skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Base 3 computers were just a historical curiosity, they were never produced at scale. Less than 100 were ever made. All Soviet computer series - BESM, Minsk, Ural, Iskra, M-series - were binary, with the only exception of Setun series. It never played a considerable role. So that's just an urban myth.
Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn
almost as outrageous as the ludicrous Ctrl+Win+Alt+Shift+L nobody asked for.
It's a beautiful pump, but feels like only part of what an espresso machine is.

What heats the water? What provides temperature control? How would I produce steam?

It is so single purpose that it does not feel useful by itself, it feels like the prototype for part of a whole.

I like the idea of it, and I like the idea of "part of the whole" being a composable coffee machine where one could put together components which were all independently maintainable and highly serviceable... this feels like a taster for that, but by itself is very expensive for a pump that claims to be an espresso machine but could not produce an espresso alone, and would need something else to make any espresso derived coffee.

What this replaces is a lever espresso machine, but I'm not sure anyone with a home coffee machine would've purchased a lever espresso machine without the integrated boiler... and if they would, then this is right there https://bellabarista.co.uk/collections/lever-machines/produc...

You would benefit greatly from a video that showed the workflow end-to-end of making an espresso... from bean to the final drink.
I think I’m becoming paranoid, I thought my phone was going to explode if I clicked the link
You're work is vital for opposing the nonchalant march of privacy erasing norms we are continuing to parade towards.
It is easier to "connect with people" when they are also nerds like you.

Don't bother trying to attend all the talks - unless you have a high interest in a particular talk. They're all recorded anyway, the rooms fill up quickly, and you literally cannot attend them all because there are several parallel tracks. I found that meeting and chatting with FOSS developers outside was actually the most valuable part of the event.

Also, come to Bytenight no matter how scary it seems.
Building a new kitchen consumer device is nearly impossible. This is amazing. Congratulations!
Or they have very small hands/paws.
A sniper team with an anti-material rifle could wreak havoc very effectively and never even be noticed while doing so.
Exactly. Us humans do a lot of things that aren’t optimal but make us feel good for some reason. Why do people like cats? They often are assholes but we still love them. Why would animals be different?
My guess is this is an opening salvo in a longer negotiation. The idea is to make this request, then back off to "appear reasonable" and demand "balancing concessions" from the other side. These concessions will then be for more recent and less well established vaccines to be denied approval.
The article ID is 4000004, I wonder if it's just a coincidence?
Nice job! You should add an about us page to tell your story and your mission. Even use pictures of yourself in the marketing because people love to support independent coffee companies. I hope you get rich and famous for all your hard work.
Why Denmark is embarrassed by the Paul Watson affair
The internet. (Almost) all the world's information, when I want it, for free. I don't even have to go to a library.

Clean air.

Enough food. Enough food that the problem is obesity, not starvation.

Freedom to speak my mind.

When you add it all up... wow. It's immense.

We should have had this thread a couple weeks ago, at Thanksgiving.
First thought: Cash grab

There's no way someone who designed, manufactured, tested and refined all this original equipment wouldn't include some technical photos, documents, experience or anything to 'sell' the product. And with pre-orders? There isn't even a single video of it making espresso without total cropping.

For reference - The owner lists his studies in media design and works for Terra Kaffe - claiming involvement in building Terra Kaffe TK-02

I'll happily change my opinion if anything resembling original invention is presented.
I'm more worried by this:

> Subscribe to Defense.gov Products
> Choose which Defense.gov products you want delivered to your inbox.

Quite sure that they can hit my mailbox from there with many of their products.
I'd reckon they would have audits in place to trace who accidentally made this post?

Either way, just for the fun of things, post your (fun and wildest) guesses on how this probably happened below...

My take is someone about to post a news article, left the view and their pet (thinking a cat) ran through their keyboard and posted the article. And since the cat has gained awareness, they were able to move the article from draft to an actual post. =)
Could it be that animals, like humans, aren't just sacks of chemicals? Could it be they're not computer programs, but that they are, in fact, animals?

This is why I despise practically every discussion of "why" when it comes to talking about observed traits and evolution like this. People invent this bizarre deterministic model of life as it it were purely chemical or computational and could be controlled & understood as such. As if every single little trait has design intent.

You have one guy in this thread that's like, "Would this imply that humans’ propensity to keep pets is also an association error in the brain?". Like holy shit dude, I don't know, but maybe people just like pets. Maybe pets like pets. Maybe pets like us. Maybe we aren't computer programs whose nature is defined by scripts and wiring. "Association error". The fuck? We're not computer programs. We don't have "errors".

