skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please keep your breeding fetish private.
The bishops* and barons of my acquaintance don't stand on outdated protocol during social events — or at least they don't during the sorts of events to which I'm invited.

* then again, our local bishop has fallen on hard times: the bishopric used to wield both spiritual and temporal power, but these days is pretty much restricted to the former.
Lineage for microg isn't a random forum build
For more information, there's a recent talk on Project Lilliput by Roman Kennke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHJ1moNLwao.
Can you recommend a tool for dicing up 2h digitizations of VHS tapes? I want to play the 2h video, seek around easily, mark 'chapters' and give them filenames, then do a no-transcode rough cut extraction of each chapter into its own video.
> The WebGPU browser API -> your app will run in the browser, but not on GLES-era hardware. Perish in the verbosity of not having bindless support.

Note, regarding "GLES-era": WGPU does have a GLES/WebGL2 backend; missing WebGL1 is unfortunate, but at least it covers most recent browsers/hardware that happens to not have WebGPU supported yet.

(and there's necessarily some added overhead from having to adapt to GLES-style api; it's especially silly if you consider that the browser might then convert the api calls and shaders _again_ to D3D11 via ANGLE)
History of Vegetarianism
There's no agenda. This is the part that is so frustrating to get across. If this is the agree to disagree point then so be it.

Black people want all the rights and privileges of white people. It's not enough that black and white people are equally entitled to use the bathrooms and drinking fountains of their respective race.

Gay people want all the rights and privileges as straight people. It's not enough that gay and straight people are equally entitled to enter a marriage defined as one man and one woman.

Trans people want all the rights and privileges as cis people. It's not enough that cis and trans people are equally entitled to participate in sports leagues that correspond to their AGAB.

You are the person who is equating gay with sex and trans with genitalia. So obviously you're going to read discussion about issues facing these groups as talking about sex and genitals. Actual trans people would very much like conservatives to stop talking about their genitals.

Dropping the subject is antithetical to them being able to quietly live boring normal lives same as everyone else. It's accepting marginalization. My trans girl friends are just my girlfriends, it's an implementation detail I don't care about. Achieving that socially and legally is together and equal but we aren't there and are trending backwards.
The Suckless from Scratch Project
What's Coming in Go 1.24
The idea that slowing population growth is a problem, in need of a fix, is itself a political position. From another point of view, this is a good thing, which will be part of a fix for other problems.
The chicken egg problem caused by killing Flash games, and that nowadays no one cares about the browser, because everyone doing Flash moved into mobile phones or Steam, with better APIs?

Game Pass, GeForce Now, are doing alright.

Stadia failed, because Google doesn't get games industry.
Square roots are fundamental to (real and complex) analysis and to algebra (in the study of polynomials), so the two major branches of modern mathematics.
I wonder what would happen if they changed the prompt such that the llm is asked to explain their strategy first. Or to explain their opponent's strategy.
Detailed Explanation of Vector Search
I meant to say the "simpler" (but still very complicated) solar sail approach was for a one-way trip. On paper, our civilization can muster the energy required to accelerate tiny masses to relativistic speeds. A return trip at those speeds would require a nee type of science to concentrate that amount of energy in a small mass and use it for controlled propulsion.
Rural water utilities in North Carolina are still reeling from Helene
* They need suffer only a moment's guilt, before proceeding fearlessly back into the world.

It is not a true repentance if one can wash off their guilt in a moment. True repentance is eternal burn.
Interesting, thanks; though I don't think that what you describe is comparable to L-systems. Just had a look into the book "Unplayed Melodies, Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory" by Perlman, which I have at hand, and didn't find any indications of generative grammars or rewriting; it's rather a set of established patterns ("balungan"); this also corresponds to what my friend has learned about the traditional music in Bali (here is a recording we did together; he plays the traditional slonding instruments): http://rochus-keller.ch/?p=251.
The problem with the application of fractal algorithms to music is, that music is actually not "self-similar" in the fractal sense, but there are just repetitions or variations. Music in general is not based on an ever-evolving stream of "fractal noise".

I agree that Gamelan is very beautiful music. Important western composers such as Steve Reich were there and studied the music to adopt the concepts in their compositions (see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN_YSS06ZcQ&pp=ygUabXVzaWMgZ...). Here a part of the performance where you can see that Reich even adopded the orchestral layout similar to a gamelan ensemble: https://youtu.be/71A_sm71_BI?t=806.
I knew I recognized the feel of this project. It did quite well on the front page [0]. Hopefully you and others keep hiring them so we can keep enjoying their work!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40113013
This is one of the better criticisms of bsky/atproto I’ve read. So glad to read a good one. Just two comments:

DMs were added out of protocol for exactly the reason the author suspects: users were clamoring for this functionality, and doing it right will take a while. So they’ve alluded to plans to bring them back into the protocol, but for now, most people are okay with trusting Bluesky and being able to do what they want to do. It’s effectively a non-regression from the point of “I’m migrating from Twitter.”

