to get far enough away (~600AU). Interferometry is extremely difficult to pull this off with and it’s further complicated by the host star being so much brighter than the exoplanet.

See this recent Fraser Cain interview with Dr. Slava Turyshev:

https://www.youtube.com/live/lqzJewjZUkk?si=WWNdR1PESYzD0d4X
Were you also there when GC failure was actually underlying C semantics from Objective-C, producing random crashes, especially with mixed code bases, instead of the marketing material "why RC?"?

There is a reason why RC is considered the baby algorithm from automatic memory management algorithms.

Anything that people point out as optimizations, and profiling tools, also exist for the better algorithms.

Most languages with automatic memory management support, also offer primitives to deterministic call sites, if one so desires.

Finally it isn't as if Apple is a genius that managed to revolutionized memory management algorithms, doing in Cocoa what Microsoft was already doing with COM, was the natural way out given Objective-C' GC unsound implementation.

Swift's requirement to stay compatible with Objective-C memory management, naturally required the same approach, the alternative being something like CCW/RCW COM interop from .NET, which understandably they didn't want to go down to, given previous history.
I am skeptical. To figure out the blood type of someone, wouldn’t they need to bite anyway? There are more compelling studies showing effects of CO2 and smells.
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-structs
__init__.py isn't exactly optional. The article sort of covers it, but if you don't include it, you are creating a namespace package, which is not the same as a regular package.

As an example, see

https://pypi.org/project/mir.msmtpq/

https://pypi.org/project/mir.sitemap/

These use the `mir` namespace package to group separate packages. It's quite helpful as Python does not otherwise provide namespaces for the import namespace like Java or Go do.

But likewise, you don't want to do that for regular packages as you're opening yourself up to getting clobbered by a similarly named package.

It's somewhat comparable to PHONY in Makefiles. You could omit them. But you really shouldn't.
The Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide with Public Health
I think this post is your first step, so kudos to this!, I think philosophy books help, you can read some basic philosophy, pause and write down what you think, instead of internal voice, you can make texts as a bridge between your thoughts and yourself.
Design of the aluminum beverage can

https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw

For everyone else, thanks for sharing! Normally i think sharing videos is bad mojo--the Internet is so personalized that favorites are difficult to share. But I really enjoyed most of what has been shared so far!
I like to joke that the first 10-trillion dollar company will be the company that invents how to effectively deal with mosquitos.

I would happily pay $100/month for life to get rid of the issue. I live in a place with moderate mosquito activity, but it bothers me A LOT. And I lost countless nights sleep over trying to kill a mosquito in my bedroom.
NASA own estimation is that is only funding about 50%. They mentioned that SpaceX is matching their contribution.

But of course this ignores that before the contract, SpaceX had already been working on this for many years. Raptor development began in 2014ish.

I would estimate SpaceX pays more then 50%. By reports they are currently investing like 1.5 billion $ a year. And the government contract can't finance half of that.

Also, of course in all of NASA history, this is the first time that anybody ever expected to invest themselves. The idea that a company would spend so much to build a moon lander for NASA is not something that was even an option a few years ago.

So why should tax payers be angry even if NASA paid 100%. Unless of course people are just angry that the space program exists at all.
I don’t know if it is like this in many countries but in Denmark we have a public registry of addresses, and I’d assume Google (and others) simply pull from that. There are ways to avoid being on the public list but most people aren’t doing that, and if your parents didn’t do it for you then you’ll have been in the registry at one point.

I guess it won’t tell big tech who your friends are. At least until you talk with them regularly through online channels.
> because they will use them as hearing aids.

But we're saying most people don't require hearing aids and thus will never reach mass market and thus the stigma won't disappear.
I was this person, also from India. I am interested in most topics under the sun, but was never interested in being an excellent student, apart from math where I was ranked in top 30 in my national olympiads.

I got mediocre marks in high school but thankfully did well in JEE. Now I have a decent PhD in math with an extremely mediocre school record.
My guess, again based on the lack of cosmic signals we have detected, is that intelligent life is rare enough - at this age of the universe, at least - that we have no company yet in the Milky Way. That leaves a lot of room though - there might already be simpler forms of life.

