skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abstract conceptual thinking cannot be separated from our language ability, both of which are dependent on our access to mind. [Our brains are the tuners we use to select which realms of thought we are attempting to focus on. Some people choose to tune into universal compassion, some prefer pack-mentality behaviors such as racism or religious bigotry (including against those who haven't any), some just choose to make money or pursue greater pleasure, the list goes on and on.]

Our bodies are mammalian in the basic pattern, but we are clearly distinct in ability. It wasn't 6000 frickin years ago, but there was a creation event where we instantaneously diverged from pure animal life.

Mitochondrial Eve traces us to our root. Thanks again, science!
Steam's DRM is a joke. Removing it is as simple as replacing a library.

It also doesn't cause (intentional) incompatibility problems like HDMI DRM does.
What? Bugs in the test code are what lead to bugs in production code.
What I imagine

1. Use LLM, possibly already grounded by typical RAG results, to generate initial answer.

2. Extract factual claims / statements from (1). E.g. using some LLM.

3. Verify each fact from (2). E.g using separate RAG system where the prompt focuses on this single fact.

4. Rerun the system with the results from (3) and possibly (1).

If so, this (and variations) isn't really anything new. These kind of workflows have been utilized for years (time flies!).
This kind of apathic statement is not very useful.

By your logic, we should not care about climate change either.

"People don't care about privacy" doesn't mean that regulators and the tech community should not lead a charge.
It‘s good that they are preventing the spread of fake news and anti-Israel hate content.

Pro Palestine propaganda is already incredibly pervasive and annoying anywhere you look online.

There can be a news article about Dubai chocolate and Palestine brainwashed bots will comment „…ok but what about PALESTINE?“
Ooh, I love pedantry contests!

Let's go back to your opening comment which was something like "I thought methane was 80% hydrogen on a molar basis". Methane does not contain H2 molecules, it contains 4 atoms of hydrogen. Plus one atom of carbon, which would indeed make it 80% hydrogen on a molar basis.

If that does not convince you: note also that atomic carbon is also a very unstable, and will auto polymerize into one of its allotropes (eg. C60 - buckyballs). And yet we count carbon by the atom.
There are several examples I've seen of firmware on devices failing because of bit rot, so that's not true. We used to design devices so that the bootloader was pulled from NOR instead of NAND because of this. Then the device could be recovered using a USB stick.

Most people don't encounter it because their device was updated at least once. People should be less trusting in flash drives than they are, I recently pulled three USB flash sticks out of storage and two of the three are now unhappy.

There's a strong argument that consumer electronics should be able to be more incrementally upgraded. Including things like baseline upgrades for certificates. One of the things about TVs and these systems is that they are usually running on something like OverlayFS to avoid corruption of the base OS and enhancing security/integrity. They focus on replacing the underlying image, which is often security signed as well. If you screw something up with a device that's in a customers home then you're going to be spending a lot of money fixing it, the manufacturers have their war stories in this regard, so they're very risk adverse.

As for freezing the backend, you can't. Your API will evolve and for example if your database changes then your backend services will need to be touched. That database will change, some metadata or label will need to change. Even if you keep the API the same you'll need to maintain the legacy backend. Then you need that service running, consuming compute, for years even if there's hardly anyone using it and it's costing money. Then you need security patches for the backend service because the framework needs upgrading or the OS needs upgrading. Eventually the backend framework will be EoL/EoS and so you need to spend to upgrade. It's like saying we'll keep a Java backend running on a public facing API well beyond it's life, log4j anyone?
I think they mean never before seen words aka made up words like "antecarburetorism"

https://deconstructor.ayush.digital/w/antecarburetorism
I think OP means that it can make a guess at what a nonexistent word means, something Wiktionary and urban dic doesn't do as well.
uv build
Building source distribution...
running egg_info
writing venv.egg-info/PKG-INFO
Successfully built dist/venv-0.1.0.tar.gz
Successfully built dist/venv-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl
I read plenty of press about her giving him a hall pass and the boot over Epstein eventually.
LLM crawlers continue to DDoS Sourcehut
As usual, arguments for LLMs are based on rosy assumptions about future trajectory. How about we talk about data extraction at that point in the future when models are already cheap enough. And in the meantime just assume the future is uncertain, as it obviously is.
How so? The rental vs buy setup is orthogonal to respecting people's privacy.
GDPR says "hi".

If users don't consent, Amazon can't collect. If users exercise their rights to be forgotten, Amazon has to delete. If Amazon breaks the thing because users have not consented, then Amazon will be on the hook for breaching the contract.

"It was working until yesterday, how come?" EU will ask.
I date a nurse, I think nursing might give AI an existential crisis.

Jokes aside, nursing is so incredibly innately about human to human care, this is really just more hamfistig something where it doesn’t belong.
I think you’re both right, and also both are missing the point.

