skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit of a tangent, but I've often thought having an official real-time chat would be great to bring the community a little bit closer. There have been a few unofficial chats created and proposed, or chat channels on existing IRC servers, but nothing's really had enough traction to stick around for long enough. I'm thinking something like an IRC server that could be joined via a web-based client accessible via a link up the top, authenticating you based on your existing HN login. I imagine it would be accessible via any IRC client though I'm not exactly sure how authentication would work in that case.

I suggested this idea to dang and he expressed a similar sentiment to you regarding bring the HN community closer.
The word monotonically in monotonically increasing is in fact redundant. It says nothing more than increasing. Mathematicians could cut out this word by adopting increasing function in the place of monotonically increasing function without any loss of clarity.

If the function goes horizontal sometimes, then it is nondecreasing. If always, then it's constant (at least if continuous).
Thank you for sharing, and thank you for your candor!

If there was one strategy that had the best bang/buck impact on your own productivity during that intense time, what would that be (if you're willing to share)? Thanks in advance!
Small discussion (15 points, 3 days ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385929
Sonic (beloved Bay Area ISP) got pestered with requests for IPv6, until they finally natively implemented it for their fiber, even though they had 6rd tunnels before.

But granted, Sonic is favored by enthusiasts, so they likely have a higher share of customers caring about such technicalities. And even then the ratio of users actively asking for it may have been tiny.
Western self-sufficiency in computer chips is just not going to happen
Since it’s Microsoft maybe it will do a half decent job on Outlook HTML and .docx. I have evaluated most of them out there, paid included and haven’t found one that I thought was good enough to run in production. Definitely will be giving this a try.
Remember that the fast tracking of the development of the vaccine was a project of the administration in power at the time. The shifting political narrative has diminished this very important part of the discussion.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-319
That's a clear distinction, thanks for bringing it up.

For clarity, this lib has 2 hashes: rainbow, and rainstorm. "rainbow" the faster, is not intended to be crypto secure. "rainstorm" the slower, designed with strength, is, but it has not been analyzed publicly.

My intent is that rainstorm is proposed as a cryptohash and eventually is analyzed properly in order to be trusted, and used - or improved! We probably can't remove the "ish" until then.

In terms of saying "more secure"? Without formal cryptanalysis it is hard to say, but if you have good statistical properties (as measured by these tests in SMHasher3) it's fair to say you're more secure as a lot of the attacks on (cryptographic) hashes are to do with finding dependencies between input and output ("differentials").

I wouldn't make sweeping recommendations unless a hash was vetted because that's how we end up trusting primitives, through the trust in the collective work of people trying to attack them. Right now we just have the speed results, the SMHasher3 results and the design, and some limited analysis. But more is coming, some people are doing good stuff on GitHub right now.

In terms of aptness, to use either of my hashes in rain as a cryptohash without having a deep understanding of potential attacks against it would be rolling the dice, but you could probably trust that at least potential attacks would seem to be difficult given the lack of statistical predictabilities. And they're both fine to use as regular non-cryptographic hashes.

Of course I want to recommend people use them, but I couldn't say use them in crypto applications without being irresponsible and I don't want to do that. Also, to be more lawyerly about it, heh, it's provided "as is".

I guess the main draw right now is if you want good statistical properties and hashes that can be 64, 128 or 256 (or even 512 in rainstorm) bits wide, and fairly fast for that.
You are right, its the content of TFA that tells us it was in doubt.
I do wonder when these restrictions will run into discrimination against those with disabilities. Many assistive devices and medications cannot be separated from the person and go in luggage because of temperature issues.
Sure. Although it's not the case that he barely survived.

But your question was why was his account of the date ever in doubt.

The answer is he wrote about it fifty years later in his 70's.

Did he have the date tattooed on his leg a day later? Did he get the date from an old newspaper he had lying about the house?

While he may be certain about his recollection of the date there is reasonable uncertainty about the certainty of a 70 year quoting a date from 5 decades past.

The question of the date currently has something like a one month window plus/minus .. so there's general agreement that it happened in the later part of 79 BC.

> For him to get the date off by an entire season is quite a stretch.

In my own experience it's not at all uncommon in the septuagenarian, octogenarian, and nonagenarian crowd to be off by that much in their stories.
See also https://vale.sh
This is neat, I didn’t know it was entirely reconstructed like that. I love the pics in this article as well.

