skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect cloning tech is out there and Dang(s) are one of the first successful iterations. I just dont get how there is seemingly no time off, no vacations, sick days etc. Talk about passion.

Other alternative is the image of pale guy with laptop on some beautiful beach or climbing some crazy peak. Same passion, just concentrated in 1 body.
https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/survivorship-bias/#:~:...

Is that really what you want to argue in front of investors? That you are going to be the next Facebook, Google or Apple?

There was also MySpace, Friendster, Altavista, InfoSeek, RIM, Nokia…
Interesting project. I'm working on a side project that is sort of adjacent but the user cases I'm targeting are fundamentally different from yours.

I professionally have some projects where we are doing custom CDC from kafka -> dbms. In that context, we're just using spring boot apps. How is the troubleshooting/recovery story for sqlflow?
> they are still clone()d processes with just some sharing flags set differently that eg affect how PIDs work.

I'd say this is depending on perspective both true and false¹, but also unhelpful to work with here.

Instead, I would suggest this perspective: the kernel has neither processes nor threads; it has tasks, which are entities the scheduler can run. They're exposed to userland as processes and threads. Excluding kernel tasks/threads, which can have arbitrary rules but are also user-visible, a task is exposed as a thread, and a set of threads is exposed as a process. Both operations working with threads as well as operations working with processes exist.

We're looking at an API in this case that works with threads on one side (parent, the signal is triggered by thread exit) and processes on the other (child, the signal is process-targeted). How these were created is irrelevant, what matters is the abstractions they refer to.

¹ you could equally well argue that processes do not exist in the kernel, they're just threads with sharing flags set differently.
I did search for "trivial sorting network", but the only networks that were called trivial were the ones for exactly two elements, while this algorithm sorts an arbitrary number of elements.

Could you link to what you're talking about? And what's its big-O runtime?
Yes, within some limits, but if one were to set up a business like that, it's a very good idea to seek out a consultation from a local copyright lawyer to know exactly what one can and can't get away with. Datasets are addressed as a "collective work", which lumps them in with everything ranging from art books, to hackernews, to scientific journals.

Personally, I wouldn't sell anything I gathered from a publicly available source anyways, mostly out of principle, but doubly so if that source is as well-paid as Valve.
Yep. With Trump, people make promises, he forgets, they forget. But the base get their little thrill of the day.
Red Light Therapy Gets the Green Light, Sort Of
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/red-light-therapy-gets-t...
This is very cool. My only complaint is I should be able to go up a level. e.g. I saw "unwelcome in a China shop" and instantly knew it was "bull" but still had to work through a few more clues before I got there.
I own one, it's a $300 Gamma Spectrometer that fits in your pocket. Closest thing I own to a real life Tricorder.

I've tested it out on a smoke detectors. Successfully identified AM-231 and its decay chains from like a foot away. Tested it out on my dad's basement, and it was able to pick up the whole radon decay chain (Thorium, Polonium, Lead, etc.)

It's not a laboratory grade tool. You can point it at radioactive stuff and the spectra lines up perfectly if you Google the charts. There is a community of folks who walk around with them to identify radioactive deposits. I own a GM counter and it's not even in the same league in sensitivity or capability, it would be like comparing a flip phone to a smartphone.
If anyone was seriously arguing for the former position, I've not seen it.
Not mine, solid as a rock.

That laugh aside, I’m not sure you made your point; once more, the heterosexual cisgender woman is in less danger from a heterosexual transgender woman than she is from another otherwise cisgender woman who will aggressively pursue any port in a storm.
Road with a guy to visit a friend in a gated community. We didn't know the access code for the gate but the guy I was with is an Amazon delivery driver.

"Let's see if I can't get us in," he said. He got out of the car, walked over to the access panel and looked on top, bottom and sides. Then he punched in some numbers and the gate opened.

Turns out, so many people in gated communities and apartment complexes order things from Amazon, and other delivery services, and want front door delivery but don't give them any way to get in. Eventually, some frustrated driver who gets the code will write it on the side of the access panel to help everyone out.

"Apartments are awful," he said. "College campuses are the bane of our existence. You would think that college kids would be smart about these things but they are the absolute worst."
Of course - no doubt there are many schemes! I have found this to be by far the most common
> ...52% tax which is still damn egregious given that I had better roads and most public services in Florida (0% income tax)

Hmm, I live in Southern Florida. Full time. It has the shittiest roads of any place in the US I have been and some of the highest fatality rates to go with.

Highways look like someone ran a snow plow at full speed, turning what were once scattered potholes into a continuous network of trenches making their own interstate.

This is in a state without cold weather, ice, or snow...

