skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can agricultural interests get their shit together on eradicating a harmful species while when it comes to human health, eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes leads to endless hand wringing about playing god and whatnot?
Is this better than Firecracker? I was thinking about using that but it needs nested virtualization and the servers that support that aren't as good of a value. Anyone know a good option for nested virtualization that is inexpensive?

Hetzner is really cheap but not sure about the cost effectiveness for the dedicated servers. Actually I think what I saw was that I couldn't get the one I wanted in a US datacenter.
Israel will keep committing war crimes against Palestinians.
Yes, that's one aspect.

Our reading speed is not limited by our talking speed, and can be a bit faster.

And that's even more true, if you go beyond words: seeing someone do something can be a lot faster way to learn than just reading about it.

But even there, the IO speed is severely limited, and you can only transmit very specific kinds of information.
Having the identifier first makes it easier to parse unambiguously; the C syntax has been historically criticized for not being context-free because of stuff like "A * B" being impossible to parse correctly without knowing whether A is a type or not. While Java doesn't have the equivalent problem, Kotlin keeps its options open wrt future syntactic extensions for type names.

Identifier-first can also be a lot more readable when gnarly (and thus lengthy) types are involved, since you don't have to scan the line to find it. It makes for neater-looking code with multiple declarations one after another, too.

As far as commonality, both syntaxes are very common, and have been so historically as well (roughly speaking, C vs Pascal syntax families). It should also be noted that most new languages go for identifier-first, so if anything, it's more future-proof in this sense.
Same thing in Czechia, except the Stammgäste meet several times a week..
Only if the AGI is cheaper than a human, in the case the AGI is more expensive than a human there wont be any snowballing. And the most likely case is that the first AGI is more expensive to run than a human, a few months of having overly expensive human level AI bots wont disrupt the world at all.
Which forces sandboxing and App Store regulations on everything on it.

There’s a really good reason the Mac App Store isn’t that big.
Show HN: BrainRot Generator
I made a simple BrainRot generator that generates brainrot videos from a reddit url :)
My point was not about wildcard emails, which Gmail also offers. Rather, the amount of spam you get is typically based on how well known your email address is to spammers. If someone’s not getting much spam, it usually just means they haven’t used their email address in places where they would get it. This is regardless of whether it’s a wildcard email or not.
The fair dreamed up by art legends – unsealed after 44 years
> MongoDB operates in the space as a leader in non-relational database solutions, managing data formats across text, video, and more to support businesses. This sounds complex, but it really just involves storing and using company data in a secure, useful, and organized way for analysis and improved customer experiences.

This made me laugh =)
Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
I am totally fascinated by programmers who don't use many of the IDE features I take for granted today: autocomplete, language servers, and recently copilot

So to the devs who don't use these tools, how do you do it? Do you just remember every type and field in a codebase? What does your flow look like?

One example is that I cannot live without the language server go-to-definition feature. What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation of some function which is in some other file?
> 20% of every single person in the US being sort of into Nazis has very little to do with

I’m saying 20% of Americans can be found who believe almost anything. 20% of Americans supporting something is basically background.

> selectively moving groups around with your statistics to try and use simple numbers to make it seem like you're always right

I’m slicing the data to present a number bigger than 17%. I’m trying to find a group in which a majority support Mangione who aren’t on the far fringes of society. If you’re upset about the slicing and dicing you’re confirming my point.

> the vast majority of people under 40 (military age) finding it ok with Brian getting shot

Where do you see this?

18 to 29 is the most favourable bloc for Mangione, and there favourability is 39%. Not a majority let alone a vast majority. And that’s being generous by combining in somewhat favourable.
We always liked to organize in fraternities and "Vereine" (club) since the Kaiserreich. Everyone and their mom had a specialised frat or club for identity and community. And they had flags, colors, songs, customs and all of that to show belonging. You have things like the Wandervogelbewegung (think boy scouts), Pfadfinder (actual boy scouts), Bündische Jugend, Schützenvereine and things like that. I really mean there was a (is) community for everyone, complete with uniforms and stuff.

Typing this I get a bit sad that these communities are missing nowadays and didn't really made it into modern life. Hitler used a lot of them for his purposes and after WWII it was just old people is what I think about them nowadays. It's too conservative and traditional for me.

Got a bit off track with the comment, but I was replying to the flag thingy. As a German it makes total sense.
I never got into The Zep. I much prefer Beatles.
'All Your Codebase' packages C/C++ projects for Zig build system
A setup like that could transform the way people engage with their local community
I’m so surprised that the debate is spilling over to US focused conversations.

