skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that DST actually makes most sense in 30-40 degrees of latitude.

With about 13 hours of sunlight in the summer, split evenly around the mid-day, it comes down to 05h30 to 18h30 under light. There are many more people who would be out there to enjoy the sunlight between 18h30 and 19h30 than there are between 05h30 and 06h30.
I don't know if you jest but this is likely the next stage, to be released within the next months, that is, AIs doing the first rounds of code reviews. It'll likely be from github / microsoft as they have one of the biggest code review datasets around.
Hmmm...AI is a hell of a drug.
The oh-my-god particle (1994)
Or in other words, the $3.57 in savings will allow the product to compete in a lower price segment and increase sales significantly.

It is the behavior of the buyers that drives costs down. People are extremely cost sensitive in the mid to low segments, shifting their purchase decisions from one product to another just because of less than $1 price difference. Some companies cannot survive at all without saving those $3.57.
How did you come to the conclusion that the mobile number is in play anywhere?!

From what I read it says to scan the code and get a notification anytime it's scanned. Just looked at the android app listing and there seems to be something about taking a selfie which seems rather useless but hey maybe some people like it.

Also love how people keep suggesting wireless doorbells when the whole point of this is not to install any hardware that could be to expensive, harder to setup/maintain than a QR code, or maybe stolen/damaged or not allowed to be installed
there's a recent a clip of Masa at a bloomberg conference quoting 9T on a similar idea, i think he said he thought it was actually a good buy
I don’t really think I would bother powering off a device like a Mac mini. They seem to sleep just fine.
> For whiteboards start out with using block letters only. It will slow you down in the beginning but not for long.

I strongly dislike this advice. The slowing down is probably actually the feature here that works; as for the uppercase, it definitely hurts comprehension. Go lowercase, slow, and deliberately never joining any letters, for your beginning, and I think it will probably be better for all parties involved: reading and comprehension will be improved, you'll get at least as much improvement in your handwriting, probably more, and certainly in a more useful area.
In traditional Whitted-style ray tracing, the expensive part is indeed figuring out where there is no light. You know where you are, you know where the light is, but is there something inbetween?
You'll find the ancient interpretation that the new day starts at sunset still in religions. Sabbath starts on Friday evening, Easter and Christmas day start on the eve of the day before. Possibly the Eids of Islam too, but I'm unsure.

Ethiopia is one of the ancient Christian countries, the second of officially convert and the Ethiopian Ortodox Church still seems prominent. I assume that's the reason why.
Show HN: Lighthouse RSS Reader (Omnivore alternative, free newsletter support)
Hi, I've been building Lighthouse for the better part of a year, and now seems to be a good opportunity to do a Show HN.

Lighthouse is a RSS feed reader, and also supports subscribing to newsletters.

It works really well for personal content curation, because differently from most readers, new content first arrives in the Lighthouse Inbox, where articles are either bookmarked (to move to library) or archived.

The assumption is that even if you subscribed to a feed or newsletter, it doesn't mean you want to read everything they post. So an additional curation step helps keeping unwanted content out.

Would love to know what you think about it!
Index on (A,B) vs. (B,A)? (2013)
Show HN: Every Ask HN about book recommendations
There are so many great Ask HN threads asking about book recommendations, so I combined all of them and extracted the books mentioned in them.

I hope you find a good book! Feedback is welcome :)
Without getting too far into the weeds the current top-selling vehicles (Ranger, Hilux, Amarok etc) in Australia, though usually referred to as "utes" here in Australia, are very similar in design (though smaller) to F150s, Silverados, RAM Trucks etc.

