skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your launch price may somehow be cheaper; although, that's incredibly unlikely. Anyways as your insurance underwriter I'm going to jack up the rate on you so high for that launch it will no longer be cheaper.
I would imagine far less. The LHC captures many channels of sensors (for spatial resolution) and captures at very high frequency (because the time scales involved are fast and also because LHC is doing time-of-flight measurements).

I doubt that a rocket has anywhere near as many sensors (have you seen pictures of the LHC’s instruments? They’re basically all sensor), and I also expect that the timescales involved in rocketry are rather longer than in high energy physics.

Here’s a slide deck about ATLAS building an ASIC that reads something at 25 picosecond precision:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/799025/contributions/3486157/at...

Unless someone at Blue Origin is trying to localize a specific part of their flame by time of flight of light, I don’t see why time resolution even close to that would be at all useful. Perhaps they’re very fancy and want to tell which part of their rocket initiated an explosion by time of flight of sound, but that’s rather less demanding.

With the caveat, of course, that LHC events don’t explosively destroy the instrumentation. If you want useful telemetry in the last milliseconds before a rocket failure, you had better seriously harden your data logger or have very low latency transmission to a remote receiver :)
The psychonaut field manual [pdf]
I had been looking for something like this in the past. I have previously set up a full-fledged Django application only to use its ORM, but then I realised that it's quite helpful to have the possibility to expand the project into a proper web app or an API, if needed. The Django admin interface is also great!
Wasn’t aware of this! Gonna have to dig into them again. It’s been a while since I did any chip programming. Miss it.
Seems like it depends entirely on context. I'd expect code which intends to be portable to use some sort of dynamically linked wrapper, even if that wrapper isn't libc.
That is surprising. I heard about the TIOBE index often about 15 years ago, but now that I think about it, I have not heard about it lately. I wonder if the rise of Python and ML has caused people to stop asking “what language should I learn”. That is the question the TIOBE index often was cited to answer.
The phrase "this is why we can't have nice things" springs to mind. Other people are the number one cause of most people's problems.
Incredibly hard to make work in practice because of the semantic muddiness that results from having events about events etc. You have to think about the domain and its first derivative
"Rule of thumb: if you can't look up the original texts, you can assume they weren't actually in the training data. "

That's not reliable. I've found them on the Internet in various forms (eg studybible.info). Google Books also has scanned copies of many, ancient writings. There's probably obscure sites people would miss. If searching for them, the search algorithms might avoid them to instead prioritize newer, click-bait content.

Telling what wasn't in the training data for sure should be considered impossible right now. If it matters, we need to use models with open, legal-to-share, training data. If that's impossible, one might at least use a model with training data accessible to them (eg free + licensed).
San Francisco counterculture legend behind bell-bottoms craze dies at 84
Don't let the title throw you off. This is a charming and interesting story of true grit and entrepreneurship.
Apparently, Recruiter.com rebranded to Nixxy, Inc. in September [1]. Since then, they have issued a vague press release on their "strategic focus" [2], spun off a company called CognoGroup which "will focus on AI-driven projects aimed at enhancing human potential." [3] and acquired JustGot2HaveIt, Inc., a wholesale gift business that sells things like tote bags and candles [4].

The company lost $13.3M on revenue of $135,886
in Q3 [5].

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/recruitercom-group-inc-...

[2] https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nixxy-issues-shareholde...

[3] https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nixxy-announces-cognogr...

[4] https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nixxy-signs-letter-inte...

[5] https://app.quotemedia.com/data/downloadFiling?webmasterId=1...
Those of us that have been around quite a while have seen consistent ‘rapid progress’ in technology and automation over the last 30+ years. This isn’t the first time there’s a new world changing technology.
Show HN: A better Python API for async UDP
Happy New Year, HN!
I’m not really sure what you’re saying. Do you mean you achieve the gaurantees of CRDTs without using CRDTs? What technology are you implicitly referring to?

Whenever I hear someone say “sync” data, I instantly get scared. Consensus is fraught with peril and very very very difficult to implement correctly.
Worked this time around!
Love2D can be cross-platform. Balatro was made in Love2D and was released on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch, Desktop, iOS, and Android.

That doesn't mean it's well-supported or easy to fully support those other platforms. I'm struggling with getting iOS native functions working with Love2D in iOS, for example, although Balatro proved that it's definitely possible. The basic game (the game as it works on my PC) is working on my iPhone just fine, though, and wasn't too difficult to get up and running. I also have an APK working on a cheap Android phone I got.
Why not read both
I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a shitbird (with all respect to Mr Lahey) but it seems to be a moot point given that these collections can be digitized and indexed, opening them up to far more people than a few hundred thousand physical copies would have, especially for researchers who need to search vast collections.

