skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dealing with strings is not fun right now.

And dealing with strings isn't fun in many other languages or runtimes or OSes.

e.g.1. C# "Strings in .NET are stored using UTF-16 encoding. UTF-8 is the standard for Web protocols and other important libraries. Beginning in C# 11, you can add the u8 suffix to a string literal to specify UTF-8 encoding. UTF-8 literals are stored as ReadOnlySpan<byte> objects" - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

e.g.2. Erlang/BEAM/Elixir: "The Erlang string type is implemented as a single-linked-list of unicode code points. That is, if we write “Hello” in the language, this is represented as [$H, $e, $l, $l, $o]". The overhead of this representation is massive. Each Cons-cell use 8 bytes for the code point and 8 bytes for the pointer to the next value. This means that the 5-byte ASCII-representation of “Hello” is 5*16 = 80 bytes in the Erlang representation." - https://medium.com/@jlouis666/erlang-string-handling-7588daa...
It is also blocked by the UK ISP porn filter.
Isn't management the paper too?
These are low margin businesses. Chances are they can't afford it without significant pain.
I agree the overall math is easier in the frequency domain, especially because you don’t know which frequencies are problematic so best to look at all of them, but I think the concept is best explained at first, in the time domain.

Here’s my attempt in a couple of sentences.

It takes time for the signal to propagate from input to output in any real circuit. If that time is a substantial fraction of the period under consideration then the input of the amplifier, which includes the feedback signal, cannot effect the output before it has moved. And if the delay through the amplifier is just wrong relative to the signal period one can end up in a dog chasing its own tail situation and the output oscillates.

The rest is just math. :)

P.S. this explanation also explains why we use phase and not seconds to measure the delay of the circuit. Because everything is relative to the input signal period and if we use phase we get that for free. No extra divide.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-...
Or just go somewhere else for our information. That seems easier.
That also looks quite intriguing as well. Though perhaps a bit more industrial than I might need, there is definite potential. I would need to investigate which have more friendly user interfaces. While I might be hip to using "AT commands" to "Send/receive batch SMS up to 300 characters", my wife would perhaps not find that amusing.
Researchers flip genes on and off with AI-designed DNA switches
a fact check from Erin Reed
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-new-york-times...
This is why it’s so critical that we don’t consolidate onto monocultures. It is crucial that Firefox and WebKit continue to be viable alternatives to Chromium.
Splitting from the experiences of others, I think the mentality somewhat comes down to your preference in what you seek to do in videogames and how you engage with them. In these types of sandbox building games, career developers naturally get somewhat of a "cheat" to becoming proficient quickly in that the mode of expressing logical sentiments will only ever be a few abstractions away from what you would do normally at your work, so you feel less constrained to building understanding of a system and can instead use the system as a way to output your ideas in a way faster than others might. In this sense, it's somewhat of a power fantasy that if you vs the average person were to play this game that you would most likely be able to clearly express your ideas and goals and be able to act on them, which makes it fun to go off the rails to show off "some crazy thing" you've made as a slight nod to your perceived skill being able to make these things.

Consequently, that's why I'm so disinterested in learning these games. The discussion about them shifts into a thin one layer abstraction for other people to try to brag about their accomplishments and what they self injected as their experience instead of the game itself. This doesn't affect the gameplay, but it affects my perception of the game as a shallow vehicle for attention seekers more than it promotes the ideas of fun gameplay.

That said, sometimes the style of gameplay resonates with a style of development you might have been interested in understanding more and can use it as a way to get motivation or inspiration for ideas. Automating pipelines, physics simulations, etc. I think it's always worth a shot on games that have notable recognition of quality to see if it jives with what you enjoy, but it's been the exception more than the rule in my case.
'Testing' -> Our release and deployment automation is environment agnostic.
I think it's actually telling that so many of them are broken but the product hasn't been discontinued. It tells you that it's not really a burdensome product to have on the menu.

Dump the liquid in the machine, turn it on, empty and clean the machine at close. There's almost nothing else in the store that is so low-effort.

I'm not saying that the high rate of failure isn't a problem or lost revenue.

I also have a hunch that the problem disproportionately affects specific franchise owners who benefit from the product less than others.
Meetings in the morning. Let me get my sleep first!
Ask HN: People using BigQuery for data ingestion, biggest pain points?
Specifically for batch ETL/ELT workloads, assuming 10s/100s of TB.
My order is frequency based
I feel like that's an impression caused by the current political media environment but it's not reality. Voter turnout is less than 50% of voting age population in the US and a significant portion of the voters are independents. Silent majority or whatever.
I think it may have been a contractual term where Boeing could avoid a $1M reduction in purchase price per aircraft (times 280 aircraft) if simulator training could be avoided for the launch customer, Southwest Airlines.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10575...
> Only problem is that certain things update constantly (VSCode)

Can't you just install it at the user level? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/windows#_user-setup...
I know it's a bigger ask but would be nice to see some kind of kvm that can switch between controlling 3-5 different systems.

