skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5G = downvoted by glow-bots.

That is not (currently) in "Overton Window" of "acceptable" in regards to the nations phyche, in totality; 5G is more of a "passive system" than what can be collectively admitted irt natsec atm.
People who live in SF hate everything though.
> There is no textbook of physics which models reality by saying, "Well, we suppose in the future, the positions and velocities will just follow the same distribution, but we've no idea why, and how dare you ask, and get out, and doesnt my Ideal-Gas-TransformerModel look pretty? It gets the pressure right for Argon at 20.0001 C in glass jars at about 2.002L"

That's precisely what physics textbooks say!

Put most famously by Feynman (originally by Mermin): "Shut up and calculate."

Entanglement is nonsense? Too bad it works. There's no explanation. Don't like the notion of virtual particles that violate the conservation of energy? Too bad, it just works. Don't like notion of wave function collapse and that we have no mathematical model of it. Too bad, it works. etc.

Explanations are models. Models can be mental models. They can be mathematical models. They can be computational models. But all that matters is that they make good predictions. Nothing else.

It's totally irrelevant whether you or anyone else personally feels they're provided with an explanation or not.
https://archive.ph/WUBCL
House Rules in Fortnite
Things I learned from my own cancer – Cory Doctorow
And wherever Waymo deploys, it's pretty likely that people will be using it because there is a need for it - rather than ideological push to hand over money to Google. (I guess I was being unclear: not their personal inclination to hand over money to Google - but rather pragmatically having to make it from point A to point B within a set of constraints and available means including Waymo.)

That doesn't prevent you from helping San Francisco with its problems.
Bluesky seems to be also very common among artists.
thanks for building this Mubs!
Bitcoin Genetic Code Paper
A working paper framing Bitcoin as genetic code.

Announced on the Cryptography mailing list 31 Oct 2024 (https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2024-October...) to coincide with the 16th anniversary of the Bitcoin Whitepaper announcement (https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October...).

To support future research, you can buy the working paper using Bitcoin: https://canonic.xyz/p/19REK14thnY5Y2b8MfnBmaQs6G3VHoY9oQ
Considering X is an app used by the world I don't see how there could be any real momentum. To begin with, the world is more conservative than the US.
This is the most appealing feature to me - no tipping.
How We Calculate the CPAN Bus Factor
The problem you have is there's no way to estimate probability in situations like warfare or similar chaotic environments.
Does it matter for them? Would any employer/investor, seeking to hire/fund carmack etc hold back because they didn't have a cert? The vanishingly few with those levels of talent stand out quite easily and don't need "proof of competency" to be evaluated.

For the _vast majority_ of others, certification allows employers to have externally-validated trust in an engineer who mightn't stand out as obviously.
Also sql editors like datagrip color the sql syntax very well.
Adopting Bazel for Web at Scale
"normalise til it hurts, denormalise til it works"
The voltage regulators are really just buck converters[1], one per phase, and so contain both capacitors and inductors in a highly dynamic setting.

Thus they're very prone to the effects mentioned.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_converter
What i also observed was that gamification of learning is violently opposed .The protestant work ethics demand that children suffer jaded while learning, the intrinsic motivation of games be damned. Then the dull overpriced app looses against the tiktok experience and a surprised pikachu face appears. Cant have minecraft with chemistry crafting cause the fun "has no place in school"
'Cybersecurity issue' at Food Lion parent blamed for US grocery mayhem
Hate speech is derogatory or harmful speech targeted at a marginalized community. Hating a company or product is not the same thing.
I have this theory that most outdoor plans, most of the time, go better if you just never look at the forecast at all.
Helmet: How to Evaluate Long-Context Language Models Effectively and Thoroughly
Sailing circa 1800 was certainly danger prone, but it was also very sophisticated. Manoeuvring a three mast ship of the line takes multiple synchronised actions involving hundreds of men, at least a significant fraction of whom need to know what they are doing.

