skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the very good news is that you needn't worry, as the article explains the one thing your body is now extremely good at is killing the measles virus. "Immune amnesia" here takes the form of (after infection with measles) an unhealthy singular focus on killing measles. Lots of immune capacity in your body is still, decades later, focused on this enemy, if you were to deliberately inhale the coughs and splutters of an infected person your body's defences will go to town on the invaders -

.... Once on a school trip (like you I'm pretty old, so, we're talking 1980s) to the zoo I saw a little garden bird plop itself down near a big cat. No harm meant of course, but the cat just smashed it - one paw covered in razor sharp talons, lightning fast, dead bird. That's the fate of any unfortunate measles virus which got inside you, even all this time later.
[US schools]

(Never went anywhere afaik over here.)
Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll
Instead of a boring scrollbar thought it would be fun to have an animated stick figure that walks up and down the side of your page when you scroll.

This is the first prototype i made.

Going to make a skateboarder, rock climber, or squirrel next. what other kinds of scroll buddies should I make?
Sorry about the burnout. Sounds like you've got skills and I'd encourage you to explore something smaller. There is a path as a solopreneur. I do sun and shadow modeling using publicly available datasets [1]. My customers are gardeners, permaculture, hunters, fishermen, photographers and also real estate prospectors but they're people not big orgs or banks. It feels good to work on this level and personally answer emails and questions. I don't make much revenue but I like the grassroots path. Maybe you'd find it rewarding as well.

[1] shademap.app
I like it, it's neat!
Isn't it kind of sad that 100M doesn't even count as super wealthy anymore? That's missing 3 zeros. Yes 100M is enough that you never have to work again and can basically go anywhere and do anything you want in boundless luxury, but it also doesn't even cover the cost of one (1) boat purchased by the actual super wealthy
Not really possible. The models work fine once you fix them, it's just making sure you account for batching and concurrency's effect on how floating point gives very (very) slightly different answers based on ordering and grouping and etc.
I had no shop class in my middle school years 99-2002 but technical theater is the closest thing that may still sneakily exist in many schools. I learned basic carpentry and electrical, including lighting design and sound, all in the service of making sets for the yearly plays.
The bottleneck on distributed GPUs training/inference is the inter-GPU connections speed. For a single node, it's doable because it utilized PCIe 4.0 connections. For a cluster, you need at least 50Gbps connection between nodes, which is expensive for cheap GPUs.
adds a bit of fun to a website :)
> Netflix's bitrates [...] max out at above 17500kbps as of 2023

That's great, but I haven't ever seen anything close to that in real-world measurements. Not even with shows like Altered Carbon.

That said, even at 17.5Mbps, that'd still fit on a DVD and would be a far cry from the 90-120Mbps seen on blu-rays.

> But you still are talking about $300 up-front investment plus untold amount of unpaid time spent learning how to set up and operate such a thing. Plus cost of content.

Oh I absolutely agree that it's expensive and annoying today. I was arguing that in a world without DRM, recording your own media would be popular and affordable.

I was only referring to current-day technology to show that the tech exists. In a world without DRM, with an actual market for it, recording your own media would likely be as common, affordable and popular as VHS had been.
In my experience, team efficiency does not improve linearly with head count. A 100-person team may be 2 or 3 times more productive than a 10-person team. Collaboration efforts (process, bureaucracy, calls, meetings, mails, chats) increase exponentially with larger teams. AI can help with coding but not much with this collaboration process, at least not yet. Now, AI can make a small team much more productive because their collaboration overhead stays the same. But AI cannot help with a 100 person team because their collective collaboration overhead cannot be solved by AI. I guess the trend will move towards smaller sized teams that can effectively use AI.
Dealing with China's trade surplus requires a coordinated response, a large component of which will require the EU's help to setup similar tariffs against China considering they are the second largest consumer market.

If Trump tries to go it alone against China with just tariffs, all it achieves is just a repeat of 2016 which is largely ineffectual. And the cards the US has is running out, right now China's consumer market is too weak to provide growth hence we can use access to consumer markets as leverage, but once they achieve "Dual Circulation" in enlarging their consumption, the US (and most of the world) likely will be acceding economic dominance against an onslaught of cheaper Chinese exports (both in low-end and high-tech) while their internal market makes them invulnurable to any retaliation.
>Things exist

oh, cogito existo sum! checkmate theists!

dude, the simulation hypothesis does not mean things don't exist, it means they don't necessarily exist in the way you have, rather unimaginatively, imagined, and you have no way to tell.

and Occam's Razor does not solve the problem.
I'll take a monopoly I can afford over a ton of entrenched middle men that I can't
I'm shocked nobody has a made a visual GUI to abstract git's weird API. There's sourceTree and whatnot, but it's so bad. So, so bad.
Do EMPs destroy the ability to use and exchange oil?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43228816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43235933
I agree. Just goes to show how difficult it is to have lasting, fundamental societal change.

