skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried it out and it couldn't one-shot the problem I tried, but after some coaching it was able to arrive at the correct answer. I wanted it to search for a few words inside a grid of letters. It was only able to succeed once it enumerated the grid and counted the position of each letter.

Someone suggested I try asking it for a program to do this search, and it correctly generated the grid and list of letters. The search code had some bugs, but after a few iterations it was able to succeed. It turned out to be a really simply bug too: the letters in the grid were uppercase, while the words in the search list were lowercase. Converting the words to uppercase and stripping any spaces was enough to get it to succeed!

Overall this really feels like an amazing step forward, and it's the first Google model that has genuinely impressed me. Now I'm very excited for what will be coming next.
Nah, the 2024 border bill wasn't nonsense. Yes, a path to legal status is the only moral, viable option to solving the issue of the people here today. Yes, we need to tighten up enforcement going forward. Yes, more action should have been pushed by democrats on border issues between 2020 and 2024.

No, these economic issues are not as zero sum as you make it sound. Being decent to non-citizens isn't the reason citizens are having problems. Trying to pin it on them entirely, when you have devoted zero words to health insurance reform, zoning/housing innovationa or social safety net improvements, is telling.

These filthy Mexicans aren't the reason Arby's costs $17 or the reason Kroger is having a record year or the reason eggs went up in price. They aren't the reason people are scared to go to the doctor because they don't want to know if they have cancer, because they couldn't afford the treatment if they knew. They're part of communities, they pay taxes, many of them have been here decades.

I'll look up the claim that the fed "blames immigration" for housing. But like I said, Donald doesn't have a plan for Americans on anything, except "kick out a bunch of people". The GOP doesn't have a better alternative, either. You're acting like Dems are the ones who have waffled on solutions, the when asked what ideas the GOP has (besides mass deportation) they have nothing. Just like healthcare.

I hope you care about your fellow citizens and want them to have better health insurance and more affordable, safer food and a warm place to sleep.

Don't call someone childish in a debate.
Agreed 100%. Other benefit is fearless refactoring since API changes appear as type errors.

With no type-checking you need to gamble testing all codepaths.
I’m not even mad about it. It’s background music and clearly people are enjoying it. Just because they smashed out 15 tracks in a single session doesn’t make it unfit for purpose. That’s just how Jazz music is.
> I personally think it’s crazy how much of the industry tends toward the former.

It's because most people who use technology literally don't care how it works. They have real, physical problems in the real world that need to be solved and they only care if the piece of technology they use gives them the right answer. That's it. Literally everything programmers care about means nothing to the average person. They just want the answer. They might care about performance if they have to click the same button enough times, and maybe care about bugs if it's something that is constantly in their face. But just working is enough...
Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide
I never dismiss them, so there's a huge pile on my phone.
Somehow I feel like a similar artistic statement but about bureaucracy and regulations wouldn't have made it to The Atlantic?

Something about RATBUREAUCRATS making CARREERRATS fills as many Suspicious Activity Report (SARs) as they can, on any individual whose head stands but a bit higher than others?

That's the problem with these things: they can be made about just anything.

Now as long as neither that artist nor The Atlantic are funded by any public fund, I've got nothing against it. People should be free to speak, perform and write about art.

Just as I should be free to make one about RATBUREAUCRATS creating mountains of regulations (and I wouldn't take any public money to do so).
I’d imagine that there are different standards applied to things intended to be eaten vs things intended to be inhaled.
Funnily enough the idea that hydroxychloroquine helps (as in Raoult's paper) was replaced in cranks heads by the dewormer (ivermectin).
Upgrade with 120 v 80 Hz OLED: Much More Visible than 60 v 120 Even for Office
We struggle a lot with this general problem in our current setup...

Doesn't Stripe have their own entitlement system built in? Does this interact with that directly?
Cool, so if i look for 'clay', i'll find your lib?
I take ownership of the fact that I didn't change the battery when prompted. I only stated that in my experience it's a single notification vs the other folks saying they get notified multiple times.
nice post :)

I’m surprised there’s not been any mention of effect (http://effect.website/) yet, as it is kind of the next level up if you really want to model things like errors, dependencies and side effects in the type system, using functional concepts borrowed from more pure functional languages.

It would be a bit of a risk adopting this into a shared code base depending on your team and the kinds of devs you’re looking to hire, but it could be useful to some folk that feel like they want even more type safety.
Kabukicho Bars Are Turning Dating Apps into Traps
The 2008 wired article[0] covered this well, although the "today's dollars" part is out of date (in this article there's a typo). It was submitted without comment at the time[1] - the URL has since moved. In-depth on Make-magazine (2015) [2]. Popular electronics cover (1975)[3].

