skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of the firefighting efforts, the FAA had prohibited drone-flying near the wildfires.

...

As part of his plea agreement, Akemann will pay the Quebec government for the damage to the plane and complete 150 hours of community service.

While there was a bit of an uncomfortably pitchforky atmosphere at the time - that's like nothing compared to the probable actual damages.

His name will take a sizeable hit though.
You forgot Slow Horses!
What randoms on the Internet think isn't useful to you, unless you want to make it your business a business-to-developer (B2D, a subset of B2C) company. Those tend to be difficult (difficult != impossible) as developers are cheap and don't efficiently time optimize. (https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:735/1*6Oyig2ACF-unC3R-...) Pricing is a dark art and not very scientific. it's not just take the cost to make the product and give yourself a profit margin and you're done.
there's some advice at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26553639 has a bit

Who you want to ask is though is people on developer productivity teams at large companies that have the budget to spend $10,000+ per year on a tool that will save the company > $10,000 (or whatever number you can justify using some back of the envelope math based on how often the checker needs to run how much faster yours is and how much that would save an organization with N developers.

B2B sales is difficult for a traditional software engineer (that would write such a tool in the first place to do) to do alone though, so you may want to seek outside help.
Kind of a joke, but it could be useful for determining if they should serve light-mode or dark-mode ads. But I suppose they could just detect if dark/light mode are enabled.
I feel like I don't really understand the point of the article. Half of it explains the problem, and the solution in the other half is extremely vague.

It seems to imply that root cause analysis was previously only taking into consideration individual components and only machine-to-machine interactions, and a better approach is to also take into consideration how systems interact with each other, as well as human operators.

Maybe that's true for Google, but I don't think this is the "a-ha" moment the author thinks it is. If you are just looking at how two components can fail while interacting, then obviously you are leaving out a huge part of the equation. I don't see why we would need another aconym jargon for this.
> So you have no sex until puberty? After menopause women stop being women? Infertile people also have no sex? What about euneuchs and people who have their ovaries removed?

Don't be obtuse, you know perfectly well that's not what it means.
Writes aren't the only things that can degrade data stored on NAND flash. Not sure how SD cards are mitigating read disturb errors, for example.
Mechanistic Interpretability as the Bridge to End-to-End Biology
The purpose of firing Inspectors General en masse is so that there are no independent overseers to investigate illegal or corrupt actions within the executive branch during your term in office.

Reversing it four years later is just too late.
Related:

RLHF Book

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902936
IIRC, ext3 filesystems, if properly unmounted can be mounted with an ext2 driver
Does that mean you will not hire anyone without a public portfolio?
I tried the same with deepseek. It failed and then i asked to try again and explain why it was wrong. The answer below is convincing for me that it has forms of reasoning, even meta reasoning.

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Certainly! If we take the riddle very literally and ignore the common interpretation or stereotypes, the answer I provided ("the surgeon is the boy's mother") would actually be incorrect because the riddle explicitly states:

"a surgeon, who is the boy's father, says, 'I cannot operate on this boy, he's my son!'"

The key phrase here is "who is the boy's father." This directly tells us that the surgeon is the boy's father. Therefore, the correct literal answer is that the surgeon is the boy's father.

The reason my initial answer was "wrong" in this context is that I interpreted the riddle as a play on stereotypes (the assumption that surgeons are male), rather than taking the statement at face value. By focusing on the literal wording, the surgeon is explicitly identified as the boy's father, and no further interpretation is needed.
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DIN plugs are greatly preferred over the cursed 2.5mm TRS with a different polarity depending on which manufacturer one is addressing
Who is Level 3 data shared with, ie who is the aggregator? Is it the credit card bank then aggregates and sells it?
The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Like they care about licenses.
While surfing around their org I found this which has an impressive looking sample: https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/pdf2docx#sample

Also, strictly speaking their GitHub is labeled as a mirror, although they didn't say "mirror of what" but I believe it's this https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/
That would just be a shittier, illegal version of the oreshnik system
You can ask it whatever you want but unless you do some pen and paper calculations to prove that whatever GPT says isn't bullshit, you're just writing fanfiction.
Would you mind outlining how you use Anki? I've had some memory issues lately and I think it would really help.

