skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a different kind of "denialism" when people think the magic solution will come somehow, someday soon (i.e. denying how fucked we are, or lying to ourselves that we have the resource budget to produce millions of EVs when in reality all car production needs to be ended, or denying that interplanetary salvation is just too god damn far away timewise):

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/...

The selfishness is now apparent, hey someone just got reelected promising it'll be better for "us" and that we're going to get rid of "them", and the fuck-the-poor-hungry-climate-catastrophe-victims rightwing populism is rising in Europe too.
In Russia programmers working at accredited IT-companies are safe from mobilization [0]

> I think that's a pretty strong indication of the sentiment.

Some left following their western employers, some fled from the mobilization in 2022.

>And wrt the economy, didn't the Central Bank just increase the benchmark rate to 21%

It did, that's why I said 'mostly'. Kremlin is pumping money into defense industry and into payments to contract soldiers, the Central Bank is doing what it can to curb the inflation. Overall it hasn't affected the life much.

[0] https://www.gosuslugi.ru/armydelay
It's already an importany part of diagnostics and treatment! A lot of therapies are approved not just for specific cancers but for specific cancers with specific mutations. As with everything cancer it turned out to be more complicated than expected (not surprising given that it's essentially an outcome from chaotic uncontrolled genetic mutation and evolution) but sequencing progressing at like an order of magnitude faster than Moore's law and better understanding of all the -omics is making a dent
> And if you care about data integrity, you shouldn't be using these [ext4 or XFS]

FUD. i've been using ext4 since it came out (and ext2 and ext3 before that), on dozens of computers, and have literally never once had any corruption with it. With XFS i had one instance of filesystem corruption way back in the early 2000's. i've read of _many_ more cases of data loss with ZFS and Btrfs on Linux than i have read about due to ext4 corruption.
People are just bored of security sensationalism I guess. Too many people want to gain visibility just by reporting either something little-known (but still known) or that needs stars to align in a proper way to be exploitable at all.
If anyone wants to try this, work through the artithmetic, it’s incredibly easy (and a fun Saturday morning exercise if you’re into this kind of thing) to code up on ShaderToy. From scratch is fun, but if you need a hint to get started I just made one https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Mc3cW2 and there are a bunch of super clever text hacks other people have done like this Matrix in less than 300 characters https://www.shadertoy.com/view/llXSzj or green CRT display effect https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XtfSD8. Loads of other examples abound if you look around.
You would be surprised :)

A couple of my friends who work in the financial domain showed surprise at this post - they had no idea this was possible. I guess most people just assume databases 'just work'?
That's the first thing I thought of! I wonder how used these are. Are there any sources or data points indicating that this commonvoice data is being used, and if so, where/how? I think I may have contributed to this a few times back years ago. Nice to see it's still going, would be better to know it's being used.
They fought fire with fire and won. If the Democrats dropped identity politics that approach wouldn't work
I believe this is the HN discussion of their publication: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41467503
Ada is so good for embedded. Loving it.
Look at the rest of the bullets on that list. They did this as a safety measure. They didn’t want workers getting shot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/militia-t...
https://archive.is/tCEv1
Liver/kidneys are organs where toxins are filtered, from the prey the predator consumes.

I am not a biologist obviously.

Because of the "food chain" actually being a pyramid, those organs contain the same "toxins" that are to be avoided, exponentially accumulating in whatever "organ" had the function to add resiliency by storing these toxins.
Curious how people interact with LLMs besides just going to chat.com/Claude directly. I've been trying aichat but not sure yet if it's worth it, especially given the token pricing vs the flat fee structure on the website.
Sudden drops of the blood glucose level aren't good for health.
it's not hard and not that much work. there are tons of people making their own 3d engines for fun all the time. Usually they get something on the screen relatively quickly. There are articles and YouTube channels all over on how to do it. If you want to make all of UE5 then it's a lot of work but if you just want to display a pBR 3d model it's a day's work if you already know how and a few days if you don't

rebuilding every feature of a 3d engine takes lots of time but getting to a lit model does not.
On an ecosystem (not geological) level, one could argue that space colonization is reproduction and that spaceships are the ecosystem's spores.
You do not understand what a sum type is. At all.

There are innumerable ways you can rectify this lack of understanding if you want to.
This is amazing, nice work. Definitely one of the better starter kits I have seen.
The context of that comment is a parent comment asking about medical self experimentation. You're also not allowed to administer scheduled substances to yourself in many jurisdictions and plenty of other things like that but that's not what I was replying to.
My simple knowledge management and time tracking system
You can always email Daniel dang and see if they are open to it. hn@ycombinator.com It may be a while maybe a couple days to get a response. Link to this thread so he has context.
1991 Edition

https://www.gao.gov/products/imtec-91-70br

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO obtained information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) implementation of legislation which mandated using the Ada programming language for all software development, where cost-effective.
Ballsy move.
Tech Stack for a Solo Developer
The main point of the Nature article is, frankly, stupid. Imagine if a close friend or family member (brother/sister, child, mother, dather, etc) passed away when a cure was within reach, and your oncologist either lacked the insight or the ethical commitment to tell you.

