skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
286 systems generally didn’t have programmable on-chip clock oscillators for the CPU. There was an external clock chip that generated the exact frequency needed for the CPU; sometimes there was another setting for a reduced speed for compatibility. If you changed this clock, you’d also disturb all the other I/O that depended on it.

I can see why you won! In the early 80s, just building the clock circuitry to generate arbitrary frequencies for the CPU only would have been quite an engineering feat.
Hah, hinted at that in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42126301

It really is a fundamental advantage against the worst kinds of this category of bug
Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise
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So you are sad that the Mac mini isn't a bog standard HPE/Dell/etc Server?

Boy will you be pissed when you find out about laptops, phones, game consoles and basically every other compute form factor.

Might want to look into rackable Mac Pros though!
US Congress to hold second hearing on UFOs in attempt to 'pull back curtain'
It is equally important to learn how much VC firms contribute to improving quality of life, creating jobs etc.
Because the hard part isn't the compute, vector dbs, or whatever. It's the huge evergreen index of the whole internet. Getting over the hump of "every site lets your crawler work, gives good results to it, and bypass paywalls" is a massive barrier.
yea, or if you're in hurry, get something older gen with AM5 socket, and swap to 9800X3D once it's available.
Swift *almost* does a cool thing I want
> Who in their right mind would find it acceptable if their program/operating system decided to automatically download candy crush

Your argument wasn't really based in reality. Windows didn't have Candy Crush actually installed; it was a shortcut to get it from the store.

And even then, we could rephrase that. Change "candy crush" to "mahjong titans" or "3D pinball" or "minesweeper" or "hover" or "hearts" or "solitaire" or "reversi", all games that were actually installed on a fresh install of Windows instead of just being a link to install it separately. Why aren't you then complaining about Reversi or Hover? Where was the outrage in the 1980s over this? Why is it such a big deal that its "candy crush"?

Microsoft has been bundling in games to its operating systems since 1985. I don't get why people suddenly made a big deal about it when it became a shortcut to Candy Crush.
Way off-topic, but is there a betting pool that Elon Musk is going to make it mandatory for the government agencies to use Super-X to do their work? And maybe for citizens too? It will obviously fail-whale all the time, but hey, he'll ignore the parts where it's not working when stroking his ego.

Somewhere there's a Dr. Strangelove kind of comedy where a wrongly addressed tweet sends the nukes flying, because the competent engineers on X will make an API over tweets, you see...
The regime in NK persists because a great power (namely, Beijing) does not want an ally of the West on its border and is willing to spend the lives of 100s of 1000s of its soldiers to prevent that from happening (as illustrated by Beijing's choices during the Korean War).

Iraq, Libya or Lebanon don't have that advantage (and Kiev would get that advantage only if switches to being pro-Russian).
Ban on women marrying after 25: the proposal to boost birth rate in Japan
Exactly agree - as the author of the paper fears there will be overreliance of AI
Let's view earth as if we are aliens (or even normal people) visiting our moon, watching the blue planet and the behavior of its inhabitants.

So these conscious people were building several 100 Mton weapons AND detonated one of them on the surface of the planet! Knowing that it would kill and destroy life and atmosphere around it and contaminate earth. AND they were starting a program for building a Gigaton weapon??

It is just surreal that anyone would even think of doing such, let alone doing so.
Nor in the US in the 90s. I don't know where this kid was, but we'd walk in the grass on the other side of the ditch, not practically on the street.
Yeah, Apple sometimes checks MCC/MNC on the cellular network as well, for some reason they chose not to lock it down that way here.

However, if they did lock it to require an iPhone, the way we would activate would be by using our Faraday cage to spoof GPS inside it, and maybe a spoofed base station.
On other hand the editor employed(or at least appointed) by Elsevier did pass on these...
It can't possibly be "just as important" - in some cases, I will accept "almost as important", but any situation where the optics are "it works" and the reality is "it doesn't work" is eventually going to come crashing down on someone's head.

If it doesn't need to work, then it doesn't matter and the optics also don't matter. Of course, it might be more important for your promotion that the optics are correct, no matter what the ground reality is, and the crash could come down on someone else's head instead of yours, but in this scenario someone who is against a culture of optics rather has a point.
It would be neat to see this as a TOAST type in Postgres, where the PDF was kept in a data structure with the PDF parsed. It would be relatively straightforward to perform searches and index/reindex deep into the documents.
Long term I wonder how healthy x86 is as a whole. It seems like only a matter of time before someone puts out risc-v aws/gcp/azure instances that compete, or puts out a laptop part on a chromebook that kills it.

