skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING does not exist but there's a bunch of rendering options. They are all set to default and available except for a few things like DIRECT2D is disabled and WEBGPU / REMOTE_CANVAS is blocked.

gfx.webrender.all was set to false. I will give true a try. Thanks.
> I'm curious why they don't mention being a Lisp in their page though, perhaps it's not a "real" lisp?

Maybe to avoid some of the zealots who refuse to call Clojure et al "lisps" since they're missing cons, X, Y and so on.

I remember reading somewhere in a GitHub issue or PR that the author/maintainer also calls Janet "lisp-like" rather than "a lisp", fwiw.
The LinkedIn badge was satire, but I did some consulting in 2019-2021 and my employement history got a little fragmented. I thought it would be a good signal to a future employer that could play nice for a couple of years in a standard corporate environment.

But that signal came with a cost.
CogView4: Apache 2.0 image model (512-2048)
An environmental chemist investigates the origins of her leukemia
How many people are attacked by grizzly bears vs dogs?
Wikipedia Roiled with Internal Strife over Page Edits About the Middle East
This webiste : https://www.librairiesindependantes.com/
Tangential, will email host spam reputation rely on IPv4 scarcity forever?
> Abandoning the budget smartphone market is a risk for Apple.

The whole article argues that a price increase on the SE or now 'e' is bad.

This ignores that there's likely a general price increase (including the next iphones) just due to inflation, tariffs, chips act (i.e. made in USA) etc.

So at the end of the day 'e' is still a really cheap phone in the line up comparatively.

> or possibly refurbished iPhone

Apple also make $$$ off some refurbished.

> or shop for a cheaper Android

And wait until Android also jack up the prices.
How about Ukraines unelected negotiations to join NATO?
What about the "Fatherland" party?
What about the corruption?
What about the money owed to Russia pre the war?

Please stop throwing around random facts or internet stuff to justify rhetoric. Peace is peace. If you want it to last both have to compromise.

This war didn't just start because someone woke up and decided let's start a new empire. Painting it as such is just part of a problem looking for a solution.

Also notice how at any point I am not saying an invasion is justified or correct. But the situation is that both sides are in a state of war and that peace is better for everyone. Everyone.
I remember it as painfully slow on my Apple II, but that it provided a nice Unix-like (single-tasking) environment.
Could you explain the vdL’s poney reference? I’d really love to understand it.
my grandma always said her knee hurts when it's about to rain
I would say that the prohormone BPM/retinoic which BRP is derived from occurs in the body and is therefore natural. If it would be a derivate of BRP chemically similar patentable then it would not be natural. Even if BRP is made in the lab it’s still natural.
AFAIK one can’t patent natural occurring molecules, only the process to make them.
I like the landing page!
There is zero point in sampling higher than 48khz. That captures all frequencies up to 20khz or so. 192khz is just a waste of bandwidth for no actual gain.
You're thinking about the Livingston/Lucent Portmaster 3. https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetworking/wiki/Livingston...

These were great boxes, and the only way you could get 56K was to call into an ISP with one of these or similar on their end -- the trickery that allowed 56K relied on one end being fully digital.

I was working for an ISP around that time and we had a bunch of Portmaster 2s connected via RS-232 cables to piles of modems, some rackmount some just stacks and stacks of US Robotics Sportsters. Sometimes modems would get wedged and we'd have to reboot them or "busy out" the line that they were on. Harder for the modems that were an hour away.

When the transition happened we were able to get rid of all those wires and just plug in one small phone cable for the T1, another for Ethernet, and terminate 23 lines. The Portmaster would treat all the modems as a pool and route calls to whichever was available, and once a call was done would run some testing on the modem before putting it back into the pool. It was like a space age rocket ship! At one point I was driving around with $50K worth of Portmasters in the trunk of my car, hoping I didn't get rear-ended. They were not at all cheap, but they were worth it.
In my experience people can be both although they might prefer and/or excel at one.

