skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a recording of a screen playing the video, the hand-held aspect is the amateur getting the footage by pulling out their phone camera and recording a screen...

It looks like the video is taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaIL2UOX4ss - it says it's "Kennedy Center Cam", it also wobbles, but that's probably wind. But yeah, it's not an airport camera.
Absolutely, but it's my wife who will have to live with the consequences long-term, so I'm being led by her.
Besides this just... not really being true of Lynch's films, it also misses how a Lynch film came to be. David Lynch didn't pull out a notepad and go, "Okay, time to write a Lynch film." He just decided to make a film and made it the way that made the most sense to him. His perspective on film-making, on people, compassion, curiosity etc. led the creation. At best (and this is seriously stretching the definition of "not just wild speculation") I think it's more likely you get something that exhibits formal qualities that remind someone of some of David Lynch's works, probably a fairly incoherent and incongruous mash of tropes, like a particularly bad episode of Family Guy. I don't know if I'd even credit that with praise as dismal as "imitation", it would be more like a visual laundry list. I'd love to see something that would cause someone to believe otherwise besides "AI learned how to string a sentence together, therefore one day it will be able to learn and produce literally anything," but it eludes me.
Ownership isn’t an advanced concept. It is a software engineering problem, not a rust problem. Rust is one of the few languages which make it explicit and even checkable at compile time and the first popular one.

What is hard is designing systems in a way resource ownership can be tracked and controlled without impacting performance. Rust makes it possible, but you can use smart pointers to give up speed and take simplicity instead. Most other languages assume (rightly so) you’re too dumb to do it correctly and give you smart pointers by default; some assume you’re smart enough and are proven wrong all the time (this is assembly and C relatives; actually they say ‘we don’t want smart pointers and we want a simple compiler, sucks to be you’).
Recommend this to people that are curious and have time!! I really enjoyed doing it years ago
Another fun one on this example is somebody after coming out of a coma being effectively fluent in a foreign language. Obviously the person had to have at least some familiarity with it before, but there are countless cases where somebody goes from knowing a few words of a language (presumably having forgotten everything they learned in school or whatever) to suddenly speaking it, more or less, fluently. Similar incidents can also completely change a person's accent and have other such interesting effects.

There's almost certainly some way to tap into this without (what is usually/always) brain damage, which has interesting implications for the long-term future of education.
> Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP

I was scratching my head for a while wondering why you need an IP address to determine the current time… I’m inferring this means geo-locating the IP to determine the client’s time zone and then using that to convert server time to the user’s local time, right?

Makes me think, it would be nice if there was a standard request header to specify preferred TZ for 'local time', just like Accept-Language (which sadly quite a few websites ignore and show me German-language content anyway just because my location is in a German-speaking country).

Still, great work OP :-) now can anyone tell me why Tintin is trending at the moment? Did I miss something? All my feeds seem to be suddenly full of Tintin content right now.
He bids for contracts just like anyone else and most of those contracts were won under Democrat presidents, but I digress. If you're saying government contractors can't work for the government, then you're going to have to explain the military-industrial complex to me.
Reminds me of a flashlight I got as a present for my first boy scouts camp in the eighties. It had switchable color filters, lighthouse mode where whole motorized middle section would rotate, lantern mode, three strobe modes with main and/or middle sections blinking, hidden compartment and a compass. As is the case with most of those X in one deals it was crap. Compass being the only thing working well, everything else a victim of compromises like this whole Sony thing..
This is Go, yet add again, catching up to the lessons learned by the other programming language communities.

As you point out, finalizers are no longer in good grace in Java, not even in .NET, but lets leave that for another thread.

Hence why they are deprecated since Java 9, released in 2017, and a Cleaner queue should be used instead, or try-with-resources.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/lang/Object.h...

Basically runtime.AddCleanup() is the Go's version of java.lang.ref.Cleaner::register().
The most amazing of which is that it used to install faster if you jiggled the mouse.
>First: If it otherwise takes a year to build them, no difference.

This overlooks a couple factors. First, a raid requires building and launching a fleet of vehicles — a massive investment in logistics and capital. Second, most materials targeted for raiding take less than a year to produce. Spending enormous resources to steal something that can be manufactured more cheaply on Earth or in situ is economically unsound. In nearly all practical scenarios, the costs and risks associated with long-distance raids vastly outweigh any marginal benefits. So yes, and colony on Mars would be safer from raids than one on Earth.

>Second: If they're useful for you in-situ, they're useful for anyone else in-situ.

