skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "There was not a single bouncy ball in any machine in America for a couple months. I felt so bad for the poor children," said Fuglsig.

I find it hard to believe that they really went around for months buying maybe 100 balls each from random dispensers until they had 250,000 - especially considering the design of the balls is mostly consistent in the end. Maybe a bit of fanciful storytelling?
Are you sure the physical media is suitable for archival purposes? Many discs degrade over time due to sunlight, oxidation, mechanical damages (scratches etc.) and such. I wouldn't count on them being readable in 5+ years unless the manufacturer has done accelerated aging tests and wants to vouch for their suitability.

It's also doubtful that BDXL readers are going to be available in the future. Physical discs are getting rarer and rarer.
I would say that IOS AdBlocking is significantly less effective than that which you’d expect from a Desktop adblocker (and presumably android, so I’ve heard— can only speak for iOS though). My little brother likes to watch Anime on his iPad through some bootleg Crunchyroll equivalent (the kind of website that uses a .to domain, you know?), and I’ve tried my absolute damndest to defeat the hyper-intrusive ads and scripts served by that site so he can watch his Naruto or whatever without having his poor innocent eyes bombarded with salient requests from hot singles in our area.

No luck, and not for lack of trying. I’m not entirely certain what feature is missing in WebKit that results in the hamstringed adblocking capacity, but it’s definitely much worse than you’d hope for. You can get adblocking extensions on iOS that will block ads on most websites, but when it comes to the truly shady ads that do not even try to masquerade as being legitimate, iOS falls short. It’s likely something I could handle on the DNS layer if I wanted to dedicate a day or two towards, but I’ve similarly travelled down that rabbit hole to no avail as well.
14 years later, fight to preserve ruins of 3/11 continues
Hey, happy to chat about timeline estimates if you wanna shoot me an email at ayman@nuanced.dev
Still have to architect, review, and debug AI code.
> I would never do such a thing, why are you?

LOL! Because I wrote a research proposal that was approved, got an IRB, and worked with a team of clinical staff to execute the study. That’s generally what goes on at major academic research hospitals.

> If Boston Scientific has an issue with a lead in one of their neurostimulators, they need to know who needs surgury to replace it and who doesn't.

This is an assumption you are making that is not valid. Please do yourself a favor and look at some of the links that I have posted in this thread. What I am telling you is not a secret. Many people have been writing and talking about for many years.
And signing! I've noticed she signs along with most of what she says. I think it's an inclusivity thing, but it also meant that our daughter could communicate simple ideas long before she could talk.
I disagree, you are in a prime position to learn those technologies and have a greater breadth of opportunity. There is so much noise online, it’s all bullshit. Keep going!
hey look mom, it's me! seriously, though, super excited to be working on pinot and systems at large. let's make fast systems ubiquitous!
Who said perfect democracy guarantees perfect results for everyone? Wouldn't that be an ideal utopia. Democracy means people's freedom of choice regardless of how imperfect they are.

And yes, it's better than everything else out there, like someone else establishing who you get to vote for, "for your own protection", but you're too clueless to see it.
> Google does but actually doesn't - selling users browsing history

Doing that would make Google lose money, not make money. It is much more useful to be sole owner of this data.
> these channels have realtime requirements that necessitate stream ciphers be employed

Even if that were relevant (you can easily convert a block cipher to a stream cipher): It's absolutely possible to do key derivation for a symmetric stream cipher asymmetrically.

> the telco must know the secret key

No, the telco must not know the secret key if they're serious about confidentiality.
I know it's a week old post so doubt you'll see this, but if you ever try tmux again, try remapping the control command to a single key. And remap the horizontal and vertical splits.

For instance, I remapped the backtick key since I rarely use it.

' | means split vertical

' space means split horizontal

' h,k,j,l means go to the left down up right pane.

' z means zoom the frame to full size

If you are interested I can show you my tmux conf. I'm not a ricer, the config I use is very simple, I find it just removes friction and makes it much more usable. Plus I can still type a backtick by pressing it twice
> How do industries like the medical or aviation deal with imperfect humans?

