skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lobbying has a pretty pronounced effect and is completely legal
Yes, I've seen QI too. Funny show, but wrong for the sake of entertainment. Fish are aquatic animals. The premise that if a category for animals isn't derived from biology that it therefore "isn't real" is simply and obviously wrong.

It would be like saying the culinary categories of fruit and vegetables aren't real because many of the foods categorized as vegetables are considered by biologists, on the context of discussions about biological rather than cooking, to be fruit. What we actually have is multiple systems of categorization which both have their place, but users of one are trying to claim absolute supremacy over the other, denying the validity of colloquial folk taxonomies even in casual contexts.
Then you can use 1fr 10fr or any ratio you want.
The tech isn’t too hard.

Getting billions across many different cultures to trust you with money is hard.

They have numerous competitors, from American Express to PayPal. Even crypto could be a competitor. But they have trust problems, are too expensive, or provide no benefit to the purchasers.

Credit cards in general are hard to disrupt as they pay a substantial kickback to the people who would otherwise be adopters of a new technology.

As a high income, technologically savvy, globally mobile person, I am who a payment company would need to flip to drive broad global payment adoption. Unfortunately for them, credit cards are enormously valuable to me as is due to points and perks.
Terrible story. Not terribly uncommon. Doesn't seem on topic for HN though.
so so many questions, but the one that I just can't shake is how in the world does a stolen weed eater warrant a home raid of the suspect? although it reads like my use of the word warrant was the only valid warrant related to the entire story.
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The page doesn’t seem to define what „killed“ or „defeated“ means. The LLM being better than a human? The LLM having been trained against the benchmark, making it useless?
The weed eater apparently belonged to a local "judge-executive".
How’s it too weird? Seems to happen at least once a year somewhere in the U.S.
Each of those are a direct consequence of relying on intermittent, weather dependent electric power.

Rather, the cost of Diablo Canyon nuclear power is high because it has to carry the cost of intermittent, weather dependent electricity.
I have 20 years left on my mortgage on a one bedroom apartment so I would very much hope this is not my last software engineering job!
I don't think it's zero sum. Not everyone is into the same parameters. Or at least we don't weigh them the same. Supposing I don't know anything about women, I would at least venture to say that nerd guys like myself value intelligence in women more than the average person.

But even supposing it was zero sum, and supposing I'm a "low value" male and I deserve a "low value" female. The dating sites could fail to show us to each other, leaving a lot of people single or dissatisfied because they matched too low.
A favourite! By Charles Perrow (1925-2019).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents>
Not mentioned is the cost of cooking and preservation. You can't eat any of this if you can't cook it. Water, heat, and again more water to wash up. Also the costs for running a refrigerator and freezer 24/7 is going to be a few cents per day.
Interesting how cops get off, seemingly reliably, in cases like this.

Sure we need protection that the law provides via protectors like police.

But this is stupid in practice. Not what we need. So it should be changed. Punishment seems crucial to affect change.
Do you have any evidence for your claim or is it just a conspiracy theory? Of course the new administration will try to cook stats, hopefully the bureaucracy can resist them.
Inflation measurements describe what they measure in detail. Food inflation isn't necessarily the same as overall inflation.
>No common wireless standards are open, No wireless standards are feasible to implement.

What is definition of "Open" here?

The current submission is entirely about Open Source 4G/5G. Fabrice Bellard on top of the crazy amount of other stuff he did also made a LTE/NR Base Station Software [1]. WiFi and Bluetooth are also "Open".

>But the thing that's holding Apple up is purely legal IMO

People constantly mistaken having an open standard regardless of patents and an useable product on the market. There is no reason why you cant have a software modem aka Icera that was acquired by Nvidia in the early 10s. And there are no modem monopoly by Qualcomm which is common misconception across all the threads on HN and wider internet. MediaTek, Samsung, Huawei, Spreadtrum and a few others have been shipping 4G / 5G Modem on the market for years.

The only reason why Apple hasn't released a modem 6 years after they acquired the modem asset from Intel is because having a decent modem, performance / watt comparatively to what on market is Hard. Insanely hard. You have Telecoms from top 50 market each with slightly different hardware software spectrum combination and scenario along with different climate and terrains. It took Mediatek and Samsung years with lots of testing and real world usage at the lower end phone to gain valuable insight. Still not as good as Qualcomm but at least it gets to a point no one is complaining as much.

[1] https://bellard.org/lte/
No police dept would put that amount of resources for a weed whacker. Someone politically powerful got some stuff stolen out of their shed and pulled some strings to make this happen.
Progress bars are annoying because that’s what scroll bars are for, and because horizontal progress bars (a) have the wrong orientation and (b) look like a loading/download indicator.
Posted by Chollet himself:

> I don't think people really appreciate how simple ARC-AGI-1 was, and what solving it really means.
It was designed as the simplest, most basic assessment of fluid intelligence possible. Failure to pass signifies a near-total inability to adapt or problem-solve in unfamiliar situations.

