skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not just type 3.1E7 instead of the weird up arrow?

Every software calculator I could think of to try understands this notation, it's easy to say and copy-paste, and the unit is clear from the context the original number is in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E54YtvmRKAM
Is there a metric I can look at in engine evaluations to determine when a situation is "risky" for white or black (e.g., the situation above) even if it looks equal with perfect play?

I've always been interested in understanding situations where this is the case (and the opposite, where the engine favours one side but it seems to require a long, hard-to-find sequence of moves.

Playing out the top lines helps if equality requires perfect play from one side.
Regarding internal compiler errors, I still hit on in MSVC every other month, and that's a compiler that has been in production for many decades at this point.

But as I said to him, did he file an issue and when was this? Because it was probably fixed by now, and if not, we'll try to fix it straightaway.
I saw in movies how they shoot a tracking device from some gun or rifle. Was that sci-fi? Are modern technologies not advanced enough to do something like that? Can we slingshot a chewed up bubblegum and an Apple's AirTag at it?
I've wanted this for years
>senator called for a ban on all drones until the mystery is solved

Wouldn't this only maybe prevent the mystery from being solved? By preventing further sightings?
Ugh. You're investing in this, but it disenfranchises the people that are investing in you. Well. Unless you'd like to admit that your income is pure fantasy, which it is.
You go take that smartphone of yours and try and take a high quality video of just an airliner at night. Its not easy at all. Even in daylight this is like a 35mm lens on a tiny sensor its not the hardware you need to crop out a speck from the sky and show the world what it is. You really need a lens thats about the size of your calf and the sort of camera that goes along with that. And probably a tripod. Not something many have handy.
Ask HN: Are there any programming languages that are completely extinct?
Just wondering if there any programming language that were once very popular but now dead. I do not mean less popular but not used at all. I guess once the programming language is popular enough to cross the inflection point, it will have a very slow "death" if at all. In other words, I think they will have a long tail decay but never completely gone. Any thoughts.
First of all, I have the greatest respect for the two individuals who played their hearts out in this event.

Personally, I'm on the side which thinks that this format is a total stagnation. Maybe the new no-increment under 40 moves is an improvement, but overall it does not count. I agree with Carlsen that the format has to be drastically changed to determine who is the better player. Much more games, shorter games. Fischer said a long time ago that chess is dead. Considering how deep some of the variations go into theoretical territory, I can surely relate. Magnus has also expressed that it's very hard to find novelties. I'm also totally on the side that Fischer Random (chess 960) has to be included in this tournament. I believe that ultimately it will happen - sooner or later. Magnus also said that he thinks that his match with Caruana was of extremely high quality - those 14 games were all draws. I totally understand why Magnus didn't want to defend his title. On the other hand I can't comprehend how FIDE let this happen because a lot of people don't think of current tournament as high as they maybe should be, just because Magnus is not participating. That's a shame. Not on Carlsen, not on chess. On FIDE.
Why put lights on the drones? Why not map during the day?
There will always be people who are frustrated about the environment that surrounds them.

But the more complex the world gets the harder it becomes to shape the environment.

The best move ambitious people can make is to move to environments that meet their needs. This is what ambitious people through out history across the planet have always done.
It's not even the big guys.

I'm a one-dude-in-the-basement freelancer and about 5 years ago I was asked to build a device that would measure a slowly changing signal and use it to modulate a 5kHz input, and generate a differential, bipolar output. Basically, read the position feedback on a machine tool and generate output that looked like a resolver.

I did it half in code, half in hardware. The hardware was pricy, but it was the easiest way to get it done in low quantity.

Fast forward a couple years and it's now cheap enough to do 90% of all of that in code. I could probably cut my BOM by 60%, but at low production volumes there's no compelling reason to redesign the system. So, for as long as my customer wants these, I'll build them exactly the same way.
It only allows sign-up with Google. No thank you :(
Look, you’re taking my response out of context. I’m just stating that the reason Hilbert failed is not that he didn’t have a computer. Lean devs aren’t trying to do what Hilbert was.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/12/11/immer... announced very recently
My intuition is that factory inspections should be self-funding, either via tax/fee levies on manufacturers or via fines on factories which fail inspections. How is there a shortage of inspectors?

Does FDA not have the authority to fine factories which fail inspections?

I have also heard that getting a factory certified as clean for GMP is a huge process. How are foreign factories entering the market if they have never been inspected?
>In some cases, the runtime being padded with filler was less about cashing in and more about trying to not catch up to the manga too quickly.

Right, so rather than stopping production on the anime until the manga had time to get ahead, most anime created filler to cash in on the popularity of the ongoing manga, rather than to try to make the most faithful adaptation. Nowadays it's more common for anime to halt production and release a follow-up season years later when the manga has gotten farther ahead.
There is some perf-per-Watt data in there plus my other Battlemage Linux review out today. I'll also have more data in another article Friday~Monday.
Let's wait and see if apps will be 30% cheaper on Meta's store.
> You're trying to solve a $5M problem for $1M, so you're going to push people to make poor choices that don't actually address your problem

...you push people to only solve the actual problem.