Live rear axles, body on frame construction, four wheel drive, and actually more capable off road in a lot of situations than full size American pickups because they're smaller.
The timeout is only a stand-in for the generic need to be able to cancel an acceptance loop. You could just as well want to cancel accept() when SIGINT/SIGTERM/etc is received, or when recreating the server socket, e.g. in response to a configuration change. Most server processes have a need like this.
At geological or biological timescales, that’s what the emergence of language did. AI can all be viewed as part of the accelerating returns of language…
What sort of philosophy of science do you personally subscribe to?
Abuse reports are marketing messages at this point.
Here's a suggestion if you want to avoid markers and such: LCD drawing tablets, I'm talking about the ones that look and function similarly to Etch and Sketch, but it uses a stylus and an LCD display, you can get these for less than 10€.
Mitigating Social Biases in LLMs
The data source is linked and is based on the ARM Datacenter Energy prediction.

But i don't think its too far fetched.

The compute needed for digital twins, simulating a whole army of robots than uploading it to the robots, who sitll need a ton of compute, is not unrealistic.

Cars like Tesla have A TON of compute build in too.

And we have seen what suddenly happens to an LLM when you switch the amount of parameters. We were in a investment hell were it was not clear in what to invest (crypto, blockchain and NFT bubble bursted) but AI opened up the sky again.

If we continue like this, it will not be far fetched that everyone has their own private agent running and paying for it (private / isolated for data security) + your work agent.
KDE end-of-year fundraiser: Halloween Fundraiser Special
> Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry -- based on extreme estimates such savings could reduce the total US power usage by over 10% by 20301.

Why would it be the case that reducing the costs of AI reduces power consumption as opposed to increase AI usage (or another application using electricity)? I would think with cheaper AI their usage would be come more ubiquitous: LLMs in fridges, toasters, smart alarms, etc.
dude, machine code generated with gcc/clang is not safe in the first place. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
I don't get it. What's the ideal scenario here?

That going to the sleep branch of the select should cancel the accept? Will cancelling the accept terminate any already-accepted connections? Shouldn't it be delayed instead?

Shouldn't newly accepted connections be dropped only if the listener is dropped, rather than when the listener.accept() future is dropped? If listener.accept() is dropped, the queue should be with the listener object, and thus the event should still be available in that queue on the next listener.accept().

This seems more like a bug with the runtime than anything.
The Pentagon frequently "loses" $1T here and there and then says, "oopsie!" with no actual consequences. That looks like a dark budget to me once you factor out typical government waste and overredundancy.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-audit-2666415734/
Show HN: AI Note Taking Transcription App
AI Powered transcription note taking app
It is mind-blowing that such a good SIEM (Security information and event management) software can be free.
My M1 MacBook Pro (the first one in the new chassis) can easily drive my 250 Ohm DT 990 Pro to uncomfortable loudness so it should indeed be fine for 99% of headphones. I've been told it also drives 600 Ohm headphones just fine.
My sunbeam automatic toaster is working just fine thank you very much. :-)
There's a dystopian definition in the other comment but usually, when people say they're looking forwards to the singularity, they're referring to a version of the future where robots and computers are able to do most of not all jobs, so humans no longer have to work, and can spend all their time doing whatever, usually phrased as painting, singing, dancing, and the other leisure-type activities. Bettering themselves and helping humanity. The utopian, post-scarcity Federation from Star Trek, if you've seen it.
You can increase throughput by adding repeaters around the solar system, but latency has a hard limit due to the speed of light.

Also throughput could be increased by changing or updating the modulation and coding schemes. AFAIK Pioneer and Voyger probes were still using PSK and FSK.
> Before this release, you could use curl to do “third party” transfers over FTP, and in this release you could no longer do that. That is a feature when the client (curl) connects to server A and instructs that server to communicate with server B and do file transfers among themselves, without sending data to and from the client.

That sounds like a super useful feature that would be great if more FTP servers supported it. I guess FTP itself is a dying protocol these days, but it's extremely simple and does what it says on the tin.
Sounds like cope, tbh. If they are really seeing such amazing productivity gains, I'm guessing they are also reducing to a 3 hour work day, right?
React RSC Is Problematic
Guys, I really think RSC is problematic. I think it is very dangerous for engineering reasons to mix frontend framework with backend logic. Also, I find frameworks like next js over-engineered. Take a look at the framework I created, I'm using it for my projects. It has its own RSC engine.
> Tesla really deserves some kudos for pushing the 48V architecture and the Ethernet-based communication.