Specifically, when do you create cards, how do you make sure your cards are good quality, what are the scheduling settings, how is it organized (sub decks?). I feel like Anki itself is overwhelming...
A couple of newspapers on the lower shelf, no magazines. So that is basically a snack shack now. There is one on Park Ave South next to 28th Street that has magazines from right when the pandemic shutdown hit. Those covers are all bleached and looking like relics now.
> If you think it isn't an abuse for your president to lie to you to have powers that he doesn't have, you have lowered your standards to corrupt banana republic levels.

By not prosecuting George W Bush and his lies about WMDs in Iraq as crimes, we set the stage for the lies today about Canada to be excused as business as usual. Which… yeah it kind of is, and that’s what makes USA dangerous.

In fact, many of the people who preached unity and bygones back then are cheer leading the lies against Canada today. So the pst is coming back to haunt us.
Except OpenAI hasn't shared anything.
Hey! This sounds interesting.

Does the tool work for service-based industries? For example, let’s say I’m a hairdresser looking for customers. How would the tool differentiate between potential customers (eg. people who mention hair/beauty in a social media post) vs potential competitors/colleagues (whose social media posts would likely have the most keywords about hair/beauty)?
Open Perspectives Exchange Network (Open)
Missed PVA. That works fine for PLA and is dirt cheap.
Especially states/interests related to the impeachment process.
This is the way. We do an intro call, an engineering chat (exactly as you describe), a coding challenge and 2 team chat sessions in person. At the end of that, we usually have a good feeling about how sharp the candidate is, of they like to learn and discover new things, what their work ethic is. It's not bullet proof, but it removes a lot of noise from the signal.

The coding challenge is supposed to be solved with AI. We can no longer afford not to use LLMs for engineering, as it's that much of a productivity boost when used right, so candidates should show how they use LLMs. They need to be able to explain the code of course, and answer questions about it, but for us it's a negative mark of a candidate proclaims that they don't use LLMs.
LLMs don’t go into a different mode when they are hallucinating. That’s just how they work.

Using the word “hallucinate” is extremely misleading because it’s nothing like what people do when they hallucinate (thinking there are sensory inputs when there aren’t).

It’s much closer to confabulation, which is extremely rare and is usually a result of brain damage.

This is why a big chunk of people (including myself) think the current LLMs are fundamentally flawed. Something with a massive database to statistically confabulate correct stuff 95% of the time and not have a clue when it’s completely made up is not anything like intelligence.

Compressing all of the content of the internet into an LLM is useful and impressive. But these things aren’t going to start doing any meaningful science or even engineering on their own.
due to round-trip efficiency, the running cost of green hydrogen will always be twice as expensive as just using the electricity directly for the end purpose. And where batteries are feasible, they are cheaper amortized than the equivalent hydrogen infrastructure.
https://www.facewatch.co.uk/
Yes, important context
No personal attacks, please, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: How to best learn a new (spoken) language
So … what does the consensus on best technique for learning a new language?

I remember seeing some techniques mentioned here over the years - specifically in response to a question about DuoLingo where the conclusion was there are better methods.

I’m a native English speaker, who at points has had conversational French under my belt and GCSE (high school?) equivalent education in French and German.

I’m looking to pick up enough German over the next 12 months to make better-than-average/expected conversation whilst on holiday in Austria.

So, what’s the best methods to (re)learn a language?
I'm glad to hear that, thanks!
Things get more interesting when we explore musical tunings other than the 12 equal divisions of the octave (EDO) of Western music.

You can define interval structure as a sequence of large L, small s, and optionally medium M steps.