This is totally different than the Suez Canal, because it would require the raiding party to want to completely relocate for those resources to be useful. There's no meaningful trade between Mars and Earth due to logistics, so they cannot economically utilize those resources of Mars on Earth.

> False. Whether attacker or defender has advantage is not distance dependent, it's tech-dependent. Absolute stealth in space only becomes impossible when you've already got something around a K1.5 civilization in the vicinity, before that you can fairly easily hide passive IR signatures, deflect/absorb/otherwise minimize active EM scans, and the defender doesn't have the resources to saturate volume with gravity sensors to spot attacker's mass.

Irrespective of the level of technology available, distance imposes inherent logistical constraints. A nearby attacker can maintain sustained pressure, rapid resupply, and repeated engagements at lower cost, while a distant force must overcome long transit times and a vulnerable supply chain.

As for stealth, sven assuming near-future stealth and tracking advancements, proximity still affords defenders longer reaction times and more thorough surveillance.

>Contiguous. And that's per ground station, not total, you'd need in the order of 250 for the default proposal just to reach current Terran electrical power usage levels, or 2000 if you add in non-electrical power usage levels. Name an existing artificial 10 km diameter contiguous surface.

2,000 city-sized rectennas to power all of Earth seems like a great deal.

This 2002 study models a 5 GW SBSP system with a 12-km rectenna that is transparent enough to allow vegetation to grow underneath. This mitigates land-use concerns while allowing high efficiency for power collection:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3427153_How_Safe_Ar...
Ah, but would you doubt Feynman's?

https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/01/17/richard-feynman-of...
Why are we still making IoT devices that talk to anything other than a local hub? They don't need to care about NAT.
I feel that I would be smarter if I wouldn’t use them constantly.
No, you can also remember physical activity.
Erm... OK, but I've actually, you know, talked to my parents about this during the decades since. Nobody remembers this particular event because it was one night out of weeks of things getting bad, then worse, before finally getting better. This was almost certainly not the only time the grandparents visited, but it's the only one I remember.

Adults' memories don't just play out like a recording either. They remember many other details that wouldn't have been shared with me even if I could have understood it.
> the rationalist community grew around publications by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Rationalism (in its current form) has been around since long before someone on the internet became famous for their epic-length Harry Potter fanfiction, and it will continue to exist long after LessWrong has become a domain parking page.
Fixing the deficit is the opposite of looting, actually.
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Users have an integrated filesystem that saves all AI generations (.txt, .png, .mp4, .mp3). Complex tasks can be expressed by bundling different apps and using the filesystem as the connection layer, similar to Unix's pipe.

Most importantly, everyone can share their apps and earn money when other people use them. Creators don't need to worry about AI API tokens since each user will use their own credits.

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Small hint, JavaScript is in the process of getting a dispose like API, already at stage 3.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...
Agreed on this being a painful read. Starting with this being a 10 minute job. Based on what? Assumptions are the.. etc. You assumed everthing was plug&play ready. Who told you that?

Anyway, after the second trip, before going on a third, he still didn't think to actually check the complete 'requirements' for his trip to the hardware store. You buy a part for your drill, but don't check if it will fit your drill? Why not bring the drill and then take a picture of the job site, if you are going to ask the people at the store for help anyway.

It's like downloading a compiler, write lot's of code in Python and then being annoyed it's a C++ compiler or whatever. Same for the "not actually extendable hose". Maybe call the wife, or just buy the hose and return it if you don't need it on another trip to the hardware store later that day or week when you pass there. Just painful, no planning or thinking.

The only thing I can imagine just being domain knowledge, is that the spigot needed a hole to be drilled eventhough it has an inlet which I would also assume was open.
This is my idea of a perfect programming language, it's high level and compiles to C. Meaning it tries to give you high level constructs without sacrificing performance.

Let me know what you think!

There is a pretty basic compiler available which I developed 3 years ago that misses almost all features mentioned in the readme, thus you can mostly ignore that, since I want to focus more on the language spec, its recent changes and if its something you would use!
Or the other typical HN solution to this: just leave that toxic company and go somewhere else!
(Maybe it was valid during ZIRP, but not now)
It's mostly gone now. Even on the newer domains.
You make the start of a good point, but miss most of it.

You can absolutely have open source machine code.

The issue is and always has been that you need to have access to the same level of abstraction as the people writing the source code. The GPL specifically bans transpilers as a way to get around this.

In ML there is _no_ level of abstraction other than the raw weights. Everything else is support machinery no different to an compiler, and os, or a physical computer to run the code on.