And some schooling.
They shall learn about pokayoke.
Imposter Syndrome Simulator
I made a short web game where you are an office worker with imposter syndrome working your way up the career ladder. The goal is not to get found out as an imposter. It's made using LLMs so please expect hallucinations/weird formatting/duplicate responses and other quirks.
> security concerns

Does anyone know whether the Voyagers even do any command authentication?

Probably doesn't matter now as only the dsn has the ability to talk to them, and that happens comparatively rarely.
Monthnotes for October
No, I miss monochrome displays too. Yes, sure, color can provide some benefit in syntax highlighting, but that's a pretty weak argument.

I wonder if there's an interesting reseach opportunity: how complex does a syntax need to be before highlighting is beneficial - and is it ever really? I don't think highlighting ever helps me understand code or even more quickly grasp it - it's mainly just a way to cue a syntax problem.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Modern-data-leeches-Smart-TVs-e...
Spoiler alert: agent based. Ran it before, was a maint burden of the first order.
HTML frames in $CURRENT_YEAR!
Researchers Critique Bad Science. Now Their Own Paper Has Been Retracted
C.J. Cherryh's 1981 novel Wave Without a Shore has something vaguely similar, where the human inhabitants of a planet refuse to notice the non-human natives sharing their cities.
> automakers could have vastly improved their cars by switching to 48V a decade ago,

The microcontroller still runs at 5/3.3/1.8 V.
Buyers do not exist in a vacuum, and consumer behavior is commonly manufactured. Consumer behavior has never been a substantial justification for optimizing for wasteful and environmentally business practices in pursuit of quarterly growth.
I had the same thought - power use will not be halved, usage will double instead.
Kind of a bad name given the existence of https://www.mumble.info/

Which is a large OSS voice server
Markdown to HTML Converter – Static.app
In what world is AI killing remote work?
I had similar feelings about Far Cry 5. My son would have loved exploring, driving, flying, fishing, spotting wildlife… but at his age the violence made it useless. A mode that removed all the guns and bad guys would have been awesome.
Or Satisfactory for strictly worse trains but massively improved graphics.
X users can earn thousands from US election misinformation and AI images
I think your trying to imply something, but I cannot tell what. Could you possibly make it explicit?
The same is true for every content creators on most platforms. Conflict and war coverage on youtube sounds pretty wack sometimes as violence words are avoided by many creators. I wonder when unalived will completely take over for dead in speech.
But you have to earn more to pay more payroll tax and you still take home more than before. At least in my country, people on minimum wage pay almost zero income tax.

Some people can barely afford heating already, and we're making it even more expensive for them, while people like musk/bezos can just avoid it, or even earn money on co2 coupons.

If you suggeted banning private jets, bot for the rich and the poor, then sure, that would affect bezos a lot more than bobby below-average over here, but not this.
related: see HN user jacquesm's work on a LEGO sorting machine

https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-many-questions-and-...
https://www.racv.com.au/royalauto/transport/cars/australian-...

Top 10 selling car models in 2023

Ford Ranger – 63,356

Toyota Hilux – 61,111

Isuzu Ute D-Max – 31,202

Toyota RAV4 – 29,627

MG ZS – 29,258

Tesla Model Y – 28,769

Toyota Landcruiser – 26,449

Mitsubishi Outlander – 24,263

Mazda CX-5 – 23,083

Hyundai Tucson – 21,224

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Top three are Ute's, 4th/5th place SUV's and the others are all large cars.

