skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After seeing the news on Sora yesterday, it makes me wonder how much these new chips will affect the creation of virtual realities. It also makes me question how far we are from the possibility of people living inside virtual realities
> Because you don’t believe an EU bank can terminate an account because they’re worried it may trigger an AML/CTF regulation or similar without bothering to really check if it does.

No, I questioned the particular situation given my personal experience with the Ukrainian war for account holders in Europe, the existing banking regulation around the basic account.
Show HN: Fork and get your minimalistic Next.js and mdx blog
Inspired by bear blog and hacker news I created a simple minimalistic looking as possible personal blog/portfolio https://devgalaktika.vercel.app/

It uses next.js and mdx for writing. If you are familiar with these 2, I open sourced the repo so you can clone and start writing: https://github.com/danesto/galaktika

Have in mind it is fairly simple and intended to use local mdx files as your articles, it just gives you a starter point if you ever wanted something similar.
This bit is downright scary: "the bank cannot explain why SARs [Suspicious activity reports] triggered a debanking, because disclosing the existence of a SAR is illegal. 12 CFR 21.11(k) Yes, it is the law in the United States that a private non-court, in possession of a memo written by a non-intelligence analyst, cannot describe the nature of the non-accusation the memo makes. Nor can it confirm or deny the existence of the memo."
Almost anyone who has a semi-useful technical or trade skill and can manage communications, marketing, sales etc is liable to become extremely rich.

Almost anyone with no skills except they can talk to people and arrange/organize deals is liable to make someone else rich, and might be well-off if they can figure out how to get a slice of the pie.
Signal and Apple both use post-quantum.
Yes, the serial buffer is included in the motherboard. The problem is not so much for OUT but for IN, if the buffer fills up.

As for the bus addresses, the counter program starts from the lowest address. The mainboard obviously knows how much RAM is present and performs a translation to the first available low address. Nothing transcendental.

I did not understand the connection with VonNeumann architectures, this is a classic vonneumann architecture, only that the information is in base 3...

Anyway you seem to be really very expert, certainly more than me (I am mainly a programmer and I had to learn these things at low level practically by myself), you could actively help the project...
There is no niche, that makes a fundamentally inefficient system, more efficient.

If any such niche existed, for any system, then this niche would be the system.
Is that true? Was there something to the technology that was harder on the eyes?
Finland proving the supremacy of "Subs not Dubs". Noted for future reference.
Can't wait for Google to release a breakthrough paper in 5 years just for the authors to leave and build OpenQuant
Is this guaranteed to be even on all sides though?
Something with far more impact would be to
get AI compute to consume 1% of the energy
it does today.

It would have much larger impact than this.
Your repo is private, getting 404 error.
You are consistently objectively wrong on the facts. So your subjective take that dns is decentralized is again wrong.

You can choose different TLDs. Don't like VeriSign's .com? Go with a country tld or make your own tld. Also tld are regulated it isn't even an independent private entity.

Finally switching registrars does NOT require cooperation of the losing registrar, but of the upstream DNS.

The sane take is just don't chose a meme registrar from a bullshit country just because it sounds like something else.
"Consume" water I interpret as requiring a constant stream of water. If little to no water is added, I'd agree it doesn't consume any, even though it uses water.
Sure, it's like a weird dream where sometimes shadows don't come from the sun and the scenery has this absurd, acutely unreal polish.
Yep, and I started boarding in ‘89, aged six. It was mostly extinct by the time I reached secondary school, but at my prep school, it was rife. The place was run by a group of retired Cold War submariners, and while the place had much to be commended, their approach to discipline was not. One learned to avoid consequences for one’s actions, rather than to endure them. That meant learning to lie like your and your co-suspects’ ability to sit or sleep that week depended on it - because it did.
One interesting counterexample to this is deuterium and water made from it. It is 11% denser than normal water, ice made from it sinks in normal water, it has a higher heat capacity, is more viscous and has a higher boiling point. It's also completely stable!
Network effects. They outsource all the medical billing and management to the big insurance racket companies. Protip: go with a PPO Medicare plan and medigap supplemental plan if you want your loved ones to see any specialists and go to any hospital. I switched mine off the HMO advantage plans to BCBS PPO cause HMO Medicare advantage plans deny everything by default fighting tooth and nail.
If nothing else having to do more paperwork is very common.

British banks tend to not open accounts for people abroad because of the cost of KYC, and they even close accounts if you move abroad. Difficult if you have assets or a pension in the UK but live abroad. As you say, it makes it very hard for people who move around.

There are definitely political biases in closing bank accounts in the UK, and many cases of accounts being closed because banks did not like someone's politics. Not even fringe political views, associations with the previous government's part has caused problems in some cases, and definitely association with smaller but significant parties.