Using LLMs to parse whois data is okay in the meantime (preferably as a last resort!), but structuring the data properly in the first place (i.e. RDAP) is the better solution in the long run.
For further visual EDA, pygwalker provides advanced features for interactive data visualization, which is also built based on duckdb.

src: https://kanaries.net/pygwalker

github: https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker
Software is the new hardware, LLMs are the new software
For example, .es never had a public whois, and need to register with a national ID (and I think with a fixed IP address) to get access to it.

Is this new? I had an .es domain around 2011, and am not Spanish, or even European.
> Additionally, they claim CockroachDB Cloud is free for use "up to 10 GiB of storage and 50M RUs per organization per month".

Take in account, that the constant CPU/Mem/Query monitoring that CRDB does, eats up around 20 a 30M RUs per month. There are some people that complained as to why there free instances lost so much capacity. And those RU are not 1:1, like, you do a insert, its 1RU, oooo, no ... Its like 9 to 12RU or something.

Its very easy to eat all those RUs on a simply website. Let alone something that needs to scale. Trust me, your better of self deploying but then you enjoy the issue of the new licenses / forced telemetric / forced phone home, or spend 125$+ / vcpu (good luck finding out the price, we only know these numbers from people breaking nda offers). They are very aggressive in sales.

Its not worth it to tie your company to a product, that can chance licenses on a whim, that charges Oracle prices (and uses the same tactics). I am very sure that some of their sales staff is ex-Oracle employees. ;)
How do I interpret the benchmark results showing that it's slower than mergesort? Is that using the very simple implementation in vsort/examples
/benchmark.c? Being slower than that while using SIMD and multicore isn't appealing.
Biff Tannen only cares about his personal empire, there is really no plot twist here.
Cross-building for Apple is possible, but it's far from smooth with many steps that you have to figure out by yourself unfortunately.
It depends, the efficiency isn't the only parameter. Plants are beloved and self sustained, there are plants that have been alive for thousands of years. Even when the plants die, they can be useful and are naturally recycled. Also, they are able to grow to enormous sizes with the materials available on site, and although it can create challenges plants are desired in most environments.

Our advanced high efficiency devices are cool but the ultimate solar devices can be something with many characteristics of the plants.
Tangential comment - this might be just me, but the chromatic aberration on the logo is so unpleasant that it really distracts from the content. That's all I see on every page, a bizarre experience really. I'd consider toning it down next time. As they say "the presentation matters" and all that.
I disagree that a software in a school setting should see students as adversaries. Cheating is a much higher level problem that is better dealt with education and negative reinforcement. After all, those students will need to become participants in a society where we definitely don't want this level of mutual distrust around every corner.

But in any case, students are usually NOT the customer here even if they are the end user.
I am also behind one of the tools ( https://lanes.pm )

It works offline with instant interactions and near 1:1 match of features to tracker. (But with a much improved and refreshed UI)
uv does not ship system libraries because pypi does not have them. There is a philosophical difference between pypi and conda today. I believe over time pypi will likely ship some system libraries but we will see.
we can't ever have LLMs reliably parse any form of data. You know what can parse it perfectly though? A parser. Which works perfectly, and consistently.
The Shoppable TV 2025 and Beyond
How would Palestine be able to afford bots?
Yeah, that’s a good point. Then again, you can also that for any other gTLD (why should Google get the proceeds from .dev?), and that would be a valid question.

I think the current system is inherently flawed... but it kinda works, and nobody wants to figure out the politics of fixing it – so I guess we’re stuck with it for a while.
It’s still much more productive to fight the abuser than it is to fight the victims.
This sounds like "Don't blame the burglar, blame whoever didn't put metal bars over the glass window."
I hadn't ever really considered doing so, but probably not. (I'm not the person who mentioned Brave, btw)
Hm!

I like the sound quality of my Echo Dots, so I'd be fine to keep them in "dumb mode" (or even disconnecting their microphones physically), but setting a timer etc. is a useful feature too, when you are running around the house.

How good is the sound of the Home Assistant Speakers and can they be used like bluetooth speakers, too? How about multi room sound?

Any recommendations on a good solution that focusses on that music part and is not likely to be a victim of getting bricked by a software update?
If you job is to be a referent, to have authority. You absolutely don't want to make any error. Pretty safe isn't enough, you need to be absolutely sure that you control the output.

You only have one job, don't delegate authority.
>Modern exploit mitigations
>OS updates

Good luck with modern intel exploits there, and I'm running OpenBSD 7.6 on an Atom n270 nebook like a champion. Power? Maybe a bit high for a machine from late 2000's, but is not so bad compared to a current powerhouse as a desktop.

I can play 720p video with no JS needed at all (mpv+yt-dlp), chat with Jabber/IRC/telegram, some of them over Bitlbee. I have locally curated playlists and music from both Jamendo and Internet Archive.