So weird. And I’m definitely not in the market for wild takes.
Ah my bad, thought you were asking why folks do it in the US.
How Many Hours Can You Code?
For everyone else confused (I didn't hear of the Northern Giant Hornet before and thought of a new species):

"July 2022, the Entomological Society of America stated that they will adopt the common name northern giant hornet for the species to avoid potentially discriminatory language" -Wikipedia

[Edit] This is not meant judgemental
The evil in the details:

Spring Security is complex and brittle, I have seen a push to use underlying libraries e.g. nimbus in real-life projects.
HN is not a blogging site, and its content is ephemeral comments.

It's main value is threaded discussions which excuses the archaic and limited tools.
In Lyon, France, there are traditional “eating and drinking societies” called Francs-Mâchons. You can see them also in the Lyon episode of Parts Unknown with Tony Bourdain on YouTube.
But it does. It's simply German culture. I left another comment about the community and identity part that comes into this on another comment.
I haven’t experienced this at all in Hamburg, in fact they’re kinda weirdly obsessed with (their idea of) England
Haha, yes! I'm trying it out and been loving it so far. I found that I go there for most of my eda scripts these days. I do a lot of datasets collection and exploration, and it's amazing that I can now type one paragraph and get pretty much what it would have taken me ~30 min to code myself. Claude 3.5 is great for most exploration tasks, and the flow of "this doesn't work /terminal" + claude using prints to debug is really starting to come together.

I use zed for this, cursor for my more involved sessions and aider + vscode + continue for local stuff when I want to see how far along local models have come. Haven't tried cline yet, but heard great stuff.
Thanks for sharing and linking.

What’s your observations on non-big pharma - ie small late stage clinical trials startup with a single drug. Would they not vastly benefit from joining a standard protocol?
Home-made C919 carries more than 1 million passenger trips since launch
I have a family member who holds onto gold and silver currency because he believes the USD is going to collapse someday. I've raised the argument you made with him, and he admits that such currency won't be useful in the midst of the crisis. He believes it'll be useful in the rebuilding period afterwards, though. I guess time will tell.
Checklist for manuacturer compliance with EU Cyber-Resilience Act (CRA)
i feel like AGI is an arbitrary line in the sand anyway

i think as humans we put too much emphasis on what intelligence means relative to ourselves, instead of relative to nature
Remember the Google 20% rule?

There are ways to deal with boredom without jeopardizing business.
I love when I find some fantastic doc in the Apple Doc “Archive” with some huge banner at the top reminding me that there is newer documentation available that has, at best, 10% of the content.
People also have essentially wild beasts in their home: cats. If cats were the size of small dogs they would kill people all the time, but we love them when they are small enough so they just claw you bloody.

Since we can live with that we can live with anything that doesn't outright murder us.
I think it’s hardware not software.

“Cuda moat” is a misnomer. The PTX spec is relatively short (600 page pdf). Triton directly writes PTX, skipping cuda. Flash attention was created by a non nvidia employee without access to any of the secret sauce within Cuda or its libraries.

The hardware is just not as good, and no software can paper over its flaws.
Ask HN: Does this exist? Bill consolidation/trust/insurance
Hey HN.

After spending over a decade trying to help my family members to save and budget and get on top of the costs of living, we've probably come across one of the "only method that works"

It pretty much boils down to: they pay me $100 a week. I pay all their bills for them no matter how big they are.

This has totally smashed all prior efforts of getting on-top of personal finance for them.

There's no more monthly/quarterly/yearly slump where they pay bills out of the first paycheck they get. They don't accidentally spend their bill money, and now vice tax come after bills have been paid.

All in all, this system really has worked well, so much so that they now have the peace of mind to actually think about what they're doing, because they're not gasping for air each time. Not to mention it's slightly cash positive on my end. They've even said they'd pay more for the service if they had to, and their friends want in on it too.

Is there something like this that exists? It's not quite a "trust" set up, but rather like "debt-consolidation" or insurance for bills: I tell them that as long as they pay the weekly amount. Bills are paid.

I'm hoping that this exists already, otherwise it sounds like something that should exist and could help a lot of people. I've been looking around for what would be needed for me to register and so this legally in Australia, but there's a large amount of hurdles to overcome (including large capital requirements, if it's considered an insurance product)
> I have used nothing but linux for over two decades now but it is getting harder and harder to justify using linux

At least in the context of windows vs Linux, Microsoft is making it incredibly easy. Once again pushing MS recall, integrated ads, and user hostile updates made me finally switch to Linux again. I absolutely hated having a computer that seemed to have a mind of its own. I had a dual boot setup that defaulted to Linux, and very frequently I would be doing something in Windows, leave the computer on with programs or games running, and come back to find that it had rebooted into Linux.
It depends on how critical the labor is. If there’s a guy whose job it is to push the “make me $100/hour profit after expenses” button, I will gladly pay him $1 more even if it reduces my profit $1 if I have no alternative.