Linux isn't closed source because they don't ship a C compiler with their code. Why should llama models be any different?
Animals have no meaningful language but clearly have memory. Also the separation between thinking and language becomes quite clear as you learn another language and realize that asking what language you think in is not such an easy question to answer.
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One side says, "I remember this thing from when I was 1 year old".

Another says, "You cannot remember it, you must have reconstructed it from being told or from pictures."

The memory itself can certainly be falsified: if you remember your mom using an iPhone in 1998, then that memory is false. If you remember talking to your uncle but he died before you were born, the memory is false.

How do we know if the origin of the "memory" is the person's actual experience, or their imagination of it based on descriptions or pictures?

Well if it's an event that had pictures taken of it, if it's the kind of event which grown-ups talk about, then the simplest explanation is that it was reconstructed.

But my son, almost 5, is always coming out with random things that happened when he was 1 or 2, which are absolutely of no importance to us, and which we would have forgotten long ago if he didn't keep remembering them. Once, for example, my wife put a pair of his shoes on top of the car while she put him in the car seat, forgot they were there, and drove off -- obviously at some point they fell of and were completely lost. Every six months or so my son talks about that incident completely unprompted -- something of absolutely no significance to us, but obviously something that struck him. And about the time I lost my temper and sprayed him in the face with water -- definitely not a memory I'm eager to revisit and bring up.

Someone dogmatic person may still say, "You must be bringing that up yourself somehow." That is certainly an unfalsifiable assertion -- there's no way, other than my assertion and probability, to prove that I'm haven't talking about those shoes on a regular basis. But I think any person with an open mind is likely to agree that "he's remembering them" is a more likely scenario than "the grownups are talking about those lost shoes all the time".

Probably these "revisitations" are his brain's way of refreshing the memory as his brain grows, which probably means the memory as they exist in his brain will have been shifted over the years. But that's still an original memory -- that's how adult memories work as well.

If at any point he misses a "refresh", they'll probably be gone; but the memories he manages to do this for will probably stay with him into adulthood. If at any point he "misses" a refresh, they'll probably be gone forever.

The flip side of this, of course, is that many of the memories we think we have as adults are heavily edited too. A few years ago someone recounted to me an emotional conversation that they'd had with someone on their deathbed (as an adult, only a few years prior to that). As it happens, I was in the other room when this conversation happened, and my memory of that conversation was significantly different. Obviously at least one of us is "remembering" something untrue. As I had little "skin in the game" about the content of the conversation, and the memory this person has seems to me very consistent with this person's narrative about their life, I'm inclined to think my memory is more accurate. But who can tell.
Congrats on shipping! I'll try it out on my next freelancing project.

I love this approach of local-first webapp, with optional sync afterwards. I've been working on a journaling/note-taking app with a similar approach, but finishing pet projects on limited free time is hard.

Could you share a bit more about the stack and your experience building it? What was challenging?
Not "his source of information" instead it is used (as an example) to indicate how many sub-categorizations there are.

From the guidelines:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
I have so many questions about both apparatuses. 90W input or irradiated? Pulse width modulated/dimmed? Lasers? LEDs? 850nm? 830nm? 810nm?

For the panel, 1800W is a LOT of power to put through 2 feet. Is it actually 1800W? What wavelengths? PWM?

I've been using a NIR belt flipped inside out on my pillow the last few weeks. It's only 6W of 850nm, but I've been feeling less dumb recently. Not sure if it's correlated, but until I settle it for sure, I'm going to keep on using it.
Yes but who/what dictates the tone the company will use to answer you? Ultimately, a person. Even if they are just following a style manual, that was written by a group of people as well. And reviewed by some C-level, probably.
I miss practical physical interfaces. Touchscreens are a big step back in terms of usability.
65 mph or 65 kph? I was seeing confusion about the units for that number.
Musk runs companies where software mistakes killed people but he doesn't change his behavior.
Building a European alternative for technological sovereignty
Malicious compliance what?

And what did my comment get flagged for?
Yes, and they studied and tested years to get it right.

This is pre-alpha test in productive systems
This Youtube channel has amazing explanations, starting with:

How Transistors Run Code?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjneAhCy2N4
Urgh I fat-fingered this partial comment, and realized it too late.
It's useless to port the code if you don't understand the data.
True also in northern europe.
I have another, much simpler guess - these headphones are dirty, and people are constantly wearing them, and cleaning them is pretty hard without damaging something - so most people just don't.