In a conversation like this, I’d want to tag people who’ve lost loved ones to highlight the importance of ‘skin in the game.’ This issue isn’t abstract for those who’ve experienced loss firsthand.
And if RFK’s org hadn’t taken up a medical error and spent millions in advertising to convince Samoans that it was the vaccine and not human error that caused the two deaths, there would be two dead kids and not over 80. How in the world can anyone defend measles vaccine truthers in this day and age?
You're thinking of Amazon giving Ring footage to police without warrants.
People swung over to Trump because they're sick of this shit and want change. He's offering change, bad though it may be. Neoliberalism was strongly repudiated this election, and now the Democrats have to actually swing left if they want to win again. Saying "you just think things are bad, but look at line go up" stopped working
It depends on whether the murderer intends to get away with it.
> Drives, controllers, and file systems lying about write durability is another great reason to add more robustness, good point

No, the solution for that is to not use these, not to greatly entangle layers via workarounds in the ones above them.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the purpose of finding prime numbers that are insanely large?
The pressures that lead to a conservative auto maker like Toyota starting to pack their cars with tech and features are the same that lead to an erosion in quality control.

If Toyota is packing cars with features that they actually believe in and have taken time to make robust, then no problem.

But if they are doing that to keep up with the pack, therein lies the issue.
While I think I agree that there are many posts here on HackerNews announcing a new model compression technique, your characterization above understates the technical innovations and practical impacts described in this MIT paper.

Unlike traditional model compression work that simply applies existing techniques, SVDQuant synthesizes several ideas in a comprehensive new approach to model quantization:

- Developing a novel outlier absorption mechanism using low-rank decomposition — this aspect alone seems quite novel, although the math is admittedly way beyond my level

- Combining SVD with smoothing in a way that specifically
addresses the unique challenges of diffusion models

- Creating an innovative kernel fusion technique (they call it “Nunchaku”) that makes the theoretical benefits practically realizable, because without this, the extra computation required to implement the above steps would simply slow the model back down to baseline

This isn't just incremental improvement - the paper achieves several breakthrough results:

- First successful 4-bit quantization of both weights AND activations for diffusion models

- 3.5x memory reduction for 12B parameter models while maintaining image quality

- 3.0x speedup over existing 4-bit weight-only quantization approaches

- Enables running 12B parameter models on consumer GPUs that previously couldn't handle them

And, I’ll add, as someone who has been following the diffusion space quite actively for the last two years, the amount of creativity that can be unleashed when models are accessible to people with consumer GPUs is nothing short of astonishing.

The authors took pains to validate their approach by testing it against three models (Flux, PixArt-Sigma, and SDXL) and along several quality-comparison axes (FID score, Image Reward, LPIPS, and PSNR). They also did a proper ablation study to see the contribution of each component in their approach to image quality.

What particularly excites me about this paper is not the ability to run a model that eats 22GB of VRAM in just 7GB. The exciting thing is the prospect of running a 60GB model in 20GB of VRAM. I’m not sure whether anyone has or is planning to train such a monster, but I suspect that Midjourney, OpenAI, and Google all have significantly larger models running in their infrastructure than what can be run on consumer hardware. The more dimensions you can throw at image and video generation, the better things get.
Early versions of OS/X weren't that stable either, I remember it crashing every time I pulled an already ejected USB key.
But 99.72 % of the time, it does.
How would drinking water or bringing a towel help people avoid being shot?
As Dawkins points out in `Selfish Gene`, it's the DNA sequence that's the evolutionary entity. For example, all mothers (and most fathers) protect their young even though it's a food source. Eating your own species (even children of other mothers) is counterproductive for the DNA itself, despite being productive for the particular copy of the animal doing the eating.
I would have assumed it did by anticipating. Musicians reading sheet music tend to read ahead, but that could be something else entirely.
if they could get the current one under control first that would be greeeat. it's been 5 years now...
> You can do whatever you want to yourself.

No you can't. Maybe in your country.

For ex, it's suicide is illegal where I live. Yeah.
That article is from 9 years ago. Is there any more recent review which comes to similar conclusions?

But also, if you’re running sqlite, your main goal is probably not to be a database server but to do some other primary objective that happens to benefit from using a database for some things.
I’m asking rhetorical questions

You may want to try understanding what has factually been happened in the conflict. You know, for its own sake.