This is a very strange take to enshrine as advice. If you try to solve a 50$ problem for $5k you're out ~$5k and the next project will cost $7k
Some of the mockups here look eerily like those from Google Glass. Somehow I doubt walking around with head mounted cameras beaming everything to the cloud is suddenly going to become OK, though there is definitely a generational shift on that.
So about this:

https://github.com/croian/mouseless-issues/blob/main/mousele...

You at no point explain why your application needs to interact with SSL in any fashion.

What's up with that?

The combination of giving elevated permission to control the host computer, with network interaction? That's a bad combination. Why are these things combined in your application?

Edit: this comes across more accusatory than I meant it. I do think that the section should have a complete explanation of why the program needs an SSL bypass on certain networks.
Do you want select account, implying the site supports multiple accounts at a time, or just prompt=login?

We're still shaking out bugs and bad behaviors after adding multi account on GitHub, I get why folks might not want to implement it.
I can't get over how much that Samsung headset is just "sure yeah copy my homework, just change a couple of things" version of Vision Pro.
Frequency Reduces Difficulty – Martin Fowler (2011)
> has been detected by our systems as being spammy, fake, or inauthentic

The guy wants so badly to have been canceled because his seemingly right wing politics, but honestly, I suspect someone reported him as being an imposter and it probably wasn't obvious to the moderation team that he wasn't.
I maintain that "100x better" is an understatement for teflon eggs vs eggs fried in butter.

Also, there's almost never a good reason to be so extremely strict about fat consumption that 5ml or 10ml or 15ml is a problem, especially if you're eating eggs in the first place. If your diet is that strict, boil the egg. The old studies linking fat to heart disease are complete bunk.
Agree about the rarity of trackpoints. One manufacture of those is TEX (Shinobi, Yoda), always wanted to try one out. Still waiting for someone to make a custom keyboard in an Alice (or similar) style with a trackpoint; that way you could have a trackpoint but also use standard MX keycap sets. The TEX ones would involve carving into the G, H, and B keys.
Rethinking Testing for AI Products: Evals in Perspective
Chess engines should come with another metric bar: "The twitchy-ness" of the position aka the gradient of primary eval metric as you pareto the possible moves from best to worst. The stronger this gradient, the more risky it is to play, and more changes to make a mistake.
The similarities with Vision OS are insane.
The nice thing about being a nobody: all unsolicited emails are spam by definition.
When you’re programming it’s an open book exam where the opponent is reality. You have all sorts of resources available to you and even the computer itself can help you find problems in your solution and you generally have as much time as you need.

Chess is a closed book exam where your opponent is another human and you have a fixed amount of time to answer questions and managing that is as as important as asking and answering questions. The question asked is who prepared better and who understands the game better and playing the man is a better strategy typically than playing reality (ie they often make suboptimal moves to try to screw up preparation ideas).

Different kinds of taxation but programming would generally be easier because there’s not as much pressure.
Glass shards can also be very sharp.
I'm sure you could, but the things I mentioned are culturally American, as is the lawsuit.
Press release: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-close...

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42397943
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They made another review, but with games, in the morning [1], it is linked in the page. You can find plenty of data and charts about power consumption and yes, it seems they are NOT power efficient.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-graphics-linu...
True but glass is very much "outside the body only". Don't want shards in your gut.
it's still >0, so it's just less bad not that it's not bad.

At least they corrected it instead of just letting it linger out there
That question contains so many false or unnecessary assumptions that it would take far longer to unpack them than it took you to type them, so I will limit myself to the observation that we do not even remotely confine ourselves to first order anything in computer science, nor should we.
It's 100% possible to become a master starting as an adult, but it requires a certain sort of person - you're looking at thousands upon thousands of hours of difficult work paired alongside endless frustrations, obstacles, seriously low emotional lows the game can cause (think about how Ding feels right now, even if it wasn't a game for the title), and more.

The idea of becoming a master, especially as an adult, is far more appealing than the reality of it for most people.
The FDA is chronically short on inspectors. Eyebrows shouldn't be raised over the fact that they haven't inspected any particular place -no matter how "know to be problematic"- but that they've been able to perform inspections at all given that the US government is not interested in funding the FDA, and it's only going to get worse over the next 4 years.
Agree with your point. Old man will now yell at cloud:

Whoever came up with the modern definition of "agoraphobia" has failed to define the term. "Fear of places and situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment." Is there any other kind of fear? The word is so broadly inclusive as to have little meaning.

