skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nabokov's recommendations: http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations

I love Dostoevsky too much and am quite happy in my bias and echo chamber of that—he was one of the writers that I read in my early days, and to date, I feel that he changed a lot in me or resonated so much that I can't explain.

I believe Nietzche said this about him "the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn."

And one of my favorite quotes by him:

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!”
Free link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/science/ball-pythons-soci...
API Documentation for Machines
Honestly, the fix is to only allow alphanumeric input to shellscripts. Anything else invariably fails at some point.
North Korea is being being paid by Russia to supply troops. Russia cannot afford Chinese troops. And even if they could afford them, China is throwing its weight around Asia and wants its military intact there.
Yeah, I wonder how horrible the plasticizers were in the Playtex baby bottle nipple-tops of the 1970s. First they heated up the Similac in a little plastic pouch/bag, then slapped that nipple on top, then we sucked it all in.
This “mixin” concept uses the CRTP pattern, as mentioned in the post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously_recurring_template_p...

It actually does have specific applications. That Wikipedia article shows a good example of polymorphic method chaining. In a former life, I worked with Microsoft’s Active Template Library, which is entirely based on this pattern.
The main draw of the Unity Editor for us is how it auto-reloads assets, like 3D models, as soon as the asset file is updated. So the workflow is having your DCC app open in which you model things and export assets from, and Unity Editor to design your level where every model is always up-to-date.

This is not possible with Blender because it contains all models inside a single .blend file, so assets must be manually re-imported each you change them. There is a Link feature in Blender but in my experience it's not as good as what Unity does out of the box.
I heard whip-poor-wills all the time while growing up, but I haven't heard one in a while. Then I saw in the article where they said the population has declined by 70% since the 1970s. I've never heard the lore that they're an omen of death. I always enjoyed their song.
Update: They finally fixed it on the latest patch (13th of November).

Thank you GOG!
> we have absolutely no way to know

To me, this means that it absolutely doesn't matter whether LLM does reason or not.
Interesting. This idea appears pretty much exactly at the end of Bob Shaw's 1972 SFnal collection Other Days, Other Eyes. The starting premise is the invention of "slow glass" that looks like an irrelevant gimmick but ends up revolutionizing all sorts of things, and the final bits envisage a disturbing surveillance society with these tiny passive cameras spread everywhere.

It's a good read; I don't think the extrapolation of one technical advance has ever been done better.
Wind has been producing 29% of our electricity over the last year in Blighty.

Source: https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/historical

It's currently 16:31 GMT, and the 'live' feed says 17.8 % of the UK grid is currently running on wind as I'm typing this.

Source: https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

You must be delusional if you think wind power is greenwashing.
'homemade' rocket soars faster and farther than any other amateur spacecraft
Seeing the articles penned by "Alain Plouffe", "André Lafrenière" and "Serge Vaillancourt" makes me realize they were _french_ canadians.

Funny to imagine a clique of – old like my parents – québécois geeking out about Atari computers and making a floppy zine about it.
At my old job I was able to use a timing attack for remote username enumeration. Our login process was

1) get username and password from user

2) check if username exists and if not, return error

3) if username exists, look up hashed password from db

4) hash potential password

5) compare actual and potential password. if same, generate token and return. else, return error

As you can imagine, we live in a universe with physical laws so steps 3-5 took time. That meant that you could blast login requests with any username and a known-bad password and compare the times it took to return the bad login error. If it was relatively quick, the username was bad. If it took longer than average, the username was good and the password was bad. Combine this with the freely available lists of common usernames and common passwords and one could start with nothing but the address of the login page and walk away with valid cred pairs. We ended up doing ip-based lockout after 10 failed login attempts and adding a random delay of 100-400ms before erroring out on a bad username.
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Fastest-moving stars in the galaxy may be piloted by intelligent aliens
The article was a great read! I wonder if you know about marimo.io; it's an open-source reactive notebook for Python which offers tons of great features. I have shifted my daily notebook usage (from what used to be colab and jupyter notebooks) to marimo notebooks over the past months.
And Davis, naturally. ;)

I'm around hill country TX now where there is typically a patchwork of bike lanes segments that start and stop without much attention given to continuity of (sub)urban planning, walkability, safety, or design consideration for non-motorized users.
There is an enormous difference between this HTML document and the sorts of code front-end developers write today.

This difference is in complexity that gets imposed by buzzwords, but not in the actual behavior itself. Most frontend “code” is just a wearisome repetition of passing things down and signalling them up with few leaky abstractions to make this pointless job even more complex.

