skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People came up with the information problem at a time when our ability to collect information and our computing power were several orders of magnitude inferior to what we have today. I don't think it's as big a problem as people think. Sure, it was true when every single person didn't have a device capable of instantly sending any kind of information to and from any location on earth, and when we didn't have the computing power to process that amount of information coming in 24/7. Now we do, so I believe a well functioning planned economy would be a possibility today, although it'd be a massive project to build such a thing. Even with limited technology the soviet union functioned for multiple decades and was one of the most developed nations on earth.
Environmental monitoring (EM) is a critical practice in controlled environments, commonly called cleanrooms. Cleanrooms are essential in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical device manufacturing, where ensuring product safety and quality is vital. These environments are designed to minimize contaminants like airborne particles, microbes, and chemical pollutants, thereby maintaining the integrity of sensitive processes and products. EM plays a crucial role in ensuring these controlled environments comply with stringent regulatory requirements while remaining sterile and well-regulated.
Presumably. What a powerful word choice.
I saw somewhere that Britain and Israel are in more independent positions than other F35 buyers. Britain got control over the software and has developed some of their own, while Israel has been able develop their own electronics for it as well.

They both might be able to avoid the remote off switch, but others could be a bit nervous.
This is so well put, I have much admiration for Germans, but they just feel so gullible.
And I see people who assume choosing a language was done for "flashy stuff" the less capable.

See, we can all generalize. Not productive.

Only thing I ever saw from Golang devs was pragmatism. I myself go either for Elixir or Rust and to me Golang sits in a weird middle but I've also written 20+ small tools for myself in Golang and have seen how much quicker and more productive I was when I was not obsessed with complete correctness (throwaway script-like programs, small-to-mid[ish]-sized projects, internal tools etc.)

You would do well to stop stereotyping people based on their choice of language.
Adding Jump Animations to the Player in Next JavaScript
Help us out here, what sort of crisis can we imagine where the federal government needs something from another country which can only be purchased with gold bullion? My imagination is failing me.
is that like the bodhi tree but instead of buddhism it is basic
False, very random SO link that has been posted repeatedly
Paul Erdös being maybe the most famous, but there are many other famous cases:

https://slate.com/culture/2013/04/auden-sartre-graham-greene...
Does a variance 5 microseconds with a min of 38 milliseconds and a max of 47 milliseconds with 40 samples seem like a valid statistic?
Exactly. And Reddit is doubling down on monetizing content it doesn't create itself. Not only are the mods completely free and unpaid for who curate and hone the best posts for their subreddits, now the subredditors are having their comments monetized by Reddit for free. And the upvoting ensures that high quality data is already reinforcement learning via meatbots.
Also, Austrian politicians from the party which has a friendship contract with Putins party, helped him escape from EUrope.

And those morons had almost 30% of votes last election, but fortunately didn't get into government because no other parties wanted to work with them under their conditions.
I’ll bite- what’s the pitch vs Dask/Spark/Ray/etc?

I am admittedly a tough sell when the workstation under my desk has 192GB of RAM.
I asked chatgpt their very first example: "Why did Zelensky ban Truth Social" and it gave me the correct answer (it wasn't banned and it was never available in ukraine.)

I am skeptical about this report.
Ooh that feature was new to me. See PEP 570[1] for more details. My personal opinion is that this is not something that any code should do... but I'm not the BDFL!

1: https://peps.python.org/pep-0570/
Is 50 year old technology and expertise a good standard for comparison for modern tech?
I have another way of thinking about it:

History is what other people decided to say about the past events.

I believe 'history' is very often wrongly taken as source of truth.
HN has a very specific viewpoint on the average.

Which is deeply ironic given its association with the most hardcore of venture capitalists.
> state-controlled media often ranks lower than other sources on topics in which the state has a vested interest.

When the state can control (subvert) media without public knowledge then how do you determine accuracy?
Joey Hess had this suggestion recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202773
The lowest bidder messed up :(
What about Elizabeth Holmes ? ;)
> Sounds a bit wrong, I want to put American first.

That would require labelling the spacecraft transgender, then cutting its budget.
Letta: Letta is a framework for creating LLM services with memory
Gold has offered barely positive returns over long time periods.
>Is this allowed here?

No[0]. Hacker News is a forum for human discussion, AI derived comments work against that purpose.

If you can't understand the subject at hand - and there's nothing wrong with that - then you can and should refrain from commenting.

[0]https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The "rules of Bitcoin" are squarely under the control of Bitcoin mining consortia. They have been changed before, and will undoubtedly change in the future.
They're running scared and trying everything. This stock is going back to $15
> The go and rust crowds both love writing things in their own language for its own sake

Hard to take you seriously when you do such weird generalized takes.