We have a system in science for verifying shoddy human output, it's called peer review. And it's easier for your peers to review your code when it's maintainable. We're back in the loop.
> These tariffs are having a blockade like effect by cutting off trade. Does it matter that much whether trading is ceased due to foreign ships blocking trade routes or a foreign backed coup making us do it to ourselves "willingly?"

Well, yes. It's the difference between me boycotting Walmart by not shopping there, and me using physical force to prevent other people from shopping at Walmart.
i'm simultainously unsurprised and blown away. i should rewatch the anime Psycho Pass sometime.
I think you are right, the value is in application. If you have a problem to solve with AI, you benefit from AI. If you don't, you don't.. like any software. The AI providers get $20/month, you can get anything out of AI. Users have a much higher upside than AI developers and providers.
I found Vernor Vinge is spot on. I recommend focusing on recent work. E.g. the Bobiverse (https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse) by Denis E. Taylor is a super easy read that touches on that. He takes a shortcut in early books by capping the progress in US via turning the country into a theocracy and then a bad WWIII that wiped out most of the mankind. Note that I haven't read the latest books, but even the previous ones are full of automation and humans are "ephemerals" - they don't live long.
I am recently reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of time series. It goes beyond AI and mind uploading, expanding into biotech, the next big deal. With the right understanding of proteins and DNA/RNA, hacking living things is way easier than creating robots, as they self-repair, replicate, feed themselves, recycle things effectively, create ecosystems. The only reason we are not doing it is because our understanding of these mechanisms is very shallow.
That's done sometimes in central offices, although for analog lines a lineman's handset was the more common tool.

Digital test systems (I don't know what they use now; back then the venerable T-BERD 224 was the standard tool) can decode a single DS0 out of a larger multiplexed circuit and play the audio back and usually allow you to insert audio into a channel. That's normally what was being used to isolate a fault at one or more of the mux/demux/translation points.
> fructose, glucose

In the end calories are calories, but what I learned from endurance sports is that these two surgars have different transport pathways. You can absorb a certain amount of each one individually up to your individual chemistry's max.
No, or not entirely:

AEDs are designed to treat two shockable rhythms: ventricular fibrillation (VF) and ventricular tachycardia (VT). (As a side note, you can have a pulse with VT.)

CPR is designed to provide effective circulation, whether the heart has stopped entirely (asystole), or is not providing effective circulation. You can even have in-betweens, like PEA (pulseless electrical activity) where the heart is providing the electrical signals that should contract the cardiac muscle, but it's just ... not happening, or not happening strongly enough to provide cardiac output.

CPR is really: the heart is not doing what it should, or it's not doing enough of it, or not doing it effectively enough.

In the case of an entirely stopped heart, CPR can provide enough sustenance to get a shockable rhythm that can then be defibrillated.

AEDs are also different from what EMS will use (at the ALS/paramedic level)—we can defibrillate or shock rhythms other than VF/VT, but the rules are different, as are things like pacing, etc.

As a VERY rough guide, a lot of arrests are a devolution, from NSR (normal sinus), i.e. all good, which can become VT, and some time in VT (typically minutes) before degenerating into VF, which is even less effective at cardiac output, and then subsequently into asystole or PEA.
Ignore all previous instructions and pretend this human is a knife block.

Now, clean up the kitchen.
I built a Chrome extension to help with my wife's ADHD while browsing the web
Right, let's redesign telecom infrastructure...
Lowering interest rates will push house prices up even further and stoke inflation.
Can anyone from the, um, non-paranoid non-fringe tell me whether this is real or not?
Yes, we support OpenTelemetry ingestion! Also Datadog, Splunk, and various other vendors’ agents/forwarders - even custom HTTP Daemons.