I can comment on both HN and Mastodon with https://brutaldon.org

I can program in AWK, C and Go. I can plot stuff faster with AWK+GNUplot than most people battling with CUDA, Python and months of GPU usage drawing more power
for a mundane task than a quality beef restaurant in a month.

I have several services routed from the web to Gopher, even Internet Archive.
I can read the news using a laugable bandwidth and CPU on the remote servers.

The average desktop today uses far more power with local and remote services in a month than my machine and the Gopher servers over a year.
Meta has an actual moat due to network effects. But yes, I think buying real estate, mineral stocks, etc. is overall a more effective and ethical way to invest for AGI.
> While the majority of CTV viewers say they use their mobile phones to make a purchase after seeing a TV ad, 60% would save their shipping and payment details on their TV for quick checkout

I am extremely skeptical that consumers actually like ads or want to buy items directly from TV ads. Seems like wishful thinking by LG.
On Nvidia/Jetson systems, Ubuntu is dictated by the vendor.
Converting C to ASM to specs and then to a working Z/80 Speccy tape
umm, what's wrong with: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ ? Adobe is out-of-everything for decades..
TCL modules are still pretty widely used in HPC-like environments unfortunately:

https://modules.readthedocs.io/en/stable/modulefile.html

Though there is a replacement that uses Lua which is somewhat better than TCL:

https://lmod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

TCL is also pretty universally used in EDA scripting. It's pretty bad, though I guess it is better than all the Bash that EDA devs tend to use too.
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Well, the per-capita GDP of the poorest U.S. state — Mississippi — is greater than that of the U.K., France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland and many others, and within 10% of Finland, Germany, Belgium and Austria. 34 of the 47 European states have lower per-capita GDPs than Mississippi.

The median per-capita U.S. state GDP is $78,649; the median per-capita European state GDP is $28,713.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
Sanctum is a small and fully privilege seperated VPN daemon
> Please explain how your hand rolled implementation of recursion using malloc is better than every C compiler's.

Because I don't use "the" stack and thus don't have stack overflows.

> Have you opened an issue on GCC or Clang so they can fix their buggy C compilers with your brilliant secure ground-breaking memory-less law-of-thermodynamics-defying recursion algorithm? There may be a Turing Award in it for you!

Of course not, it's just trading stack for heap like you can find in any basic CS textbook. But the heap can generally safely grow bigger than the stack and "overflowing" the heap is not a security vulnerability (you do check the return value of malloc, right?). Again, this is the opposite of Turing Award territory, it's all CS 101 stuff.

GCC and Clang prioritise performing well on microbenchmarks over making it practical to implement programs without security vulnerabilities. This is also sadly well known.
Licenses are also yearly renewed. Its not like you get one license and can use it forever. No, you need to yearly enter the new license in your instance, if you do not, after 2 weeks it goes into cripple mode (as in, you can not run anything that is not a personal blog).

And those free-licenses have this dirty little clause that you are not entitled to a license, they need to APPROVE a free-license. Now that is even more scary.

They pull all this because people kept using the free-core version and people simply never upgrade/wanted more. That is why all these changed happened. Coincidentally, the buzz around CRDB has died down to the point that most talks about CRDB are these rare mentions here (even reddit is as good as dead). 98% of CRDB mentioning how great it is, is all origination from CRDBLabs. Do a google and limit in time range, and then go page by page, ... They are a enterprise only company at this point.
https://archive.is/chfF1
You are describing two different problems. Do you want a shapely package that runs on your system or do you want to compile shapely against the GEOS on your system. In case 1 it is up to the package maintainer to package and ship a version of GEOS that works with your OS, python version, and library version. If you look at the shapely page on pypi you'll see something like 40 packages for each version covering most popular permutations of OS, python version and architecture. If a pre-built package exists that works on your system, then uv will find and install it into your virtualenv and everything should just work. This does means you get a copy of the compiled libraries in each venv.

If you want to build shapely against your own version of GEOS, then you fall outside of what uv does. What it does in that case is download the all build tool(s) specified by shapely (setuptools and cython in this case) and then hands over control to that tool to handle the actual compiling and building of the library. It that case it is up to the creator of the library to make sure the build is correctly defined and up to you to make sure all the necessary compilers and header etc. are set up correctly.
I asked it about "ocelot". It said it was "tlatlauelolotl" which comes from the Nahautl for "tlatl" (field), "lauel" (unknown), and "olotl" (jaguar). Except according to [0], "tlatllauelolotl" doesn't exist (and neither does "lauel" - the search results for "tlatl" and "olotl" aren't in English which means I can't judge their validity.)

There's "tlacoocelotl"[1] which seems to be the actual word for "ocelot" ("semi-jaguar").

0/10 for the AI there.

