skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what your point is because nobody is suggesting that modern Germany pay reparation for WW1. The discussion was about reparations that Germany has already paid after WW1, imposed on it by the victorious Entente. There's a long-standing historical myth that those reparations were 1) unjustified because Germany was not actually solely or primarily responsible for the war, and 2) excessive. It further goes to claim that this is a big part of why Germany went Nazi and started WW2 eventually. This was, indeed, the prevailing wisdom in the inter-war era, but Fritz Fischer poked a lot of holes in it after WW2.

At this point, while there's still no consensus as to the degree of German responsibility, most historians would weight it significantly higher than that of the Entente. The notion that reparations (and the Treaty of Versailles in general) was particularly onerous and punitive has also been largely debunked. However, the popular understanding still mostly reflects the inter-war consensus and not the later developments.
Being able to outspend the other side is definitely a good indicator of winning odds. There is some friction of course, but it’s a very rough approximation of how much industrial might you can put into the field. And just having money isn’t enough either, you have to be able to spend/convert it into a military power in some way.

So it stands to reason that wars will be as expensive as possible. It’s pay to win to a degree.
> How does server know the cookie is valid if it doesn't store it

depending on why you'are asking the question,
* because it decrypts correctly
* because it contains some user identifier

People don't usually store sessions in cookies because cookies can't be very big, and session do become big. So what people do instead they store cookies in databases, and put session identifiers into cookies.
There's a significant performance issue. There's no good reason for a few ovals and texts to stutter on my system. May be worth investigating.
NotaGen: Advancing Musicality in Symbolic Music Generation with LLM Training
This deserves a medal, come on!
From the study itself:

> Moreover, exceptionally well-preserved complex networks of neurons, axons, and other neural structures have been revealed by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) investigation of the brain remains and those of the spinal cord

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-88894-5
The worst part of Postgres (and linux) is the awful mailing list driven development process. I have patches to Postgres that I'd rather just keep porting up every version than to try to figure out how to make Outlook work with a 1980s process.

The internals themselves are quite nicely engineered as you'd expect
I mean, how can you know that he's a liar, i.e. that he believes that what he says is wrong but still says it? Because that's the moral crux of matter, to me.
I chased a Kinect v2 for PC, but the driver story on linux isn't great (since it never hit that broad distribution). Well, that was a few years ago, it may have improved since then.
It's a valid question about ToS, and one I'm not sure of.
Can you? What use is gold in the Mad Max era?
Courts do tend to negatively view any disrespect for their authority.
Young people, in general, don't even bother to vote in the USA. They're not going to be participating in a revolution any time soon.
Relatedly, the PDP-11 addresses modes are post-increment and pre-decrement in order to allow programming the PDP-11 as if it were a stack machine, with a register pointing at the ‘top’ of the stack (i.e. lowest address). (Reference: Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design)
I would agree with you if I had been talking about using "fascism" to describe first-term Trump and his hardcore supporters, but I was very specifically referring to the application of the term toward liberals and progressives who were deemed too moderate on identity politics. And to be clear, by "too moderate", I mean stuff like "advocating nonviolent protests" and "criticizing the weaponization of Title IX at universities".

I think warning about Trump fascism was appropriate and legitimate, but I think using the label as a lazy cudgel to get liberals and progressives to toe a poorly-conceived line did a tremendous amount to erode the term's significance and rhetorical power.
What makes the writing horrendous?
If your entire life revolves around buying and consuming I guess that world view can be explained.

As for the gatorade bottle problem, it's been solved in pretty much the entire western world via worker's right and regulations. No amount of tech and drone will fix the American system as long as it runs this flavor of the capitalism software.
when i was young i used to think that employers want smart, creative and innovative person because of capitalism.

I found out pretty quick that they want a yes man who always says yes to their superiors ideas and makes their superior look like a hero at every opportunity. There is literally no other secret to working in a corporate.
Who needs Google technology? Probably not you
Well said! In case anyone is curious how this is discussed in AI, this whole conversation is pretty well summed up by the idea of the "Frame Problem" https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/

Thus why intuitive algorithms change everything, even if they're useless on their own...
So dumb that the default behavior of the governments (State and Fed) is to withhold information. This isn't classified information and shouldn't be treated as such.

100% onboard with shrinking the government.
Wasn't AI supposed to make us more productive so we could work less?

On a more serious note, instead of overloading people on 40-hour contracts, why not hire and train more workers to share the workload?
> Until escalated to arbitration or the courts, the issuing bank has last word.

Again, no. It depends on the type of chargeback (in particular, whether that type implies an "allocation" or a "collaboration" flow [1]) which party, i.e. issuer or acquirer, requests arbitration, and by extension who has the last word in case arbitration does not happen.