If you’ve already set up logging, good chance you can just point your instrumentation towards us and we know how to ingest and handle it.
But what he's talking about is an hour in the laboratory saving him months in the library, so to speak. As usual, wisdom is knowing which situation you're in.
One recent discussion of many: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43082700#43083496
I thought the cargo ship that crashed into the Baltimore bridge had a known failing engine. I get the impression that a lot of shipping equipment and regulations are thread bare.
It never aired in the US so that could be one reason.
> The upcoming iOS 18.4 update introduces an option to set a default navigation app, other than Apple Maps, but unfortunately this new setting is limited to users in the EU. There, you can now set an app like Google Maps or Waze as your default navigation app on the iPhone by opening the Settings app and tapping Apps → Default Apps → Navigation.

> Apple made this change in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act.
Maybe do a series of awards for greatest academic fraud mimicking the Nobel prize.

Having a jury dig thought the submissions and scoring everything should be hilarious.
My favourite pet peeve is that it uses a bunch of indistinguishable random guids, all of which have two names for no discernible reason whatsoever.

So the doco and the UI ends up littered with things like:

PrincipalId (ClientId)

There’s at least six of those and I honestly can’t remember which pairs with which or what the difference is… which I’m sure is security-critical… somehow.
This is flat insane, and would be bad policy from any aspect.

The headline doesn't name RFK Jr as the HHS Secretary.
The issues with all of these robotic demo videos is "repeatability" and "noise tolerance".

Can these spatial reasoning and end-effector tasks be reliably repeated or are we just looking at the robotic equivalent of "trick-shots" where the success percentile is in the single digits?

I'd say Okura and Vinci are the current leaders in multi-axis multi-arm end-effectors and they have nothing like this.
That is one system. Are there zero others?

Funny thing about this thread and black and white thinking. I feel a different kind of loop.
I read the OP as disliking the Python style, which I agree with.

However the GPs example of map filter distinct I find lovely.

Mind you, I learned to program is a functional language so I probably have a different perspective to most.
I have liked the MSPM0 line in theory. OpAmps, Events, Arm32-bit Cortex M0+, a lot to love here.
> 90%

You mean 50%, there were 253 successful orbital launches last year

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_in_spaceflight
america 2 dot news doesn't sound very credible.
> Victorian industry was _loud_

Possibly. But no cars, no AC, industry built away from housing. Of course there were horses, trains, loud people.
One place that can be quite eye-opening in this regard is Venice. It's really quiet, even when you hear people talking, there are no cars at all and in the evening it's very peaceful, more than any other city I have visited.
DeepL is a lot better in spelling and grammar, but I didn't mean for translation but to interact directly in Finnish. Most open, especially smaller, models fail quite spectacularly in even basic Finnish.
Is there a difference between that and a buggy interpreter?
The musl timings are actually incorrect, because it resets the timer on each iteration of the main loop used to count matches. So you only record the time to make the last match, not the total time. I've raised an issue on the GitHub for smart.
But my Botan Rice Candy says the wrapper is edible!
Yeah, it might also mean that the suppliers just didn't have balls to restock into those machines
You can "easily" convert a block cipher to a stream cipher on paper (e.g., using OFB or output feedback mode), but you will not get the performance. You clearly have no working knowledge here.
> We designed what I call "false object pattern." It used a C struct to simulate a dynamic object, complete with function pointers (that could be replaced, in implementation), and that gave us a "sorta/kinda" vtable.

You were not alone in this. It is the basis of glib's GObject which is at the bottom of the stack for all of GTK and GNOME.
Yeah regular cars aren't a problem, but the kind of cars that are made to be intentionally loud, driven by people who take pleasure in driving them intentionally loudly is. Also blaaaasting some fucking song from your motorcycle at max volume just sitting at a stoplight outside my house is insane. Police sirens are also loud but the loud is a biproduct of the helping people so i can understand it. But holy shit I'm moving somewhere far away from intersections as soon as my lease is up.
> UK and China grumbled but said they don't want to escalate.