Instead of just asking rhetorical questions, and imagining the stories that you think people must be telling about it.
Google puts Nvidia on high alert as it showcases Trillium, its rival AI chip
No. The expression of genes is controlled by their environment. We are products of both nature and nurture.
The font has slightly changed over the years. Notably, the "E" glyph originally had a longer lower arm, and the "!" and "?" glyphs are often different between variants of the font. Super Mario Bros also notably modifies the 8 to have a straight crossbar instead of intersecting spines.
Muscles and nerves adapt to physical challenges to make higher intensity efforts easier in three ways: better effort coordination, higher demand signaling, and higher force produced by muscle fibers.

(We tend to think of just the latter, but all three significantly impact “strength”.)

Each of these has mechanisms of maintenance and faster recovery after use lapses. Which can all be described as memory.

First, the spinal cord and motor cortex learn more effective coordination. Proper coordination of muscles impacts strength by ensuring our different muscles cooperate effectively to apply force where we need it. We imagine simple movements as simple efforts, but they are really a series of coordinated multiple muscle response.

This can be considered “normal” neural/cognitive learning and memory in the brain, spinal coord and nervous system.

Second, our nervous system learns to send higher intensity demand signals to the muscles.

I don’t know what the mechanism is here. Maybe higher coordination of simultaneous signals within the muscle? Maybe an increase in signal strengths? An increase in nerve cells? A combination? In any case, once learned, this learning is mostly maintained despite loss of stimulus and relearned quickly.

This creates a common source of injury. After a workout hiatus, our ability to demand intense muscle response can exceed the abilities of our reduced muscle’s capabilities. It can feel too easy to push our bodies hard again, resulting in injuries that abort the attempt to restart training.

Restart weight lifting programs with patience and caution, until muscles catch up with the renewed overload, hypertrophy and recovery cycle.

The third very long term memory mechanism in muscle cells is quite interesting: myonuclear accretion. Support cells merge with muscle cells permanently giving them multiple nuclei, permanently increasing their ability and speed to create the proteins we need for hypertrophy (muscle growth) and recovery (repair and energy store recuperation).

Myonuclear accretion allows muscle cells to grow far beyond their original limits. And accounts for why previously trained muscles can retain a modestly higher level of strength and size, even after training regimen lapses.

All three memory mechanisms account for why regaining previous high levels of strength happens faster, with less effort, than it took to gain any level of strength the first time.

Aother memory mechanism include higher interoception, prioperception, kinematics, and higher level learning regarding exercise form, workout discipline, workout organization, body limitations, injury warnings, positive associations with making effort, etc. that are all result in long term increased strength and ability recover and accumulate it.
Because it’s not illegal? But certainly should be.
IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
We demonstrated in 2022 that they don't.

There is no single mechanism that does. Paying well is always a component in attracting talent (see my original comment)

It is not a guarantor of quality/motivation. That's ongoing leadership work. And part of that is maintaining/kindling pride in people's work (and firing the ones who are just there for the money)
cursor and all the other ai code editors always write bad enough code that i have stopped using them completely.

i like the inline completions that things like supermaven provides or github copilot or even the jetbrains full line completion models.

Apart from that, I might use Claude or Chat GPT to talk about an idea, but I don't really use it much. I prefer to use my real life experience and skills.

Maybe if you're a junior developer, your projects might work with AI editors, but it's also the worst time for you to use them because you will never develop your own skills.

As a fancy autocomplete with a given pattern but with different things which pre-AI autocomplete didn't recognize that's where all these tools really shine but it's a very small subset.

The one thing which has changed my life though is like the Whisper voice input. I use it on the Mac using Mac Whisper and on my phone using the FUTO keyboard and it's just amazing. Like right now I'm typing all of this without any single edit. It just gets all of it correct.
Exactly. There are non-monetary rewards to doing good work: esprit de corps from a team of coworkers you like and respect, satisfaction and pride in your craft, positive responses from users, and so on.

For many, promotion is like winning a pie-eating contest only to find that the prize is: more pies. It’s fine to recognize that your interests and your employer’s are only loosely aligned and to decline to play the game the way they want you to.
Our plan is to make BemiDB work with dbt by leveraging the Postgres-compatibility (supported dbt adapters https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/trusted-adapters). So it should be possible to transform data from Postgres or directly from BemiDB, which may actually perform better.