I will say that zoom fatigue is real and remote work can be problematic for people that are mainly in meetings. But we could have solved this with a better solution than snapping back to office culture.
seems to work!

still want an open-ended fuzzy search bar though
A slightly different angle could be whether it needs to be school and can't be handled by the town in a different setting for instance.

I grew up in a town that had a community center where kids of my age played in bands, learned crocheting etc. School was boring, but it was short, and it was easy to meet with other kids from other schools, including other towns. Kids doing classical music have the same experience in general I think.
Haha, I'm not claiming you're wanting that. I want that. So I'm saying it. What makes you think I was attempting to restate what you wrote?
I wouldn't expect many of them to go out of business - they'd just all raise prices by 20%, and profit would remain largely similar as before, notwithstanding supply/demand elasticity of a 20% price increase.
Another TechCrunch [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43233561
I expect a good faith reporter to know of and consume security.txt for reporting. Whether that assumption is valid remains to be seen of course, but I am confident in the assumption (vs an email address advertised on a webpage).

I can also control security.txt through Cloudflare as an option, and have less control of website content.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/security-center/infrastruc...
Publicly available code with lots of prior usage seems less likely to be buggy than LLM-generated code produced on-demand and for use only by me.
> Any company that has to build a reputation and suffer the economic consequences of warranty claims

What are the economic consequences of warranty claims if you products are cheapened to fail after the warranty expires?

Have you not heard of enough of penny-pinching electronics fails (a device worth hundreds $ failing due to low quality part worth cents)?
Can't wait to see the VFX breakdown /s
Human reason is fine, the problem is that human attention spans aren't great at checking for correctness. I want every corner case regression tested automatically because there's always going to be some weird configuration that a human's going to forget to regression test.
How I Ace Midterms at a Top CS School by Studying 1-3 Hours (and Skipping Class)
Fun! He’s a great speed walker too
You could reasonably consider free will to be an abstraction or a language game, but it is closely linked to moral responsibility, prisons, punishment, etc, which are very much not language games.

I don't think free will exists because I don't think supernatural phenomena exist, and there's certainly no natural explanation for free will (Penrose was correct about that). But I have a very non-nihilistic view on things [1].

[1] https://sunshowers.io/posts/there-is-no-free-will/
From limited experimentation: Sonnet 3.7 has “extended thinking” as an option, although the UI, at least in the app, leaves something to be desired. It also has a beta feature called “Analysis” that seems to work by having the model output JavaScript code as part of its response that is then run and feeds back into the answer. Both of these abilities are visible — users can see the chain of thought and the analysis code.

It seems, based again on limited experimentation doing sort-of-real work, that analysis works quite well and extended thinking is so-so. Whereas DeepSeek R1 seems to be willing and perhaps even encouraged to second-guess itself (maybe this is a superpower of the “wait” token”), Sonnet 3.7 doesn’t seem to second-guess itself as much as it should. It will happily extended-think, generate a wrong answer, and then give a better answer after being asked a question that it really should have thought of itself.

(I’m not complaining. I’ve been a happy user of 3.7 for a whole day! But I think there’s plenty of room for improvement.)
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> Firefly is carrying out this mission as a contractor under NASA’s CLPS and Artemis programs
Normally, when you match on the value of an enum, Rust forces you to either add a case for every possible variant, or add a default arm "_ => ..." that acts as a 'none of the above' case. This is called exhaustiveness checking [0].

When you add #[non_exhaustive] to an enum, the compiler says to external users, "You're no longer allowed to just match every existing variant. You must always have a default 'none of the above' case when you're matching on this enum."

This lets you add more variants in the future without breaking the API for existing users, since they all have a 'none of the above' case for the new variants to fall into.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch06-02-match.html#matches-ar...
A similar thing happened to my Brother laser printer. It has a tiny rubber piece inside that serves as a bumper to quiet down a component that clicks while the paper travels through the printer. Over time, it gets sticky and winds up holding the component too long, which confuses the printer into thinking it has a paper jam, causing it to suddenly abort the print job partway through. The fix was to simply remove the rubber pad and it was back to normal -- albeit a little "clickier" than when it started!

