skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like Seattle, the police cannot chase criminals who steal cars, use them to brake into businesses and then drive off with the ATM in the back. The last is so left there that they are not allowed to chase them.

On top of the homeless craziness everywhere.
My friends and I believe these are more people-problem than anything else. If we iterate at solving that people-problem as much as possible; introduction of patterns, processes, etc., will eventually lead to better work results.

For instance, even if a team has the best-intentioned tools such as Project Management, CRM, Wiki, Documentation, etc., if the teams do not use them well, they are always bad tools.

Separating toolings (including all of the methodologies) from the ways and the culture of how a team works will be more beneficial to the team and, hence, benefit the company.
I don't buy that. Trump is president now, on his last term. Twitter doesn't give him any power over Trump.
From Circuit to Code: Under the Hood of Analog Modelling – Andrew Simper – ADC20 [video]
PE = Placebo Effect
Cash Is a Core Technology
The infection may have happened despite the neti pot, not because of it
libkrun (on Linux) is probably a closer comparison (though still not quite the same). https://github.com/containers/libkrun
What an incredibly on-the-nose anecdote, I love it!

The term of art for this strategy is "size to the horizon". Imagine you're looking across an open plain. The trees and rocks closer to you are bigger and you can make out more detail. The ones further away are still abstract.

You have to know exactly what to do with the things right in front of you, but you have to keep only a general awareness of that which is distant.
A peripheral heretic? An early fourteenth-century heresy trial from Sweden
Indeed! Bollywood makes it to HN xD
By ending segregation
A commercial medical ultrasound imaging device in doppler mode can pick up and map onto the image plane some of the vessels in the brain through the skulls. But mostly just through the temporal bones(where the skulls is like 1-2mm thick). (The commercial machines run doppler on lower frequency than imaging signal so you get no s tructural image this way, only the color doppler map(unless you find a place in the skull where an emissary vein passes through the bone table where the image signal can ride through))
In the UK, using bitcoin is a taxable transaction, and acquiring bitcoin requires you to do so through regulated exchanges with full know your customer checks. So the government know you have bitcoin, they know your wallet address and they can see that you made a transaction, that you should be declaring and paying tax on.

I don't want a tax evasion charge hanging over my head and I can't be bothered declaring crypto transactions on my tax return, particularly when I'm using to buy medication that I may not be legally allowed to buy.
> There are diminishing returns but they don't really kick in until you're already pretty fit, they are only really a concern that athletes need to think about.

Unfortunately, it's people at both ends of the fitness curve that have to be careful about increased exercise frequency/intensity. On the less-fit side, the primary concern is accumulating minor injuries that reduce capacity for exercise even further leading into a downward spiral.
That we can just rely on some basic, useful properties is, in my mind, one of the key differences to "third world countries". I don't need to check if my tap water has lead in it because I know that I won't, so I can use this time more effectively to "increase the GDP". I've lived in Vietnam for a year and learned there how impactful these guarantees can be. It is absolutely possible to deal with the problems, but especially in sum it wastes a lot of time and money.

In the west, I should not need to check that my utility or email provider is trying to screw me over. I should be able to rely on clean water coming out of the tap all the time, with minimal effort (paying fair bills) on my part.

The provider cannot claim that is would be too expensive, or that it would scale worse - that's a solvable problem. If it is more expensive, then that's the true cost that just has to be paid. Yes, the company cannot just dump your waste in the river. Yes, the company cannot just deactivate an email account with sending a paper letter.
The Copilot Pause
its layout engine is the real magic for me, it allows complex diagrams that are just unreadable in graphviz or mermaid. a concise DSL and animation support are bonuses too
> I don't think I've ever met a cyclist who's opposed to separated infrastructure for bikes and cars.

Then I think you've never met a cyclist. As in actually riding a lot, not as in owning a bike and having occasionally achieved the balancing act. I know enough cyclists to hear about someone getting hit by a car multiple times a year and a large majority of those cases are getting hit in intersections (and in interactions with driveways) while traveling on "separated" bike infrastructure. Because the reality is that it's never really separated, intersections do exist. That "separated" infrastructure? It's merely out of sight out of mind for the drivers. Which would be an effective strategy if your goal was to maximize accidents. Those people who keep getting hit on separate bike lanes? They already make bike lane avoidance a factor in their route selection and yet still most of their hits happen on the small subset of their miles that are on "separated" infrastructure, not on the many, many miles done in the lane.

Yes, some separated bike infrastructure feels nice to use. And a subset of that even happens to not be inherently dangerous. But that's only where that is easy to do. Yes, on an high traffic road that is so close to limited access design that it's always miles per instead of intersections per mile, yes, a well-built bike lane is nice. Even when it's separated. But those that keep cruising side streets, driveways and the like? They are dangerous thrill courses hated by all cyclists but a tiny minority. The tiny minority that sees themselves more like pedestrians who happen to sit while while almost walking than like actual cyclists.