While it's a sad fact that fanboys and zealots absolutely do exist, most devs can't afford to be such and have to be pragmatic. They pick languages based on merit and analysis.
"1.1. The React/JS code is far simpler and less clunky than the Objective-C equivalent.

Hard disagree - in objective C, I never had to worry about making sure I (and every library I use) calls hooks in the exact same order on every single render, for example.
It does this for 'brittle" reasons - it associates state with the order of hooks.

(For any react folks - this isn't meant as judgement as much as an explanation :P)

Since i'm semi-retired, and only do this for fun, i spent a a week last month chasing down react hook usage bugs in libraries my app depended on and sending patches. I think i got up to 23. Because the ecosystem in javascript is so deep on dependencies, you often depend on an amazing amount of people getting everything correct. This was much less true in Obj-C as well.

Some of them had also made 'the error go away' by moving code to useCallback's inside setTimeouts so they wouldn't be noticed by the hook checker (but this in turn has no guarantee of ordering wrt to react effects, of course), leading to even more subtle bugs.

I won't even get into things like async in react vs objective-C (though to be fair, bad integration with async afflicts a lot of popular JS frameworks)

In the end:
React is fine once you learn it.
Obj-C is fine once you learn it.

But acting like react is not clunky or brittle is, and obj-c is, is definitely a stretch.

All of the things here are clunky and brittle, just in different ways :)
What clowns

This what happens when despots concentrate power in their hands

When professionalism matters less than loyalty, the professionals become scarce

In the 1950s there was Soviet ideology that meant something. Now there is loyalty to Putin.

Makes me weep to see the same thing happening in the USA. Ideology can be problematic (I do not miss the Bolsheviks) but loyalty to the Big Man is much more random, and worse
Rust is pretty antithetical to resume-driven development because a lot of the stuff that's written in Rust is too well-written and free of the usual kinds of software defects. It immediately becomes "done" and enters low-effort maintenance mode, there's just very little reason to get involved with it anymore since "it just works". Believe it or not, this whole dynamic is behind a lot of the complaints about Rust in the workplace. It's literally making things too easy.
the bible jesus has all the features you need
So when I started the papal betting pool at my catholic high school all those years ago I was actually practicing and respecting history.
i think it would be reasonable to legally require websites to classify themselves.

if it's illegal to show porn to minors, all a website should have to do to comply with the law is to send a header saying "this is porn" and leave it up to the browser to decide whether or not the human using the browser can see it or not.
> Write me a Github CI skeleton to build and push a docker container to GAR
> Take a step back, perhaps there's inefficiency but their current actions are blunt cuts despite selling the efficiency brand.

Whether efficiency could be improved and whether any given thing improves efficiency are two different questions. Obviously if you do it poorly then that is worse than doing it well, but that isn't an argument against doing it well.

> Being generous they're trying to increase investment (C) whilst decreasing government spend (G). There's zero guarantee the tax cut will be spent on C and as it concentrates it gets less efficient too anyway.

Wealth concentrates when you have uncompetitive markets, because then the incumbents have high margins which is what allows them to accumulate wealth at a higher rate than the overall economy. Taxes are only indirectly related to this and if market concentration is happening then that is the problem you should aim to solve directly rather than leaving it to fester and trying to ineffectually or inefficiently compensate with higher tax rates.

The actual goal, in competitive markets, is that you could increase investment without increasing concentration of wealth.

For example, if rents have to be very high before new construction is profitable, it doesn't happen until rents are very high. New construction happens when it's profitable and tax is a cost that goes into the ROI calculation, so if you lower taxes, construction becomes more profitable, so it happens until it stops being profitable again because rents have fallen to the level that it's no longer profitable even at the lower tax rate. But then people are paying less in rent, which isn't going to investors, it's going to tenants, who then spend it.

This is also the sort of thing that can reduce concentration of wealth, because then maybe the tenants don't have to spend all of it and can actually get ahead enough to invest some of it themselves.
Std: Array in C++ is faster than array in C. Sometimes
True, and don't get me wrong, I think events are great and this will be a decent simplification, even with existing frameworks.

If it's Turing-complete, non-opinionated and doesn't use templates, I can put away the Epipen.
The Great Transfer of Wealth in the US
Hey! I made this scrollytelling post. Let me know what y'all think. Is it better than just showing images?

I think it is, but its hard for me to be objective about it lol.
A financial asset with barely positive returns but uncorrelated to other financial assets is actually an extremely valuable thing.