People also avoid taking on jobs that might make them "politically exposed persons" because the rules are too broad, and that (although it affects only a few people) does a great deal of damage because it reduces the number of people from outside in organisations, which worsens governance and corruption.
Btw there’s a way to match characters in a batch in the forge webUI which guarantees that all images in the batch have the same figure in it. Trivial to implement this in all other image generators. This critique is baseless.
The "hq4x" filter remains the best.
It's not just America. Shinzo Abe was assassinated, with security and at a public event, by somebody using a homemade gun with homemade ammo.

As tech advances over time, this will all only become even more true.
It's not about a "final conclusion", just about a summary of the measurement results at hand. Instead of letting the user to trawl through a lot of documents and figures and make geomean and factors calculations him/herself, the author who publishes measurement results should do this. Here is an example how this could look: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/blob/master/testcase.... It is immediately recognizable how much less time on average the C++ implementation used compared to the reference (LuaJIT in this case).
> how far off the deep end the internet went over the last few days.

Side note - the "internet" is very likely a mix of bots and real humans nowadays. What might seem initially like a real person saying "hunt the snitch down" could very likely be a bot that is meant to sow and influence discord. That bot's followers could very likely be real people who then say "ya i agree with this account! get your pitchfork!"
Diesel fuel is particularly hard to ignite which makes it not too much of a worry in a fire. By the time the fuel tank is on fire the fire department has given up on your building and are just trying to stop the spread to other buildings.
Filesystems can tell the kernel to panic
> If the vast majority of the public actually agreed on something

Huge ask right at the beginning. If that is met, there are several examples such as The Velvet Revolution, Iceland's Financial Crisis Protest, The Women’s Suffrage Movement, Philippine People Power Revolution (1986) etc.
Wow… incredibly expensive… at minimum another 26€ a month. Wolfram really enjoy milking their customers dry (and I’m a customer). I think this is highway robbery.
Chinese hackers use Visual Studio Code tunnels for remote access
Yeah, this would probably be best served by some biosecurity program at the USDA or a handful of universities.
If it makes you feel any better, the arena of human competition isn’t going to fundamentally change just because of this technology, IMO. Yes, we’ll see a flood of slop as it becomes more widely available. But the real artists, the ones who want to make things with purpose, will learn how to use this technology as a stepping stool towards something even greater.

Look at people like Martin Nebelong - they’re learning how to leverage AI without losing the human in the loop.

https://x.com/martinnebelong?s=21&t=cTpE-rRbCiocUlN0VaSheQ
Imagine being a newcomer coming to this discussion and the two sides are "debanking is bad and hurts people" and "the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is garbage."
Any interaction with normal matter (including solar wind or the interstellar medium) would result in extremely energetic annihilation events. these aren’t subtle.
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I feel more at home as a Senior Dev, or maybe a Tech Lead/Mentor, but here I am in management for the last 7 years. The article definitely resonates with me, as do many of the comments. I miss coding, deeply. I try to pick up the occasional project at work, but too often I have to turn it over due to lack of time. Sometimes I do not turn it over and it ends up taking far, far longer than it should have. I know I sometimes hold things too close to the chest. Delegating is not my strong suit but, in my mid 40's, I'm getting better.

Whatever I'm doing, imposter syndrome be damned, seems to work. My team always look to me for help and plead with me to never leave; though I'm sure they'd find their way. I do find it difficult to keep up with all the projects going on at times, which complicates ongoing project discussions Especially when the developer isn't the best at communicating effectively and I need to be the liaison between them and upper management. Trying to keep up with all of that is really what limits my time as a developer.

I was pleasantly surprised that the article linked a write-up on building an internal ChatBot. We're been looking at doing the same through Elastic AI but scratching that itch myself seems fun. I just wonder how long it'll be before I have to hand it over to someone else...
There were tons of articles before he was identified talking about how this was a truly bipartisan issue. The left and right were celebrating pretty equally and I don't think that has significantly changed
This doesn't make any sense, people are the ones who decide how will get elected and if they cross path with big donors then this won't magically make said people want to vote for the big donor candidates.
I feel exactly the same. I tire of people on HN talking about their accounts being closed but providing 10% of the relevant information to their case. I have said it before and I will say it again: If your accounts are wrongfully closed, immediately: (1) Visit your your bank in protest and meet with the branch manager and (2) send physical letter of complaint to (a) local branch (b) head office (c) national bank regulator and make it clear you have CC'd all. I bet 99% of legit cases will be reinstated within 30 days.
>there is no way to manufacture a zero value of Username out of thin air

As I said, with the proposal above, you cannot manufacture a default zero value from a union if you specify in the language's spec that trying to retrieve a value from a non-initialized ("not active") subtype panics (i.e. the union was constructed with a different underlying type)

asUsername := myUnion.(UserName) // panics if myUnion doesn't hold UserName internally

// if you want to retrieve the value, you type-switch:
switch myUnion.(type) {
case UserName:
// if the underlying type is UserName, it always returns the value as it was passed into the union's constructor by the developer, it doesn't matter if it was "initialized" or the developer passed some default zero'd value; it's not the union's concern at all
}

It's similar to panicking on nil interfaces, nil maps etc. The article is called "Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value", so I responded to that -- you don't need types without a zero value for the use case of union types. It's also different from interfaces (as you noted earlier), because this allows disjoint types.

