skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the exact opposite. I only purchase physical books that have a "timeless quality" to them - so that rules out 99% of tech specific books. Further, I'd vastly prefer a searchable PDF for some random O'Reilly book so I can work through the exercises at my computer easily.

The physical books I have are more like coffee table compendiums around a vast array of subjects that aren't intended to be read sequentially - I can just pick it up and start a random chapter and enjoy them for short sessions. Examples are The Disappearing Spoon, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Violinist's Thumb, etc.

I'm glad you enjoyed "Pro Git" but that sounds like the kind of thing that I would use as a doctor to place a patient into a medically induced coma.
Yes. As always in such puzzles, they know everything and have perfect reasoning, at least as far as logic permits.
Why does an optimizing compiler introduce nondeterminism?

In my mind an optimizing compiler is a pure function that takes source code and produces an object file.
Former Russian ASML employee charged with IP theft and sanctions violations
> The pixel glow

Can be decently emulated with more modern shaders that rely upon HDR, provided your HDR monitor is bright enough, which most are not. My display can do a reasoable job with 1600+ nit peaks, and 1200 nits sustained. OLED's are not really capable here due to a lack of ability to push and sustain decent brightness levels. You'll also want 4K, in an ideal world, 8K would be even better, but we are where we are.

> deep blacks

CRT blacks were really not that deep unless you're sitting in the dark and there is nothing else on the screen. It also depended upon model, coating etc. Even in perfect scenarios, contrast in mixed scenes was "meh" at best.

> High resolution OLED can come close

So far my experience is that it can not, as it's simply not capable of the brightness required, but it does offer nice blacks yes and better than LCD motion (though just barely due to sample and hold.)

I'd say the biggest remaining issue honestly is the motion blur inherent to sample and hold. As close as the more advanced shaders are getting today, it all falls apart when the image starts to move. Retroarch supports BFI, but its not as useful as it sounds for various reasons sadly.

For now, I retain my broadcast CRT's, but I do hope to get to a point eventually where I could get rid of them. Though I suspect by the time such a technology arrives and is useful, i'll be old enough that i'll probably have stopped caring.

My GF would love me to give up CRT's as I have a room full of them which she tolerates, but hardly loves :|
He has a written manifesto in his pocket and was out eating McDonalds. It's not like he trying hard to hide
You use the hypotheses to make predictions and design experiments. Then you carry those out and see if they support the hypothesis.

Or is this one of those rhetorical questions?
Recent events (many events in many places) show "users" don't think too hard before acting. And sometimes they act with inadequate or inaccurate information. If we want better outcomes, it behooves us to hire people to do the thinking that ordinary users see no point in doing for themselves. We call the people doing the hard thinking scientists, regulators, and journalists. The regulators, when empowered to do so by the government, can stop things from happening. The scientists and journalists can just issue warnings.

Giving people what they want when they want it doesn't always lead to happy outcomes. The people themselves, through their representatives, have created the institutions that sometimes put a brake on their worst impulses.
The US didn't use MOX fuel in its power reactors, though. The Megatons to Megawatts program with Russia used highly enriched uranium that was surplus from Russian weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program

The US had hoped to dispose of its own weapons grade plutonium surplus via MOX fuel for power reactors, but the project was shut down in 2018 after running late and over budget:

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-MOX-facility-cont...

Work started on the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) in 2007, with a 2016 start-up envisaged. Although based on France's Melox MOX facility, the US project has presented many first-of-a-kind challenges and in 2012 the US Government Accountability Office suggested it would likely not start up before 2019 and cost at least USD7.7 billion, far above original estimate of USD4.9 billion.
Technology is paired with morality. It’s just not the one you want.
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Yes, this is exactly what it is doing [1]. The area of research is Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum, and has arisen specifically to prove that quantum supremacy is possible in practice. It is currently the focus of pretty much all quantum computing research because attempts to produce a generalized quantum computer have all failed miserably. Existing practical quantum computers (like DWave) perform various annealing tasks but have basically proven to be inferior to probablistic algorithms computing the same task.

To date all attempt to produce valid claims of quantum supremacy via this channel have failed on closer inspection, and there is no reason to assume otherwise in this case until researchers have had time to look at the paper. There's a number of skeptics in the quantum computing field that believe that this is simply not possible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369463
The Nobel Family: Russian Rockefeller's Oil Empire [video]
I read this book last month The Russian Rockefellers by Robert Tolf, which tells the true story of the Nobel family and how they built their massive empire in Russia.