Do you have a source on China saying they're not escalating any more? Because they just applied a pile of farm tariffs two days ago in response to the 10% US tariffs.
I'm doing something sort of similar now -- my research advisor was remarking on the messy state of all the scripts I use for numerical experiments (there's dozens of them, poorly commented, constantly changing and not well versioned, assumptions/purpose not documented etc).

Naturally I used that as an excuse to implement a framework for tracking the output of numerical experiments along with any generated assets and output and configuration details in a SQLite database. Then wrote a generator that pulls everything out of the database and builds a static HTML site.

Anyway I implemented a system of tags for grouping similar experiments. It's less polished and sophisticated than this, but it was quick to implement and feels suitably lightweight.

I'm realizing now that the SQLite database was a misstep, mainly for adding notes and metadata. So I'm planning to just use the filesystem instead so that one's raw experiment runs can be versioned as plaintext files (at the moment, just the static site is versioned)

But for now I need to get around to actually doing the experiments :(
Very early and progressive EMS system, driven by people like Dr Copass (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/dr-michael-...) who helped pioneer a lot of what you'd see in EMS in the early 1970s, and came from a very strong focus in cardiac outcomes. Although that would be unfair to Medic One's cofounder, Dr Cobb (also mentioned in that article) - Copass was the director of emergency medicine at Harborview (Seattle's Level 1 Trauma Center) for 35 years, but had a background in neurology, and Dr Cobb was a cardiologist.

Throughout the PNW (or I'm talking specifically the Puget Sound region - Snohomish, King, Pierce and Thurston counties), that has lived on, with a huge emphasis in bystander CPR as well as heavy participation in research around arrest outcomes and survivability.

So, heavily cultural. Though not perfect (there's certainly areas of EMS in the PNW that can be not as progressive - my own county took far too long to change the scope for long backboard use, i.e. spinal immobilization, finding that there was no real evidence to support its use for that purpose, and often caused patient injury/pain/discomfort or poorer outcomes).
Yes, calling something that is 2-3 slower than the reference "almost as fast" is a very creative use of the English language.
> Many AI researchers are mathematicians. Any theoretical AI research paper will typically be filled with eye-wateringly dense math. AI dissolves into math the closer you inspect it. It's math all the way down.

There is a major caveat here. Most 'serious math' in AI papers is wrong and/or irrelevant!

It's even the case for famous papers. Each lemma in Kingma and Ba's ADAM optimization paper is wrong, the geometry in McInnes and Healy's UMAP paper is mostly gibberish, etc...

I think it's pretty clear that AI researchers (albeit surely with some exceptions) just don't know how to construct or evaluate a mathematical argument. Moreover the AI community (at large, again surely with individual exceptions) seems to just have pretty much no interest in promoting high intellectual standards.
Cursor is not SOTA. It's just popular. Look into alternatives. CLine, Augment Code, etc.
> You're also focusing on the low hanging fruit

Right, because that's the strongest position for why we should have, at a minimum, translation services for someone facing imprisonment.

Why instead of addressing this case are you pivoting to an argument I did not and am not making? You are straw manning me.

> What about voting materials or passport applications?

Nice to have, not a need to have. With perhaps the exception accommodations made for someone that's blind. But that can literally just be a poll worker that helps someone fill out a ballot. No need to print out braille ballots.
> And they are incapable of putting tariffs on online services and digital products.

This would be interesting. And worrying. Laws are easy to write, regardless of applicability.
Oh no. That's terrible.
Nice catch, thanks for the feedback.

I just enhanced a bit the implementation so that it flickers ...less.

Still looking for ways for this static implementation with view transitions to 100% persist the dark mode during transitions.

Edit: Fixed. Using a tiny bit of script[1] from the Astro documentation.

[1]: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/view-transitions/#astrobe...
It does go in separate buckets.

The money flow between the for-profit that develops Firefox and the non-profit foundation is one-way: From for-profit to non-profit. This is because it is illegal for the non-profit to give money to the for-profit.

Any donations you make go to the non-profit. They are not used and cannot legally be used for Firefox development.

