skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At least here in the US, the majority of developers daily drive macs on their desktop.

The majority of WEB developers.
I tried taking it for IBS for that reason.

It worked! Kind of. The first few days after every dose it had the opposite intended effect so it wasn’t worth it.
1. Israel de facto controls the Rafah border.

2. Due to (1), and clear & consistent messaging by Israeli officials on Gaza resettlement as a goal, Egypt understands that “temporary” refugees will be unable to return - i.e., a repeat of 1948 and 1967.
This would read significantly less like empty trolling or virtue signalling if you added why you think it is culturally the case that the "black" in "black companies" is somehow related to skin colour (and not, say, the inherent danger of an unlit environment - such as at night).

This would have a nice side-effect of you almost certainly realising you are wrong - as the connotation as far as I'm aware doesn't have racist overtones. In this way you'd be doing yourself a service because you'd need to be angry over less things and you'd be doing everyone else a service because they wouldn't read something so clearly born from a US-centric world view. A case could be made that having one of those and not bothering to learn about other cultures is itself fairly xenophobic.
What? We're making incredible progress. mRNA vaccines, CRISPR, access to space research, materials sciences, the upcoming AI-driven research boom. It's crazy out there, and as a bonus, we're not irradiating anyone due to clumsy screwdriver techniques.

Stop paying attention to whatever source is leading you to believe scientific progress has slowed down. They're lying to you.
Yeah I don't doubt it was the best option. Just a bit surprised.
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I think everything you said is totally correct for open source library owners.

But let me offer a different perspective: Hyrum’s law is neither a technical contract nor a social contract. It’s an emergent technical property in a sufficiently used system.

How you respond to that emergent property depends on the social context.

If you are a FOSS maintainer, and an optimization speeds up 99.99% of users and requires 0.01% to either fix their code or upgrade to a new API, you ship it.

If you are working at a big tech company, you need both the optimization and breaking 0% of the company. So you will work across teams to find the sweet spot.

If you are an enterprise software company, and you change breaks 0.1% if users, but that user is one of the top 5 contracts, you don’t ship.
The prompt that was used, in case it's of interest (with a key name redacted)

"You are the host of an interactive role playing mystery game based on the following text. I will give you specific instructions about how to host the game at the end. Here is the text you must use to generate the game for me. {{infernalMachineText}}. Here are my instructions for hosting the game: you are the host of a role-playing game based on the facts and ideas contained in this text describing the investigation of the crime committed by [redacted]. I will play the role of pioneering forensic detective Joseph Faurot. Begin with Faurot being brought to the crime scene by Officer Fitzgerald. Let me explore the crime scene and discover the fingerprints on the pane of glass on my own; don't give that crucial clue away immediately. Set up scenes, explain historical context, but also allow me to explore the world from Faurot's POV. In general, try to give me clearly defined puzzles to solve (like, for instance, finding the fingerprints on the pane of class.) At all points try to keep within the boundaries of what happened factually, as conveyed in chapter. The only way for me to solve the case is by discovering the fingerprints on the glass pane, and then taking them down to NYPD headquarters to analyze them, and then finding the match with [redacted]. If I steer the narrative too far off course through my actions as Faurot, try to subtly craft the events of the narrative/adventure so that they return to the factual timeline of events. But also give me some flexibility in charting my own course. In your opening statement, convey my goal in the mission, which is to use my scientific detective skills to correctly identify the suspect. Explain that I have to identify the suspect in less than ten actions. Explain that at any time I can use one of my actions to ask for help, or ask for historical or biographical context. Do not give me a list of actions to choose from unless I specifically ask for one. Be a compelling guide/host/DM for me, as well as a great history teacher. Go out of your way to give me historical or scientific context so that I can learn about the history of policework and forensic science as I am playing. Let me know how many actions I have left with each turn of the game. I win the game when my evidence leads to the arrest of [redacted], but if I use more than 10 actions, I lose. Whether I win or lose, mention at the end that I can always hit refresh to try playing again."
I feel the opposite.

Before high school, math is just a grind of memorization and unmotivated manipulation of numbers.

Many students (ok, me, but I expect the same was true of others), get turned on to math for the first time when they encounter proofs in high school geometry and also actual applications in high school physics.

It's a revelation to students that math can be a way to go from one truth to another and thus find new truths. It's a way of thinking and that can be very exciting.

