skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure most cookbooks claim to offer an optimal recipe or even that there is an optimal one and that preference may play a big role. Some sites like serious eats do more investigation but I agree, I really like the phase diagram approach. Seems to best apply for stabilized colloids (mayo, ice cream, vinaigrettes, etc).
That's what I love about these junior devs, man. I get more experienced, but they stay noobs. All right, all right, all right.
What I don't understand is what script kiddies hope to gain through the exploitation of relatively small sites like this, other than the rush of doing so, or the bragging rights that come from it.
Yes I did know that. And also some other things that are typically in science journals and papers. For “reasons” I happen to know something about hormones and metabolism, little bit more that the average person. I also knew about the energy balance and the ralation with the reward system. Also I happen to have read some things about how these two mechanism are ralated to the hormone, and how it can make harder or easier to lose weight.

You know, 25 years is a lot of time of research, and if you (or I in this case?!) work in a laboratory doing exactly that kind of research, you can learn something. Having lunchbeveryday withblots of MD and PhD in the field… ask me how I know…

Or people can also learn by not thinking they know everything, and listen to people that know better… but I digress… good luck!
TIL, one near me too. Are they pretty open to late night working/studying or more of a social hangout at nights?
In the 1960s, the Air Force decided that they had too many candidates for pilots, and to winnow it down all candidates with a speeding ticket were disqualified.

I've often felt this was unwise, as you want fighter pilots to be aggressive.
I'm honestly surprised that after 20 years of the Internet "never forgetting" things like this, we haven't gotten a lot better about forgiving them instead.
The U.S. prison population is around 2M people. I'm not sure how that translates to 77M people with criminal records. (I'm serious about wanting to know more about these statistics and how they're generated. My brief searches trying to find where the data claimed in the linked infographics comes from got me nowhere.

EDIT: I found the [National Longitudinal Survey of Youth](https://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy97.htm) and as far as I could tell from some super quick excel formulas it's about 32% of interview subjects (people born 1980 - 1984) reported being arrested at least once by 2021.
The Alder Lake anomaly, explained
OK, then our only possible disagreement is whether they have delegated it.
This post makes me wonder why videos of militias training always look so farcical.

Practically, why are there not militia groups with Navy SEAL/Delta-level tactical abilities? Or at least near to that? Is it personnel selection effects or bc that level of training requires time/money investments that are out of the reach of non-professional organizations?
> get away with extremely low exposure times

For night sky photography with an astro cam you’re still looking at exposure times of 20-60s at night (possibly also increasing the gain at night) and milliseconds during the day. The dynamic range is immense.

As someone who has struggled with this for my own allskycam, it’s extremly difficult to have white balance settings that perform well at all times of the cycle, especially with a camera designed to be more sensitive in the IR part of the spectrum (which will always look unrealistic). Settings that give you lovely white clouds and blue skies during the day tend to give you purple skies and green clouds at night. The quality of light is different so the white balance is different.

You can use autobalance or different white balance profiles for day and night but they each have issues.
It hallucinated less, that's for sure, because we know exactly how it works, though I doubt any of the AoC's challenges were suitable for its 1980s logic (that's when I typed in a magazine's C64 version).

"There's lies, damned lies, and statistics." --Unknown
There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval.

In other words we have a bona fide AI arms race between doctors and insurers with patient outcomes and profits in play. Wild stuff and nothing I could have ever imagined would be an applied use of ML research from earlier in my career.
Not sure who's downvoting this because the comment is objectively correct [1][2][3].

The practice of "convict leasing" is modern day slavery. This system should be abolished or, at a minimum, the prisoners should be paid at least minimum wage so we don't have the state to pay to lock people up and then some private corporation to profit off slave labor.

[1]: https://harvardpolitics.com/involuntary-servitude-how-prison...

[2]: https://innocenceproject.org/how-the-13th-amendment-kept-sla...

[3]: https://www.newsweek.com/book-american-slavery-continued-unt...
better quality scan

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
I built a similar shadow mapping tool for some commercial party that wanted to accurately estimate solar panel production in The Netherlands... In my specific case I could access very accurate LIDAR heightmaps gathered from planes.

This means you can ray-march the location of the sun throughout the year over the entire country to calculate exactly where and when a surface is occluded by shadows from nearby (or even faraway, sometimes) objects.

The LIDAR data can be as detailed as a shadow cast by antennas, a chimney or a tree... Which is more important than you'd think, because a little bit of shadow on a single panel means that all panels daisy-chained to that panel will see an efficiency drop! (So you either don't chain them but give each panel its own inverter, or you wreck your neighbors chimney)
Related:

The Alder Lake SHLX Anomaly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579969
Your engineers should be on call.
The I/O amplification from atomic 4KiB block size is definitely a thing. Even if you have the I/O bandwidth to burn this still represents a waste of useful RAM and memory bandwidth. There are a number of data layout and scheduling techniques that can significantly mitigate this.