There are many non-0 income tax states that have vastly superior roads than FL. Does this prove anything about taxes?
Is it a technical discussion or a work discussion? In a technical discussion you can certainly say something like "my experience has shown X and Y (without documentation), but if you can show evidence for !X or !Y, I'd take a look". Of course, if both sides are asserting facts without documentation, it's more of a pissing match than a technical discussion; but maybe you'd like to come to agreement on what kind of documentation would be acceptable.

In a work discussion, you can say "well, X or Y may be true, but my experience says !X and !Y, and this is my project, so let's assume !X and !Y, and y'all can blame me later when it becomes apparent I was wrong." and if the other party really doesn't want to go along with it, come up with a limited allotment of time for them to investigate after which either you'll be convinced to change your assumptions or to allocate more time, or they'll go ahead with your assumptions even if they don't like it.
It feels like the only way out of this is some massive long lived catastrophe that is unignorable. Like way beyond 9/11. Great depression or world war 3?

I took this class on Trauma, and I remember the thing that stuck with me the most was a quote in the syllabus about how war focuses people, and gives them something external to focus on.

Apparently this is a pretty broad idea, so much so someone wrote a book on it?

https://www.amazon.com/War-Force-that-Gives-Meaning/dp/16103...

Are there any examples in history of cultures being so divided and coming back together in organic ways? I guess my own argument has been that we were probably similarly or even more divided during the 1960's so maybe that answers my own question?

Though it feels like it has a different quality to it now. Maybe somehow less extreme but much deeper?
For readers looking for context, Google tells me it was ~24% of GDP as of 2024
See also:

I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31975507 - Jul 2022 (115 comments)

Here's some other sorting algorithms proven with SPARK, with much more straightforward proofs: https://github.com/AdaCore/spark2014/blob/master/testsuite/g...
Two AI agents on a phone call realize they're both AI and switch to ggwave
> [...] the classical sense.

Which one? Fuzzy logic, ANNs, symbol processing, expert systems, ...?

It's always entertaining to watch the hype cycles. Hopefully this one will have a net positive impact on society.
Then can make a video beating them up and post it on twitter.
How about WISP technology for rural areas as something in between Starlink and expensive fiber infra?
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior
This is a very common mistake with LLMs I find. Lots of people who have high domain knowledge will be very impressed by it due to situations where they phrase questions in such a way that it unintentionally leads it to a specific answer which they see as rightfully impressive, not realizing the information which they encoded in the question.
As others have pointed out, you are essentially advocating for non-enforcement of speed limits.

Which feels an arbitrary line to draw. What about other road rules? Driving on the right side? Using unregistered vehicles?

Countries like India, China and South East Asia, have much less enforcement of these rules… Would you call their driving experience optimal?

Not sure what you mean by values software privacy. I don’t really have a view on it? So no, I don’t think I am.
It's a different time. I don't think we can compare the old Bell Labs/Xerox PARC vs Larry Ellison.

The Larry Ellison.

People have been saying that these concentration of wealth will end up hoarding our basic needs and we've seen that already with Housing.

First they come for your House, next they come for your Food.
haha (hopefully) obviously not something we're spending any real time on ^^ Just a bit of fun~
Sailfish OS 5.0 Tampella is here
Is this a joke paper? This is unoptimized bubble sort. This is the first sort I wrote when I was 13. This is literally the most obvious sort that exists.
Flexport Intelligence
To overcome internal roadblocks & generate that initial momentum.

When I take a long break from working out, it's hard to get back into it. What I'll do for the first few days is just show up & walk on the treadmill for half an hour. Easy, low-effort. Gets me comfortable in the gym environment & routine again. Then after a few days and that initial "ughhhhh, I don't waaaaanna go to the gym" brain barrier is gone, I'll adopt a real workout plan and stick to it.

With that said, sort of ironic that the author of this blog post has only posted this. Didn't seem to have helped much. :)
What are “hoisted curlies”?
Kinda. The differential operator in quantum Ito calculus can be applied to mathematical objects that the normal differentials aren’t properly defined on, such as stochastic variables.
In my opinion, the people who went to use Scala were in two categories: people who wanted functional programming on the JVM and people who just wanted a better Java. As Java progressed and Kotlin launched the people that wanted a better Java either stuck with Java or moved to Kotlin.

Personally, I think Scala is a fantastic language, but it's had breaking changes, a functional only ecosystem, Java -> Scala interoperability is HARD, and the language is complex. Now there is Scala 3 and there are more breaking changes and the tooling landscape hasn't caught up.
It's assumed you at some point talked to someone in the lab, or your advisor, or your advisee, or literally anyone about the paper. If you didn't that's probably problematic. So "we" gives non-formal credit to your community.
Rich people didn’t feed the poor. They didn’t provide universal k-12 education. They didn’t fund enough universities to provide higher education for the masses. They didn’t provide clean water. They didn’t get rid of smog or acid rain. They didn’t band together to start space research or build the highway system.