> it seems unlikely that downplaying the role of domains is something Bluesky as an organization will be motivated to do since selling domains is currently a Bluesky business strategy.

It seems like this integration has disappeared, as far as I can tell. They didn’t say anything about it publicly that I saw.
This is fun but it's buggy. I randomly glitch out and get forced to respawn :(
The former, these are W2 full time union tradespeople. The only thing taken out of the $53/hr wage is income tax and payroll tax, everything else is rolled into the fringe package.

Journeyman electricians get $53/hr wage in Mpls/St Paul, total package is around $100/hr (includes health insurance, defined benefit pension, employer FICA, unemployment insurance, union dues, apprentice program funding, vacation pay, etc) Foreman get an extra $5 an hour and a general foreman gets another $5 on top of that.

NYC and SF electricians get around $70-75/hr wage, DC is around $65/hr.

Trade unions are so hard up for new members that they’ll educate you while you’re an apprentice, so after 5 years you’re a journeyman with no education debt making $100k+ a year. It takes a while for a college educated person making $100k/year to catch up to the electrician in lifetime earnings.

If you’re a non-union residential electrician in say, Alabama or Kentucky, you’ll probably make $60k a year. If you’re a commercial union mechanical or electrical tradesperson in a decent sized metro area, you’ll make significantly more.
Izakaya chain buys Subway Japan in challenge to McDonald's
Attention to soft skills involving people might be a hard skill for you. Or not. The question does not contain sufficient context. But often people want to improve in areas that avoid dealing with areas they want to avoid.

Hard skills can be outsourced (Facebook hired Carmac, Google hired Norvig). Soft skills can't. Soft skills are what usually makes someone a good-programmer-in-the-sense-people-want-to-work-with-them-again. Good luck.
1750 elo is extremely far from beginner chess. The random mover bot on Lichess has like 700 rating.

And the article does show various graphs of the badly playing models which will hardly play worse than random but are clearly far below the good models.
My 100% speculation is emergent behaviour from the brain itself. Same way human interactions have remained largely the same over thousands of years. Also, we don't notice the salmon that swam up dead ends elsewhere.
WiFi security can be improved by per-device passwords, https://github.com/spr-networks/super
Agreed. It's not the same thing and we should strive for precision (LLMs are already opaque enough as it is).

An LLM that recognizes an input as "math" and calls out to a NON-LLM to solve the problem vs an LLM that recognizes an input as "math" and also uses next-token prediction to produce an accurate response ARE DIFFERENT.
A lot of "butter" spreads are sold in plastic tubs.
Self-made Indian billionaire faces biggest test after US fraud charges
I ran into the same infinite respawn. Here's where it happened to me:

https://imgur.com/RFxyl1Q
Seems like he has more than the average number of legs as well.

The fact that he has a wiki page, and that many folks with born without or who have lost legs (~500,000/year Americans experience limb loss or are born with a limb difference https://amputee-coalition.org/resources/limb-loss-statistics...) do not, suggest that the number of people with < 2 is far greater than the number of people with > 2. So the average is still less than 2.

For better or worse, number of legs (or number of arms) is canonical example people use to demonstrate the statistical principal a significant majority of a population can be above average of some metric.
As a MM fan, I wanted to second this. Great work, engaging enough to make me finish it and wish there were more mechanics like the catapults and enemies.
I wasn’t questioning the median, I was simply stating that you can make much more than the median in certain areas, or in any area by simply joining the trade union for your trade. The south is what drags down the median construction wage numbers.
You could always just write your own OS that only cares about running your app. Of course you are always going to run into problems if your program uses functions that you didn't design around. I think any Linux user could tell you that Windows programs don't run on Linux, so I don't know how you could have thought that there was some sort of portability guarantee between these two operating systems or even subsets of them.

If this is some OOP propaganda then I'm sorry but you got duped and the c++/qt community should act more professionally.
Might just be some kind of salinity thing. Upstream -> Less minerals dissolved
I wish I had code access to this, I would make a multiplayer mode using https://docs.joinplayroom.com/usage/threejs (my project)
It is not but strings are cached (interned) in Java which is a different thing.
Then, why not be a grad student again?
Initially LLM researchers were saying training on code samples made the "reasoning" better. Now, if "language to world model" thesis is working, shouldn't chess actually be the smallest case for it?

I can't understand why no research group is going hard at this.
From my experience, ASR-to-NER pipelines don't perform adequately out of the box. Even though SOTA ASR systems claim 85% word accuracy, the distribution of errors is worth looking into. Errors around critical entities like credit card numbers or addresses are particularly prone, and even a small mistake renders the result useless.

