skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would these stewards of the land commit suicide if, holistically, humans were bad for the land?

Most likely they'd change their ways and not be so bad for the land. Humans are a smart and very adaptable species. I'm sure we can master that art.
Speaking as both a D&D DM and player, the "sub-optimal game play" makes the campaign more fun, more diverse, and offers more thoroughly enjoyable role-playing and problem solving opportunities. It doesn't make it less fun.

Not to mention that D&D rules aren't carved in stone. I've never encountered a DM or D&D group that wouldn't allow players the leeway to create a barbarian gnome or half-orc wizard with their desired stats, if that was important to them.

The changes WoTC made are bad, and make everything less fun and more generic. Their intentions were good, but what they've done really isn't helpful or good at all.
I'd be interested to know how o1 compares. On may days after I completed the AoC puzzles I was putting them question into o1 and it seemed to do really well.
Real wages are not up for low earners. This is such an obvious math flaw I can't understand how nobody is challenging it. Real wages are adjusted for average inflation based on all consumers. However low earners experience much higher inflation than the average, at least double, and their consumption is vastly different (all of it is housing, food and energy in that order). Many of these low wage earners are periodically homeless or otherwise avoid paying bills to begin with.
Psssh, y'all been letting the billionaires and trillionaires do this forever now. Products only get more subpar and profit margins only grow and we're all too busy hating each other for sex, skin colour, sexuality, etc because we're just animals.

Ain't gonna change unless we genetically engineer our dumbass evolutionary history out of ourselves.
Does MW not store diffs as diffs (I'd think it would for storage efficiency)? That shouldn't really require much computation. Did diffs take 30s+ to render 15-20 years ago?

For what it's worth my kiwix copy of Wikipedia has a ~5ms response time for an uncached article according to Firefox. If I hit a single URL with wrk (so some caching at least with disks. Don't know what else kiwix might do) at concurrency 8, it does 13k rps on my n305 with a 500 us average response time. That's over 20Gbit/s, so basically impossible to actually saturate. If I load test from another computer it uses ~0.2 cores to max out 1Gbit/s. Different code bases and presumably kiwix is a bit more static, but at least provides a little context to compare with for orders of magnitude. A 3 OOM difference seems pretty extreme.

Incidentally, local copies of things are pretty great. It really makes you notice how slow the web is when links open in like 1 frame.
Given they control both hardware and software, can they have both like efficiency core + power core, with some memory is unified (up to 64 GB) and some dGPU has different memory which they sell against NVIDIA ... Apple has to grow further is hard, but having a T$ firm in front of you with a hardware piece you have is much better than building an Apple Car ...
Then you would probably appreciate one of the more obscure and specialized Kai Power Tools for Photoshop: KTP Convolver!

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/724-kpt-convolver-1-0

I can't find any demos of it on youtube, but it's the kind of obscure retro thing that LGR loves to review. He's really into the better known Kai Power Goo, which is a bit more accessible to kids than KPT Convolver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt06OSIQ0PE
I wish that worked with my 4yo. He’ll whine and whine. And then feel rejected and start deliberately causing trouble to gain attention. Literally cannot be alone for a second.
I tried that with Cody (from Sourcegraph) using probably o1 model and I struggled. I had a long function with a number of conditions and early returns.

At first Cody generated a single test case, then I asked if to consider all possible scenarios in that function (around 10), it generated 5 cases, 3 of which were correct and 2 scenarios were made up (it tried to use nonexistent enum values).

In the end I used it to generate some mocks and a few minor things but then I copy pasted the test myself a few times and changed the values manually.

Did it save me some time in the end? Possibly, but also it caused a lot of frustration. I still hope it gets better because generating tests should be a great use case for LLMs
Does this support the Selfish Gene theory of Richard Dawkins? They look like the smallest self-replicating molecules that he mentions in the beginning of the book.
When LLMs and diffusion models began spreading freely, it was very funny to have support for some beefy high end GPUs and MacBook Air M1.

