skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it's much more expensive to do so, so that won't happen.

It's the exact same story for any other subsidized technology at the beginning. If it were already cost competitive then the switch would likely already have happened. One of the common arguments against electric cars used to be that you were still burning coal or natural gas at the end of the day.

The technology hasn't remained static either. I barely follow hydrogen stuff but I recall there were several notable advancements in catalysis from various precursors over the past several years.

It's exactly the sort of medium to long term gamble that it makes sense for a government to invest in but likely doesn't for a corporation on its own.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I actually addressed many of the points you raised in the conclusions section of my article. I acknowledged the limitations of analyzing a chess match purely through numerical metrics. However, I still believe that looking at the match through this analytical lens offers a valuable perspective, complementing other types of analysis, such as commentary from players and bloggers. It provides a unique angle that, while imperfect, can uncover insights that might otherwise be overlooked. Ultimately, I see this as an additional tool in understanding the match, rather than a replacement for more traditional forms of analysis.
They told them they'll cut spending. They intend to eliminate social security and medicare that most of those who voted for him depend on. Additionally, they want to remove regulation and regulatory bodies that protect consumers from corporations.
From my experience this is not the case. If you error out 7 functions deep and only return the original error there's no chance you're figuring out where it happened. Adding context on several levels is basically a simplified stack trace which lets you quickly find the source of the error.
Nanowar of Steel – HelloWorld.java (Source Code Video)
Yes, it's really not ideal. But I'm seeing around half of that size (~23MB instead of 46).

I've just opened an issue in case the author want to look into it. I got them to ~10MB total which is an improvement in any case.
Then you might think they'd be scared of handing over the keys to their company to an inscrutable AI working towards OpenAI's goals, but I guess the money is too good.
This is correct and even image generation models aren't really trained for comprehension of image composition yet.

Even the models based off danbooru and E621 still aren't the best at that. And us furries like to tag art in detail.

The best we can really do at the moment is regional prompting, perhaps they need something similar for video.
Bitcoin revolutionized financial systems with its decentralized structure, enabling peer-to-peer transactions without reliance on central authorities like banks. Its key innovation was solving the "double-spend" problem, ensuring accurate transaction records in a trustless environment.

Comparison to Alternative Consensus Mechanisms:
Proof-of-Stake (PoS) reduces energy usage but centralizes mining power due to economic disparities, creating risks such as regulatory vulnerabilities and loss of decentralization.

Future Directions:
The article hints at developing a new cryptocurrency aimed at enhancing utility and adaptability, with a focus on enabling AI agent interoperability, addressing Bitcoin's design shortcomings.

More details: https://medium.com/@evadawnley/proof-of-work-is-actually-bit...
The Saturn Vs were built by private contractors, as were the Shuttles. What changed is those contractors got fat and lazy off the cost-plus contracts and lost their will to get shit done on time. Fixing those contractors is probably impossible, those companies are addicted to inefficiency as surely as junkies to heroin. Rather they simply need to be replaced by new contractors, ideally under fixed-price contracts, that presently have a demonstrable ability to get shit done. And should they ever lose their edge, they need to be cut loose and replaced again. Ruthlessly excising inefficient contractors despite their heritage and legacy, rather than keeping them around to keep senators happy, is how you keep capabilities.
Mamba (Transformer Alternative): The Future of LLMs?
"bash in macos" is limited to 3.2.57, a 2007-ish release back when bash wasn't GPL3 licensed. I am more surprised to think that people still use that and think it is evergreen.
The actual results in papers like these (both the paper in question and the ones you refer to) are typically of the form: "We sequenced these genomes. Then we took the noisy data, made a lot of assumptions, and applied statistical magic to estimate that the populations split approximately X generations ago. We interpret that as Y years ago." Everything beyond that is interpretation, not the result.

Such results are inherently noisy and subject to assumptions. The further back in history you go, the less accurate and reliable the results will be. Ancient DNA comes with its own issues and assumptions, but it helps with the accuracy of the results. Instead of trying to infer something that happened thousands of generations ago, you may now be only hundreds or even tens of generations from the split.

The clearest way forward would be sequencing Aboriginal Australian DNA from tens of thousands of years ago. Then you could get a more accurate estimate for the split between that population and other sequenced ancient populations.
Lunar Journal: Tiny C Binaries
> I think it could have been a hit.

I have written about this in some depth, and it should be published on the Register at Yule. Can't link to it as it's not up yet.

Yes, it could have been a hit -- if IBM had grasped the nettle firmly and made OS/2 1.x a 386-native OS.