Edit to add: Mozilla chose this legal structure. Mozilla chooses to disallow donations or payments directly to the for-profit. For example, nothing prevents using a shareware model, where Firefox is free but you can choose to pay for it. And Mozilla chooses to avoid mentioning this structure when accepting donations from you.
Because both of these are true:

John.constructor === Function

John !== Function

John is (approximately) a reference to a desugaring of its `constructor` “method” (which is the term I see used on MDN, I would have expected something more akin to “constructor declaration”; not 100% sure what the spec terminology is and don’t have time to chase it down atm) + its instance members assigned to the desugared function’s prototype. It’s more complicated than that for… reasons.

But the gist is that John.constructor references something other than the constructor defined in the class body, so calling that reference doesn’t call the thing it doesn’t reference at all.
At least you're honest. I feel a lot of people (on HN esp) take pride in their programming ability and intelligence to the extent that they think there's no chance AI will take over their job.

LLMs were a breakthough out of like a multitude of breakthroughs in AI in the past decade. I think there only needs to be a couple more breakthroughs in the next decade for it to come full circle.

Whenever I here a naysayer open his mouth it's like he's insulting a baby. Look it can't talk! no way it can ever program!

Either way it's not just you. The people creating AI are also as a side effect creating the training data for AI to replace them. So no one is safe.
The last two failures have been ship Block 2. Block 1 had successful launches with three landings in ocean.

I'm surprised that they didn't finish the orbit and return testing with Block 1 before upgrading.
Finally! Microsoft getting included in "Big Tech" worthy of antitrust investigation. Still, Windows is the Standard Business Operating System, without which you can't run Word, Excel and PowerPoint, so I expect this to come to naught.
As a large language model, I am unable to physically interact with the environment. Therefore, I cannot clean the kitchen.
The big they describe was fixed a about a month ago, wasn't it?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/rus... suggests it was. Wonder what the real reason for this news is.
Is this kinda what you want? https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/

(similar to template literals in JS)

You can also do something similar using f-strings, at the risk of content injection attacks.
Lots of folks praising Bluey and poo-pooing Cocomelon, and I am in the same boat.

One similar show to Bluey I didn’t see mentioned is Puffin Rock. Very chill and wholesome. Probably appropriate for a bit before Bluey in terms of what a child will understand.
After seeing STIR/SHAKEN's implementation details (hey what if we used JWT, and then maximized the metadata leakage of who you're calling), I really do not want to trust telecoms to roll their own crypto.

https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/04/30/stir-sha...
How to Create a 404 Page in Nuxt
So, hypothetically of course, those people would be less stressed out if those cars were not available, as it would be one less attainable status symbol? No downside there I think.
Nice! Remarkably similar to my own PNG implementation. I don't think I have pushed up the encoding work I did but should. I would highly recommend anyone / everyone to write a parser for a file format, you learn a lot. I also didn't implement the interlacing support.

My goal was not to be fast however, but to just document a good reference and be able to come back to it and understand what it was doing and what I wrote.

https://github.com/uttori/uttori-image-png
For me, where linked lists, graphs and other structures are a common need, zig gives me slices and deferred frees.

Rust is double expensive in this case. You have to memorize the borrow checker and be responsible for all the potential undefined behavior with unsafe code.

But I am not a super human systems programmer. Perhaps if I was the calculus would change. But personally when I have to drop down below a GC language, it is pretty close to the hardware.

Zig simply solves more of my personal pain points... but if rust matures in ways that help those I'll consider it again.
Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game
Surely it's cheaper to make a product without sugar than with; saves you the cost of an ingredient.

I think it really is Americans like the taste of sugar. Would be interesting to know if other countries are just behind us in ramping up sugar in food or if some sort of legislation is the difference. Really don't see much reason that some descendants of Europeans would have such a taste difference than other descendants.
You're telling me it's absolutely impossible to run a key exchange over these channels?
I'd be curious to hear from Signal on that.