I hope Apple sticks with the architecture. Even if its not very practical, its great to have it as possible.
The premise of TFA is that we're treating viruses and virus-like things as a class of lifeform. There are RNA viruses, and these obelisk things are also RNA-based. Presumably that's what OP is asking about with regard to RNA-based lifeforms.
Should show what Daniel Craig got in casino royale.

The nut smasher
Women are generally weaker than men, and even in the situation that you're explaining, women with a strength penalty could still end up stronger than men within the game.

The insistence that acknowledging that women are weaker than men is some sort of bigotry is deeply misogynistic. If fantasy women are just as strong as men, then real women just need to work harder to live up to the standards of men. If women in fantasy are as strong as men, then women in reality aren't being allowed to see themselves in fantasy.

The repeated justification that women in a fantasy world shouldn't resemble women, or "...in a game where you can shoot fireballs, travel through dimensions, go back in time, and resurrect the dead..." is silly. Women in a game can also get magic powers that make them stronger. Erasing female physicality is erasing women, and replacing them with men playing women.
Is it possible to use this as an alternative 2D paper printer as well? Or is the position granularity too large?

Asking as there's been many discussions over the years desiring an open source paper printer and while this would be a rather slow and cumbersome approach it could be useful for those who do 3d printing a fair amount and print to paper on rare occasions.
Bond was born outdated when the british empire was gone. Now it's really time to invent something else instead of keep doing the same stuff over and over. No matter how much the visitors of this website might downvote me :D
i believe the ingredients list is ordered by amount of ingredient, so it's a quick scan to see if sugar (of whatever sort) is an added ingredient, despite the nonsense of numerical truncation being allowed in grams.
> MLton provides a feature rich Standard ML programming environment, with full support for SML97

It's interesting that there seems to have been no additions to the standard language since 1997? SQL, C++ standards are updated twice a decade, but no interest in adding to SML?
I think it's probably worth mentioning that the principal concern for tests should be proving out the application's logic, and unless you're really leaning on your database to be, e.g., a source of type and invariant enforcement for your data, any sort of database-specific testing can be deferred to integration and UAT.

I use both the mocked and real database approaches illustrated here because they ultimately focus on different things: the mocked approach validates that the model is internally consistent with itself, and the real database approach validates that the same model is externally consistent with the real world.

It may seem like a duplication of effort to do that, but tests are where you really should Write Everything Twice in a world where it's expected that you Don't Repeat Yourself.
I think there is a big difference in experiences for people who are in the Apple ecosystem and people who aren’t. Apple has made the whole show seamless, so you move from device to device and everything just works, your passkeys are there. At worst, you use your phone to do the login.

It’s also seamless if you lose a device. Your new device has your passkeys, and you can get by with an iPad or older phone until replaced. I think the space where people have all the pain is outside of this ecosystem. Apple is showing it can be done well, but it’s clearly not the experience people are having outside of that walled garden.
I adore writings like this, mistake is the wrong word, but we learn best from the experience of others esp where things did not work and why.

BTW, this is from the author of Broot, the creative file explorer.

https://github.com/Canop/broot

When we try so hard to appear successful and without mistake, it paints a distorted picture. The dead ends are where knowledge is made.

Teaser from the article

> If you go stale and you want to go further, you should

understand that it's normal, because Rust has different concepts that you must learn
stop trying without trying, you're wasting time and motivation
go back to the fight with dedicated time and energy
I read that solar is cheaper than fossil fuel generation. Also, building a solar+battery power source that does not require grid connection means you don't have to wait 5-10 years for an interconnect to be approved. Up time for the data center may be improved also. But even if it cost more, so what, make it a requirement anyway for new construction so it won't cause problems with the grid that everyone else uses.
So, straightforwardly, you believe Walmart operates the stores it does, employees the people it does, and has the profit it does because of taxpayer subsidies. And you're happy to take on the cost of that welfare even if you don't shop at Walmart because Walmart is so inefficient that without state subsidies it would no longer operate or employee anyone. And you must protect Walmart from its own incompetence and distort the market so Walmart doesn't have to pay its true costs and so it can survive.