I think it speaks to something about historic preservation as well - a lot of people who are into it just want something that looks nice on the outside. I’m glad they didn’t tear the whole thing down.
His point isn't to ban surprisingly, it's to prefer 'we the authors were surprised it was low' over 'you the reader should find it surprisingly low'.
My order is, and has been for decades: foo, bar, baz... and then I don't know anymore and make stuff up.
We Are the Robots
Government rules around COVID were also a flash in the pan. On a per-day basis it was pretty proportional to the urgency.
Tell me you are from the U.S. without telling me you are from the U.S..
This seems far from complete when you compare with the images of Sony media sorted by year at MiniDisc.pics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408637
What's a structured type? Something that has fields or elements?
Wealth tax, with the value declared by the owner as a requirement for the government defending the property rights.

Valuations deemed too low (attempted tax evasion) can be challenged by the government by calling an owner's bluff and forcing sale to the highest bidder at the price set by the second highest bidder.
This is indeed HN, and here is a guideline for you to consider:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I’m all for alternatives to passwords but what is the pathway for “I lost passkey”

Is it sending a reset to a recovery email?
In my field, writing quality was on the very lowest rung of importance, below even teaching evaluations. As much as I value clear, concise prose, I’d say a grad student would be better served working on public speaking especially when faced with hostile questioning, and, sadly, with brown-nosing. Yes I am bitter :p
When I wonder about the business behind Meta doing this, I see they have $70B in cash, so giving a bunch of AI experts hundreds of millions is pocket change.
Workers are being punished for ignoring AI advice – even when they know better
Since you knew it was American centric, and you knew when autumn or "fall" or summer are in the Northern Hemisphere, where all† of the United States of America‡ is located,

You did, in fact, know when was referred to. It's even possible to realize that "over the summer" can include Christmas in Sydney or Buenos Aires! Mostly people realize we live on a sphere, and what the consequences of that are.

† With apologies to American Samoa.

‡ Country name spelled in full to avoid the predictable bellyaching about the existence of a continent of the same name, or two, depending on where you hail from. Another thing you are not in fact confused about.
That's a healthy attitude.

All that I have to say about it, is that in a place like Hacker News, you do encounter the top 0.01% on a fairly regular basis. Particularly among those who were here early on. Being too skeptical of it when you see it doesn't sound like that good an idea.

I mean seriously. Why would I lie? And why would I risk the fake reputation on this account on a lie about something stupid, when I have friends who know me here?
Sacks and PG don't see eye to eye. There is some beef there. PG is a big Altman supporter. To be fair he also thinks highly of Musk as a founder, but does not agree with his politics.

It would seem to me, there is larger rift developing in SV between the YC clique and the AllIn podcast gang.
Your second example subtracts and adds 1 nearly arbitrarily, which wouldn't be needed if the convention of the 0-index wasn't so widespread.
What he did is classic speed reading - trading off speed for comprehension.
Wonder about that as well. It is not exactly ps-5.
Guess I'm not far along to have reached the bit with the gender divides, yet. What I have read seemed to reflect a rather 2020s-feminist view of gender, in a time when feminism was still in its bra-burning arc. So that was interesting.
> Corporate laptops are backed up, with backups offsite. I find it hard to believe that the only copy was on his laptop.

Not defending anyone and maybe McKinsey is different but I have never had a corporate laptop with built-in backup. I am always left to figure that out on my own.
I’d assumed this was in reference to the rebuilding after the White House was burned in the war of 1812, I had no idea about this reconstruction which is really fascinating.
I think it's a reference to the recent killing of that health insurance CEO, where some folks have taken to referring to the killer as an "adjuster."

It's a play on words from the profession of insurance/claims adjuster, which is someone who who arrives to determine what happened and what damage the insurance company is liable for. Unlike the normal version, there's a very different twist on what kinds of damage, responsibility, and consequences are involved...
I think he mentioned $700 a month or something like that
>my sense was that the way it played out was not necessarily in line with wider humanity's best interest,

Sure. But you make the foolish assumption here that humanity even has humanity's best interests at heart. Sentiment may be negative on current LLM generative based AI, but there's still plenty of people with either potential vested interests or simply seeing missing the forest for the tree. It's pretty hard to say "everyone hates/loves AI" at this current time.
What you are missing is the context of this phrase. It is almost exclusively used when talking about two entities are already competitors.