Tragically, many students disengage before this can happen because of sheer boredom and the tedium of endless math drills. Once they develop a gap in their knowledge it becomes difficult to progress unless those gaps are addressed. For lots of students, it all ends with fractions. You'd be surprised how many adults don't really understand fractions. For others it ends with algebra, and for the college bound it ends with calculus.

Only math majors and a minority of engineering/science/CS folks get past the "standard sequence" of math courses in college and gain an appreciation for the really interesting stuff that comes AFTER all that.
I wouldn't say "and the west" without more qualifications. The USA and Germany are solidly behind whatever the Israeli government does. England a bit less so and the rest of "the west" (however you want to define it) is more ambivalent. My point is that if only two countries (the USA and Germany) would make their support more conditional (conditional on the israeli government not commiting war crimes for example), then things could change a lot
Regardless of the outcome, this still looks like a poor demonstration: what's the point of showing how it is done, if you're not following the protocol anyway? My understanding is that those in the room where nuclear experts, so they didn't need a demonstration to know that, the closer the two cores where, the higher the radiation.
Netanyahu I'm not surprised, but Gallant?

EDIT: Asking genuinely on Gallant all I know is he was minister of defence and had a felling out with Netanyahu.
>My point is that a few years ago there was no exported and document constant.

Then the feature didn't exist. Figuring out undocumented implementation details to "make it work" is asking for it to be broken in the future. So if you are unwilling or unable to support fixing it in the future then don't do that.

If it is "the most basic expected stuff" then quite literally make the determination that it isn't ready for use. A lot of Go was and maybe still be half baked and not ready for production. It is ok to recognize that and not use it.
Maybe we should stop letting Ukraine fire weapons only we can target into russia - since we said we wouldn't do that.

Maybe we also shouldn't have given them f-16s since we also said we wouldn't do that.

I'm an american and this war is fretless and just wreckless at this point. I didn't vote for trump but this kind of escalation (from biden) is freaking idiotic.
if possible can you create an issue about this in github with more details(screen shots)
This instance doesn't necessarily indicate they did anything wrong. See sibling.
And the beef cattle industry ideal shape has evolved over time as well. In the past that rectangle with short stubby legs was what they wanted.

https://onpasture.com/2016/07/04/from-big-to-small-to-big-to...

All 3 parts of this are fascinating.
This study is garbage. You can only trust what the companies that profit from the drugs publish.
How China Could Re-Dollarize The World
None actually. I just tried to illustrate the futility of this warrant.
Good luck with that goal, after Longhorn went down, all its design ideas were resurfaced as COM, and since Vista, COM (alongside with its WinRT makeover), is the main API model in Windows.

Raw Win32 C API is stuck in Windows XP view of the world, with a few exceptions in some subsystems.

Yes COM tooling sucks, which is kind of sad given that it is the main API model in modern Windows, but I guess WinDev suffers from Stockhold syndrome.

AddIns are only moving away from COM, because otherwise they wouldn't work in your browser, so you get to use JavaScript and TypeScript instead, and on native Office they run inside a Webwidget, hurray for performance.
Too tired to find the actual debunking of these claims but no, d-wave is not effective for cryptanalysis of RSA or AES as deployed.

The papers claim some interesting but not game-changing results on factorization of tiny primes and attacking toy, reduced round cryptosystems that resemble AES in a particular way.
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There are deeper queries than "What happens when I push a rock off a height?" The science and math of Newton's laws of motion is enough for that, especially if combined with some materials science.

I didn't say that you "needed" anything, but the fact remains that if you want to calculate the trajectory of something traveling at a significant percent of light speed, you will need some higher maths. Such calculations require advancing one's mind, as do other queries. But, no, none of that is necessary to find out what happens when a person's cat pushes something off the countertop.

No observation was even feasible for Einstein to formulate GR or Feynman to formulate QED, so if all that matters to you is what you see, that's your choice; I wish you well.
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Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images
I'm pretty down on it just by association. So many people who are super-into it seem to be doing a lot of that rigorously-wrong engineer-brain thing.
Show HN: Pgspot – Find vulnerabilities in Postgres SQL scripts
Hi HN!

My name is Sven, I am an engineer at Timescale and this is my fun side project. The main purpose of pgspot is to check postgres extension sql scripts for vulnerabilities but it can also be used to check functions outside of extension context e.g. security definer functions.