A good "cowboy" is one that gets the job done but can also build a sustainable, changeable process in their wake.

A good "drone" is able to spot ineffective parts of the system/process and change it.

As an aside, I really dislike the cowboy and drone nomenclature.
> It does seem slightly abandoned though

I think in general "free-time projects" just move a bit slower. Still, it seems to get ongoing work (https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/graphs/contributors), so doesn't seem abandoned to me at all.
Tearing down a Xerox MemoryWriter 6040 word processor [video]
The comparison is a bit unfair as Falcon 9 was a pretty conventional design whereas with Sartship they are trying for full reusability to orbit which hasn't been done before.
Asahi Linux: M2 Series Feature Support
I think you're right and that two Christmases and two Easters and almost 700 days is enough time, but there is the perspective out there that the 2-year mark is when you've finally learned enough to be productive and the 3rd year is when you're actually running on all cylinders.
The two spellings are the same. First sentence from the Wikipedia entry [1]:

In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
I guess semantics matter. Language is primarily hierarchical, but its presentation is what's linear. And LLMs mainly learn and work from this presentation; the question is, and one of the main points, whether emerging patterns is enough evidence to show that there's hierarchical thinking.
Show HN: Qt 6 for C and Zig
Yeah, this is mentioned in the article. (The LLaDa paper is even what triggered its writing!)
What I learned while working at startups is the actual worst thing you can do with code is create smell.

Code smell.

If it worked and passed the “clean” test but still didn’t scratch an ego or worse, did something ypir peers or boss didn’t think of as a solution, then it would “smell”.

I would have thought only “unclean” code could “smell” but even the “cleanest” code could “smell”.

It made work as rigorous as shooting an arrow in the dark. But the shame of smelly code would have brought the whole thing to its knees so I am relieved such pertinent problems are being so addressed so aggressively by the truly smartest of humanity.

Logic issues? That’s okay. Code smell? GTFO
I hate TOML. It's even worse at expressing maps and sequences then YAML, which is actually quite good at it.
I wouldn't doubt that's the goal, though it seems risky. There's a fair chance the LLM could hallucinate details about your product and lead to it falsely advertising. Given Gemini's history recommending people eat glue, among other things, I wouldn't trust it with that responsibility.
Yeah no one is close to Starship levels of payload. But SpaceX is 0 for 2 testing any kind of payload capacity for Starship and it’s been over 2 years of testing now. 12 if you count BFR. If SLS is an abject failure due to costs and time then its 100% mission completion record makes it currently more capable than Starship.

So is no one close? Is Starship a failure? How many times do we have to watch a rocket explode when other programs and systems don’t and be told it’s all part of the plan this was actually a successful launch?
Umm, how did you learn each profession and how many hours per week do you spend on each?
Woman's DNA discovered in 20k year old deer-tooth pendant (2023)
LeCun is for sure a source of inspiration, and I think he has a fair critique that still holds true despite what people think when they see reasoning models in action. But I don't think like him that autoregressive models are a doomed path or whatever. I just like to question things (and don't have absolute answers).

I-JEPA and V-JEPA have recently shown promising results as well.
Is system (OS kernel, microcontroller, etc) etc these days in Lisp is still a thing?

My impression is if you want a minimalist lang to do that, that would be Forth.

Would love to see Lisp is used for anything low level. I've read about Lisp machine, but that doesn't like average computer users would use.
Could one not add the original published date to the article’s properties?
Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
> When I went to school at least, they used extra cheap labour of whatever minimum skill level was required to catch cheating..

Not here where I leave (not USA)..

> If that means no more coursework, fine, scrap the coursework or require it to be done under supervision as well.

I have a course on building web apps. Not 2h prototypes, but apps that take days to build. Do you think it's the same as a 2h exam?

> CS departments especially have a wealth of options available to them via automation. Record screens on systems without network access, require students to be patted down at the door to stop them bringing in hidden phones, and watch them carefully as they work both in real time and do spot checks on the screen recordings afterwards. Or for that matter, use AI to do it.

