skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd like to see you work a bomb squad and see how brave you are when you come across a package with some long cylinders wrapped in black plastic and wires sticking out, and how you feel when some smarmy programmer tells you "HAHA YOU'RE SO STUPID IT WAS JUST BATTERIES" after the fact.

I'd really love to know if you've worked EOD or if you're just a smarmy conservative condemning pranksters. Because I believe we're both truly inexperienced (ie you haven't actually done EOD) and we can only rely on common, rational, sense to debate this amongst ourselves.

> Yeah, it does. It shows that Boston police thinking the city might be a target of bombers wasn't so absurd and paranoid after all

That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. Reasonable suspicion and probable cause and all that don't operate like "we're justified in detaining you if in the future someone else commits the crime we want to accuse you of". No the police, the state, the judiciary, etc have to have proof that you've committed a crime. I mean think about what you're saying: the implication is basically most freedoms should be abridged because it's a complete certainty that in the future, someone, somewhere, will commit some tenuously related crime.
The special thing about ITC is you can do the splitting (to add a member) and joining (to remove one) without any external coordination. They otherwise are used in the same way as vector clocks. I find the linked post more confusing than I remember the original paper being (I wrote an implementation):

http://hydra.azilian.net/Papers/Interval%20Tree%20Clocks.pdf
> Let's just not think we deserve so much more than others while we do it.

Nobody said or implied anything to this effect. You said, imagine how our demands must sound to people who cannot work remotely. I say, as is the case with the labor movements of many other well paid laborers, the ones who make less do not think our labor struggles are invalid because we have better conditions than them. All laborers want all laborers to succeed against management
FB will settle out of court. Probably a third of what shareholders are asking. Lawyers get paid handsomely on both sides. Parent company has washed away the stink of Cambridge Analytica fallout (remember those bs “sorry” videos and newspaper ads? [1,2]). Shareholders get a pittance.

I’m a bit over this hyper-capitalistic market. When are C-level executives going to pay for their actions? Where is the jail time for these people?

This country is a joke.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4zd7X98eOs

[2] https://mashable.com/article/facebook-newspaper-ad-apology
>" And most of us on HN have a healthy, deeply internalized sense of morality."

Really. I's say sense of delusion. I think that ratio of assholes to normal is about the same in highly educated vs your regular factory workers.

>"I really hope some of us will branch out into politics or other power-positions in those institutions, and start knocking people's heads together."

Sure. PhD in physics, that's all it takes for politicians to fix everything. This is delirium
IMO they are the same, they make certain things easier than they used to be. Not everyone needs to make transactions without a bank looking over their shoulder, and I don't personally know anyone whose life is changed by being able to type 100x faster (or conversely, produce summaries 1/100th the length of the input)

I continue to try applying small models to tasks life producing structured data from unstructured (using lmstudio's schema parameter) and it's really neat that I can extract data from work emails, but every once in a while it will hallucinate a new phone number when the one I needed was in the prompt, so it still hasn't met the kind of reliability I want in order to actually automate stuff where dollars are on the line
As a 14 year old kid, I did this sort of thing all the time. Also I was trying to build bombs.
Absolutely not. "Jihad" is mainly about personal internal struggle. "Amalek" is only about genocide.
Yes, some of the forests will be untouched nature but a good chunk of it will be for timber production.
Exactly - there's probably a fluent transition between symbols and painting and writing and then alphabetic writing.

Territorial animals that we are, I'd add "here starts the territory of the Saber-Toothed Tiger Clan" signs to path markings as likely candidates for earliest symbolic communication.

Nice to see that the earliest examples of writing are still somewhat recognizable (as opposed to modern alphabets) - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing - a hand, a foot, a goat or sheep.

Fun thing is, with modern technology we have regressed (advanced?) to a massive use of pictograms - a modern smartphone wielding human, in addition to the alphabet, knows at least a few hundreds or even thousands of pictograms ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Democracies are messy, but a lot less warlike. Current peace in Europe, after centuries of endless bloodshed, is nice to have

Democracies are much nicer places to be citizens of but not particularly less warlike. And the more peaceful times in Europe isn't because of democracy it's because of US hegemony
I don't follow. What exactly has the brain been honed to do?

Every single article I've read on the matter says higher contrast is more readable. The debate is over how high is 'good enough'.
Clearly they had Zonai technology
This qualifies as an act of genocide:

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-is...

Putin wants to destroy Ukraine as a nation and obliterate Ukrainian identity.
If I run across a term like "bialgebra" while doing work, I don't always have the leisure time to derail my life and sign up for a 4 month class at a local university. Sometimes, I just need to move on with my task at hand and get something working.