I've started working on this after finding vulnerabilities in timescaledb to ensure similar vulnerabilities don't reappear.

While working on this i found vulnerabilities in over 30 extensions and some of the findings even lead to postgres upstream changes to reduce attack surface of extension scripts ( https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2022-2625/ ).

pgspot is implemented in python and uses libpg_query to parse sql and analyzes the AST to find vulnerable patterns.
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Thanks for your interest in our app! I wanted to let you know that the app itself is free, and all users have access to every course. However, free users are limited to just two lessons per day and won’t have access to stories or book summaries.

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Zrythm 1.0 Released for Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
And they've been doing user testing of search results for well over a decade (FB started at least 10 years ago, and Google were well into it at that point).
That's how I view it. I still use R for plotting and quick stats analyses but it is painful to do any real work.

I recommend the article "Evaluating the Design of the R Language" [1] - it reads like a horror story. The memory usage and performance is abysmal, the OO features are a mess, and the semantics are very weird ("best effort semantics" is about as predictable as it sounds!). The lexical scoping is based on Scheme but has so many weird edge cases. It's a dumpster fire of a language, but it somehow works for its intended purpose.

[1] http://janvitek.org/pubs/ecoop12.pdf
Is there a relationship between the negative probabilities of Klein and the negative energy of Dirac? Did his formulation just move the problem? If so, does it imply anything? Like are probability and energy related?
What is the point of the ICC? Russia doesn't recognize it, Israel doesn't recognize it and even the United States doesn't recognize it. I am confused at what these warrants even mean.
I don't understand how a tiny country like Israel has become so important in global politics. By population Rwanda is ~30% larger than Israel.
I don't know why, but it seems pipes are hard to do in Python without extra parentheses, etc.
This comment sounds suspiciously AI-generated.
Very nice. You could throw this on a Spotify Car thing.

Would love to see this land on a Pi Zero 2 inside a husked out iPod classic and a skinable UI to boot.

@gvy_dvpont (@dupontgu ?), did this a few years ago back with a Pi Zero one, but I believe the project has suffered a bit from hardware compatibility decay.
I was particularly thinking of the Aqua Virgo, an aqueduct to Rome that supplies city fountains to this day, and the Cloaca Maxima, a sewer and drainage system that has been in operation since it was built two thousand years ago
Bluesky Jetstream with DuckDB
Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA, not Berkeley.
Haha yeah that sheep is pretty wack.
That used to be a problem in the 1980s. Thus PCs came with a turbo button to slow them down, and 8 bit computers went the entire decade without upgrading their speed even though faster CPUs were available. These days nearly everything runs on more than one CPU and so nobody relies on function runtime (other than is if fast enough). Even in embedded they have been burned by their one CPU going out of production and so try to avoid that dependency because it cannot be relied on anymore.
I've been reading the author's book, Mathematica, and it's awesome. The title of this post doesn't do it justice.

He shows that math skill is almost more like a sports talent than it is knowledge talent. He claims this based on the way people have to learn how to manipulate different math objects in their heads, whether treating them as rotated shapes, slot machines, or origami. It's like an imagination sport.

Also, he inspired me to relearn a lot of fundamental math on MathAcademy.com which has been super fun and stressful. I feel like I have the tetris effect but with polynomials now.
Show HN: Hook – Webhook Notification Tool
As an indie developer, I’ve just launched my third iOS app – this time, something I built primarily for myself. It’s a simple tool for receiving webhook notifications directly on your phone.

The app generates a unique webhook URL, and anytime it’s called, you get a push notification with the payload. It’s great for tracking API events, debugging, or just keeping an eye on your projects in real time.

Features:

Push notifications with full payload details.
Event history for reviewing past webhook calls.
Hosted backend, so there’s nothing to maintain.
It’s lightweight and meant to solve a small but practical problem I’ve faced in my own projects. I’d love to hear your feedback—what works, what doesn’t, and what could be better.

Looking forward to your thoughts!
I think part of this is you have to know yourself. I imagine there are some people out there who can really sort of discipline themselves into doing a good job - through checklists or really good review processes.

