skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've mixed up a few mostly unrelated things together to make a point. You're correct in that the larger point to be made is that analog and digital computing are paradigmatically distinct and analogies are hard to draw across that divide.

However, "bits" is just a quantity of information in a certain base. We could discuss it in "nits" if you prefer. The point is that information per se remains real even if the specific representation is based on some assumption of digital computing.

The rest of your comment is unfortunately out of scope of this article although it deserves some discussion on its own merit.
Even today plenty of Christian sects refuse to recognize the council of Nicaea's interpretation of the trinity, including the Mormons and the Jehovah's witnesses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism (Whether or not any of these flirt with polytheism is up for debate.)

Meanwhile, the Catholic church's own profusion of saints whom you are supposed to beseech for specific blessings is dangerously close to a polytheistic practice in its own right.
On bitwarden you can also put an emergency access with an emergency contact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413539
Are you referencing particular data?
> posting concerns on Reddit

He started commenting after NHTSA was already on the case. He was commenting the investigation where VinFast was cooperating.

It would be better to report to media, regulators or, relevant hedge fund who could start shorting.
What a cute game, loved trying it out!

if y'all only care about the game: https://mooncraft2000.com/
The issue isn’t the quality of libraries, and as you said, there are nice ones out there. The issue is the churn and dependency management.

And as for fast moving startups, the most important factor will always be the problem (and it’s myriad sub problem) and hiring. Selecting a language is dependent on those.
Is that even legal in the UK?
AI Has Taken Over
They where using the brand Choopa before vultr which was a thing since at least 2001. [0]

EDIT: News about their brand consolidation [1]

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405033628/http://choopa.com...

[1]: https://www.constant.com/transition-to-vultr/
Israel doesn’t allow Messianic Jews to be citizens for this reason.
> a lot of male cult members join because the cult has hot girls. This seems to have been a big factor in the spread of early Christianity as well.

well, that explains it then
Elon Musk's Grok-2 is now free – and it's a mess
US may ban TP-Link routers/switches over links to Chinese government
At the time the largest cemetery in the world, Brookwood Cemetery was designed to be large enough to accommodate all the deaths in London for centuries to come, and the LNC hoped to gain a monopoly on London's burial industry.

There is something amusing about how incredibly ambitious they were, yet they completely missed the mark on how many people would live (and die) in London in the following centuries.
TP-Link products are actually great value for money. I find them incredibly reliable and cost effective, especially their Omada line.

Anyhow good news for Ubiquity/UniFi I guess, which is a local US company.
> I notice that the Latin of this inscription is very messy

To a modern eye (like mine), other examples of Roman cursive look hard to read as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive
I agree that people still use C++, I just find it very difficult to imagine a C++ programmer I'd trust as much as the rust compiler. Hence my comment.

FWIW, I programmed C++ for 15 years—it's a useful tool, but it doesn't have much use anymore outside of legacy tooling, codebases, and developers who can't learn new things.
Boolean logic extends just fine to handle complexity. Instead it’s the intuitive classification people come up with that are often a poor fit for reality.

Is someone’s DNA consistent throughout their body? Y/N
Does someone have any chromosomal anomalies? Y/N etc

Similarly it’s very possible for a girl to suffer from abnormally low testosterone levels which doesn’t fit with how the public thinks of it as a gendered hormone. During puberty it normally spikes in both girls and boys. From a range of (2.5 - 10) in prepubescents, the typical range in puberty for boys is much higher (100 - 970) vs (15 - 38) but that doesn’t make it a male hormone just a pathway used differently.
The weird thing for me here is why it is relevant that it's an electric car, at the end of the day the failure was with the engineering of the suspension, nothing to do with the way that it is powered. This could have happened with any vehicle, this article seems to be click baiting on the fact that the model was an EV.
Sproutcore.js was the framework used for early day iCloud. It was super snappy and got implemented for the Web UI on Transmission.
I asked someone with hyperphantasia, and they said that they do indeed see images, but they also don’t bother them or are a positive even. Someone on the more normal side said they need to actively picture them, it’s not unbidden. And finally, someone else said that they can’t read about child sexual abuse without seeing it, which makes them avoid any such accounts.

Interesting issues I had never thought about.
Indeed, Magic8ball.me can be quite interesting at times, especially when you need a bit of inspiration or entertainment. A quick question can bring some lighthearted fun! Do you think the site could add some practical features, like more logical response modes or AI-generated personalized answers?
If you take vc money that’s the deal.
The Paradoxical Slowness of Human Behavior
I'm honestly shocked WFH has lasted as long as it has. I thought we'd all be back in the office full time in 2021.
> If you never take big swings and big risks and are happy with small wins and stable growth you'll never win the big prize. And while this might be healthier for you as an individual, it's bad for the Economy.

Correction: it's not bad for the economy, it's bad for the investors (the only people who matter in the whole world).