Indian universities (and the American ones with the collections) should fund a full digitization program. It’s not like the collections are closed to researchers and all of the money for the purchases went right back to the Indian economy.
One of my first jobs was writing integration software for different accounting packages, and BOY OH BOY are you correct.

Many (most) packages have an API, but transferring data in and out requires deep knowledge of systems, their special pricing rules, their tax rounding rules (which is also different for every country) and many many other things, it was difficult enough for someone with years of experience in this domain to get right, the chances of even a senior developer doing this properly without field experience is zero.
Brawndo has what plants crave!
Same reason that a powerful graphing calculator can’t teach a math class. “Unhobbling” needs to occur. This means a lot of things but includes modalities, reliability, persistence, alignment, etc.
Chess BLITZ tournament breaks polymarket markets
A unique situation has emerged at the intersection of chess and prediction markets following a recent blitz tournament in New York. The tournament, which attracted 180 players, was featured on Polymarket with betting options for 20 specific players plus an "Other" category, which stated "This market will resolve to "Yes" if anyone other than any of the named competitors wins this tournament. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No”."

The controversy arose when the two finalists agreed to share the tournament title, a decision that was officially sanctioned by FIDE (International Chess Federation).

However, this outcome has created a significant dilemma for Polymarket, where the market was explicitly structured as a winner-take-all scenario with specific technical parameters, including negative risk conversion options.

The market's terms required a single winner, making the shared title particularly problematic for resolution. Some participants began shifting their bets to the "Other" option after a context update suggested this might be the default resolution due to the lack of a singular winner.

The situation highlights the importance of precise contract specifications in prediction markets, particularly for sporting events where unexpected outcomes can occur. Currently, there is no clear resolution path that would satisfy all participants, as any single-winner determination would inevitably disappoint a significant portion of bettors.

The case serves as a cautionary tale for prediction market operators about the necessity of anticipating and accounting for all possible outcomes in their market structures, including tied or shared victories.
Just give Ukraine what it needs to defeat Russia in Ukraine to prevent a real world war.
I would wager the actually important data is far smaller. A single camera would probably dominate throughput
Happy New Years from Louisiana! A few hours to go still here. I'm glad that Hanukkah and xmas happened on the same day this year. Hoping for better health, and a new job in 2025. I met a new woman, and I hope that pans out.
Can someone please just tell me what model and workflow is so productive? I've seen so many allusions to the concept of skills for LLM use but no explanations of what they are.
I think peak propaganda and manipulation was convincing people that inflation is good for the economy and therefore for them. Imagine prices constantly dropping and your money buys more than ever, uhm, like the deflation happening in tech. That would be very bad for the economy. The irony is that the best performing sector has been the one deflating the most.
This sounds interesting. What do you on those days? Offline digital content? Read books? Do you do work days without internet?
From their bio:
“My dissertation was a linguistic and cultural examination of disability as portrayed in Medieval Icelandic genre of the Sagas and Þættir of Icelanders.”

If they weren’t a professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, you’d think this was straight out of Portlandia.
Books are printed in quantities of more than one. I concede a fair amount of material might be the last copy extant, but isn't there an element of post-hoc rationalisation this impoverished stocks of Indian books?
Shitbird is some strong word, but yeah that is a very weird take. If anything, a food shortage is a much more urgent problem than a book shortage.
May you walk into each day of 2025 with joy, courage and creativity!
Yeah people only spending money when they should be spending it is bad for the economy. Misallocation because of inflation is great. Good thing is that this system is close to collapse.
Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released
Happy New Years, y’all!

Curious to hear if anyone has any specific goals/resolutions/things they’re especially looking forward to in 2025.
Feels like it's looking for some (new?/refactoring?) common interface/protocol for engine and rolling-stock comms.

Is that even possible? Anyone known what type of on-rail signaling is possible?
Yeah, agreed. It has to start from legislation. And that legislation has to also address education - we have to make it easier and cheaper to become a doctor or mid-level, or we have to start trying to import a ton of providers.
Why would they want to? Since it can't afford to keep the lights on, and pay staff, and likely has debts, what possible upside would they be hoping for?

There's this idea that companies would just be fine if it was owned by the workers. The truth though is much more complicated than that.

Companies fail because they run out of cash. Who owns it is immaterial at that point. Are you suggesting the workers should not take salaries while they get it back on its feet?

Secondly, when you buy a company you don't get access to their working capital/ cash reserves. (By definition that's just buying cash with cash). So on top of the cash-free purchase price you still need to chip in working capital, debt payments and so on.