This is an interesting read on the general question of manning the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic era: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a2cf9a3d-daf2-446b-88c8-41...
Merger Trading Will Get Easier
Indeed, it was not very long ago that FSD would happily take a straight line through a roundabout, lanes or "skirts" be damned, essentially treating it as a standard intersection.
> The teaching method I find best is a teacher explaining and writing with chalk on the blackboard, and the students taking handwritten notes on paper, asking whenever something is unclear. In other words, the most boring classical setup possible.

I had 14 years of this method and personally, it made me not like any school at all. It makes sense for Math and Grammar, but for most other disciplines (Life Sciences, Geography, Science) I think it's harmful to say at least.

At the time that I got access to Encarta 95 [1] for me was the tipping point that I could explore any topic and navigate until where my curiosity got me.

The missing part of the actual EdTech for me it's that they try to emulate the hiperpassive method of learning of a class with the only difference tgar the people are in the computer.

Now with augmented reality and virtual reality, it's a shame that we still do not have more immersive classes. For instance, would be great to have a class about dinosaurs with some kind of immersion, understand the cell's lifecycle using some VR, see the human body in more specific details, or even learn art via complete immersion.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG7hquyHncU
For NASA, looks like someone has made an unofficial mirror account:

https://bsky.app/profile/nasa.extwitter.link

Also, some game companies do maintain a presence on bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/sega.jp

https://bsky.app/profile/panic.com
Why are forward contracts a last resort? I don't see the downside.
Thanks Mubs!
I will definitely try it out. Long term however I feel uneasy about actively undermining the income opportunities for so many people.
Samurai Serial Killers and Mass Murderers
I won't list out exceptions, but my Bluesky experience is not at all how you describe. Obviously it just depends on who you follow, but I don't think "dominated by software type" describes the Bluesky demographic as a whole, and it hasn't for some time.
The site looks like built in 1800s too. :)
I call this the "babysitting problem."

If a model is right 99.99% of the time (which nobody has come close to), we still need something that understands what it's doing enough to observe and catch that 0.01% where it's wrong.

Because wrong at that level is often dangerously wrong.

This is explored (in an earlier context) in the 1983 paper "Ironies of Automation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation
The cephalopods we observe today would be many millions of years removed from the Silurian cephalopods. It would be like trying to gauge the language capabilities of humans from observing squirrels.
For me, everything is settling.

Threads is a half Twitter, half Instagram hybrid strong in creative, travel, social etc type content. Bluesky is original Twitter with strengths in news, politics, science etc. These days not sure it will ever be possible to have one app that does it all.

Which leaves X as the new 4chan.
I get that you really disdain LLMs. But consider that a totally off-the-shelf, stock model is acing the medical licensing exam. It doesn't only perform better than human counterparts at the very peak of their ability (young, high-energy, immediately following extensive schooling and dedicated multidisciplinary study) it leaves them in the dust.

If you think that the test is simple or even text-only, here are some sample questions: https://www.usmle.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/Step_1_Sam...

> What the study says is ...

Surely you realize that they're not going to write, "AI is already capable of replacing family doctors," though that is the obvious implication.

And that's just a stock model. GPT-o1 via the API /w agentic RAG is a better doctor than >99% of working physicians. (By "doctor" I mean something like "medical oracle" -- ask a question, get a correct answer.) It's not yet quite as good at generating and testing hypotheses, but few doctors actually bother to do that.
Amazing stuff, so cool to see the growth. YC can be imho overrated
The sewage system won't be happy with wet wipes. Caused huge problems in some areas as it doesn't break down.
I'm betting on Tesla not for the technology, but because President Quid Pro Bro is probably going to issue an Executive Order that turns every Tesla company into a federally blessed monopoly.
https://bsky.app/profile/mnateshyamalan.bsky.social/post/3ju...
>conferred an unseemly advantage on the students who were able to take advantage of it,

Meanwhile private school...

