skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just sat through this years demosplash demo competition and the magic is absolutely still there. You're right, the lack of any monetary gain in the demoscene is a feature that keeps things interesting, quirky, and most importantly passionate. They optimize to wow and have fun, not to make a buck.
But that's exactly the point: Netflix didn't do this in a vacuum, they did it within Netflix.

It might just have been easier to start from scratch, maybe using an external partner experienced in live streaming, but the chances of that decision happening in a tech-heavy company such as Netflix that seems to pride itself on being an industry leader are close to zero.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65246394 is a little old but contains a number of studies finding hate speech increased with Musks takeover.
the magic is very much right where it always is,its everywhere and in everything
but never the same twice, so pattern recognition shows you other things instead, simpler things that are just the infill in an otherwise very busy and energetic world, its too much for most and
they grow out of the pre verbal ,pan optic stage that marks all humans in some way

I personaly, have never stoped building stuff, there is no break from snow forts
to living in vans and buses, I have a house, but I camp in it, I had to trick the power company into taking there wires off it, but hey ,I knew I didnt need it,
because light comes down out of the sky and then something something ,photovoltaic and
I can charge my phone and make food cold or hot
Again, whatever they can do from behind a screen now, they could also do in your absence before.
Yes, documents are online but how you can prove that those are hoax? The last analysis I know the guy made cross reference checks using modern search engines and newspaper databases and things where matching. I don't want to say that documents are real but for sure I never saw any argument that would definatly say that it was hoax.
That does kinda fit with stories of the Anunnaki creating humans as an experiment. Keep the science project contained to see what they do.
No.

The global housing crisis is the result of international organised crime owning or operating most of the large construction conglomerates, using real estate as a fiat currency to wash the proceeds from all their illicit business, and (org crime infested) private equity companies cashing in on the former situation, pumping assets by buying up available real estate just to make it unavailable.

CRIME is the real reason worldwide for people not being able to afford a house.
(separating this out)

I agree with you heavily here: "Also, I don't believe the claim that physicians don't care about CVD risk in patients <40yo including high blood pressure and high cholesterol."

Seems odd over all. My physician, unprompted, wanted to put me on a statin when I was very healthy and in my early 30s just to lower my risk as my cholesterol numbers were trending up at the time. Whether or not this calculator actually works for those under 40, physicians certainly still prescribe statins, evaluate heart health risks, and communicate on the dangers of poor heart health to individuals all the time anyways.
that's like saying the visible mass of the universe is 99% hydrogen and helium, so we don't need to learn about chemistry.
You probably use a cellphone in the course of your work. How much do you know about building and operating a 5G RAN? How about modem and RF front end design?

I assume that if you're not a cellular network engineer, the answer would be "very little".
I'm interested to see how Bluesky ends up handling bad actors in the long-term. Will they have the resources to keep up? Or will it become polluted like the other large platforms.

Also, if a part of their business model will be based off selling algorithmic feeds, won't that mean more spam is actually good for their bottom line because they'll sell more algorithmic feeds that counter the spam?
“advanced human technology”. The idea that we’ve kept some advanced propulsion technology “secret” for decades seems farfetched
Once you have created your README, you might want to consider using a tool that I'm currently working on. I'm focused on fixing the "garbage in, garbage out" problem for RAG by focusing on spelling and grammar, among other things. You can see an example of the tool in action at

https://app.gitsense.com/microsoft/TinyTroupe?doc=9bc6270618

This will be open sourced and I hope to have source available before the end of this month.
It took me a while to get comfortable with Rust.

I tried reading "The Rust Programming Language" book, but had difficulty with it.

The book that worked for me was "Programming Rust": https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-rust-2nd/97...

The way that it explained things made more sense to me and helped me to understand many of the design decisions behind why Rust works the way that it does.

But reading books only takes you so far. You need to write code and read code to understand through experience. I took a C program that I wrote at my job and rewrote it in Rust. It was a revelation: in writing the Rust version I discovered many bugs that were not obvious in the C version simply because of Rust's detailed approach to error handling. The Rust version was much easier to understand and maintain and is the one we use now.

I was originally very skeptical of Rust, but if you write software in C or C++ and then write comparable software in Rust, it makes you want to use Rust every time instead. Rust code helps prevent errors of all types that C and C++ allow. Rust tooling and the ecosystem of crates are so much easier to use.

Here is a quote from "Programming Rust" that I found motivating:

The Rust language makes you a simple promise: if your program passes the compiler’s checks, it is free of undefined behavior. Dangling pointers, double-frees, and null pointer dereferences are all caught at compile time. Array references are secured with a mix of compile-time and run-time checks, so there are no buffer overruns: the Rust equivalent of our unfortunate C program exits safely with an error message.