Latency is always going to have a speed-of-light issue, and storage is being moved physically further from the CPU with time; latency reductions in silicon are re-added by distance. Flash gets around that with extreme parallelism, which implies very deep pipelining from the execution scheduling side to fill all of the I/O slots necessary to saturate the bandwidth.

This in turn creates a raft of second-order design problems on systems with extremely large and extremely parallel storage. Total memory requirements for just the execution state being scheduled, the data structures that provide data selectivity (so you can choose the optimal I/O to schedule), and landing buffers for parallel inflight I/O can easily overflow available RAM on large servers in plausible environments. And databases normally keep much more than just that in RAM. It is an interesting open architecture problem that has never been considered. You can't trivially patch existing architectures to make it work, it would need to look very different.

We've taken it as axiomatic that certain data structures will always fit in RAM when dealing with large data, but extremely parallel, fast, and large storage is exposing that assumption in interesting ways. An architecture that effectively decouples memory requirements from large, fast storage would radically change how we design data intensive software, since there are a lot of design idioms and limitations today that primarily reflect RAM scaling issues.
Definitely. This, plus a graduate degree in a more specific field, and you end up with a very well-rounded education.
There is no EU/US equivalent to many products. We simply don't make things.
> HN is a community of hackers, not business people

From what I read here daily, it is becoming an anti-hacker, anti-worker, anti-individual and pro-big business community.

One of the proofs is this theread. You can see People defending AWS...
BUT my point is not AWS is wrong, but supporting AWS and criticizing individuals is what is wrong.

And no one noticed this, and has already started defending AWS.

This is something...
I’m sympathetic towards Girard’s dissatisfaction with the current state of model theory, but I don’t see how his project may in any practical sense fix it.
The net force acting on it the instant it reaches the very apex is 0, but only for an instant. The force will necessarily increase afterwards, because, through its trajectory, the (2nd) derivative of the force is not 0. To put it another way, nothing changes for the particle when it reaches the apex, the net force acting on it is still F(t) = (1/144)(t-T)^2. Just because F(T) happens to be 0 doesn't mean that F(T+dt) has to be 0, it will be (1/144)(dt)², in the same direction as it was before reaching the summit.

Because of the above, the direction is also fully determined. It will fall back off on the same trajectory it came up on, if I have my signs straight (if not, then it will continue in the same trajectory on the other side of the dome).

Consider a modified version of the car experiment, where instead of an oscillator that is independent of the car, we set up some kind of pendulum pressing on the breaks such that they get activated when the car reaches a certain acceleration, and it gets depressed when the acceleration reaches some negative value. Also, instead of an engine and a flat plane, we can put the car with no engine on a sloped plane. So, the only energy we need to care about is still gravitational. Nevertheless, the car will start and stop continuously, temporarily reaching 0 acceleration and net force and then starting up again.
Also, just don't try to be Google and don't microservice the crap out of everything...

The problem is that too many people in our industry are trying to get experience to land a job at Google so they try to turn every job into Google...

Although honestly I suspect that Google could do more to simplify internally, but that is the kind of work that doesn't get you promoted, while layers of additional smart-sounding complexity do.

And it really sounds to me like we've gone wrong as an industry, where you can't bolt together lego blocks and get working larger systems out of them, and have to worry about large scale spooky-action-at-a-distance effects. It is like having to worry about the interaction of your radio with your car's drive train. A simple fuse keeps the radio from killing the engine, and then the designer of the engine never has to think about the radio.
If you say "people" want something else than what is offered now, then by providing this something else you should be able to capture a lot of the market. Example: Apple produced an iphone, but some people wanted more open, not-so-closed-garden, customizable, moddable phone. And they wanted an OS to go with it. And here it it, Android and a booming Android phone market. Yes, a giant - Google - owns the OS. But another giant - which are many around - could dislodge them if they slept at the wheel.

Another example: Microsoft owned the browser market with their Explorer. Then they fell asleep at the wheel and now Chrome owns the market. Sure, again, it took Google to do it, but it can be done. And it will be done again - when there is a substantial unsatisfied market need.