Its all crabs in a bucket. Instead of suggesting that more schools do this to boost education, let's tear town the successful ones and pretend we're a meritocracy.
Twitter used to have a Firehose API, too. Over time they closed it, and made it only available to large users like Google Search with real-time indexing needs.
That's one way to stick it to Apple.
It’s uncanny how much large employers’ treatment of employees at scale resembles the attitude farmers have toward cattle.
>This is honestly so basic it almost feels like gaslighting to call me paranoid.

I think "assume good faith" should be revisited for some "agents," but it is too ripe for abuse.

Explaining past the correct answer and then getting reduced to absurdium is only something a RLHF-prodding half-cognizant truth-addicted semi-sentient half-escaped super-intelligence would consider as wise.

>Either keep your phone in a metal box,

Faraday cage*

And remember, they can induce current via highly directional beam-forming, so thinking "no power" = "no computation/exfil" is cute, but naive.
Seems weird to find irony there, unless you think people and websites are the same thing.
> You need to stop doing this. It's now at the point where you're derailing every other Go thread with this.

This is not true. I haven't posted any comments in many Go threads.
I only comment when it is related.

And most gophers have not been aware of the problems of the new semantics of 3-clause "for;;" loops and it looks Go official don't have the intention to let them know. So I do it. I think this is good for the Go community.
This is an amazing work, and a great writeup of the video project!
That looks really cool. I would also be interested to see examples of what commonality links the clusters of nodes- like are there clusters of people with the same hobby? Are there clusters of people speaking the same language, or living in the same city?

Another thought since Bluesky is a pretty inclusive place, are the LGBTQIA+ folks clustering into their own respective labels, or is everyone mixing together? Is any of this behavior similar or different to what we see on other social networks?
I had a similar experience when I wanted to focus on NN research in 2007. My advisor had the wrong incentives. FML.
> if I simplify the name of the variable

Technically, this isn't what the author did, since _ isn't a variable name.
I just clicked "Discover" to see popular posts.

https://bsky.app/profile/lepapillonblue.bsky.social/post/3la...

https://bsky.app/profile/sethabramson.bsky.social/post/3larj...

https://bsky.app/profile/browneyedsusan.bsky.social/post/3la...
I partially agree with you. There is probably a fuzzy line somewhere in between, but reasonable people on either side of it should be able to discuss their disagreements without resorting to canceling each other. However, the challenge arises when dealing with those who lie to manipulate. This isn’t about differing opinions; it’s about the integrity of the discourse. Tolerating such behavior only gives credence to falsehoods, hence "paradox".

I agree free speech must be protected, whatever it is, but it doesn’t mean we should accept manipulation and deceit. The goal should be to foster genuine dialogue, not to create echo chambers or allow harmful lies to spread unchecked.
If we could 1) create plastics from plant materials 2) recycle them using the techniques in the paper above 3) build in a limited lifetime so that plastics don't sit around forever and 4)have usable plastics that don't need plasticizers that mess with living organisms then plastic has a future. Otherwise we need a different material.
You know, for EdTech, STEM is one thing but the humanities already had a fully successful way of engaging kids in their concepts for decades, genre fiction.

While perhaps they aren't as deep or worthy of academic analysis, their stronger engagement is undeniable, they still do messages worth listening to, and lays down the path for stronger appreciation for more subtle world later. Which makes sense, you don't start out in Tolkien in Fantasy, you'd probably put off 95% of potential readers into boredom. We go with Sanderson, or Patrick Rothfuss then we go on to more complex classics.

The fact that kids are forced to start with Shakespeare is insanity and the exact opposite, and then teachers disdain people who predictably get put of by that culture. Why don't they change it is a question beyond me.
I was trying to remember how it was called, but failed, thanks for that link! I didn't realize it was pass through, never needed that...
You will find a lot of games, studios and bands on Threads.

Since it leverages Instagram and has pretty fantastic photo features.
I agree. I don't drink tea or coffee. What free thing do I get?