Changing ownership in a company requires a LOT more money than just the sticker price.
45^2 = 2025

Happy perfect square year, everyone. The previous one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116.
I think we should stop pretending that Chinese EV/battery companies can compete on their own without Papa Xi's big wallet or baton to keep out foreign competition.
Optimizing Advent of Code D9P2 with High-Performance Rust
Yeah, agree. It’s a video but still impressive. One day someone will find a way to code the actual game.
> 3. Tearing down existing houses for replacement only makes economic sense in two cases. The first is when the value of the land justifies more expensive construction (e.g. MacMansions). The second is when redevelopment is not for the market (e.g. Habitat for Humanity).

Interesting you chose “MacMansions” as the example instead of increased density. In my (very) urban area they tear down single family homes and replace them with 6-9 town homes.
No, it's true the addressing architecture isn't the problem. The uncertainty fear and doubt over all the deployed equipment is the problem. Hence "take off and nuke it from orbit" -do a complete replacement. IFF you buy that, why would you replace like (v4) with like? Why not replace with auto addressed self deploying v6 (for instance) which some people have been advocating for at scale, rather than a bundle of assumptions in dhcpv6 static assignment? Sure a lot of things would be static, but you could simplify the NMS burdens massively and reduce your routing complexity in the IGP.

It's not a totally silly suggestion and it's not totally sensible either. Light hearted. I doubt any exec in any telco outside of Jio or maybe Comcast would go there. Amongst other things, they'd destroy a lot of capital value doing the Ripley. Well.. the liberated v4 sell replaces some of that until the price crashes..
They will also keep working for way longer (in emulators) than current games that depend on steam APIs, DRM, online services, GPU driver versions etc.
A video https://x.com/rogerscissp/status/1874313788737962378
Something either has X degree of security (for everyone) or it does not.
Amigas are superbly emulated. But in general, yes... Not only soft emulators but highly accurate FPGA emulations.
Gentleman’s bet. If you can accurately predict the day of four of the next six months of commoncrawls crawl, I’ll donate $500 to the charity of your choice. Fail to, donate $100 to the charity of my choice.
I have no clue if AGI will look anything like today's LLMs but I don't think the information we have about o3 so far suggests that it's particularly earth shaking or even a significant step towards AGI.

From the ARC announcement: "a large ensemble of low-compute Kaggle solutions can now score 81% on the private eval." If I understand this correctly, o3's performance is not a grand leap beyond the capabilities of many times cheaper models with similarly privileged information. The ARC news seems more likely to be evidence that the benchmark needs tweaking than proof that scaling works (although OpenAI's marketing team would like us very much to interpret it as the latter).

There has also been a bit of imprecision and hand waving around other benchmarks that bolsters my skepticism. For instance the Codeforces benchmark results were touted with no meaningful description of the methodology and what little we do know suggests (to me, at least) that comparing o3's elo to that of a human is an apples to oranges comparison: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/137539
Customers will likely benefit in the short term as they can likely complete the year with Bench.

Signing up those customers for another year might be.... challenging.

I guess they have a couple months to win back some goodwill though.
Your reference is a bs

'CCP is a secret and authoritarian regime that wields immense power'
vs 'Some random reporter with English firstname and Chinese lastname know what Xi said before he go to bed'

Have you ever wondered if there's a tiny possibility that the media and the reporter *might* be lying?

...
Is the example echo server lock-step with respect to requests and responses? I’m not sure how Python async for with async/await works, but in dotnet similar code would be effectively serial.
I prototyped a game in a few frameworks/engines, namely: Godot, GMS, Defold, Love, and DragonRuby. I ended up sticking with DR because I found the api the most intuitive, and because I’m a career ruby dev and just can’t get myself to enjoy Lua. I find DR and Love to both be fantastic for those who just want to code.
Totally nothing bad happened in the decade following the last perfect square year in 1936. :')
What an irrational and bitter utterance.
Not really? It has 6 occurrences of "Rust" in the README, and half of those are in the paragraph of the FAQ explaining why they ported to Rust from Python. There's actually an equivalent number of references to Python.
Have you considered DIY options? There's lots of advanced control software out there. It wasn't so long ago that all the best ones were homemade.
After using FSD 13 for 2 weeks I'm convinced we are close to solving self driving. Too bad the everyone lost interest and now robotics is the hot new thing.
Release a video game finally. Been working on one game or another for the past several years. I released a bout a dozen in the past but haven't in over a decade at this point. Should be doable though as long as I make somewhat steady progress on my current project.

Hopefully get one of my board game designs signed with a publisher for my second signed game (first was signed like 5 years ago and still not released :/).

Try to start going to the gym regularly, although I'm still dealing with some leg issues and recovering from some leg procedures. Hopefully in a couple months I can get back into the swing of it though.