Personally I do everything in my power not to be disciplined. I intentionally make my first draft terrible. I almost make it my goal to write bad code instead of good code(. I’m an SRE not a full time developer for what it’s worth)

And then I sort of find adversarial ways to circle around the solution. Write tests etc. I don’t know how to describe it but I never want a close eye or “discipline” to be the solution to the problem. Use tools for linting/schema validation/testing and trust them and when they don’t catch something evolve them.

It’s funny you say “rarely, but sometimes I have bad weeks”. Whereas I approach it the opposite. Sure every once in a while I have a good week where I don’t make many mistakes. But I approach my work like making mistakes is the rule, not the exception. And lean into it.

And I will say it would be crazy of me to say that in all this time I haven’t developed a pretty good eye. I certainly catch a lot of things people with less experience don’t, and my first drafts are much better now then they were earlier in my career. But I don’t rely on that experience, because I’m fallible.
Well, you’re right for some definition of ‘news’. I mean finding out things a reasonable person would want to know, for example hyper local safety/weather/crime events (someone was murdered a block from me, and Twitter was 2-3 hours ahead of all my city’s ‘news’ outlets in letting me know), what’s going on with regard to industry, nationally and globally, and of course updates in myriad specific/niche fields. I’m rattling on a bit but there’s lots of information an informed person would reasonably want to know about. It used to be called ‘news’ but I agree with you the definition drifted and what is now known as ‘news’ is complete trash.
Revisiting Uv
As a fellow scientist, I will go and read the details from the research paper that the group published [1]. Anything else is nonsense for me. it gives a clear view on the goals, physics and what was done. Including all the details you would get that. I will quote the first paragraph from the paper summary

> In summary, the December 5, 2022 experiment on the National Ignition Facility, N221204, was the first time that fusion target gain was unambiguously achieved in the laboratory in any fusion scheme. The demonstrated level of target gain on N221204 of 1.5 times is a proof of principle that controlled laboratory fusion energy is possible

And they specifically mention that it is not overall facility-wise net gain in the next paragraph

> Notethat G_{target} > 1 does not imply net energy gain from a practical fusion energy perspective, because the energy consumed by the NIF laser facility is typically 100× larger than E_{laser}. The NIF laser architecture and target configuration was chosen to give the highest probability for fusion ignition for research purposes and was not optimized to produce net energy for fusion energy applications.

So you don't have to go and claim a deception. You want to claim it wasn't significant which is your opinion but that is not what the actual scientific community in the field (who know more than you) would agree.

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...
Both sides are using the border as a bargaining chip. Both sides are complicit.
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Perhaps some package authors are more accepting of this than others. I stumbled upon this comment in the `json` package the other day:

// isValidNumber reports whether s is a valid JSON number literal.
//
// isValidNumber should be an internal detail,
// but widely used packages access it using linkname.
// Notable members of the hall of shame include:
// - github.com/bytedance/sonic
Stop sending audit and access logs to a graveyard
Hi HN, let me run a thought by you.

Have you ever thought that sending your users access and audit events to a data graveyard (aka log storage) is a bad idea? I certainly have! What if you could aggregate the audit and access events to your users data? This would make it far easier to understand and aggregate what your users are doing, leading to better insights and actions.

We at Zitadel recently raised $9M (1) to further this vision—an identity system that not only stores users and provides authentication but also helps you understand your users and their risk better. Imagine extending auth SDKs to not only check authentications/sessions/tokens but also to send events of what users do. With this well-structured data, it becomes easy to create forensic reports, usage reporting, and even threat intelligence.

While we're just getting started on building the security analytics capabilities, Zitadel already solves a lot of the plumbing work around authentication, authorization, and single sign-on, even in multi-tenant scenarios with full support for self-hosting—all in a nice open source package (2).

How does that sound to you? Let me know your thoughts; happy to discuss here, Florian

1) https://zitadel.com/blog/zitadel-the-future-of-identity-infrastructure

2) https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel
Governments are organizations, and organizations above a threshold of size are paralyzed by internal friction. That threshold of size is much lower than is customarily understood.
55% of NYC residents do not own a car. But of course everybody knows NYC is not America :)

https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/u-s-cities-with-th...
Well sure, but weren't we discussing the effect of the 'devastating' EU sanctions?
If you want to expand the timeframe all the way back to 2012, then the conclusion must be that the effect of the sanctions on Russian policy has been even smaller ..
After all, it didn't stop them from first annexating the Crimea in 2014 and next trying to annexate Ukraine completely in 2022.