These ASR errors cascade into the NER step, further degrading recall and precision. Combining ASR and NER into a joint model or integrated approach can reduce these issues in theory, it's just more complex to implement and less commonly used.
You are correct, but PyObject_HEAD is not the full header for the average object.

- the base requirement is a class pointer and a refcount, that's PyObject_HEAD (and PyObject)

- then unless you have disabled this at compilation time, they have two pointers for the cycle-breaking part of the GC

- a dict pointer (or as many instance value pointers as there are object members when using slots)

- and a weakrefs pointer (except for slotted classes, unless you added it back)

That is however only 6 words (48 bytes), or 4 (32) for slotted classes with no members or weakrefs.

I believe the header is larger when running without GIL on 3.13 because PyObject has 2 more words (a local refcount, a gc bitset, and a mutex packed in a word with some padding, and a tid pointer).

Still nowhere near 308 though, I've no idea where they got that. Maybe whoever wrote that article included the instance dict in their calculations? That would add 200~300 bytes. Or maybe they got mixed up between bits and bytes, calculated 308 bits somehow then wrote that up as bytes.
Bpftrace: A scriptable magnifying glass with X-ray vision for Linux
It has been for the last several months now.
I kinda feel we need minicomputers back in this age of computing. Instead of making one giant rack that doesn’t fit through doorways, they should make a 4 ft tall unit that stacks. At least once they’re established enough that they can manage doing small installs instead of full data centers. I’ve looked around and there are tiny forklifts they could use to install 2 at once.

Just the power demands for their full rack exceed capacity for most office spaces.

That and someone needs to make a rack that has a port to plug a glycol line directly into. Doesn’t have to be Oxide, but someone should.
Forbearance Negotiation Violence
Microsoft Research had papers on speaker arrays that allowed speaker focus and noise cancelling a couple of decades ago. I think the technology eventually ended up in the Kinect.

I think Cisco had something similar in their large screen meeting room video conferencing systems that could do positional audio tracking of multiple people. Could be wrong, but I think that was at least 10 years or so ago, if not more.
I think this is an abuse of terminology. Colonial empires generally maintained a clear separation between the colonizers and the colonized. Russia usually tried to turn the conquered peoples into Russians. It's a different kind of oppression, and one which almost every nation state is guilty of.
As someone who has always been a collector, I found this particular article very interesting:

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/redressing-the-balance-...
Like most literary analysis, GP's remarks ("narrowness of circumstance")
are bullshit. The title "What Made His Work Immortal" was completely
off-topic.
The Innovation Paradox
I am a paying customer with credits and the API endpoints rate-limited me to the point where it's actually unusable as a coding assistant. I use a VS Code extension and it just bailed out in the middle of a migration. I had to revert everything it changed and that was not a pleasant experience, sadly.
Texas AG Declares War on Advertisers Who Snub Musk's ExTwitter
Right, a lot of "neo-banks" that tried to attract young unbanked customers used them, 100 fintech clients with a total of about 10 million end users affected. Almost included players like Mercury too - Mercury held approximately $3 billion in deposits in Synapse, which they held for an ungodly number of startups and their own customer bases, prior to pulling out a little before the collapse.
Search is an essential utility used by basically everyone on the planet with an internet connection. Google has a lock on 96% of that traffic and has increasingly made business decisions with respect to search that hurt the quality of the results and hurt both consumers and the people who get indexed by search. Google can unilaterally destroy your business with small opaque algorithm tweaks. They also increasingly have a monopoly on the browser, making decisions like deprecating support for ad blocking because it hurts the business.

Google makes about 16-22 billion dollars a quarter in profit but they still do layoffs and they still make decisions that harm consumers but help their own short term growth. Search is a basic utility that is essential to the function of the internet. It's like water and electricity. There are huge structural barriers to being able to compete in that market, so if we care at all about basic economic theory, Google probably ought to at least be operated as a non-profit, and realistically be subject to massive anti-trust enforcement considering they are the modern robber barons on top of our communication networks.
Secretization
Right, so not instantaneous? Or is this also "soviet propaganda"?
I've had it refuse to generate a long text response (I was trying to concise a 300kb documentation to 20-30kb to be able to put it in the project's context), and every time I asked it replied "How should structure the results ?", "Shall I go ahead with writing the artifacts now ?", etc.

It wasn't even during the over-capacity event I don't think, and I'm a pro user.
It's just too much work for me, and there aren't a lot of logs on the WWW, let alone in the English bubble where this meme only exist as filler repost materials.

The situation might change in 5-10 years, but as Prof. Oak said, "this isn't the time to do that"; I think it doesn't quite going to just work.
- Testimonials have been removed.

