skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, similar megafauna were present in North America as well. The West Virginia state fossil is Megalonyx jeffersonii, a giant ground sloth present until the end of the Pleistocene. They're estimated to have been 10 feet "tall" and to weight roughly a ton. Fossil bones were discovered in Haynes Cave, Monroe County near the present day Virginia border, and the species is named for Thomas Jefferson, who examined bones and authored the paper that identified this genus. (Though the history of exactly which bones he identified is slightly murky.)

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

It seems likely that they were using these limestone caves for shelter, though it is also not uncommon for other Pleistocene fossils to be found and preserved in caves after washing in as sediment. I've never seen claw marks on cave walls quite large enough to attribute it to a ground sloth, but there are occasionally very large claw marks on cave walls... and I wouldn't want to be trapped in the dark with whatever creature left them behind.
When I was in grad school doing research on the still brand new "deep learning", having a GTX TITAN X was considered bragging rights. I remember complaining to my advisor about my paltry GTX 970. One lab even had a cluster of 4 of them!

Crazy that even the last generation cards are 15x faster for ML tasks.
I'm Argentinian and this is really unlikely. Political parties representing more than 1/2 of the members of the local equivalent of the "house of representatives" (first stage to make this happen) have already said they wouldn't vote for this. Like in the USA; each individual legislator can vote against their block; but the amount of these cases would be unprecedented (and then it also needs to be approved by 2/3 of the senate)

This is the source, it's in Spanish though. They ask for a thorough investigation; but are very dismissive of the case for an impeachment. This is a political party that roughly has 30% of the seats; the president's own political party has also about 30%; https://www.clarin.com/politica/escandalo-cripto-pro-pide-in...
But he said it was a meme coin and not an investment opportunity? I mean I think Trump should be impeached yesterday, but maybe not for that one?
Ask HN: What fiction/non-fiction book should everyone read on the topic of CS?
This should be interpreted in the broadest sense to include books like both American Kingpin and Practical Vim as examples.
Their results are simply not reliable. The matching approach often matches too many things (hey, this could be A or B or C or D or E or F ...or 42!), or picks up things that have nothing to do with the license of some target (hello randomly included file with some completely unrelated license header and is not even included in the build but is there for some reason, meet your new friend, the utility script copied from somewhere else also not included in the build with an header for another unrelated license. You two feel lonely? let me introduce you to this other wonderful script included in some particular form of packaging) and of course cannot compensate for poorly declared licenses, typos, weird non-standard (or simply archaic/deprecated) ways to specify the licenses and so on and so forth.

It's not a fault of the tools themselves, but in practice they don't help much in real world situations. Basically you end up in need to do so many checks and manual fixes that you might as well not use these tools in the first place.

In an enterprise context one of three things happens: (1) you end up relying on a commercial solution (which is also not that reliable but you delude yourself into thinking it's not your problem anymore... although to be fair commercial solutions have curated licenses attributions and facilitate handling this mess); (2) you build your own thing that uses these (and other) tools but automates a bunch of fixtures so you don't need to go insane every time you need to regenerate an accurate SBOM with related licenses; (3) you quit software engineering, move to a remote location and start an alternative career as an alpaca breeder while whomever takes on your role pretends to ignore the issue and keeps shipping inaccurate declarations of licenses for dependencies thinking that's fine because nobody really cares.
Every amendment should be taken literally. How else should your rights be interpreted? Figuratively?

I agree with you that people are much better off using constructive dialogue, and communities like HN are much better off because of moderation, but the idea of some government agency tracking down and fining trolls is to me a laughable suggestion.
I think many people aren't super interested in hearing. Many times I find repeating things to my younger team members and gradually it started being something.

Not about hearing, I think it's a way of being and trust me I'm not the only one noticing this.

We've even had talks with HR to see how we could adapt as honestly I thought at some point I was the one with challenges transmitting things.

Listening to everyone and everything in many instances is critical to problem solving...

Anyone else?
One of the many realizations that pushed me away from libertarianism is that I don't want to research every part of my daily life. Today in the US, I can

* Buy any brand of meat in any grocery store and be confident it won't make my family sick.
* Visit any barber and be confident I won't get a weird scalp infection
* Fly with any airline and be confident I'll get to my destination alive

This confidence is incredibly valuable to me. I don't know what percentage of my taxes goes towards these regulations, but what ever it is, I'm happy to pay it.
>scientists hope to better understand how neural circuitry dictates and predicts the activity of individual neurons

Not circuitry. This is a metaphor which has passed its sell-by-date. It obscures rather than enlightens.
They specifically state on their page for the Brave listing (and all the other ones) that they aren't affiliated with any of the projects they recommend. They also list the criteria they have for listing a project. If you think something shady's going on, perhaps you could point out which of their publicly available criteria Brave doesn't meet?
I enjoy writing them!