But I won't go to the mat arguing my impression; we only have evidence from one planet to go by, so any view here lacks empirical evidence.
You’d need a 90km aperture to get a one pixel image of an Earth-sized exoplanet at 100ly.
They are "optional" because support was added for implicit namespace packages, but those have different semantics (particularly, placing another thing that resolves as a namespace package with the same name elsewhere on sys.path adds to the same package; as a result, the import machinery can't stop scanning sys.path when it finds a namespace package, it has to continue scanninng to see if there are more parts to add or if there is a standard package that takes precedence, so leaving off __init__.py for what is intended as a standard package, as well as opening up potentially incorrect behavior, adds a startup cost.)
An alternative way to do something in a code base, for no other reason than style, is a recipe for technical debt. It builds up a larger cognitive load on the developers navigating and working the code base and induces more chances of bugs via half-refactors, or half-considerations.

As for the superset comment, I meant that if you introduce a completely different language, you probably have a valid reason; e.g. it does something different. Adding to an existing language with a superset without any need for it is also dangerous. It's not like it's a DSL at a higher level helping people get repetitive or scriptable things done faster. It's only an alternative, leading people down rabbit hole and second guessing with a lot more to remember.
Because I have better use of my time than waiting for 2 minute compile times on every little change. And believe it or not - I actually like JS with object destructuring, Promises and async/await.
True. But CG-NAT is mostly fine for disempowered consumers.
The military isn't exactly a place for great minds to flourish.

"The department is considering asking chief technology officers and other senior tech professionals to take up high-ranking positions in the reserves."

This is some sort of consolidation of power.
total lack of intellectual and scientific integrity. maybe US asset?
Any other mode? You can't preserve the original length if you're authenticating anyways.
Just one anecdote as a type 2 person: I cannot prove it scientifically yet, but I did notice that on bad diet days, I get bit more than otherwise.
I think your definition of "know" is unreasonably strict. Especially because we can write out pieces of algebra that are exactly pi.

I think it's reasonable to say we can't truly measure pi, though.

And you can neither know nor measure a random real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Light-Year_Diary

By Greg Egan, so highly recommended.
> Someone could write "rayon" for webworkers.

Not true. JavaScript’s threading model is entirely insufficient for something like Rayon. At best, you could get either something that only worked with shared byte arrays, or something that was vastly less efficient due to structured clone. At best, you have something far more manual and somewhat slower, or something a little more manual and much slower.

Rayon is a magnificent example of making something that is impossible in scripting languages easy. Of making something that you can only feebly imitate with some difficulty, trivial.
Esa has social media accounts, pretty sure some intern will see if you ping them, I don't imagine they get much traffic
I would mostly say that it's just slow and AES is a much more modern and faster (partly due to hardware acceleration built into modern chips) that is already built info Firefox to support TLS anyways. There are some known attacks against 3DES now, but nothing that completely breaks it yet. And, since this is just for local storage, primarily, it shouldn't be as vulnerable as using 3DES for TLS channel encryption.
In general, the stable build usually requires:

gnupg 2.4.3

libassuan 2.5.6

libgcrypt 1.10.3

libgpgerror 1.47

libksba 1.6.5

npth 1.6

pinentry 1.2.1

However, the Kyber algorithm was only committed recently in libgcrypt 1.11.0, and will not build on some platforms due to an libassuan 3.0.1 issue.

Did you have additional details on when a working packaged set of dependencies will be available for static .a builds that support Kyber?

Have a great day =3
Ask HN: How to avoid Windows Recall as a Linux user?
If one chats/mails with a person using Windows, despite using secure private protocols, every message will be stored by Microsoft’s Windows Recall. Either I'm missing something but this feature seems like the most grotesque breach in online privacy/security.

What are ways to avoid this except for using obfuscated text?
Ask HN: What value do fractional CTOs provide?
I don’t understand the value add of some random technical person you barely know, who doesn’t believe in your mission like a CTO should, for the vast majority of startups.

Seems like a great way to make unfocused progress that is more harmful than good. Also a way to shift blame of the startups misgivings onto an another person. Are there any successful startups that started with a fractional CTO?
My wording was poor. Apologies. I probably should've said, 'heavily subsidised' instead.
It's an additional step that must be completed well ahead of election day, making voting a two-step process. It shouldn't be necessary: you can determine on election day whether someone's already voted or not before they cast a vote.
With the AI progress, we will probably finally see a slowing down of the “js framework of the month” and other rapidly changing things.

