skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
apply could be useful before the spread operator existed.

They can also be a bit useful to call one prototype’s function on another object given you get to pick what “this” is.

But in my 12 years I’ve never used them. They’re likely even less important now that we have arrow functions and other features. They probably were useful library building blocks way back in the day.
While complexity of web tech means there's usually some hidden nuance, that description on MDN seems pretty clear: a non-interactive (other than for navigation) iframe, ie an <a> element that's a preview.
Multiple zoonosis events is actually exactly what you expect from natural spillover.

If the virus is spreading in farmed animals, it will have many chances to spill over into humans. In fact, this is exactly what happened with the original SARS in 2002.

It's striking how similar the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak is to the original SARS outbreak. Almost every detail of the spillover is identical: unknown coronavirus emerges at market in major Chinese city selling wild animals.
Thanks for sharing that was insightful
Ah yes - and a couple others did in the last week, too. I wonder why!

It's a bit of a lottery which instance of a submission ends up 'winning' a frontpage position. The intention is to build some sort of aggregation mechanism that will involve karma sharing in the future. In the meantime, I guess it does at least even out in the long run if one keeps submitting articles (and thanks for doing that!)
I never said Llama is mediocre. I said the teams they put together is full of people chasing money. And the billions Meta is burning is going straight to mediocrity. They’re bloated. And we know exactly why Meta is doing this and it’s not because they have some grand scheme to build up AI. It’s to keep these people away from their competition. Same with billions in GPU spend. They want to suck up resources away from competition. That’s their entire plan. Do you really think Zuck has any clue about AI? He was never serious and instead built wonky VR prototypes.
That's a bit misleading because it neglects the history and changes of how things were, and how they are now.

Communication by words and language in general is the sharing of meaning. At one point, each word had a distinct and unique meaning, that may have depended on context, but it always followed rational principles in the definition.

This is no longer the case. Words have been corrupted so that by definition (formal or informal/spoken), they may have two potentially contradictory meanings. Fallacy and other deceit then creep in, and without a direct unique and non-contradictory definition, you can't communicate anything; even if it sounds like communication (it isn't when meaning isn't shared).
What's the advantage over a MacBook? Supports more external displays or something?
I remember the hype when Devin came out about a year ago.
The NIH under Fauci may have been funding gain of function research in China in violation of an Executive Order (EO), and this research may have caused the pandemic.

If so, I think it's pretty important to investigate, how the NIH could violate the EO without appropriate oversight, and to hold those who made those decisions to account.

From: https://unherd.com/2025/01/the-criminal-pardoning-of-anthony...

"Fauci claims — in a curious echo of Trump — that he is the victim of partisan threats of investigation and prosecution. “Let me be perfectly clear: I have committed no crime and there are no possible grounds for any allegation or threat of criminal investigation or prosecution of me,” he said in response to Monday’s news. Yet it was noticeable that the pardon is backdated to 2014. This is, coincidentally, the same year that the US three-year ban on gain-of-function research took effect and also the start date for an NIH grant to Wuhan that biosafety experts such as Richard Ebright, professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, believe is linked to the “reckless” research that sparked global pandemic. “The pardon is a travesty,” he told me.

The evidence has shown clear efforts to avoid such scrutiny. One memo disclosed that “Tony” had told David Morens, a senior adviser to Fauci, how to avoid requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), suggesting that he stop using government-issued phones for his gmail accounts. A leaked email indicated that Morens was coached on evasion of FOIs by Margaret Moore, Fauci’s long-serving assistant — who pleaded the fifth when asked to testify. “I learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after i am foia’d but before the search starts, so i think we are all safe,” he wrote. Another senior aide to Fauci misspelled key conspirators, presumably to avoid searches intended to fulfil FOIA requests."
The page only says “Blu-ray Disc media” without further qualification. Only MiniDisc is qualified as “recordable” on the page.

That being said, there are other Blu-ray Disc manufacturers, and I don’t see the production of Blu-ray discs ending anytime soon. There are new titles being released all the time: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/releasedates.php
I enabled "Offline mode", and it worked. But yes.
Thanks for giving me enough info to start digging! Very cool that you were working with Imran back when this all started
It's hard to tell with a lot of NUC style devices whether they support USB PD as the device being charged but I would much rather have one or two USB power banks as my battery/UPS for the NUC, phone and laptops than anything more specific or inverted up to mains, etc.
You could get a dummy HDMI plug for $3 on Amazon and free up that monitor if you need it. [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/BKFK-HDMI-Dummy-Plug-3840x2160/dp/B0C...
Magical Mormon underpants?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment
Show HN: I categorized all 49,317 Bluesky starter packs into 5,158 categories
I have just tried ollama's r1-14b model on a statistics calculation I needed to do, and it is scary to see how in real time the model tries some approaches, backtracks, chooses alternative ones, checka them. It really reminds of human behaviour...
“There are no losers on a winning team, and no winners on a losing team.”