[1] https://support.kount.com/hc/en-us/articles/21155079759252-T...
If you have such a desperate need for products, why don't you live right across from a super store? That would fix your issue.
Is the audience confused though or is the text simply ambiguous and thus should be interpreted defensively.
Because of volume, it was very widely available, it was pretty cheap too on the second hand market.
Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model
Indeed, at least now there is an SDK as starting point.
Unless you start considering carbon capture: if some direct carbon capture folly exists and you replace that folly with capturing the output of some crops-to-energy setup, then that would surely be a massive improvement over the carbon capture it replaced.
I like those vehicles, honestly -- delivery trucks are going to park in the bike lane regardless and these are much smaller and safer to maneuver around. I want to see more of them and hope it leads to more bike lanes being built in NYC.
You can't vote until you have 500 karma
wow awesome, did you make this?
> How many of these people getting toothpaste or whatever delivered by electrically powered drone would alternatively be firing up their dinosaur-powered F-150 to drive to the local supermarket instead?

Why do you want to solve the last symptom in the long chain of failure upon failure, by adding on more atrocity in the mix ?

If I want toothpaste I walk 250 meters to my closest shop and buy some damn toothpaste
> the vast majority of speedrunners are "only" practicing and replicating exploits demonstrated by others.

Which ironically is more like pentesting than VR.
What you say is likely true. I've seen even crazier developments though. Not super far from me is a giant development of 3-4 story apartment buildings. It's easily a mile long and 1000ft wide. Just identical mid-rise buildings but not a single store, cafe or restaurant. It's truly the worst of both worlds. No privacy and space and zero walkability. Even by car the next decent grocery store is 5 minutes away.
I think you may be right. I just looked up Kinect on eBay and you can get one for twenty bucks.
And this alone is why they are worth it for Apple. Modems are speed limited by networks which evolve on a MUCH slower timescale

Qualcomm has to sell faster and faster modems but apple can optimize for what we actually care about
For those interested I recommend this channel, Andrew here has a lot of videos exploring various ideas/concepts of how things might function in a solarpunk society: https://www.youtube.com/c/Andrewism
> I mean, how can you know that he's a liar,

By a preponderance of the evidence, same as any civil trial.

If he wanted to convince the jury that he's not a liar, he had an opportunity to try to do so, but he did not cooperate.
Another danger is spotted in the later paragraphs:

> I genuinely find myself picking libraries that have been around for a while partly because that way it’s much more likely that LLMs will be able to use them.

People will pick solutions that have a lot of training data, rather than the best solution.
> Things seem to be quantised at a low enough level.

Some things. But others are very much not: in particular, space and time are not quantized, and in fact are not even quantizable. A theory in which there is some discrete minimal unit of space (or of spacetime) is trivially incompatible with special relativity, so it is incompatible with quantum mechanics (QFT, specifically).

This is easy to see from the nature of the Lorenz transformation: if two objects are at a distance D = n*min for some observer, they will be at a distance D' = n*min*gamma for some other observer, where gamma is always < 1 for an o server moving at a higher speed in a direction aligned with the two objects. So the distance for that second observer will be a non-integer multiple of the minimum distance, so your theory is no longer quantized.
Does anyone know how the name Ladybird came about?

I hope we get monthly or at least quarterly Ladybird Newsletter just to keep the attention of the project along with attracting those who still dont know.

I would argue this is perhaps the most important OSS project right now. But gets very little support from bigger companies. Assuming money is an issue.

Anyone connected with Amazon, Meta, IBM, Oracle, Netflix, Salesforce, Adobe, Samsung, Epic, Uber, Bloomberg, Sony, Tesla. Platinum is only USD $100,000 a year. May be even Microsoft, since they dont own blink and would actually benefits competition eating away Chrome's advantage.
His videos are genuinely very interesting and informative. If he does a promoted piece once in awhile that primarily dig into the science + engineering behind something while also getting a company's name out there, I don't really mind. (So long as it's disclosed)
Ghosts of departed proofs. (functional pearl) (2018)
Not defending yourself and hiding evidence during discovery tends to go badly
And like I said, it wasn't really a startup. They just liked to use that phrase in order to convince people to work free overtime.
I don't like seeing them in general as an aesthetic matter. I would be disappointed if I was under a drone highway.

Same reason why I oppose mass billboards in the sky.
Look at the state of health care in Cuba for a different perspective.
In this economy? I could be jobless and living out of my car in a Walmart parking lot if we wanted to get closer to the source.

I'm not sure what what you see my issue as.
> gave up the ghost

Haha, kudos to you, fellow German! :)

The t480 recently got rudimentary coreboot/libreboot support (which is somewhat incomplete because of thunderbolt quirks as of today) but will hopefully be supported better in the future.

They are like 200 EUR on ebay for some 8GB RAM model where you can still replace the SODIMMs with 2x32GB ones.