Heck, if you can find a basket of 4-5 uncorrelated return streams that only deliver 1% per year after inflation, you could start a hedge fund. Non-correlation = reduced volatility = the ability to apply massive leverage to increase that 1% return.
I don't think so. This is not a technical problem - modern computers simply have no means to know who's sitting in front of them. And even if someone tries to invent some contraption to do so (idk, IR cameras, voice verification, DNA sequencers), I must remind that whoever has physical access can still feed computer any signals. For simpler methods (like a basic face recognition with a webcam to match the ID) spoofing is cheaper than the camera, and more sophisticated methods are extremely costly and full of undesirable side effects.
This worked for me as well. I just asked the eye doctor for something that would work just past my out stretched finger tips which is where my monitor lives.

What kills me is going into the office where I am switching between glasses. Different rooms with different Zoom screens. At home is much nicer where I just have one big monitor to watch.

I take my glasses off to read my phone most of the time. Technically my primary glasses are progressives but it is nicer to take them off.
> RFK and others have touted they will be aggressively transparent. In my opinion, lets let them do it and see if their words match their actions.

They gave literal orders to stop reporting for CDC, so no, their actions do not match those words.
Life is too short to program on languages one doesn't love.

Those people, if they really exist, are right.
To stop them leaving academia for the private sector.
Whether applied to vibe coding or other tasks, I think it's the iteration and interaction that is the hook. And I do think it could be leveraged to practice and improve reading and writing.
Why do politicians ask for money? Because money influences votes.

How does money influence votes? Money pays for private intelligence companies, PR firms, think tanks, and social media influence.

What does this mean? It means that politicians are influencing the voter base, rather than the voter base influence politicians.

What is the corollary of all this? A foreign government can influence American voters either via more direct means (such as running a private intelligence company) or indirect means (offering resources in exchange for favors).

Is there precedent? Yes. America institutes regime change in other countries in many ways. France funded and offered aid to the pre-american rebellion against British rule resulting in the formation of a new state.

At some point people stop being individual actors and become statistics. It might be even more correct to say people are in A/B testing groups and there are engineers literally experimenting on these groups to achieve an outcome for the purposes of whoever paid them.
The sky isn't falling, and nearly everything is trending better, not worse. You can use whatever features of browsers that you want.
This is simply brilliant.

The moment I heard the synopsis of the technique, I thought of one thing: Style transfer.

This model style should be really nice for translation and style transfer tasks. Takes an existing section text, noises it, and reverses it with guidance like an image diffusion model; A "movement" in latent with a controllable amount of modifications.

The diffusion process enables a wide range of "control" approaches not possible with current transformer models. Perhaps summarizing text can be done differently as well, taking an input and diffusing it into a shorter and shorter section.

I've not been this hyped about a new method since GPT3 itself.
> my biggest issue with the way prescriptions are decided is the "this one, or this one" and they both look equally crappy, and they say "which looks less crappy" and i just pick randomly, because they're both awful. and then it continues, where it's just blurry from there on out.

I had an eye opening (ha) experience once I got pretty deep into 200/300/600 yard high power rifle. I was trying to debug an issue with my 600 yard shots clustering in three places - one cluster right in the middle, another cluster directly left, and a third cluster somewhere else

You set up these camera thingies (https://scattusa.com/) and it shows you an exact trace of what's going on with your aiming, while not using any ammo (recoil hides a lot so you do most practice without ammo).

The left cluster ended up being super obvious: trigger control and problems relaxing, making me physically jump shots over there - you could see lines from the Scatt go right after shot breaks.

The other cluster though was strange as hell. It was just not in the right spot. But it was a singular spot, I had two remaining clusters. There was no movement between middle and other cluster like there was with the left. It just looked like some percentage of the time I aimed at the wrong spot (not that far off, but enough to drop points).

Then one day when lying on the ground for an hour with the Scatt, I started seeing double. I'd blink and it would go away, but by relaxing a lot I could make it go back. The double vision was right where the cluster was.

Then I looked up more info on astigmatism (had >2 diopter astigmatism?), and it turns out it's literally just light refracting into 2+ places instead of 1. And of course the real bullseye people know about this (since in high power honestly we're kinda pretending at it), and they have specialized sights for correcting the axis and magnitude of astigmatism:

https://gehmann.com/en/579-Cylindrical-lens-system-0-2-Spher...

And sure enough, that's like the same thing the optometrist is doing. Except in the context of bullseye you can physically see the 2 bullseyes floating around an axis and then coming together.

I get why they do it the way they do it, because your brain corrects the astigmatism and doesn't let you see double normally, but if you can train your eye/brain to kinda dissociate and see double, you can get a pretty exact correction for astigmatism.

Then I got LASIK and my 600 yard scores went from high 170s/ low 180s to like 195+. Lol.
Ah, the nostalgia of the days when everything seems to revolve around things like "more taxes and services" versus "fewer taxes and services"... rather than "the government shouldn't be doing evil crimes" versus "but I really wanna crime and you can't stop me neener neener."
Microsoft Creates In-House AI Models It Believes Rival OpenAI's
It struck me as stupid and pointless to poison Navalny. Why bother? His presence seemed a nuisance at worst and a useful foil at best. Is there just something in the Russia soul that can resist assassination plots by poison?
> Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended?