ATX power control feels semi mandatory if you actually want remote operation. There's just too much chance of something not going right with reboots or after a power failure not coming back online. That kind of would be ideal to have remote control itself.
I think that story was actually better than this paper, which appears to have been authored by a controversial figure.
Okay, I didn't talk about balanced diet earlier, but I did, now.

That is the one of the most important points in my argument above, about why corn sucks nutritionally.

Of course, I did not mean that it is totally useless. Obviously it has some nutrients, just like any other food item has. Maybe I should have mentioned that earlier, in my first comment in this subthread.

I did not mention balanced diet, because I kind of thought that all educated people would know what that means and what it's constituents are - such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals,

Just compare the nutrition from corn (maize) with the nutrition from some of the other food items I mentioned, in said Wikipedia articles.

Here you go, I'm pasting some relevant links below:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_millet

And there are some more millets. Google them.

Also, for vegetarians (who don't eat meat in any form, land or sea based), which is hundreds of millions of people in the world, due to culture or religion or lower income), legumes are equally important, along with cereals, to give the proper balance of essential amino acids needed to make the needed protein for our bodies.

Google "essential amino acids" and "complete protein" topics.

And I have only scratched the surface of the subject of nutrition. I am by no means an expert. I am just a beginner, who has an interest in the subject, for my own personal use, and to share any info I pick up, with friends.

You're welcome :) ;).
This is a rendering technique designed for real-time graphics, and it's not applicable to that kind of image analysis. It does what has already been possible with ray tracing, but using an approximation that makes it suitable for real-time graphics.

However, the technique has been used to speed up astrophysics calculations:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.14425
> What's the point of these organizations if not to directly fund their software projects?

Organizing conferences perhaps, but I would hope that those are largely funded by their registration fees and sponsors? Some conferences (including some from Linux Foundation) seem to be overpriced, though others have cheaper pricing tiers or are free to attend.

Indirect funding for software projects is OK too - for example getting grants from other organizations.

It would be nice to have annual reports that explain specifically which projects/developers are funded based on the foundation's activities, by how much, and from which specific activities?
https://www.pitchdeckhunt.com/
I remind this motto as bell but he should have put emphasis on "food you made"
What even is this thing?
Idea: achieve massive power provision by transmitting energy from a base station to the spacecraft using space lightning.

Transmitting power is not a new idea: lasers are the go-to example for this. Powering the craft with solar energy is another theoretical way of doing it.

My idea on the other hand is different. Imagine spooling a long wire behind the space ship and just transmit electricity to it the same way you transmit power to your hoover. Except instead of sending power up a wire, send it up as bolts of lighting through the ionised gas trail your ship is trailing behind it.
High cholesterol and heart attacks are common in my family. This year, after my dad had intensive open heart surgery, my doctor recommended trying a strict plant-based diet for 90 days with a blood test before and after. She had been studying medical journals on the topic primarily from Canada (she said it’s easier to find medical research not funded by corporations there).

Before the doing the plant-based diet, I had such high cholesterol that I would have needed to start taking statins before age 35. After the 90 day diet experiment, my cholesterol dropped by 130 mg/dL. I no longer need to be put on medication, and am within a healthy range.
Don’t give them too many ideas we’re gonna have eval, cars and cdrs next
That reminds me of a certain meme/joke I've seen in various forms. To "dissect the frog" [0] by making it all explicit:

A: "The younger generation never learned how to X, which is a failure on their part."

B: "Weren't you the generation that was supposed to teach them, so the failure is your own?"

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/14/frog/
If you keys are on a keyring like those in the illustrations in the article where the keys can easily jangle and that gets annoying I found a good way to address that.

• Get some small magnets. I used these 8 mm diameter 1mm thick disk magnets [1].

• Attach one to each key near the hole for the keyring. Orient the magnets so the each is attracted to the magnets on the neighboring keys.

When hanging on your keyring your keys will then form one unit which won't jangle.

You want magnets that are strong enough to attract through the keys. If yours need a little help you could try putting a magnet on each side of the key.

I held them on by wrapping some tape around the key.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071XNRF2D
> It isn't a regulatory issue, it is strictly economics

We pillage our natural water sheds so the Central Valley can grow almonds. The underpricing of water is absolutely a regulatory issue.
but active record is just one of patterns that can be used to implement an ORM?
Thank-you. The next time metrics are mentioned, one can mention an expiration date. That can segue into evolving metrics, feedback control systems, and the crucial element of "psychological safety."