Also use LUKS encryption, ecryptfs sucks and has a character limit of 122 characters per file, which happens more often than you might imagine.
I would say printf debugging is the functional equivalent of "guessing the next token". I only reach for it when my deductive reasoning (and gdb) skills fail and I'm just shining a flashlight in the dark hoping to see the bugs scurrying around.

Ironically, I used it to help the robots find a pretty deep bug in some code they authored in which the whole "this code isn't working, fix it" prompt didn't gain any traction. Giving them the code with the debug statements and the output set them on the right path. Easy peasy...true, they were responsible for the bug in the first place so I guess the humans who write bug free code have the advantage.
In my years in PD, I never saw intentional product obsolescence. Instead, I saw a lot of targets based on use metrics, i.e. design for this many years, exposure, etc. The problem is testing - you can't actually test for time in real time. Instead, we try to develop elaborate accelerated testing schemes that try to closely capture consumer intent. The problems with accelerated testing schemes are four fold:

1) They're a relative benchmark. They don't represent how the product will perform in absolute terms, only how it will do in this standardized bench test against other products.

2) They might miss some things that are coupled together that don't fully get felt out until you're over longer periods of time.

3) They're imperfect if the use cases for a consumer product will be complex. An easy example is a car. Auto OEMs will try their best with their standardized accelerated testing scheduled for durability, corrosion, etc -> but the consumer will always end up doing shit that is totally reasonable but not in the accelerated testing scheme )or under provisioned).

4) For complex products, a lot of accelerated testing might happen on only a subsystem level and may not fully map to the final product.

Although these downsides are real, accelerated testing is still great and, with good planning and experience, can catch a lot of problems.. but it tends to always miss something and the above 4 points can synergistically work together to make a "design big" more obvious when in the field/hands of the customers!
Bekenstein bound applies to any physical system. If humans are to be excluded from it for some reason, then that needs to be proven.
Youth and what happens when it's gone
Try dropping groceries from 200 meters, or hitting the front door full speed with an fpv drone.

They're undetected because they're flying way too high, or way too fast for the human senses to react.
Qualcomm X85, the Leading Modem-RF for Unprecedented Speeds
Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs, built using LLMs
Hi HN!

My latest side project is knowledge graph that maps the French culinary network using data extracted from restaurant reviews from LeFooding.com. The project uses LLMs to extract structured information from unstructured text.

Some technical aspects you may be interested in:

- Used structured generation to reliably parse unstructured text into a consistent schema

- Tested multiple models (Mistral-7B-v0.3, Llama3.2-3B, gpt4o-mini) for information extraction

- Created an interactive visualization using gephi-lite and Retina (WebGL)

- Built (with Claude) a simple Flask web app to clean and deduplicate the data

- Total cost for inferencing 2000 reviews with gpt4o-mini: less than 1€!

You can explore the visualization here: [Interactive Culinary Network](https://ouestware.gitlab.io/retina/1.0.0-beta.4/#/graph/?url...)

The code for the project is available on GitHub:
- Main project: https://github.com/theophilec/foudinge
- Data cleaning tool: https://github.com/theophilec/foudinge-scrub

Happy to get feedback!
Good catch, I hadn’t realized they have a misspelling.
This reminds me of the 360 live stream camera by Microsoft Research which also died. Not many products made by Microsoft Research seems to ever be commercially fruitful.
If you scroll down to the next page, it gives more details, but one of the criticisms I've seen is their obtuse language in the errata.
You could take his own word for it when he admitted as much in court.
I have enough projects that I'm responsible for now (over 200 packages on PyPI, over 800 GitHub repositories) that I gave up on keeping a map of my codebases in my head a long time ago - occasionally I'll stumble across projects I released that I don't even remember existing!

My solution for this is documentation, automated tests and sticking to the same conventions and libraries (like using Click for command line argument parsing) across as many projects as possible. It's essential that I can revisit a project and ramp up my mental model of how it works as quickly as possible.

I talked a bit more about this approach here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/26/productivity/
This isn’t an elaboration on anything I said. Quantum computers are immensely useful across a whole slew of domains. Not just cryptanalysis, but also secure encryption links, chemistry simulations, weather predictions, machine learning, search, finance, logistics, classical simulations (e.g. fluid flow) and basically anywhere you have linear algebra or NP problems.
i think theres a divide between people who have worked in good front end repos and ones whove worked in horrible ones. I had to work on an app that was a mix of styled components, scss, inline styling, and globals. It was a wreck and every change took longer because of all the spaghetti styling you had to eat, Id take tailwind in a heartbeat over that.
The Star Wars trilogy wasn't great cinema, but the amount of time we spent playing with improvised light sabers and trying to move objects with the Force attests to the imaginative possibilities behind it.
Ocelots are small cats. Big small cats but they purr https://youtu.be/HpwenyMq0Os?si=Ic9g_zuR4e99wrTB
The difference is that leaking is not UB, the worst case is an OOM situation, which at worst causes a crash, not a security exploit. Crashing is also considered to be safe in rust, panicking is common for example when something bad happens.
I've 'fixed' a number of items like that with isopropyl alcohol. Googling brought me that solution, and although it discolors, it's functional. You have to use a lot though.
Is it only allowed to say positive things?