And yes, I know the Netherlands exist. Safety in numbers can move the threshold and the exact same bike infrastructure that would be a bone-crushing through thrill course under little use can become quite tolerable when it's used so much that "out of mind" can never happen. But until you get there, prefer building better bike infrastructure over building more. And better means about separation except where it's for beyond the slightest doubt.
OpenBinder
Not involved in the posts above but I'll explain.

I own bitcoin. If it only ever increases in value, I'd have to be a complete idiot to spend it, when I have depreciating fiat to spend.
>What I realized is I just need to avoid the companies using Go

What do you mean, exactly?
As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback
Yeah that's the code I mean
I used it before for a simple geolockup service for a autocomplete.
Many human infections with 'cow flu' are going undetected
Ask HN: What do you tell kids when they ask "Where are IT skills used?"
I am volunteering for CoderDojo and some other youth projects and I got this question lately from children and their parents. Due to the nature of these events, I tend to speak to kids who enjoy programming already or a "good with computers". But even though they enjoy solving programming puzzles, they do not grasp the economic significance of software nor the career that it opens up.

This might be partially due to the confusion around "IT". To teachers here, and therefore students, it means "anything computer related". Their parents often think of IT as administrators of off-the-shelf soft- and hardware in enterprises. Using software engineering to solve interesting and/or valuable problems by building or extending software is something that is somehow outside their awareness. Especially because I tend to interact with a demographic in the UK that is quite removed from the silicon valley phenomenon.

So I struggle to give a concise answer because the real answer is: "Everywhere", "Software is eating the world" etc. But those answers are not satisfying because they dont really mean anything to the kids, nor their parents.

An option would be to try to give them a list of all the things I have built in the past, or all the software that they are interacting with, from websites to OSs and research projects etc. But that would be a long list and is either oddly specific or overly vague.

I worry, if it is too specific, kids might not identify with it and think CS / IT (whatever you call it) is boring. If it is too vague it does not really answer the question either.

So my question is, how would you answer this question if you had 1 minute, 5 minutes or 10 minutes? Apart from hackernews, are there good resources for the uninitiated (parents and kids) to get an intro into what software is used for in the real world that they can catch up with at home?
Astronomers discover a new repeating fast radio burst
Scientists just got 1 step closer to creating a 'superheavy' element
Basically most of the embedded folks that used GCC forks are now on clang, and if in the old days they were breaching GPL, nowadays they are fully compilant, so not upstreaming is not even a legal issue any longer.
Here's a cursed way of writing an ip address:
0xA.024.7720 where 0xA is hex, 024 is octal and last 2 octets are written as a decimal number
Paper by political scientists predicted election results in October
A group of political scientists published this piece back in October, before the election. They predicted every state correctly, a popular vote victory for Trump, and 3/4 chance of Trump victory in Electoral College.

The same people, using the same model, predicted a Biden victory in 2020 and 49/50 states correctly (they missed Georgia, which they predicted for Trump back then).

Their model uses the following fundamentals, for each state:

1. State deviation from national vote in t-1 election

2. Presidential approval rating in each state (estimated with Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification)

3. Economic conditions in each state (personal income deflated by CPI, unemployment rate, non-farm payroll employment, manufacturing hours by production workers)

4. Presidential and VP home-field advantage adjustments if they apply in the state

5. If VP runs, an adjustment to account for difference in approval rating between P and VP in question
Also after LLVM came to be, GCC gained on its official collection Go, D, and Modula-2 frontends.
> The doctors rarely tell you to eat your salads. "Here is a pill, thank you for your business".

That's because advice like this is useless. Everyone knows they should eat more vegetables, you need someone to guide you through habit formation, which is not what the doctors are for.
yes that one.

i'm sure the m4 is more powerful on paper, within the apple ecosystem, and running apple software.

but i prefer to be free and run what i want. also as someone who was really jaded on tech, i found these amd gpu's to be really amazing.

i still appreciate what the mac mini stands for, low energy and efficient. but not inside that walled garden.
Nvidia GH200 Grace CPU vs. AMD EPYC 9005 Turin CPU Performance Review
"Word"
How to Self-Assess as an Engineering Manager
Exactly. I'm more likely to go somewhere else with less friction.
In a democracy the government can‘t be smarter than the average person. If it is, it will be kicked out, because nobody likes to be teached.
Related: .NL domains will warn you if they detect you're still being sent email after the domain expired. I think they do some analysis on' who's looking up your MX records. Of course, there's also the usual grace period
I've read many opinions of those who used QNX on desktop in the past, that it felt much more "snappy" compared to other systems.