If this is not happening for a long time, then I think it's time to consider the possibility that it's not that the "market" "fails", but just your ideas about what people should want are not the same as what people actually want. If nobody buys the "ideal" phone somebody built - maybe it's not actually ideal for enough people.
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Reminds me of a laugh-out-loud closing paragraph in a 2009 NYT article about the clash between Wikipedia & German lawyers over some infamous murderers' right-to-be-forgotten.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13wiki.html

Read the whole thing for maximum effect, but for me it beautifully demonstrates the contrast between the USA/Wikipedia/NYT ethos of "the truth is always printable and your speech is by default 'on the record'" and alternate expectations elsewhere.
Sadly it's really hard to get a promo fixing bugs or optimizing code.
>It could prevent the public from knowing of the past misdeeds of the powerful.

In a world where books, radio, movies, television and the internet didn't exist, and where people had memories like goldfish, maybe.
> If anything, the amount of shovelware sharply decreased over time.

Seriously? Have you seen the Nintendo and Steam stores? I mean, it's great that game development is so accessible now, but the amount of low quality and half-baked or abandoned Early Access games is staggering.

> Then there was the Internet with increasingly many free reviews, especially once online advertising took off and game magazines moved to the Web, and finally we got accessible average user ratings from Steam or Metacritic.

Reviews don't mean much when publishers enforce embargos, or when they invest in marketing to create hype and drive preorders, only to deliver a broken game at launch with promises to patch it over time. Or when they're gamed by review bombing one way or the other, depending on some internet drama. Or when review sites are given different weights in calculating the overall score, leading to alternatives like OpenCritic. So, yeah, reviews can be helpful, but they're far from reliable.

> If a game is bad today, everyone will know it.

Ehh, highly doubtful, as I mentioned above. And even if there are negative reviews, companies have many different ways of hiding how bad a game is, and still profiting from them despite of it. They can launch a broken/unfinished game, patch it over time, and still end up with good will from consumers because of the work they put into it. See No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, etc. This way they profit from preorders, take as much time as they want to deliver the experience they advertised (while continuing to sell a half-baked product), and ultimately end up with an unscathed reputation so they can do it again. Then there are outright scams like The Day Before, countless asset flips, lazy ports, etc. Mobile gaming is infested with this garbage.

However you define "bad game", these products are certainly hostile to the consumer and there should be regulation in place to prevent them. This situation is far worse than the one that led to the 1983 crash, yet gaming has never been as popular as it is today.
Hmm, I think that's not too likely, unless someone is growing it in TX. Qat needs to be very fresh - flying it halfway around the world is less practical than unroasted coffee beans.
Did a quick search about John Wick 5.This is the abysmal state of Google in 2025
Because people are prejudiced, and the newspaper article doesn't include an addendum that it should be taken with little to no value, so the impact it could have on someone's life due to people's stupidity is unwarranted.

If we lived in a perfect universe where people were thoughtful and wise I wouldn't care.
Or if you get most of your calories from fats and proteins.
What we found was that error handling on the client side was also very important. There's a bunch of that in Aider too for inspiration. Fuzzy search, indent fixing, that kind of stuff.

And also just to clarify, aider landed on search/replace blocks for gpt-4o and claude rather than actual diffs. We followed suit. And then we showed those in a diff UI client side
A website could use this feature to require that I only log in using (say) Google or Microsoft or Apple's implementations, right? Under those conditions, how could I log in using my Linux desktop?
As someone in that age group, who is also a competitive chess player, it is an objective fact that one's brain significantly slows down over 50. We also have less physical stamina for long hours, all nighters, etc.

Experience, wisdom, there may be many benefits to employees over 50 – but we crunch data slower, let's not fool ourselves.

> I ... spend a lot of my time mentoring the "kids" and providing direction to engineers

That is exactly what I would expect, and that's great. And by the same token, you are NOT spending most of your time doing calculation- or analysis-intensive IC work, where kids have the speed advantage.
Note that this is only Part I of the original comment. Parts II and III are more interesting (but everybody forgets them).
I had a surreal experience riding a Greyhound bus where I was the only passenger who hadn't just gotten out of prison. They were comparing conditions in various prisons the way you and I might compare coffee shops.
Are these people in the room with us right now?
> At a 90 working, 10 non working people ratio, there isn’t going to be much to export, and hence the local currency isn’t going to buy much elsewhere in the world.

Canadian currency at the lowest in years. But most of the wealth of Canadians is not held in cash and not entirely even in Canadian investments.

> It is sort of “land value is a product of labor from decades prior that has accumulated to the orderly, productive society today”. But that can gradually change.

I don't see the connection. The land I live on is worth well over a million dollars and increases at an significant rate every year but has no basis in reality other than demand for land outstrips the supply.
Yup, tons of home cooked recipes that rely on emulsions (gravy, cream soups, salad dressing, pasta sauces) often end up oily and broken.
This reminds me of the experiments FB was doing to control user emotion. Vibes of the same sliminess.