It all started in 1837 with a Swedish immigrant, Emanuel Nobel, who began the journey, leading to his son Ludwig, the mastermind who would change the Russian oil industry forever.

Most people hear Nobel and immediately think of Alfred Nobel and the man who invented the dynamite.

But his father and brothers were as prolific as he was!
They even went on to compete with standard oil at some point. Pretty crazy story.
I understand the reasons why this murder gets so much time, attention, and effort, while the other Manhattan murder that day (that I know of) gets so little.

My point is that there is a big fuss being made, it’s not just a narrow slice of social media. The suspect’s apprehension is the top story on every American news outlet I checked just now. And my secondary point is that the disparity is deeply fucked up.
> I'm guessing it has to be a case of code inspectors not particularly caring or knowing about the DC side?

I don't know what you saw, but it could have been a "homeowner's special", or some kind of proof-of-concept? Professionals are certainly capable of hackjobs, but I have a hard time thinking that a client would be satisfied enough to pay for what you describe. You don't have to be an electrician to know that some stuff just looks dangerous and poorly done!
Twocents – social media where your username is your bank account balance
Related:

Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life (132 points, 27 days ago, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42119869

Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued (77 points, 6 months ago, 233 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456644
Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978)
Free text is just the fundamentally wrong input for precision work like this. Because it is wrong for this doesn’t mean it has NO purpose, it’s still useful and impressive for what it is.

FWIW I too have been quite frustrated iterating with AI to produce a vision that is clear in my head. Past changing the broad strokes, once you start “asking” for specifics, it all goes to shit.

Still, it’s good enough at those broad strokes. If you want your vision to become reality, you either need to learn how to paint (or whatever the medium), or hire a professional, both being tough-but-fair IMO.
> MOND is a non-relativistic theory.

Well obviously, it's literally in the name.

A relativistic version of the theory is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%E2%80%93vector%E2%80%93...
Most generators are installed within 4ft of the exterior house wall.
Clarity? And in C++ at least, I would re-write the functions.
Consider the U.S. insurance industry and their desire/need to refuse payouts when possible. If a fire occurs and the location contravenes just about any code their staff can find, they will likely refuse payout and it will be time for you to lawyer up. So, in that case, the expense of that special room might be seen as a bargain in the long run.
I have spent most of my career in newspaper publishing and banking.

A newspaper that doesn't publish for a few days might recover. A bank that drops off the Swift network for days isn't a bank any more.
Thanks—that makes sense. I was struggling to come up with an example that would fail but I was just unconsciously assuming the separator wasn’t showing up naturally in the individual parts instead of explicitly considering that as a prerequisite.
IT Outsourcer Gamed US H-1B Visa Lottery for Indian Workers over Others
World-Building IRL
Well it works great, until is doesn't. We're perpetually a few bad decisions from a few possibly deranged actors away from obliterating all of those gains and then some.
With is face pretty much being captured on camera in the hostel and in an Uber I'm not sure there was much point hiding it. He was going to get caught shortly whatever he did.
> Who is the audience for this product?

Infants, people just coming out of anesthesia, the concussed, the hypoxic, the mortally febrile and so on
> or any kind of deep fakes that buy Easter European elections

Finally people do not label Slovakia as Eastern Europe...
In my experience they usually give a 48 or 72 hour period for the customer to respond before they take action on something like that.

They are exceptionally fast at detecting things like that though.
I used an agent system and Claude to write a book about Rust Macros. It got at least one 5-star review by a legitimate reader but it was more of an effort to teach myself. Transforming knowledge into whatever format you like is a super power of these models.
It's not scrubbed, still here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigi-mangione/
Zen and the Art of Aibo Engineering
I agree. The issue is in using it for teaching science though, not in generating it.

Similar to how it's fine to create fiction, but not to claim it to be true.
Is there a reasonable pivot for someone well versed in the software engineering space to get in, or is it still the playground of relevant Ph.Ds and the like? I've been up and down the stack from firmware to the cloud, going on 14 years in the industry, have a Master's in CS, am the technical lead for a team, yada yada, but have been flirting with the idea of getting out of standard product development and back into the nitty gritty of the space I first pursued during undergrad.
The CEO who was killed was paid about $0.20 per patient last year.

Do you think those patients would have been better off with that $0.20 still in their pocket, and a less qualified CEO running the company?
>except for the desktop chips that were burning themselves out because Intel couldn't get their voltage regulation working right.

that was firmware issue, not the node, yup?
Apart from the Books quoted below (thanks!!) - are there video resources / tutorials / online courses that knowledgeable folks would recommend?

Particularly on thery + praxis of state of the art?

