skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desktop-Based Voice Control with Gemini 2.0 Flash
Just installed it now. I think it's missing the '2 spaces for period-and-space' feature but it seems pretty nice other than that! (I guess that makes sense for a programming keyboard though.)
So if he adds more salesmen, he needs less domains? ))
now I can use this and try to be like this guy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42374823
Here's hoping, WordPress, the software will be spared in this corporate vs corporate.
Heh, well, I'll take that as a vote for prioritizing that feature. :) (It's in our tracker already: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter/issues/419)
I think they were particularly beneficial in some workloads for optane persistent memory
Well, they experienced extended physical suffering and having the mental acuity of a toddler. Feel free to try to convince me that not being able to recognise your own kids and the person you have been married with for seventy years while gradually fully losing your hearing and sight and not being able to leave a bed is somehow a worthy experience. I personally question if you can even talk of experiencing anything because that would imply there is something left which can meaningfully process experiences. And that’s the part which came after the initial decline when they were just insanely mean to their loved ones all the time.

You do sound harsh by the way.
(I’m not op) The full quote is

> At the end, while technically alive, so little of who they were as persons remained, they might as well have been dead.

It sounds like there was some severe mental decline. When undergoing this kind of mental decline, does anybody remain happy? That’s meant as a genuine question, not rhetorical. Of course I’ve heard of the cases where people are constantly scared, feel unsafe, confused, etc. But I wonder if there are more peaceful examples that just make “boring” stories, and aren’t recounted.
Thank you, maybe :)
Off the cuff, I remember https://www.forbes.com/sites/torconstantino/2024/09/12/77-of...

I thought there was also a report from one of the big consultancy firms but I need to search for that.
GPU Glossary
I wasn't referring to eligible voters, I was referring to the voters who cast votes in the election under discussion.
I'm so glad to hear that. We were able to have some closure as well, similarly... it was a comfort...
Thanks for posting this! one of my fav albums of ALL time. <3

Growing up in a developing country, where rock music wasn't really the preferred or even the available kind, _The Wall_ was foundational to me as a young teen and in early college years. The angst, the lyrics, the music - I drank heavy doses of Pink Floyd with whatever was available (bootleg cassette tapes, mostly, listened to on portable tape players and boomboxes). Much later did I learn that the original PF foursome had disbanded even before I started listening to them. That was a crushing blow :-( Those were the pre pre-Internet days.

I still listen to PF today, roughly 30+ years after I first heard them. And still find new nuances that I eluded my initial thousand listens.

Thanks for posting this <3 You've made at least one person nostalgic. And happy.
Government touts AI – and outsources risks and societal costs
We have a "system" that I have to support that is used here in a Higher Education institution. It's relatively cheap for EDU pricing.
> Li: My lame example is if I have a flat tire on the highway, what do I do? Right now, I open a “how to change a tire” video. But if I could put on glasses and see what’s going on with my car and then be guided through that process, that would be cool. But that’s a lame example. You can think about cooking, you can think about sculpting—fun things.

Kind of wild that the new Google AI demo app basically already does this. It's hard to even imagine what's possible... we need more future-dreaming sci-fi.
Would it take too long or is it just that the margin is too small?
Gilmour can write good music. Too bad Wright was suffering from depression/drug addiction to be very productive. The best Pink Floyd songs are them working together.
> It's ethically childish that we use roundabout measures like that

Dogmas and tabus might be there for a reason. Culturally I think we need to pretend thing we don't think are true.
I wonder if there’s a combined metric that could be calculated. Depth of the line certainly would be impactful. A line that only works if you do 5 only moves is harder to find than a single move line. “Quiet” moves are probably harder to find than captures or direct attacks. Backwards moves are famously tricky to spot. Etc
Thanks. I miss-read it and thought it's energy harvesting from celular.

I already have some trackers on important stuff (like keys and school bag of kids if they loose it in the bus). But for other use cases it's either too large (cats) or makes no sense to have too many because then I'd have to replace a battery every few weeks ("everything else").
Fair enough, let me know when you want to provide more opinions you don't want to discuss :)
The book "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life"
by Robert Becker and Gary Selden, is a foundational book for this research. First published in 1998.

Becker in his research found that lower power levels could have biological effects, everything else being equal, than higher power levels.
Anyone have examples where fold leads to easier to read code than a for loop in Rust?
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403283
The only really necessary one would be a strategically placed resistor to enable expansion audio.
That's someone who re-posted their own fork – the original repo <https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3> was taken down in a DMCA action. The only commits they've added are to change the README links to point to their repository.
We're in a weird spot where the secular world asks us to simultaneously cause death (the euthanasia folks) while also asking us to evade it altogether (the Brian Johnson types).