Doesn’t this go against Stack Ranking very team twice a year and pushing out the “subjective” lowest performer ? Why should anyone on the team work for the team when the stack ranking disincentivizes team cohesion.
> Because I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could that I didn’t stop to think if I should.

Thanks, Malcolm!
I'm actually not at all confident that I remember. New Customer Service system maybe?
You read my mind: https://youtu.be/_ViEzjcc6sE
I never understood why they encode stuff that way. Most streams that I've looked at devote literally 98-99% of the bits to the video, and the audio stream is just scraps.

The film's sound department worked really hard on that stuff! It doesn't take much -- 500 kbit/sec can sound amazing if they encode it well.
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> I still like RA2 quite a bit, but it’s not in the same league as others.

While I agree with the statement as written, what I take away from it is the polar opposite. RA2 is (to me) the best RTS ever created.
He hates that.
Same here. A closely related phenomenon is something I called the Information Week effect.

Information Week used to be a paper magazine. Managers who made decisions about technology projects but who didn't really know anything about technology loved IW and read it on the crapper regularly. In my career I would routinely pitch ideas for new projects that would get no traction until 5 years later when the same idea showed up in IW. After that happened it was always easy to get funding. But by that time I was usually bored with the idea and on to the next thing.
It's not like we will ever have a chance to do a useful reassessment of what happened in Wuhan when everyone involved is scared of being designated the scapegoat and executed. And I do mean executed. If the CCP feels that it's useful for the state to find someone there and give them a lethal injection, they'll do it. So it's ridiculous to expect any cooperation from anyone there.

And ultimately it doesn't matter. If a contagious virus is coming to your country, your best response is independent of its origins. And if your response was a complete shitshow, finding a scapegoat in Wuhan won't make your response any less of a shitshow.

The US's response to covid under Trump was a ridiculous shitshow. Nothing more to it.
I like how you have high confidence in the CIA.
Very small. It is at the moment not on a collision course, I understand. Even if it was, it very likely would burn up before reaching the ground. And even not, the Earth is very large and mostly covered with water. Even the chance it hits a human is very small.
What other headlines are there? Though it's quite sad, I suspect that demeanor would match the rest of the stories in your feeds. I strongly suspect the anger has nothing do to with these committees, and would be reflected across the board.
Spot on. One look at LinkedIn posts tells you everything about this “paperclip” optimization.
> There may be false positives that I'd fait to review if it was too automated.

On my little vps fail2ban has added over 23,000 ipv4's to it's f2b-ssh ipset. There is no way I'm reviewing that manually.

For what it's worth I don't allow passwords, so there is not a lot of additional security to be gained from fail2ban. I don't use it for that reason. I use it because 100's of login attempts brings my very cheap vps with bugger all RAM to it's knees. I don't particularly care that it runs like a dog when it's on its knees, but the OOM killer taking out the services I actually use it for is a step too far.

> it's brittle and too automated to my taste.

That problem largely disappears when you get rid of passwords. Fail2ban triggers on failures, and allowing passwords means you must tolerate some failures. People don't mistype public keys.
check http://neuroscience-landscape.com/

this is list of software, hardware, and other material on neuroscience

UCSF is big part of BRAIN Initiative lead by Allen Institute, many of the tools and their work is collected in Open Neuroscience Foundation
The more you spend on arxiv, the more you save on the gpus Jensen told you you would save more on if you were to spend more on gpus
You might be surprised how many things labeled conspiracy theories have strong evidence, incentives, etc. but get scoffed at as kooky impossibilities nonetheless - like the lab leak theory.
As a retired manager in tech for 20 years this is a way to get the promotion hunters out of your face. There are many only interested in titles. I don't consider them good hires but man do they rise up in the ranks and they end driving the company down.

IME. Id say it is about 50/50, the chaff from the wheat.
I think this has been true thru history.
This is super fun!

But I'm not super clear why it's a site of its own, rather than a list on Wikipedia?

Surely it's a list as serious as:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Or is there something less objective about it?
A random thought while pondering the seccession: What about the individuals who don't want to secede, are the seceding states allowed to take them personally hostage?

In other words, an ethical thought experiment with re-contextualizing the succession of the Confederate states as "kidnapping" millions of slaves who probably preferred not to come along.
There are plenty of no annual fee credit cards. If you get a credit card with an annual fee, you should be smart enough to know whether the benefits they offer make the annual fee worthwhile.

My wife and I fly a lot as a hobby. We’ve been averaging over a dozen trips per year since mid 2021.

We pay $3400 in Annual fees between 9 cards. We get around $4900 worth of benefits between those cards between Clear credits, companion flight passes (buy one get one free), hotel credits and various other credits.