Like what a dull and inhuman lens to view the world with: "We're all just computers", or "We're all just a bunch of chemicals". I wonder, do you also think of me as a computer or a chemical sack? Do you view my child that way? My cat? If you do, that disturbs me, because then you may be tempted to treat us as such, when we're all so much more than that.
Doesn't Wordpress run the website? Is Matt Mullenweg sending us a message?

1) What
https://archive.is/6a6XJ
lol, this is an absurdly bad article, picking similar things and showing them together claiming there's nothing else that stands out.
It's interesting that he's made this visual mistake even as a person whose main concern is the product. So many photographers/videographers make the same mistake, and I guess he's copied them rather than thinking through what his market needs.

The error is basically to film the product as if it was a sexy woman. I'll put it bluntly: I don't want to fuck your product. I might want to buy it but only if you show me the practical details. (Speaking generally - I'm not in the market for a coffee machine). Videos that solely try to convey allure and mistique are a net negative for the vast majority of products.
Great Project. I am very thankful for this useful tool.

Small "bug"/Different behaviour than expected I found:
I you move the slider with Arrow-Keys, you are not able to move it beyond the currently visible time frame. If the value on the far right ist 750 BC and you press the Key repeatedly it will, at some point jump back around 30 years.
It was already on two discs. You could choose whether to copy one or both to the hard drive.

The game ran on machines as old as late 1999, so the typical disk size would’ve been more in the 10-20 GB range. Even the existing 3.4 GB minimum requirement (installing just one disc and streaming content off the other) was a pretty hefty ask.
Show HN: Brazilian service to automatically issue NFSe
Olá! :)

I built NotaSync, wich is a service to help Brazilian indie developers and solo builders stay on top of their tax obligations by integrating their Stripe accounts and automatically issuing NFSe (invoices) for each sale or charge.

A little context: here in Brazil, companies that offer services, are required to issue a specific type of invoice called a nota fiscal de serviço (service invoice). They are different from regular invoices abroad.

Our invoices have to be registered with the local city government where you have your company registered to ensures proper taxation and compliance with local laws, as service taxes in Brazil are typically managed at the municipal level rather than at a national level.

Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
In my province in Canada (Quebec) some IT worker in the government made a template .doc document that's widely used. They exported it with the document title "sdf fdsfdsfg". This title isn't in the actual printed document but it's in the metadata. If you Google that string in quotes you'll find tons of official documents with that title.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sdf+fdsfsdfg%22
Nobody said it is simple. Sure, the algorithmic complexity of the models are high, filters over filters, and in the same way the resulting dump file it is not editable (without unbalancing the rest of the data, i.e. tracking and modifying the bytes that was used by each token of the model; it is vectored data at bit level (In my case I don't see it exactly as part of a graph )).

Nevertheless, the above does not exclude what one can see, a lossy compressed database (data is discarded), where the indexes are blended within the format of the data generated by the model weights, main reason why the model weights are needed again to read the database as expected, for being used by the predictive algorithm that reconstruct the data from the query, query that conform the range of indexes triggering the prediction direction/directions.
Eventual consistency is not guaranteed, but temporary inconsistency is.
I think one shouldn't say that on its own, as it's not helpful. But given that it's in the middle of a lot of clear and specific detail that includes an offer of help, I think it's fine as emotion-conveying hyperbole.
I also agree they are bad but to simplify anything down to “it’s bad there’s nothing else to learn” seems like a gross oversimplification.
Searching HN for "mirror cells", I see at least 1 article warning of the dangers from more than 10 years ago. So, this has been a thing for a while. Any biologists here that can chime in on just how big of a risk they do pose? Is there a general consensus throughout the community that this research should end? Is this something that could be developed for bio-terrorism? Should work be started on developing mirror immune system cells, just in case?
> Using it as an excuse to cut funding only makes the problem worse

Or it's a wake up call to shift focus to better methodologies that will reproduce more reliably. Time will tell.

> Based on this result (0%), New Zealand may as well dispose of all computer science studies as well.

Lots of computer science research produces useful products that make their own money directly, and so the need for reproducibility is less if impact on the economy is a main criterion. This is not true of pure research in fields that only produce knowledge. Reproducibility is key to be confident you actually have knowledge.
And I thought intern season was over…
Rust errors occasionally are difficult to comprehend, but in general I have found it to have the best error messages of any language bar none.
Everybody gets to make at least one test article in production.
Those Jersey Aliens are finally trying to communicate with us.
Query Your Snowflake Managed Iceberg Tables with DuckDB
That's... quite the interpretation. Do you really think that Stripe's intention is to "encourage people with low skills to apply" by writing a blog post about monitoring DNS?
I am a 41. I am thinking of buying my first motorcycle, a Royal Enfield. I have never ridden a motorcycle before and this is a big change and an exciting one.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Enfield_Hunter_350
> if you stop doing social science (which isn't a science) then what do you do when people turn out to need social scientists? Aren't we interested in having a balanced, happy society?