Look around, the internet is basically the same forms that we had in the 90s, only with auto-“post” on every event. There’s zero enormous difference except for constant representational state transfer back and forth. That’s why people describe htmx and co as a breath of fresh air.

Maybe avoid telling this tale about modern frontenders adding immense value - they do not, on average. It’s good that this is over.

A small JS app like this blog has ~65k lines of code, across 900+ files. That doesn't include the written content, only the JavaScript and TypeScript.

Interesting how big is the user-facing part, i.e. the static text that a regular visitor sees.
OpenAI stress-tests its large language models
The issue with using the gyroscope is that the Device Orientation API requires websites to request user permission first (at least on iOS Safari), which we feared might drive away too many visitors.
"I can resist anything except temptation" --Oscar Wilde
Your source says "most died on the day of the attacks, and all within a few months". Your source also says that cancer rates are not as high as commonly believed.
There's not enough energy left after a regular work day to make the decisions to winnow out all the toys That . Just . Keep . Coming .
Because that's a manifestation of the struggle, not the struggle itself.
Hydroelectric dams are great as long as they displace someone else.

The oldest continuously habited place in North America (for 10K years) is now submerged because of a dam. Not only was it a loss of a lot of archaeological value, but real people who were living there had to be displaced.

(Also a loss in the natural world - the most voluminous waterfall in N America was submerged there as well).
> which sucks for one-hand input anyway

Wait, what?

Unless you’re hunting-and-pecking, a numpad IS the job for one-handed number input.
What about the downside of takeout?
>Nobody knows how to stop humanity from shrinking

There's literally gigantic websites showing how to fix the major underpopulation problems. Unfortunately if you're on say reddit or meta, their censorship disallows you to see the fixes. This is all political.

>And to make things worse, the trend toward lower fertility rates doesn’t seem to have any bottom.

There's now a huge political movement in the USA who are unhappy with Trump winning and are now swearing off sex for the next 4 years. Whatcha think that's going to do to fertility? You think its bad now...

>As things stand today, no one on the entire planet knows how to stop this trend.

You're up against the above political movement who arent going anywhere.

The reason 'no one' knows how to fix it is because it's not fixable unless you deal in politics. Which if you are on the 1 side of politics, you dont even know whats wrong. If you're on the otherside, you're dominating in politics because you know the fix.
I feel the same way about books.
1960s Frustrated Man Demanded Americans Keep Their Word [video]
Well, for some sufficiently platonic definition of "world".
Majority of people believe their devices spy on them to serve up ads
I talked with the parents of a 30-year-old family member. They said their child had overflowing toys 29 years ago...
In regard to Korea -- it was also about the principle of maintaining recognized borders, and their involiability. The UN was also instrumental in bringing the conflict to an end (along with Stalin's death and the general state of exhaustion on both sides -- but nonetheless, it was instrumental). And yes, they were both awful dictatorships at the time (and the South would continue to be, for decades to come) -- but's also not like there isn't a considerable difference between the two societies, now, generations later.

Palestine - many failures, but there've also been many important resolutions that have kept the conflict (at least somewhat) framed in terms of the RBWO and the rights of the region's indigenous inhabitants.

We also have the Geneva Conventions, etc.

So in sum - yes, many failures, but on balance I see the glass as more half-full than half-empty, on this issue.
Gilster writes about it every few months

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2024/01/19/data-return-from-...
Ok, need to read it again with more time.

Myself I typically don't script in bash. Most of the extras like [[ are not needed, you can do everything in dash. Arrays are the only feature that comes to my mind where bash would be handy.
> Why is NPR being so blatantly partisan that even non-Americans can immediately smell it?

It's sad how the news media has turned into a bunch of rapid, foolish dogs that run in packs.
No, I’m worried because I use Chime.
I think it's less about targeting KDE or GNOME specifically, but instead hitting linux desktop, and those using those systems.

as a target demographic, the folks using linux on the desktop are almost certainly more technical than most, and are likely developers, engineers, admins, or otherwise STEM types. probably high overlap with domains like SRE and security.

also probably, as a whole, better paid, and more likely to have cryptocurrency.
It's kind of ridiculous to say that functions computable by turing computers are the only ones that can exist(and that trained llms are Turing computers).

What evidence do you have for either of these, since I don't recall any proof that "functions computable by Turing machines" is equal to the set of functions that can exist. And I don't recall pretrained llms being proven to be Turing machines.
Well one example would be how the characters are all extremely overdramatic and prone to hysterical outbursts at the slightest provocation, or how they enter a fever if they get into an argument, etc.