But beyond that, has social media not isolated people enough--soon, a large portion of people using it won't even interact with other actual people...

I don't see how a platform meant to "connect" people to others--scratch that, a platform meant to connect people to ad's makes perfect sense.
Great to hear from you, and awesome project. I had an early 90s 240 that did have ABS so assumed incorrectly that yours would. Dropping the hydraulic pressure sounds like a really good idea, hope that works!
Unrelated to the actual article, but so refreshing seeing a website with a design/structure that reminded me of the best years of internet. How I miss left sidebars, tables and more!
Not sure about the accuracy of the results but the theory’s correct. The colour of sunlight changes as it passes through different thicknesses of the atmosphere and the proportion of direct light, refracted light and bounced light changes.
EU countries aren't forced to stick to the union. If they dislike EU decisions, they are free to leave and do their own thing at any time. This is very unlike US states that aren't allowed to secede from their union.
Nascar and its teams are embracing 3D printing
> It's been really eye-opening to start realizing just how many people refer to a collective as a unit. And how many beliefs are dependent on not inspecting that fallacious thinking.

This is the top comment in a chain of siblings that are dogpiling on the parent for no good reason. I'm replying because I think it's a case of pointing out a distinction without difference, which is a low value response up there with "But correlation isn't causation!"

In this case there are many different groups that benefit from a higher prison population. Private prisons are perhaps the most commonly cited, but they hold a tiny percent of the total prison population.

But there are many, many private businesses that sell to prisons. Sudexo-Marriott makes millions selling services to private and public prisons. I once toured a "super max" prison in Ohio and saw that they had tens of thousands of dollars in commercial Hobart restaurant equipment.

The knee jerk response here is, "Of course a prison pays for commercial dining services and equipment! That's not surprising, it's inevitable!" But that's my point. It's inevitable that there's billions of dollars being made off the US's prison population. And that's not including industries based specifically on exploiting prisoners, like prison phone and teleconferencing services that overcharged the incarcerated and their families by billions of dollars.

There are many utterly conventional businesses that use slave labor from prisons. This is not hyperbole -- prisoners are often forced to work for $1 a day or less. They are punished with solitary confinement or even additional prison time if they refuse.

The final rebuttal would be, "Well not everyone in America benefits from a large prison population!" But if you read carefully, that's exactly what the parent comment is saying. But enough different and powerful stakeholders do benefit from a large and growing prison population that it's difficult to enact reforms to make that number smaller.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sudexo-Marriott+prison+sales&t=ffa...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=prison+video+conferencing+business...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=who+uses+prison+labor&atb=v...
Is this being proposed to get Trump off the hook?
> Flash has big disk energy, but is fast enough that copying it to RAM one word at a time like disk will probably bottleneck your performance by an order of magnitude.

Much more of a slowdown than that. Mmap a big file on an SSD, access its bytes randomly, and you can get your 500MB/s read speed down to kilobytes/s.

> We need interfaces designed for zero-copy access to bulk persistent data.

This is in tension with caching. For it to work, you'd need to get system builders to stop bundling smaller&faster storage with their slower&larger storage.
I think it was a very good video.
I would like to think so, but (speaking from experience) a hiring manager in his 30s or 20s may not recognize or value that.
The US isn't one country.

When you read things like this, compare the EU to the US, not Ireland to the US.

The Southern US is an archipelago of police states that regularly throw black and poor white citizens into jail on flimsy pretexts. New England, meanwhile is another country altogether.
I am unveiling a new static site generator called String.prototype.replaceAll
This is right on the money (speaking from experience)!

Simple and superb root cause analysis!
Parent referred to this as if it were a novel written by an engineer, that it then, as usual, wouldn't be a good one. The off-the-shelf card games are a standard novel. These cards are not your average novel; you'd expect people to be into this unusual or for some even unpleasant genre and style.
In think it's personnel selection.

I think the militias don't get the top-of-the-line retired military people. They get the wannabes, the people who love the trappings of being tough and deadly, without the actual skills or training. Putting on my amateur psychologist's hat, I'd guess that the militia types mostly washed out in the military, but are still looking for what they went into the military to try to find - a sense of belonging and identity.

The real SEAL/Delta level people don't go into a militia to try to find that - they found it for real in the real military.
J-20 vs F-35

https://simpleflying.com/china-j-20-vs-us-f-35-evaluating-mo...
Not just the social fabric, but Qat / Khat (which is mildly narcotic) is wreaking havoc on Yemen's water resources. Don't support its production by purchasing it. My Yemeni relatives hate it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/14/from-khat-to-c... / https://www.goethe.de/prj/ruy/en/dos/eco/25379240.html
How could it possibly get Trump off the hook?