For example, the Major diatonic scale, a 7 note scale from 12 EDO, in Ls notation is:

LLsLLLs with L: 2 s: 1 (12=2+2+1+2+2+2+1)

A 6 note scale (Gorgo-6) in 16 EDO is:

LLsLLL with L: 3 s: 1 (16=3+3+1+3+3+3)

You can then explore frequency ratios beyond those available in 12 EDO, see this Lua file: https://github.com/robmckinnon/pitfalls/blob/main/lib/ratios...

E.g. the Gorgo-6 scale has the intervals S2 (septimal major second), d4 (Barbados third), N4 (undevicesimal wide fourth), s6 (septimal sixth), s7 (septimal minor seventh).

And chords based on those ratios, see Lua file: https://github.com/robmckinnon/pitfalls/blob/main/lib/chords...

The above links are Lua code files for a monome norns library for exploring microtonal tuning: https://llllllll.co/t/pitfalls/37795
If you use JetBrains IDEs, check out the JetClient plugin (https://jetclient.io/). It's similar to the Bruno and ThunderClient extension for VS Code.
"Their creativity appears limited to recombining known information"

There are some theories that this is true for humans also.

There are no human created images that weren't observed first in nature in some way.

For example, Devils/Demons/Angels were described in terms of human body parts, or 'goats' with horns. Once we got microscopes and started drawing insects then art got a lot weirder, but not before images were observed from reality. Then humans could re-combine them.
I has a lot to do with the quality of your contribution if your contribution is telling others how the site works. It's complicated and full of written and unwritten conventions. It takes a while to figure out. Of course new users and their new perspectives deserve a hearing but the perspective here seems to be 'I don't like this' and the argument supporting it appears to be simply repetition while remaining entirely unresponsive to any counterpoints. Maybe I missed it but I really see no evidence the person I'm talking to as much as looked at any of the linked stuff or made much of an effort to formulate some kind of response.
My company provided an iPad + pencil, and my group has another one in the office. It’s better than nothing, but it’s nowhere near as effective as doing the Raj and Sheldon “stare at the board” act.

It’s true that on a physical board you can copy/paste/undo as easily as with an iPad, but unless the purpose is to create a tidy set of handwritten notes, you don’t actually need that functionality.
I disagree also. I have lots of formulae, proofs and more as mathjax in my Anki cards.

You'd be surprised how big of a help this actually is for college exams. Not only for cramming before exams but also to retain the facts after for follow up classes (I see other students constantly struggle with having to relearn whole subjects while I don't because Anki implicitly makes me relearn them every week).
What I learned gathering nootropic ratings
Seems to be hugged, so here's a cached view

https://archive.is/w8yFG

https://web.archive.org/web/20250202094451/https://adriacabe... (images are cached better here)
> twice about voting in favor

Given that all this (and there's a whole lotta other extra this) is coming straight out of the White House without any legislative votes, the future vote that is going to matter involves impeachment and removal from office.

That should guide how other countries' decide to structure their retaliation.
I still remember vividly the day I first heard of SuperMemo and Wozniak, I spent the next ~6 hours reading everything about him and his software.

Interesting fact, SuperMemo is written in Pascal.
"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be."

I would have happily created an Arch Linux AUR package for Hollow if it were open source.
Interface inheritance is indeed much less of a foot-gun than class inheritance, but I'll argue even interfaces are generally fairly overused. The single-class interface pattern that exists in some parts of Java-land is just bizarre.
Since we're talking about the functioning of democracy, which necessarily requires a plurality of people, I don't see how anything other than group- or society-level action could possibly make any difference.
Eh. Zip code level location + timestamp is still pretty invasive, even if, pedantically, that’s not very precise.

We should compare if there a differences in the data sent in countries with better data privacy laws.
Are you aware that the US did this before (weighted mean tariffs >doubled in Trump’s first term) and it worked well enough that the Biden administration kept the tariffs and even increased some?