Further, Rust aims to be both safe and pleasant to use. In order to make stronger guarantees about your program’s behavior, Rust imposes more restrictions on your code than C and C++ do, and these restrictions take practice and experience to get used to. But the language overall is flexible and expressive. This is attested to by the breadth of code written in Rust and the range of application areas to which it is being applied.

In our experience, being able to trust the language to catch more mistakes encourages us to try more ambitious projects. Modifying large, complex programs is less risky when you know that issues of memory management and pointer validity are taken care of. And debugging is much simpler when the potential consequences of a bug don’t include corrupting unrelated parts of your program.

Of course, there are still plenty of bugs that Rust cannot detect. But in practice, taking undefined behavior off the table substantially changes the character of development for the better.
Beautiful. All of it. I love it when tech brings people together.
People with enough positive points have the ability to flag a comment or submission to indicate they don't feel like it belongs. Why it's flagged is sometimes difficult to figure out.

Here's the FAQ entry

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

What does [flagged] mean?

Users flagged the post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on HN.

Moderators sometimes also add [flagged] (though not usually on submissions), and sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair.
> to push everyone from Adobe to Steam to build for aarch64

Not happening. The other commenters are right - many developers are content letting their apps get abandoned if the choice is between Universal binary or x86. A lot of software, particularly legacy software and older games, don't even have the opportunity to build for aarch64. The moment Apple put an expiration date on Rosetta they were confronting you with the inevitability that your software would one day die. There is no convincing some people - for christsake, four generations of Apple Silicon came and went and Steam is fine leaving their client x86 only. They know all their MacOS users are playing through Game Porting Toolkit's Windows version anyways.

From where you're standing, it must feel like an 18 carrot run of bad luck. Truth is, the game was rigged from the start.
Sumerian and early Mesopotamian mythology is very interesting reading. I won't say it's ''aliens'' but there are some strong hints of more going on at the rise of civilization then just neolithic people coming together and inventing writing.

I have this idea that sedentary agrarian urban civilization was something created by nomadic peoples to farm slaves. Hunter gatherers and pastoral peoples would be very hard to control. But if they took children, and raised them to be sedentary and dependent on agriculture they could have a stable of slaves.
Does that wipe out your margins? Most proxies I'm aware of are relatively expensive and if you're charging per API request than there's not much margin to work with.

What was the scraper written in? Python? Node? Go?
Show HN: Built my first software product to research and predict trends
Hey everyone!

I started learning to code last summer, and wanted to build my own software products. This is my first attempt.

Wrote the first line of code for this on 9/7, and had 4 features built and ready for customers to buy on 11/7.

It uses data from Google Trends.

- Dashboard for currently trending topics
- Keyword insights to see historical trends
- Keyword report generator
- Keyword trend forecasting

Would love any feedback you have!

Cheers
Nice, can you guys help me with a down payment? I don’t need dozens of 4070s, just four walls and a roof
Uno Platform is a cross platform implementation of the WinUI+WinRT APIs. That cross-platform implementation never used the official WinUI/WinAppSDK implementation on Windows.

When running on Windows, which this is where some confusion may lie, you can choose to use the Uno implementation (the netX.0-desktop TFM), or the original WinAppSDK by Microsoft (the netX.0-windows10.YYY TFM), since both implementations share the same API, making user code compatible with either ones.

On the other platforms, Wasm/Linux/iOS/Android/Catalyst/macOS, only the Uno implementation can be used.
Yes you would: you'ld learn <pick-a-language> just like people have for centuries - in school,

and you'ld learn how to code just like millions have for decades - in school or library computer rooms, or with an age-restricted computer that your family would provide.
The social group’s norms are those the bully aims to appeal to, either because they directly believe in them or because they want others’ approval. The person who’s easy to target is often easy to target precisely because they’re excluded from friendships that would protect them. The group has no mind; it can’t explicitly decide something. The decision is structurally embedded in the group, and goes beyond any individual, including the bully that takes the action.
Aethera – Collaborative AI Knowledge Discovery for Teams
I do not have a right to put signs promoting my beliefs in your front yard. Preventing me from doing that is not a prohibition of free speech. What’s going to slay me is that the group that bitched and moaned about twitter preventing free speech have turned it into a hellhole nobody wants to be in. Now they will come over and say the same about Blue Sky??? Guys - you can post your ridiculous nonsense on X… nobody is infringing on your right to free speech.
English is the dominant language at the moment. Should Quebec abandon French? Should Europe? The rest of the world?
I saw what happened on threads, essential CSA material flooding in, very very creepy so I stopped using threads.
If you want an actual mesh p2p IP-network that can punch through firewalls/NATs you can use Tailscale/Headscale

If you want a crypto-key addressable p2p connection-network there is a somewhat recent project which does this rather well:

https://www.iroh.computer

It punches through firewalls/NATs and establishes QUIC connections.