This is very obvious after reading something like George Eliot's Middlemarch, who has a very realistic depiction of the characters rather than Dostoevsky's overly dramatic approach. The latter, imo, just makes the characters impossible to empathise with, because they act in ways that no common human ever acts.

This is common in 19th century writing, but in the 20th century it seemed to improve. One of the reason George Eliot is so praised is because she eschewed that convention far earlier than authors like Dostoevsky.
World model based interfaces have an internal representation and when asked, describe its details.

Surface statistics based interfaces have an internal database of what is expected, and when asked, they give a conformist output.
Wait, Werner von Braun kicked puppies?
The defining feature of the privilege is that it's arbitrary. If it was governed by a set of consistent rules, then it would be less effective at making him feel like he had power - the system, rather, would have power instead.
Regarding your questions, yes, DEM also benefits a lot from GPU acceleration. So you can compare it to a CPU based code, but obviously there's an order of magnitude you can gain via GPU.

Usually you are not interested in the fine fields anyways. Think of some fine powder in a big process, where there are trillions of real particles inside. You can't and don't want to simulate that. Mostly you are interested in these course quantities anyways and getting statistical data, so for that there's no need for the fine resolution.

Regarding the numerical model that can compute these things in a more efficient way, they don't always exist. When you move to large numbers of particles you can sometimes go to continuum models, but they might not always behave as the real thing, as it's really difficult to find governing equations for such materials.
Sorry, I temporarily paused it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42194170#42202922
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Pushkin was extremist and nationalist, he was also seen as such. That is why he was propped up by the regime later on.

There is a reason why Ukrainians demolished specifically his monuments and why Russians are building them. It has zero to do with quality of prose and a lot to do with ... his extremism.
A Walk-Through of String Search Algorithms
You are completely mis-interpreting what I'm saying. To the point that it seems almost intentional and lacking good faith. As such, I'm done with this conversation. Have a nice day.
You didn't judge the writer by their body of work. You judged the author by which works are famous.
This is plausible. One of the top chess engines in the world (Leela) is just a neural network trained on billions of chess games.

So it makes sense that an LLM would also be able to acquire some skill by simply having a large volume of chess games in its training data.

OpenAI probably just eventually decided it wasn't useful to keep pursuing chess skill.
Nothing complicated, we simply have initialization code that parses the GLTF scene on startup by iterating over the children of a specific group, and creating Rapier colliders for each of them (Triangle Mesh Colliders to be specific, in order to allow things such as curved ramps). Since their geometry is very simple, we can use directly the rendering geometry for the collider geo.
That is well-written and a potentially good application for crypto-shredding, which has a lot of drawbacks in other contexts.

The issue with crypto-shredding in many applications is that it aggressively pessimizes the software architectures possible in support of the data model. For things like databases and analytics, that feature increases the required hardware footprint -- compute and storage -- by orders of magnitude. The loss of efficiency has little to do with the crypto per se, since hardware support makes that cheap, but with how the change in representation interacts with idiomatic data structures and algorithms for high-efficiency data systems.

Many system internals are essentially a bag of tricks for constructing the maximally compressive representation of the important relationships in a data model while preserving practical tractability of operations over the data model. Crypto-shredding architectures have the effect of "encrypting" before "compressing", rendering the latter moot.
Please tell a story about the music ya'll chose for this, it's incredible.
Next.js without a node backend, what do you lose (SSR, etc.) by choosing to use another backend-only or monolithic framework?

I was looking at Rails (API mode + partial asset pipeline) + Next.js for a project to start, and might entertain elixir or rust when scalability of slow areas became a problem. Sometimes I think there will be eventually a system of LLMs that will figure out how to manage and configure operating systems, write mobile native and web apps, and administer databases. And then they'll eventually rewrite programming languages and design silicon to be better for themselves, so that they will only need a part time human to clean and maintain the robot security guard.
I have found more often than not that people in the "LLMs are useless" camp are actually in the "I need LLMs to be useless" camp.
This was really fun. Right before this little hole on the second level, my macbook started running a bit slow and the collision detection somehow sucked the marble into the floor.

https://imgur.com/ZANb1cT
Not a beaver, but close: an otter wreaked repeat havoc in the Sun Yat-sen botanical garden in Vancouver, eating many valuable koi:

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-godf-otter-part...
> So when playing against really good players, way above my level, I could win sometimes (or allmost) simply by making unconventional (dumb by normal strategy) moves in the beginning - resulting in a non standard game where I could apply pressure in a way the opponent was not prepared for (also they underestimated me after the initial dumb moves).