You probably don't think of yourself as a socialist but socialism is what you're wholeheartedly advocating for here.

And the welfare state you're supporting the worst kind of socialism: corporate handouts for privatized profits and socialized costs.
The reason these things are so hard to find on Earth is because it's teeming with other life. If it wasn't and these things were isolated on Mars it would be relatively easy.
Vitrification of the waste (mixing it into and storage deep underground provides a safe way to store waste for 1000s of years.

> There is no place in the world geologically stable for the required period (we have no way to know)

This can be said of anything, which is IMO a defeatist attitude. Nothing we do is guaranteed to not cause harm. Likewise, our inaction could also cause harm.

For the specific question of stable geology, past performance can help predict future performance. We can make educated guesses. If it has been stable for the last million years, it's a good be it will be stable for the next 10,000.

> We have no way to communicate with people about the dangers for over 100_000 years.

The need to communicate the dangers over vast timeframes presupposes that society has fallen into ruin, and our record keeping has been destroyed. I will argue that if that has happened, it means countless billions will have perished, and people+or lizardmen) living primitive lifestyles will have far bigger worries than and increased cancer risk.

> The political impetus is to get future generations to pay for our current consumption

We are paying for our current consumption of fossil fuels right now. How many deaths from climate change over the next 200 years are appropriate to ensure the safety of an unknown number of people thousands of years from now?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrification
It would appear better. The absolute value of written off loans will perpetually increase since the total amount in loans will increase.

The record 2010 number is ~$80 billion in 2024 dollars vs $46 billion this year.
It’s fairly well known that BitLocker only really protects a computer that is turned off, and also only if you configure BitLocker to require a boot password [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker#TPM_alone_is_not_eno...
Apologies if I implied that it was. I think it's fine to discuss these things in a reasonable and rational way. My point is that was not happened over on X.
And it's not so much that the stock market is booming, rather the value of the dollar is imploding. Those are equivalent statements but media chose to preset the "number go up" picture. Reality is for every number that "goes up", another number goes down, and the number that goes down is the value of cash.
It depends if I am working at home or at the office.

I wake up without an alarm clock and the day starts here at 9:00. If I am at home I make it to the first meeting, if at the office it depends.

After getting up, a biofunction and a shower I take my pills. This is the only hard routine I set up. Also using the My Therapy app helps a lot in not missing this.

The cat makes sure I do not forget to give her her first breakfast.

And that's all. I do not think you need to have a routine to have a good life. And, only second, be productive.

I am French so there is a cultural aspect to it: productive is not the first thing that gets to my head when I think about my day.
Why not use something similar to SQRL instead?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQRL
I would think that if you couldn't set up a modern computer so that it launched a BASIC interpreter immediately on completing boot-up, you could at least have the BASIC ready as an obvious icon on the desktop and taskbar/dock, so that a double-click would get it going. Microsoft 365 BASIC is a thing for Win11, and on the Apple App Store there is BestBASIC with an example of it drawing the Mandelbrot set. There are also LOGO interpreters for Win and Mac.
I am really glad we are finding new pieces of the puzzle of how our gut works and perhaps can someday understand their effect on immunity, neuro-degeneration, cancer etc. for which we now only have accidental findings.
The first link is very nice, worth of a submission of its own.
> But part of it is because the award shows have criteria for eligibility (for best picture etc) that require meeting diversity and other requirements that have nothing to do with how entertaining the show is. Since those creating or participating in these shows don’t want to be ineligible, they do whatever it takes, including retconning.