Do social scientists actually produce the knowledge required to create a balanced, happy society?
Claude 3 Opus is by far the best model for sexual content, believe it or not. Nearly uncensored and surpasses anything local.
This looks like it was fixed

* https://github.com/duffelhq/paginator/blob/main/lib/paginato...

* https://github.com/duffelhq/paginator/blob/main/test/paginat...
If you think about it, a window is kinda like a captive portal.
Very neat, thanks for working this out. (Why would it not be sufficient to start with just five symbols?)

The solution is like a restricted version of Hilbert's Hotel, we're still in a group of invertible maps on binary sequences {0,1}^N but we aren't allowed to do anything non-local.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra...
Can't have critical thinking in your country now can you?
Sorry, my point is I’m not in the market for new/shiny and I’m wondering what I’m missing. Nothing against new tech, that’s why I’m here. But if we can satisfy our personal espresso needs with something non-electronic, I think that’s worth discussing.
Modern equivalent of a number station, perhaps.
And the baseband everywhere?
How does one find such a page?
I must thank you for the recommendation. Works offline, not cluttered, good defaults, plenty of options and some clever one, voice input and prediction both work well for me, no subscription but instead you can buy a lifetime license to support them. Also it looks good and responsive. I love it.
> it would divert half of the NZ$75 million Marsden Fund

NZ$75 million is almost negligible? How can New Zealand do any kind of research or afford to just hire graduate students?
I’ve just read both parts of the article and I still feel like I’m left with more questions than answers.

The game is bottlenecked on memcpy so hard it takes two seconds to load each time? On a modern machine with double-digit GB/s RAM bandwidth and single-digit GB/s SSD bandwidth, when the game was released on two DVDs and thus can’t have more than couple dozen GB of assets total[1]. How? OK, they’re doing a memcpy per image row, that’s not nice and can probably cost you an order of magnitude or so, and the assets are JPEG-compressed so it’s another order of magnitude to copy around uncompressed pixels, but still, how?

Furthermore, if it really is bottlenecked on memcpy, why does running on a modern machine not improve things? I almost want to think there’s a fixed amount of per-frame work hardcoded somewhere, and loading DDS is just accounted for incorrectly.

[1] In fact, a screenshot in part 1 shows data.m4b taking up 1.4GB, and the rest of the files shown are either video, sound, or small.
> Could it be that animals, like humans, aren't just sacks of chemicals?

So far, nobody has proven otherwise.
Ironically the numerical id of the post is 4000004
As a cheat last year, and I may do it again this year, I spent all of one day on one track so that I had no scheduling decisions to make at all that day!
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erlang has a code_change function in the otp that allows the gen_server to update its current state and start using new code. No connections need be broken with clients, no long running processes need be stopped. Just updated in place.

It's not just a routing change.

https://www.erlang.org/docs/24/man/gen_server
Unfortunately they have no budget and will pay you in dogecoin
Economic resources, not financial - it doesn't really make sense to compare a dictatorship economy based on money, does it?
Speaking of concurrency, whatever happened to that Parallella "super computer" project?
How to responsibly get rid of the stuff you've decluttered
There is a coming nuclear winter for logic and reason.
Ask HN: What tools and frameworks do you use to fast prototype ideas?
I have some ideas that I wanted to try which require a backend and front-end interface for users.
But whenever I start to work on them I always get stuck on which tool/platform/framework to use.
I always feel like it's a huge barrier for me. So HN, how do you deal with this? What are the frameworks you usually use for this and what are the caveats?
That page is an actual article
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/40...
"Nobel Prize Winning Graphene Research Highlights AFOSR-Funded Physicists"
Did this just get removed from the HN front page?
I'm familiar with norm_cast and push_cast, but they don't always do what I expect them to do or solve all the problems. Then there's also the issue (in my experience at least) that in order to e.g. define the real exp or cos function you need to compose the complex function with the real projection and then manually use theorems such as "for all reals r, exp(r_inj_c(r)) = r_inj_c(re_exp(r))", which are easy enough to prove but it's still more work than in "regular" mathematics where you just say "re_exp = exp restricted to the reals" (and then implicitly use the fact that exp maps reals to reals).

I can usually find a way around such things but it does make proofs more tedious. As said, I'm sure I'm not using Lean optimally, but I wouldn't know what to ask for specifically, it's a case of "unknown unknowns".