- TOS was updated. I have temporarily removed some incorrect statements. As I am not well-versed in compliance, I am seeking assistance from a third party.

- Regarding copyright issues of digital content, I hope the industry can provide best practices. Currently, I hope that AI-designed logos can inspire users in their design process rather than being used directly.

Other issues have been partially optimized, and I will continue to devote more time. Thank you for your rich experience and patient guidance.
PFAS aren't plastics.

And removing them clearly didn't increase the price of sticks of butter by $5.
> 3. Even if they know it's an estimate and not a deadline, they might not know the difference between "40 hours of dedicated effort" and "One week's worth of business hours". Making that distinction is just as important as the estimate/deadline distinction.

This is the motivation for "story points", to avoid saying "hour" for the former.

(And secondarily, let the ratio of the two be discovered by analyzing previous work, in a stable team setting.)
That needs a hell of a lot of sandboxing before I get anywhere near it. Which sounds like a good use for WASM and WebGPU.
> On the one hand, there are clearly opportunities for abuse here. But given the opt-in nature of the labelers, this doesn't feel hugely different to someone creating a separate webpage full of information about Bluesky profiles.

It requires very little imagination to see how this could be abused. Does the bluesky client also display labellers a user subscribes to?

Then at least it would work in both directions and it would be obvious who is using a labeller to label people for distasteful reasons.
Congrats you just made everyone subject to those taxes artificially worse off. People aren't stupid and can see what you did. You will be voted out of office next term. If you're going to artificially adjust prices it's got to go the other way where you subsidize the behavior you want. It worked with lightbulbs.
Building a Love for Books That Lasts
I mean one could just accept that people are idiots and just restrict their access to guns. But clearly you can't do that..
One can quibble about the technical definition of genocide, or the degree of intent on the part of the perpetrators.

But I don't see how one can say that 40,000+ largely civilian deaths (including around 15k women, minors and elderly) -- likely to eventually grow to easily 3x that amount (even if the war were to stop today) due to the long-term health impacts of the overall situation, according to people who study these things -- isn't "making a dent" in the population.

Unless one implicitly considers that population to be, well, kind of not really human to begin with.

Just imagine someone saying: "The Oct 7th attack was kind of messy I guess, but really, you can't say it was genocidal -- after all, it didn't even make a dent in Jewish population."
>> In the 1980s, AI was a few people at Stanford, a few people at CMU, a few people at MIT, and a scattering of people elsewhere.

Maybe that's the view from the US. In the '70s, '80s and '90s, ymbolic and logic-based AI flourished in Europe, in the UK and France with seminal work on program verification and model checking, with rich collaborations on logic programming between mainly British and French institutions, in japan with the 5th Generation Computer project, and in Australia with the foundational work of J. Ross Quinlan and others on machine learning, which at the time (late 8'0s and early 90's) meant primarily symbolic approaches, like decision tree learners.

But, as usual, the US thinks progress is only what happens in the US.
> Case in point, as much as I despise Apple, they are not all-in the AI bandwagon because it does nothing for them.

not sure if you've been paying attention, but AI is literally _the only thing_ Apple talks about these days. They literally released _an entire generation of devices_ where the only new thing is "Apple Intelligence"
> the default is trivial, it just returns the object's address

This was trivial a long time ago. Now, all Java GCs move objects in memory.
> They need suffer only a moment's guilt, before proceeding fearlessly back into the world.

Well, maybe not. Dostoevsky was Orthodox, so I don't know how he would think about this...

From a Catholic perspective sin has both temporal and eternal consequences. God can forgive a truly repentant person any sin, ordinarily through the ministry of the Church by the power and authority of Christ, establishing or returning a person to the life of divine grace in their soul, but the temporal consequences of their sin/s may remain to be repaired.

By analogy, suppose my neighbor became unreasonably angry with me, becoming so incensed that he threw a rock at one of my windows causing it to shatter. Then, after a day of cooling off, he apologized and asked forgiveness. Now suppose I granted him forgiveness, moved by his sincerity and a mutual desire to repair the relationship. The shattered window remains — the glass needs to be cleaned up, and a new window must be purchased and installed. Maybe my neighbor has the resources and skill to do the repair himself; or maybe he can pay directly or reimburse me for contract labor; or maybe he can't afford the repair but promises to pay me back; or maybe one of his family members pays me instead. One way or another, the window will be repaired and my neighbor bears responsibility for it.

So sin, generally, is like this, from the Catholic POV. If the forgiven sinner is not able to make repair before their life ends, then they will suffer in purgatory after death before enjoying the beatific vision. The purification will be more severe depending on the number and gravity of sins. Some mystics claim to have been informed about souls that will suffer in purgatory flames hotter than those of damnation until the last moment before the general judgment, so terrible were their sins and unrepaired consequences of the same.