skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 watt conducted power, 4 watts EIRP. For most of the world, the ETSI limit is 100mW EIRP.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A...
I feel strongly they should split undefined behavior in behavior that is not defined, and things that the compiler is allowed to assume. The former basically already exists as "implementation defined behavior". The latter should be written out explicitly in the documentation:

> memcpy(dest, src, count)

> Copies count bytes from src to dest. [...] Note this is not a plain function, but a special form that
applies the constraints dest != NULL and src != NULL to the surrounding scope. Equivalent to:

assume(dest != NULL)
assume(src != NULL)
actual_memcpy(dest, src, count)

The conflation of both concepts breaks the mental model of many programmers, especially ones who learned C/C++ in the 90s where it was common to write very different code, with all kinds of now illegal things like type punning and checking this != NULL.

I'd love to have a flag "-fno-surprizing-ub" or "-fhighlevel-assembler" combined with the above `assume` function or some other syntax to let me help the compiler, so that I can write C like in the 90s - close to metal but with less surprizes.
If every government worldwide were to forget about or ban cryptocurrencies entirely, they would still persist.

Governments, in this case, offer nothing essential to the functioning of cryptocurrencies. Cryptos are essentially just digital numbers transferred across the internet, their existence sustained purely by individuals investing their time, resources, and trust. Their value and continued operation are independent of government control, investment, infrastructure, or approval.
Some people may need to be told that, much like some alcoholics are in denial about their condition. But many other fat people know they have a problem, are trying to solve it, and are struggling because it's incredibly difficult to overhaul your lifestyle (even with help and resources). While telling the first group of fat people "hard truths" might be what they need, it will simply demoralize the second group and might get them to stop trying. It's not as simple as you're painting it.
Yep! We're obviously operating alongside a very well established world of palletization and other order fulfillment type robots.

We think that due to irregularity that it's not an easy tech transfer from the existing logistics world into the aviation world. We're very interesting in looking the other direction, though!
BMI is more of a screening metric than a diagnostic metric. It's not really diagnostic of any medical condition beyond obesity itself, but if a patient is outside the normal BMI range then that can be a reason to justify additional diagnostic tests for certain conditions.
keep in mind alcohol is also poor diet - beer is especially heavy in carbs, very few alcoholic drinks are light really. alcohol is like having an extra side with a meal at least, but people would I think be more aware they were overeating if it was a plate of fries.
Just an aside, this was pretty impressive in my opinion.

I don’t know what AGI really means at this point, and I don’t think this is quite there, but this is an example of ChatGPT (4o) choosing the correct context (counting only alphabet characters not total character count), parsing the comment correctly (non-trivial given the usage of delimiters in both the prompt and comment and reference to counting letters in the comment not being interpreted as a part of the instructions), choosing the correct python tools, arriving at the correct answer, then generating and populating a working, downloadable, notebook to check the work. All in one reply.

It looks like you would need to continue the conversation from the link I provided then regenerate the prompt/reply to see the processing blocks and download the notebook.
You are too certain. Polls of working quantum researchers put significant credence on breaking RSA within 20 years. https://globalriskinstitute.org/publication/2023-quantum-thr...
It's the implication. The letter is a threat that you take them to court, which will cost them at least five figures, and will tie their attorneys with the case. They don't know how much fighting power you got, just make them believe you're willing. No one wants that fight, even multinational corporations.
I disagree - another way you could phrase this is that Google is presbyopic. They're very capable of thinking long-term (eg. Google Deepmind and AI as a whole, cloud, video, Drive/GSuite, etc.), but as a result they struggle to respond to quick market changes. AdSense is the perfect example of Google "going long" on a product and reaping the rewards to monopolistic ends. They can corner a market when the set their sights on it.

I don't think Google (or really any of FAANG) makes "good" products anymore. But I do think there are things to appreciate in each org, and compared to the way Apple and Microsoft are flailing helplessly I think Google has proven themselves in software here.
> BMI is trivial to measure conclusively

That does not make BMI a good measure.
> gah is an GitHub Releases app installer, that does not require sudo

?. I am sure it does if installed to /usr or /usr/local.

If installed to ~/.local, then obviously no root required. How is this a feature?

Do alternatives not allow installing to custom destination path?
> This is like getting accused of murder, and the judge finding you guilty because you didn't produce knife during discovery, the prosecution said you had. Just absurd.

To extend the analogy, it helps if you don't subsequently mail the knife you said you didn't have to the prosecution. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-lawyers-acci...

> Then skipping ahead to the sentencing, and the judge telling your lawyers that if you testify you're not guilty to the jury, he'll find you and your lawyers in contempt (jail-able offence).

The same will happen to you in any criminal trial if you try to argue innocent post-conviction, during the sentencing phase. The time to argue innocence is during the trial itself.