IIRC Magnus Carlsen is said to do something like this as well - he'll play opening lines that are known to be theoretically suboptimal to take his opponent out of prep, after which he can rely on his own prep/skills to give him better winning chances.
I don't have firm thoughts on the price point, but two examples of real-world use cases would be:

* There is a food production company where their QA's do a monthly walkaround. It takes approx. 2-3 hours to type up notes after the walkaround. I'm in the UK and QA's are paid approx. £32k GBP, so 3 hours of their time is more like £50 benefit.

* Lots of logistics companies do daily walks with shift/team leaders. While these aren't usually typed up or anything, it would be great to document them in terms of actions and a tasklist to complete. The alternative to the software would be getting a team leader to write up notes after the walk, and this would take maybe 30 minutes. A team leader might be £28k p.a. so cheaper to get them to do it than buy software at $12k p.a.

The cost of the software would need to be a fraction (e.g. 10%) of what it is at the moment though for these sorts of use-cases to pay off.

Maybe a more generic version of the software not targeted at the construction niche could be something like £49 per month per user? Sounds more like the sort of level I would expect.

But I'm thinking that $1k is like way way way out of the reasonable range of my use case, and this is so different to your current business model I imagine it's irreconcilable.
I think pen plotters are really cool! There's a bunch of models on 3d printing websites like this one: https://www.printables.com/model/573473-pen-plotter-core-xy
Loadstar (a C64 magazine) for me is still the gold standard for magazines on disk. Every issue was a pleasure and so well put together.
Yes, that's the worst of modern Western culture, the belief that it is superior to any other and you don't even need to hear someone who doesn't share your modern worldviews. The result of such ideas is a culture that will try to destroy everything else and in the end destroy itself.
Why did you choose to do things this way instead of using Unity WebGL?

It's okay if the reason is, "because we make websites and the programming we know is Javascript" or whatever. It doesn't have to be about some objective comparison, like optimization or whatever, which isn't going to be true or necessarily matter anyway.
Netlify CEO here.

I spotted Little Workshop when I saw https://equinox.space/ on Hacker News and noticed it was running on Netlify. Loved the fluidness, speed and art direction of a game running directly in the browser and working smoothly on my phone.

Immediately thought of them when we started thinking about a 5 million developer celebration and reached out. Love the result :)
Well it doesnt, seem my other comment below.

It is exactly this non-sequitur which I'm pointing out.

Approximating an abstract discrete function (a game), with a function approximator has literally nothing to do with whether you can infer the causal properties of the data generating process from measurement data.

To equate the two is just rank pseudoscience. The world is not made of measurements. Summaries of measurement data aren't properties in the world, they're just the state of the measuring device.

If you sample all game states from a game, you define the game. This is the nature of abstract mathematical objects, they are defined by their "data".

Actual physical objects are not defined by how we measure them: the solar system isnt made of photographs. This is astrology: to attribute to the patterns of light hitting the eye some actual physical property in the universe which corresponds to those patterns. No such exists.

It is impossible, and always has been, to treat patterns in measurements as properties of objects. This is maybe one of the most prominent characteristics of psedusocience.
From what I understand, based on the premise that this results from switching into 'arithmetic' mode, you don't even need test. The following will also work with the proposed attack:

function guess () { declare -i num="${1}" ; }

(unless I'm missing something?)
> There is no legitimate reason to make an illegal move in chess though?

If you make an illegal move and the opponent doesn't notice it, you gain a significant advantage. LLMs just have David Sirlin's "Playing to Win" as part of their training data.
When I play chess I filter out all kinds of illegal moves. I also filter out bad moves. Human is more like "recursively thinking of ideas and then evaluating them with another part of your model", why not let the LLMs do the same?
It's not a genetic memory. They return to the place they were born. This is probably based on the "scent" of that place, and maybe other factors.

Some percentage either accidentally or deliberately go up a different river, which is how the species spreads. That's very likely who this story is about.
It's interesting what people take from this passage. I was primed by alangau's statement that Dostoevsky predicted the death of absolute good, and the mass slaughter of millions, when I read

> There is not—there cannot be—a sin on earth that God will not forgive the truly repentant.

To me, this sends a horrifying message. A self-righteous individual can kill millions, wake up to the terrible reality of their act, repent, and be bathed in the joy of a loving god's forgiveness. They need suffer only a moment's guilt, before proceeding fearlessly back into the world.

And yet, according to alangau's sibling comment, the passage was deeply moving to him. Perhaps my horrified response is a deep motion of sorts, but that isn't a typical usage of the phrase "deeply moved."
Netlify being related to Gatsby and Vercel being related to Next.js.