Some of your confusion may come because this phrase is intended neither as a statement of fact, nor a course of suggested action. It is instead a rhetorical flourish intended to imply that one company has a subpar product and is using the legal system to make up for that.
Do you want to open a restaurant in Philadelphia? [pdf]
Coincidentally, I was a developer on Maple for a summer, working on definite integration and other things.
Unless tame is a us based fab and a U.S.A. company even. Then … but probably before that Taiwan war started. Hence still have to have U.S.A. base in the next few years.
Comm sats in LEO like Starlink are never going to have orbits precisely known enough to be near GPS-quality without a lot of waiting. Because Starlink is in LEO they have to burn regularly (much more often than the MEO orbits preferred for positioning systems), and the uncertainty on each burn creates greater uncertainty on the orbit, and at 8km/s small uncertainties explode your accuracy greatly. For dedicated positioning systems they use ground based tracking to precisely update the orbital parameters after every burn, to account for that, but that is impracticable for Starlink.

The only approach that you can do is a Doppler based NAVSAT approach (since the Starlink satellites don't have their own atomic clock for distance calculations), which can't really handle movement by the ground station well in the first place, and to account for the uncertainty in orbits you end up needing to wait for several to pass overhead without moving and trust that with enough passes the uncertainties cancel out. NAVSAT was never designed for real-time tracking, it was designed to zero the huge mechanical gyro's on the inertial frame for nuclear ballistic missile submarines.

This approach wouldn't help a helicopter here on Earth- because it needs multiple zeniths without moving for the uncertainties to cancel out, this system would not provide much help for systems that are moving. It definitely would not provide much help for a helicopter on Mars. If you build a system for other reasons and can piggyback this off of that, sure, do it (I know that other spacecraft at least have the ability to measure Doppler shifts and so could use this system) but it isn't ever going to solve the original problem of the helicopter not able to tell what its horizontal velocity was, and it is always going to be very very rough.

And of course SpaceX will want to pitch a Starlink for Mars. Quite honestly, I suspect that upgrading the DSN sites here on Earth would be far more bang for the buck, more of the 34m BWG's would go a long way, since they are already a limiting factor and if Artemis is really going to happen we're going to see dramatically more data produced that the DSN is going to need to listen for.
tldr; sudo asr restore --source and all tools that just call that are no longer viable.
How about we make mirror prions that affect/infect mirror bacteria, but are inert to us? It becomes a targeted therapy.
The tablet was unearthed in Georgia (country), not Georgia (U.S. state).
Two years ago half of what it output was incorrect. One year ago, maybe 30% of what it output was incorrect. Currently, maybe 20% of what it tells you is incorrect.

It's getting better. Google, on the other hand, is unequivocally getting worse.
This is not the case in quite a few other countries that have significant limitations on corporate donations to political candidates and parties, but then most other western democracies don't have their entire political system paralyzed by extreme Gerrymandered electoral boundaries.

The sad part is that people forget that wasn't always the case in the US.
We might have fewer future vigilante executive assassins if our government, and FTC in particular, would deem to enact consumer protections against things like AI-based medical claims recommendations that go beyond initial triage/routing to human handlers.

We're going to continue watching the rapid AI-driven annihilation of the demand for human customer support specialists. They are just the first major rung of the ladder to fall.

Without protections, even UBI, it's hard to imagine things getting safer for anyone.
Hilariously, that was one of the ideas I had... among others: everything from shotguns (when loaded with birdshot and fired upwards, the shot falls back to earth harmlessly), to FPV chase pilots, long endurance ISR and tracking to origin, or even getting the right people to the table that have faster drones.

All of these things are pretty simple, I'm sure with the right people in the room even better ideas would emerge.
This is not actually a contradicion, and the audience will decide whether the language will be used more widely. It's not my first priority, but there's nothing against it either. What you call "tradition" applies to my experiments with the Oberon Systems and the backward compatibility with their source code (for practical reasons, otherwise I would not be able to compile them), but my interest is actually in the language adapted for today's meaning of simplicity, which I call Oberon+ (or Luon, or Micron), and which would definitely have the potential for further adaptation if you look at what kinds of new languages are popular at the moment.
I think the achievements in the past couple of years are astonishing, bordering on magic.

Yet, confidently promising AGI/self-driving/mars landing in the next couple of years over and over when the confidence is not justified makes you a conman by definition.

If the number 3 means nothing and can become 7 or 17 or 170 why keep pulling these timelines out of their overconfident asses?

Did we completely solve robotics or prove a longstanding theorem in 2020? No. So we should lose confidence in their baseless predictions.
If you believe the dumbest propaganda the CIA and Mockingbird media could come up with, you could have that perspective and think you're reasonable.

But yeah, you sound vaccinated.
> I also disagree about the "beholder words"; to me "it was surprisingly low" means "I am drawing your attention to the fact that the low value surprised me" rather than "you need to be surprised by the low value".