> While lining up a long list of crying victims to tell the jury how horrible you are.

Again, standard practice in sentencing. Jones is entitled to his own character witnesses, if he can find some.
IQ is as far as I can tell quite well accepted as a diagnostic tool. The pushback is in its application across whole populations.
Exhibiting symptoms of a disorder is not the same as having a disorder which is why it's irresponsible and inappropriate to diagnose people based on their social media.
AI Guesses Your Accent
Most concerns focus around the electromagnetic radiation heating your tissue. Microwave ovens operate at 2.4MHz, and most common frequencies can work like a microwave with varying efficiency. At the intensities of normal transmissions that isn't really a concern. For a time this seemed like something we might worry about with phones, since during a phone call there we have an active antenna right next to your fairly sensitive brain that might not like being heated up. But even there it turned out that the effect was too small to be of concern
Memory-Aware Stream Processing for Attention Acceleration on Edge Devices
I love Rexx and have used it extensively on IBM mainframes and PC's way back. That said it seems like the ecosystem has moved away from the the types of integrations where Rexx was strong. On IBM mainframes it was always the tight integration with things like CMS and XEDIT that made it great.

If you're using Rexx today on e.g. MacOS or Linux I'd be interested in hearing how that's working for you... My goto for scripting these days would be Python in those environments (or bash).
I apologize for the commercial plug, but when I switched off of CenturyLink and onto Ooma last year my robo / spam calls went way down. Part of that is that they have some filtering options, part of that is that I believe they provide telemetry to something akin to NoMoRobo.
It does for some applications, and not for others. In epidemiology you're looking at the number across broad populations, where a lot of the "three dimensions" idiosyncrasies cancel out. You're likely to run into trouble taking literal BMI constants and turning them into individualized patient care instructions, though.
It's actually very fun!
So Google has Trillium, Amazon has Trainium, Apple is working on a custom chip with Broadcom, etc. Nvidia’s moat doesn’t seem that big.

Plus big tech companies have the data and customers and will probably be the only surviving big AI training companies. I doubt startups can survive this game - they can’t afford the chips, can’t build their own, don’t have existing products to leech data off of, and don’t have control over distribution channels like OS or app stores
Google has been killing their competition, mainly from buyouts, so it's ironic that they are complaining. What is the process like on Google Chrome to change the default search engine?
The expensive DVD player I bought was actually the worst at it.
Also see: Material You

With Material 3 they released Material Color Utilities, a library that can generate more complicated color schemes from a source color. It uses a color space that properly accounts for perceived brightness so there's some contrast guarantees.
This is awesome! It's amazing how many jobs there are that require heavy manual lifting with repetitive motion that will be up-skilled in the coming years. New roles will be much more monitoring and problem solving which.
Maybe you already considered this, but contracts are full of unenforceable and illegal clauses. At the end of the day you did work for them that they agreed to and then they stiffed you on it in a very visible way. Generally, if the work is already done, they are liable for the entire amount.

I would be talking to a lawyer. You might even consider it part of your job to have a working relationship with a lawyer.
> USDA shares the blame for placing Carbohydrates as the primary food source on the food pyramid.

I agree, but I have no real evidence, just a feeling.

Is there any evidence?
There is literally no such thing as a superhobo, that is a complete fabrication.

The ocean of difference between “I’ve heard of some folks getting shook down” and “If you see someone panhandling they are likely part of an organized network” is incredibly vast. It is to take one small observation and extrapolate it into a pure fantasy. It is quite literally made up. It kind of sounds like you were told and then credulously believed an urban legend.

Source: Have been homeless, panhandled, and decades of work in homeless outreach. I have worked with folks in day shelters, night shelters, street corners, large encampments, etc. for many, many years and what you have written is patently untrue.
> there are bubbles of academia, industry, and the general population that swear by them and work to legitimize them.

Perhaps you a right, because this is my main exposure to psychometric. From much of what I have read from various journals, there are clearly those that are contrarians, but mainstream academic psychology presents IQ as if IQ is some infallible measurement of human intelligence.

Despite IQ's merits being contentious (like BMI), it is still widely used regardless. IQ testing is still used for clinical diagnostic purposes (why I had to take one), entrance in to some gifted academic programs, in judicial contexts, etc..

Based on my personal research and experiences, I align with the contrarian views vs. the mainstream, academic views.
> Comparing one guy who was in the hot seat only because of his surname

There exists boatloads of concrete evidence Hunter Biden was guilty of several categories of crimes, related to drugs, corruption, illegal firearms and child prostitutes.

There’s a reason he had to be pardoned by Joe, right? He essentially created a “the full laptop” pardon, complete unprecedented.

Any other person guilty of half these things would be in for life.

