skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you bring a cellphone to an isolated Amazon tribe, have you just implemented the most rapid advancement of technology known to man? It’s a ridiculous, meaningless question.

Where is their industrial capacity? Where is their university system? Or their self defense capability? A space program on the way tomorrow perhaps?

Why is it that China’s development outpaces India so much? Why does China have 28,000 miles of high speed rail, doubling in the next decade, when the US has 50? Why did China roll out 5G before the west, when there wasn’t anything to steal yet?

Does the US need to steal some high speed rail technology from somewhere so that it can grow?

These aren’t matters of technology at this point. They are growing fast because they’re committed to it. The growth capacity has been there for so long in the west, but we prioritize the wealth of elites instead. At this point they have a better space station and a better moon landing / colonization plan. Their green tech is better, their batteries are better, their robots are better, their EVs are way better.

This idea that they should slow down because there’s no more technology to steal is inconsistent with the fact that they have in so many areas surpassed us rather than asymptotically approaching the status quo.

Comparatively, the trajectory of material conditions leaves the US in the dust, if it hasn’t already for most of the US populous.

It makes me sad because I’m an American, but it gives me hope because the US may finally start competing in areas like infrastructure, housing, and education rather than letting the private sector take the wheel.
I’ve wondered about it for years; why is the ‘paste’ command not ‘paste without style’ by default? A system level option to change this would be a vast improvement.

I’ve seen all sorts of gross workarounds. The URL bar is my go to these days, mainly because that works on mobile.
I like to prepare my rice as if were pasta (i.e., tons of water, which gets drained and discarded at the end) to reduce the arsenic by half.
I think the popsicle example may be backwards - they must change phase before they can begin to rise above 0 degrees, and the phase change is a tipping point that takes a ton of energy
Being a single use device has its benefits. Rice cookers are lighter weight than an instant pot and have a single button, making them extremely easy to operate. I find this is very helpful to me when cooking.
As a recovering fe modeler, I understand completely.
Colorado uses paper ballots. It's an all-mail voting state so every voter is mailed a paper ballot which is then dropped off or mailed back.
If it doesn't work for a website as large as technically forward as GitHub in 2024, the odds are not looking good.
Excel also has no problem with more than a dozen typefaces, with one size/style of each (I just tested it.)

The error message is probably using “fonts” in the technically correct sense for combinations of typeface, size, and style, while the user experiencing the error is probably confused and reporting that they are only using 8 “fonts” using the term to mean typefaces (which is how Excel itself uses the term in the UI, with the typeface selector using the label “Fonts”.) But if you are using 8 typefaces, using multiple sizes and styles of each, you can easily be using over 100 actual fonts.
The Language of Faces
Chinese Unitree's demos are better by now imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dFTc4W8wm0
Good old LibreOffice. I too fall back on that when Sheets fails me. It takes effort to justify Excel (or even Office) licenses in my workplace, but LibreOffice is available and approved for use. I won't say the 90s era interface impresses me, but it has become a shockingly solid product.
You are comparing a live demo with many bots interacting with humans, versus a recording of a single bot in a factory by itself.
You can do blood tests to catch cancer mutations, used presently. Many blood tests.

It can be a cancer mutating. It can be the cancer not mutating (occurs after drug given) but is mutated (mutation occurred already). We have a population of a billion cancer cells. Treat with drug. 999 million die, 1 million survive because they had that mutation conferring "fitness" i.e. resistance to drug. three months later, we have a billion cancer cells again, descended from the 1 million cells. Now those billion cells also get the next line of therapy. 999 million die, 1 million survive. 3 months later, those 1 million are now a billion again. And so on. Point being, I'd think of it more as a selection mechanism as Darwin taught us, not the cancer automatically generating a resistance mutation - the blind watchmaker. In this case there was probably a mutation changing or downregulating the antibody target, probably HER2 or something related.

I don't know what "rejecting the antibody" means. You would need to look up the ADME to understand physiology and think about how the cancer might modulate that.

All this talk of "oh how do we catch these mutations".. ... ... there are a few dozen companies that will tell you what mutations are there straight up, just from the blood. From the tumor, any hospital can tell you all the mutations. The problem isn't that we don't know. We can tell you the mutations. We can tell you the new mutations. So we find 100 mutations let's say. Okay. Next question, for each of the 100 mutations, does it cause resistance, yes or no? Do two of them together cause resistance? Are they from the same cell, they could be from distinct tumor lineages. You know most of the mutations are what are called "passenger mutations" right? Red herrings.