Catholicism embraces natural death, which is what your family member (RIP) chose. Interventions that hasten death are fine. Just can't cause it.
K Prize: $1M for an AI that can close 90% of new GitHub issues
> because the user specified a `-v` flag or whatever

The way I see it is the version information and help text belong on standard output if the user passes --version and --help since that's what the user explicitly asked for. When the command is invoked incorrectly, the help text should go to standard error while standard output should be empty.

I agree about the exit code. People like to parse error messages and that's always wrong. Everything should be done via exit codes instead.
What if we triple your pain?
Thanks for that information. I have some major disagreements with the Catholic church but more knowledge and understanding is always a good thing. Appreciated.
Track saws struggle with any repeated cuts.

I recently made a cutting board with many tiny pieces - 0.5" square, several hundred of them. With a table saw it's "run pieces through, rotate 90 degrees, run pieces through" - not fast but WAY faster than having to move the track saw every time, and that second cut is impossible with a track saw.

On a table saw I can do crosscuts. I barely ever use my miter saw (in favor of my crosscut sled on my table saw) unless I'm trying to keep the table saw fence positioned somewhere precise and need to make a crosscut in the middle of my workflow.

And speaking of the fence: The table saw is a precision instrument. The track saw is not. I set up my table saw fence once, eight years ago. I have never had to adjust it or look again. If I want something an inch thick I set the fence to an inch and make the cut and it is correct. I don't have to draw a line on my workpiece, measure, and make a mark. I don't need to measure the final piece with calipers to see if I got close enough to actually an inch. I can work quickly and efficiently.

Then there's bevels - am I going to buy a new rubber track guard for every different angle I want to cut, or am I just going to use my table saw and tilt the blade? If I want to be precise and always use a zero clearance insert, at least I can make those myself rather than having to buy rubber molding.

I own a fairly nice track saw (Festool TS55) and a pair of good-quality tracks for it. I own several expensive chunks of metal which profess to do things such as align the track at a 90 degree angle to my workpiece which I am unable to trust or even to get working consistently. I'm not talking "oh, this is 89.7 degrees", I'm talking "I can see with my eyes that's not square, guess I'll go get a combo square and a pencil".

I have owned devices such as the Kreg jig which aim to make it easier to do repeated rips with a circular or track saw and while if you don't own a table saw they're better than nothing, they're nowhere close to the precision, reliability, or ease of use of a table saw.

I love my track saw. I hate trying to pick up and manipulate 4x8' or 4x4' pieces of wood on the table saw and the track saw makes my life much easier - but that initial breaking down is all I ever use it for, because for every other task the table saw is dramatically better.
Yes, that article was sober and wise. I'm in Canada and I really hope other countries do not follow us down this path. I have fears grounded in facts based on what is continuing to unfold here in a relatively short number of years that very soon the sick, disabled, and elderly will be targeted by MAID, and I fear that after that the marginalized, (temporarily) impoverished, and even non-terminally injured may come into view. Human life is worth more than this!
Well, that's why we should judge methodology and compare the results to other lines of evidence instead of dismissing research based on mind-reading.
Humpback Whale Swims Up to Photographer for Close-Up Picture
Mainstream media globally shifted from critizing governments to being their mouthpiece so absolutely no surprises here.
Nice. When I looked, the page took forever to load and said 16GB was out of stock as well. I'm tempted by the 16GB board.
Interesting, thanks --

Let's say iOS was recording in one app.

Can other arbitrary apps record without user intervention?

If not, how does a user enable an iOS app to use the camera?

Could that same solution be applied to vision Pro?
Congrats to Gukesh

Let's convert that chess knowledge to deep learning for more $
My dad (age 75) got diagnosed with ALS and within a month of the diagnosis opted for MAID. He had only just lost control of one leg, but he knew what was coming. As much as we begged him for more time, he didn't want any of it.

Till his dying breath he kept repeating how thankful he was that he lived in a country that didn't force him to live on when he didn't want to.

He was a clear Track 1 case, and I realize Track 2 cases are more complicated, but just wanted to add my story as reporting on MAID spins out of control in our culture war milieu.
Pretty sure this classic by Pink Floyd also pays homage to the Dr Who Theme. At one point they play the main phrase which makes it more obvious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6-doD3VpyA
We need to be clear on terms here.

Killing someone with a drug intended to stop the heart / prevent respiration is unequivocally euthanasia.

Withholding treatments is not euthanasia. Nor is pain medication that hastens death. Those are things we can have an ethical discussion about.

As for IV drip.. that's another discussion. I personally would not ever do that. Water is a basic thing for humanity, and should be provided. Unless he explicitly refused the water. Then, that's his choice.