You do see smaller cars like Corolla's (I own one) or Hyundai i30's as you say but the numbers above say they are not as popular as larger cars, and I agree from observations when you compare to somewhere like Europe.
I am not well versed in the async things as of late, but one complication is that the drop implementation is a blocking one. This could easily lead to deadlocks. Or the drop implementation could spawn an async task to clean up after itself later.
Jaywalking is a pedestrian crossing outside of explicitly designated crossings points. In the US that means by *default( any pedestrian crossing any street at any location other than a pedestrian crossing or an intersection, regardless of distance to such a point.

There is a massive difference between "country culturally tends towards using designated crossing points" and "it's a criminal offense to not use them". I'm curious about which countries outside of the US, especially in Europe, that criminalize jaywalking.
FTP is still the best way to transfer files between a phone and a PC.

Well, Android anyways. I don't know how things work in the Apple world. It's bizarre that whatever the "official" method of file transfer is is so bad. Also, managing files on Android is, on its own very bad. FTP allows connecting a decent file manager to the phone and do the management externally.
At one company, the CEO said AI tools in general should not be used, due to fear of invalidating a patent application in progress after the lawyer said it must be kept secret except with NDA partners. I explained that locally run LLMs don't upload anything, so those are ok. This is a company that really needs better development velocity, and is buried alive in reports that need writing,

On the other hand, at another company, where the NDAs are stronger and more one-sided, and there's a stronger culture of code silos, "who needs to know" governing read access to individual code repos, even for mundane things like web dashboards, and higher security in general, I expected nobody would be allowed to use these tools, yet I saw people talking about their Copilot and Cursor use openly on the company Slack.

There was someone sitting next to me using Cursor yesterday. I'd consider hiring them, if they're interested, but there's no way they're going to want to join a company that forbids using AI tools that upload code being worked on.

So I don't think companies are particularly consistent about this at the moment.

(Perhaps Apple's Private Cloud Compute service, and whatever equivalents we get from other cloud vendors, will eventuall make a difference to how companies see this stuff. We might also see some interesting developments with fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). That's very slow, but the highly symmetric tensor arithmetic used in ML has potential to work better with FHE than general purpose compute.)
People around me and myself use it to basically replace some web searches.

Particularly o1-preview is really good at writing broad strokes mini review style articles that discuss some question you're interested in.

It only works in cases where there's a lot of text out there already that discusses the topic and that needs to be sort of remixed to answer your question specifically.

The chat format is much more efficient for this than a web search or reading a few related Wikipedia articles.

It's truly glass half full vs. glass half empty. I'm super impressed and excited about how useful this is, and yet it clearly isn't AGI.
China is rather autocratic, and most charts seem to indicate they've been doing pretty well over the last few decades. Indeed they are not perfect, and there is no shortage of popular memes in that space that can facilitate rapid distribution of such matters, but all Things considered I'd say they're doing a lot better than many of their "free and democratic" counterparts, which I believe (perhaps incorrectly!) is reflected in public opinion polls across nations.
Yes and no, depends on what you play.

I've been semi-lightweight gaming on my M1 MacBook Pro with some level of success...

Games that are optimised to run on Apple Silicon natively mostly run great (No Man's Sky easily pushes 120FPS at "almost-maxed-out" settings at native resolution and looks amazing on the built-in display).

Games running in rosetta also work well. The performance hit of Rosetta is only a couple percent.

Less demanding games such as Minecraft, Factorio, various MMOs, etc. will all run very well.

For Windows-only games, Parallels works shockingly well. I can run Skyrim with 3rd party shaders at 60 FPS without any issues in Parallels.

There is no 1st party support for SteamVR. You can supposedly get it working with some older Vive models. I couldn't get my Quest 2 working, even in Parallels. Some games with aggressive (rootkit) Anti-Cheats will probably also not work.
@icyphox.sh! I post about K8s and distributed systems.
Of course, the question is "is it a crime to cross a road outside of those designated points" in america the answer is often "yes".