[0] https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/

[1] https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacoocelotl
You can still `source .venv/bin/activate(.fish)` and skip the uv run bit. I have Fish shell configured to automatically activate a .venv if it finds one in a directory I switch to.
There is so many things to see in Peru. And so many things we dont know about the world.
Who else clicked this, thinking it might be about music?
Trying Out Content Driven Development
Agree, but rather than farming, I think it will enable developers to focus on more complex and interesting problems. Or spot a need in the market (doesn't have to be complex) and quickly solve new problems people are willing to pay money for.

Outcompeting only works if a software company is truly unable to pivot or outperform open source tools sponsored by the government.

The same thing can be said by free tools given away by big tech, like vscode. Here, microsoft operates actually quite similar to the government. There is no way a new company can create a competitor to vscode and charge money for it anymore. This pushes people to solve other software problems, rather than doing something else entirely. I don't think we'll be at the limit of economic value we can generate by writing new software just yet, if such a thing even exists.
One of the best ways of thinking about it is that it's "a quanta propagating with these properties".

Trying to collapse a quanta to either a particle or a wave loses some of the behaviour of the thing you're taking about and is where some of the confusions come from trying to take one viewpoint to it's wrong conclusion
So uv is resticted to pypi but does offer isolated Python installations, with precompiled Python binaries?
Ask HN: Anyone quit their job due to health issues?
I and lots of my coworkers been having issues with spine/neck. Wondering anyone quit their tech job due to health issues? Maybe other issues like eyes etc And if so which job did you switch to
Greater than 95% of the cost of a TV is in the panel.

TV panels must have a near 0% defect rate and a single piece of dust during the manufacture will render the finished panel e-waste. The bigger the panel the risk of a defect goes up exponentially because the surface area for any defect becomes bigger. It follows the same issue as to why chip companies introduced chiplets, the smaller die sizes improves the yield and they can throw away less silicon.

A TV panel is basically a 50in chip, and a mobile phone display is a 6in chip.
Same! I inherited a Flutter app from a previous team, and while it's OK it feels kind of like developing on a Galapagos island — by which I mean, we'll never use Dart in any other context, and Flutter's web story doesn't really work for most kinds of apps).

I think Dioxus actually fits into a fairly unique set of slots. There's Tauri, with which it shares a lot of stuff, but Tauri's web story is mostly "build it yourself". There's Leptos, which arguably has a better web app story, but lacks most of the rest.

It is also heartening to see how these projects really do share a lot of the building blocks and don't seem to be overly competitive.
"sugar rush of saturated colors" is a great way to put it
Beyond performance? Performance!
The Myanmar stuff we already knew about. It's bad. It seems negligent, but not like Zuckerburg wants to drown babies

Most people set the bar higher than 'does he want to drown babies'.
May uv please keep on eating the python world. It's so good.
No, I was using this as an argument for why I don't expect Node projects older than a year or two to be buildable without significant hassle.

(Also note that outside the web/mobile space, projects that weren't updated in a year are still young, not old. "Old" is more like 5+ years.)

The two things are related. If your typical project has a dependency DAG of 1000+ projects, a bug or CVE fix somewhere will typically cause a cascade of potentially breaking updates to play out over multiple days, before everything stabilizes. This creates pressure for everyone to always stay on the bleeding edge; with a version churn like this, there's only so many old (in the calendar sense) package dists that people are willing to cache.

This used to be a common experience some years back. Like many others, I gave up on the ecosystem because of the extreme fragility of it. If it's not like that anymore, I'd love to be corrected.
You’re assuming that every trans person feels able to live publicly according to their identity. Clearly in some places that isn’t the case. Perhaps the tech industry is particularly accepting.

Also, I am not an expert on this, but I question whether “agenda” is appropriate. That seems to describe a concerted political movement. I think you are really just observing trans people.
So this finding is in the same vein as mathematicians who can't yet prove or disprove a conjecture, but can prove tighter restrictions than we knew before. Still interesting, and, more importantly, often productive of new paths or methods of analysis.

As for the article itself, I'm not sold. The analysis was about narrowing down to find the most recent regional split in our genetics, with the assumption that language formed before humans split across regions. That would work if we assumed the capability to develop language rested largely on genetics. If a lot of animals could develop a language, then the explosion of human language could come from imitation when one regional group without a language meets another with a language.

>"Human language is qualitatively different because there are two things, words and syntax, working together to create this very complex system," Miyagawa says. "No other animal has a parallel structure in their communication system. And that gives us the ability to generate very sophisticated thoughts and to communicate them to others."

I have seen a lot of ideas about human mental exceptionalism fall apart. It wouldn't surprise me to find out in a few years that dolphins developed syntax.
Look up "moral rights." You have some ability to revoke the usage of your work if it violates moral standards.
Microsoft isn't launching its Xbox handheld this year, but Asus might be