Details if anyone is curious:
https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/r04j3s/trying_to_...
Why is every recent thread on DOGE and DOGE-similar stuff always riddled with people asking "this team were supposedly researching [insert apparently useless research topic], how does that help us?!?", as if every god damn research project funded by the US govt. better result in some kind of Manhattan-Project-style leap forward.
I've got music-player on my short list of projects as well. I anticipate using a Teensy though. I'm pretty sure there are good libraries to handle everything you would need.
Ask HN: Is anyone designing a programming language specifically for GenAI?
I’m not a programming language expert, but watching GenAI models stitch together code often feels unnatural. This raises a few questions:

1. Should we rethink programming languages for AI-assisted coding?
2. Is there a path toward a language that is both more readable for humans and easier for GenAI models to generate? Has anyone explored this idea, or would it require fundamentally new design principles (as there won't be a good stash of human written code already for the models to learn from) ?
Non shareholders get so upset about something they don't even own. Up 40% in the last six months. Up 520% in the last five years. Relax. It's going to be okay.
They don't proffer a reason that makes sense because they don't really need to. They make the rules. They can BS their way through a question at the All Hands meeting or on CNBC. It's pretty apparent that at many companies the real reason is soft layoffs but you won't hear the executives say this part out loud.
I can second this—the JetBrains merge conflicts ui is the best I’ve ever seen.

For some reason there are a lot of subpar uis though. E.g. not showing three versions, only showing THEIRS and not the remote branch name, etc.
I entered junior-high school (as it was then called) in Pasadena, California, in 1969. In seventh grade, all of the boys took four 10-week modules: electricity (make an electric motor), print shop (typesetting by hand and printing with a platen press), wood shop, and drafting (pencils and straightedges). The girls took a year of home economics; my two older sisters learned how to sew in those classes, and one made most of her own clothes when she was in high school.

The next year, the classes were made co-educational, with students choosing which stream to take, but at least in that first year the gender divide remained sharp. I chose to take drafting for all of eighth grade; there was only one girl in the class.

I can’t say that what I learned in those classes paid off for me directly, but I did pick up knowledge and skills that I applied indirectly in my later careers: from printshop for writing and editing work, and from drafting for learning how to use drawing and graphics software.

It would been nice if I had learned how to sew and cook then, too.
Oral Polio Vaccine. It's actually both more effective and cheaper than the injected vaccine used today, as well as being attractive to children (well at least me) because it's in the form of a weird fluid dripped onto a sugar code - looks like it might turn you into a superhero.

The reason we don't use OPV in the rich industrial countries any more is that we don't have Polio here, so the improved efficacy and lower price aren't a worthwhile trade for the small but real risk of it reverting in some patients and producing an outbreak of Polio in the residual unvaccinated population.
Does anybody know how to download your comments from Disqus?
You can download all of the comments on your blog but not your personal comments you have made over the years.
> Graphical diffs that automatically handle merge conflicts visually with clicks to insert, undo and the ability for custom modification are MUCH MUCH more convenient with a GUI

Not saying you are wrong, I used to only use VSC Gui for merge conflicts. Then at some point learned to edit myself and just use the CLI. After many many years I tried lazygit (TUI) for merge conflicts while still being in the terminal and I don’t think I can go back to do it manually anymore.

My point is, is this TUI considered graphical?
My kingdom for a hyphen!
I think this is a unique and insightful natural experiment demonstrating how quickly someone in a position of power is willing to update their belief system (or, if not update it, at least take very public action through their authority regardless of their belief system) due to change in current events.
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Hello! I made a simple chrome extension to help you scroll through comments on HN posts. For posts with lots of comments, I found it quite cumbersome to move from thread-to-thread. So, I made this small extension that scrolls to the next root thread for you! Try it out! Any feedback is appreciated.
Good idea. I appreciate that he thought through future compatibility with old versions.
You do know we actively use geothermal plants right now, right? It has almost no effect? Let alone compared to the effect of climate change.

The biggest concerns are specific techniques for pumping water, which (sometimes) can cause small earthquakes.
There's very little in the way of evidence demonstrating your "sensible" hypothesis. On the other hand, a lot of ICs have experience working in office and at home and have noticed we do better work at home.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra

Maybe we can swap out "think" with "experience consciousness"
This is just an article where Wikipedia editors cry about the election. There's not even any real allegations of voter suppression in here. If the Republican party is suppressing voters, they are doing a pretty poor job of it in light of record turnout, and probably to their detriment.
Oil is notably necessary to keep the united states military operational (in addition to the uses in other comments).
(2) is a real concern that I also share

on their page, this is the only information on the project admin: https://codeberg.org/ohfp

who is this? can I trust them with literally my entire digital life and that of my family?

this is a serious problem, "ohfp" might very well be trustworthy but at present there's no way to know

your (4) would go a real way to solving this, but for now I'm not biting

I'd rather take the risk that mozilla sell me some ads than use a browser with zero provenance
Solarpunk environmentalism is very appealing to me but most environmentalists detest the tall buildings it has because environmentalism to them is about community character: which is an American term for single family sprawl. So we have to break the back of environmentalism to save the planet. And we shall. Once we have destroyed American environmentalism we can get to saving the planet.
Haha yeah, the longer the page is the faster he'll move. Should I slow his arms and legs down?
Or just boot in to the EFI config interface and set a new default that way.
Interesting, but it isn't causing the value (here, the "bar" string object) to know about that name.
So is there any objective way to compare one company’s claims or capabilities against another?
There is a choice to pay 4 cents or 6 cents for a capacitor in your electronic devices.
Do you realize that this cult has marinated their brain in propaganda, like Fox News, for years/decades and their politic beliefs are now their identity. There is no possible conversion therapy. They have to awake on their own.