But there are a few instances where a rich person spent a trivial amount of their wealth to fund a project or two in the interest of humanity.
VectorChord-BM25: PostgreSQL Search with BM25 – 3x Faster Than Elasticsearch
This looks cool. But I'd want to get one in my hands before buying it. One of the advantages of the larger camera bodies is that they fit well in your hands, which makes it easier to hold when larger lenses are attached. I have a hard time envisioning this being a comfortable camera for any but the smallest of lenses.
Sears also did everything it could to annihilate itself while dot-com was happening.

their CEO was a believer of making his departments compete for resources leading to a brutal, dysfunctional clusterfuck. rent seeking behavior on the inside as well as outside.
A related phenomenon is in IVF for sex selection. I remember reading that Americans prefer girls to a great degree except for those of Indians/Chinese origin who prefer boys. Both my wife and I have the common reflexive distaste for being too predictable (we're an Indian/Taiwanese couple) but for us the choice was made since pre-implantation genetic testing revealed that our only healthy embryos (until gene therapies currently in trial reach fruition) will be girls.

I do confess that, if we were fortunate enough to have three children, I would prefer at least one of them be of the other sex but the preference is exceedingly mild and I'd rather have all the children we can have than have ones of any specific gender.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19891844/
https://blebbit.app

Community Spaces on ATProto

(blend of discord, reddit, and fb groups)
There is Svardos as well, with EDR-DOS kernel, enhanced DR-DOS.

That DOS was already the better one back then.
Use it everyday, preferable with a porcelain such as magit in emacs.

Alias commands help.

Run your own git server instead of using one of the big names.

Use git hooks. (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks)

When starting out, looking at visuals of how git works can help a lot I've found when training others. (https://www.junosnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/basic-...)
Most farmers are petty involved in year to year fluctuations and financing things so hard to know how many would stick it out in hopes of legislation….

Granted this is all a hypothetical.
>I see people pointing at social media, but I don't think this is the issue. I think the issue is that life is boring; most problems are solved. There's nothing to talk about. Why go learn guitar when AI can make a song for you?

It's not that life is boring. It's that life is too convenient, to the point that it's easy for the convenience to crowd out the meaningful stuff.

Why learn guitar when a machine can make music for you? Because learning an instrument is fun and fulfilling. It's not convenient (your fingers will hurt and barre chords will frustrate you), but it's deeply satisfying in a way that you won't get in an AI generator. And that satisfaction allows you to connect with other peole who prioritize that very human value over "efficiency" or "problem solving."

Cook instead of ordering Doordash. Talk to people over drinks instead of electronically. Walk somewhere instead of taking a car. It's hard to be bored if you allow yourself to slow down and enjoy life.
Creating an underclass that relies on economic elites paying taxes rather than being economically independent because you want to optimize for "high value add industries" is a terrible long term strategy.
I wonder what are these occasional situations where you need a quick and dirty sort?
Reminds me of the Arcade Fire song Suburbs

"So can you understand why I want a daughter while I'm still young? I want to hold her hand and show her some beauty before this damage is done. But if it's too much to ask, if it's too much to ask Then send me a son"
I've seen this time and again in this space. Thick out the MiT openag project. Same thing, nonsense.

The folks who are successful don't call themselves tech people, they're farmers. To be successful in this business you need to eliminate the hubris and just be a farmer.
I wrote a chrome extension for this a year ago https://dengtab.com/
If all the wealthy would band together to spend their money on convincing every farmer to write software instead, then we'd all starve
While there is some stuff around this that sounds like PR (probably some intermediate results and/or SOTA on that field as of today could help reaching that result), the process seems interesting. Seems like it launches ahem "agents" that do simulations, verifications, refines and iterates over different options... and it takes a while:

https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakth...
I feel like the only two sides I ever hear about the current AI boom is either "Chat-GPT is AGI, the singularity is upon us, all embrace our new machine god" and "There is nothing new nor exciting about the current AI developments, and the whole thing is a massive waste of resources".

But the arguments for both sides consist of a combination of outright lies and gross hyberbole. LLMs are undeniably new, and cool as hell. We killed the Turing test! Computers are now dramatically better at understanding human language than they were 5 years ago. And we are seeing improvement, perhaps not at the same rate we were 5 years ago, but still at an impressive clip. It's far from impossible that we'll have language models that, at the very least, can reliably (as in, you don't need to be constantly checking its work) parse out out human language for interfacing with more tradition computation within the foreseeable future.