You may want to take a look at a graph of US imports by year or tariff revenue by year to see your “very significant” decrease in revenue (hint: it kept going up…) I don’t claim that it is entirely independent of tariff rates forever, but it is certainly nowhere near as dependent as people imagine.

>Can you explain where are you getting that?

Sure, there are various organizations that study US tax policy and they generally publish estimates of revenue generated by a proposed tariff. I took a look at a few and found estimates around 90-100B first year. The reason that it’s not simple to calculate these tariffs is because tariff law is complex and real world behavior shifts. With the last Trump tariffs there was a huge shift out of China for several industries. Companies also lie about the value of things: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/did-...
What else are you going to use to list ecclectic rubish?
DeepSeek celebrated in China despite concerns elsewhere
So in essence the merchant pays with my data?
Probably worth noting that bzip2 also did by far the worst in this. ~7x larger files than the best bzip3. Large memory use is generally required for good compression.

I'm curious how well gzip would have handled this though, as it's generally low memory too, and all the others in that list have FAR more than 8M memory used.
It has been heavily flagged by users and also set off the flamewar detector.
It's more that if you actually work with LLMs they will display reasoning. It's not particularly good or deep reasoning (I would generally say they have a superhuman amount of knowledge but are really quite unintelligent), but it is more than simply recall.
If Windows, there is ZTDNS worth checking out: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/networkingblog/anno...

It melds Firewall and DNS to block.
Someone who’s trying to use AI to put groundhogs out of a job does NOT love them. At all.
Framework laptops are great, and would be my first choice if I were looking for a new work computer. I've previously run Dell XPS13, Lenovo Thinkpad.

There's no shortage of good distro choices. I've run Mint for ten years on my primary device and trialed a host of others on my secondary laptops. I'd be happy long term with Debian, Fedora, perhaps Arch. I could cope with Ubuntu, at least for as long as it took to overwrite it with Mint.
Humans are far more self contained than most LLMs which depend upon a lot of electricity and possibly an array of loosely connected components. LLMs also don't really have the signal bandwidth of human nervous systems yet. They're capacity to interact with the physical world is also seriously limited for now.
You're welcome to agree with zfg's point and argue its merits. They certainly haven't so that might be an improvement. Dismissing mine as 'pulling rank' is just rude and lame. I've engaged with this person over a whole bunch of comments, I've tried to be clear and reasonably polite. I certainly didn't expect you to 'come of out retirement' to be a jerk to me - it doesn't seem worth it beside being totally out of line.
> There isn't an official "rationalist" community.

Rationalists have always associated strongly with secular humanists
and sceptics. There are multiple organisations that either include
"rationalist" in their title or primary mission statement alongside
sceptical secular humanism.
I honestly didn't, but now I just might.
Does anybody else have hazy childhood memories of those kids who would hit others but throw a bewildered crying tantrum when they were hit back in direct response?

One of them's setting policy right now.
I don't particularly worry about someone making $100m dollars from their tech startup. I worry about how a few hundred Americans have more collective wealth than the majority of the country combined. And it seems that computing is really good at eliminating labor and consolidating wealth, further increasing wealth inequality and reducing worker bargaining power.
Those seeking access didn't have sufficient security clearance. So to allow them access was illegal. Feels bizarre that government officials are being sanctioned for not committing a crime.

Wonder if there would have been any formal repercussions if they had allowed access. Very perverse situation to be put in.
For Windows, you can use SimpleWall, which uses Windows Filtering Platform underneath. The UI is nice, it's very efficient and works systemwide, deeply integrated with Windows' network stack. You can set domain/IP rules, but it's generally more oriented towards per-application basis blocking/allowing.
wait, so, do you really move your mouse cursor all the way up to the little tiny x every time you'd like to close a tab in your browser?
I think it's sad that our entire economy is designed around infinite growth to such a degree that we can say with a straight face astroid mining is the way to go. We have everything we need, it's power that is the problem and always has been.
Does anyone else find it odd that we're getting virus news from the former android news aggregator "Boy Genius Report"?
Just look at Wikipedia page for sex, it's literally the first sentence with sources:

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

The fact that you're confused about this most basic biological fact is exactly what I've been trying to communicate is the problem with gender activists in this space. They've spread considerable misinformation on this topic.