Perhaps I'm a little bit too rebellious to be a culture fit for the movie industry, but if this is the case, I would be very encouraged to create an a show that is outstanding, but violates the DEI criteria of the award, so that the awards become a target of ridiculation for not including "my" show because of stupid DEI criteria.
Equal Temperament Playground
'Free Speech Absolutist' Elon Musk Suspends Critics, Asks People to Be Nicer
I think the Craig movies are the high point so far of the series for a variety of reasons. They still have the swaggering machismo of Bond, but with more varied and interesting consequences. Bond still gets laid, but it's not treated as a mid-mission diversion (or post-mission reward) to which Bond is entitled. Craig proved there's lots of modernizing that can be done without touching the core conceit of being a 00 agent.
I did some cursory reading on Propeller and Propeller 2 and they seem really geared towards TV timings, and the perfect choice for a 200x320 screen with composite output. One of the reasons I mentioned DisplayPort is that, AFAIK, you don't need to race an imaginary beam with it.

> fit the 1980s aesthetic.

Can't blame you for that - the 80's is where I grew up and that feel is unbeatable (even though I liked the higher-end gear from DEC and IBM as well).
Adds are cheaper only for fixed-point computations. Floating point addition needs to denormalize one of its' arguments, perform an (integer) addition and then normalize the result.

Usually FP adds take a cycle or two longer than FP multiplication.
I implemented split IO with io_uring, epoll and eventfd and my own thread safe comm pattern

You can write to an eventfd to wake up io_uring listening on an epoll instance.
Microsoft isn't a great example. They basically just crib Apple's approach. And they do at least still have socketed storage so that's very cheap to upgrade if you do it that way.
Wake up to my kid scream whispering at my baby to stop kicking me in the throat, change diapers make coffee and eggs, read a couple headlines about how it's the worst time in history to be alive, make lunches clean up breakfast and leave for work late to attend the daily all company hour long standup.

In all seriousness, sans young baby the most productive time of my life has been fitting exercise/side project time in between 4:30-6am. I made some real gains during that time and plan to get back into that routine once sleep isn't so rare.
Dosa: Dataset of Social Artifacts from Different Indian Geographical Subcultures [pdf]
Kamloops does not appear in the article. You're writing nonsense in the context of the article.
Nvidia Completes Run:AI Acquisition
> Giving Apple access to all Facebook or Instagram data and letting them decide where to draw the line.

Meta is running an app store on Instagram that Apple is using?
> VLIW is again a different thing.

No it isn't. I'm being very deliberate here with refusing pedantry. In practice, "multiple dispatch" means "OO" in the same way that "VLIW" means "parallel in order dispatch". Yes, you can imagine hypothetical CPUs that mix the distinction, but they'd be so weird that they'd never be built. Discussing the jargon without context only confuses things.

> you can have, for example, a classic in-order RISC design that allows for parallel execution.

Only by inventing VLIW, though, otherwise there's no way to tell the CPU how to order what it does. Which is my point; the ideas are joined at the hip. Note that the Pentium had two defined pipes with specific rules about how the pairing was encoded in the instruction stream. It was, in practice, a VLIW architecture (just one with a variable length encoding and where most of the available instruction bundles only filled one slot)! Pedantry hurts in this world, it doesn't help.
Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations Continue Paying Off for AMD EPYC
are they irrelevant?
What's the difference with https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&ia=chat&duckai=... ?
Just to make a point here, Judo/BJJ stand out because their "dress codes" are actually part of how the sport works in practice. A lot of throws and holds involve the gi, so standardizing what's worn (which has been done in the case of Judo for a very long time) isn't just aesthetic or traditional. I don't believe that in the case of, for example golf, the dress code is functional.
Could you give some concrete examples, including when (approximate year/decade is ok) they were considering UMA for CPU/GPU?