So this is the pathology of computer scientists. "If only a clever programmer took a crack at this, these biologists what with their humanities style miasmas and rote memorization topical field". Many have in fact... Bioinformatics goes as far back as the 1970s I'd say if not further. And that clever programmer did find all the mutations. Did a great job. Pretty well developed. Then you say "ah let us understand what the mutation does!" Okay. So now you're taking a subset of the broader field of genomic variation and computationally deriving how that variant influences trillions of different cells interacting with an antibody protein with a chemical bound to it. Congrats, if you're such a "clever programmer" than by solving this, you've solved life itself! Basically this notion is "this looks easy, what is this, like the 3-SAT problem, figure if someone was clever enough to take a crack at it then that would solve this whole 3-SAT issue!" completely blind to the fact that it's just as hard (and the same) as proving P=NP. So if you ARE a hardcore clever programmer, then this rabbit hole goes as deep if not deeper than P=NP, and the cancer will humble you, as this is what cancer does, to humble.
No offense but $0.09/GiB for DB read is so expensive. It sounds like servers would be querying Prisma over the internet? Then webmasters get to double pay their webhost for egress to the internet. Developers need to relearn how to self-host!
Yes, in different circumstances, I would have bars on my windows.
Data “engineering” is where all the cool kids go with no clue and create insane architectures to justify their incompetence
A game to understand AI alignement by making paperclips
I actually forgot to mention but if you add /json to your url it will already give you your links.

I am trying to make it difficult for bots to create/edit lynx because spam etc.

I should note it on the site that the confirmation might go to spam.
NYU Researchers Develop New Real-Time Deepfake Detection Method
> Notice the glass of champagne, indicating their celebratory mood at the time of the momentous discovery.

This looks more like a glass of wine, though in a plot twist there’s an open bottle of beer behind it.

Tangentially, I’m actually a bit surprised that any of the bricks got stuck together.
I love this! Great work! Just an idea here, since you already have a form with the `action` set up, you could do some kind of `noscript` section with like 10 preset `input` elements, where the "n+1"th input appears when strings are present for the "nth" ones (using :has or something like that... the internet is lousy with examples of how to do this kind of thing). To go really hardcore "progenhance" you could even wrap that all in a @supports CSS rule. (So "if you don't want to use CSS, here's all 10 inputs. Have fun, sailor.")
It's very uncommon to use them for any common expenses like groceries or gas. I use them for a quarterly HOA payment, yearly CPA tax preparation, petty government fines and fees, and donations to charity. Generally things that you mail a payment for and you want a record of the payment. Most of these I could do electronically but I don't really save any time doing so because of the friction of setting up the payment.
A creative outlet is a need, to some. You sound like OP's employees.
It's not...? Well, not directly: It's string interpolating an array of values, and the array is constructed using values from the results of expressions. These are separate features that compose nicely.
Is it?

For example, you can understand some event putting others in great misfortune, even in detail, and you can go through that misfortune yourself. The latter grants a very different understanding. It's similar to what the rest of that sentence conveyed. I don't know why anyone would understand this any other way actually.
I doubt that. Pandas is stupidly powerful... for raw data, experiments, and ML model training/inference. But in my experience it rapidly becomes an esoteric box at times when you need to get data back out of it.
It is just fuzzy from zooming up screenshots, a by product of the subpixel aliasing.

If it doesn't, you could probably add a post processing filter to https://github.com/wez/wezterm or https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Notice the Cheneys and John Boltons of the world also have seemed to flipped with them.
I've had him as a sociology teacher in the early 2000s, specifically on this subject (controversies).

It was apparently his first time in this school, and he was not prepared for the controversy that happened due to his (controversial) stance on the scientific method. He ended up calling us names, and privileged kids (that part was 97% true, but not entirely true...).

It's only after his death that many articles praising him appeared. I guess people capitalize on its notoriety rather than on whatever bullshit he wrote...
I took a course in undergrad, and was exposed to it in grad school again, and for the life of me I still don't understand the derivations either Galerkin or variational.
That just seems so unlikely. What sort of out-of-touch ego monster, bigger than Jesus, flaming asshole would do this?
Do they have to be one or the other?
More likely, the word bug itself had different connotations at the time.

No surprise that the word bug itself is etymologically linked to goblins or ghosts in the time period referred to. And fits perfectly with the usage in the quoted paragraph.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/bug
Family from southern Alabama. Again, not common, but it existed outside of Georgia and NC. People always looked at me weird when I would talk about it, but certainly a memorable experience.
I haven't like, checked the code, but I have seen this glow in websites that used a JS library called prism (or PrismJS).
New Regularization Method for Divergent Series
How is its situational awareness? While walking with its elbow out carousing the item, would it avoid an object that would be out of its view by the time it was about to collide with its extended elbow?
Not sure what you mean by 'full featured' - this is a microcontroller, with no OS.