At age 8 I was wandering in Munich unattended.

But okay, gotta admit, this is Germany we're talking about, so not many issues with hordes of mentally ill and/or homeless people doing anything from drugs to defecating on the sidewalk right next to big tech's offices [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/18/san-fr...
Isn’t the thing we usually call “Bitcoin” today a fork of the original Bitcoin, precisely because a group decided to change the rules?
A refund of 2025 dollars for a purchase made in 2005 ones doesn't sound like a great deal. I bet it wouldn't even cover the cost of "buying" the same movie again digitally in many cases.
DIY Reusable Liquid Rocket: 1-Year Project to Build a Low-Cost VTOL[video]
EU raises concerns over U.S. oversight changes in data privacy
I'm not missing anything. Medical ethics as commonly understood in modern western civilization imposes a clear line between withholding care versus actively killing someone who is unable to give informed consent to the procedure. The topic under discussion isn't even close to being an edge case. Minimizing the bad is not the goal. Nuclear power has zero relevance here and bringing it up is just an attempt to confuse the issue.
good god, lemon
https://archive.is/2025.03.07-202121/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Ah thanks, that explains a lot
Generally you do it the "document" way (often called a "delegated" listener) when you have lots of elements you want to listen to, or particularly elements that will be dynamically added and removed.

If you listen directly to every target element, you have to find the elements and loop through them all, they have to exist at the time you set the listener, and you have to make sure to add the listener every time you add a new element that has the same behavior. If you listen at the document (or some appropriate parent element) and then check if the element that fired the event matches what you're trying to handle, you can have one listener that will apply to all the matching children regardless of where/when/how they're added.
If they can control the angle of each leg with enough precision, that might be enough to compensate for (slightly) uneven terrain.

I understand that the recently successful Blue Ghost has sensors to detect suitability of the landing spot, and used it to re-position twice while landing. Starship would probably need something like that, too.
Not all industries or product segments are equal is the obvious answer. The point here whether one agrees or not is models are easier to catch up to than GPUs
> We do require ID to enter e.g. porn stores and bars though

Only if you look too young (and for the bars it's only for certain beverages), so the affected population is only a small parts of the customers.
That fine applies if they don't have a system at all, not for scenarios like you posted.
Because unfortunately it's become rather polarised in the same way COVID did, with exactly the same lives drawn within the mentality of people in Europe. The group is defined by it's majority because that is how a group is defined, anything else starts to get Orwellian unfortunately.

Unfortunately for me the position I hold is also held by corrupt autocrats, technocrats, bible thumpers, trolls and idiots who simply believe the opposite of the govt simply because they always think they're being 100% lied to 24/7...

The truth as always as somewhere in the middle. As is hopefully a lasting peace.

I'll admit I can be wrong and maybe I get quick to reply after being called an idiot by fools online. Hell I might even be wrong now. Ultimately doesn't effect me rightly or wrongly. And it doesn't mean I wish ill for someone who disagrees with me, especially if they took the time to form an educated opinion.

I'd never deny Russia is in the wrong. And with a fair world Russia would pay a heavier toll for a war they started. But there is a large crowd who are practically calling for an invasion of Russia simply because Russia bad and Ukrainians walk on water.

There is a reason so many bad action movies ended up in Eastern Europe on their final fight or explosion scenes and that is always because of the rampant corruption and political problems in the area. Unfortunately this is a case of art imitating life. (Obviously with exaggerated "artistic" licence)
That was my initial assumption as well, but the ones I've noticed this with usually indicate when they do so, and I'm pretty sure they didn't, which is what surprised me.
How can I use these new OCR tools to make PDF files searchable by embedding the text layer?
Some people, including me, have what's commonly called ‘astigmatic halation’ — although it's often not due to simple astigmatism, but rather ‘higher order abberrations’‡ which aren't correctable by glasses.

For this case, dark text on a light background is much better than light on dark. Dark on light, the light halation blends more or less evenly over the dark letter stems, resulting is slightly lower overall contrast but sharp lines. Light on dark, it's Las Vegas in the rain.

‡ https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/aberrations/
It’s not enough dosing to treat bipolar.

You have to dose relatively high in order to have an effect. You’re disrupting your neural sodium-potassium pumps with it.

But it’s still pretty cheap. Hard to charge a lot for a fairly abundant element.
the point should not be to make it impossible for some people to view certain content. the point should be to make it possible for a parent who controls their child's device to put restrictions on what that device can do - and that might include removing the ability to run unapproved apps.
Too little, too late!