That’s not including Delta Platinum Medallion status that gives us free automatic seat upgrades and lounge access for free food and drinks while waiting at the airport.

Of course we also get points toward flights and hotels for spending on them.
Don’t imagine any bootstrapping of credibility is stated. It’s a citation to one article of many with no assertion otherwise. That’s how science discussions work.
This goes way beyond merely conditional love. If you can't reasonably expect to be listened to in good faith, you have an outright toxic relationship.
But SARS outbreak was from a single strain, wasn't it? It's not the “two zoonosis” that I find to be low-probability, it's the “two zoonosis of two different strains at the same place & time”.
Wow, this takes me back! I remember visiting pages like this in the early 90's while rendering fractals in Fractint. I remember following a bunch of Geocities pages that looked at Pink Floyd's The Division Bell album, and there being a hidden meaning. Turned out to be created by the record company, but as a high schooler on the early internet, I was fascinated with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Enigma
> His co-panelist Andre Soriano, a fashion designer, said that the future of America was “brighter than ever”. “We have Elon Musk, he’s so fascinating,” Soriano said. “We’re all in God’s hands now, and everything is so exciting.”

I feel like this sums up everything to a tee. It's a bunch of bored rich assholes who, not content with cornering billions want chaos and excitement because they truly believe they're immune to any consequences.

It's just another example of why extreme wealth concentration is bad on all levels.
/Literally hundreds of billions of dollars spent already on hardware that’s already half (or fully) built, and isn’t easily repurposed./

It's just data centers full of devices optimized for fast linear algebra, right? These are extremely repurposeable.
In 2023, JP Morgan Chase collected $1.1 Billion in overdraft fees

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-repor...
I think you are confusing “lab leak” with “lab made.”
The diagram of the northern "urban" centre also fails to point out the Peak District, though you can detect it by noticing what looks like an obvious gap in the middle of the circle. In the middle of the London circle is, of course, the centre of London, world-famous capital city of the United Kingdom, seat of power of its government and monarchy. In the middle of the Northern circle? Some mountains and the occasional picturesque little village...

(The weather might also be a factor here too. The elevated regions are much colder, snowier and windier, causing problems with transport. Getting between Sheffield and Manchester at this time of year can be a painful business.)
I think he would have more sway over trump if he had billions more dollars not lost on X tbh
Maybe I missed something, but if DATA is given as an array at runtime, is there a way to put it into the type system? And if the result is in type system, is there a way to print it out at runtime without looping through all permutations of the possible characters?

The solution was impressive and fascinating, regardless.
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Oh, it might also be for some of the rich, if they oppose the rulers.
I fear that the death of physical media releases for movies is not far off now.

Ownership issues of streaming or DRM-encumbered digital releases aside, it’s a shame because Blu-rays are typically so much better quality, and as a movie buff there’s no substitute. Triple the bitrate of streaming versions is not uncommon.

Anecdotally, on streaming services I find that original content (e.g. Netflix originals) are good, but licensed content is often complete crap—low bitrate, SDR, often limited to 1080p, horrible block artifacts especially in dark scenes. Given the choice between a 4K stream and a 1080p Blu-Ray, I’ll take the Blu-ray in most cases.
I saw this and i thought it was wild but trust me from the inside that is just pennies. I promise.
Since you’re not returning anything from `parent`, it makes much more sense to use a semijoin, which is something ORMs usually bury in an obscure section of docs, if they support them at all.

SELECT * FROM `table` t
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM parent p
WHERE p.id = :parent)

Or, you know, just eliminate the other table entirely (which the optimizer may well do) since p.id = t.parent_id = :parent
That Bootstra386 reminds me of the Mosaic web browser. Not sure if that was the "feeling" behind it, but it feels like the early internet days.
Bambu Labs' 3D Printer 'Authorization' Update Beta Sparks Concerns
A 30k job in Italy.
Nothing's stopping you from playing the media you already own, so no.

Even when studios stop publishing Blu-Rays, I'm pretty sure you're still gonna be able to buy used (and dirt-cheap) Blu-Ray players for a long, long time.

I don't think this is part of any larger plan at all, except to discontinue products that consumers have basically stopped buying, which is what any business does.
I don't think the amount matters.

The enforcers identity is much more important.
> Attractiveness is not a relative scale

It is.
A window into the AI (code) world
You can’t make up for a fundamental lack of intelligence in the base models with a bunch of hand coded heuristics.
In hardware everything boils down to volume and NRE.

If the design is low volume then minimizing NRE, which is mostly set by engineering hours, makes sense. At low volume, the semiconductor unit cost is mostly irrelevant so you can potentially use things like SpinalHDL to keep engineering hours down, and therefore potentially save NRE, and eat the higher unit cost which occur due to toolchain inefficiencies.