The only thing holding back the wave is windows... and microsoft themselves seem somewhat open to the idea of not using x86 anymore.
When I had younger children, we would just pull them from school on occasion. This did require a bit coordinating with homework, teachers etc, but they don't have to be in school. On a more serious note, schools are there to serve you, be assertive about your children being yours, they do not belong to the state (at least in the USA).
It appears a reviewer for the paper requested that their own works be added as citations to the paper for no justifiable reason beyond elevating their own citation count.
Agreed, what was obviously missing from this person's experience was an opportunity to guide deployment in ways that work well for their understanding of the workflow. I think companies often fail to explore what actually happens on the ground of their organizations and make assumptions that are not accurate. AI could be a huge help to nurses but it takes conversations and direct insight during development to get it right.
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Has it not ingested the entire AOSP codebase? I was under the impression that OpenAI had trained GPT-* on just about everything available to the public.

It's not necessarily niche either. The codebase already does this all the time. I just can't figure out why it won't do it for me.

FWIW, at least 80% of my time in writing software for an R&D laboratory is devoted to solving problems like this.
overthinking some more: your idea is great but it removes the one feature that classic recipes have: sequencing.

You can have the best of both world, though, if the branches in your tree had some kind of timing associated.

Like when you make lasagnas, the bolognese takes 1 hour to cook, while the bechamel takes less than 10 minutes. You need to have a way to say: "while the bolognese is reducing, make the bechamel"
Warfare is not a chaotic system. We don't think outcomes are highly sensitive to marginal tweaks in initial conditions of the model. Hostile actor aren't modelled as chaotic systems but as agents in some game theory model. None of these agents has a monopoly on violence or power or information, or else it wouldn't be warfare.
One way to do it is to pay all the fees and give up US citizenship.

The other way is to keep on paying income taxes to the US government.
Trust the science! Is this peer reviewed?

Lmao
Heroku reboots servers every night no matter what stack is running on them. Same idea.

The problem is that you merely borrowed yourself some time. As time goes on, more inefficiencies/bugs of this nature will creep in unnoticed, some will perhaps silently corrupt data before it is noticed (!), and it will be vastly more difficult at that point to troubleshoot 10 bugs of varying degrees of severity and frequency all happening at the same time causing you to have to reboot said servers at faster and faster intervals which simultaneously makes it harder to diagnose them individually.

> It's shockingly stable.

Well of course it is. You're "turning it off and then on again," the classic way to return to a known-good state. It is not a root-cause fix though, it is a band-aid.
That has nothing to do with telemetry.
It's more subtle than this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training,_validation,_and_te...
If you accept a physical basis for fifths (by virtue of the harmonic series) then surely it's not a major leap (no pun intended) from that to thirds?

As you get further along the series you're moving from simple to complex ratios. Thirds are next in line after 4ths/5ths and they have a function that solves some obvious harmonic problems.

A lot of this has echoes in the historical development of music and the commonalities between harmony in different parts of the world. There's a reason cultures independently discover similar constructs i.e. the pentatonic scale
Woah. A bit of reading shows that the signal would be incredibly weak, especially because of shielding.

I wonder what other ways there might be to detect it.

Someone else mentioned literal vibration, but I figure a contact mic would already pick that up – I mean, sound is already vibration...
>Russia is trying to eradicate the Ukrainian culture.

You're lying yourself. It's Russian culture that's getting eradicated in Ukraine by renaming cities, streets, destroying monuments, burning books, prohibiting Russian language usage which is mother tongue for majority of population of Ukraine etc. In Russia nothing like this happens. Ukrainian language is being taught in schools that has significant Ukrainian population, nobody renames anything related to Ukraine.

>So now they try to freeze people to death, kill civilians and do human wave attacks to gain territories.

You're watching too much of your local propaganda.

>People living in the occupied territories are killed for showing any Ukrainian culture. Torture is common. This is the russian Mir.

Yeah, yeah, that's why Russia has the largest population of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine, absorbed the most number of refugees from Ukraine, and people from "occupied territories" are getting Russian citizenship. Brainwashing is real.
Damned, I just purchased a new keyboard with a 2.4 GHz dongle because my Bluetooth keyboard cannot with GRUB and I got tired of having to plug it in every time I rebooted.