You got it backwards. He didn’t get a shit storm due to his last name. He got a free pass due to it.
Tell that to Steve Jobs!
Ha. My friend and I had the FCC van roving our neighborhood looking for us once, back in the late 70s. A guy with a CB base station dropped a dime on us, cause we were playing with our 0.1 watt walkie talkies near his house. The guy that sold us the handhelds said “what channel crystal do you want, how about 9?” and we said sure; we didn’t know that 9 is the emergency CB channel and the law prevents its use for, for example, playing hide and seek as a 13 year old.
I still use muse + emacs lisp to generate my CV into html and pdf (via Latex with custom template)
No.

I don't hate REXX. In fact, I had an absolutely grand time using AREXX to script up all kinds of bizarre things on my Amiga, like using the progress percent of an FTP client as the parameter to some image program or another (ImageFX maybe?) to generate a bolt of lightning that grew from one corner of the screen to the opposite as my modem chugged away. It was neat and I love playing with it.

But, outside an environment like that where it was integrated into practically every major program running on the system, I wouldn't want to have to rely on it again. Programming languages that get rid of all the rules impose their own kind of mental overhead, and I'm not smart enough to be 100% detail-oriented 100% of the time.

It was still awfully cool. AppleScript is probably the closest modern, widely available similar language I can think of.
Now that the last family member who gave a shit is dead LOTR is whored out. They want it to be the next Marvel universe.
I think this makes assumptions about the speed at which things are currently moving.

If you had reason to believe that the client was really, truly, about to pay you, then you wouldn't have written the blog post.

If you get legal involved, the speed at which you move towards getting paid may change to become nonzero. At some point the speed of the client's legal team is irrelevant, because a sufficiently slow legal response by the client translates to a court judgement against them.
That's basically the definition of capitalism- that shareholders (capital) spend their money to generate profit for themselves.

Like you note thoigh, we can have a free market and democracy without that dynamic
I agree a lot with what you say. I will take another sentence from the book because I agree with it and have noticed it first hand after changing my diet:

> If you focus on health, your weight will take care of itself

There are some mornings when weighing on the scale where I notice that I lost more than 1kg (compared to 24 hours before). More often than not, I didn't even have a so-called "cheat meal". I eat healthily 95% of the time, so even if I eat junk food and gain 800g in a day I know I'm going to lose them by just sticking to my usual healthy habits.

I guess this was just a really long way of saying: fluctuations in body weight don't matter day-to-day if you stick to a healthy diet.

Taking into account my body weight (I'm lean, with muscles, and shorter than average for a man), I eat way more than I should be. My rice portion, which is a side, is sometimes as much as 250g. And this is about half my plate. Then I eat fruits, nuts during the day. All this after having eaten oatmeal for breakfast (about 100g). Dinner is a bit smaller than lunch but I eat at least twice what my parents would eat (granted, they are older).
I was surprised by the Mistral usage — i think Llama has taken over the open-source LLM scene lately.
Reddit is launching their own gen-AI search engine
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Thank you Bryce <3
It’s crazy that various chemicals like this or food dyes are banned elsewhere but legal in America. Is this due to the power and influence of corporate lobbyists or just a failure of a slow bureaucracy? Either way it is unacceptable
I don't think I was clear, I meant removal before their term has ended. Also, I said rarely so I know it exists, but not in the majority of countries.
While it's true that cryptocurrencies rely on electricity and infrastructure, this doesn’t inherently tie them to government control or the state in the same way as traditional fiat systems.

Cryptocurrencies, by design, function on decentralized networks that don't require the direct oversight or approval of any government. The electricity and hardware used for mining and transaction validation may come from existing infrastructure, but that infrastructure doesn’t need to be state-controlled in the same way that a national currency system is. Individuals and private enterprises can choose to power crypto networks using renewable energy sources, local power grids, or even off-grid systems, making them more flexible and adaptable to a variety of environments, independent of centralized authorities.

As for the legal and financial systems that facilitate exchange into fiat currency, these are not an intrinsic part of cryptocurrency's functionality. Cryptocurrencies are used as a medium of exchange and store of value in numerous jurisdictions without the need for state-backed systems. Peer-to-peer exchanges and decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms allow users to trade, lend, and borrow without relying on traditional financial institutions or government regulation. In fact, the very appeal of cryptocurrency is that it offers an alternative to centralized systems, providing financial autonomy outside the control of national governments or banks.

The idea that cryptocurrencies “need” government structures is a misunderstanding of their decentralized nature. While state-backed systems provide a safety net or a point of conversion, they are not essential to the existence of cryptocurrencies themselves. In fact, governments’ involvement often comes with regulation, restrictions, and sometimes outright hostility — yet cryptocurrencies continue to thrive in regions with little or no government support.