That said, yes, I could have had it talk SMTP directly - there is a SMTP library that works in MicroPython - but I figured I'd rather be able to do some stuff "in the middle", and not have to update the device itself. For instance, I might decide I want to have it consolidate all the messages into a single email. I can do that easily by updating my endpoint, without having to ever touch the device.

And the endpoint is self-hosted, by the way.
Yes, but sugar having a substantial effect as observed does not rule out fat type also having some effect, perhaps as a modulator or synergistic process, such as sugar being the main driver but the body being less capable of coping with sugar when most of what it gets is dead food high in linoliec acid.
Reminds me of a group of friends that played call of duty together in the CoD4/WaW days. Individually we were mid-tier players on average. As a group, we completely dominated. We all knew each other's strengths, weaknesses, and general tactics. There was often no need to communicate specifics because we knew where each other would be and what we were doing.

We were always giddy when we got matched with a clan, especially if they were a mouthy crew.
Lots of appeal to popularity, "most people accept" a lot of things.

>Specint, on the other hand, is useful for assessing specific tasks if you plan to run identical workloads. [...] These tests focus on very narrow tasks that can highlight the unique strengths of certain instructions or system features but are not representative of overall real-world performance.

What? First, SPECint is an aggregate of 12 benchmarks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECint#Benchmarks), none of them synthetic in any way. They're also ranging from low to high level, it's not just number crunching.
Sure, it's missing stuff like browser benchmarks to better represent the average user, but it's certainly not as useless as what you seem to imply.

Any "system wide" benchmark is aggregating too much into a single number to mean anything, in any case.

And this subthread is about using benchmarks to compare HARDWARE, not whole systems, so this discussion is pretty much meaningless.
If the speed of tabulation is the main reason then why are results no longer known by election night? They're saying it might be days again. When we had paper ballots, we knew that night. (For America)
No joke, I built a Excel compiler once. All functions written became legit code you could compile down to a binary. But wow, I learned a lot about how complex that could get... my intermediate language was technically readable, but when every cell is a function, it got so big it would break the target binary compiler unless I split it up. Good times though....
Not sure I’d call IE11 a modern browser. Aren’t they leaving more size/speed improvements on the table by supporting it?
Bluesky and Enshittification
The culture around sweets in India is different than from the West. You're supposed to eat one little square piece of a sweet or a couple of gulab jamun balls and that's it. Indians don't sit with a big plate of Indian sweets like it's the "dessert" course of their meal.

That's why Western sweets are less sweet. You don't just eat a single one-inch cube of cheesecake, you eat a whole plate-sized portion of it which is like ten such cubes. Naturally it can't be as sweet as an Indian sweet.

Even growing up my parents said you're supposed to eat 1 Skittle and put the packet away (no joke). The fact that people in the West snack on a whole packet of Skittles was a culture shock.
The non-solid have evolved so much during the last year that now the solid ones are not even better in density. However, I assume the solid state batteries can evolve further since this will just be the first generation.

Normally the promised benefits of solid state batteries were these:
- More density
- More safety
- More cycles
- Better in high and low temperatures
- Probably cheaper in the long term

At the moment LFP batteries are caching up with a lot of these improvements and the sodium-ion also are starting to improve, reduce price and offer advantages in extreme temperatures. Their density is not good but I think for homes and large storage facilities they can also be a winner if they become very cheap.
I find it hard to trust managing Postgres database to someone who decided to use CamelCase by default for the table and column naming in Postgres
I like the programmers on here telling the professional users that Excel is overblown and they could just use Numbers, OpenOffice or Google sheets.

Imagine an accountant coming on here and telling you that you don't need vi, emacs, sublime text or VSCode. You certainly don't need your IDEs. After all it's perfectly possible to code in Notepad.

You also don't need your languages. BASIC was perfectly good.

The killer feature of Excel for financial modelling, over 'proper' software, databases etc is portability and auditability.

Everything I do at work is subject to external audit. Every audit firm in the world has Excel. The tax advisors have Excel too, as to the tax authorities. Apprentices are trained in Excel. The people I hire may not have used our ERP, but they have all used Excel. It is the one constant in our world. The actual accounting records are in an ERP, but all of the outputs are in Excel. I have worked at several multinationals and several SMEs. Excel was everywhere.
There’s a lot of finish in the Microsoft products.

Views are so much faster to pick settings in Excel. You can format tables and indent them (nested ledger) You can get higher information density.

It’s always amazing to me to wade through “how to x” in Google and see 100s of people asking for years.

Google docs and numbered headings is one of those.
I am happy to say, I've never been on the side of a Cheney. Go me!
Meshlet Compression
Because the vast majority of people driving cars don't have enough of a mental model of the vehicle systems to consider such a thing, especially in a panic situation such as unintended acceleration.