At high volume NRE is mostly irrelevant and unit cost is everything. So even if a tool or language is hard and annoying to use, if it gives a lower unit cost, you use it. Here you see things like an engineers hand tuning the layout of a single MUX to eek out a bit more of something good in the PPA space.

I only have experience with high volume HW and there something like Chisel or SpinalHDL wouldn't be considered as it just adds complexity to the flow, and makes it hard to do the optimizations that high volume enable us to consider, for a potential benefit we're not interested in.
I think it's for people who don't want to deal with or upgrade the legacy NonStop stuff. As I understand it, a minimum logical NonStop server is actually pretty extensive:

Two standard(?) HPE servers plus two Infiniband fabrics. Also, these servers don't directly connect to anything except the Infiniband. I believe all (or most) IO is offloaded to Clustered IO Modules (CLIMs), which are 1U HPE servers running a custom Linux distro. There are Storage and Network (and I believe Telco) CLIMs.

I'm not sure what the minimum number of CLIMs is - e.g. can one provide storage and networking, or if you need two, or for redundancy you need two or four.
Nobody's insurance rates are safe from climate change
& Thoinot (recorder)

It does look like the
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There are compelling reasons to own physical media: video & audio bitrates are about 10-20x better than online streaming. Many movies are not available on streaming when you'd like to watch them. And in many cases, like with It's a Wonderful Life, streaming services have been butchering classic movies.

Why spend hours sorting through Netflix' low quality catalog when you can watch a movie you love whenever you want?
So is GRPO that much better because it ascribes feedback to a whole tight band of ‘quality’ ranges of on-policy answers while the band tends towards improvement in the aggregate, or is it just faster algorithm = more updates for a given training duration?
It is madness/chaos, and it will only get worse.

You should be aware that there is no experience hump that will make these things safe. I've a decade of direct IT experience at the principal engineer/admin level, and been out of work for two years now; I'm retraining to HVAC installation now since no ones hiring.

What I'm doing is what happens to the most competent people when there is no work to be had. Once I'm in HVAC, I may play around on side projects in IT, but I wouldn't subject myself to more torture by being dependent on my IT experience.

What happens in IT first, later happens broadly. IT is a labor multiplier for everyone else. When labor value of skilled work hits 0 broadly, everything collapses.

If you can't find legitimate positions because they all look legitimate, and you never make it to the interview (1:1000 conversion ratio), it won't matter how much you know or how much direct experience you have.

I'm seriously looking at securing off-grid food options, and the necessary people/skills to ensure it can't be stolen.

Non-reserve debt issuance and money printing will continue driving this trend until food production collapses, then half the global population starves. Its the problem with positive feedback systems. They runaway, and cascade towards failures.
For their CES coverage they said they used MacBooks. They just also brought a Mac mini along that they hooked up to fast internet in a nearby e-sports venue that they used as a backup option to remote into and edit videos from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYXh0AdBw-I
Add Depth to Your Web Experiences – OSS 3D React Component Library
I've been working on this component library for a little over a week now, my aim with it is for people to be able to easily add touches of 3D into their React apps.
Nice one, cool project wow.
Ukraine is currently manages on some days to send 100-200 drones into several regions in Russia. The drones are slow and small, like with 50kg warheads. Most of these drones are shot down (on various video it seems usually by smaller missiles, like Pantsir's), though a few usually do hit their targets. I think Ukraine is, while slowly, still progressively going along the direction and would come to the strategy similar like what i suggested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529638
If you look up the more later versions of CoD on PC, you'll find that they are actually accessing the webcam and watching the user to drive "engagement", and the users are not made aware of this. I wish I had the link, but I found a YouTube video about it. I believe it started with CoD BlackOps on PC.
Sounds amazing! Do you still work there now?
If you know what you are doing, the credits that you get for doing things you already do should offset the annual fee even if you don’t use the card. Wander over to r/creditcards.

We have five Delta cards between my wife and myself that we only make one charge a year on for the hotel credits. Just by having the card, we get a buy one get one free plane ticket good for anywhere in the US, Mexico, Central America or the Caribbean. That more than pays the annual fee.

We have over a dozen trips planned this year and we took over a dozen each year since mid 2021. It’s a hint of ours.
> It's so strange to demand so much more proof of lab origin than one does of non-lab origin.

It's not, zoonotic transmission has happened many times, lab leak is the extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence
Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising
I have this terrible anxiety about working at a company like this where I need the job and money but it’s obvious that a bunch of optimistic, but under-equipped business types are asking for the impossible and now I’m just in way over my head, desperately trying to make this thing work that doesn’t stand a chance.

It would be like if the Apollo program was just 10 grads.
Any Chinese company above 500 employees requires a CCP representative on the board.