skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen grapes dropped in a bowl of vodka in the freezer, then strained out and put in a bowl after they freeze. Good way to make your co-workers chill out a little.
VFX Giant MPC and May Shut Down Amid 'Severe Financial Challenges'
> To terminate SSL

To make sure that your connections can be snooped on over the LAN? Why is that a positive?

> To have a security layer

They usually do more harm than good in my experience.

> To load balance

Sure, if you're at the scale where you want/need that then you're getting some benefit from that. But that's something you can add in when it makes sense.

> To have rewrite rules
> To have graceful updates

Again I would expect a HTTP library/framework to handle that.
> why do you even want a load balancer/reverse proxy, unless your application language sucks?

Most load balancer/reverse proxy applications also handle TLS. Security-conscious web application developers don't want TLS keys in their application processes. Even the varnish authors (varnish is a load balancer/caching reverse proxy) refused to integrate TLS support because of security concerns; despite being reverse-proxy authors, they didn't trust themselves to get it right.

An application can't load-balance itself very well. Either you roll your own load balancer as a separate layer of the application, which is reinventing the wheel, or you use an existing load balancer/reverse proxy.

Easier failover with fewer (ideally zero) dropped requests.

If the app language isn't compiled, having it serve static resources is almost certainly much slower than having a reverse proxy do it.
I keep thinking about musks group having all this financial data (that his business competitors do not!) and feeding it into a model to find signal he can use to further his empire / investments. I also see his stated intention to make the “one app to rule them all” (for govt ID, banking, etc) as another route to the same data. His payments to / cleaving to trump really accelerated his underlying goal.
Should've been more specific. You can ask a court to do all kinds of things, but the individual judge who reads your filing doesn't have to (and in most cases can't) carefully analyze your arguments that day. They need time to think it over, and probably hearings where you and the other party can explain all the arguments for why certain rulings should or shouldn't be made. A contract dispute like this, where one party says they have a right to do something and the other party says they don't, is almost always going to take longer than 1 or 5 or 30 days for a court to figure out.

Temporary restraining orders are the biggest exception. If DigiCert is about to do something crazy like take down all your websites, courts are generally willing to put a temporary stop to it without understanding all the details. "Preserve the status quo" and "prevent irreparable harm" are the buzzwords.
Good counter on John Walker's "The Autodesk File" https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/
Intended? I don't know, you'd have to ask NASA. Does it have that capability? Sure, if it can deploy arbitrary payloads on destination.
> After years of skepticism, you'll reluctantly become an AI evangelist, but will still add 'I'm still skeptical about how far it can really go' to the end of every recommendation.

Oh man, I feel seen :)
> Comments is a self-admission you failed to write readable code, and you can fix your failure by refactoring code into self-descriptive member functions

This may be true for some cases, but I don't see a non-contrived way for code to describe why it was written in the way it does or why the feature is implemented the way it is. If all comments are bad, then this kind of documentation needs to be written somewhere else, where it will be disconnected from the implementation and most probably forgotten
Small victory is not country wife mandate. And also, frankly, I can't imagine you are conservatives saying the same if Hareis was in power.
Another annoying Xcode feature is that building a macOS app with Xcode command line tools (xcodebuild) sometimes complains that my iPhone is locked:

"An error occurred whilst preparing device for development -- Failed to prepare the device for development. Domain: com.apple.dtdevicekit Code: 806 Recovery Suggestion: Please unlock and reconnect the device. The device is locked. Domain: com.apple.dt.MobileDeviceErrorDomain"
The issue is not just the passage of laws, it is enforcement. Unless the penalties are ruinous, corporations will flout the laws and use legal trickery to skirt them.
I am in the EU. I opted out of targeted ads a while back when the Facebook app asked me about it and it is now showing me inline ads with a timer. I literally have to wait before I can continue doomscrolling which is just enough time to just put the phone down and go back to work. Thank you, Meta.
> it's a superior UI than GUI.