I think I ultimately reject the idea that this is not well-understood, because the largest organizations opposed to euthanasia (the Catholic church for example) has given endless thought to this, and explicitly accepts the situation you described. Opponents of euthanasia are not ignorant.
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Bluesky tops 20M users, narrowing gap with Instagram Threads
New peer-review trial lets grant applicants evaluate each other's proposals
Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks
Without looking too much at the generated assembly in https://godbolt.org/z/fKEPaTdTv, it seems that using_map uses SIMD instructions (movdqu and psubd) in the main loop, while using_loop doesn't, so that could indeed explain the performance difference.
I can't really make sense of the more general accusation but the "countermeasures" accusation was hacker news removing some http field/attribute (?) telling their servers the request originated from a link clicked on HN so they could not block traffic originated from here (which they were doing)

I fail to see how this was such a big issue to them. The admin probably felt like it was not cool to discriminate against traffic from the site and bypassed their block.
When they complained about it meaning it wasn't just a stunt but quite important to them, it was removed. Much ado about nothing imho.
I don't get the last part where you repeatedly have smaller and smaller rectangles, can you expand on that? How are the rectangles defined? I pressed H, I'm at the center of the screen. Now what?
Very very cool.

Would be nice to add pre-colonial data from North America, i.e., the regions of the native American tribes, not shown AFAIK. There must be a good resource to pull from with that data.
If you read the article I linked, currency is taxed as income in the US. You can elect to treat it as capital gains but I don’t know exactly what that entails or requires.
By selling cars that don't do that.
> Why doesn’t your team train people?

It's not a matter of training, it's a matter of lack of rewards and mismatched incentives. The reward for good work is generally more work and a "token" raise at best that is never proportional with the value you added.

The market has converged on a baseline of what is typically expected out of a given role. Now sure, we can argue (and I personally agree) that said baseline has become absolutely terrible, but we shouldn't blame the people for that.

If your objective is to be an employee and engineering is purely a means to an end (to earn a salary as said employee), then delivering the baseline and getting the baseline salary is all you need to do. Any effort beyond that is a waste of time that can rather be spent on hobbies/family/etc because it will not be adequately rewarded.

It only makes sense to go beyond the baseline if you want to learn and have a plausible way to monetize that extra experience (outside of this current job). If you want to build your own product, do consulting, etc.
Honestly at this point did they actually bother to make something specifically built and trained to remove sensitive data or did they just modify a system prompt to "Don't save possibly sensitive data like credit card numbers" and hope that an LLM could magically handle this properly?

Why do I have a feeling its the later given all of the other issues around this entire thing.
I'm wondering who the 4% are whose death was not reasonably foreseeable. What exactly are their secrets to eternal life?
Interesting NOTAM, thanks.

This is the government clearly stating they can intercept unknown drones in the area.

> UAS OPR WHO DO NOT COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE AIRSPACE RESTRICTIONS ARE WARNED THAT PURSUANT TO 10 U.S.C.SECTION 130I AND 6 U.S.C.SECTION 124N, THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE(DOD), THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY(DHS) OR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE(DOJ) MAY TAKE SECURITY ACTION THAT RESULTS IN THE INTERFERENCE, DISRUPTION, SEIZURE, DAMAGING, OR DESTRUCTION OF UNMANNED ACFT DEEMED TO POSE A CREDIBLE SAFETY OR SECURITY THREAT TO PROTECTED PERSONNEL, FAC, OR ASSETS.
Microsoft: $800M loss [1]
GM: $<several billion>
Honda: dissolved partnership, $<millions_lost> [2]

[1] https://news.microsoft.com/2021/01/19/cruise-and-gm-team-up-...

[2] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Honda-to-end-se...
> Why is map so much faster? I am not sure. I suspect with the map() option the Rust compiler figures out it can avoid allocations altogether by simply writing over the original vector, while with the loop it can't. Or maybe it's using SIMD? I tried to look in the compiler explorer but I'm not competent enough yet to figure it out. Maybe someone else can explain!

Yep, it's due to SIMD -- in the assembly for `using_map`, you can spot pcmpeqd, movdqu, and psubd, while `using_loop` doesn't have any of these.
Worth reading his son @snakesofself's comment below that video for additional context.

As a fan of the show, and what it did to advance the art of visual storytelling, learning more (and understanding less!) about the artists just makes the whole thing more interesting and more human.
i will never move off windows 10 LTSC :-)
Brilliant, Love it. Excellent execution.
I don’t understand the confusion over the person’s express wishes, it sounds very reasonable, maybe even noble to me. I’m 30 and healthy (afaik), but if my main community is my spouse and they die when I’m 80, I’d like euthanasia as well. I don’t even need the cancer background, that just sounds horrible. Maybe my mind will change when I’m actually 80? But I doubt it
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> The old studies linking fat to heart disease are complete bunk.