ἀγορά (agora) – assembly, especially an assembly of the people; the place of assembly; speech; market, marketplace [1]

φόβος (phobos) – fear, terror, alarm, fright, panic [2]

Agoraphobia seems straightforwardly to mean "fear of public spaces and interactions." A person might say that etymology is not definition, but if you look at the most common examples of agoraphobia, this is exactly what's being described. [3]

We need to stop being so "inclusive" in our definitions! The purpose of a definition is to make something finite, i.e., to circumscribe its boundaries in order to enable clear thinking about that specific term. Broad definitions harm critical thinking.

1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%81%C...

2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%86%CF%8C%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%8...

3. https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/agoraphobia/over...
Not focus issues. Set to infinity it will be fine. But shutter speed issues certainly. When people take sharp photographs at night they generally aren’t handholding a camera and shooting a moving subject. And if they are they are close enough to use flash.
Honestly there's no point in Android XR.

We can't trust Google to maintain even profitable endeavours past a couple years.

And an investment in AR/VR hardware and software is likely over a decade long initiative.

IMO They're already showing there weak amount of determination by making this a partnership out of the gate.

Thats a bag of misaligned incentives, diluted returns and 2x as many execs who could kill the project.
Oh, I didn't realize that some people want some unsolicited advertisements. Am I an outlier for not wanting any?
Copilot gives me an error if I try to generate in image in Tim Burton's style, saying it is against their code of conduct like I asked it to give me ghost gun schematics or something instead of a picture of batman. Actually, Tim Burton just has money and has publicly come out against AI so he's off limits to steal from I guess.
I so deeply appreciate your time, thank you!

I figured out the issue: I transplanted the bit about setting optimization levels from the blogpost into my setup (which sets opt-level = 3 for all dependencies), and when I removed that, my compile times went down by a factor of 5-10!
Yea, I might do more in depth AI integration in the future. The hint function has been the most popular one in assassinating users learning how to solve the financial modeling problems. This platform is designed with the goal of assisting users in enhancing their practical skills in financial modeling.
I empathize. The first thing I did when I opened my eyes this morning was watch a recap of the game, since I knew something somewhere (social media, reddit, youtube, etc) would probably have a headline that would spoil it.
What? That's token to self, you don't even really need an access token there. What's the actual use case for an access token where the client and the resource are the same app? (I'm aware of some, but we didn't expect most folks would follow that flow)
It's a completely ridiculous notion that Europe should do what the US does, abandoning our social values will lead to a minimalization attitude which has led the US down the path of investing in 'cheaper' not better, foreign not local.
To the detriment of their local fabric.
We should strive to adopt the Swedish ethic.
Look, write however you like. Just don't be surprised when people aren't willing or able to crack your personal cipher. I'm not a perscriptivist, and I'm not calling for capital punishment. Heck, I didn't even point out the grammatical mistake in the first place, nor would I have. I'm just agreeing that it's not clear.

Maybe you are built differently from myself, but as is the case with multiple people here, it causes mental whiplash to punctuate a statement like "How it works" with a question mark. I have to go back and parse it again and wonder what the question is and what I got wrong before realizing that it's just a grammatical error. When that happens, it wears on the limited attention I have to look at the thing you want me to look at.

Fix it, don't fix it, it's no skin off my nose. Lord knows every blog post or HN comment I've ever written is bedazzled with errors and typos. I haven't taken the trouble to fix it. I don't, however, pretend that so long as it's as or more intelligible than a Russian Numbers Station that it's "understandable enough".

Also, I invite you to call me a "pedant" or even a "general dumbass" before calling me a Nazi of any sort. Nothing I've (ever) written has warranted me being labelled as such, and I deeply resent it.

https://www.kveller.com/why-we-need-to-stop-using-the-term-g...

https://theotherpress.ca/dont-be-a-grammar-nazi-but-dont-use...
Actually we implement it manually ourselves the exact same way that the extensions work. This is because we have to support multiple different versions of LLVM which don't have those extensions.
New FTC Data Show Skyrocketing Consumer Reports About Game-Like Online Job Scams
By the same definition every helicopter, plane, kid flying a drone, even car on the road is not “safe.”

It’s the same way I can call a system reliable when it is 3 9’s, but that doesn’t imply 100% guaranteed uptime. Or a statistician can reject a hypothesis that has a low enough p-value but still more than 0. Or how health systems and procedures are considered safe above a threshold, or how we consider condoms safe sex while understanding they are not 100% effective.

I’m finding it frustrating that when it comes to UFOs, people tend to isolate the most remote possibilities.
> I know one who opened a beauty salon in St Petersburg, grew that business, opened additional salons ...