To say it another way, if businesses could reduce labor, they would have already done it. They don’t have fixed labor budgets to use up. Their ideal labor spend is $0. So in some sense it doesn’t matter what the labor cost is as long as the business isn’t losing money.
actually blogged mine just yesterday https://www.frytg.digital/blog/2024-12-22-my-2025-prediction...
Let everyone make the things they want to make. Make something else? These people do you no harm, why pull their efforts down?

“When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create”

- Why the Lucky Stiff
The Rise of Antihumanism by Matthew B. Crawford – Articles – First Things
Talk to an expert? You are aware of them hallucinating right?
>I'd like to move the cursor backwards and forwards in long commands easier, maybe even with the mouse

In Terminal.app you may alt-click to make the cursor jump to where you’ve clicked. Besides, I use alt-arrows to jump between words: I don’t remember whether that’s out of the box, though. In any case, you may configure the relevant codes in the Keyboard section of the preferences.
Yeah just like the Home app…or the calculator that can’t be resized…or System Settings (oooh which way is the text going to run in this text box? Nobody knows!)… or Game Center, or Apple Music, or any of the other half assed first party apps on the platform that all use different layouts and UI components and behaviors.

The consistency you seek is gone, and has been for ages, if it ever even existed.
> Palantir and Anduril

These names are in Quenya (Elvish) but given what they are doing, they should have been in the Black Speech of Mordor.
The US population will continue to get worse at exhibiting attentional control, and will continue to spread and hold novel delusional beliefs at increasing rates.
Brian Haidet (Alpha Phoenix) shows how he made a video of a laser beam travelling across his garage. From his description:

I'm using the technique from the electricity waves video where I used repeated oscilloscope measurements synced after the fact to produce "videos" of electricity moving down a wire. The only difference is that instead of measuring electricity waves, I'm measuring light emitted by a laser, bouncing off the wall, traveling to my camera, and landing in the window of a photomultiplier tube.
Fascinating article. See also

https://web.archive.org/web/20120314023131if_/http://www.alc...

for an early technical article describing the implementation details of the familiar DTMF "touch tone" dialing system, noting that the precise details differ from the final implementation — in particular, the high group frequencies increased from 1,094/1,209/1,336/1,477 Hz to 1,209/1,336/1,477/1,633 Hz, possibly to mitigate the "pulling" effect described on pp. 251–252 (though I can find no reference for the rationale).
Ask HN: How much energy does generating a single Genmoji cost?
Or alternatively: How much CO2 does a single Genmoji produce?
Word for Microsoft 365, and since November...
By whom? He seems highly credible to me, and his credentials check out, especially compared to hype men like Sam Altman. All youre doing is spreading FUD by an unnamed "they"
Nuclear Power Plants Report Uptick in Drone Sightings
It’s trivial to address this.

You ask an actual expert.

I don’t treat any water cooler conversation as accurate. It’s for fun and socializing.
There's much variation by jurisdiction. Eg US based big-cloud companies would seem more risky here if you're from a country with traditionally less invasive (and less funded) spooks.
imho, w3c really did a disservice by omitting the `snarky` tag from the specs.
But don’t dare try to sneak any 100-page-or-less books in there about yet more 100-page-or-so books
A Scientific American issue where the authors have no idea that they don’t know a topic so just completely make up the content, including the sources. At least magazine authors are reading the sources before misunderstanding the content (or asking the authors what the research means).

I don’t even trust the summaries after watching LLMs think we have meetings about my boss’s cat just because I mentioned it once as she sniffed the camera…
> a point of wealth where someone can no longer afford to speak on these platforms, and that inevitably will prevent change, which tends to come from the people not well-served by the system as it is, i.e. poor people.

"Change" in itself is not a virtue. What I think you want is good or beneficial change? That said, what evidence do you have that poor people specifically are catalysing positive change online?

> This is a great idea to prevent bots, but that’s not who posts the bad stuff this thread is talking about.

There is no difference between a bot and a human as far as a network is concerned. After all, bots are run by humans.

The article specifically says that: "The images and videos including necrophilia, bestiality and self-harm caused some moderators to faint, vomit, scream and run away from their desks, the filings allege."

> Is that your goal?

Simply making it cost something to post online will mean that people who want to post spam can directly pay for the mental healthcare of moderators who remove their content.

If it turns out that you can find a group of people so poor that they simultaneously have valuable things to say online yet can't afford to post, then you can start a non-profit or foundation to subsidize "poor people online". (Hilariously, the crypto-bros do this when they're trying to incentivize use of their products: they set aside funds to "sponsor" thousands of users to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year in gas refunds, airdrops, rebates and so forth.)
So LLMs are unreliable experts, okay. They're still useful if you understand their particular flavor of unreliability (basically, they're way too enthusiastic) - but more importantly, I bet you have exactly zero human experts on speed dial.