"Sex assigned at birth" is one example of the kind of misinformation I'm talking about. They're equivocating on the term "sex", because doctors are not determining biological sex, but making a determination of legal sex. If they had argued for "gender assigned at birth" for legal purposes, and argued that both sex and gender be determined and recorded (because sex is important medically), there would be no such confusion.
That one also was heavily flagged by users and set off the flamewar detector. We turned those off on that one.
How do we draw the line between a hard and not-so-hard reward function?
Mice were also more rare in the era in which early Windows was common. So keyboard support was often a necessity.
Search isn’t the same thing as answering a question
Not quite so intense looking.
UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
I recently reviewed a medium-complexity assignment—just questions, no coding—and out of six candidates, I only approved one. The others were disqualified because their answers were filled with easily identifiable ChatGPT-generated fluff.

And I had made it clear that they should use their own words.
I don’t know how this will shake out, but I do worry that these 19-24 year olds, some of whom are known to HN for other achievements, are putting themselves in real legal jeopardy.

Edit: by the way, this post isn’t off-topic. It is about the activities of the US Digital Service (now known as Doge), and the exploits of young hackers who came up through top tech companies. It has implications for information systems security, especially as it relates to Silicon Valley culture.
Everything I’ve seen is that this is read only access, but the scare articles are written to suggest that he could “potentially” limit spending without evidendce of that claim. Is there evidence elsewhere?
Even if you've never personally seen such a situation, a trip down your chosen video platform (YouTube/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok) should convince you it happens way too often.
>...recruiting a harem of highly educated women to service him which he called "math pets".

Dammit, now I have a new fetish.
I Got Rickrolled by ChatGPT
So i asked chatgpt to make me a redirect, and i tried it, but it fuking rick rolled me.
https://chatgpt.com/share/679fa679-29b0-8005-8aac-4c544ec31e42
I would argue it's either art or it isn't. AI may or may not be involved.
wow @apokryptein thanks for posting my article here... I'm shocked it's #1 rn.
if anyone has any questions regarding the post - I'm here to answer & talk!
"Offenders" turning animals into human criminals.
r/languagelearning and r/german have some good advice in their wikis.

You'll find a lot of people encouraging comprehensible input, where you try to receive as much German as possible while understanding about ~90% of it and letting your brain kinda "work it out" the "natural" way.

It's quite cool, and I've made a tool built around it (https://nuenki.app, which selectively translates websites to give you comprehensible input as you browse the web). I'd recommend pairing it with other methods - Anki is effective but miserable, and proper grammar reading (the subreddit has some good links) can have a very high ROI.

I quite like the Easy German youtube channel. They have some clips from Austrians - and that's something to bear in mind, as Austrian German and Swiss German are quite different to the High German ("Hochdeutsch") (edit: see the reply; I'm wrong here) you'll generally be taught.

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzv_FDh4N2o
Health Data of 1M Americans Stolen by Hackers
That's an opinion piece. Go to the Wikipedia article for "sex" and you'll see it's the very first sentence with plenty of sources.
This was the first LLM written piece of fiction that made me go "oh, this is actually not bad.."

https://bsky.app/profile/talyarkoni.com/post/3ldfjm37u2s2x
Luxon is 23.4kB minified+gzipped, temporal-polyfill is actually 20.5kB. I'm surprised, I thought embedding all the timezone and calendar data and possibly translations would add a lot of bytes.
That's completely besides the point. Mr Oligarch Guy still has access to a system he has absolutely no justified business having access to, nor is there any legal basis for this power grab.
Genuine question!