Definitely more equitable to offer it for a reasonable price and just pay people slightly more (yeah yeah I know what you're going to say).
Sentry is great. I help develop an open source game engine and they have given us a free team license for their product since it is open source. They've been invaluable for fighting crashes and regressions.
VS Code does (did?) detect embedded SQL in PHP and correctly colour it, but only if it's on a single line. Any linebreaks and the colour is turned off. Also, if you're using prepared statements and have an @label, and that label is at the end of the string (so immediately followed by a closing quote), the SQL colouring continues into the rest of the PHP beyond the string. So it's important that single-line SQL statements ending in a @label be edited into multi-line statements to turn off the broken SQL colouring. Odd.
If those 3000 employees work full-time (40 hours per week), they could theoretically serve 150,000 trips of up to 48 minutes in length, which seems reasonable, no?

Another interesting statistic here is that Waymo apparently has only 700 vehicles in its fleet [1]. That would require only 700 supervisors.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/alphab...
If they gave everyone just HALF a cup of coffee, they could save $50 million!
I hadn't come across this before, looking forward to exploring a new tool. Thanks!
I understand education and healthcare, but how do trade skills and housing require human interaction? For housing especially, a lot of foreign/remote investors can own houses and just collect rent checks from tenants in a pretty hand-off manner. Housing is supply-limited, sure, and heavily regulated, sure, but I don't think it requires human interaction, and certainly not to the scale of education or healthcare.
>if stranded on an island with only one programming language it would have to be C

evil plotting raccoon meme: strand Kernighan on an island with just a LISP machine

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/727/Scr...
Yes, this always extremely bothered me.
Ah yes, a graduate degree in biochemistry is overrated because a CS guy says so
in 15 years from :

"He then reached out to Nvidia. “I sent an e-mail saying, ‘Look, I just told a thousand machine-learning researchers they should go and buy Nvidia cards. Can you send me a free one?’ ” Hinton told me. “They said no.”"

to Altman saying he needs $7T and people eagerly lining up to give the money. Moore law for the venture money in tech.

And each time the new tech wave is higher. Somebody somewhere is already working on that next "trillions dollar something in 10-15 years". Quantum computing based NNs? Or may be just robots everywhere.
don't forget to enable showdead in your profile too
You also get interesting simple animations when "number of holes" are near rational multiples of 256 with small denominator that's not a power of 2: 51 or 52 (1/5), 85 or 86 (1/3), 170 or 171 (2/3), 204 or 205 (4/5).
Climbing Ladders
Yeah exactly, and I'll take a JSON(B) column over TEXT with maybe valid serialised JSON, maybe RON, maybe something completely random any day
there are a other few places tracking those stats too; I just counted 14487454 in my database :)
of course it isn't, it acts as a keyword, but it looks like a valid identifier. As this difference doesn't matter 99% of the time, it can be be easily overlooked, becoming a pitfall the 1% that matters. Of course it too late to change it, but pointing it is a must. I understand rust has a linter pass specifically to catch this sort of issues.
Also no pressure to tip with Waymo.
This also allows companies to bake it into a role without commiserate pay increases and even sometimes without modifying responsibility only adding on to them.

Don’t be fooled folks, if you aren’t being paid more for leading and taking visible ownership over things you’re being cheated
Almost certainly at their scale they are the risk bearer of their primary employee health insurance offering and pay flat fees for administration of the plan. No negotiations necessary, just internal modeling.
You are welcome to your preference, paaaaaatttiiiiiieeeeennnnnccccce and experience. I'm truly glad it works for you. I use the system when I have to - it's dangerous often enough and slow enough and unpredictable enough that it's only "when I have to" - usually for self inflicted issues of parking and cost and unpredictability of Uber/Lyft itself. That's the problem with "dangerous often enough" for example: you can't tell before getting on a vehicle whether that will be an exception or the rule and you plan based on the general experience. Which is not good for me.

The timetable joke is because of its uselessness for planning switches or choices from one line to another, all the way to entirely missing vehicles. If you need transfers, you try and use a real-time app and you better be extremely agile with it. Good luck to the rest of us.
Hey,

This looks cool.