You're mischaracterizing those studies. The role of saturated fat in heart disease is not bunk. Eat unsaturated fat.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7863058/does-the-luhn-al... has a list.
It's obscured because of how Canada formats their data, but the vast majority of "North American origins" respondents would fall under white as well. The total percentage is in the upper 80s.
People who refused to go back to the office and lost their jobs
and by no you mean the special,
"maybe later" that every software loves to use
> harmful

It's hard to conceive of anyone meaningfully "harmed" by being a BMI outlier.

The only real occassion it comes up is when some lean and uncommonly athletic person gets miscategorized as obese and get warned of increased risks to their wellness if they don't lose weight. A warning which they generally laugh at because they know their own situation.

That's hardly "harm" -- "mild social nuisance" is more apt.
Similar vibes to lawmakers that have public hearings with airline execs and talk about air travel issues as if it's an issue American voters frequently think about.

Most Americans travel 0-2 times per year. About half don't fly at all.
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I've been hearing young and healthy people say this for my entire, fairly long, life. But I have never personally known an elderly or disabled person to kill themselves over it. If you find life worth living despite its hardships now, it's likely that you always will even as those hardships increase.
Price of Freedom – Matt Mullenweg (2007)
I was also thinking about how MS Flight Simulator used all of that satellite imagery. You can’t tell me that someone couldn’t find an awesome game using their maps and street view horde which by now includes 3D models of a ton of places, but I don’t see anyone betting on Google for a critical dependency until they have a new CEO and convincing culture change.
When I consulted in European financial services ICT (credit scoring and automated descisioning for asset based finance, AML etc.) the German data had an explicit regulatory restriction that data could only be obtained for one specific transaction and that that consent was not transferable. We obtained the data on company X explicitly for transaction Y. We could not pass on the data, nor simply reuse it for another purpose.

Has that changed?
Spending 100+ hours on this, getting to know people who read this was the point after all. Pretty standard practice everywhere? What did I miss?
One is to prevent unsupervised actions from taking place. This is usually to empower younger people to reconsider.

The other is supervised. This is usually to empower older to people to consider their options.

We can agree to disagree on what supervision means, but a bridge net and a mandatory process without a (subjective) additional waiting period, are very different situations to me.
This is such a useless definitional argument. You know exactly what they meant. An unexpected hospital trip should not put you in debt for the rest of your life or outright kill you because you couldn't afford it. This is real basic stuff that plenty of real prospering nations already do.
Bye Bye fun.

They should really make it mandatory to know and demonstrate you know how to change a wheel, check the oil dip-stick and all basic car maintenance. That was the best part of owning the car, knowing you were taking care of the car.

A part of cooking is experimenting. If we are now needing VR goggles because you can't follow a recipe something has gone terribly wrong.

I'd wager that these devices will take away skill rather than gain. I know I'm not the VR generation, and very skeptically annoyed for that all this is coming from Google, Microsoft and co. Some things should be real and practical skills everyone should know. The more we rely on such technology the more failure that will come from it.
Sounds like the ice-nine of biology.
There used to be no evidence at all, but now you have David Grusch who was given explicit authorization to talk to people in unacknowledged special access programs about UAPs and he said under oath before congress that yes, there are crashed ET craft with biologics in them that have been recovered going back to the 1930s.

https://x.com/cspan/status/1684217673716989958
If you aren't familiar with this drama, please understand that Matt and the Automattic folks have absolutely lost their minds when their attempted extortion of a competitor failed.

One of the things about open source is people use it, and they might even compete against your company. If you can't handle that you shouldn't open source your code. Matt is doing far more damage to Wordpress and open source in general than anything WPEngine has done.
Detroit Jury Awards $12M to Blue Cross Worker Fired for Refusing Covid Vaccine
The Democratic Progressive Party led coalition would change the name on the passport the government issues when it is in power. It would revert back when the Koumingtang led coalition comes back into power. It falls in line with what the constituents want, and it isn't as if opinions of the citizens are uniform or a clear majority.

The situation is fairly complex.

Since this is intended as a historical map going beyond the Bronze Age, there weren't always a thing called a constitution or international law. So while this does apply to whether we call this polity, "Taiwan, ROC" or "ROC" or "Taiwan", whether something is constitutional or not will not always apply historically.
Culturally and sociologically this seems similar to me to owning a doll. I’m not saying this to diminish the significance; perhaps even the opposite: it seems a next step in a very long tradition.
For 'time blindness' my personal solution is that I have a miband that vibrates periodically. I think most smartwatches have such a function.

I am an inattentive type who skated thru behavioral checks by being the quiet kid who never causes problems. What this really means is I am doing ranked competitive daydreaming and sometimes need to be reminded to exist.
How to program in feedback loops (2021)
More apparant here around the 3 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48PJGVf4xqk
I would have liked to see a comparison in the fold() section that functions the same way as the original for loop:

list_of_lists.into_iter().fold(Vec::new(),
|mut accumulator, list| {
accumulator.extend(list);
accumulator
}
)