I mean, it kinda just makes sense. If you're actually seeing them on a platform competing with countless others then they've demonstrated that they're at least good at marketing. They likely learned it themselves as well.
Of course it's based on tone. You repeatedly let users antagonize one other, until someone breaks guidelines, you advocated for a startup that was named "fucking awesome," after the concept that they were taking advantage of labor arbitrage, you seem to ignore the realities of mainstream sentiments when they are controversial in order to make your job as a message board janitor easier, and you pick and choose when to ignore hyperbole.

All a reader has to do is observe your behavior, and it's clear what kind of person you are. You make it obvious by your retelling of your personal judgement of my commentaries here. I didn't realize you were St. Peter, Dan.

So Dan, if you don't want people to think you're an asshole, don't be an asshole. But don't tell me Hacker News janitorial moderation isn't based on tone when the guidelines themselves dictate it.

You're bullshitting every reader here and you're showing every user that you're comfortable opening up your admin tools and regurgitating pinned comments without context to stick it to me, and any other reader who dares question your methodology.

Oh and by the way, thank you for privately downweighting my account and numerous other people's here when I had previously consistently been a top comment in a number of threads. When it was inconvenient for you and a comment had well over a hundred upvotes, it's so nice that you can hide behind moderation tools and just send that comment straight to the bottom of a thread.

Don't lie. I have what, hundreds? Thousands? Of comments here? You thought a single percent? A tenth of a percent? Were distasteful? I've been here for probably 15 years and yeah, you pick on people personally.

It's supportable, but unlike what moderation tools you have, Hacker News' codebase doesn't allow me to pin your comments unless I want them to end up in my general pool. And unlike you, I'm not paid a salary to pour over people's comments online.

Don't do this. You do this bad faith stuff all the time and have for years. Don't lie to me and everyone else by saying sorry and then acting like an asshole the next few sentences. Oh whoops. Sorry, didn't mean to pick on you. Then reading off everything you can.

Really? You think people are that stupid?
Liquid-state electronic devices, including electrolyte.

Not like solid-state silicon crystals and stuff.

Also not completely incapable of doing some of the same things.

It's light-emitting, it's a diode, it's an LED :)
I'll believe it when I see it, because the FCC is about to loose all of its power.
It turns out this wasn't my issue (more on this on other threads here), but I genuinely appreciate your time and help.
Yes and no.

It increases the number of "VLP" channels.

6GHz has 3 modes of operation:

1) VLP: can now happen in 1200 MHz (5925 MHz to 7125 MHz); previously it was only 850 MHz.

Very Low Power: 25 mW (14 dBm) power.. with -5 dBm/MHz PSD, indoor and outdoor usage.

Think of short range use-cases like smartphone to laptop or smartphone to earbuds/ARVR.

2) LPI: already allowed in full 1200 MHz

Low Power Indoor: 1W (30 dBm) power with 5 dBm/MHz PSD (clients are 6 dB lower); only indoor usage.

Think of your home router.

3) SP: allowed in 850 MHz; no plan to expand AFAIK

Standard Power: 4W (36 dBm) power with 23 dBm/MHz PSD (clients are 6 dB lower); indoor or outdoor usage.

Requires Aautomated Frequency Coordination; send your location to cloud, cloud tell you which channels area available.

Think of enterprise or high power routers; outdoor point to point links (WISP)

So, this new regulation is only for VLP and will result in more (especially 320 MHz) channels. No change to the most common usage of Wi-Fi (Router to Laptop/PC).
I don't think many citizen science projects credit the citizen contributors on the resulting paper(s), do they? The only few that I have contributed to did not, but I'm not super familiar with what the norm is.

I think being a student and seeing your name on the resulting paper is a big part of the encouragement and excitement.
"civilian areas for weeks at a time making damned sure thousands of people can get photographs and turn it into a national story" was not an extraneous part of my quote. This is not just "not answering questions", this is rubbing it everyone's face, this is running around in the airport shrieking about their secret airplanes and making sure everyone notices them and then telling everyone "oh, but no, those aren't ours what on Earth could they possibly be??!?". This is not how they do things, which your post reinforces, not contradicts. Tell me when anything your wife did ended up on the national news for days at a time like this.
Not all people do have an inner monolog when reading, called subvocalization. Subvocalization is when you are basically reading to yourself inside your head, sounding out each word. It is one of the most common reasons for slow reading speed. Most people do not “need” to subvocalize and can train themselves to process the visual text directly, instead of first converting it to “auditory” information.

I found this out a few years ago and I was shocked that the way I read wasn’t universal. I have since been practicing reducing/eliminating subvocalization and I am getting better, and it allows me to increase my reading speed significantly. It also serves as an excellent example of how different our internal mental processes can be, and how completely unaware we are that there could be any other way to think than our own.
All hug boxes are doomed to failure. This is just the latest iteration.
This ignores the question how hard it is for a human to find the best (or a "good enough") move. It's easy to find games with 10 "only move" 's in a row where even a beginner could easily have played all if them.
Congratulations Gukesh! Amazing run, truly living a dream.