>>This is not difficult

Right! It is impossible not difficult.
Can Atproto Scale Down?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJJktxCY9U The decommodified version is also a good watch
> Better than the average human at art.

Given that we struggle with even a basic consensus about which humans are better at art than others, I don't think this sentence carries any meaning whatsoever.
I just had an account there. It might still be active. The way you have explained StoryGraph, it seems I must spend some more time checking it out. Seems really what I might be looking for.
One of the coolest things ever is you can see the shadows and depths of the craters on the moon from here on Earth, with a cheap ~$15 telescope or probably binoculars too. I remember buying the galileoscope for $15 many years ago and was absolutely shocked how cool the moon looked, and how 3D.

Pro-tip: the full moon isn't so fun to look at, you want some level of crescent moon so you can avoid getting overloaded on the brightness.

(You can also stay up for a few hours and actually observe Io revolving around Jupiter, I think it takes most of the night to get 1/4 of the way around. Pretty obvious revolutions when you keep observing throughout the night.)
Learning the -p was the biggest gain I’ve had after years of using git via cmdline only.
Same concept. The TUI is attempting to imitate what GUI does with pixels as primitives but with terminal character primitives.
This.

Heuristic or not, AI is still ultimately an algorithm (as another comment pointed out, heuristics are a subset of algorithms). AI cannot, to expand on your PRNG example, generate true random numbers; an example that, in my view, betrays the fundamental inability of an AI to "transcend" its underlying structure of pure algorithm.
I agree with your overall sentiment, but I can't help but feel that when companies offer single-year warranties it's because they haven't put in the engineering to keep the failure rate down over what's actually a reasonable-for-the-consumer lifespan for the product.
If only IDEs and sites like GitHub and GitLab were agnostic about the DVCS.
It's not clear to me how a language would be designed to be easier for GenAI to get right. Python seems like a pretty good target already, given that there's a lot of such code in the training data already plus how it reads (with idioms like "for... in..." etc.).
> invented the first multi-core cpu

The man clearly has many deserved achievements to his name, but that is true without this, and I'm confident the world would be better without this kind of statement.

"A multi-core CPU" isn't much of an invention per se. It's an idea -- one that is fairly obvious and trivial at a certain point of semiconductor history. Getting a multi-core CPU to run is not trivial, but it's not a single invention either, and by the time we got there, development teams were so large that it would be downright insulting to claim that one person solved all these problems by himself. Perhaps Kogge led the development of the first multi-core CPU, perhaps he was even visionary in the sense that he pushed for it before others thought it was feasible (I do not know if that is the case). But either way, he didn't invent it.
Slower? Yes. But my impression was always that it had more features than nginx. Unless you compare it with the enterprise offering?
I agree that its new problems and challenges that will make the genre interesting. Even in a utopia there's a lot of room for conflicts, and not all of them need to be original conflicts, but hopefully we will see some new ways to address old conflicts within a utopian framework.
Installing Flatpak itself requires root, which means it's adding just a little more attack surface just to use Flatpak. Not a big concern of mine but I can understand why some might prefer not to.
A lot of people look towards non-determanism to be a source for free will. It's often what underlies peoples thinking when they discount the ability of AI to be conscious. They want to believe they have free will and consider determinism to be incompatible with free will.

Events are either caused, or uncaused. Either can be causes. Caused events happen because of the cause. Uncaused events are by definition random. If you can detect any real pattern in an event you can infer that it was caused by something.

Relying on decision making by randomness over reasons does not seem to be a good basis of free will.

If we have free will it will be in spite of non-determinism, not because of it.
> capitalism has served its purpose of seeding the economy ages ago, and now we are 'over the hump' so to speak as we watch wealth concentrate further and its effects.

I think capitalism as a system is capable of serving the general public.

The bigger problem has been that every Republican administration in my lifetime has passed huge tax cuts for the wealthy and both parties have allowed significant consolidation while also falling all over themselves to bail out big business whenever they got in trouble (often due to their own irresponsibility) while wagging their fingers at regular people suffering the downstream effects.
Sisyphus when using infinite scroll?
Can he turn around when you scroll back up?