I'm sure a tremendous amount of actual value in the economy has been destroyed by VCs demanding a binary result of either total failure or exponential growth.
Nice book, can you share your anki deck ?
Another relevant point is the common anecdote about, eg, some master engineer who gets paid big bucks to come fix some problem that's been blocking up a factory for weeks. The engineer walks around, listens to a few of the machines, and then walks up to one of the machines and knocks it with his elbow Fonzi style and the factory starts running again. The factory boss is happy his factory is working, but annoyed that he paid so much for such an "easy" solution.

Ie, the amount of input and processing required to produce the "right" 10 bits might be far larger than 10 bits. Another obvious example is chess. The amount of bits conveyed by each move is small but, if you want to make the right move, you should probably put some deeper thought into it.

Humans are essentially organisms that collect and filter information, boil it down to a condensed soup of understanding, and emit a light sprinkle of carefully chosen bits intended to reshape the future towards their desires.
They have a job listing looking for engineers. I have no idea if this role would work on HN or if the tech stack is relevant to HN.

It lists the tech stack as Rails, React, Postgres.

https://www.ycombinator.com/careers?ashby_jid=ef00c8d1-76e7-...
Search engines could crawl it if they wanted to.
That would be true if not for Java making the critical mistake of excluding RuntimeException from method definitions, so in-practice people just extend RuntimeException to keep their methods looking "clean".
Real nvidia competition will come from innovating in chips, not this thing which is mostly focused on way higher levels (cloud)
In the absence of positive data with decent sample size it's rational to substitute anecdotal data. And we all know using a chatbot with no brain sucks ass
Businesses love to burn through talent I've learned
Bits are a perfectly acceptable way to measure biological information processing. These are not the boolean logic digital bits like on a computer. They're the more abstract concept of a bit in information theory.

Take the number of distinct possible configurations a system can be in (accounting for statistical uncertainty/biases if needed), take the base 2 logarithm of that number, and you have the bits of information in the system. This can be applied to basically anything, biological or otherwise.
it is a categorization, like all things in biology. One of the most robust and significant ones for all of life is sexual versus asexual reproduction. It is intentionally blurring understanding to say that it is not a binary. This is not a gaussian situation, and not fitting into this categorization is exceedingly rare due to defect/mutation which largely does not proliferate genetically.
HN: Growflyer – Simplifying Website Analytics and Visitor Engagement
I revisited Henry Hazlitt’s economics in one lesson and in the chapter on labour unions, he actually is fairly moderate provided that unions stick to non-price distorting policies.

Making wage information more accessible to workers being a policy he- an Austrian School economist- supports.

This government ruling falls under that class of policies IMO. It makes prices much more available to consumers and does not on first inspection threaten to distort supply and demand.
All of this just makes me suspicious, perhaps unnecessarily so. I'm old enough to remember ENRON stashing a load of debt in their various "Raptor" LLCs before the final implosion.
Seems to work now! Cool product btw. Good luck on the launch :)
Unfortunately this article is a miss as it does not compare those investments to their entire portfolio size. Renewables have made great strides but the world still runs on the backs of fossil fuels.
> Why can we only think about one thing at a time?

Maybe this is just a perception thing. Sure, you can only really keep up one stream of thought, visualization or inner dialogue (whatever you want to call it) at a time, but perhaps that's because we learn all our lives that direct communication is a one-channel, linear thing--speaking and listening focused on one topic at a time. Our brain does plenty of thinking in the background that leads to "a-ha!" moments even when the direct focus of our thoughts isn't on that topic. What if the mind could maintain multiple threads of thoughts at once, but our language coerces our thought patterns into being linear and non-concurrent?
> It's right there in “your” manifesto. https://turso.tech/libsql-manifesto

Hard to believe they actually went after D. Richard Hipp--a guy I've only ever heard described as extremely warm, honest, and generous--and for his faith, no less. But then again, these are Rust people, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised, should I?
I did that parallax background effect on a web site many years ago. Unfortunately (but understandably) accelerometer data is now behind a permission prompt on the web. Displaying a garish modal permission prompt so that you can do a subtle background transition doesn't make sense as a tradeoff.
I’d say that is implied by “English.”

Entropy is a measure of the source, not output.
> most advanced

While I agree with your assessment from my subjective (european) perspective, this is inherently a value judgement and has no place in discussing genepools.

> less evolved humans

This is just a straight-up nonsensical concept.

> human genetic evolution peaked

this is also a nonsensical concept
In the mid-to-late naughts there arose the diploma mills, offering short programmes to turn students into silicon valley hopefuls. It fundamentally shifted the culture of software development.
this seems like a sideways retelling of the "Gospels of Thomas" stories.. this is a nuanced topic and shrouded by history.. Suffice it to say that intellectuals and pious people knew very well the cults of Apollo, astrology of High Priests, nature worship, Egyptian deism, goddess worship, and pantheonism while the Christian scriptures were solidifying as a social blueprint.
Can't wait for next pandemic....
I was about to say this but you beat me to it.