I agree with your interpretation, but here the issue is that "beholder words" don't give the reader the information necessary for them to make their own judgment. Readers are left thinking "ok, but how low is 'surprisingly low?'" Writers should tell the reader the exact number, saying "surprisingly" communicates nothing because it's relative.
A slap on the wrist. After a half million Americans have died from a crisis they helped kickstart, they should be facing criminal charges and jail time. The rich and powerful once again are allowed to buy their freedom.
Records, arrays and hashmaps are structured types; in contrast to original Oberon, Luon has no pointer type, but reference semantics instead.
“Commoditize you complement” may be a good way of framing it. Consider that if OpenAI succeeds dramatically and is the only game in town, they could extract huge rents for anyone using their service. So it’s in other companies interests (or anyone who wants to use AI) that the AI ecosystem have lots of competition to keep prices low.
You might be interested in https://www.givedirectly.org/
Congress Must Pass KOSA by Christmas. The Only Obstacle Meta's Influence
I understand why you're getting downvoted but I also am in some form of agreement with the sentiment/hope they don't lose sight that they are pretty much keeping the dream of the consumer UNIX vendor alive.
Amazing project!

I get the appeal to write an IDE from scratch, especially if you are already an expert in writing GUIs with your framework of choice! I wonder if it would make more sense to spend that time writing a language server protocol daemon. That way, you could make your language available in any IDEs your users like that support LSP.
And you know a week before the semester, the TA’s were given given a copy and told to figure it out.
Understanding Effect.js
Lucid CEO hints at EV partnerships with 'a couple' of auto companies
So called "post-exploit" mitigations are practically always only hardening, i.e. making subsequent attacks harder (and fewer). Ideally much harder. But if you want an absolutely, provably (within limits, i.e. halting problem etc.) secure system, you have to eliminate bugs that can lead to any exploitable situations beforehand. In this case for example, that would mean no situation existing that could cause a buffer overflow in the first place. Memory-safe languages help for this case.

Obviously this is hard, so post-exploit mitigations will likely continue to still make things harder for attackers for quite a while at least.
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Two resources which helped me improving my writing, when I was writing my thesis were "How to Write Mathematics" by Paul R. Halmos and "Mathematical Writing" by Donald E. Knuth et al.
I would always start with Halmos to get into the spirit of perusing clear and precise communication.
The "Bad/Better/OK" suggestions especially reminded me of the discussions in the lecture notes from Knuth et al.
And at a third step a linter such as the proposed one is probably helpful, if something slips through.

I think these resources are essential for anyone who writes on any subject which at least involves definitions here and there.
really depends on the kind of AI. If I said I shipped a AI-genned game 5x faster , then people would indeed compare it to NFTs.
Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls?
Then there's no more point to keeping that leverage, is there? Might as well make it freely available.
At this point that just means tracking everyone, which is as good as tracking no one at all.
You still release it?
I’ve only been under twice: did a colonoscopy and for wisdom teeth removal. In both cases, it was simply finding a vein on my arm and I was out cold pretty quickly with a weird gap in memory when I came back. It didn’t sound like taking a risk, at least as it was sold to me.
> exceptions don't provide any benefit over simply returning NULL.

Sure they do - they don't negatively impact the non-error case and don't pollute every function's return value.
Having done fairly extensive parsing work in Lua and Julia on the one hand (one-based), and Python, Javascript, and Zig on the other (zero-based), the zero-based semiopen standard makes intervals dramatically easier to calculate and work with. It's really the semiopen intervals which make this the case, but as the Word of Dijkstra makes clear, zero-basis comes along for the ride, to combine semiopen intervals with a one-basis is perverse.

Naturally it's true that for collections and naïve indexing, 1-based is more natural. But those are rare places for bugs to occur, while interval calculations are a frequent place for them to occur.

Clearly I'm far from allergic to the other standard, but I come down on the side of the zero basis for that reason.
Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable
Does it? I zoomed in on my phone as far as it would go, and could still barely tell the difference. Unfortunately the difference in hue makes it harder to tell if there's any actual difference, because it swamps everything else.

Since they claim a more-than-doubling of visibility depth over SoTA, I'm surprised they didn't pick a visual that demonstrates that quite radical improvement, over the apparently marginal improvement in resolution at depths which can already be managed.
It is not fun being broke, exhausted and having little time to prepare a meal before you drop from exhaustion then do it again the next day. Hoping might get something edible is not fun. You just want something that isnt boiled shoe leather and is inexpensive. If you were not born into a life where people taught you to cook I can assure you learning to cook decent meals on your own is not fun in any way.

This "Fun experimental cooking" is a very,very privileged thing.
I think this is awesome, providing a combination of a lot of tools that people already spend time combining themselves!