I've heard of people trying out AI for register allocation. I wonder how that is going.

Most people find my code generator impenetrable, but actually it is trivially obvious to the most casual observer.

It's been an adventure crowbaring it into working for AArch64.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/zizians-killings-border-patrol-bf...
Enterprise.

We are currently going under modernisation converting Perl to Python. It's what it is, but I've encountered developers coming along and wanting to throw bulky frameworks at when all you require is to process the output result of a vendor issued binary.

There have been novel ideas but just unpractical for the causes.

It's madness getting through to them when all you require is a replica of the current system and not a rewritten feature set not related to the scripts at hand.
I don't doubt at all that that's a major or even complete explanation of why trans women have been targeted by this cult. I am most certainly not making the claim that they're doing this because they are trans.

I just think that it's interesting that this very notable fact is being ignored - if this group were made up entirely of right wing men, or ballet dancers, or museum curators this would no doubt be reported on.
Every time I turn on my M1 Max Mac I have to unplug and replug the HDMI but other than that the machine is a dream to use.
It's an AP story, widely syndicated everywhere.

https://apnews.com/article/zizians-killings-border-patrol-bf...
You are thinking US prior to 1971. You need to update your views a little bit.

The perspective where the US has infinite money is wrong. The US is accumulating debt.
Fun fact, Weimar Germany back in the 1920s also had a lot of those types of laws (defamation lawsuits were very common, hate speech laws were also rather strict for their time, etc). The US on the other hand had more restrictions on speech (due to contemporary jurisprudence and interpretation of the 1st amendment) than it does now, but the law was still overall rather similar to what it is now.

So I sure know which model I prefer, and even though Germany today isn't Germany of the 1920s, the US still has had a much better track record when it comes to sensible free speech policy. Again, not saying that Germany is "worse" w.r.t free speech nowadays, just that the US has a system that has worked for centuries, and the fact that Germany has different laws don't make them better.
AI just represents a new class of business, that doesn't need consumers or revenue or business plans.

Traditionally you want to build a moat with name recognition, established customer base etc. OpenAI has absorbed huge losses to serve consumers at below inference cost.

But its not clear if that has advantaged OpenAI or not. Turns out most AI customers are only loyal to the most intelligent model. So if a competitor releases a better model, the shift away can be extremely rapid.

So SSI probably is a bet on that, to just develop the model in private, and not waste time and energy on deployment, name recognition, go to market, enterprise sales etc. Have a decisive model advantage, and customers will crash your door trying to get it.
I think the only property humans consider special in themselves are emotions. I have the following thesis.
In evolution, exact pattern matching is computationally expensive. Just as I know my mother regardless of her clothes, hairstyle, her aging face, the match isn't exact. But brain uses heuristics to pump up 89 percent match to 100 percent match. This saves computational resources. These heuristics are what we call emotions. When snake like object appears in visual field, emotional heuristic pumps up slight resemblance to generate fear response. Analytical observation would take too much time. That's why emotions appear pre rational. Capgras syndrome shows when emotional heuristic malfunctions. Visual recognition is intact. But emotional heuristic which pumps up recognition score malfunctions. That's why patient recognises face but feels it's an imposter. These arguments prove emotions are mere computational shortcuts.
Elon Musk's Doge Wants to Be Notified About Any Requests for Oversight
I once saw an account from one of the early European expeditions to the area (possibly Portolla's, but I wouldn't swear to it) who made the mistake of camping atop (what was later named) Mt Davis, only to be kept awake all night by the "relentless, biting wind" (or words to that effect). Only a madman would say "I know! Let's build a ballpark here."

Afternoon games at the 'Stick were lovely, though.

PS. In 1999 I took a first date to the last night game at Candlestick. I'd been to many, many night games there - earned eight or ten "Croix de Candlesticks", if that rings any bells for any of you. My date had never been to an MLB game, far less the frigid confines of nocturnal Candlestick, and I was determined to be prepared. I warned this girl to wear more layers than she thought necessary, schlepped in extra jackets, a massive blanket, and multiple flasks of hot chocolate. I was ready for whatever the wind-gods would throw at us, and we looked more like we were mounting a polar expedition than a couple on the way to a baseball game.

But then, irony of ironies, the night was balmy. I'd never experienced anything like it. The breezes were benign, and I doubt the temperature dropped below 60°. My date didn't quite believe that this wasn't what it was always like, and my careful preparations made me look like a wimp at best, and at worst a madman. One last f-u from the fickle fates of Candlestick, which had broken so many Giants fans' hearts for so many years.
> By making them work for BigTech that takes makes them rely on tips because it takes most of their profits?

Who is making them work there? Is there any place in the world where Uber is the only source of employment?