I'm familiar with the mathematician response to this, I've heard it before and I fundamentally disagree with it. At work last week I gave someone a crash course in the simplex method and linear programming in about 30 minutes and it was a good-enough explanation that I came back in a few hours and the code was right.

This isn't impossible. There's just some wild apprehension that I'll never understand which insists everything is a grueling 1,000 hour journey to some kind of valhalla of enlightenment so you can bask in some aesthetic beauty of how perfect math is, as tears drip down from your cheeks, or something like that.

I mean come on now. Sometimes all you want is the cliff notes.
>"Keep in mind that Gaza is both more concentrated, and it doesn’t have air defense systems like Ukraine does."

And their civilians are holding it wrong. /s
> Current peace in Europe, after centuries of endless bloodshed, is nice to have.

It’s like 80 years, let’s not get carried away. Europe seems woefully unstable to me.
Idk, I worked at a remote company and the job was impossible to outsource. We had multiple meetings a day, camera on required, no excuses, and the work was complex dev work. If someone can do that and a second job as fast and well as I can do it as my primary, why do the bosses care? It's all still about control, imo.

You don't have to take off all guardrails which prevent abuse. You can still have a rules based office fully remote
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.voyageai.com%2F...
Echo chambers never work. See the right-wing Twitter clones like Gab.
Trees absolutely can help with climate change, although like everything in this universe, there are nuances at play, such as type of tree, location, etc.

We have done a lot of deforestation, and that absolutely has negatively impacted our climate, and we should work to reverse it.
NYC has the best public transit in the country, and they spend a lot on it. It's one of the few places in North America where congestion pricing could even work.
Hello, author here. Sorry about the lack of clarity, this article is the transcript of a 5 min lightning talk and it was really hard fitting all the relevant content in that little time :) (In retrospect that was a poorly chosen topic. When I picked it I thought the talk would be 10 min, 5 min is too short to explain a subject like this.)

> How that curve is initially drawn isn't clear at all. Is it flat and becomes complex over time by forking (+ data modification)?

Yes, the initial curve is typically constant 0.

> Why are interval boundaries real-value in a system that cannot actually express real numbers?

Like snthpy said "real" is a shortcut to say infinitely subdivisible. The numbers themselves are actually rationals.

> How are the intervals / portions decided? Is that simpler than generating UUIDs?

Nodes are forked from an existing node, that node decides which portion of its interval it gives to the new node. You pick the splitting point to keep complexity low.

Regarding comparison: you always know the values of the whole curve. When I say "a node only has to know about its share of the interval" I only mean the ID space. In a version vector there is a direct link between identifiers and counters, whereas here outside of your share of the interval you don't know who owns what or how many devices there are at any given point.
Rich for someone to say "roads don't get a lot of attention" when they literally pulls billions every year whereas transit gets a pittance.
Why are we primed to see things "Irans" way (nice ad hominem btw)? This is because we see Israel as an illegal, criminal and genocidal state which has existed as a way for Europe to exile an ethnic group that they were too hateful to accept at home. Europe, not just Nazis, have been terribly antisemitic. The healthy response to exclusive ethnic enclaves in Europe was assimilation and creation of an inclusive and robust European identity. European ethnostates instead wielded xenophobia to create a fascist state to hold Jews hostage in a middle eastern ghetto and serve as a beachhead for the west's thirst for oil which was discovered mere months before the plan to resettle Israel. I think Israel threatens our politicians livelihoods in all senses of the word and in return gets universal support for both major parties. It's not obvious to you?
I feel like 90% of what he did was barely noticable. I did the core frosted glass look back in around 2012. I still think it is great and the contrast is fine if you do it right.
I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge.

When I felt the bullet enter my heart

I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail

For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary,

Instead of running away and joining the army.

Rather a thousand times the country jail

Than to lie under this marble figure with wings,

And this granite pedestal

Bearing the words, ”Pro Patria.”

What do they mean, anyway?

- Edgar Lee Masters, from Spoon River Anthology.
That will be interesting experiment. 1) A growing population require food. 2) Their agricultural sector is a major contributor to their economy, not only farmers but everything around it involves a lot of people and businesses. 3) Many countries rely on Danish agricultural exports (it's massive) to ensure people have food.
I remember someone arguing that disabling assertions in prod is like wearing a life jacket in the harbor but throwing it overboard going to sea. And Moore's Law paid for them years ago.
You can achieve the same effect by using LLM to do question answering prior to embedding, it's much more flexible but slower, you can use CoT, or even graph rag. Late chunking is a faster implicit alternative.
I used to take apart electronics and sometimes show the internals to people. Most folks haven't really looked inside any electronic device and don't know what the components look like or do, so it can be an interesting thing to share.