Most people don't even know any experts personally, much less have one they could call for help on demand. Meanwhile, the unreliable, occasionally tripping pseudo-experts named GPT-4 and Claude are equally unreliably-expert in every domain of interest known to humanity, and don't mind me shoving a random 100-pages long PDF in their face in the middle of the night - they'll still happily answer within seconds, and the whole session costs me fractions of a cent, so I can ask for a second, and third, and tenth opinion, and then a meta-opinion, and then compare&contrast with search results, and they don't mind that either.

There's lots to LLMs that more than compensates for their inherent unreliability.
Where does it say CMS blanket approves?

It doesn't, and I've never made that assertion. However, Medicare and Medicaid both deny claims at a lower rate than private insurers. How frequently depends on where and when you look.

The guidelines however are important. BCBS wants to reject any claims for anesthesia out of hand if they exceed the average length of a procedure. Medicare does not. Because we all know that unexpected things never happen in the operating room.
I saw it in a vision.
Humans write the tests. AI writes the implementation. Just write good tests: property based. Or actual formal specification...
> AI incorrectly labels school children as criminals.

I thought this would have already happened
Unless you want your police reports inadmissible as evidence. If you want that go ahead.
If 1000 people eat 3000 meals per day and we increase the cost of their food by 50% what effect will that have on the number of meals eaten? Will it go down 50%?

People need to eat. If McDonald’s is the cheapest food or only food available (say because they are the only one available) it won’t matter that they raised their price.
MySQL is like the JS of databases, it does some truly bizarre shit in order to try to "help" you.

https://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html
> It is native to temperate and tropical East Asia, South Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, and parts of the Russian Far East. It was also found in the Pacific Northwest of North America

... in what sense is this hornet "northern"?

And in what sense is it "discriminatory" to point out the regional origin of a phenomenon?
Why the fuck I cannot turn off in Google Maps the huge green box "in 300 meters turn left"
How do you think Chromecast support in Chromium, VLC or even GNOME Network Displays worked?
I was bearish on mongodb after I used it for the first time.
The cited startup time is better than Firecracker but it's not a better tool than Firecracker (for a start only claims to be a PoC, "contains only the necessary parts for realistic benchmarking"). Looks like it's based on RISC-V emulation so the approach seems unlikely to get performance comparable to Firecracker.

You might look into gVisor if you're running containerized workloads on a host without virt support (such as a vm without nested virtualization support).
Yes, but it's impractical unless you have galactic-scale matrices to multiply (at least).
I don't know that I really exactly like working with Go but I do have to hand it to them, they did nail this aspect of it.
I'd never heard of the "sophomore slump" before this article, but it does resonate somewhat with my own experience. I've been reorganizing and trimming the fat from my bloated music library (~30k songs), mostly by listening to albums one-by-one and adding each song to a playlist of stuff I like.

I wouldn't say second albums are universally bad, but many artists seem to have only a limited amount of inspiration in them. Some have just one song, some an album or two, and some just never seem to run out. Also, when a "perfect" or near-perfect album is followed by a less exceptional performance it makes the second look bad even though it might be pretty good on it's own. I've definitely been more disappointed by mediocre output from artists that I expect great things from than I would be otherwise.
It doesn't look like the index is gone to me. E.g.:

https://groups.google.com/search?q=%22Has%20anyone%20ever%20...

https://groups.google.com/search/groups?q=%22sci.med%22

Were Usenet groups ever easier to discover in Google Groups than this?
Not to mention the macOS scrollbars are ugly as sin now.
By attaching trackers to a few captured hornets they were able to find all of the nests. If only eradicating mosquitoes was that easy.
> Now that's a really hard user interface problem

I'm not sure whether or not you meant this, but it would be a hard (/interesting) user interface problem in the planes themselves, never mind the game. Especially the bistatic mode.
There was an article here just a few days ago, which discussed how firms can be ineffective, and still remain competitive.

https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

The idea that competition is effective, is often in spherical cow territory.

There’s tons of real world conditions which can easily let a firm be terrible at their core competency, and still survive.
> It seems to me that the incoming administration will be friendly to business

Friendly to some businesses.

Stocks aren't the only investments people make. Their own small businesses, homes and other property, crypto, etc.
> eradicating disease-carrying mosquitoes leads to endless hand wringing about playing god and whatnot?

The burden of proof is on you.
How do the cache sizes compare between AMD GPU’s and nvidia? I remember reading a while ago they were quite different (enough to make flash attention painful to implement)
Well, its note the entire website, and i find the "last 100 articles" rule way better than "last 3" or "last 90 days" (which some times is 0 or 1).

The host is fine with sending 0.5 MiB once (the client should be aswell from both a bandwidth and storage point of view).

The host is not fine with sending 0.5 MiB every 20 minutes, which could be easily avoided if the client would use the mentioned "If-Modified-Since header".