> With regulations, you don't have to take opportunities away. You can just control the abuse.

The incumbents define opportunities for competing drivers as abuse and then want to prohibit the competition from doing that. This is straightforwardly taking away those opportunities from others to benefit the incumbents.

If it was actually abuse, the people nevertheless choosing it as the best of their available alternatives would have to be in a position where all of their other alternatives are also abusive. This typically happens when there is some kind of serious monopolization or regulatory capture in the local economy. In that case you can forget about the original company for a minute and redirect all your efforts to addressing that, because then you're on a sinking ship and if you don't stop taking on water it's not going to matter how you position the deck chairs.

Whereas if there are non-abusive alternatives and people are willfully choosing the "abusive" one, something doesn't add up and you shouldn't assume that it's them rather than you who doesn't understand their situation.
> so poor regulation could possibly be implicated

Can you work out the logical connection for someone who wouldn't understand it?
Wired is definitely the best! But sometimes wireless is the most feasible and quickest way.
Well not exactly a "product" ahah more of a proof of concept. It doesn't make any money (never intended to) and I moved on to other side projects so I do not have time to maintain anymore.
Singapore might execute more people, but now go and compare how many people get killed by the state. I always think its hilarious how people argue about execution when the police kills astronomically more people to the point where actual executions are a statistically insignificant.

> They were still driving, still causing problems nearly every week.

That's what you get when you build a car dependent society. You can't actually prevent people from driving because people can't practically live without driving.
This actually seems far less likely than for other directors. Lynch's style is so idiosyncratic it has its own name. AI has predominantly been good at synthesizing a broad gesture at a wide range of styles. Not really suited for recreating the effect of such a singular artist.
This is an embarrassing comment, there are few things this world needs less than more smug engineering tribalism. Even weakly typed languages. Typescript has many downsides, as does Python, and if you think the downsides of Python are trivial then I would invite you to take a look at the sea of different competing tools for environment management. I need a python env, now will that be with pyenv or venv or pipenv or pyvenv or virtualenv or poetry?
It isn’t a “brain computer weapon”, it is thought control.

My accounts keep getting down voted and posts flagged for writing about it.

Thought control is messing with us all. The technology is our minds and we are not alone in our own heads.
There is an RFC proposal to allow SLAAC on networks that are smaller than /64, so you might be able to utilize the third connection and still have an ability to do subnetting.

Sometime around 2035.
I guess I’m only 1/4 libertarian. I don’t think competition is enough. The risk of harm needs to be balanced as well.

With airplanes, you have not only the risk to paying customers, but to bystanders who in many cases cannot be made whole in the event of an accident (i.e., you might get a financial settlement if an airplane crashes into your house, but that won’t bring your family members who were in the house back to life.)

I’m all for cutting superfluous government regulation, but deregulating airline safety is quite possibly the dumbest possible place to do it.
It's not so much a theory as it is an attempt to understand what we already observe in the real world.

Why is it that restaurants, barbers, car washes, and other small business industries have thrived for so long despite minimal regulation?

One reason is the high competition. If you've ever run a restaurant, you know the importance of making customers happy. Because customers have so many other options to choose from. They can easily take their business elsewhere. So you have to perform.
> Crashes your whole phone if you run it with a jailbreak on (!)

Draconian anti-hacking laws for device owners, but not for corporate malware makers.
It also falls apart when the consequences of bad behavior are death. The satisfaction of showing everyone exactly how unsafe Airline X is, is a small consolation if my family is dead.
ELI5: how market making works in event prediction? I logged in into Kalshi and I only yes/no ossible answers with two probabilities associated. Their page on market making doesn't explain it [1].

[1] https://help.kalshi.com/faq/what-is-the-market-maker-program
1995. World Music Center (capacity: 28,000), Radiohead opening, Patti Smith guest appearance. :)

https://archive.org/details/REM_1995-09-24
kamaal, of course i still read it. xD
just x or hackerNews. its enough.
The power of brainwashing. The results are somewhat unreal. Britons want Ukrainians to fight more than Ukrainians themselves. The explanation is Britons don't see hundreds of thousands deaths. Their media reprints reports from Zelinkiy office which state just a few thousands. This is called 'Support Ukraine' and they are proud of it. Till the last Ukrainian. Some politicians are more open and clearly say it's a cheap way to kill Russians. They want the war to continue. This is called 'strong position' or 'position of power'.
> following a traffic stop, United States Border Patrol agent David Maland was killed in a shootout with Teresa Youngblut, who was wounded, and German national Ophelia Bauckholt, who also died in the shootout. The pair were traveling south on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont, when they were pulled over as part of a traffic stop.[1] The two were put under "periodic surveillance" nearly one week before the shooting after they were reported to be armed and wearing all-black tactical clothing when checking in to their hotel.