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2011/12/1219altair-8800-computer-kit-g...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=403102

[2]: https://makezine.com/article/technology/the-kit-that-launche...

[3]: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/197...
Strict Workflow not supported in Chrome 131.0.6778.86 (32-bit)
The following Chrome Extensions that I use are are no longer supported:

- Strict Workflow

- Website Blocker (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/website-blocker-beta/hclgegipaehbigmbhdpfapmjadbaldib)

What do you use to block distracting websites when you need to get some work done?
The police won’t help you. It’s not their job.
The author doesn't claim that the imbalance is a reason to doubt the study. His claim is that the imbalance is a reason to doubt the claim that an underlying shift in cultural norms explains why the results might have been valid in 2005 but failed to replicate in 2024.

The author rightly observes that despite the undeniable shift, women are still significantly underrepresented in STEM and therefore that cannot explain the lack of replication. There are still many other reasons besides innate differences that might explain it.
But they were the same Apple Design Keyboard and ADB Mouse II that shipped with all of the other mid 90s macs though right?
Pretty much every major US city besides NYC, LA, and SF is dealing with a massive over supply of multifamily housing
Very true. You need to go to a school that specializes in type theory [1].

[1]: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/50780/which-uni...
Hey, Ben here, one of the paper's core author authors. The responses you got were mostly spot on.

For (1), it's because BERT has both noticeably fewer parameters, and we're comparing at short context length (in the interest of providing a broader comparison), so local attention is a lot impactful than it is at the longer context lengths.

For (2), most LLMs are actually decoder-only, so there is no "encoder" here. But also, there's not a lot of LLMs in the ±100M parameter range in the first place!
Absolutely true! And that’s only half of it. In schemes like this, how can you even tell the operators are following protocol? How do you know it's not a façade? At the edge of all those schemes, there's a point where you simply must rely on blind trust. Solving this challenge was one of our greatest motivations – and the only way to replace blind trust is through total verifiability. As far as we’re aware, our approach is the only one that allows verifiability on all facets: 1) access to source code, 2) having the ability to verify client-side code in run-time is another (in two different ways), and 3) last, but most important, anyone can opt to run parts of their keys on their own privately hosted nodes – so even if the entire network is colluding, you have the guarantee your own nodes aren't. Happy to elaborate.
Hydroxychloroquine was touted as a treatment about a year before ivermectin became popular. I was actually prescribed HCQ in a hospital for covid in April 2020. In the early days it was unclear if it helped or not.
Thank you! We're fixing the link.
https://duckbillgroup.com/
Thanks for asking. I’m from Apache Cloudberry community.

I think there is a plan on integration with iceberg, you can take this for reference: https://github.com/apache/cloudberry/discussions/369. We are also discussing the new roadmap, FYI.
Lawmakers are generally beholden to their lobbyists i.e. the people who give them money. They don't care about anyone's safety, health or well-being. They do however, care a great deal about corporate profits.

That's the system we've built, and it's a very good one if you're a corporation.
It's AI versus the World's Largest Tuberculosis Epidemic
Onecould train SWEs to trade in foreign-exchange markets, which is at a lower level,so what?
"During a code-yellow, a leader can escalate a project/situation to a war room situation, pulling people out of their day-to-day work to focus entirely on the problem at hand. "

In one of those books management gurus right at the end of their workspan, one of them wrote that he did not believe a project was worth doing if it was not worth having a war room in which to focus people on the problem at hand.

Lowering Work In Progress is one of the easy ways to gain success...
>(the second is that Wh for energy is as silly as speed hours for distance)

This would be a devastating own if a single Joule wasn't exactly equal to a Watt-second.
AFAIK they mostly grow from clones, and thus, would be completely unaffected by pollination. Unless I misunderstand plants, pollination impacts the seeds produced, and therefore the subsequent generation. So long as it keeps being cut and propagated, rather than grown from seed, you could be relatively certain of near identical genetics.
I always thought it was because OG hams had some sort of regional accent and would say hamateur.
Make me a knife!

(Of course I'll pay for it.)
What a beautiful article; the author weaves together the blacksmith's story with the science of the forge and red-hot metal inside in a way that put me there, as if I was watching Sam turn a deck of metal cards into a knife. The photos that accompany the text are stunning in their own right.

Author Laurence Gonzales writes, "In a sense, the knife marked the birth of civilization", which reminds me of the first knives that the survivors of Verne's "The Mysterious Island" make in their desperation and ingenuity:

“Ah, if we only had a knife!” cried the sailor.

“Well?” asked Cyrus Harding.

“Well! I would soon make a bow and arrows, and then there could be plenty of game in the larder!”

“Yes, a knife, a sharp blade.” said the engineer, as if he was speaking to himself.

At this moment his eyes fell upon Top, who was running about on the shore. Suddenly Harding’s face became animated.