> One way you can focus a question like this if you don't know what techniques to use but just have a feeling that formalization is too hard, is to isolate an example where you really had to work hard to get a proof and your proof is unsatisfying to you, and challenge people to golf it down.

Fair, that's something I could try. For example, my proof that cos 2 ≤ -1/3 (which is used for showing that cos has a zero in (0,2) with which I can define pi) is unreasonably complicated, while the proof on paper is just a couple of lines. There are a bunch of techniques used when estimating series, such as (re)grouping terms, that I found difficult to do rigorously.
There is a hardcoded value of 550ms but else you're right. I guess it's still bottlenecked because it runs in a 32bit environment.
> (Social sciences may often require hypothesis testing in statistically-controlled experiments or have other practical limitations on experimentations because they address phenomenon that cannot easily and/or ethically be experimented with as much freedom as one would want in a laboratory

Social sciences have deeply problematic methodologies and the IRB is a cancer that's no longer about ethics but gatekeeping.
Numbers that look small by American standards are somewhat more significant in a country of 5 million people.
I don't even use copilot (yet) because the process of reviewing it through all the different obstacles (security, legal, budget) is on it's 24th month or something. I think many people in traditional industry can relate.
Sure that sounds plausible but it's literally not what happens in practice (see the other comment I linked that discusses research on this very thing)
FBI Doc release: Kevin Mitnick [pdf]
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
I think the author describes a heterogeneous distributed system with no shared transactional space (db and search engine and cache and olap etc). In this case, if you have a transactional database as a source of truth then you can enforce that truth upon the rest of the system (article considers different ways of doing so), but because of delays and occasional hiccups it can't be fully consistent. With that view I agree.

However if the question is whether you want a consistent transactional storage as the core of the system, or an eventually consistent storage would do, then for me the answer is 100% for consistent storage at the core. Systems built around eventually consistent storage can go to hell.
Corporations having IT governance and some restrictions on what apps you can install on company hardware is not remotely new or surprising.

Sometimes it causes issues, 99% of the time it's fine.
You must not have dementia in your family then -- Take that as a blessing
<table flip> Just as I am about to improve myself.
There's more than one kind of poor design. These days there's quite a lot of bad design that looks slicker than something in the geocities era, but is worse in terms of how well it meets its purpose.

I agree with idk1; however pretty this page is, it's terribly designed as a product page. I am less likely to buy the product after seeing the page than before. And reading through the comments, that's true for many people. Is it pretty? Yes. But a pretty thing that harms your purpose is worse designed than an ugly thing that serves it.
Is this a repeat from 1958?
I've been programming in Zig recently and I must say, that's the best error handling I've ever used in any programming language. They are just error return type, much like in Go or Rust, but the integration into the language makes it so seamless. It feels like using exceptions, but without the mental and computing overhead coming from the fact that anything can raise an exception.
I’m guessing the product manager pushing this is unfamiliar with keyboard shortcuts.

I suppose it’s excusable to an extent. After all, the mouse exists, and only the people who actually do work figure out keyboard shortcuts.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886
I mean, it is? It's the most divisive political topic at the moment and the reason why populisms are on the rise? If anything, I'd expect more and more detailed studies on that?
> Your heavily crafted implementation docs will be gabage since implementation can be changed easily.

I've heard this before but I'm not convinced. I'm sure lots of product teams use Agile and still manage to have thorough, up to date docs. You just need to factor doc updates into your issues.
I think you're both still talking past one another.

> Social sciences give us the general capability to ask those questions and understand the answers.

This is almost tautological depending on where those fields lie between physics and philosophy.

Chemistry is just applied Physics.
Biology is just applied Chemistry.
Neurology is just applied biology.

But psychology (and by extension, sociology) is firmly on the Philosophy side of the fence in my uneducated opinion.
Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity
"making it easier for more people to contribute to Git" doesn't seem like a good reason to introduce Rust. It is a constant refrain that Rust empowers unskilled people to write correct code, but I haven't seen evidence of this. I have seen a lot of intelligent people complaining about how difficult it is, and even after using it for quite some time, I still find it significantly more difficult than C++.
To Save Democracy, We Need to Rebuild Trust in Our Institutions
The US state college system was pretty much never for elites, it was always about increasing the capacity of the country.
Nothing about this guy is trustworthy, but it’s the “biologics” that sets me off. Who says this? It’s a nonsense word that sounds smart.
When talking about actual flying objects and actual radar, flying "under the radar" is not a figure of speech but refers to planes actually flying so low they are below the volume the radar scans. Stealth aircraft do not fly under the radar.