So these guys were being surveilled for being armed and decked out in tactical gear, so the authorities send in a lone traffic cop to pull them over? And predictably, the cop is killed.

This isn't the first time I've heard of this kind of thing happening. That agent was basically set up to die, sacrificed like a pawn by his superiors playing a sick game of chess. The same thing happened to Darian Jarott, who was directed by his boss to arrest an armed and dangerous meth smuggler without being briefed of the danger, despite the fact that the danger was clearly understood by his superiors (a tactical team with medics were stationed nearby, but Jarott was sent in alone without knowledge of this.) The meth smuggler stepped out of his truck with an AR-15, taking Jarott completely by surprise, and murdered him. The meth smuggler was then chased down and killed by the other officers and agents.
I previously used openssl-based scripts to generate certificates to use for local development or applications on a private network. I have since moved to using the step CLI [1].

OpenSSL is powerful, but it's hard to figure out how to use correctly. Each command seems cryptic no matter how many times I use it.

The step CLI is a lot simpler, even though it has a few quirks: generating PKCS1 formatted private keys instead of the newer PKCS7 format, making every leaf certificate eligible to be either a server certificate or a client certificate, and absurdly low default certificate expirations.

1: https://github.com/smallstep/cli
Donald Tusk also said today there is no option of sending Polands army to Ukraine because "Polish army is for defending Poland borders", its like he forgot what happened in 1939 :|
I remember as a kid seeing ads on TV for some contest where you could win tickets to be the first to see Revenge of the Jedi. I also remember the name changing when it finally came out.

As a kid, I thought Revenge of the Jedi was so much better of a title. As an adult, of course I get how it doesn't fit well with the idea of a Jedi. But I still have to say, Revenge of the Jedi was a kick ass title and Return of the Jedi was very milquetoast.
I'm an unabashed Tupelo fan and I don't get as much alt-rock in No Depression or Anodyne (another top 5 album for me) as I do in Summerteeth and, especially, YHF.

But then Jay Bennett leaves and they're a krautrock band.
And didn't cry like a baby the whole time about every trivial inconvenience and absense of magic.
None of those things are appropriate in the context of this article.
As far as I'm aware, the cult leader targeted trans women for recruitment.

I think it's natural for people who are going through many changes with their body and their self-perception as well as their relationship to society to be vulnerable to certain kinds of cognitive biases and perhaps susceptible to millenarian philosophies presented by charismatic leaders. If you feel like you don't fit in your body, don't fit into society's categories and expectations for you, it may be easier for you to be persuaded to join a movement which rejects the current social construct.

As far as media reporting or ignoring certain details, that's normal these days when it comes to politically sensitive topics or groups. I have seen many news stories about more mundane murder cases where the prime suspect was a minority and the media did not report it. Here in Canada, it's particularly common for the media to ignore the fact that a crime suspect is Indigenous, presumably to avoid feeding the stereotype that Indigenous people are more likely to commit crimes (Indigenous people are massively overrepresented in the incarceration statistics here).
These insights are essential for playing the long game; it may sound distasteful for people early in their careers. That’s fine, but when you’re running out the clock to retirement, can’t go wrong.
The A-level student who became an enemy of the Chinese state
Fine I'll stop messing with you about it.
Cake: Distributed LLM and StableDiffusion inference for mobile desktop or server
I hadn't heard that they limited availability, only that it was on a 4 month delay after consumer publication.

All of the big 5 publishers (including Tor under Macmillan) have incredibly bad terms for digital lending though. Wouldn't be surprised if they were doing the common thing of terminating the backcatalog on top of limiting initial access.
Well, when the little community circles the wagons around the grifters instead of excising them, the rest of us get to ask questions about that community. The cold fusion community did the same thing for several decades, too.

And by the way, about 0.01% of the grifters in the QC space are getting called out right now.
Apparently you need an older version of the app and that doesn't allow downloading books published since 2023. So it's not a complete solution
The correct term is sycophancy, not flattery. The problem is:

> "the AI tends to align with user opinions, sometimes even supporting incorrect statements to maintain agreement".

This is termed as sycophantic behaviour. Flattery is not the correct synonym.
I've had similar experiences including good results in NYC.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897871
Once you're senior enough those cases won't be funny any more, just sad.
I dont understand the needed distinction between "chromium" and "non-chromium" browsers, thyre just web engines and ultimately technical details. Although chromium having significantly more compatibility (or chrome features that websites use) the average consumer will be using websites that keep strict accordance with webstandards to support safari.
For technical users its another story but for the average user the web engine of your browser doesnt matter, just the shell around it, so I find it quite silly the notion we need X browser and also an X chromium browser
Stretching and bending can go long way. Did you know there are zillons of sexes now? It's not the brain, it's the wrong body. For each psychological disorder.
Somehow I feel neither!