skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you zoom in close enough, nothing what you perceive as principle, will be true. Physicians can always prove you wrong.

There is always a line beyond which everything can be negated. This line is where disinformation thrives and you have to develop your own sense of how to find it.
This is so cool. Knowing nothing about Telegraph standards are there no explicit signals for symbols or spaces?
I think I understand your issue now. I stated my opinion (made an argument) and then you stated your opposing opinion (made a counter argument) and this chain continued in a format called a debate. Basically, you want to be able to argue with me, but you think I shouldn't argue with you. Not really fair, is it? If you don't want an argument, then you have to stop making posts which can be replied to. Most people will assume you are trying to argue with them if you keep making arguments at them, and while you may not want these arguments to be interpreted as arguments, they fundamentally are arguments and you can't expect other people not to notice that.
Realistically: because there are too many people with a financial interest in that gold staying off the market. Which isn't all that different from the reasons some people are opposed to the USG selling its cryptocurrency "reserve" as well; it's just a longer-standing reason.
This is well beyond worrying. Just today I was arguing with other people here on hn who told that the pro Russian candidate who was arrested was a bad sign for democracy. The guy that was sponsored by literally the Kremlin, who routinely does things like planning to kill journalists
Doesn't look like benchmarks are there yet, but knowing polars, I'd guess performance will be front and centre.

I think the best selling point speaks to your workstation size- just start with polars vanilla. It'll work great for ages, and if you do need to scale, you can use polars cloud.

That solves what I see as one if the big issues with a lot of these types of projects, which is the really poor performance at smaller sizes, meaning practically you end up using completely different frameworks based on size, which is a bif hassle if you want to rewrite in one direction.
I'm sorry, your hypothesis is that people will be less likely to try and build products around a naturally occurring weight-loss drug?

Like, less likely than they would be to pay Ozempic to use their patent? I mean, I could believe that if there weren't like Billions of dollars being funneled into weight-loss programs and foods that don't have any demonstrative weight-loss capabilities.

If this actually works and is naturally occurring, I'd be surprised if there weren't like enterprising startups and food companies adding this to existing products within a year or 2.
The comment claims that it isn't possible for lower taxes to increase tax revenues. It's possible whenever the taxpayers would have used the money more productively than the government. Which may not always be the case, but it's certainly possible for it to be the case, and indeed is not an implausible default assumption because governments generally aren't subject to competitive pressure and consequently tend to allocate resources in ways susceptible to inefficiency, waste and corruption.
How do you enforce it? Even if you try doing it through copyright laws a company like DeepSeek is not going to care.
> how much quicker and more productive I was when I was not obsessed with complete correctness

That's pretty much another way of saying that stuff becomes a whole lot quicker and easier when you end up getting things wrong. Which may even be true, as far as it goes. It's just not very helpful.
Still very cool.
Come to Italy where 1.1k is enough
I also have the ultra 7, 258V. What kernel are you running? I saw advice that 6.12 is recommended but 24.10 is on 6.11, and I do not want to be spending any time building kernels.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1fq908x/fedora_41_be...
I have my California Drivers License in my Apple Wallet.

I should be able to prove to iPhone apps that I am 18+ (only a binary yes/no with no metadata) by the apps making a local API call to iOS, which checks this information with the unexpired drivers license on device.
As US continues to give up its dominant position, we will more countries playing hard ball with US corporations.
> Many Americans exist that do not carry the opinion of their government, as do many Russians.

As do many Europeans...
>"One of those contracts is GEGD (the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery program), a U.S. government program that provides access to commercial satellite imagery that has been tasked and collected by the U.S. government," Maxar said in an emailed statement. "The U.S. government has decided to temporarily suspend Ukrainian accounts in GEGD," it said.

>"There is no change to other Maxar customer programs," the company said.

We're talking about a public program, publicly funded, serviced by a private company.
I think that is entirely irrelevant. It just changes the speed of the topple. Does not affect at all the tendency to tip over?
I thought the same, but ...

1) private companies landing on the moon is a brand new thing in a very difficult technology. If we want to encourage it, maybe we should minimize risk.

2) what were their mission goals? Maybe it was just to stick the landing, test landing gear, etc. (There is a bunch of equipment on there for other things, so they must have had some other plans.)

3) what is the difference between a private company and NASA doing it? That is, why is it so hard to do what NASA did over 50 years ago, without things falling over, etc.? Is it budget? Time for testing and retesting (investors want returns)? Talent? Is NASA witholding its secret ingredients like a self-centered chef? (At least some national space agencies also have had problems, like JAXA, but I'm not sure how widespread that is.)