Many Thanks!!
As an American, I've traveled through a lot of countries and don't have much experience over the past couple of decades with being shaken down by customs agents. But perhaps if I looked differently and/or had several large pieces of luggage which I don't travel with.
Seems more like they realize they will lose the game of chicken if they push it too hard.
> because it was obvious Disney wouldn’t be able to deliver on that

Then they should not claim it in their marketing materials that they will deliver it. What happened with the good old “underpromise and over deliver”? Besides she is not demanding her money back. She is making a review where she is informing the public that an experience did not live up to the marketing of it and is not worth the price.

In fact i believe that is the unstated conclusion of her video. Disney should have crunched the numbers and should have realised that the experience they are advertising cannot be delivered.
I don't think it'll be long before GUI tools catch up for editing video.

Things like rearranging things in the scene with drag'n'drop sound implementable (although incredibly GPU heavy)
This is true too.

However, many times Engineering teams are asked to build something that is speculative. Leadership and the Product team thinks they are building something that could make money in the future and justify the investment.

Other times folks are building something which is directly attributable to existing customers revenue. It may be that it won't bring in any additional revenue, but it will reduce OPEX and improve the margins of the business.

It's a good idea to understand which type of project they are working on from the business perspective.
You’ve had 5+ separate spontaneous house fires? That sounds very unlucky.
There are certain tools for which we heavily restrict which users have access to the entire supply chain. That's still about users, I suppose, but it's also about tools.
So did I. Was the title changed?
It seems reasonable to work with law enforcement if information provides details about a crime that took place in the real world. I am not sure what purpose censoring as a responsibility would serve? Who cares if someone writes a fictional horrific story? A site like this may choose to remove noise to keep the quality of the signal high, but preference and responsibility are not the same.
The problem though is that while serial is indeed much more commonplace than you might think (look at any device in your household, chances are high that it contains at least one internal serial port that was used for development), it’s all 3.3V or less with no negative voltages now. We don’t really use the RS-232 physical interface much anymore, it’s very unwieldy. (We also seldomly connect anything but the tx and rx lines, which is a bit of a shame for flow control, but often sufficient for what the ports are actually used for.)

So if you interface with those “modern” incarnations of serial ports today, your built in RS-232 COM port is useless most of the time anyway, and you already resort to a small, cheap USB serial adapter board that does the same thing at nowadays non-insane signal levels.
I'm interested to see how this affects 3D artists in game development studios. Will those studios use these tools and keep their artists, allowing them to push out more and more content, faster, and easier, or just keep a bunch of artists around, drop the other 80% of them, and use the tools to _replace_ those artists?
> Unless it's video game or something.

The "or something" pretty much covers the gotcha you're trying to use. OP is acknowledging that fantasy media is a thing before going on to their actual point.
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle featured a fictionalised version of a Pinkerton agent.
Ask HN: How to do incentive-based bonuses?
Our organization is interested in doing some incentive for the bi-annual bonuses. We have a bunch of ideas that we don't love. We're a small company, but have 3 branches: customer service, development, and operations.

Some of the ideas we don't love:

- Based on our score in an industry survey. But the survey doesn't come out until a few months after the year end bonus, and changes to the survey could cause a drop in score that is not tied to our customer service.

- Setting and meeting goals. In Ops we often set goals that are "stretch" goals, but they slip because of day-to-day keeping the trains running. We don't want to incentivize against keeping the trains running. Similar issues on the dev side of the house.

- Uptime of services. We are doing a good job there, so should be a slam dunk, but also we have limited ability to influence much of what goes into availability. Spending on hardware and facilities for redundancy to address our most likely large outages is not something the people getting the bonuses have control over.

- Productivity. The real issue is how do we measure productivity? I'm probably the most "instrumented" team member, I keep a journal of everything I do every day, 18K line text file, but I'm sure I couldn't tell you if my productivity this quarter was higher than last quarter.

Any clever or proven ways to do incentive-based rewards that you've had work for you and your team?

Any processes that clearly have NOT worked?
No. It was a Faceboot page of a decently popular solar installation company showing off their completed works. There could have been some anti-abrasion thing I couldn't see in the picture, but the lack of fusing was still concerning. (And FWIW I did check the battery datasheets to make sure there weren't internal fuses). I suppose those particular installations might have gotten a pass on inspections due to "off grid", but still.
So guns are ok? How about bombs?
Versus digital? All of them.