Desktop definitely has real time tasks. Any animation is real time task. When I'm listening to music, it's real time task. macOS sound interrupts for a short time, when something hardware-related happens, so it's not pleasant experience. You might argue that user can tolerate those interruptions, but for me those are just bugs.
I'm not a pharmaceutical chemist, but I've been to quite a few of their talks.

I'm really bothered by the focus on an academic group which 'investigates the effect of a particular molecule on a specific biological system, hoping that this effect will eventually help resolve a disease.' followed by following this particular molecule as 'the drug' all the way until approval.

My understanding is this omits a lot of difficult steps.

First, this is structured as the 'prototypical drug development story', but another story is that a group discovers that a given protein or other target is an important step in a given disease. Researchers at a company then evaluate it to see if they have anything which can affect that target, with none of the lead identification coming from academic. As I understand it, this is the far more common case.

Second, even the initial molecule has useful activity, it may have some other bad characteristics. The initial structure may go through a series of optimizations to, for example, reduce toxicity. The final drug may be quite different from the original "particular" molecule, perhaps only sharing some key pharmacophores.

Third, there is no mention of the process/scale-up chemistry used to turn a lab-oriented synthesis, with a lot of manual steps and waste issues, into one where 'Manufacturing authorized molecules is inexpensive'.
I wrote my fairly share of parsers the last year, and the one I liked a lot is from Salsa examples, you can find it here[0].

[0] https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa/blob/e4d36daf2dc4a09600975...
well observed. Why do we keep going in cycle?

I think because there are lots of different type of humans.

The motivated developer. The descipline strict developer.
The unfocused. The learner. The over the line stepper who wants more. etc

One process can not serve them all.
There's a great film showing how this process worked in the 1930s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLUD_NGE370
The fact that you would dismiss his lived experience this way is disgusting, problematic, patronizing, and sexist.
Watchdog: AI tools can be used unlawfully to filter candidates by race, gender
It is worse than that, as Go initially lacked generics (introduced by CLU and ML in 1976), still doesn't do even basic Pascal enumerations (1970) rather the iota/const dance, let alone the 1990's programming language design surface.

I only advocate for it on the scenarios where a garbage collected C is more than enough, regardless of the anti-GC naysayers, e.g. see TamaGo Unikernel.
no it is not..

There is E2E encryption for private ono on one conversations, but it is off by default and the option to enable it is buried behind a few screens ans several clicks..

And it is completely unavailable for group chats..

If you want more details, Matthew Green, the famous cryptographer from Johns Hopkins University have reviewed it recently

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...
GP is correct, that’s the definition of “lossy”. We don’t need to invent ever new marketing buzzwords for well-established technical concepts.
Nah, assuming that the question is really asking whether a chicken’s egg came first or a chicken, then it stands to reason that a chicken came first, from a dinosaur’s egg, and then a chicken’s egg.
Seems like a more exciting Rails release than I can remember in several years.

Curious about the benefits of Propshaft vs Sprockets, and how significant the improvements around SQLite in production really are.
Luxe Neo bidets are like $40-60, sturdy, easy to install and yes, rather life-changing.
This is a groan worthy interpretation. He’s saying you won’t have to vote based on those issues anymore because they’ll be fixed.

In the second he’s talking about managing physical discord, not rounding up people minding their own business in their homes or saying whatever on twitter. And he’s saying it specifically in the context of protecting the election process. He’s literally advocating for safe and harmonic voting.

This is why anti Trump rhetoric is exhausting. People grasp at the shortest of straws and make claims that basically feel like I’m being lied to.

There are endless real things to attack Trump on. Please stop lying to me and telling me he’s literally Hitler. He’s not, he’s just racist and shitty.
New NanoGPT speedrun record: 3.28 FineWeb val loss in 8.2 minutes on 8xH100
Right, so it’s not important enough for the decision makers, in relative terms, compared to all the other priorities and goals they have.

Like all the other potentialities not realized an organization can have…
This tracks with my feelings making and using Stable Diffusion Loras and fine tunes. Still, with the speed to train and use, Loras have worked for me in most use cases and it hasn't been worth fine tuning the entire model.
Just like domain expiration grace periods. The person you're responding to isn't wrong in that the bank will also absolutely come for your house if multiple attempts don't reach you. It may be exaggerated but registrars are happy to sell you more stuff and always (in my experience with various providers anyway) send announcements, reminders, and notices even if, granted, they won't do as much effort as a bank

People also don't seem to have trouble holding onto other things in life with recurring fees
Don’t forget to use the tweaking umlauts:ő
Undetectable CGI in games ... right. I don't think you are a gamer.

In movies it can be done with enough of manual tweaking by artists and a lot of photographic content around to borrow sense of reality from it.

"Potato" devices by which I assume you mean average phones, currently have better resolutions than PCs had very recently and a lot still do (1080p).

And a photo on 480p still looks more real than anything CGI (not AI).