To a bunch of very junior devs using LLMs to generate code and build something, speed is now main factor, it is irrelevant whether the new Airbnb prototype or even prod version was being generated in Svelte 3 as long as it works.

The fine tuning and fixing up happens later on “if needed” basis.

Similar apply for similar knowledge where AI is also being utilized in similar manner. A slightly outdated info is sufficient for the task.

Also, internet will continue ti have decent content as there will always be passionate people who want to build and share knowledge, then there is the need to advertise your knowledge(consultant/freelancer) who still need to generate content in decent quality to be discovered.

The maximum slop will be in sales/marketing/social media sphere where content quality is irrelevant and more clicks/engagement brings profit.

Anything else will be continuously get locked behind paywall, so either exclusive contracts with AI companies to supply training data and sell on open market with strong copyright or drm to general consumers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens

> you'd have to get really far back from the Sun to resolve the image, no?

Yah, a few hundred AU.

> you are beholden to the orbital mechanics of your viewing satellite as it plods along.

Yah, any mission like this -- interferometry or gravitational lensing -- is going to be super long and hit very few targets.

> Whereas, multi-site telescopes spread across the Earth have already been demonstrated as a feasible technology

Yah, at radio frequency while pinned to a common rock. The wavelength of visible light is hundreds of nanometers and we're talking across massive distances and significant gravity gradients and even relativistic corrections. The "big" space interferometers currently being considered are in the mid-infrared (e.g. longer wavelengths) across baselines of hundreds of meters.

All of these ideas are really hard.
> intentional anti-competitive practices

> moving as fast as they can and these sorts of workarounds are being forced through in the name of team velocity

It’s not an either/or. That’s the same thing. The second part is the anticompetitive practice.

Giving advantage to your own teams so they can be there first and uncontested is approximately as anticompetitive as it can get.
Also the Simpsons scene with the Smokey Bear statue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-q-3fPYw_Y

> "Only who can prevent forest fires?" [You] [Me]

> Bart selects "You".

> "You pressed 'You', referring to me. That is incorrect. The correct answer is 'You'!"
Foursquare is shutting down
Although it became harder in recent years to find recommendations for newer businesses, Foursquare has always been way more reliable for me than Google Maps reviews (where almost everything has at least 4 stars). Hopefully, they're just reintegrating everything into Swarm.
It is great that the author of the video helps to introduce the topic to the general audience. This is a vast and a fascinating subject with lots of material available for a further more systematic study.

It becomes more technical, if one is specifically interested in the methods used by SpaceX. But there are some overviews that describe the general idea. Here is one presentation by Behçet Açıkmese: https://nescacademy.nasa.gov/video/eda2b96bddf945629be2c9d2e...

Note that before joining SpaceX to lead their autonomous landing software development, Lars Blackmore worked at JPL, where together with Behçet Açıkmese they developed the autonomous precision landing algorithms based on real time optimization methods. So, even though SpaceX has undoubtedly developed additional nuances to match their needs and capabilities, they were building on this prior work at JPL.
Somebody wants to use it? :D
I thought about something like where people can use it but have to make changed public. I am just curious, what should be changed. But I dont think there is actually a real world use case.
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What leaked US assessment of Israeli plans to strike Iran shows
Psychological safety is also a necessary part of intimacy in your closest personal relationships and is incredibly valuable for a company to provide their employees. It isn’t exclusively tied to anonymous trolling.
The school should form decent individuals before than useful workers, and for that it's necessary to have a passing level of culture. For example, everyone should have a basic grasp of ethics (and know a bit of history), even those of us working in technology or science. Geniuses like Ramanunjan or John von Neumann are such a rare occurrence that the school system can not and should not optimize for them (and my very personal view is also that we'll have even less geniuses in the future, as our distraction-based society is not conducive anymore to cognitive development).
It’s just marketing. A plus point in differentiation matrix from gazillion competitors. And a justification for a higher price tag. The products are nice though.
Thanks, even tho the comment above signaled sarcasm, the explanation was helpful for me, as I really had no idea what 3DES means and why it could be problematic.
And forgetting the KKK
The README is surely LLM slop.
With Apache Dubbo surpassing 40k Stars, the Apache Dubbo team officially announces the release of Dubbo 3.3! As a leading open-source microservices framework, Dubbo has been dedicated to providing developers with high-performance, scalable, and flexible distributed service solutions. This release, Dubbo 3.3, through the new upgrade of Triple X, breaks past limitations, achieving comprehensive support for both north-south and east-west traffic, and enhancing compatibility with cloud-native architectures.
For Firefox, I'm using Tridactyl[1] and am very happy with it, hint mode is an absolute god send.