Do you think we are police officers or what?! There's a limit for what we are able to do, and what students are able to tolerate..

> The alternative is to just see universities be bulk defunded in future as a failed experiment: see what the Trump admin is doing (...) If degrees are worthless because universities won't do what it takes to stop cheating then what's the argument for preserving student loans next time there's a debt crisis?

Ok, I get your point now! You probably live in some third world country where there's lots of wealth inequality and the state does not help its own citizens. Here in Portugal (and I guess almost all of EU) the tuition is very cheap (around 700€/year), so I wouldn't consider failed experiments for now..
I suspect chasd00 is making a pedantic point that the atoms are smashing together in nature. Because nature is just everything that happens.

Although pedantic, it does challenge what we really mean when we say "natural". Just like what we mean when we say "chemicals". Everything is chemicals.
What's inside the Orbic? Any chance to make this work on a different device. Orbics don't seem to be very easy to get in Europe.
Employment rises by 151K in February; unemployment rate changes little at 4.1%
linkage, haplotype, and variant analysis
Trump Promises to Abuse Take It Down Act for Censorship, Just as We Warned
> DAN tests without your partner's consent or a court order, are not legal in several countries, like France for example.

I want to know the rationale behind this but I'm quite sure it's some "but think of the kiiids" catholic rhetoric.
I am not sure if naming anything after the Aztecs is a good idea.
The article does not suggest an alternative. If I consider any typical real-life case where I would use else, trying to finagle the code into not needing else would make it smell considerably more.
I think we can be chill about it. For someone on the sidelines, mildly interested in the topic, an AI summary of the regex might be useful — and the person getting downvotes is saving some of us the time.
Wikipedia should use some of the donation money to curate controversial articles.
I thought so too because the design is very old but the addon actually uses Manifest v3 which is new. So it's still maintained.
Seeing how YAML allows for keys to be objects (and often mutable at that), I can't agree with that sentiment that YAML is good at expressing maps.
> What will you do? Stop loving your child,

Not your child.
How to Write Useful Commit Messages
Pre Java 1.0: The Oak Language Specifications
The drug does not directly affect muscle mass (unless you are already very lean), but heavy people are doing resistance training against their own body weight all the time, so they are strong in the absolute, even if not relatively. Weigh less and your muscles have it easier, so weaken, unless you keep them strong with exercise.
There are barely any of those. Even 19-year-old cars still qualify for ULEZ exemption as do really old beaters so only cars that are between 20 and 40 years old have to avoid the zone or pay.
Both. Muscle loss is due to not eating enough proteins to maintain muscle mass.

You can lose muscle mass without drugs just by eating poorly (and not doing adequate movement)
That’s not even my argument though? I was very clear that specifically immediately post birth is a high risk time and that mandatory paternity tests at birth increase those risks with little to no benefit to anyone. I did not say anything about forcing a man to raise a child.
I think the discussion here is confusing the algorithm for the output. It's true that diffusion can rewrite tokens during generation, but it is doing so for consistency with the evolving output -- not "accuracy". I'm unaware of any research which shows that the final product, when iteration stops, is less likely to contain hallucinations than with autoregression.