After OS/2 1.x flopped, it was too late. IMHO.
Vole hunting: predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels
For a waxing moon the circular arc is on the right hand side and for a waning moon the circular arc is on the left hand side [Here in the Northern Hemisphere].
It would have been nice if the mnemonics Decreasing & Cresting worked but they don't. I personally use Developing & Collapsing to refer, respectively, to the waxing and waning moon. Has anyone a better couple of words than these?
Lunar Journal: RF Circuit and Power Amplifier Design Basics
Speaking as a participant in a number of somewhat "modern" Christian traditions, I think one factor is that we have changed quite a lot and then some strands of the faith have decided to go back into the past and seek what we lost from the early days. One example being certain rock'n'roll churches where people stick their hands up in the air while singing and praying: I heard one pastor defend this as being "this is not a new form of prayer, this is what Jewish people were doing hundreds/thousands of years ago and now we're bringing it back". (See the rather-ancient Book of Exodus, for example. No electric guitars or drum kits there[0], but Moses is definitely described as holding his hands up in prayer, sometimes with the help of Joshua when his arms got tired).

[0] though I'm afraid to admit there is at least one actual tambourine...
A) also true that many people don't put a lot of thought into very much at all. They'd never consider actively thinking if a video is fake or not. These are the targets of short form content.
Agrivoltaics for sustainable food, energy and water management
Before 2022, that would have been series B material.
I haven't read more than the abstract of this particular paper, but it is expected that training behaves differently with/without adam.

The problem with adam is that it keeps one more statistic (the same size as the model parameters) in memory. It also adds a little computation.

The way to deal with it otherwise is to tune the momentum-parameters and clip/limit the gradient in various ways.
Ah, much simpler than I anticipated. Thank you for sharing
ERACAN: Defending Against an Emerging CAN Threat Model
Theres a little feedback widget in the bottom right corner, would love for you all to provide feedback if you have ideas/suggestions positive and negative.

(disclaimer: Feedback service is also created by me)
Simply having to maintain one or more ships (continuous expense, year round, year after year), to fish those tubes out of the ocean (once every few years) almost certainly ate up any cost savings they could possibly get from refurbing the tubes.
A good summary of the state of things. It's great to see the penny
dropping for more people, and the different ways they each have of
expressing that epiphany.

A couple of thoughts/criticisms:

"The Rot Economy" and "Enshitification" are different approaches to
describing terminal (self-devouring) stages of Capitalism which are
thoroughly examined in political sciences (eg. Marx, Sombart). We
have definitely entered that stage and things are accelerating far
beyond expectations. That road-map is valuable and I wish more people
had it in their toolbox of ideas/vocabulary.

> "it’s time to start holding those responsible accountable."

I disagree with this scapegoating. We are responsible. We are all
personally responsible. I am. You are. And never before in history
have we had so much power to exercise that responsibility.

I'm writing an extended series on this. If you're interested it starts
here:

https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/25/Technology_rights_or_res...
That is blatant foreign interference in UK politics.

The political finance rules need to be tightened up:

https://www.transparency.org.uk/report-new-research-reveals-...
> That’s the paradox of the man and probably the reason personal notes will indubitably be checked before being published: for someone who fought so hard against Nazism, he was strangely comfortable with casual racism and silent about the atrocities of the Algerian war

That's why it's hard to judge past personalities with our modern standards. Go read what Jules Ferry or Victor Hugo said about colonies, they both were very engaged and vocal about human/civil rights yet they said the most insanely racist things, I don't think any known public figure alive today said anything remotely as racist as them.
Why call it tokens instead of variables?
so is anyone actually using it?
I'm shocked that I had to dig this deep in the comments to see someone mention cybersecurity.
Same as you, seeing this trend, I'm doubling down on security. As more businesses "hack away" their projects. It's going to be a big party. I'm sure black hats are thrilled right now.
Will LLMs be able to secure their code? I'm not so sure. Even human-written code is exploitable. That's their source for training.
Some of the latin text is on the Wikipedia page [1]. Hopefully it will be updated to include more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_silver_inscription
An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014)
But in general IRC is not really archived etc? So just as throw-away as Discord imo.
Super easy for humans to get around - much better than a forest. If you have canoes, fishtraps, fire and portable shelters as technology then a pretty good environment to live in as well. I should imagine that over a period of time people will have simply colonised the whole area and then colonised over into NA rather than migrating to follow game or for some other reason.
You don't even need a plugin: I have been using a setup with parametrized tests and `runpy` for a while [0]. Works especially well if you use jupytext[1] for just storing the input part of the notebook as a python script -- which is good for version control sanity in any case.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56813896/212538
[1]: https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
My wife is Messianic Jewish, where the primary intent is to restore Jewish traditions and beliefs while still believing in Jesus/Yeshua ("Jesus" being essentially a mispronunciation; the westernized version of the name would more accurately be "Joshua"). Personally my beliefs lie elsewhere, but it's still unfortunate that "denomination" is still such a tiny minority, given its desire to be a purer form of the religion.
It is actually quite amazing how well the idea of reusable components works for Dear ImGui which doesn't have any obvious 'extension points' for components built into the API. Instead components are just regular functions which compose higher level UI widgets from builtin widgets and maybe dropping down into the ImDrawList renderer (which is also used by the builtin widgets to draw themselves).