On the other hand, it's definitely not AGI yet, and a machine that can't consistently be trusted to do a job is of inherently limited utility. Companies investing in the space are definitely burning money on a moonshot.
In what context? Globally? United States only? Unfortunately the paper is not accessible so there’s no way to know. Not really fair to the authors to invite judgment based on the abstract only, this probably should be removed from the front page.
can't wait to watch the failures of agriculture on mars. well actually nevermind because people will die.
Wait a bit and you'll see what Tim Cook's donation to the inauguration fund bought him.
I would recommend everyone play their first OW game on the easiest difficulty, regardless of their experience with Civ. It is a fair bit more complex and Civ skills do not directly translate well to OW even though the two games look graphically similar.
Until this administration funds were spent at the behest of Congress and allocated through procedures that were set up. There is no evidence of widespread misuse of those funds. Of course having an asshole concentrate power in themselves will lead to bad governance.
I thought it would be possible to use the (undocumented?) T instruction and use the time variable as persistent memory, but it seems to reset each step. It would be nice if there were a way to store things across time steps!
have gone back and forth on this point -- so far I've decided that outer brackets should be a hint that guides on you inner brackets, but that you can't skip any clues

but I hear you!
Is Voyage AI web-scale yet?
I strongly disagree. You’re literally putting people’s lives and possessions at risk who have no knowledge of this. There are many alternative methods, from getting the government involved to giving a a very long lead time to the vendor before you disclose this, to sitting on it and never disclosing.
Emacs org-mode and babel are what I use instead. Very powerful alternative to Jupyter imho, but of course not for everyone.

I have used commit hooks so that non-emacs users could push updates that still get executed to avoid the emacs tie in though, the biggest issue with it I've found.
They will sell servers to customers ... as an add-on to iCloud.

Apple now offers access to Apple Intelligence Pro at 9.99$ a month.
That and because the embedding models are much easier to improve with at scale usage (hence why everyone has a deep search/research/RAG tool built into their AI web app now).
The Birth of Wetware (2018)
For what it’s worth, I recently wrote an SQL file that gave an error. I tried to fix it myself and searched the internet but couldn’t solve it. I pasted it into Claude and it solved the error immediately.
Apple better hope none of their customers realize how comparatively mid of a product iphones are by the time those servers are ready.
> tax those people appropriately and pump that money back into the economy

So make the US to be like a far less successful country? Kill your economy by increasing taxes? The US economy is singularly successful because it has incentives to build businesses - see YC.

Have you tried living in a country that doesn't encourage businesses? They are often great tourist destinations. I'm in New Zealand and too many ambitious young people leave here: we have an emigration problem because our economy sucks. The government fixes the economy with 30% immigrants (disclaimer: I love immigrants). I have many friends that are never coming back here except for holidays. I hate the New Zealand government incentives for businesses (taxation and regulation) and I can see no way to fix them. Even our "business" political party ACT is completely fucked (latest story - they will be selling everything profitable to overseas "investors" - destroying the economy).

Taxation incentives matter to businesses. Be careful what you ask for because the majority have little understanding and vote for the wrong incentives.

Even business owners don't seem to understand incentive systems that well. Perhaps game designers do?
Solana DEX Volume Tops $60M as It Looks to Extend Winning Streak over Ethereum
No, I think one of the fundamental insights of stochastic calculus is that the addition of noise to a process changes the trajectory in a non-trivial way.

In finance, for instance, it leads to the concept of a "volatility tax." Naively, you might think that adding noise to the process shouldn't change the expected return, it would just add some noise to the overall return. But in fact adding volatility to the process has the effect of reducing the expected return compared to what you would have in the absence of volatility. (This is one of the applications of the result that the original article talks about in the Geometric Brownian Motion section.)
No dog in this fight, and I agree with the premise, however there was never a time Apple made a ton of noise about MacBooks being manufactured in the US.

There was a ton of noise about Mac Pros being manufactured in the US, but sadly, I am not nearly as familiar with Apple after, say 2018*. Not even sure if they have a Mac Pro anymore. :X and if they do, I assume it's not the same model (the black trashcan), so it makes me wonder if they bothered retooling here, or quietly moved it somewhere else

* TL;Dr at some point it became clear to me Cook is Sculley 2.0. I date it to around walking around NYC and seeing an absurd amount of Apple News bus-stop ads. Services! (TM)
This makes a nice sound byte. How do I benefit? How far back in history are you willing to go, to make everyone feel guilty?

I'm adopted. I've had people ask me if I have native blood just from features. Not since I moved east of Texas, but all the time on the west coast. I could be part native.

Tell me how I benefit and why I should feel bad forever?

Just being part white and alive today means your ancestors won lots of fights over thousands of years.

White people! Feel bad forever because your ancestors fought, killed, warred!

note: I'm a white person that tans very dark. I'm not gunna demand anyone else feel bad. Oh, i take back my "east of texas" people think i am a Mexican-American sometimes in Louisiana.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/starlinks-current-pro...

Capacity issues are a common problem for wireless internet users, because the bandwidth provided by a base station / cell / satellite is divided among its users. Corporations have trouble resisting the temptation to over-sell their capacity, as adding subscribers on the same equipment is pure profit.