If you've driven rattletrap manuals for most of your life, and have worked on cars, rebuilt engines, replaced clutches, rewired things that failed, yeah. That's an obvious conclusion, and I expect some people without doing that will have enough sense of what's going on to consider a drop to neutral (and letting the rev limiter handle keeping the engine intact).

But go ask most people, even in technical fields, about the details of a car, and you'll struggle to get much beyond "I press the gas and it goes." You run into this constantly if you're a "car guy" and people ask you questions about why their car isn't going. "It turns over but doesn't start!" can mean anything from "the lights are barely on and nothing happens" to "the starter relay clicks but nothing happens" to what I would consider that to mean, "the engine is rotating under the starter's power but is not engaging in sustained internal combustion."

Neutral isn't a thing most people even think about, unfortunately. Park, Drive, Reverse, and some oddball other positions that you don't want to end up in accidentally. Yes, they're useful, and yes, they solve problems, but it's not something that a lot of people would consider. Neither do they seem to consider "Stand on the brakes until the car comes to a stop. No, really, stand on them!" - because I've yet to meet a moderately well maintained vehicle that can't come to a stop with the gas floored and the brakes applied firmly (yes, I've tried, it's a standard test of mine after brake work). But if you only apply partial brake pressure, or have a vacuum brake booster, you only get a few attempts before the booster has lost vacuum (won't get any more, because wide open throttle), and if you've heated up your brakes trying without succeeding, you may very well have no usable brakes left. Passenger car brakes are adequate, but you can easily overheat them and fade them if you try, or boil the fluid, or... etc. Again, not something you'll find many people aware of these days.

I wish it were different, but "magic box I put gas into and it goes" is closer to the reality of how many people consider cars these days.
Simply patch a 32 bits exécutable at adress 0xDC and apply 0 for turning your exe as console app or 1 to turn it as GUI
GP is talking about the code sections and the "CRT effect" that was added via CSS. Press "Toggle glow" to make it obvious what effect that is.
Spann: Highly-Efficient Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (2021)
Not sure why this is downvoted. It’s the absolute summation of this sort of thing. Anyone who grew up in that time period can immediately relate to both the personal feeling of it, as well as the anonymity and isolation of these things from the “real world.”
It's not your servers reputation that's the problem it's mine. Your server is likely rejecting my email.

But I'd have to check the logs.
A nonzero number of illegal immigrants do vote. I don’t know if there is data on how often (my guess is it is rare). But when it is caught, the vote remains counted.

As for descendants, they vote mostly for democrats. I don’t have a source on hand but I’m sure it is easy to find. You can also look at data by ethnicity instead of immigration status to get an idea. Also this skews other parts of the political process, outside of the presidency.
Not having to worry whether some selector matches any elements is part of what makes jQuery attractive to many though. It's very "fire and forget", you send off your command to hide all .foo, and if there are any .foo they will be hidden, and if there are no .foo, nothing happens and you don't need to worry about it, much like CSS. If you write .foo { color: red; } and there isn't any .foo in the document it doesn't do anything but also has no negative side-effects (except that tiny overhead).
It doesn't show him, but I found warming this video [1] of his guild singing together during a video chat with him, as he couldn't join them. It was shared by a guild member under the parents' last post to his blog, which is linked in the article.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2leimccyacl7wlg/With%20Ibelin%20DK...
Our credibility has been suddenly made synonymous with how willing we are to go to war on behalf of other countries . We are not

But I think any attack on an American force will get you a quick lesson on our credibility, which, as an American, is all I really care about.

Similarly economically, good luck not participating in the American markets.
Title: Universal Paperclips Many discussions

2023 (183 points, 165 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972227

2022 (403 points, 170 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446121

2021 (176 points, 82 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29496595
An acquaintance I used to live near has a custom pool in her yard that she designed and specified via Excel! She's a programmer, so she could have used a wide range of tools but Excel was what she reached for and it evidently did the trick nicely.

The thing that stands out to me in these stories is that spreadsheet programs are a (1) the most common site of programmability that features in anyone's lives, even non-programmer; and (2) for many tasks, spreadsheets sit at some kind of local optimum in a tradeoff between simplicity and power. (There's surely something for engineers and designers to learn from the second point.)

It seems like a connection worth celebrating, between people like us and the mostly non-programming public— a little piece of overlap between two worlds.
Snagging the good names!

Thanks for the example :)
Including the safeguards where observers are safely kept away from the counting! There were a lot of irregularities in 2020. The supreme Court recently said Pennsylvania should not have counted some of the ballots it did in 2020 (policy change by secretary of state vs legislature).
Lots of rosin also.
On windows at least you can use a code signing certificate in your build tooling and ask the OS to verify any binaries that you download. Just make sure you use a timestamping server for your code signing or things will break when the certificate expires.