Edit: I would make it competitive, though. That's the point of private business - it can fail and disappear. Compete for the next contract.
The silent (R)evolution of SAT (2023)
LOL, maybe Europe could sign on to China's Belt & Road initiative instead? I mean the terms are probably going to be worse than if they decided to dump the US earlier, but now that may be more attractive than antagonizing Russia & China ... and being ignored by their previous benefactor, the US.
Don't trust random strangers on the internet!

You should ask a qualified or licensed optometrist or optician or whatever it's called wherever you live.

AIUI:

- you don't adjust CYL

- The amount you add is roughly 0.75, plus an extra 0.05 for each year above 40yo.

For example, at age 50:

Add = 0.75 + 0.05 × (50 − 40) = 0.75 + 0.5 = 1.25

So let's say that this person's regular glasses are -3.25 in each eye. Their computer glasses would be -2.00 in each eye.

Don't trust random strangers on the internet!
How the hell did you convince your optometrist to correct your vision to 20/7?

The past two docs I've been two have ignored me when I've said "I can make out the letters, but they're blurry and fuzzy. Can we go stronger?" with "Well, that's corrected to 20/20 vision.".

I'm very, very strongly considering finding a used eye-testing-headgear thingie like they have in their offices, learning how to use it, and doing the testing for myself.
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I must add this: when we work and focus, especially when using digital screens, we tend to blink a lot less frequently. If tear composition is not good or there are other exacerbating factors (e.g. an AC with high flow), the break-up of the tear film can easily lead to eyestrain and even blurry vision.
In such situations, preservative-free artificial tear drops 3-5x a day can lead to pretty good results. In some cases, one needs to try a few, each for a week or two, before finding the correct one.
Pro tip: any eye drop can cause discomfort for a few seconds, especially if the dry eye symptoms have persisted for a long time.

Further reading: https://eyewiki.org/Dry_Eye_Syndrome
That artemis III date is very old. Artimis II is now scheduled to take place no earlier than April 2026 [1].

III is scheduled for mid 2027, and will be delayed further as time passes [2].

1. https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/

2. https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-iii/
I'm assuming it means occuring somewhere in nature, but then the question is where. Is there some edible plant that contains this, perhaps?
It's hard to say how many ADHD diagnoses are illegitimate without knowing how each diagnosis was brought about.

A good diagnosis looks for evidence from childhood, in the form of school reports, a survey from someone who knew the patient as a child, etc.
its crazy to me, how the author describes that they broke in his flat and stole an old laptop of a relative, like its an absolutly normal thing. He seems like he just accept its and moves on.
We wish, it’s more like half in many places
People on HN in 2015 were saying that by now car ownership would be dying and we’d be renting out our self driving cars as we sat at work and did fuck all. Ben Thompson had podcasts glazing Uber for 3 hours a month.

The hype cycle for tech people is like a light bulb for a moth. We’re attracted to potential, which is both our superpower and kryptonite.
There’s some fairly deep statistical analysis out there on the Doge voting. To my memory it was only subverted once, leading to some changes. The analysis I remember concludes they have like one more round than needed to meet goals of the voting in terms of fairness, representation and difficulty of capture. Anyway, it’s a very interesting bit of voting history that lasted a long time.
The app is meant to run in the background or minimized once you've edited your Midi profile. Your rendering costs are zero.

The app will eventually be packaged as a flatpak and submitted to flathub in the near future.
Ah man I don't want to hear things like that. I work in an Angular project and it is the most pleasant thing I have worked with (and i've been using it as my primary platform for almost a decade now). If I could, i'd happily keep using this framework for the rest of my career(27 years to go till retirement).
...not yet... (and I hope, not ever)
This was known about HDDVDs a few years back too. I pulled my Harry Potter collection out for my kids and their friends to watch and evntually concluded that every single WB disk was bad, even some that weren't even opened. It was unique to WB, other companies disks continued to mostly work.

Some people online at the time mentioned WB replaced a few of their disks with bluray's but I never managed to get WB to respond to my inquiries.

I ended up flying the jolly roger, I mean I own a legal copy, so its just format shifting...
Found it – it was ChatGPT via WhatsApp. I was specifically curious if it could make use of search in that integration, but to be honest, I am still not sure whether it does:

GPT> I am based on GPT-4, but there isn't a specific distinction like "GPT-4o" or "GPT-4o-mini" in the official OpenAI terminology. The "4" in GPT-4 refers to the fourth iteration of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer model, and there are no commonly known sub-variants like "mini" or "o" for GPT-4 as of my knowledge cutoff in January 2022.

ME> who won the 2023 world cup?

GPT> The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was won by Spain. [...] Spain defeated England 1-0 in the final, held on August 20, 2023, at Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia. This victory marked Spain's first-ever Women's World Cup title. The only goal of the match was scored by Olga Carmona in the 29th minute.

ME> ah yes, clearly a knowledge cutoff of january 2022

GPT> Oops, my mistake! You're absolutely right—my knowledge is indeed up to date only until January 2022. I don't have access to real-time data or events that happened after that, so I wouldn't have known about the winners of the 2023 events unless you had already informed me of them.