Seems like this 10 number comes out of the kind of research where the objective isn’t to find the truth, but to come up with an answer that is headline grabbing. It’s the scientific equivalent of clickbait.

Too bad people fall for it.
I wouldn’t say worked perfectly. It never failed in a catastrophic big-kaboom way, but it had multiple engine failures. One was so bad that it put Apollo 6 in the wrong orbit, and a relight failure kept it from going to the moon as planned. On Apollo 13, an extremely lucky engine failure actually saved the launch, as the rocket was in the process of shaking itself to pieces because of extreme vibrations from that engine.
How did they learn the languages they currently know?

Perhaps only God knows.
Management of Depression in Adults – A Review
> It’s worth noting that the name “Bering Land Bridge” is often misleading. The landscape was not a literal bridge

riveting science reporting from gizmodo
> Median incomes are stagnant

But they're not? Adjusted for inflation, median US household income is 18% higher than fifteen years ago and 32% higher than it was thirty years ago: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

You could say it was stagnant from 1999 to 2015, though.
How does this work? I mean what are the use cases for this platform? Do I still have to share my product page somewhere else or is there an organic traffic to your site?
Very cool. Question about the interactive image at the top of the page: why do the craters appear more distinct near the boundary of the dark and bright side of the moon and kind of much less on the brigh side surface far away from the boundary?
> Matrix has been all about superlative marketing and over-promises with little substance and theoretical underpinnings to back it up.

I don't think so. The underpinnings were there, may it be the concepts for E2EE, P2P, Verification, Bridging, decentralized rooms and conferencing, synchronized history, etc. Not everything is production ready let alone finished with perfect UX, but it doesn't lack theoretical underpinnings.

> The fact that they were spreading FUD and disinformation against XMPP

In the past, I have experienced it more often vice versa than this way.

> The fact that they haven't stabilized their protocol and made it scalable to mid-level deployments after more than a decade should be a reason for pause.

There are already pretty large deployments (1+ million users), so I think it's scalable to mid-level deployments.

> only one entity has emerged as willing to sink the costs of Matrix should be a reason for worries.

idk what you mean

> all of them XMPP services at one point or another of their histories

histories is an important keyword
I was working under the hypothesis that my fitness would generally predict my performance when compared to the world record. Turns out for +50% of the worlds top speeds, this works pretty well. New hypothesis would be that specialization occurs way below +50% of the worlds speediest.
DoorDash Got Redis to Handle 10M Reads per Second
This is the massive failure that exists in many states. You are unable to raise rates but the risk has increased and premiums must increase. Both CA and FL are huge losers in this regard. Heavy regulation on rate increases but then happy to create underfunded state policies for their constituents.
NASA astronauts Butch and Suni's homecoming delayed again
>> How many wonderful niche products would be around if their owners had tried for a small business instead of a 'huge business' with 'hyper growth'?

> People say that but as someone trying to actually do that, it is freaking hard to commit to 3-5 years of virtually no salary to maybe get to the same outcome you would have had with a funded business.

Isn't that a better outcome than putting in exactly the same effort but winding up with a totally failed business (i.e. nothing).
The term “design token” seems to have been invented at Salesforce as part of their design system a decade ago. Apparently the “token” part is the value of a configuration property and at minimum you need a key-value pair defining the property. There is an ecosystem where configuration files are used to exchange data between design tools for standardizing things like colors.

It’s kind of wild that this whole ecosystem evolved without previously coming up much on Hacker News, but that’s just how it goes. Inventing jargon isn’t bad. There is certainly a lot of programming jargon that we inflict on others.
Ask HN: Has Anyone Explored AI-Driven Test Case Generation?
I recently wrote a fascinating blog post, "The Marvelous Rise of AI Test Case Generation", which dives into how AI is revolutionizing software testing by automating the creation of test cases.

The article touches on:

- How AI tools are learning from production data to generate edge-case scenarios.
- The impact of AI on traditional testing practices and its potential to enhance developer productivity.
- Challenges and limitations of adopting AI for this purpose.

I’m curious to hear from the HN community:

1. Have you tried any AI-driven test case generation tools? If so, which ones, and how effective were they?
2. What’s your take on the future of AI in the testing space?
3. Are there specific challenges or gaps in AI testing solutions that still need to be addressed?
It might be though that even though our processing rate is limited to 10 bits per second, shortening the communication loop between the helper AI and the human might allow the human to switch subjects more productively by getting faster feedback. The human would be in an executive approval role like the lead character in Accelerando with their agents, assuming they trusted their agents to be delegated to.
Not a free market project. Funded by the US military.
This is complete nonsense.