Which means the only legal place to cross a road is an intersection, which is significantly less safe for pedestrians.

Next time you're going for a walk, try to estimate what % of intersections or crossing points are protected (stop signs for all roads, traffic lights, or barriers). Similarly, when you're out driving try and see how much you slow down for each intersection (ie non-jaywalking crossing points) - this is not a judgement on driving style this is just about working out relative safety. Any unprotected intersection you go through without significantly slowing down (think dropping to parking lot speed) for is a location where crossing away from the intersection is safer.

Safety for pedestrians crossing a road is primarily from collision avoidance - as I said in another comment the amount of damage from a pedestrian vs vehicle collision high at even "low" car speeds.
No. Consider two objects, two light sources, and an ant.

An ant outside any shadow can see both light sources.

An ant in a non-overlapping shadow cast from one object will have one light source blocked out but the other light source will be visible to the ant.

An ant in overlapping shadows from two objects will have both light sources blocked out. (Geometrically in this case it is necessary the overlapping shadows be cast from two separated points each from distinct light sources)

When one light source is visible to the ant that area must be lighter than when no sources are visible. This is the scenario presented by the OP.

edit: Since people seem to not believe this you can find a representation in part E in this diagram

https://i.imgur.com/r6x6QPQ.jpeg

and a photograph of this nicely done with colored lights here

https://i.imgur.com/NUlywpb.jpeg
> Yes but in this case it was clearly apparent to most and to those who spoke with the robot and believed it must have felt like morons for being filmed thinking they were real.

If you spoke with the robot and believed it was AI controlled you should feel like a moron, considering the robot explicitly stated that it was remote controlled in that demo. https://x.com/zhen9436/status/1844773471240294651/
14-year-old invents product to detect pesticides on food – Morning in America
That’s not how productivity gains typically play out. Instead, the “saved” time (or ~5 hours in your example, assuming a 8 hour workday) can be used to increase output. So that would mean you still work 8 hours but get ~13 hours’s worth of output (8 + 5).
Why was it a burden?
The problem with this is that you lose the entire context around the answer you're given. There might be notes about limitations or edge cases in the documentation or on StackOverflow. I already see this with my coworkers who use LLMs, they often have no idea how or why things work and then they're absolutely perplexed when something goes wrong.
I’m guilty of this as well. Folks of a certain age will always tend to measure energy consumption in “light bulbs.”

Sort of like how Americans always measure size in “football (gridiron) fields.”

The energy consumption of a traditional incandescent bulb, while obviously inexact, in nonetheless somewhat of a useful rough relative measurement. It is a power draw that is insignificant enough that we don’t mind running a few of them simultaneously when needed, yet significant enough that we recognize they ought to be turned off when not needed.
No, they are the same according to SQL semantics.

In other words it's not just that this particular case returns the same result, but that in all cases the result must be the same.
The article says that "Nuuk is in Greenland, and is part of the greater EU cinematic universe."

It is correct that Greenland is part of Denmark, and Denmark is a member of EU. But Greenland voted several years ago to stay out of the EU.
Show HN: I build a platform for building ML models, Seeking feedback
Hi everyone! I’m excited to share that I am launching the MVP of a platform designed to simplify machine learning model building. If you’ve ever found yourself spending more time on setup, coding, or infrastructure than on building and optimizing models, this platform might be just what you need.

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1. Build, train, and compare multiple models in parallel with just a few clicks.

2. No Code, No Infrastructure Required.

3. Designed to be intuitive, regardless of your technical background.

I am looking for feedback on:

1. Workflow Simplification: Does this feel like it would streamline your work?

2. Key Features: Any must-haves or missing elements you’d suggest?

3. Overall Usability: Does it match your expectations for ease of use and functionality?

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I am eager to hear about your experiences, suggestions, and any challenges you face while using it! Your input will shape our next steps in making this platform as impactful as possible. Thank you for being part of this journey with us!

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