A jaded interpretation of data science is to find evidence to support predetermined decisions, which is unfair to all. Having the capability to always generate new internal tools for Just In Time Reporting (JITR) would be nice, even so reproducible ones.

This encourages adhoc and scrappy starts, which can be iterated on as formulas in source control. Instead of a gold standard of a handful of metrics, we are empowered to draw conclusions from all data in context.
Worked on implementing a distributed-consensus driven DNS thing like 15 years ago. We had 3 DCs around the world for a very compute-intense but not very stateful service. It actually just worked without any meaningful testing on the first single DC outage. In retrospect I'm amazed.
Okay? Is this an argument in favor of doing nothing?
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in November 2024
That's a general problem: languages end up having features that are only useful for writing compilers, and vice versa.
Roundup lists online events for bootstrappers including Bootstrappers Breakfast and Lean Culture.

There are also in-person Bootstrapper Breakfast meetings in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley.

These events are for “entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast.”®
The view of SFA consumption as a risk factor for CVD is not the result of bribes, it’s the result of the body of research on the subject pointing in that direction.

It’s rich of Nina to accuse Keys of cherry picking while claiming that there’s no RCT data supporting the diet-heart hypothesis because of the dodgy Hamley meta analysis, while ignoring Hooper 2020, which was far more rigorous and showed a 21% reduction in CVD events when PUFA was substituted for SFA: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
The article isn't a dissertation on that topic, you can check more by yourself if you're interested.
I do use LLMs to bootsrap my unit testing (because there is a lot boilerplate in unit tests and mocks), but I tend to finish the unit tests myself. This gives me confidence that my tests are accurate to the best of my knowledge.

Having good tests allows me to be more liberal with LLMs on implementation. I still only use LLMs to bootstrap the implementation, and I finish it myself. LLMs, being generative, are really good for ideating different implementations (it proposes implementations that I would never have thought of), but I never take any implementation as-is -- I always try to step through it and finish it off manually.

Some might argue that it'd be faster if I wrote the entire thing myself, but it depends on the problem domain. So much of what I do is involve implementing code for unsolved problems (I'm not writing CRUD apps for instance) that I really do get a speed-up from LLMs.

I imagine folks writing conventional code might spend more time fixing LLM mistakes and thus think that LLMs slow them down. But this is not true for my problem domain.
How to Research Geoengineering Ethically
This is all well and good, but unfortunately depends on the people pushing for the metric/system to give a shit about what the metric is supposed to improve. There are still far too many that prefer to slap 1 or 2 careless metrics on an entire team, optimize until they're promoted, then leave the company worse off.
His definition of food is narrower than just edible things. I recall the book discussed processed vs more "raw" foods.
This is insane.

To be clear, it's quite possible for a temporary elimination diet to aleviate unexplained symptoms, for instance from an unknown food allergy or intolerance. But then you need to slowly reintroduce foods to find which specific food causes the problem, otherwise your diet is bound to be nutritionally deficient. Eliminating all plants from your diet permanently is insane.
Although the author of the article appears to be controversial, I am concerned that none of the responses citing her controversial nature are actually rebutting anything in the paper.

I believe most of what was written here appears to be factual. What am I missing?

(Someone attacking the currently held beliefs taught by science is by nature controversial. More important question is whether they are pointing out flaws in those beliefs. )
> No, Open Source and Free Software are two names for essentially the same thing.

This is not substantially true, which is why I assume you've added "essentially" in here. Open Source is Free Software, because anybody can take it and make it anything they want as long as they comply with the minimal license terms. Open Source can be proprietary, too, if somebody takes it, complies with the minimal license terms, and makes it proprietary.
> Whenever I play it, I get the distinct feeling that I could instead do the same thing but productively instead

This is me, but extended to all games. I stopped playing games because I feel like I can always do something more productive with my time instead. If I really want to check out, I watch some TV instead. But games (especially modern ones) take too much work without any real reward.
On Friday 21st March 2025, the sun will set on the British "Empire"
terraforming articles always remind me of my favorite "what if" plan - what if australia used nukes to create a canal right down the middle of the outback?
https://web.archive.org/web/20241006234445/https://bullenweg...
GrapheneOS has been doing a lot of great work in the secure mobile OS space.
... If incentives were properly aligned to make this the correct strategy, then this is probably what McDonald's would do. Unfortunately not. https://www.today.com/food/trends/why-is-mcdonalds-ice-cream...
It's hyperbolic, but isn't the result the same if San Diego gives solar power to Utah, and then Utah gives power to Kansas, then Pennsylvania, then Maine? But if that's only ~10% (4,500km across the US) that's not bad.
I have my fingers crossed for Starship. If it works as intended all these things will happen.
It’s nonsense. SFA consumption is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Nina is misreading the evidence to come to poor quality conclusions. The most rigorous analysis of RCTs on the subject shows this very clearly:

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
I'm not the one doing the arithmetic here, I've outsourced it to the computer. So I don't have any calculated uncertainty because I'm not paying enough attention to know how much progress it's made.
This is a technicality. Non-copyleft licenses can qualify as Free Software because they can be easily relicensed into Free Software (as well as into proprietary software.)
GPO Quadruples the Number of Congressionally Mandated Reports Since Launch
Report repository: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/CMR

"More than 500 Congressionally Mandated Reports are available on the Government Publishing Office's website ten months after the agency stood-up its online repository. These are the reports agencies are required by law to submit to Congress, and the creation of a central repository makes it easier for Congressional staff to access them all in one place and obviates the need for the public and journalists to file FOIA requests for access.

Information on how to use the repository, including training materials that show how you can find reports due to a particular committee, are available online [1]. Seventy-five federal agencies have contributed to the repository so far.

There is no complete list of all the reports that agencies are required by law to submit to Congress, which makes it hard to know whether agencies are submitting all the reports that they are required to upload.

The House Clerk does annually generate a partial list of the reports, however, in a report entitled "Reports to be Made to Congress," issued pursuant to House rules. The January 2024 report can be found here [2] and is 418 pages long. The Clerk's report only includes a list of reports due to the House or Senate, and not due to committees and subcommittees. In theory, it is possible to crosswalk the list of reports published on GPO's website against the list of the reports we know agencies must submit to identify missing and late reports.

Empowering GPO to make sure it receives all mandatory reports, including reports sent to committees and subcommittees, would require additional effort. Fortunately, the report accompanying the House Appropriations Committee FY25 bill would direct the House Clerk in collaboration with other stakeholders to assess what would be required [2] to expand the Clerk's list of "reports to be made to Congress" to include reports due to committees and subcommittees. Meanwhile, Rep. Quigley submitted testimony to the House Rules Committee on Member Day to update the House Rules to require the list generated by the Clerk to include all reports due to Congress, including its committees and subcommittees."

From https://mailchi.mp/24e92bdefd3c/fbf-the-post-biden-era-27548

[1] https://www.gpo.gov/how-to-work-with-us/agency/congressional...

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CDOC-118hdoc97/CDOC-118h...
I see the sentiment often from people who want a categorically clear legal system.

The answer is that these choices are often made taking into account real world situations. Not just theory. When different rights come into conflicts, the courts weigh them against each other, and take into account the magnitude of the real world impact.

Ban all for a logical simplicity sounds appealing, but the courts frequently find that this would lead to a greater Injustice then mixed decisions.
The previous commits/content of the site on GitHub seem to still be available: https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io/blob/772956...
My son doesn't know how to X (fill in the blank with whatever you want.) Whose fault is that?

1. teachers?

2. technology?

3. late stage capitalism?

One thing we know for sure is that it couldn't POSSIBLY be the fault of the parents, right?
Lovely to run across a Matrix quote when you were expecting something else. Bravo.
Especially for pocket fit, they can be compacted faster this way
The concept that there is a root/superuser account that can do anything they like is quite a common one, but it is an OS design choice. Any user account is just an object in the operating system and one can as well design an OS that enforces certain rules against all user accounts, even if that means limiting superuser accounts.

Legitimate reasons I can think of would be for example to protect certain secrets even in the event of an administrator compromise (like a TPM) or just to prevent administrators from accidentally messing up their systems to an extent that they wouldn't boot. Another (more controversial) goal is to enforce DRM.

Anyways, that's exactly what Microsoft is attempting to do with Windows: the OS tries to prevent administrative accounts from interfering with the kernel/installing rootkits (for whatever reason).

Also note that it's always important in this discussion to differentiate between administrative user accounts (in the OS) and "administrators" (people) with physical/hardware access.
The site as of yesterday https://archive.is/FU6Zd
hardly https://x.com/justsaysinmice
Just a side note that this usage isn't really the application Goodhart had in mind. Suppose you're running a central bank and you see a variable that can be used to predict inflation. If you're doing your job as a central banker optimally, you'll prevent inflation whenever that variable moves, and then no matter what happens to the variable, due to central bank policy, inflation is always at the target plus some random quantity and the predictive power disappears.

As "Goodhart's law" is used here, in contrast, the focus is on side effects of a policy. The goal in this situation is not to make the target useless, as it is if you're doing central bank policy correctly.