With that said, I'm still excited about diffusion -- if it offers different cost points, and different interaction modes with generated text, it will be useful.
If only we spent less time collecting things on Hacker News and more time actually pursuing our interests…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/27/a-wolf-k...
And not only that, the network of paczkomats where one can get their package 24/7 from a box which is <500m away from your home allows anyone to compete. I would go to x-kom.pl for computer stuff, mistama.com for Bosch devices, empik.com for books, euro.com.pl for electronics. If I don't know the particular store, I either use allegro.pl as a catalogue or just compare prices on ceneo.pl to get to a small store directly. Most such small stores seem to use some popular platform for selling stuff, i.e. the login page is almost the same, so it's not a burden for them to set it up. I get anything next day in a paczkomat next to me. I would never go to amazon.pl. Why would I even?
Google Calendar Deletes Women's History Month and Other Cultural Events
Well yes, if the choice is between everyone breathing in air that damages their health, or a small number of people being unable to drive, surely the former is always better?
Multi-Agents Are Out, PID Controllers Are In
Yes, at the very least 911 (US) / 112 (EU) run on that system. For SIP numbers routing depends on the address you set up in the phone provider's portal, so if you're using bring-your-own-SIP to provide landline phone service in your house, you absolutely have to keep the address current or you risk dialing 911 and ending up on the dispatch of your old addres...
I completely agree. I never said that "intelligence cannot be auto-regressive", I just questioned whether this can be achieved or not this way. And I don't actually have answers, I just wrote down some thoughts so it would sparkle some interesting discussions about that, and I'm glad it did work (a little) in the end.

I also mentioned that I'm supportive of architectures that will integrate autoregressive components. Totally agree with that.
That’s not even my argument though? I was very clear that specifically immediately post birth is a high risk time and that mandatory paternity tests at birth increase those risks with little to no benefit to anyone. I did not say anything about forcing a man to raise a child. You’re deliberately misreading my point to argue against a straw man.
Lol, I don’t know that the HN crowd will be able to stomach the realities lying just beneath the surface of civility around this subject.

The man thinks nature “doesn’t work”. He has said far, far worse. But that one just blows my mind. That and that Gandalf was a war monger. Come on, Peter.

If I had Peter’s kind of money I would be running around the hills of Scotland and funding cancer research and housing solutions or something. Not trying to usurp a democracy for more money and power LOL

He also says scarcity is a core problem. Nothing is scarce except human kindness in people like that. We throw out so much and let it all rot rather than tweak capitalist values just a bit to allow for more humanity in them.

Godspeed America. Don’t touch Canada.
Qt 6 Bindings for Zig
I worked for an ISP back in around '98, and they offered to let me terminate a T1 there if I covered the line. I got a contract from the phone company for $205/mo for the T1 and got it all set up, but they were billing me $250/mo for the line. A couple months in DSL dropped, and I got out of the T1 contract because they said they couldn't honor the contract they wrote because $250/mo was the regulated minimum price, and I got 768K DSL for $70/mo. At the time everyone was speculating that DSL wouldn't work (crosstalk across pairs as multiple people in a bundle use DSL will cause it to fail), but they were quickly proven wrong.
>force a given continuation in the prompt and the LLMs will not follow at all

They don't? That's not the case at all, unless I am misunderstanding.
According to this article, it's a side effect of Ozempic itself. The article goes on to say that the newly discovered molecule can side-step the side-effect and metnioned that "obese mice treated with daily injections of BRP for 14 days lost an average of 3 grams—due almost entirely to fat loss..."
Author here.

The vast majority of guides online about writing commit messages focus on superficial details like how long the title is allowed to be.

I think it's important to have a consistent style, but those details are much less important than communicating the right details in a commit message and presenting them in a way that makes it easy for teammates and clients to consume the information.

Happy to answer any questions or respond to feedback about this post.
A real world scenario of this happened. 3rd party iPhone screens were using the controller chip from the previous iPhone, but it still worked fine. Until a new iOS update released, since that iOS version wasn’t going out to the previous iPhone, the driver for that controller got removed since in theory there would be no devices using it anymore.

Causing all the replacement screens to stop working until Apple added the driver back.
The core problem is to take things that doesn't have to be multiples as multiple, like Earth's rotation (day) with Earth (year) or Moon (month) time to orbit. Adjusting those simple original ideas to the complexity of reality and the needs of i.e. agriculture ended in what we have now.
Monotonic sequences can be bounded!
Of course highly politicised articles will be controversial and a lot of time will be spent moderating it, but I have to be honest, I don't actually use Wikipedia that often to look at current events. For me, Wikipedia is at it's best when describing factual, settled data in a neutral point of view. I don't believe that such a thing is possible with current events, even though Wikipedia editors do seem to strive for it.