I don't believe that. For input, maybe (you do draw things probably to explain stuff, or send reference documents). For output, not at all; it really sucks. Not only is reading faster/more economical (if you can read of course, but that's another story); adding visuals (images, charts, but tables, animations, videos, calendars, kanban, mindmaps etc etc) aka GUI really helps in communicating. That's all GUI.
Ok, I did not know that this was a forum where software engineers want to get unemployed by amplifying and normalizing their masters' lies about "AI".
The Biden rule was aimed at preventing firings for political reasons (eg what’s happening in the FBI where they’re tracking down anyone who worked on Jan 6 cases in any capacity) - if DOGE wanted to shrink the overall size of the government, they should work with congress to defund specific departments rather than illegally impounding approved spending. Once that happens, the departments would follow the RIF ‘playbook’ to shrink the size of their teams.

And yes, they’re entirely common.. as one example the Air Force did a big one of its civilian staff during the Obama era. The military does them all the time for their base closures and realignments. Tens of thousands of staff were let go during that process.
I thought the papers that jump started the revolution came from Google?
Postgres has replicas? Most people use those for reads and a master writes.
A suggestion for your speed converter: different sports use different units which your converter could support as well.

A few examples:

Running usually measures pace in minutes per kilometer or mile. That will be extra fun for you since it wouldn't be 4.33333 min/km but would be written as sth like 4:20 min/km.

Swimming uses min/100m or sec/100m.

Rowing uses min/500m.

If you add these then I'd be using this a lot!
Ask HN: How will AI affect learning programming?
Beyond just programming language fundamentals, what will be the way how to learn coding considering the AI tools will be available? What will be the shift in your opinion, if any?
You know about the copilot plugin for obsidian?
> they’re not comparable to SpaceX.
Not yet indeed. If SpaceX were to fail for whatever reason, eg. Musk falling out of grace with his orange buddy or whatever else, there is sort of backup now I guess.

> domestic political advantage Tesla has never enjoyed

Agreed, but I think SpaceX showed that reuse could be done before Musk got any political influence (and went off the rails...).
> Security-conscious web application developers don't want TLS keys in their application processes.

If your application is in a non-memory-safe language, sure (but why would you do that?). Otherwise I would think the risk is outweighed by the value of having your connections encrypted end-to-end. If your application process gets fully compromised then an attacker already controls it, by definition, so (given that modern TLS has perfect forward secrecy) I don't think you really gain anything by keeping the keys confidential at that point.
You ever had to host map tiles? Those are the worst!
- To host multiple frontends, backends and/or APIs under one domain name
The links above are for studying this as a pure mathematician would. If you want to study it that way, you would take most of the core classes in the undergrad curriculum:

Calculus (without proofs)
Linear Algebra
Real Analysis (proofs of calculus)
Measure Theory

There are also higher level courses that are worth taking, because they motivated a lot of this theory. They would be imo, Functional Analysis (real analysis applied to spaces of functions), and Partial Differential Equations.

If you've knocked off some of the undergrad prereqs and feel good about proofs, this could be the right book for you: https://www.amazon.com/Probability-Martingales-Cambridge-Mat.... Another gem of a book.
I dunno, that seems a bit narrow minded to me. You're making an assumption about talking to AI being a worse experience than talking to a person (which is frequently _terrible_).

What if you were able to get helpful support, 24/7/365, with no time waiting in a queue, in your own language (regardless of the service provider's location and 'native' language support)? And the company was able to provide the product and support for it cheaper, resulting in less cost to you?