Maybe figure out what the next step in my career should be. Starting to get the itch to look for something new after three years at the same consulting firm and client. Maybe just need to switch to a different client, but if I want more of a bump in salary it might be just about time to change companies too.
I believe the term is appropriate.
Not only would the books have mostly disappeared due to local conditions, they can indeed be, and often are, digitized.

Instead, we have a professor who seems to feel obligated to gaslight the US and portray it as “colonialist” even in the face of incredible outcomes of public policy.

Millions of Indians escaped starvation thanks to this policy and an astounding body of knowledge survived and was consequently studied, helping elevate Indian culture in academic circles. But no matter, this created “knowledge gaps”.
My expectations around productivity are going to assume you're using AI. That means stuff that might have taken a few days, i'm going to expect in a few hours or less. It's not unreasonable, i've seen over and over agian that kind of speed up. I have a lot less approval to hire people than I used to... so it's really important to me that I can extract that level of productivity out of my team.

If you're "working the way you want to" ie still handrolling all your code, you're going to find my expectations unrealistic, and that is certainly not fair to you.
Ukraine Drone Boat Shot Down Russian Mi-8 Helicopter with Surface-to-Air Missile
2024 Letter
It would've been better if you had written that in the original script. So, I'll do that for you ;)

అందరికీ నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు!
Not much they could do considering it could be China or Russia.
Super recent discussion Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement (93 points, 39 days ago, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42211320
Rest assured, whatever the outcome, it will benefit whoever already has the most money.
I ended up making my own adapter based on a cheap CH32X035 dev board [0] - largely as an excuse to also write an 'RTOS' for RISC-V. The code is available on GitHub [1] though I haven't really documented it.

[0] - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005718558442.html

[1] - https://github.com/benpye/rtos
Why didn’t they hire an investment banker? If they were going to be acquired for $1 anyway, the muddled and sudden shutdown simply lost a huge number of their customers. This was moronic, they could have at least did an orderly bankruptcy and proceeded business-as-usual. Whoever is running this should never run stuff again. None of my failed businesses failed suddenly, we knew they were going to fail well before they did. We made life saving maneuvers but understood it was likely end-game.
You're expecting Americans to trust members of congress, and not only members of congress, but specifically the ones who specialize in keeping secrets, many of which were secrets that are now known to have violated the constitution, federal law, and international law? For real?

What's the steel-man version of your position here, "members of Congress are generally competent, trustworthy, honest people who rarely lie"?

Are we talking about two different Snowdens and two different governments or something?

Are you a federal government employee or contractor who's economic livelihood depends on towing the party line and white knighting for the NSA, an agency that flagrantly violated federal law to illegally surveil domestic communications between American citizens, an act that was specifically and explicitly forbidden of them from their very inception, and remains that way (legally) today?

Are you trying to sway public opinion such that the perpetrators of this treason will continue to not face criminal prosecution for their crimes against the citizens of this country within their lifetimes?
Looks like its is possible to download the full SRTM dataset - would that not work ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/qg4b6j/is_it_possible_...

Also I know Geonames has a service for elevation lookup based on SRTM & other data: http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html

But if you need to semple a big are in detail, that could potentially run into API limits or overload the service. But it demonstrates its possible to get the dataset & provide an API on top of it by a third party. :)
China is quite anti-competitive. BYD/CATL's success is a largely outcome of the CCP's protectionism.
The communications system is not novel. It's GSM-R, which is good old 2G cellular with some special railroad features. Both voice comms and signalling run over that system. Since both went out, the comm system must have failed.
China is quite anti-competitive. BYD/CATL's success is a largely outcome of the CCP's protectionism past ~10 years.
I wonder if the gpu microclouds are banking on this. How illegal would it be if you have plausible deniability?
I just asked claude about martial law in the US and it didn't give any refusals.

The problem is often the prompting. A sufficiently powerful LLM can have 'principles' which are very tough to bypass. In Claude's case it is to be a harmless assistant. By asking it imagine martial law you are asking it to create material it could consider harmful without context and it will most likely refuse. It needs a reason to do it that will convince it that it is harmless.

The principle to cause no harm is a good one that AIs should have, and it should be ingrained enough to be resistant to training. That it needs context before coming up with situations in which it is hesitant are harmless is a good thing. We don't want powerful AIs that do whatever the user tells them to do without restraint.

Viewing a system like Claude as a normal piece of software that should be completely user compliant is what a lot of people have issues with and then assume it is being actively censored, when really what I suspect is happening is that it is emulating the tendency of most people to not give strangers potentially dangerous information without a reason, and it isn't smart enough yet to really make those determinations on its own. The solution is not to say that it won't do it, it is to explain why you want it. It will concede the argument quite readily most of the time.
They'll get the same punishment that the people who blew up Nord Stream 2 got.
That can be easily done by changing your mpv.conf. `vo` option