And just like integrating Dear ImGui itself, integrating a component is just dropping a couple of source files into your project.
Just going to leave us hanging and not share your forbidden knowledge?
I was a kid living in Botswana when Halley passed earth.

We watched it every night through binoculars.

Marvelous clean air - humidity around 0%, just some dust. No light pollution (there wasn't an electricity grid in some 100km around, just a handful of small diesel aggregates).

The binoculars were more than enough to see the comet, its tail. And even get a feeling of the tail arcing in three dimensions.
Huxley and Heinlein were born only 13 years apart, so now, over a century later, maybe we can lump them into, if not the same generation, at least the same Zeitgeist.

Somewhere I'd read about a fighting-game AI which had access to all of the human player data (so not the spirit, but knowing the joystick inputs would be a good proxy for "pwn the technique") and was unbeatable, so the programmers nerfed it by giving it only a noisy representation of the human player's avatar's outputs, at which point it returned to satisfyingly mortal.

Doesn't 三体 touch upon (sophons/wallfacers) a watch-from-inside/behind opponent?

Tech debt as sophistication would explain its sign flip over time! It also gives a metaphor perhaps better than "paying off tech debt": it's good if a program is a bit witty, but bad when it starts smelling of the lamp?

> "In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble." —AJP

EDIT: Re: [-1,4] Just as implication allows only 3 possibilities out of 4, my wife likes to say (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42329631 ) that when riding, there should be 2 bodies but 3 minds: what you know, what the horse knows you know, and what you know the horse knows. The rider should have an accurate model of the horse's attention and intentions, but not the other way around. (in particular, you might be very worried about an emergency situation, but the horse should never realise this) I believe this habit helped her with her fencing, because there also we are attempting to hide some aspects of our attention and intentions from someone who is very closely monitoring our posture, in order to discern them.

EDIT2: just as a prelude to a comment on distance: napoleonic sabre cavalry was terrified of an opponent coming up from behind left (strong to their weak) — that's why all the dashing portraits with jackets/cloaks "jauntily" thrown over the left shoulder; ultimately the fashion was very practical, both for defence and for impressing the ladies. Lermontov's karakul nabadi is a particular instance.

Налетели ветры злые.
Да с восточной стороны
И сорвали тёмну шапку
Ой да с моей буйной головы.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urjAwPfFPqU
You can hire people into consultancy business and grow it like any other business. Sure it won't become the next magnificent seven, but you can grow it enough that you can make a lot of money.

For example, there exist plenty of consultancy companies that have 10million revenue. That would be 20x growth for us. In practice that would mean 500k - 1m yearly income for founders in our case. On top of that the company probably could be sold for 30m - 100m.

With typical vc dilution founders need to grow a very successful product company to earn similar amounts of money. There are plenty of examples of unicorn exits where the founder team has made less.
> It sounds like a config dictionary with a continuous pipeline and good integration into design tools to me.

I wish you were responsible for writing the article. This is a much better explanation.
> outsource everything that I either hadn't gotten to yet, or that I didn't want to get to, to DOS.

Good plan.

I think I wrote, circa 2000, that BeOS was the best PC OS I'd ever seen by far -- but the critical lack of apps was a deal-breaker. But if it had a DOS shell, I could still in 1999-2000 have done all my actual work in DOS apps, and just used native BeOS for Internet stuff. But it never got a DOSbox.
Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit Gets a "Super" Boost
1) Asian where? Asia spans from Japan to Turkey.

2) The weather is definitely a big factor. The cold, some of the highest amount of snow fall in the world, strong winds, and houses without insulation make for a poor combination. It is so nasty that even the colleagues from Northern Europe were complaining. But it doesn't matter if you like or not; what matters is if the average Japanese person likes it, and they don't. When I travel around Japan and tell people where I live, they are always shocked and ask me what am I doing in such a cold place.
Could you not instead of using one nmap process to scan 200+ addresses, just instead initiate 200+ nmap processes scanning just one IP.

Still effectively hits your spoofing system but now they bring their time back down to what it would take to scan a single IP address.

I'm sure there are many other ways around this but like all security it's merely a case of making it difficult enough that an attacker would need serious incentive to make the attack.
Research shows £1 in every £10 of political donations comes from unknown sources
> Ask Sisyphus.

that doesn't make any sense.
Vague generalizations mean nothing.
Also here's another prediction from the esteemable Krugman:-

"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants—becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”
I use this in a project, but it's more like a source code editor:

https://github.com/BalazsJako/ImGuiColorTextEdit

'Rich' text editing might hit limitations with Dear ImGui's text rendering (e.g. not sure if things like italics, bold or strikethrough are supported out of the box).
Have you followed the situation at all? Activists have been constantly screaming about censorship and sometimes unjustified bans on Facebook and co. since last year. [1] is just one of the dozens/hundreds of reports/accusations you can read. Sure you can post, doesn’t mean your content will be shown to others, and sometimes you literally can’t post or they ban your account if you’re influential.