We're far from there, but I expect it'll happen.
Here's an algorithm (in Python) that is exactly equivalent to the one in the paper:

def pseudobubble(lst):
n = len(lst) # give a name to the list length
for i in range(n-1, 0, -1): # i will range from n-1 down to 1 inclusive
if lst[i] > lst[i-1]:
swap(lst, i, i-1) # high values bubble down
for i in range(1, n): # 1 to n-1 inclusive
for j in range(i, 0, -1): # i down to 1 inclusive
if lst[j] < lst[j-1]:
swap(lst, j, j-1) # low values bubble down

The first pass of this algorithm (bubbling high values down, one time only) may do different things than the first pass of the paper's algorithm, but that's not relevant.
Democracy involves rule of law.
The thing is, the current situation is "more control by credentialed elites". Way more than at any point since at least WWII. It’s just that the elites are oligarchs who kneeled before Trump. He is the only one giving credentials.
> You mentioned CA which is rebuilding from massive fires, can they afford that?

Yes.

> What about Arizona, 2021 to 2022 19% of their schools budget was federal funding.

They are an outlier, but mostly because they spend so little: https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...

> What happens if there is a natural disaster, Trump can withhold funds to force changes. Can a state turn down that level of assistance? They would have to prioritize recovery I assume and just accept the change.

But many sides can play this game once the can of worms is open.

The thing is, then the next Democratic president (or a Democratic House/Senate) happens and yet another hurricane flattens a part of Florida. What do you think the Florida delegation in the Congress will do when faced with a prospect of not getting help?

> Money is power

Indeed. And the Blue States have way more money than most of the Red states.
Let's not forget that Uncle Bob, by the time of writing "Clean Code" had 4 decades coding experience.
Some suggestions:

* Drop the electoral collage
* Proportional and/or preferential voting
* Term limits/retirement ages
* An independent electoral organisation with real teeth to prevent gerrymandering (and verify the election)
* Free and easy voter IDs (if ID are ever required)
* All election days are public holidays, with requirements to allow workers on the day to vote
* Compulsory voting (works in AU)
* Minimum number of polling booths per X people
* Absentee voting
* Changing to a parliamentary system where the president is a figurehead
I didn’t know this was a forum where engineers cry about the future moving past them instead of learning to adapt and evolve.
Simulating Time in Square-Root Space
You know what is not a substitute for a viable economy? Everything except a viable economy. Zimbabwe is also a net exporter of food [1][2].

[1]: https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/ZWE/Yea...

[2]: https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/ZWE/Yea...
Back in the days when something like A* was invented, I' fairly sure it was called AI.
Now it's just another algorithm. So indeed, we don't call those 'AI" anymore. The bar has significantly shifted and does so each time a big advance is made.

Perhaps one day we'll understand what goes on in our brains to the same extent.
finally some actual hacking on this site
Practically speaking, is it possible for NVIDIA to "pull the rug" later, intentionally or otherwise, by subtly changing the behaviour of this out-of-doc instruction on new architectures?
How does it have enough Delta-V to get into that distant of an orbit? Is it able to maneuver to different orbits and inclination? Is it able to return to earth? Or, is it more of a satellite than a “plane”? This is my first time learning about this space plane, so apologies if my questions are naive.
Only if you're constrained on connections. The reason that HTTP2 is much better for websites is because of the slow starts of TCP connections. If you're already connected, you don't suffer those losses, and you benefit from kernel muxing.
Yes, I think that's RAG. It's Retrieval Augmented Generation - you're retrieving content to augment the generation.

Who cares if you used vector search for the retrieval?

The best vector retrieval implementations are already switching to a hybrid between vector and FTS, because it turns out BM25 etc is still a better algorithm for a lot of use-cases.

"Agentic search" makes much less sense to me because the term "agentic" is so incredibly vague.
Good point made. To what extent is there really an advantage over very mature projects and veteran maintainers? Even if this could be proven, is it really enough of a difference to justify the continual drama and disruption? Well, it's at least entertaining and paying the bills.
Just that there is no practical difference between "seeming unaccountable" and "being unaccountable", especially if, as you say, "the levers of accountability could have been pulled", but weren't. If the departments aren't being held accountable, they are, by definition, acting unaccountably.