Whether Go must allow non-zero types in general is a totally different topic.
Wikipedia says the government introduced intermediaries to cut costs (i.e. create a scapegoat people can blame for denying claims or reducing payments to providers and not have the finger point at the government).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_Budget_Act_of_1997

> The act had a five-year savings goal and a ten-year savings goal following its enactment in 1997. The five-year savings goal was $116.4 billion which would be achieved by limiting growth rates in payments to hospitals and physicians under fee-for-service arrangements.[7]

>This plan also involved the change of the methods of payment made to rehabilitation hospitals, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and outpatient service agencies as well as the reduction of payments to Medicare managed care plans and the slowing of growth rates of these same care plans.[7]

>The ten-year savings goal was $393.8 billion using the same savings methods as the five-year goal to achieve the savings in 2007.[7]
I was specifically referring to the death penalty.
Yeah definitely not cheap like "this sucks" but extremely reasonable price for pretty high quality and high polyphenol olive oil imo. I like it a lot.
This is generally true but I've never seen clear evidence of bot activity on HN – have you? I think it's very likely that those reactions on Twitter are 50/50 bot, but I've seen HN people posting their own version of "wow, what a guy" in ways that were convincingly human and very surprising.
According to the top image on the Wikipedia page, Diffie Hellman does send the public key over the wire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...
One of the many purposes of the justice system is to serve "justice" so people don't feel the need to take it in their own hands. The fact that so many people feel this murder is justified shows a clear breakdown of the justice system. Which should give everyone pause because that path does lead to the terrors you describe.

But the path to solving that has to involve adjustments to the system that address this mismatch, not just condemning the act or creating some huge diversion in the hope people will forget about it.
Fair enough. Any particular tricks that helped you get valid queries out of it the first time?
I mean, we’re already there. There wasn’t a shared reality in the past few years, and now we even have the generative tools to ensure there is even less shared reality.
Surprised the rapper name lil Hadron isn't taken yet
> They mate for life.

Not really; see https://news.mit.edu/2022/divorce-albatross-shy-males-0913 and https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2020/02/13/albatross-reall...
2016, https://blog.gradle.org/kotlin-meets-gradle
PL/SQL, half-joking. I will serve myself out. :)
Wish I could upvote this more. Switched mine to BCBS PPO with medigap supplemental plan for their Medicare provider. They got to go to the best cancer hospital and specialists you can just call up the office and schedule. It costs like $900 a month though and they pay 20% with 80% plan coverage up to catastrophic out of pocket limit. PPO if you want to give your loved ones a fighting chance.
Coal power plants have a much larger impact, new ones have been cleaned up, but in the 1960s they were putting lots of radioactive waste into the air which rained down around the world and is still there.
I wonder what kinds of hardware are supported... Like I'd imagine a keyboard is not
It's a tiresome bit of pedantry.

Try this: when people on hn claim "ah but it's not calorie intake versus calorie expenditure!" you can assume in good faith that what they REALLY mean is "you are correct that it IS calorie intake versus calorie expenditure, AND there are subtle factors which impact both how efficient your body is at extracting energy from food and how efficient it is at performing work"

It's unlikely for the poor grandparent poster that they unlocked some latent ability to extract calories more effectively by reducing their sugar intake, and of course Occam's razor SUGGESTS that they simply started consuming more or exercising less to compensate, but there ARE reasons we study things like this.
Yeah, it's just not your grandmother's pixel art anymore
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This is a really interesting approach. What are the main bottlenecks something like BaremetalOS solves? Context switches? Copying data forth and back userland? Something else?
> If you find this sort of thing interesting, though, I'd recommend learning the lambda calculus instead. The lambda calculus is simpler, more well known, and more useful (it's a model of functions, instead of some made up rules about trees).

I was with you all the way up until here.

The lambda calculus is only more useful because it's become the basis for a lot of existing programming languages. Its made up rules are no more fundamental than the made-up rules of any other calculus, tree calculus included. They just seem more fundamental because they form the basis of most functional programming today.