For better or worse, I have never come close to actually reading an eBook in the way I experience print.
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The Age of Chiplets Is Upon Us
> dual licensing means that you don’t actually believe in software freedoms

If both licenses are accepted by essentially everyone as inherently fully free software licenses, and they don't contradict each other, then what's not to like?

Consider the appropriate example here, which isn't anything to do with AGPL (which many people do NOT accept as a free software license), but rather the AL2 / GPL pairing which was the evolution of the original pairing created by the inventor of dual licensing (Larry Wall).

What's your beef with Artistic License 2.0 / GPL dual licensing?
Yes! I have checked guidance out, as well as a few others. Planning to refactor sampling in the near future which would include improving using grammars for sampling as well. Thanks for sharing!
From the Octopus Poultry Safe to the Chicken Boy, to the Spoutnic that hassles them off the floor and into the nesting boxes, chickens seem amply served by robotic companions:

https://www.canadianpoultrymag.com/rise-of-the-robots-30876/
How much profit do you think they make, exactly?

How much do you think they should be entitled to make?

If the answer is zero, why would anyone invest in a company that can’t make money?

If the answer is that healthcare should be run by the government, why are you blaming the CEO instead of politicians?
His Goodreads comment on Ted Kacyzinski's book (better known for other work).
https://i.redd.it/j9n3oplojv5e1.jpeg
Lemme use this opportunity for having your attention to suggest some form of collaboration or even a merger with the Godot game engine:

• itch.io users could launch the Godot Web Editor to quickly make prototypes or simple games right on itch

• Publish from the native Godot editor directly to itch.io

• Godot adopts itch.io as the official asset store for art packs etc.

• Introduce social features for devs and artists to collaborate with each other:

• A publisher could choose to add a “Fork” or similar button on their itch.io game page that downloads and opens the project source in Godot. • All "forks" published that way would include a link to the original game's page, and so on.

I think Godot+itch could/should become the Github of Games :)
# of downloads from unique IP would be better for sure.

Also if you have a local cache and just check the version, that won't count.
Easy-peasy. Just require all software to be cryptographically signed, with a trusted chain that leads to a government-vetted author, and make that author responsible for the wrongdoings of that software's users.

We're most of the way there with "our" locked-down, walled-garden pocket supercomputers. Just extend that breadth and bring it to the rest of computing using the force of law.

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Can I hear someone saying something like "That will never work!"?

Perhaps we should meditate upon that before we leap into any new age of regulation.
They don't have to add regulations. They just have to suggest that Amazon actually enforce the regulations on the books, instead of allowing fake UL/ETL listings to be accepted as seems Amazon's common practice.
You need some _known_ distribution though, and it's shocking because the distribution is ommitted from the question, and the presence of the same distribution is snuck into the answer.
Oh No! They're dying?! The Humanity!!!
I think reducing healthcare costs in the US is an important problem with no right answers, and this sometimes involves denying care that people think they need.
His x posts read like he was on an adderall bender.

I wouldn't be surprised if he went into psychosis after losing a lot of sleep and never really got back to stability.

Adderall and a passion rabbit-hole like societal change are a dangerous combination. The more deep you dive, the more disinterested people become with you, and the more disconnected you become with other people.
Worked pretty terrible at trying to model the nix snowflake.

Guess its more trained on natural and biologic structures and textrues, rather than more structural or symetric data.
For those who cannot watch video:

The video criticizes recent legislation passed by the conservative government in Ontario, Canada, which mandates cities to get provincial approval before installing or altering bicycle lanes. The legislation also aims to remove existing bike lanes, particularly targeting Toronto. The Ontario Premier, Doug Ford, defends these moves by claiming that bike lanes cause significant traffic congestion, a statement the video creator refutes by presenting data showing minimal road coverage by bike lanes and negligible travel time differences. The video also highlights studies indicating that bike lanes contribute to business growth and increased safety, contrary to the government's stance.

The narrator argues that this legislation serves as a distraction from larger, unresolved issues in Ontario, such as healthcare, housing, and transportation, exacerbated under Ford's leadership. They suggest that Ford's focus on bike lanes is a politically motivated maneuver to rally suburban car-dependent voters by scapegoating cyclists, while ignoring the broader benefits of viable transportation alternatives. The video concludes by urging viewers to resist the legislation through advocacy and political engagement.
They're a mix. I find the mathematical symbols ok but they don't jump out very much which seems to make my eyes reluctant to stay with the illusion. The first (green) surface one is one of the best magic eyes I've ever seen, but the second (pink) one I can't get to stay at all.
Another article with a similar concept, around AI, but not LLMs: https://blog.jtoy.net/choosing-the-appropriate-abstraction-l...