You seemed to disagree, and be trying to make a distinction where no practical difference can be found. You also seem to agree that they haven't been held accountable, which makes this apparent distinction even less coherent! This kind of just comes across as contrarian, or perhaps sophistry to avoid agreeing with an apparent opponent?
What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?
If you don't want Meta to be viable as a company, the best approach is to stop using their services altogether.
Voice is pretty sweet if you're driving for example
Hinton. And if you'd ask himself probably Schmidthuber.
Hi @eschluntz, @catherinewu, @wolffiex, @bdr. Glad that you are so plucky and upbeat!

How do you feel about raking in millions while attempting to make us all unemployed?

How do you feel about stealing open source code and stripping the copyright?
Could they not have had a clause in the contract saying “if you delay a revocation in any manner you owe us $100 million.”?

So a customer could go right ahead and get a TRO but long term it will cost them less than making sure their infrastructure can handle this rare event?
That is a strong ideological belief, for sure.

Implementing it as policy in the prison system has been disastrous for female prisoners, with multiple cases of rape, assault and impregnation of incarcerated women by male inmates who claimed to be "not men" and gained access to women's prisons on that basis.

So it's good that this policy has been reversed and cancelled. It was a massive safeguarding failure that should never have happened in the first place.
Sure.

The US has a lot of gun play within school boundaries. Most of that (see pie chart) involves students. Some of it doesn't.

Other countries have near zero gun play on school grounds.

That appears accurate.
I think the eventual correct option is pretty clear.

A TRO like that is based on the company loudly declaring that revoking will cause real damage. That means their use of certificates is incompatible with the web PKI rules and ecosystem. That means they need to be migrated out ASAP, with every certificate authority refusing to take their business.

Make that series of consequences clear, and companies will stop trying that trick.
Not according to Edward Snowden, if you're Yahoo and Google.
Have you used chatgpt advanced voice mode (voluntarily) and what was your experience like?
Wonder whether that's an instance of Berkson's paradox.

Basically nobody bothering to report about Kebab shops that are neither good nor conveniently located. Probably not, but "one quadrant empty" is a handy red flag that you might encounter Berkson's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
This has zero to do with rooting put fraud, this is literally making goverment more corrupt.

And the whole "democrats are Marxists" talking point is ridiculous. There are no paralels here, just a authoritarian and anti democratic movement successfully demonizing other side regardless of truth.
I played with Eliza before the rise of modern text generation. It's neat, but it's abundantly clear you're talking to a robot. There was no chance that somebody would be fooled into holding a conversation with it. Likewise with Markov-chain based text generators: by the end of a paragraph, it's obviously not human. GPT-3 and beyond absolutely can fool someone who's not aware they're being tested, and frankly in limited conversations it can be difficult even in the non-blind case. That's Turing test passing.

I deliberately avoided the problem solving/doing work side of things in discussing modern AI, because that's a place where there is a significant amount of progress necessary to be useful. I completely agree that it's abilities in that regard, at present, are being grossly overblown. But the ability to parse human language, decipher intent, and synthesize responses in human language very much is a new capability that modern LLMs are extremely good at, and will likely reach reliability levels necessary for autonomous application in the very near future.

A program that can parse human language perfectly absolutely could still hallucinate. When I ask an LLM a question, and it makes up a patently false response, it accurately parsed what I asked of it. It just failed to synthesize a correct response. The parsing of human language and synthesis of information into human language is, in of itself, a powerful capability, that we shouldn't overlook just because it's no longer science fiction.
I will more likely believe a blog or website if I know it has been made by a real person, and not some hallucinating AI. The style of the prose is usually a giveaway of when AI is used to generate blog articles or websites.

I am starting a Masters in Computer Science, and going to learn Java for the first time. I wanted to know how to use default method parameter values. I searched for it and found this near the top of the results:

https://skillapp.co/blog/deep-dive-into-default-parameters-i...