What a cool little project. I might build a couple of these for the KVMs at work.
Show HN: Age at creation for programming languages stats
In that notebook, data about the creation of programming languages is taken from the "Programming Language DataBase" and various visual statistics are generated from it.
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I can do that too, easy!

for prediction in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
do
text="The SHA-256 hash of this sentence begins with $prediction."
sum=$(echo -n "$text" | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1)
[[ "$sum" == "$prediction"* ]] && echo $text $sum
done
The SHA-256 hash of this sentence begins with a. a759bcc97f94a0deaae8e264b7e9fd2eca347a95bcfc8d8aa91fadb8633097f1
The SHA-256 hash of this sentence begins with c. ce61ceb5d0cec3f5d786ba1321eba374c8fddcf2342c00ce2c134095be7630a7

OK, so susam's is more impressive...
Simply great work.
This is fear mongering. I’ve seen somewhere that Musk said he is pro-nuclear. Has trump ever said he hates nuclear or are you speculating?
As a non-FAANGer Netflix has always intrigued me because of this. While Google, Facebook and others seem to have bogged themselves down in administrative mess, Netflix still seems agile. From the outside at least.

(also worth noting this post seems to be discussing an event that occurred many years ago, circa 2011, so might not be a reflection of where they are today)
^ This is the problem. Not only that, solving 10 bugs (especially those more difficult nondeterministic concurrency bugs) at the same time is hideously harder than solving 1 at a time.

As a Director of Engineering at my last startup, I had an "all hands on deck" policy as soon as any concurrency bug was spotted. You do NOT want to let those fester. They are nondeterministic, infrequent, and exponentially dangerous as more and more appear and are swept under the rug via "reset-to-known-good" mitigations.
Most stock prices are pure imagination. TLSA rise is no different.

I still remember a few years ago when GameStop stocks were nosediving just because some WallStreet bro had decided to bet against it. It was all fine until some unheard guy from reddit looked at the actual numbers from the company and noticed the company was doing overall okay, decided to bet against the wallstreet bro, and many more non-wallstreet investors decided to follow suit. And the rest, as they say, is history.

So yeah, TSLA stock price is fake, but that's not news. Most stock prices are.

Heck, company can even legally inflate the stock price. It's not much time ago that Google did a huge stock buy back to artificially increase the stock price.
It mostly seemed to happen on the web client - I tend to avoid "apps" I'd click the "heart" to check my notifications and it would be just a firehose of "picked for you" streaming in. Also iirc it launched without a chronological feed.
there really needs to just be more regulatory control of companies being arseholes. people getting of a plane early or not getting another plane should be enforced to be entirely sanction-free.
Indeed, I should know about the "not enforceable" bit as I had a dispute with a former employer on that very point - just because its in an employment contract doesn't make it enforceable.

The cherry on the cake was the need for my former employer to pay my lawyer bill!
We should define "invasive species" to mean "species which gets transported to another ecosystem via means beyond its control or natural behavior" and therefore exclude humans. The Homo genus evolved to be highly migratory and climate-adaptable compared to almost all other mammals, and certainly compared to other primates. Crossing into Eurasia was a natural behavior for Homo sapiens, and something we had in common with erectus, though of course we were much more successful.

There is a huge biological distinction between human migration as a natural behavior of the human animal, versus a toad which is deliberately introduced into a distant ecosystem via human intervention, or a spider which accidentally hitches a ride on a piece of driftwood and populates a distant island.
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ESPHome has this feature (called btproxy). It works well with BTLE devices. I use it for remote temperature sensors and a few other IoT btle devices.

https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html
I found the book “Never Eat Alone” to be what you are looking for. It has a whole section on how to be a conference commando.
Oracle is already giving tons of ARM processors (and RAM for that matter) in their free tier, and the performance is not bad for CRUD applications, docker, and a generalist dark server (i.e. a utility box for a sysadmin).

However, for the top tier of computation, vectorization, memory bandwidth and PCIe lanes are still important.
Windows XP contained ads. It had a demo for a game suite bundled in it. It had so many references to Microsoft Passport. Its defaults were set to msn's website filled with ads. It was set up to easily get connected to certain ISPs out of the box. Windows Messenger often had ads and was bundled in it. Security Center pushed antivirus subscriptions. Windows Media Player had ads in it from time to time.
Actually, it's better (worse) than that - the gigaton bomb was really being developed to be a primary for a 10 gigaton bomb!

"When you merely wish to bury bombs, there is no limit to the size."
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Honestly I don't think I have the right temperament for being a reliable source for evals. I've played around with a few ideas - like "Pelicans on a bicycle" https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/pelicans-on-a-bicycle/ - but running evals well on an ongoing basis requires a focus and attention to detail that isn't a great fit for how I work.

Here's Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B for "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" https://gist.github.com/simonw/56217af454695a90be2c8e09c7031...
> We're almost looking forward to this loophole being shut down to really make things a tad bit more challenging haha

This is a great attitude in the face of a pretty sad 2024 reality: that the manufacturer of a device is expected to intentionally go out of its way to remotely stop users from using the device they bought in the way they want to use it.
What is the origin of this word "Russophobia" ? It seems like a recent invention trying to take advantage of the general western progressive concern of xenophobia to encourage weakness, similar to how their propagandists have re-purposed and abused general anti-war sentiment stemming from the Iraq debacle.