They have two already useful PoC's:

https://github.com/n0-computer/sendme

https://github.com/n0-computer/dumbpipe
I disagree since the book is using a functional programming language to advance the idea that CS is about procedural epistemology as opposed to the declarative stance of maths.

The idea that a 'procedural programming paradigm' exists in contrast with a 'functional programming paradigm' is blogspeak imho.
What about Game Porting Toolkit? To be honest I feel like that's resulted in fewer native ports and more Mac players enjoying the x86 library that would never be ported natively.
None of this is true though is it? The purpose of a vaccine is to induce the immune system to produce antibodies which typically act after infection, this is what is normally published in clinical trials, the vaccines were efficacious in doing this and efficacious against symptomatic COVID, the data was published as were numerous early studies which accurately observed that breakthrough effects were very low, and government officials accurately advised the public that it would significantly increase survival rates and reduce transmission rates.

Then it did, despite the best efforts of people who had been sowing public distrust in the health system since long before there was a vaccine, so the last refuge of those particular scoundrels was to insist that the long series of lies they'd told about COVID were actually an honest desire to inform the public that the vaccine wasn't a sterilising one, as if that was a remotely good reason to advise people not to take it.
> influence that others have is that the bullied person doesn't have enough (or large enough) others around them in order to defend them

Yes, this is how the crowd selects the target. It's implicit in the fact that the crowd has indicated they won't defend the target

"Having no friends" is a signal that the herd isn't going to do anything to help you
I think your awareness shrinks. (And by awareness I mean attention. What you direct when you pay attention. What you concentrate when you concentrate. What gets jerked around when you are distracted).

You spend your whole life focusing on the important stuff / ignoring the unimportant stuff.

In this way you slowly whittle your reality down to a nub.

Also, much that was half-visible or vaguely-visible or almost-invisible gets discarded this way. That's a lot of reality.

Also, the "important stuff", in our society, tends to be mental stuff. Important ideas and plans and such. So by the time you're an adult you've discarded pretty much your whole reality except for a little mental videogame that you play until you die.

So it makes sense that an adult might suffer from reality starvation.
So much for Netflix engineering talent aura
I tried to follow along with the textbook before but really struggled with the practical side - R is just another world in terms of dependency management and organisation/documentation (compared to python at least). The book had me install some version of a library that was since unsupported. So I thought I would be a nerd and do everything in python instead, but there I had other problems installing pymc. After some hours of failing I just gave up. Can anyone speak to the state of the dependencies in this edition? Has everything been updated? Versions listed? Would love to give this another shot
It isn't that clear cut. If you are trying to say something on a forum and a bot farm immediately gives you a thousand downvotes, will banning those bots increase or decrease free speech on that forum?
For me it looks like 2001 race with Vidicon tube camera filter. By mid nineties everyone switched to CCD, even entry level handheld camcorders.
A human specialized in any of those things vastly outperforms the average human let alone an LLM.
Not for all intents and purposes.

If we are asking whether MOND is useful, then the answer is probably yes. You might use it for simulations of galaxy formation where Newtonian gravity is considered a reasonable approximation today. But MOND is not a correct model of the universe. There is no place in the universe that Newtonian gravity applies, only places where the error is an acceptable trade-off for simpler calculation.
Your method is the most common I’ve seen. I also come across this style often:

> …using the File Transfer Protocol, or FTP.
Defending yourself is always the right move. When one of my sons was being bullied in elementary school, I taught him how to fight and encouraged him to do so. The bullying ended, but he was suspended. I confronted his principal and got her to admit that she would defend herself if someone was pummeling her. She didn't like this, and subsequently expelled my son, who later won honors awards after transferring to a different school.
I have always assumed that a focus on stock tickers is the natural result when your primary user base is a group of people hyper focused on “total compensation” and stock grants. The name hackernews is merely a playful reference to the history of the site. Like the name “Patriot Act.”
Boosting Postgres Insert Performance by 50% with Unnest
Hi HN! If you're interested in PostgreSQL or database performance here's a short benchmark I did looking into the seemingly magical performance gain you can get by INSERTing unnested arrays rather than VALUES tuples in Postgres.