You're right, the data engineering world is complex, constantly evolving, and has many various solutions. I'd also like to know about any good resources that people use :)

For us, we mostly talked to many potential users asking about their data setups and challenges, and had many conversations with friends and experts in this field. I also read a few weekly newsletters, substracks, and follow people in this space on X (many recently started posting on Bluesky). For a deeper research, reading docs and specs, experimenting, watching talks, listening to podcasts, reading subreddits, etc.
Yeah, imagine all those million dollar cancer drugs that dont really work, when you could just inject traditional vaccines to tumor
I don’t disagree with your take. The concept of the semantics of “what is alive?” has been going on for a long while now.

Have you considered that this is a more formal version of a Bill Nye science explainer, but for adults?

The reason I say this is that while unintended (I think) your post has a, “of course they’re alive, we’ve known this forever” vibe, which can inadvertently come across as condescending.

I don’t mean to pick on you, we’re all guilty of such speak when we deem concepts to be obvious or well known.

Your post reminds me of the “1 in 10,000” XKCD comic:

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Again, I don’t disagree that your knowledge of history and science is correct. Am just curious why you wrote your explainer in the way you did.
FWIW I said I’d be concerned, not surprised.

SQLite isn’t doing anything wrong here, IMO — people who use non-ECC ran for critical workloads are.

But people do wrong things all the time, so it doesn’t surprise me.
Beyond a points its curiosity and pushing existing computational techniques to their limits. Sometimes it leads to new discoveries in computational techniques or in rarer cases new theoretical work.

Long story short, it’s fun to find out new things about weird numbers :)
Well, they still send a lot of data to servers, and this data comes from somewhere.
When machine learning tells the wrong story
>They still run a very large ad network.

If you expect perfection you are always going to be disappointed.
99% of my youtube viewing is via the subscriptions page
You don't see the difference between allowing whatsapp to run, vs allowing whatsapp to install apps?

You don't see the difference between allowing a dedicated app installer app written by an author with no other goal and no other source of reputation to install apps, vs allowing a random app to install apps just to hopefully only use that power to keep itself updated and do so in a way that only serves your interests and not those of the apps author?
(ie it will never be a Facebook and one day decide that it wants you to use Messenger, and that's the nicest example let alone something hidden)

The thing that you give permission to install apps must be a seperate thing written by a seperate author who has no incentive to install or remove any other apps.
It wasn't always as partisan in the United States as it is now. It's likely there are multiple reasons for this, but I think one that's underappreciated is that the actions available to us today for slowing or stopping climate change are basically limited to reducing consumption in general and energy consumption in particular -- and that these happen to align with preexisting policy preferences of some on the "left". Additionally, industries focused on carbon extraction have long been aligned in the US with the Republican party and these industries would feel the greatest sting from efforts to reduce consumption.

Over the past two decades, the dialog has shifted a bit along lines like "the Earth isn't getting warmer, and if it is then it's not humans that are responsible and if they are then we can't do anything about it anyway" which feels to me like the "truth" being projected is whatever doesn't require any action. Human nature being what it is, it's debatable whether any effort aimed at changing people's behavior could ever be successful, and trying to make them feel bad about it may even be counterproductive.

On the whole (and echoing another comment), you're not likely to get reliable information about climate change from any generalist source of information. Every time there's a slightly unusual weather event, there are a brigade of voices trying to tie it to climate change. Actual researchers understand that you simply can't ascribe individual events in that fashion; the best you can do is to look at trends and try honestly to look at all possible factors for them. Forest fires are in the US seem to be getting worse, and it's probable that some amount of that is a direct or indirect result of climate change. But there have also been a lot of changes in forestry management over the last century, and an increase in the number of people living in affected areas -- and both of these clearly have some role in our perception too.
Science seeks better predictors of what makes a good service dog
https://archive.ph/oCkFm
Again, too late to edit, but there's some interesting related content here:

https://hackaday.io/project/5283-potpourri/log/21475-laser-i...

https://hackaday.com/2015/07/24/self-built-interferometer-me...
A spreadsheet engine. It's a React app with a Rust backend, but it impressed me how snappy it was[0]. Of course, it's not nearly as feature rich as Google Sheets, not to mention Excel.

[0]: https://app.ironcalc.com/
We will see if this statement is valid or not depending on how Ladybird works out.
This is a valid question. Thinking back to the freeway system that was built in a few decades, I can’t help but be cynical when I see a single interchange in a city take 10 years to build. Many things (not all of course) seem to take longer to accomplish.
Your app is a massive target, if your domain or web server is taken over, what implications would this have on the end users using your app (if any)?
What Is Setelinleikkaus?
Tech support world record? 8.5 seconds from seeing to fixing
The Atari ST is my favourite 16-bit machine
A brief history of privacy protection on Macs
Thanks! https://github.com/dandavison/delta/pull/1893

> To automatically display the light or dark version of images depending on their gh theme

Ah, good call. That could be a nice improvement -- creating light and dark versions of the screenshots with switching as you describe.