Yes, we live in a society, but part of the reason cryptocurrencies have gained traction is because they challenge the monopoly that governments and traditional financial systems have on money, banking, and trade. In essence, cryptocurrencies operate as a parallel system that doesn’t depend on state authority to function.
Why is the FTC sending these payments out instead of ordering the company to do so?
Every so often a politician comes up with some idea of special legislation to force large companies to pay invoices within X days or gather 2x base rate interest on the bill

These always fail. Mostly because it’s pretty much impossible to define the various parameters but really because … if we want to get paid by a company larger than us we take the chance it will all work out … and gift people free credit for months

my longest time to collect on invoice was 9 months and it took me two years to recover from the debt tailspin that went into (if I ever did)

Good luck getting it to work out.

One day there will be the legal backup. It might make it socially unacceptable
We can have both. We can have broad access to all manor of food and drugs AND we can have strict labelling and advertising standards. We all know the entire concept of market capitalism is based on accurate and available information for marketplace participants, yet we keep letting the dominant participants manipulate the dissemination of information for their own benefit and to the detriment of consumers.
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I'm sure these people exist, I find it interesting that in my 20 year career in tech, including a short stint in FAANG I don't feel like I've hardly run into one. This would almost feel like a caricature if not for books written on SBF.
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It's "hardware is hard" versus "scaling laws".

Andrejs point is that software problems are easier to scale your way out of. I think we can both agree there's plenty of precedent for this line of thinking.

A company cannot as easily scale their way out of lowering material costs by an order of magnitude or go from 1000 cars a year to 1M cars a year.
What's wrong with the pedagogy is the idea that no one should be taught any material until everybody is capable of learning that material. Variable manipulation can be easily learned by 4th graders. But it can't be learned by all 4th graders, so everyone has to wait.

Just in case you think I might be misleading you somehow, here's a cheat sheet product for a "college algebra" course; again, "college algebra" refers to the material that would normally be covered in or before high school, except that it's being covered in college. So the idea of this product is that current college students will buy it to help them understand what's going on in class, or to review for a test.

https://www.amazon.com/College-Algebra-Quick-Study-Academic/...

> RULE: if a, b, and c are any real numbers and a = b, then a + c = b + c.

[later]

> Some equations require more than one inverse operation to solve.

> EX[AMPLE]: Solve the equation 5x + 3x - 1 = 15
It is quite wild and frankly just shocking.

The hearings in the last 2 days seemed to have Lopez agreeing with the creditors and not Jone's FUAC. Yet, somewhat seemingly out of the blue, he decided to deny the sale.

What's even more crazy about this ruling is he's told the trustee to come up with an alternative solution, that doesn't involve a new auction... But like no other guidance. That leaves the Trustee in a weird situation where the judge has said "I don't like what you did, fix it somehow, but not in a way that uses a new auction".

Frankly, this judge has just been pretty bad at their job. More than a few rulings have been just weird ramblings from the judge with unclear instructions to the trustee and the other parties.

And all this mainly appears to be because the judge doesn't like the amount that Infowars was sold for.
Correct. 10/10 summary
Don't worry - I'm going to court.

The poison pill is unconscionable, and the action of termination is in bad faith.
Bryan clearly is not anorexic because he gained a bunch of weight/fat when his doctor told him he was at a dangerous weight. Someone suffering from anorexia is not going to increase their body fat by 5-10% on their doctors recommendation.
> Unfortunately people seems to really care about edge cases (What if I have to unexpectedly drive 400 miles on a frozen January evening?)

There are plenty of people who live in places where it's frozen every evening for getting on for half of every year.

"Unexpected long trips" aren't exactly an edge case in our household either, for a bunch of reasons.
> an unsure comment about it kind of works but unsure how/why is correct reason

I'd never interpret it that it way. "It works(?)" or "It works?!?" I'd interpret that way, but "How it works?" to me is firmly questioning the statement itself, not how it works.
People say that, but then people like me are administered the tests for clinical diagnostic purposes (right or wrong), and even my state still considers the scores to be a valid measurement of intelligence, and thus a factor in whether someone convicted of murder is eligible for the death penalty.

I think the concept is bullshit myself, but regardless the damage is done, and still being done for what it is worth.
Yes.

Thank you.
> Let's talk about things that actually matter

I'm all ears

> where to invest

and like that, you lost me
I stopped caring about that when companies started using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to evaluate resumes based on keywords and other silly criteria without ever having a person actually review it.
Leptos 0.7
Yes, I've reverted it now (debaited from "rage quits", per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

(Submitted title was "Matt Mullenweg keeps digging his own grave". It's possible that the article originally had that as its headline, but if not, then it was editorialized, which is against the rules - "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)