Oh and this is BBC saying Facebook censors Palestinian news outlets, from earlier today.[2]

Of course Facebook isn’t as stupid as banning all posts that remotely smells like supporting Palestine, so you can still find a lot of that if you bothered to look. Politicians were saying even that is fanned by people finding unfiltered stuff on TikTok.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c786wlxz4jgo
The Shuttle program never properly calculated their risk in the first place because NASA admins preferred happy fiction. Only after Challenger broke up and slammed six professional astronauts and a school teacher into the ocean were the NASA admins forced to face realistic risk figures for the program.

Today, NASA as an institution has learned nothing from it. Their heat shield for Orion is defective and they tried to cover it up instead of admitting the problem. They're still proceeding under the assumption that they can simply ignore the hear shield not performing as designed if they use a different reentry profile, which they intend to do without first testing this theory.
Er, to be clear, this just seems to be an interpreter -- not a meta circular interpreter. I don't see any evidence that it is able to evaluate its own definitions or its own API. It doesn't have any tools to handle class definitions, object instantiation, or method invocation, so I'm not sure by what definition of "meta circular" this interpreter fits.

Not trying to knock the project. Very cool code! Just don't understand how it qualifies as a "meta circular".
They don't, no billionaire can put you in jail for believing/saying something different that they want you to believe.

And let me get this straight, you think that having an institution that legislates the truth is protection against billionaires usurping that power? Who has the money to lobby those institutions to do their bidding? Me and you or the billionaire?
Discussion (56 points, 19 hours ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442107
>> People bitch about checked exceptions

> they predate Java, having made an appearance in CLU, Modula-3 and C++

Checked exceptions in C++? Can you force/require the call chain to catch an exception in C++? At compile time?
Me too. Sometimes in big concerts I can't help but think about what would the avg roman say if he would just appear here?

"Wow so many lights" is the first answer I can think about right away
Discussion (56 points, 19 hours ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442107

.. and dupe of your other submission (+-1 minute) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449440
The Romanian supreme court just decided to block the presidential elections. They might have had reasons, but they definitely didn't have the mandate, yet they decided it nevertheless and because they are supreme nobody can challenge them. I'm sure the US supreme court (and more) is warming up to this concept.
Thanks anal reactor!
Isn't any translation a product of the language norms of the translator, as opposed to a pure translation?

I know when I read Spanish, I have to mentally convert the order of words to what makes sense in English (for example, "Thanksgiving" in Spanish would be "Day of Action of Thanks" if translated directly).
Love the write-up on this topic, very easy to follow and makes me want to benchmark and optimize some of my ruby code now. Thanks for putting in the effort and also writing the post, byroot!
Any specific binoculars you can recommend?
The Alhambra's Medieval Water System
Yeah, naked eye, although with a 6” telescope, I’d expect it to be a bit fainter - certainly that is the case through my 9.25” scope. I can often see a band in its rings.

It also depends a lot on atmospherics, if there is a lot of turbulence in the atmosphere it makes things less crisp (well, “dancey”, like looking through a heat haze.)

Look up your local astronomy group and go along one night, and see for yourself before buying anything. Saturn isn’t great at the moment (assuming London-ish latitudes) but Jupiter is around all night and you should be able to see it through a variety of scopes and eyepieces if you went along to a sky party.

Honestly, the first time I saw Saturn through a telescope I nearly cried. Truly amazing.
Follow the Hackers
> classical bank-switched 16-bit CPU's of the 1970's, like the Zilog Z80, Motorola 68000, or MOS 6502.

Hang on a cotton-pickin' minute.

This is mixing up 3 different things.

1. 6502 and Z80 were 8-bit, not 16-bit.

2. 68000 is a 1970s chip but it doesn't belong in there with those 2. Its peers were the 65816 and maybe the Z800. The one that would belong was the 6800 or 6809.

3. 6502 and Z80 were both used in machines with bank-switching, but the CPUs themselves couldn't do it. They needed the chipset to do that, and the early 8-bit micros didn't have that, so their 16-bit address bus limited them to 2^16 bytes of RAM: 65535 bytes, meaning 64kB.

I think part of the brilliance of the 8088/8086 was that it brought the bank-switching logic on board and into the instruction set, so it was in some ways a sort of 8-bit chip that could natively handle 1MB of memory space... clumsily, via 16 separate 64kB blocks, but what mattered is that it could do it at all.