Why ad hominem?
Point 3 doesn’t make sense to me. Just because Godels incompleteness theorem exists, does not mean you cannot prove this theorem itself.

It has in fact already been proven in theorem provers, so this completely undermines Penrose’s point
You're amazing.

Just have been trying it out on bare metal on Windows 10, using VLC as a local media server.

PCs on the LAN can play the (server VLC's http) stream like normal to begin with, by opening their audio player to a Network Stream or URL, without any browser.

On my own fully accessible & controllable router/modem, port-forwarding 8080 alone for only TCP allows PCs on the web to access the stream from the modem's WAN IP address:8080/streamname. This is extremely reliable.

But without port-forwarding on the router, running mmar on the server PC I can see the tunnel to port 8080 on your subdomain, but have not had any luck reaching the VLC media from that address on the web.

From what I understand, VLC may only support http and not https, maybe that is the problem?

Also the (simple audio) media stream from VLC has a :portnumber/streamname of :8080/mmarRadio without any file extension. There is no index.html or anything else exposed.

Then tried a low-resolution MPG2 stream with a .MPG file extension which also streams normally when port-forwarded, the mediaplayer on the remote PC acts more like it wants to connect but then fails and reports it can not open the file. Much more significant buffering on the video stream though.

When it's my own router, I port-forward a range from 8080 - 8083, to a single mediaserver PC to provide 4 streams simultaneously from that one PC. So streams appear on the single WAN IP address of my modem, accessible from the web, with a choice of 4 ports, acting logically as 4 different Network URLs. All raw numerical IP addresses, no DNS or anything.

It really does look nominal from the Windows command line, I'll leave 8080 in its "apparently tunneling" condition, going to get some rest for a while.
Intel Xeon 6 SoC is Here, Granite Rapids-D is Huge
Just poking around the repo and saw CVE-2024-27302. Why hasn't it been dealt with? It's almost a year old.

[0]: https://github.com/zeromicro/go-zero/security/advisories/GHS...
Can I get a flow chart please? This is complicated as hell.

Alternately, can I get an entirely new application platform and set of standards? It would be nice to not carry 35 years of technical baggage into every application I want to make or use. Thanks.
There was something unsatisfactory to V1 users in the V2 system. Depth was jittery or whatever it had been.

V1 was based on an Israeli structured light tech that later became Apple TrueDepth, a static dot pattern taken with a camera which deviations becomes depth. V2 was technically an early and alternative implementation of Time-of-Flight LIDAR based on a light phase delaying device, that output deviations from set known distance as pictures or something along that.

There wouldn't have been lacking app support issues if V2 did work. There was/were something that made users be "yeah... by the way" about it.
I think another category of error that Simon skips over that breaks this argument entirely: the hallucination where the model forgets a feature.

Rather than the positive (code compiles), the negative (forgets about a core feature), can be extremely difficult to tell. Worse still, the feature can slightly drift, based upon code that's expected to be outside of the dialogue / context window.

I've had multiple times where the model completely forgot about features in my original piece of code, after it makes a modification. I didn't notice these missing / subtle changes until much later.
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This is one of those things where knowledge makes it bad. As a personal example, having coyotes in my literal backyard on a daily basis is not something I would want. That it happens pretty much every day without me realizing it, though, shows it really shouldn't be a concern of mine. Other than making sure I have protection for any backyard chickens...
Income does not equal wealth and wealth is what this article is referring to. Wealth is a much better measurement for this kind of stuff, anyway. I'm living in Germany as well and I'm probably in the top 10% in terms of household wealth, but easily in the bottom 50% in terms of household income. My wealth is much more impactful in terms of how I live my life, compared to my income. I'd describe myself as rich.

I'd expect that if you look at your wealth instead of your income, you probably come to a similar conclusion. If you are in the top 20% income bracket but do not feel rich, my guess is that you are probably in a lower wealth bracket (i.e. you have a house but still a huge mortgage on that house and not a lot of other assets, putting you somewhere in the top 40-50% wealth bracket.

If your wealth puts you in a similar bracket as your income (i.e. top 20%) and you still don't feel rich, this is more a case of your perception being out of whack. Top 20% in terms of wealth in a society like Germany by definition makes you a very rich person. But even our millionaire future chancellor described himself once as "middle class", so this is a common mistake to make ;-).
And

- People inventing new technologies to not write JS
- People inventing new technologies to avoid writing CSS