In this case it says he wanted to show it to an "engineering teacher" (wish my high school had that). I once printed out an entire program I wrote and tried to show it to the teacher who ran our computer lab.
I assume he was born in Texas, where his dad lived. (And was thus American.)
Yes, the original link is dead, and that one doesn't work for me currently. I'll edit the post if I find a working one.

EDIT: I found where the paper has moved, I have updated the article.
The problem is people don't often bother to corroborate information which suits their bias. This naturally leads to extremification and polarization. And TikTok is like a distilled version of that. Whereas ChatGPT might hallucinate on you, a gigantic portion of TikTok creators are actively deceiving you for personal gain, and the fraud, slander, political/religious peer pressure and downright harmful disinformation have largely gone unnoticed by regulators and law enforcement.

TikTok is not a place to get news. The culture isn't there, and the UI purposefully doesn't lend to things like sharing sources.
Good luck. In the less cohesive Western countries efforts like this are met with both protest by farmers who view their providing calories as almost a sacred task, and by foreign agitprop that proposes any effort that makes it harder to farm is an attempt at subjugating the people.
A lot of younger people today would be surprised you can remove a digital clock from its case and it'll still work.

Like, a phone or any piece of technology is just a black box. If it breaks nowadays, you're expected to throw it away or fully replace it.
Ask HN: Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs. o1 vs. <other> for coding. Let's talk!
Both o1 (mini/preview) and Claude 3.5 Sonnet seem to be popular among devs, but opinions seem to be divided + all over the place. From my experience, both seem to have their strengths and weaknesses, and I find myself switching between both.

If you’ve used either — or ideally both — would love to hear your insights. Feel answers to the following questions will provide some context when you respond:

- What are the strengths & weaknesses of each from your experience?

- Any tips/tricks or prompting techniques you use to get the most from these models?

- How do you typically use them? (via. native apps like ChatGPT, Claude; or via Cursor, GitHub Copilot, etc.?)

- What programming language(s) do you primarily use them with?

Hopefully this thread provides a useful summary and some additional tips for readers.

(I’ll start with mine in the comments)
yeah just wanna know how do i apply css to make my website look like a wiki page
the distinction between writing and drawing seems to be a bit gray to be honest
My notes:

- Sonnet 3.5 seems good with code generation and o1-preview seems good with debugging

- Sonnet 3.5 struggles with long contexts whereas o1-preview seems good at identifying interdependencies between files in code repo in answering complex questions

- Breaking the problem into small steps seems to yield better results with Sonnet

- I’m using primarily in Cursor/GH Copilot and with Python
Since there was no interest I turned it off.
>Investors allege that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users’ personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump ’s first successful Republican presidential campaign in 2016.

The wording here is confusing. They did not disclose that ... someone else who got the info would do something bad?
Yep. The Mario question blocks put up by some teenagers in Ravenna, Ohio, in 2006 was a similar situation. https://www.eurogamer.net/news030406marioprank
I will pay for quality content, but I also don’t want to spend 15 minutes reading a story to figure out what the freaking point of the story is. More pyramid style news articles for me please - and less creative writing news stories. And the problem with clearly written news stories is they don’t “drive engagement” or page views… wrong incentives strike again.
At least two versions of the lost ATHF episode “Boston” are floating around out there. One of them was here: https://old.reddit.com/r/adultswim/comments/13nibvz/the_lost...
One foremost aspect I see missing in the discussion is:

"It depends"

It depends massively and that's the main problem. So I'd focus on understanding how that works with this specific manager M you are concerned about. It will be different with another manager. After that it's detail. Managers are human, flawed, not anywhere near rational (not fully rational anyway), and in some cases crooked or insane. Just like their reports and bosses, kind of? Try and feel out how that manager operates before "doing anyone a service".

In particular, it means not relying on the idea that they would reason the same as you do.

Because for example, absolutely "providing info so they get to look good, privately so there is no loss of face" will blow up in your face with some managers. Even if it's to the detriment of that manager.

In some cases, it will be even worse than this because that manager will be well ahead of you and already have their own plans in place for their own future. In a case like this it's not even necessarily possible for you to imagine what reaction you might get.

To be fair, there is a general plan available for you: Cultivate a network, keep your resume in front of people. Then you can be bolder.
No they won't. If they started tomorrow planting 100,000 trees a day, and never took a single day off, they would finish up in 2052. What kind of nursery can even grow 100,000 saplings of conifer a day?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-climate-deniers-pl...
Carbon-14 dating can't be used directly on clay right? I assume the dating is inferred from some organic material found nearby?
In fairness the same group believes many of the white man's (specifically US) achievements are from reversed alien technology.
It sounds weird when you put it that way because that's not what happened.