This leads them to be an ideal breeding ground of bacteria, and a constant source of ear infections. I'd say that's something that can pretty directly lead to hearing loss.
There's a more short-term goal for Grok, which is to replace what is left of the federal government with AI. That will significantly boost the money train, but is also a utopian (for some, dystopian for others) goal of replacing the expensive 'deep state' with a slim set of impartial algorithms.
Red light has a negligible effect on hair loss compared to Rogaine (minoxidil), after reading many papers about this. Not sure about the other claims, but they also seem unlikely.
Thank you for your reply, I have been reading the code and there are some things that I am not sure to understand.

- The Espargos code uses rxstart_time_cyc & rxstart_time_cyc_dec for the ns timestamp calculation

- Both values are not documented in the Espressif code and just marked as /*< reserved */

- The timestamp parameter is documented but it is in "microseconds"

Is there anywhere I can find more documentation on the "rxstart_time_cyc" and "rxstart_time_cyc_dec" fields? Are these cycle counters from the wifi chip?
In Germany this wouldn't be possible due to shortage of skilled workers. You'd have to settle with one who at least might have a bigger toolbox, but they wouldn't to an end-to-end analysis beforehand and would prefer to get the job done fast even if sluggishly.

Recently I asked for quotes on adding a power socket to a din-rail fuse box. Easy job: cut two cables to proper length, screw one of them to the neutral rail, use a splitter after the fuse to get phase.

"We don't do that, ask your power company". "Don't have time, 80€ before taxes, in 8 months".

I would do it myself, but it's in the shared area of an apartment house and the slightest issue with it would void pretty much all my insurances.
kshacker, I am just a stranger on HN, but if you haven't already... hit him up for me would you?

Why for me? I think you two having another conversation would make the world a more wonderful place as I suspect you 2 will be enjoying each other's conversation. The thought of that makes me happy.

> This is from a few years back, but etched in my memory. I am an introvert in social situations. I can present to a room, sorta, and I can manage public speech with some prep, but I just listen when there is a party going on. No talk, no intervention on jokes, just listen. My brain just works too slow to butt in to people's conversation, and over time you get the tag of introvert or whatever. I can understand conversation well, but I need an extra second to respond and that does not fit into most conversations.

I have this too. I've trained myself to lower my filter. The unfortunate thing is that when I'm in conversations, I'm a lot dumber than I normally in. The fortunate thing is: I talk to a lot more people now.
Multi-modal was the absolute game-changer.

Just last night I was digging around in my basement, pulling apart my furnace, showing pics of the inside of it, having GPT explain how it works and what I needed to do to fix it.
So the message is that there is no problem with housing prices, people only complain on housing prices because houses look very pricey compared to 'stuff', which is now absurdly cheap indeed. Houses are cheaper than in the 1950s and 1960s and comparing to 1970s and 1980s one should remember the crazy mortgage rates then. So the 'good old days that are lost forever' is in essence, only the possibility to make an (as advertised) guaranteed quick buck on quickly appreciating housing in 2000s. We all know how it ended.
The BW tubes had pretty good resolution though. If you eyes were good sitting near them.
It still blows my mind that nobody has meaningfully replicated the Falcon 9 after thirteen years of it flying commercially.
I pasted this into slack every week for years, every Wednesday. People used to ask if I was OK if I forgot.
New deepseek paper: Natively Trainable Sparse Attention mechanism
Love Ed!
I certainly wouldn’t trust myself. Now if I could import a root cert and specify what domains to trust that would be another thing, and it seems browsers are starting to pay attention to name constraints which has not taken 20 odd years.

I’d rather be able to further constraint at the cert store though.
That’s an interesting take that would probably make for a fascinating separate HN thread to discuss
AKA fighting the last war. Can be difficult not to focus on trying to avoid painful things from past projects, though.
The article is about how the economics of the LLM market is making all tech look bad.

They need trillions of dollars in returns. VC's won't finance tech startups for decades.

I use Cursor sometimes, and VSCode + Continue with llama.cpp, and it's great. That's not worth billions. It's definitely not worth trillions.
Go-attention: A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure Go
Not to be nitpicking but Cloudflare will log and store request metadata, including user IP.
I fly a lot and the only time I've ever thought 'this is it' was one time taking off out of Denver International. The airport is out on the plains east of the city and is known for high winds. We were taking off and nose had just started to lift up when a wind gust cause the entire plane to roll to the left. I could see the wing out my window and am still surprised to this day it didn't touch the ground. The pilot corrected, it felt like, by increasing our angle up and we finished taking off sliding a bit sideways.