“Top, here,” said he.

The dog came at his master’s call. The latter took Top’s head between his hands, and unfastening the collar which the animal wore round his neck, he broke it in two, saying,—

“There are two knives, Pencroft!”

Two hurrahs from the sailor was the reply. Top’s collar was made of a thin piece of tempered steel. They had only to sharpen it on a piece of sandstone, then to raise the edge on a finer stone. Now sandstone was abundant on the beach, and two hours after the stock of tools in the colony consisted of two sharp blades, which were easily fixed in solid handles.

The production of these their first tools was hailed as a triumph. It was indeed a valuable result of their labor, and a very opportune one. They set out.
I recall an issue when trying to use lwarx/stwcx on Xbox 360 directly that the compiler (or maybe even the kernel, on program load? it's been a while) raised an error and said to use the Interlocked intrinsics instead -- is that related?
I didn't calculate anything I just put in an address and a monthly electricity bill.

https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/
The license used isn't important in my opinion, when talking about open source the question is whether the source code is available to be modified and reviewed/interpreted.

Photoshop, or any compiled binary, isn't meant to be open source and the code isn't meant to be reviewable. Llama is called open source, though the most important part isn't publicly available for review. If llama didn't claim to be open source I don't think it would matter that the model itself and all the weights aren't available.

If your argument is just that most software is shipped as compiled and/or obfuscated code, sure that's how it is usually done. That isn't considered open source though, and the line with LLMs seems to be very gray - it can be "open source" if the source code for the training logic is available even though the actual code/model being run can't be reviewed or interpreted.
We had a bit of a discussion around it, but I figured that 6 years warranted the prefix, and it's easier to remember in the sea of new acronyms popping up everyday.

Besides, PostModernBERT will be there for us for the next generational jump.
have a look at hyperbeam
Oh god, someone needs to port this to Windows.
They will at best waste your time, and at worst they will cause you and your family harm for involving them. In Toronto even a stolen car is not enough to get their attention if you are not a high-profile business owner.
The more consequential the failure, the more rigorous the software engineering. afaik Space/Rocketry/Medicine consists of rigorous engineering, because the failure modes end in death.
I see proponents of type systems often mention that types make refactoring easier and safer, but wasn't the first refactoring browser made for and in Smalltalk? How did Smalltalk maintain the types when performing large changes?
Yet we tip 15%+ — so it is clearly cultural
In fact IIRC the first thing that happened when AirTags were announced were a bunch of concerns that surreptitious AirTags were usable as stalking devices and this seems to bring that concern up again.
searched and grabbed it at https://imgur.com/a/kowloon-walled-city-holdup-txskztK

I love this illustration it, gives me the same vibe I got from Richard Scarry books when I was 5.
The source data for the training needs to be public and freely licensed too, otherwise its IMO not an open source model.
What does strong typing have to do with procedural vs. declarative? IMO strong typing is beneficial regardless.
https://archive.ph/hb9lw
And often, how fast they have some mvp thing in their hands...the better. Maybe not actually better, but politically better or whatever.

Quality, maintainability, etc, is less important in that moment. And, like many things in companies, short term desires dominate.
My mouse have loads of features like programmable buttons. I don't think it should be memory resident - probably could work by opening, configuring, saving to firmware and shutting down, but at least its existence is justified. Wasn't it shit, I would be OK with it.
Yes. Although four cards has only one nontrivial branch, on turn 3. So, start out with the four cards example, and then show tree diagrams for the 5 and 6 cards cases (still manageable numbers) to build intuition for induction to the general case.
> ensure games sold for the platform "just work"

To add a little more color to this, it wasn't solely to ensure games worked. The lesson of the video game crash was that third party publishers would make knock-off games similar to popular titles and flood the market with them at much lower cost - sometimes as low as $5 vs for a $40 for a top title. These games were generally low budget and rushed to market to capitalize on looking like a top-selling title - while being just different enough to (hopefully) avoid trademark infringement.

These games usually "worked" (as in booting up and playing), the issue was more that that they were just bad versions of the title they were ripping off due to having little development time and minimal play testing along with poorer artwork and fewer levels (thus saving ROM memory). The flood of cheap, bad versions of more popular games is credited as the main factor that killed the Atari VCS.

Another big factor was that later console manufacturers charged game publishers a license fee for the proprietary library code required for a console to run a game. This fee could allow manufacturers to sell game consoles at cost or even below cost and recoup the lost profit over time in the per game license fee.