[1] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
It is really the ceiling of creative management and creative analysis.

Denote is online:

1) Creative subtitle extraction;

2) Creative analysis and key point extraction;

It will improve your creative creation and competitive product creative analysis capabilities! ! !
It's not a joke, because jokes have underlying meaning. It is somewhere between a "random accident" and the only way it could have possibly been given the constraints of fundamental physics. I suspect that everything that could possibly be, is, but it's random that you are you and I am me and we find ourselves here in this corner of this galaxy in this part of the universe which might itself be the inside of a giant black hole. But even if our universe is random, that doesn't mean there's nothing to make sense of. There's lots to make sense of.
They've gone and created Douglas Adams' Total Perspective Vortex
> Please consider what you are going to say before you say it.

Do as I say , not as I do?
Something about this sniffs as elitist to me. A person who’s intelligent is curious and a person who’s curious should be curious about all things, not just some limited set.

Now, that’s not to say the only issue is someone’s curiosity. Traditional teaching methods make it very hard to be interested in some topics (history and language comes to mind), but barring that, I’m not sure I accept “it’s not interesting” as a reason not to explore a subject.
Ask them not to use Windows I suppose. But once you’ve sent anything to anyone you never know what they’re doing with it anyway. They could be forwarding your messages, the messages could be stored on Google’s servers, they could screenshot them and send them to people, they could train an LLM on your vocabulary to impersonate you, etc.
In Texas, there used to be DPS offices in most mid-sized towns and everyone just had to wait in line to get their driver’s license (principal ID for most Texans) or non-driver ID card.

Now, they’ve concentrated them into a few larger service centers that are often miles away from the cities they serve and require appointments, sometimes not available for several weeks… but with a few that spontaneously crop up at short notice.

Guess what does not work for people reliant on the meager public transportation infrastructure or getting rides from also time-strapped friends and family?

Germany, by contrast, requires every resident to register in the city or town they live in for an ID, whether they intend to vote or not, but even small towns have such an office, and as someone else pointed out, every citizen receives a letter 30 days before each election telling them exactly who/what is being voted on, where they are to go on Election Day (always a Sunday), and how to vote absentee if they’re not going to be in town that day.
Because it has terrific data notation, pleasant to use with Promises + async/await, has a ton of modern QoL improvements and slapping TS on top of it automagically turns it into one of the most modern and advanced languages out there with adequate performance.

Add to that amazing tooling with hot reload (bye bye 2-5 minutes compile times), billions of investments from Big tech to make it better and faster, ability to reuse same code between mobile/backend/frontend, integration into browser and you’ll quickly find that JS literally has no rival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science

Jorge Borges' way of telling a story as analogy is beautiful and simple.

It takes the resources of the universe to simulate the universe.
I have tried those, but they seemed like they were just using standard VS Code UI elements. You have text input boxes, decorations of existing text, and additional panels. I guess Cursor is modifying the UI more than the text decoration methods in VS Code allow?
No one says it's a part of the sentence. It's a number of the sentence, as in "this is the sentence number one".
The fact that you can access source code allowing you to build a telemetry-free version of VSCode doesn’t magically make what’s actually distributed open source and telemetry free.

The sole thing you can actually download and run while calling it VS Code - a trademarked name - is neither open source nor telemetry-free.
I am not sure if there is too many moats.

But I am starting to wonder do you always need one. You won't win startup lottery to trillion. But you can still have solid business that generates profit and sells real working reasonable solutions to real customers.

Then again this is obviously wrong site for that...
I shudder to think that even a simple Google query leading to a Wikipedia article was too much effort here...

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