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for next articles.
And yet Monterey is EOL. Very few apps still support it. I wonder if it's just something that wasn't tested exactly for that reason.
The inaccuracy of the Newtonian theory of gravity is large enough that it was already noticed by astronomers in the mid-1800s.
Not the best use of resources considering we are in a housing crisis. Another thing on the list of things wealthy people think they need...
Neva: Dataflow programming language with static types and implicit parallelism
AI still has subhuman performance for art. It feels like the venn diagram of people who are bullish on LLMs and people who don't understand logistic curves is a circle.
Blegh. Hopefully they're using some computer assistance, like PhotoDNA or Project Arachnid
Any other left wing propaganda you’d want me to know of?
I have a theory that everything is BS politics now. (Maybe it always has been.)

Is Elon's new lawsuit still on?

Does Elon's new political situation affect it?

Altman recently wrote an X post showing an OpenAI model making a less left-leaning reply than Grok.

What I am really waiting for over the next couple of years is for someone to demonstrate real progress in scaling the next hardware paradigm. Probably something fairly different like a completely memory-focused type of computation. Built on memristors or something. There have been examples built by labs, but they had relatively tiny amounts of compute, albeit theoretically with the _potential_ for massive efficiency gains in some future form.

The next 100X or 1000X efficiency gain from a new hardware paradigm may make a lot of the current generation's infrastructure and bickering mostly irrelevant. And I think it will be a huge boost to open source AI.

In my opinion, what's relevant is not any particular deal or company, but that we develop and adapt to a nuanced cultural understanding of what types and levels of AI capability can help us and which will actually be dangerous sooner or later, and how to fairly deploy the beneficial and avoid the dangerous.

But I think it needs to be a broad understanding in society.
The older we get, the later we think 'old age' starts
Wow, building talent from within? I thought that went out of fashion. I think companies are too impatient to develop their employees.
disability/fix is a one-dimensional language. Real world has many degrees of freedom (more than one is for sure). Thinking in tradeoffs instead may be beneficial.
When have increased taxes directly contributed to your take home pay?
So you're saying we should model galaxies down to the level of individual protons? Lol.

Galactic dynamics is governed by gravity, which is Newtonian at those scales.
What I said doesn’t assume the bully is some kind of rational actor playing a game. They’re more like an organ in the social body.
"Terrascan" is a vision model? The only hits I'm getting are for a static code analyzer.
In-group signaling for people who like playing or thinking about the stock market. Similar to how people who make travel a big part of their identity refer to cities by their airport code.
Ah, I understand. I don't think it breaks any rule, so it must be off-topic.

A bit harsh maybe, but gotta agree to the rules to play the game :)
That's still enough time for it to have happened 3 times over in this universe.
Is multicast a thing on the commercial internet? Seems like that could help.
Omnidirectional source, yes.

However, beamed sources don't fall off that way.

A search for optical laser emission from Alpha Centauri AB - https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/516/2/2938/6668809

> ... This search would have revealed optical laser light from the directions of Alpha Cen B if the laser had a power of at least 1.4–5.4 MW (depending on wavelength) and was positioned within the 1 arcsec field of view (projecting to 1.3 au), for a benchmark 10-m laser launcher

For comparison, with our measly human technology...

https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-science-facility-receives-85m-f...

> The Vulcan 20-20 laser is so named because it will generate a main laser beam with an energy output of 20 Petawatts (PW) alongside eight high energy beams with an output of up to 20 Kilojoules (KJ). This is a 20-fold increase in power which is expected to make it the most powerful laser in the world.

Or even five decades ago (TODAY!) ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

> The entire message consisted of 1,679 binary digits, approximately 210 bytes, transmitted at a frequency of 2,380 MHz and modulated by shifting the frequency by 10 Hz, with a power of 450 kW.

https://www.seti.org/seti-institute/project/details/arecibo-...

> The broadcast was particularly powerful because it used Arecibo's megawatt transmitter attached to its 305 meter antenna. The latter concentrates the transmitter energy by beaming it into a very small patch of sky. The emission was equivalent to a 20 trillion watt omnidirectional broadcast, and would be detectable by a SETI experiment just about anywhere in the galaxy, assuming a receiving antenna similar in size to Arecibo's.
To correct you, by hn bio does not say whatever the fuck this means : “_______"
My belief is that their shift in attitude is because the cat is out of the bag... we know there is unusual stuff in the sky, so their best defense now is to pretend they don't know what they are, and asking for reports makes it more believable that it's not theirs.

I don't doubt people are skeptical about my opinion, and I don't blame them. But, keep in mind that many of the sightings are from Navy pilots, during planned Navy training missions. Oh, and the Navy has patents on some technologies that would explain some of these UAP sightings (if the technology in the patents works). Here are the patents:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190348597A1/en