Your signature is hilarious. I won't comment about the reasons because I don't want this whole thread to get flagged.
> illustrates how to examine financial interests to determine the above

On this basis we have to exclude all "citizen jounalists" as unreliable click bait at best or just plain manufactured news.
Hello!

I shared almost 3 years ago this website made by the father of a friend that uses free satellite data to showcase the earth near realtime, using algorithms he crafted to assemble and color correct everything together (see original post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29851399)

Since then he improved a lot his software, taking advantage of new satellites, new color wave length, and taking the challenge to map it all on a 3D earth globe (compared to flat earth surfaces previously). Or with a 4k colored flat view of our home planet https://earth2day.com/TheWall/Movies/THEWALL4K.html

Sometimes you can (unfortunately) see there the planet scale events that faces us, like huricanes that come onto the shore or wildfires so huge the smoke plumes goes over entire continents ... see the gallery of events here https://earth2day.com/TheWall/Gallery/gallery.html

So here I share it, do not hesitaite to provide him feedback here.

Note: If earth does not rotate when landing on the page, just reload
As someone who has tried a lot of role-play models, I think there is definitely value in what LLMs (or similar tech) can add to NPCs, it's just most people don't know how to prompt for it.

Using the RP models, over time I've found certain things that can guide them to creating better stories; an agent system is much easier to use but even using single character cards it's not hard to stuff them with a narrator and several individual characters in one go. I recently switched from kunoichi (8b, decent) to an Aria derivative (13b, much better).

In the majority of role-play stories I do now, it's super easy to refine the prompt so that characters don't necessarily provide pointless details + avoid all the common tropes, especially with newer models.

Maybe I should make a PoC, would be a fun project. But yeah I agree that chatting to an NPC about its day doesn't necessarily make for great gameplay - but it's relatively easy now to guide it into interesting scenarios/experiences, which _does_ make for great gameplay.

Ie the wife of the hunter you murdered in a fantasy game; normally we just think that we killed a character in a game - but when the hunter's wife decides in the background to train with a sword so that she can avenge her husband, then finally comes to find you and calls you out for murdering her husband - suddenly it's murder, and a revenge story. It's not too hard to prevent a decent model from injecting fluff (like where she bought her sword and how much for) into it.

Edit: just tested this to see what would happen; I first walked into a cottage, grandfather and his young granddaughter, stabbed him in front of her and ran away (spent the next 2 years of "game time" in a forest hiding away). Character motivations updates for the granddaughter were essentially: distraught, vowing revenge, travelling around to hone her skills, speaking with unsavoury types in taverns to find my whereabouts, finding & confronting me, killing me. I was able to query it for "3 dialogue options/actions with percent chances and distinct outcomes in JSON format" which it gave, the chance of her forgiving me was 0.01% which I suppose is fair enough. It did fail to create nice JSON tho, the model is not fine-tuned for that at all.

But it's definitely possibly with multiple loras/prompts/queries to extract dynamic dialogue options, actions, stats, percent chances for plot/story paths etc. LLMs in games definitely need to be managed by a traditional rules based framework, LLM should only be used for the creative bits. Stats/player skill will always determine who wins a fight, but the fight starting because of dialogue or past events could totally be LLM driven.
Choose Boring Technology and LLMs
Here we go again. The golden rule I've come to realise is that people don't like what they don't understand. It's made very clear this person doesn't like methodologies.

I don't get the use of midwit meme here. Either you're implying that you're preaching the the choir, in which case it's just an echo chamber, or you're calling your audience idiots. Neither outcome is great.

There's always a balance. Being overly orthodox about methodology is suboptimal, yet equally, having no guard rails when people need them is equally as bad. Going around expecting everyone to work exactly how you work is not the reality and tends to lead you down one path.
Fair enough. I guess you're talking about microcontrollers rather than lightweight CPUs, at least in my experience it's still standard to use GCC on the sort of dinky ARM-based devices my company produces.

I'll note that GPL never says anything about upstreaming. It can certainly make life easier if you want to keep your patches up to date and hand off maintenance responsibility, but it suffices to make a written offer of source code under the same license (on a conventional medium) to your customers to comply with any GPL version. You're never obliged to upstream or even publish your code.
They just use the implementation from the last version of the compiler, which you can follow back in a long chain to the first implementation. As for the implementation of the garbage collector, it probably just doesn't allocate anything. The basics of a garbage collector are a function "alloc" and another one "collect". The function to allocate memory usually looks something like this:

char heap[100000000];
int heap_end;
void *alloc(int n_bytes) {
void *out = &heap[heap_end]
heap_end += n_bytes;
return out;
}

As you can see, it doesn't need to allocate any memory to do this.
What about calling people "fascists" and "threats to democracy"?

It's telling that the only candidate to face assassination attempts was Republican.
Pierceable Abstractions