I'm also unconvinced that the lambda calculus itself is meaningfully simpler. It typically has three syntactic components and two reduction operations, compared to one syntactic component and five reduction operations—that gives the lambda calculus a very small edge in moving parts, but it's very small.

The only way in which I could agree with you is that learning the lambda calculus first is going to be easier because there's so much more material on it. But that's not because the fundamental properties of the lambda calculus, it's because Church came first.
Might be, so far I only watched the few talks that touched upon reflection ideas and upcoming roadmap, some stuff might even only land on C++29, assuming reflection MVP does indeed land on C++26.
If you want to get pedantic, even open loop cooling does not consume water. The amount of H20 going in is the same amount that's going out. No water is destroyed.
Classic HN bullshit:

> censor certain merchandise

Zero evidence provided. Zero examples provided.
You're expecting to see some forest of information which isn't there, because it's such a little language.

At the top of https://treecalcul.us/specification/ you have 5 rules. Your (valid) program will match one of the left-hand-sides. To execute your program, turn whichever LHS your program is into its corresponding RHS. Keep doing that until you can't, and you'll be left with your final answer.

It also provides 2 reference interpreters (OCaml and JS) on the same page. Each interpreter is just a single recursive function 'apply' (which does what I described in the above paragraph). Note the 'match a with' section in the OCaml version. That's essentially the 5 rules from the top translated to OCaml. (I'm not sure why they're slightly different but there's probably a good reason).

The JS interpreter is harder to read ("length"? "push"? "pop"? these aren't in the spec above). My guess is that a machine-friendly translation was needed so that JS wouldn't die from recursing too deeply.

I clicked on 'runjs.app' link, looked at the examples at the bottom, and added my own.

apply(_not, apply(_not, _true));

and sure enough it yielded

[ [] ]

which is what it calls '_true':

const _true = [[]];
Unless we’re reading completely different comments, that’s not at all what they said. They said OpenAI waited too long to release it and their competitors beat them to the punch with similar quality offerings and have already cornered the social media AI slop market.
Since you read them as sarcastic, I also read them as sarcastic. Quantum entanglement at work.
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I didn't know.
The average person is the average which includes some of the richest people on the planet, so I’m guessing you were thinking median?

While the sentence is likely true, the sister statement to it would cover historical relativism.

Society is generally expected to evolve and improve - this being the whole point of it.

So being absolutely better than the past is not as relevant to the conversation as how poor people are with comparison to their peers in their own country.
I basically survive on grass finished beef. It's for my health, but it is also among the most ethical animal choices. They roam undeveloped wilderness (adjacent to my home) almost entirely uninterferred with until their last day, then are killed with little pain. I wouldn't make such a trade off over a life of more freedom and risk, but I know people who would and do.
So MICROS~1 has finally discovered the wonders of heat pump systems? Great, what next, photovoltaics?
This overall dynamic has become very concerning to me- people have sorted themselves into echo chambers online that dehumanize anyone not in their group- to the point of justifying murder for just for not being in their specific group. This has happened universally across the political and ideological spectrum. Parts of Reddit for example has a seething hatred for anyone elderly “boomers” and/or well off “billionaires and landlords” with lots of extreme essays on why people in these groups should be systematically harmed or even executed becoming well liked. Anyone adding nuance to the discussion is attacked- empathy and nuance are labeled as themselves evil. Everything is based on a cartoonishly oversimplified model of the world with pure good and evil actors- not understanding that unfair outcomes are most often simply the banal result of bad planning and locked in structures that appear organically and can persist even when everyone involved wants them to change but can’t coordinate well. This dynamic is repeated everywhere and not unique to just the right or left. Nothing good will come off this.
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Not C:/temp no, it clears %temp% which is usually squirreled away as C:/Users/<username>/AppData/local/temp
This. I recall both my mother, my wife and my daughter telling me they would get in trouble when they were younger because they wanted attention.
Also known as Z-transform in digital signal processing.
As far as I remember from some LLVM talks, apparently only ThinLTO is kind of usable, full LTO doesn't seem to be fully used.

Just my perception.
By the measuring stick of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity," I'd say this submission has been a roaring success for a lot of people. The nice thing about HN is that if something on the front page doesn't gratify your personal curiosity there are 29 more things that might.
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With a bit of creativity you can run something similar for free. It's worth noting Raspberry Pi comes with a free Wolfram license. The assistant part can come from something like Perplexity, which in my experience is decent at writing Mathematica code.

I also have a Mathematica license which I think is worth paying for. One of the few closed software that has no good equivalent in the libre world. Nonetheless, I wish Wolfram had come up with a different business model that made Mathematica more mainstream, as I feel it has not realized its potential in certain areas.
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