> Passing it means your system exhibits non-zero fluid intelligence -- you're finally looking at something that isn't pure memorized skill. But it says rather little about how intelligent your system is, or how close to human intelligence it is.

https://bsky.app/profile/fchollet.bsky.social/post/3les3izgd...
what ever. it's a local new source reporting on an event from a not-local incident. they probably only covered it because their corporate overlord pushed it as a must carry. however, it's an incredibly fucked up situation that in and of itself is newsworthy even if it wasn't a corporate push.

all sorts of police injustice is covered and discussed quite frequently on HN. you need to readjust your settings a bit I think
I assumed this was about chatbot users committing suicide in order to "join" the bot they are chatting with. It's already happened a couple of times, apparently:

https://futurism.com/teen-suicide-obsessed-ai-chatbot

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-first-known-chatbot-as...
High schoolers capture Earth from balloon in stratosphere
> Register the namespace in both repos and you're done.

That’s the operative part of “authoritative.” It’s a distributed trust problem, and there’s no particular guarantee that your namespace on one index will be honored by another. Namespacing is great for eliminating scarcity on one index at a time; I don’t think it helps much with this kind of cross-index security.
>The proof in the pudding is the relative success of Chromebooks

Actually, I think Chromebooks are a failure. Google used the wrong strategy, namely being too controlling and restrictive, with Chromebooks. This is diametrically opposite to Chrome or Android. Chrome and Android's pitch was simple, "No matter how shit your hardware is, we'll give you a good operating system/browser". It was a lost closer to the linux ethos. Chromebooks on the other hard are integrated and licensed devices that manufacturers make in collaboration with Google. They are all crap because Google's needs are different from the manufacturer's or the market's. Outside of the education sector, where there is some product market fit, they are useless trash. A waste of so much good technology.
> Seriously, most car thefts go un investigated.

This isn't true

> Am I really being asked to believe a warrant and nighttime raid was ordered over a hedge trimmer?

Yes, in fact, you say directly right before you'd like us to assume so, and assume that there was special attention to this case because someone important asked for it.

That seems reasonable.

The rest...not sure what you mean by "nighttime" or "raid" here.

Multiple cops doesn't imply what people generally would understand by " raid".

By default, due to safety protocols, there are multiple cops. The edge case is when there's one, you're extremely cooperative, and it's a minor infraction. I've watched too many police body cam videos, if its anything outside of that, they call for backup immediately.

I'd bet $1000 it was a search warrant served over a weed eater that had particular interest to a powerful figure, yet that it was all standard behavior.

Occam's razor here is what I see over and over again on bodycams: police protocols are designed to keep cops safe, and the proliferation of handguns creates charged situations that don't need to exist.
Not much technology related to this issue. Maybe we can steer the direction that way at least? How about this: Are guns more effective at quickly subduing people than other methods? Basically: Why shoot if it is less effective at stopping/slowing down someone than technology x and what is technology x?
Printf debugging is ok
I almost gave up on Leptos, because I was trying to use it with Actix, which it supports less-well than it does Axum (and I’m too stubborn for my own good and wouldn’t switch).

I came back to it recently after the Leptos 0.7 release, though, and it’s MUCH smoother.

Still early days for a framework like this, but I think it’s got a lot of magic.
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Without software engineering, what exactly do you feel you bring to the table (so to speak). Is there something you have that no one else does?

Because, to be blunt, if you don't have that something, why would an AI doing the grunt work help you? Everyone else will have the same advantage.

And if you do have that something, why let your day job stop you from tackling it?

I just don't understand why AI would change anything fundamentally for you.
Ah 2015 .... I was wondering where on earth he was finding chicken thighs for $0.88/lb
I'll say it until I'm blue in the face: this idea that police can perform a surprise (night time) home invasion and then summarily execute you for exercising your natural right to self defense is the most pressing second amendment issue of our time. Perhaps the NRA could actually say something here, as this time the victim wasn't black. Of course that's probably being way too hopeful.
PSF controls that domain. But that domain doesn’t host PyPI (anymore) or the PyPA docs, so I’m not sure what connection you’re making there.
I'm starting my carreer now, only have ~2 years of experience, how do you guys keep up to date with tech? I usually read HN and some other news and I love to play around with stuff that I find interesting, are there any other places that I can find new things?
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
I had not seen this when it was released (2015).

Refrigeration can be costly if you are on a budget, and can be a non marginal factor in the total expenditures.