This wasn't always the case in the early days of hardware cartridge systems. Initially, some early console manufacturers didn't charge much more than a game publisher could buy blank cartridges for from a third party. Some other manufacturers chose to generate revenue simply by building more margin into the wholesale price they charged game publishers for blank cartridges. Of course, when console manufacturers started increasing their cartridge profit margin, game publishers were motivated to use third party cartridges - which led to console makers deploying "genuine hardware" checks or, later, disc checks and encryption. Nintendo popularized enforcing their business model both technically and legally (by requiring an IP license). Today, console manufacturer business models rely on 1) Collecting per game license fees, 2) Blocking piracy, 3) Limiting game supply.

There is a lot of interesting history around how game console business models and the legal landscape evolved over time. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_....)
They will never get around to it. They don't even pursue stolen cars.
It'd be the delivery thad' be late, not the delivery estimate on the order page. The potential impact here would be related to how many newly triggered returns happen due to the gift arriving after Christmas.
Rural Cosplay is, Unfortunately, A Thing [video]
I think it's also worth pointing out that the console makers (and developers) pour a lot more resources into ensuring that the products released for their platform are of a suitable quality than, say, phone app store gatekeepers.

A big draw as well is that people can't (within the economic viability timeframe of the games/console) hack the games on a console, meaning you get a much more predictable online experience than you might on PC.
I'm their defense, most places I have stayed have never asked me to actually clean. They usually just ask that you take the trash out and do a few other things that could leave the place smelly if no one comes in the next day or two to clean.
UConn had a Racket programming course for maybe a decade up until last year. Enough people complained that it was too hard and a weed-out course and the administration dropped it. Yet another blunder by the CSE department.
That's exactly my point. This isn't telling you anything about the controlling variables: labor, G&A, taxes.
If the battery can work so long, I'd love to use it for my quartz watch!!
There's a bunch of bicycle accessories available specifically for hiding Airtags on bicycles. Under the bottle cage and under the saddle are two popular options.
She also blocked the huge grocery conglomerate merger. I don't think most of their cases were of tiny acquisitions.
Yes that revision is patched to specifically counter RGH. Microsoft disabled the ability to get the precise timing needed from the CPU and also added more filtering/robustness so the system will reset properly instead of getting into the inconsistent state of the old revisions.
Input type=“search” has some additional niceties. Html5 is great.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
But why did the pound (or the dollar which replaced it) emerged in the first place?

People realized what you are saying 400 years ago. It is not a deep or new insight just because bitcoin emerged. Just because tech allows you to create a store of value doesnt mean people needed tech to produce their own stores or value in the past.

We already had the Free Banking system where anyone could print their own store of value. Guess what happened?

Whether it was France or US or British India the same story plays out. All this has already happened.

Read some history of money.

There is a reason central banks and centralized currencies emerged world wide. The Free Banking systems failed.
Gitlab reverting its stance on digital nomads, asks staff to go back home
Total nihilism from oligarchs is how Russia operates.

America doesn't need that but it does seem the direction America's determined to go.
It's hard to grok this title, I'm sure it's the length constraint. Suggestion:
120->480Hz OLED: More noticeable than 60->120Hz, Even For Office
Show HN: Gribstream.com – Historical Weather Forecast API
Hello! I'd like share about my sideproject https://gribstream.com

It is an API to extract weather forecasting data from the National Blend of Models (NBM) https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/mdl/nbm and the Global Forecast System (GFS) https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/gl... . The data is freely available from AWS S3 in grib2 format which can be great but also really hard (and resource intensive) to work with, especially if you want to extract timeseries over long periods of time based on a few coordinates. Being able to query and extract only what you want out of terabytes of data in just an http request is really nice.

What is cool about this dataset is that it has hourly data with full forecast history so you can use the dataset to train and forecast other parameters and have proper backtesting because you can see the weather "as of" points in time in the past. It has a free tier so you can play with it. There is a long list of upcoming features I intend to implement and I would very much appreciate both feedback on what is currently available and on what features you would be most interested in seeing. Like... I'm not sure if it would be better to support a few other datasets or focus on supporting aggregations.

Features include:

- A free tier to help you get started
- Full history of weather forecasts
- Extract timeseries for thousands of coordinates, for months at a time, at hourly resolution in a single http request taking only seconds.
- Supports as-of/time-travel, indispensable for proper backtesting of derivative models
- Automatic gap filling of any missing data with the next best (most recent) forecast.

Please try it out and let me know what you think :)
Yes but that's a separate issue from conserving non-renewable resources.
HTTPS://gov.uk is amazing.
> The industry has developed an evolving (and often rhyming) litany of tactics as it awaits better times. Here’s a quick guide:

Extend and Pretend [...]
Amend and Extend [...]
Delay and Pray [...]
Survive Till ’25 [...]
Payment-in-Kind [...]
A/B [...]
Maturity Wall [...]

Even after the first reference to Pretend and Extend, I didn't expect them to bother with this primer/bestiary of tactics, so that's a pleasant surprise for the curious reader.