I'd much rather these resources be aimed at refining the articles that are objective and settled, rather a political back and forth. I love the /r/AskHistorians 20 year rule, which serves them really well.
I predict a flag by the everything-is-fine HN contingent.
That's the original meaning of "artificial", something that occurs through art or skill. Humans have always distinguished themselves from the rest of nature, it's part of that. It's not a useless distinction, but it breaks down when 'natural' is considered healthy or otherwise good, and 'artificial' unhealthy or otherwise bad, when that's a non-sequitur.
I do something similar. Any hits on the default nginx vhost get logged, logs get parsed out and "repeat offenders" get put on the shitlist. I use ipset/iptables but this can also be done with fail2ban quite simply.

https://nbailey.ca/post/block-scanners/
As I said elsewhere, the problem with German retailers is when something goes wrong, and you need to deal with the German customer service. They think customer is worth nothing and are really rude when you discuss with them. Amazon just says ok, send it back (for free, show this QR code in the shop around the corner), here's your money.

In a chat.

In many languages if needed.
Respectfully, I fear the latter. Trying to generate value through specious/arbitrary scarcity, and hoping that demand (willingness to pay) will rise because of that arbitrary constraint on supply. Maybe this is the future, when it seems increasingly easy and cheap to create "things" (t-shirts, widgets, design, prose text, code, music ...), and in large number. The original hope for mechanization/automation is that people's free time and creativity could be devoted to creating new, better, or just more personally satisfying things. I definitely do like the t-shirt as a satirical statement on Bitcoin and NFTs though, if that is what is it. Good luck!
Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis
"The study would not have been possible without the use of artificial intelligence to weed through dozens of proteins in a class called prohormones."

"the researchers designed a computer algorithm they named "Peptide Predictor" to identify typical prohormone convertase cleavage sites in all 20,000 human protein-coding genes."

so look, when I have to go around talking to normies, they're like, "don't you think AI is going to take over everything?" and for these folks, "AI" means *one thing*: chatgpt or similar LLMs. So when they read this, they're like, "see? AI! we need AI everywhere! chatgpt assistants!" and then I pretty much have to lose my shit and they think I'm crazy, because they have no clue. This is also kind of like how it is deep inside all the corporate hype departments so many of us have to endure where our management is chucking shitty LLM garbage at us all day ordering us to "integrate this ! integrate that! we need AI (by which they mean hallucinating chatbots)".

That is NOT what they used here. They wrote their own algorithm which we'd assume uses some straightforward machine learning approach such as bayesian filtering (edit: it's literally just a python + R script with some training data: https://github.com/Svensson-Lab/pro-hormone-predictor/tree/m...) . and in fact, I bet the researchers are calling this short script "AI" because their investors/bosses/managers are demanding they "use AI". Machine learning is a WAY more accurate term than "AI" which IMO is a completely useless hype term at this point, and it's making our lives as engineers worse having to deal with the whole world thinking robots are taking over and making our bosses obsessed with our having to "use AI" for everything (which is of course because they'd eventually like to have fewer employees).
As a matter of fact, I don't. Spell it out if you dare.
They'll also need to get control of the software stacks of any American weapons systems and fighter jets they have.
The concept of “smells” literally smells to some people, like me. I can’t be the only one who is offended.

Apart from the psychosomatics of it, it’s unnecessary and childish and dishonest.

It asserts a physical repugnance when the truth is the author simply dislikes something.

Mention smell, and I have a much harder time taking you seriously.
Just to clarify, I am well aware it is a (very) tough decision to make and that is even harder to put in place... and understand the moral challenge involved. But I am very worried about what will come next too. People will die resisting, there is no doubt about it. Europe isn't a safe heaven but having experienced both sides of the pond in the last ten years, I believe the political situation is still far better here. I may be wrong.