> they have better overall baseline health indicators, sustainable living practices etc…

This is a totally ridiculous claim and not supported by any evidence.

> So humans left Africa, interbred with neandertal, created a less socialized, more sociopathic hybrid

This is one of the more stunningly racist things I've seen on here in quite some time. It's scarcely worth trying to point out that this is a completely baseless claim.
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There is also the very real-world consideration of: How do I hire people to maintain this beast?

Sometimes, you have to bow to industry trends. Otherwise, you're one or two resignations away from being dead in the water. A Haskell solution might be svelte and easy to reason about, for a Haskell programmer. But you have to also be prepared to train new hires on all that, and you may not have that lead time.
While testing it I've found that it starts to hallucinate pretty quickly. It doesn't seem to understand context as good as other competitors.
Apparently SpaceX is late building the dragon capsule for this mission.
Yes and that was what I was saying (sorry it wasn't clear).

What it means to be a Jew is complicated. Jews form an ethnicity of interconnected people with a range of beliefs and practices (it is, definitionally, not whether one is religiously adherent to Judaism). To me, one could in principle be religiously Christian and also ethnically Jewish (that's an unusual view among Jews), but to do that requires having an actual connection to the Jewish ethnicity (e.g. if one was raised ethnically Jewish and maintains a Jewish identity). My impression is that "Messianic Jews" are religiously and ethnically Christian who are importing Jewish practices into their otherwise non-Jewish identity. If OP's wife was born Jewish or converted prior becoming a "Messianic Jew," I would stand corrected.

If I, a very white person, start singing songs from Back churches, that doesn't make me Black. I wouldn't face the real-world struggles against racism of Black people, for example, and I think that's a useful hint when thinking about who is and isn't a member of a minority group like Jews. Likewise, acting out Jewish practices doesn't necessarily make one a Jew, and as one example it doesn't subject one to the sorts of anti-Semitism faced by Jews. I'm not saying facing anti-Semitism a necessary or sufficient condition for being a Jew, but if not that, then there must be something else that connects one to the Jewish ethnicity --- the interconnected people who believe they are Jews --- other than just by saying so.
> I think that they know that the maintenance of the certificate on their server could be a big point of failure

If you're building products that talk only to your APIs, you issue your own CA, at the very, very minimum you can put a fingerprint in the end-device to verify it, that can be updated OTA if you need to change the CA/server-cert because you kept the lifetime short.

My experience is that for people outside of the "security" space (I'm in secure-comms, backend), most of them don't have a clue. Some believe the only solution is a cert issued by some "trusted" org like LE, others don't know what pinning or verification is, self-sign is often mis-used as a term for self-CA, and then more generally speaking understanding or TLS is low.

The low-resource nature of microcontrollers has certainly made it difficult to do this well/easily in the past, but with micro-sized TLS libraries, and secure-elements on board many of them now, it can absolutely be done with a little effort and understanding. Coupled with EC/certs keys with smaller memory footprints and hardware-crypto accel the only take home I can find in any of this, is that these people simply don't give a shit about the security of the devices they sell and the data about their end-users they're spitting out.

> Razor thin margins, know how, dedicated staff

Half of this "smart" junk is sold at overinflated prices thanks to the "smart-tax". I have a heater which has an ESP32 and you manage it with an app (which I won't do), they spent a bunch on the app, put an ESP32 and some other electronics in what otherwise could have been a £20 heater instead of a £80 heater, and yet I can MiTM their TLS MQTT connection because they make no effort to protect it, all while this thing is spewing mountains of environmental data up to their cloud every 30 seconds that could quite easily be used to detect presence, amongst other things in my home, even when the thing isn't running.

I'm biased being a dev in the security space, but this sort of careless approach shouldn't be allowed when selling consumer electronics. Fortunately, in the UK, NCSC is making efforts to improve this with security labels[0] and requirements at PoS for consumer electronic devices, and I hope to see it develop further.

[0] https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/files/Security-law-smart-devices-NCS...
the tool Looks interesting. What all metrics are been tracked to gauge the intent of the visitor?
XFCE 4.20 is out: Wayland support lands, but some pieces are still missing
You can already imagine OS vendors publishing their design tokens to let you "easily" integrate your applications even if not using their UI libraries.
AT&T and Amazon have the right idea. Conference calls with offshore teams are far more effective when done in an open office environment, surrounded by people from unrelated teams doing the same thing.

The collaborative energy of hundreds of tightly-packed people trying to focus on different things together is amazing.
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Yes there are indeed lots of languages in existence.
> Our bodies' systems are biochemical wetware that will never be aptly described using a boolean basis.

All physical systems are described on a base-2 basis using bits, or shannon entropy.
Masayoshi Son (SoftBank) is investing $100 billion (?) in the US and heavily focusing on AI. Maybe they're trying to grab his attention? /s.