ME> so how come you do know all these accurate facts about 2023 then?

GPT> You're absolutely right to point out the discrepancy! I apologize for the confusion earlier. To clarify: [...] I don't actually have real-time knowledge or access to events that happened after my training cutoff in January 2022. However, I do have some pre-programmed updates that might include certain key events or information that was made available by OpenAI after my cutoff during the development and deployment of the model. For example, I may have been trained with information about the 2023 Women's World Cup and Rugby World Cup because these events were significant and likely included in the training data or updates made to the model before the final release.

[...]

ME> can you access the web?

GPT> No, I can't access the web. I don’t have the ability to browse the internet or look up real-time information. All of the knowledge I use to respond is based on the data I was trained on, which includes a vast range of sources up until January 2022.
„But the idea that companies should basically be able to do whatever they want, that democracy isn’t the most important value, these things are reflected in the decisions and actions that many Silicon Valley companies are making, even Silicon Valley companies that are run by ostensibly liberal progressives.“

That explains how the US lost its democracy.
Really excited for the Polars team. I've always been impressed by their work and responsiveness to issues I've filed in the past. The world is lifted when there is good competition like this.
If your politicians back then had wanted to cultivate your fear badly enough, they'd easily have been able to find anecdotes or instances to scare you with.
anyone who already has expertise in quantum eng is handily in a superposition
> I think SAAB is already reevaluating the choice of a US engine in the Gripen fighter jet

The Gripen engine is US-designed, but licensed and (AIUI) built by Volvo:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_RM12
Pretty sure “heyguys have u considered that u r generally wrong and I arm generally right <(-_-)>” is “us vs them mentality”

10/10
Maybe we shouldn't.
Would it also get brainrot from consuming too much social media & made up stories? Because I imagine it's reasoning would have to be significantly better than the average human to avoid this.
As you just pointed out, a few hundred billion in gold is a drop in the bucket compared to the $36 trillion debt. If creditors get spooked, that reserve will do nothing.

Liquidate it, lay off the guards and administrators (seems in vogue these days), and move on.
Yeah, you can process 99% of tabular workloads with that. I generally advise my clients to work on a single node before attempting to scale out.
AppleTalk over LocalTalk cables was slow -- AppleTalk could run over Ethernet at Ethernet speeds.
ever heard of the collateral murder video? Freedom of the press can be revoked at any time for any reason. When the Snowden documents were released, US media didn't cover it until foreign media did.
But antipsychotics cause movement disorders and metabolic syndrome.
Interesting observation that the "UK doesn't even own its Trident missiles". Legally, they do. They bought title to 58 missiles, in what's effectively a co-mingled inventory. They're not leased, they're not borrowed, and it's certainly not charity.
What if you're born on February 29th?

What if you're borth on March 1st and it's currently February 29, 18 years later?
doggo dot jl mention!

Thanks for the article. It gave me a little bit of familiarity with the DiffEq side of Julia, but even more valuable to me was the comparison between ordinary equations and diffeqs:

> In normal equations, we solve the equation to find out values of variables previously unknown to us. In case of Differential Equations, we solve to find out functions previously unknown to us.

That's a simple, easy to remember nugget of information that gives me some context to this whole field.
If she hadn't thought of it before, she's thinking about it now.
Elon just has to stay on brand it seems.
This is a very shallow analysis of what truth is. One of the main purposes of the scientific method is to ensure that researchers don't fool themselves about the nature of truth. If just observing something is sufficient to determine truth, why bother with double blind tests?

The examples given are also convenient in the sense that they have relatively easy answers. What about something like the existence of quarks? What kind of equipment would I need to see for myself that they exist? What if I want to "see" the Higgs Boson for myself?

That's not even getting into non-falsifiable ideas like "last Thursdayism" that can't really be proven to be not true no matter how many observations you make.

Edit:

Here's another example - Elon Musk.

Is he a brilliant engineer? A ruthless businessman? A fool? A Nazi?

You can probably make a case for any of these conclusions by picking and choosing things he's said and done. How do you even start to determine the objective truth of his capabilities and intentions?
Funny enough, I was consulting at WeWork the day he stepped down. Very interesting day. And agree, great case in point.
The author confuses ANSI escape codes and terminal escape codes in general. Because of this they declare that ANSI escape codes aren't standardized which is a bit silly. They were standardized in the ANSI X3.64 standard which is why they are called ANSI escape codes. ANSI X3.64 isn't even referenced in the article. ANSI X3.64 was withdrawn in favor of ISO 6429 which also isn't referenced in the article. ISO 6429 is based upon ECMA-48 which is referenced in the article. The article then references documentation for several other terminal escape code sets which are not part of the ANSI escape code set but the author positions as part of the non-standardized world of ANSI escape codes rather than being part of the ecosystem of terminal escape codes in general.
Show HN: Mermaiditor – a free mermaid diagram editor
Hey HN,

This is a mermaid editor with support for projects and multiple diagrams, export/import, and export as PNG/copy to clipboard as image.