Other ways to save are:

- buy large bags of rice, flour, lentils, which last for a long time.

- forage mushrooms (they're online communities for this), or grow.

- grow vegetables and fruit. Lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries are easy to grow.

- hunt or buy an animal, get it butchered and store it in a freezer.

- farm animals.
I still remember being so excited to receive my OpenAI private beta key sometime in 2020. After watching a few videos on developers talking to it, I was incredibly hyped to create something ambitious with it only to quickly become disappointed with its capabilities after trying to wrangle with a bunch of prompts.

So when ChatGPT came out, I thought it was a cool toy with a chat interface skin and nothing more. Before I knew it, AI (and its hype) had invaded a lot of unexpected corners of my life; and as more time passed, with more unexpected and perverse capabilities being discovered, I found it harder and harder to believe in all the utopian visions Sam and others preached.

Hopefully a great super-intelligent god will properly retire me and my family before all our skillsets are automated away.
AI technology is dramatically accelerating these trends and enabling new ways and is itself a problem.

There is a common trope of claiming technology isn't a problem that simply isn't true. Cheap and available technology absolutely changes models. In the 1960s the Stasi could pay a bunch of people to monitor cameras and microphones but it was incredibly expensive. Cheap cameras, cheap hard drives to store footage indefinitely, and cheap image/voice recognition all enable new horrifying forms of control, surveillance, and punishment even if the actual capability to watch people is not new.
Maybe I missed it but I don't see that explicitly in the article. I see someone who learns for fun and for their growth.

That being said, yes people can take it to the extreme just to put something on their resume...working on unrelated nonsense at the expense of the team. I've been on the receiving end of this and can't stand this immature behavior.

In fact, the two times I've experience it, it was the least concretely useful person on the team (but not a junior). When their BS is called out they ended up leaving one way or another instead of changing behavior.

This is different from someone who loves learning and applies broadly learned lessons in day to day work.
I’m with you on that. Probably nothing, just everyday lethal abuse of power, but it’s always a good idea to look a little deeper. Incompetence is king, but sometimes Machiavelli hides in the shadow of incompetence.
Mastering Server Side Rendering in Next.js
I can find https://www.berlin.de/en/news/8097068-5559700-stabilization-...

Which states that due to sandy soil concrete was injected with lances. It was done by a French company.

Might be the same tunnel?
I actually think I agree overall, but...

> This is functionally no different than Chromebooks and Google ”imprisoning” hundreds of school districts.

Chromebooks make it trivial to switch to developer mode and get root, and then even disable write protection and flash arbitrary firmware. Can you do that with these boxes?
There's so much risk when joining a new company that it will turn out to be everything you're looking for, that when everything actually looks great in the first couple years, you may think you've found your final home! But it turns out, companies can adversely change under your feet and you can suddenly feel like you're in a rug-pull situation, and you find yourself looking again.

I thought my last job (joined pre-pandemic) really could have been my "forever job." My "work persona" was the closest to my actual self in my whole career. It was fun and exciting and the people were amazing! We worked on a great product, shipping features and solving challenging engineering problems, using the latest tech.

But the pandemic absolutely decimated their amazing culture. Company growth slowed, focus shifted to cost cutting, there were a couple of annual merit increase freezes, company policies were incrementally changed to be less generous (the number of company holidays were reduced, sick time was tracked separated from PTO, etc.). All the best people left for new jobs by that point, leaving behind, well... the people that couldn't leave. The culture bar wasn't upheld in hiring, and the company culture diluted further. The company that emerged at the beginning of 2023 was a mere shell of the company it once was and I had to leave.
You seem wholly confused about the concept of information. Have you had a course on information theory? If not, you should not argue against those who’ve learned it much better. Cover’s book “Elements of information theory” is a common text that would clear up all your confusion.

The “information” in a sequence of symbols is a measure of the “surprise” on obtaining the next symbol, and this is given a very precise mathematical definition, satisfying a few important properties. The resulting formula for many cases looks like the formula derived for entropy in statistical mechanics, so is often called symbol entropy (and leads down a lot of deep connections between information and reality, the whole “It from Bit” stuff…).

For a sequence to have infinite information, it must provide nonzero “surprise” for infinitely many symbols. Pi does not do this, since it has a finite specification. After the specification is given, there is zero more surprise. For a sequence to have infinite information, it cannot have a finite specification. End of story.

The specification has the information, since during the specification one could change symbols (getting a different generated sequence). But once the specification is finished, that is it. No more information exists.

Information content also does not care about computational efficiency, otherwise the information in a sequence would vary as technology changes, which would be a poor definition. You keep confusing these different topics.