But I'm curious to know if it's even older and was perhaps used as some kind of powertalk during Soviet times when a new area was being subjugated. "You just don't want us here because you're scared of us".
For an app as popular as Transit this is a purely academic exercise—25% of the most popular models is way too low to be worth building their detection around, even if they could assume that all of their customers use the most popular models (which they obviously can't).
We started by solving a problem we knew well.

- Got feedback early – But we focused on usage, not just compliments.

- Looked for real engagement – When users started referring others, that was a big sign.

- Tracked metrics – Retention, churn, and whether people were paying.

- Iterated based on feedback – Kept refining, but didn’t force things.

- Let it grow naturally – When the product started growing on its own, we knew we had it.

It wasn’t a single moment—just a gradual process of building, learning, and tweaking.
Maybe. The enthusiast market doesn't necessarily represent the average consumer.

Just look at how many products people buy based on cost alone
Grandpa Buff
There's a meme in the leftist community that all leftists despise each other and that any leftist organization or philosophy quickly breaks apart into multiple competing organizations/philosophies.

To the degree that's true, usually it's frustrating. However, I wonder if there could be a hidden benefit in it helping to mitigate purity spirals.
Any open-source projects need contributors?
I'm looking to contribute to open-source projects on github! If you know of any interesting repos that need contributors, I'd love your recommendations.
voyage-multimodal-3
yep, the link in the "some calls to ConcurrentHashMap.get() seemed to be running infinitely." sentence points to HashMap.html#get(java.lang.Object)
i think the scary thing about onboarding teams onto products like this is the fear that it won't exist in a year.

i wonder if the "lite" solution looks something like a chrome extension for gmail.

an auth layer that lives on top of an existing mailbox that just adds the "last touched by michael" or "assigned to sally" and "seen by X, Y,Z" gives me:
(A) the security that the underlying layer will exist in a year
(B) a light solution to some of the coordination problems
Internet Archive lets you play msdos games via EM-DOSBOX
Id also add that one way to make your team better at feedback is to invest in developing a rapport between team members. Especially if there are remote employees.

It feels very different getting feedback from somebody you talk with frequently. If two people never talk and one delivers some criticism, it WILL trigger defensiveness.
In theory, yes, but in practice microwaves messing with wifi is such a well known phenomenon that there's an XKCD about this.
Yeah, "resilience" is my big concern. After Facebook and Twitter, I'm mostly concerned about a social network getting compromised by a moneyed political interest. Obviously I'm a liberal so I have my political opinion on the interest here, but the point stands for any alignment - I'd rather see something like Mastodon where people can fund and run their own servers that reflect their own values and interests, and then those servers can federate and defederate as is appropriate.

Basically: governance matters.
There’s the scene where Marty takes rooms at the Blue Cat Lodge off the market for renovations, against Rachel’s objections that he wait for the off season, suggesting real stuff is actually being done to them. Then later she confronts him over paying ridiculous prices related for said renovations. (Where she also threatens to report him.) His cartel contact Del is mentioned as running a construction and remodeling business.
Thats what makes it fun. Reviewer-coerced citations are almost ubiquitous - at least in the mildest forms. But it's rarely admitted like here. I bet many editors never reread papers, and just go by the reviewers word. Bet they were told that the paper is fine for publication with some added citations. The authors added them, editor and reviewers see the citations in the reference list and off it goes to be published.
What I remember is clones of the IBM AT taking over because they delivered such unprecedented performance for the price. In the "8-bit" age of Apple and Commodore we looked up to minicomputers like the PDP-11 and Decsystem 20 but AT clones could surpass them and soon the 386 would surpass the VAX although it would take most of a decade for 32 bit OS to become mainstream.

When I was in high school I developed some software for a teacher on my PC, was a little shocked to find she was still running CP/M. It was no problem at all because I could emulate a Z-80 on my AT clone at 3x speed!
It's probably mainly aimed at data pipeline use cases. It's common to have stages of very "messy" data that you'll want to clean up. This lets you keep that part of it all in Postgres, if you like, if your messy data is PDFs, which is a fairly common case.

Not every object in a database needs to be ready for public consumption. Some of it's there for processing, for certain use cases.
> The use case I'm solving for myself is easy lookup while I'm cooking

This is a constant source of stress for me cooking from cookbooks I otherwise like. I prefer to measure on-demand, and wish the steps would just duplicate the quantities of the ingredients "whisk in the olive oil (1/4 cup)" instead of "whisk in the olive oil" so I don't have to scan the list of ingredients and figure it out