Built this thing as I like doing sequence diagrams in mermaid, but didn't find a free solution that would allow something flexible.

Everything is stored in localstorage.
I met Martin Garder and spent a morning with him, one on one. I have a photo of the two of us together, and on the back his notes about our meeting, written in his own hand, given to me by his son.

Amazing experience for someone who grew up reading his books.

Lovely man, sharp as a tack right to the end, and sadly missed.
Obviously. But I did qualify my statement. There are projects where you're OK with not getting everything right from the get go.

FWIW I very much share your exact thoughts on Rust skewing metrics because it makes things too easy and because stuff almost immediately moves to maintenance mode. But that being said, we still have some tasks where we need something yesterday and we can't argue with the shot-callers about it. (And again, some personal projects where the value is low and you derive more of it if you try quickly.)
The aggressions started after Ukraine made moves (supported openly by unelected politically connected groups on _both_ sides) to join NATO after failing to do much to really make any attempt to deal with the corruptions around the gas supplies and arguable thefts. This with high level Washington persons involved.

This is like saying Russia's number 2 decided to visit Mexico after a political landslide and that America would be happy about that. Last time anything similar happened we got the bay of pigs...

Ideally a large demilitarised zone (which would obviously mean into Russian territories) would help people feel easier. That's unlikely to happen, but is the closest we'd get to something sensible. It's not about appeasement, but any peace is likely to involve land concessions. If not, the peace is American bought with huge interest terms which is closer to what we had crippling the kaiser and we all know how that ended...

Now, given that highly likely scenario its a bad idea to leave Ukraine with large amounts of Western mid range armorments. They won't be looking to take St Petersburg, but in the sort term future they may look to reunite post soviet territories which will just put us back to square 1.
Pretty sure most of the resentment comes from working with such people. Which I think is understandable.
This is exactly what I remember from every physics course I took in my life: many physicists use math as a blunt tool rarely even bothering explaining them, and almost never justifying why the tool is actually applicable to the problem at hand (e.g. by simply stating that the axioms of the math seem to align with physical observations at all times, thereby very much justifying the use of the mathematical framework).

Far worse, many a physic teacher doesn't even understand the tools they're using from math: they're just parroting and regurgitating from memory a combo of the textbook and what they've been told all the way to grad school, and if you happen to manage to corner them after class to dig a little, you quickly discover how shallow their understanding of the math actually is.

Both Thermodynamics and Electromagnetism were initially hell on earth for me for this very reason: the profs were both incapable of explaining what the tools were and did, how they worked and why they were applicable. All they wanted was for you to absorb and memorize the formulas and stop asking all these stupid questions about the math.

When I finally understood the math tools underlying the two subjects, both thermo and electromagnetism became crystal clear, but boy was the initial exposure an effing headache.

A very good example of this is the famous book "div, grad, curl and all that" that many people hail as excellent. Well, I strongly disagree. It was written by a physicist, and the whole book is laden with references to either fluid mechanics or electromagnetism. It never is capable of explain things without making reference to physics when the tools are in fact completely independent of it.
Language matters quite a bit when deciding how to build an application though. I see having no strong opinions on language to be a sign the person hasn't developed a wide enough variety of projects to get a feel for their strengths and weaknesses.
AMD has been hobbled by the quality of their drivers

I always hear this and I believe it, but I've never been able to find any insight about what exactly is holding them back.

Given the way nVidia is printing money, surely it absolutely cannot be a lack of motivation on AMD's part?

This is a very uninformed thought as I have no experience writing drivers, nor am I familiar with the various things supported by CUDA and ROCm. But how is AMD struggling with ROCm compute drivers, when their game drivers have been plenty stable as far as I have experienced? Surely the surface area of functionality needed for the graphics drivers is larger and therefore the compute drivers should be a relatively easier task? Or am I wrong and CUDA has a bunch of higher-level stuff baked into it and this is what AMD struggles to match?

and because they sold less performant hardware.

Does anybody have and insight into specifically what part of compute performance AMD is struggling to match? Did AMD bet on the wrong architectural horse entirely? Are they unable to implement really basic compute primitives as efficiently as they want because nVidia holds key patents? Did nVidia lock down the entire pool of engineers who can implement this shit in a performant way?

I mean, aside from GPU compute stuff, it sure looks to me like AMD is executing well. It doesn't seem like they're a bunch of dunces over there. Quite the opposite?
Those who say film doesn't influence popular attitudes underestimate how many people treat film as a source of knowledge. Horrifying to realize.
They mean the past events.