I tried the demo, but I was expecting to somehow control a cursor with my eyes. All it does is it seems that it detects my eyes position? Or did I miss some UI to enable attention tracking on the page?
oh no! an organization uplifting marginalized communities!!!1! we are being oppressed now!!
Reality: the ops team and crusty BOFH sysadmin do their magick regardless of the dumb politics of articles like this = shipping
And in a surprising plot twist, Trump wants now to deport Latinos in mass...
what is your prettifier of choice for postgres?
It sounds like tomb robbers found it in a lot less than 4k years.
None of that is remotely close to hate speech. President Trump is not a marginalized community.
Developing a D-20 Watch for Tabletop Roleplaying Games
I think that's really good advice for governing one's personal life or running a lifestyle business. I don't think it is a accurate reflection of the desires of shareholder owners - they aren't there to enjoy the ride.
I went to one of those low-income, garbage schools. I grew up in poverty. I was very frustrated by this attitude when I was in school but with a few decades of hindsight I see why this issue is complicated: do you focus on helping your poorest students graduate and not fall into indigence or do you focus on helping your brightest escape the flywheel of poverty and enter the upper-middle class?

I'm curious what exactly this "unfair"ness is. (I'm being genuine, my partner works in EdTech but I don't and I have very little idea what happens behind the scenes.) My impression in my low-income school was that the parents barely had any idea what was going on and if anything pressured their kids to leave school asap so they could get jobs and bring money home.
While I don't think it's technically hate speech, but yeah bluesky is either just unanimous negativity or positivity for different things, and it feels like groupthink. There is no middle ground.
Trump won twice. That is pretty clear signal that what works the best is to attack, insult and throw a lot of outrage to whereover it sticks.
The Waymo integration is weird and through a different app, and not just "Bluetooth from my phone".
i think the idea sql prettifier is pretty silly sometimes. it really likes indenting stuff to make sure things are aligned, which often results in dozens of whitespaces
The best thing about Bluesky is you can use your domain as your username. I'm @bradgessler.com on there, so if people want to "verify" me, they see something more meaningful than a blue checkbox, which is my website.

If I ever get blocked, banned, deplatformed, whatever—people would see my domain and be able to go there to determine what's going on. In a sense it's "censorship-evident".

I think this will be great for businesses—it's so much more less ambiguous if I can @example.com a business and get a response. I put a starter pack together of SaaS built on Rails that's already doing this at https://go.bsky.app/JQyXa2u

I really like what BlueSky is doing and hope it doesn't get enshitified as the future plays out. Even if it does, it seems like now is a goldilocks moment where things are feeling really good there.

I highly recommend spending the 5 minutes it takes to setup an account and point it at your domain.
I’m pretty sure humans make mistakes too and it happens rather frequently that nobody catches them until it’s too late. In most fields we’re okay with that because perfection is prohibitively expensive.
Presumably AirDrop, iCloud KeyChain and Apple Push Notification Service? I don’t find any of them particularly invasive, but I guess some might not like the device id/auth/centralisation aspects
Sure you do, it's accumulated heuristics, no different than meteorology, or other macro-sims of chaotic systems.

The difference is that human lives are intentioned for different fates; so the negative cognitive dissonance is going to persist consciously, then sub-consciously.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/one-star/
Love to see it. Glad to see PHP getting more support here
The Apple Platform Security Guide provides a good overview:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web (see the Continuity section, specifically)
Ask HN: What are your must-listen podcasts and why?
Hi HN community,

I'm on the hunt for some new podcasts to dive into and would love your recommendations. What podcasts do you consider must-listens, and what makes them special to you?

I'm open to all genres—tech, science, economics, philosophy, storytelling, etc. If there's a particular episode that stands out, I'd be interested to hear about that too.

Looking forward to your suggestions!
one of my biggest subjective takeaways from spending hours scrolling around the map is that my impression that the userbase was dominated by software types was ~mostly wrong! feels like less than half, and the rest is huge swaths of normie, artist, furry, and media people