As a couple of others have mentioned, smartphones/tablets/laptops seem to be the driving force in UMA's spread.
So a $3,000.00 check is part of a five figure increase in unallocated discretionary income?
thought the same thing and wrote this: https://blog.mixpeek.com/dynamic-video-chunking-scene-detect...

which uses https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect

under the hood i'm sure it's the same ffmpeg method ;)
> but I haven't seen a recycler want it

Perhaps that is a US problem, in Europe glass recycling is fairly Universal at all recycling centres and most neighbourhood streets have below ground waste containers for glass.

At least in my reality the issue is that Retailers have virtually eliminated glass alternatives from supermarket shelves. Other than beer/wine and some 1.5L juice bottles, pretty much everything else is plastic, even when the same product is also manufactured in glass, it simply does not exist in supermarket shelves.

You have to go to very large distribution centres to actual find glass alternatives for everyday products. So to me turning this into a consumer issue is naive.
Then just like before, don’t use them. You can still roll a sub-optimal character. No one is forcing anyone to make only superheroes.
Soundtrack in Rings of Power is very good. I liked the show overall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7oaZxdAMzI

What complaints did you have about the story?

Fallout turned out pretty good. I wish they wouldn't have cancelled The Expanse, it was a good show.
Bad actors frequently use BuyVM's services, also known as FranTech and Ponynet. Their popularity with Tor operators probably doesn't help how their network traffic is perceived either. As a result, organizations may handle traffic from their ASNs unfavorably.

I don't have a personal opinion about the company; however, email is important enough that it's worth considering edge cases and future scenarios.
Burn Rate Calculator
It's not irrational, but it's a similar concern to things like lead poisoning (similar because you cannot see it, and the effects are long term).

Like with any risk, there should be appropriate and proportional risk mitigation strategies put in place. Current strategies are outsized compared to the risk.

The anti-nuclear environmental movement will go down in history as one of the biggest own goals. If nuclear power had have had continued investment into engineering improvements, the world would be in a much better place WRT climate change.
Prompt Engineering Jobs is shutting down
Show HN: I made a tool to sync old New Year's broadcasts to midnight (SolidJS)
Last year we wound up watching an old NYE broadcast instead of the televised one and really enjoyed the nostalgia of it all. To try and capture that I've made this website which collected every half decent broadcast I could find on youtube and their respective new year's timestamps.

It's a bit rushed out here to be of some use for this new year (thought I'd have more time to work on it over Christmas) but should roughly work as intended.

The full archive is viewable at https://sync-play.netlify.app/list

You can make your own links to synchronise to a time at https://sync-play.netlify.app/build
I know "The Scene" has 1K demo section, this 1,852 bytes could be interesting. An extra 852 bytes :)
Might need most of PCRs 0-7. Isn’t PCR 4 used to measure the EFI executable booted by UEFI?

Avoid GRUB, difficult to secure with it.

Kernel updates will also be painful…
> One problem in dealing with large, young companies (especially tech) is that most of them have a sense of entitlement. [...] It feels like legacy Hollywood, for all its faults, understood how to square ego circles better to get deals done.

I don't know much about this "tech culture", but are you sure that they really have this sense of entitlement? Couldn't it rather be that these "tech people" are simply less experienced in "deal politics" and bootlicking important stake holders?
A bit of an aside- in one of the sequels to A Fire Upon the Deep, somebody has to interpret some very lossy audio and video into the most likely explanation, but they are stuck with a stupider than usual AI and it misinterprets the results (it's implied if they had their full AI it would have gotten the interpretation correct even with the ambiguity). This episode in the book completely changed how I think about imputation under uncertainty. Often, I don't want a single high confidence prediction, I want a probability distribution of the most likely predictions, rank ordered.
This matches my experience perfectly. As someone who is technically skilled but has no particular security expertise, I've tried to gradually implement passkeys where available across the most important and frequently used of my accounts, and... I'd have to go read the goddamn spec to have any idea what's going on. Pretty much all I've learned is that sometimes I can use touch ID to log into stuff now, and sometimes I can't, and the reasons are totally damn opaque.