Now, if you’ve never studied this topic properly, stop arguing things you don’t understand with those who’ve learned do. It’s foolish. If you’ve studied information theory in depth, then you’d not keep doubling down on this claim. We’ve given you enough places to learn the relevant topics.
This is an incredibly vague essay. Let me be more explicit: I think this is a clear sign of a bubble. LLMs are very cool technology, but they are not the second coming. It can't do experiments; it doesn't have an imagination; it doesn't have an ethical framework; its not an agent in any human sense.
See also HTML microformats: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/microforma...
In the HTTP model, technically status code 102 Processing would fit best. Though, no longer part of the HTTP specification.

https://http.dev/102

100 Continue could be usable as a workaround. Would probably require at a bare minimum some extra integration code on the client side.
Just stay out of pod six. Those guys are jerks.
Apparently runaway excursions is the third cause of major accidents of large commercial transport aircraft [1].

Muan airport runway distance is one the shortest in Korea, less than 3 km and ironically during the incident reportedly there is an ongoing construction to increase the length of the runaway to more than 3 km, but effectively further shorten the runaway to 2.5 km (similar to Yangyang Airport). Strangely South Korea has many shorter runway international airports.

Most of the modern international airport have more than 4 km runway, and new major airports for example Qatar Doha, US Denver and SA Upington has runaway length close to 5 km.

[1] Operational Landing Distances: A new standard for in-flight landing distance assessment.

[2] Muan Airport runway previously shortened, impact under scrutiny:

https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=389538
Physics hack: The average velocity at constant deceleration is halfway between the initial and terminal velocities.

So if we know the landing speed (which should come out of the flight data recorder), we'll know the terminal velocity given the average speed (distance/time) which is determinable from the video.

No doubt Jeju 2216 was moving hot, but a longer run could have bled off far more speed, and kinetic energy is based on velocity squared, so every bit helps a lot.
The DS9 theme MP3 is still functional!
This is nice, but also a somewhat horrifying array of processed foods.
On the one hand millennials are getting older so it's totally reasonable to expect they wouldn't want to party into the early AM anymore.

On the other hand real raves don't happen in legal venues. I've partied in warehouses, upscale restaurants, artist studios, roller skating rinks, movie theaters, hotels, apartments. I threw parties on the lightship Nantucket (LV-112), although those were day parties. But none of these events would be factored into the financial times reporting.

Some of the evidence presented by the article is compelling but just don't think they can draw real conclusions about the state of nightlife with such a limited perspective.
Mine is this one https://greptime.com/blogs/2024-05-07-error-rust
Quite informative
This is probably designed for book authors and delinquent publishers that stop selling author's books, then the authors can take back the copyright and go to another publisher.
Except this dangerous obstacle did not need to be there. It could and should have been mounted on frangible posts, not on solid concrete.
Do not buy cheap spices. The toxin levels in (for example) Cinnamon among non-organic brands are quite high, with Badia (the big cheap bulk containers in many supermarkets) being the worst of them all. The lowest toxin levels were in an organic brand sold by wholefoods but the other organics were really close.

The amount of spice you use in most dishes is so small that it's stupid to pinch pennies here.

Ditto for non-organic oats. If you live in North America, there's a good chance your oats came from Canada, where farmers figured out they could spray Roundup right before harvest so heavily that it desiccates the oats on the plant. They harvest, and the dried oats last longer in storage. It's literally soaked in Roundup. You couldn't pay me to eat anything containing oats that isn't certified organic.

We had regulations against the maximum amount of roundup allowed in grain. The Canadian farmers lobbied and had it changed. Anything to make another dollar in profits.

Vegetable oil? No; it's a mix of basically anything oil-like that came out of any sort of seed or vegetable, whatever was cheapest. Canola (which is rapeseed oil) or safflower oil.

Overall this blog post feels like there's this between-the-lines unspoken commentary that really, people on foodstamps should be able to do just fine on $2.50/day, and they should stop complaining.

Among other things, people who are poor generally don't have much free time to do all sorts of meal prep. That's one big reason they go for cheap, ultraprocessed foods. It's fast, it's calorie dense, it's (somewhat) cheap.

The nutritional content of these meals is meh on quick inspection. There can't be nearly enough calories - a bowl of oatmeal and that's it, for breakfast? Then one hot dog?

He seems to heavily rely on ultraprocessed foods, but in general it seems to be 'meat+carb+flavor". I did see potatoes, which is decent, but sweet potatoes have a better glycemic index and more nutrients.

I guarantee if you plugged a couple of these days into Cronometer you'd see numerous missing macro and micronutrients and minerals. And, like I said, lots of ultraprocessed junk.

Legumes and rices will help substantially with nutrition and are very inexpensive. What's expensive? Red meat...
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