Java developers will know that the language does not support default method parameter values. I only found that out when I tried to implement it in a test, was surprised it didn't work, thought maybe my version of Java was too old, etc.

But there is no syntax like
"void coolFunction(int x=5){};"
that other languages have.

One more reason that I will value a human-written article, blog or website. Please keep writing them!
Premature Automation
Small UX suggestion, but could you make submission of prompt via URL parameter work? It used to be possible via https://claude.ai/new?q={query}, but that stopped working. It works for ChatGPT, Grok, and DeepSeek. With Claude you have to go and manually click the submit button.
Do you mean the non-product people that designed and wrote typescript?
I think general burglary is heading in that direction across the country.

The things people used to pinch like VCRs, stereos, TVs, laptops just aren't as expensive or sellable now.
Why did you include metro stations in your study? The original quote only included train stations. The metro originally largely replaced a tram network, so the metro station density in Paris is higher than for other underground systems. I think it is very hard to find kebap shops in Paris that are not within 500 m of a metro station. This kind of dilutes the significance of your study, because I never really noticed that metro stations had a negative impact on their surrounding area (the opposite, really).

I think your study would have been much more interesting (but not that algorithmically challenging...) if you only included the large train stations in Paris.
You terminate SSL as close to the user as possible, because that round trip time is greatly going to affect the user experience. What you do between your load balancer and application servers is up to you, (read: should still be encrypted) but terminating SSL asap is about user experience.
Now they will lay the asteroid guy off.
Bad kebab shops may survive if located near a train station.
theres some debate around the idea that gluten might be mildly toxic to everyone, so I could see this being really useful to everyone
A mere month ago I would have been excited for the new US defence tech.
This. Commercial fruits are as engineered as candy bars. Well.... Almost.

In any case, apples are often too sweet. I don't eat candy either.
They could. That's why there is a switch to disable it.

> If you find kernels not working on some other platforms, you may add DISABLE_AGGRESSIVE_PTX_INSTRS=1 to setup.py and disable this, or file an issue.
You could move the sanitation to the front end securely, it would just need to be right before render (after fetching the data to the browser). Some UI libraries do this automatically (like React) and the dompurify can run in the browser for this task.

It could have done a better job outlining how to do it properly
No, this is quite wrong. It is well understood in American law that "spend every dollar we give" is exactly what the budget approved by Congress means. It is then the duty of the executive branch to do so in an effective manner.

Laws shouldn't need to go into details on exactly how every last dollar is to be spent, they set the amount and the goals, and the executive exists to handle the details.

The problem is that the Trump administration is ignoring the laws they don't like. They're even trying to ignore a very explicit constitutional amendment (birthright citizenship). Writing more detailed laws would do nothing to make the Trump team follow the law.
it gets even better:

> We also found that the bug in the code was inadvertently remediated when engineering completed a user-experience enhancement project that collapsed multiple random value generation microservices into a single service.
Lots of money surly helps, just pointing out that we as a species can also advance in other situations.

Fire,the wheel, farming, animal husbandry, spinning; all probably not the result of an investment bubble.

In more recent times: Antibiotics, vaccination ( against smallpox).

There are plenty of cases where humanity advance in a higher leap without giant capital concentrations.
So you actually enjoy writing, without getting anything in return. Sounds like it'd be the good kind of blog (as opposed to content marketing, personal branding and all that hustling). If you were to publish it, maybe one person will come across it and get something out of it.

There's this Spider Man quote I like: "If you help someone, you help everyone". I think it's not comic canon but just from the PS4 game. So getting meta here, that random line a writer for a random video game came up with had a big impression on me.

It's a typical programmer fallacy to avoid redundancy. If somebody else already wrote about something, why would you? Yet in communication, redundancy and repetition is actually quite key. We need to hear ideas multiple times and from different angles before they land.