> he disassembled a digital clock then put the pieces in a pencil case?

The Wikipedia article does say he "reassembled" the clock but if you check out the linked source The Dallas Morning News is very clear that it is a homemade.

He did not disassemble a digital clock and reassemble it in another case. He took existing parts and built them into a clock.

From the pictures my guess would be that he took an existing clock and connected it to that older 8 segment display (he may have also changed the power source photos are inconclusive but I don't see a 9 volt in the 9 volt reciever/mount point).
Swift calls these precondition() and assert(). Preconditions are enabled in release (and debug) builds, and asserts are enabled in debug builds only.
Extreme Programming (XP) is a significant improvement over Scrum
On macOS/Windows/etc., docker is basically fancy chroot in a linux VM.
(Dane here) - this is a major reversal on the food-security policy that drove not just innovation in intensive farming technologies in Denmark in the late nineteenth century, but also the formation of what is now the EU, post WWII, on a european scale.

Let's hope butter and bacon from Poland is going to cover our needs.
The Inca had Quipu.
I don't really know what you mean regarding pathological subdivisions, but the case where nodes go offline without merging first is a real issue. There are ways to work around it but if you have to do so you lose a lot of its advantage compared to other schemes.

When I did that talk I was at the point you are now, trying to find a real use case. I had considered them for Lima but we were actually find with version vectors.

I think the case where ITCs can really shine is when you have a lot of short-lived nodes. That could be containers or serverless functions, for instance. I didn't think about the tracing use case but it makes a lot of sense, you can fork a new node per request.
I don’t think it’s transistors that the article is alluding to when it says “semiconductors” but integrated circuits. While individual germanium transistors were (as you note) already widely used, the AGC was the first computer to make use of integrated circuits, in which multiple transistors are etched onto a single piece of silicon.
Just open google maps and take a stroll across europe...
It looked like a bomb and he was told by teachers to keep it put away. He even made the alarm go off in class. His father, a politician, turned it into an incident.
A few decades ago, I was involved in the Neidorf hacking case [1] as an expert witness. One minor item in evidence was something marked "Tomobiki High School Torture Research Club". That's an anime reference.[3] It's an allusion to the Japanese tendency to have organized school clubs for everything, and in that anime, this is the bullies' group. The prosecution
logged the item as an exhibit, as an indication of something bad, but never actually brought it up in court, so it didn't matter.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/102868.102869

[2] https://uruseiyatsura.fandom.com/wiki/Tomobiki_High_School
I'm so old that we didn't even have Emojis, not even letters yet, and we had to communicate with punctuation alone! ;)
Before I go into rage mode, I suppose I should ask, why Farmland?

Both Denmark and Netherland are big in agriculture export and they are very good at it. I am not against planting trees but it on top of farm land doesn't make any sense to me.
At the time I lived next door to the “litebrite” bombers.

It was disconcerting to arrive home to that many news vans in front of my house.
I think I understand the CA scandal well, but how could it be reasonably expected for Facebook to give investors adequate notice that a third party could misuse their targeted ads feature (to my knowledge CA did not hack FB, they simply used targeted ads)?

It's as if expecting recently IPO'd Beyond Meat to disclose to investors the possibility that someone might choke on a meatball they make with the meat...
China finds $83B worth of gold reserves in Hunan
I remember the incident in the news.

Yeah, I could see if he was 8, taking an electronic component, stripping all the insides and moving it into new box and plugging it in sounds very plausible. But doing it 14, and then using what looks like a suitcase, where more than one adult thought it was a bomb, makes his story that it's just a "clock" a bit hard to believe.

Moreover, the first teacher he showed it to, urged him to keep the devices in his backpack and not take it out [1]. But he didn't, so that indicates he wanted really hard to get a reaction, and he set the alarm off in another class. Another strike against their story is the speed with which they demanded $15m from the school district.

[1] His engineering teacher, upon seeing the clock said, "That's really nice", but advised him to keep the device in his backpack for the rest of the school day.
Asserts are convenient, but every time I encounter them I ask "Can the compiler prove this can't happen?"

In the example of "min(ages) > 0", making age a NonZero type renders the assert unnecessary. Rust even has some fancy perf optimizations it can do with that information. It's a win all around.
SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on the 400th Falcon 9 rocket
Truer words were never said.
Believe me the farmers have been doing their best to buck this.
Is it common to use parenthesis for python assert statements?
> [...], and requiring individual developers to have a domain of their own isn't particularly welcoming.

Try reading my comment.

I specifically said that this shouldn't be required, and would only apply to one part of the namespace.
The very first sentence of the article you linked states that they were mistaken for IEDs.