skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m very attracted to a literate argument therewith. But first we need to talk about the most important facet: this is not about fantasy (JD Vance can live in fantasy), this is about lying.

Elon Musk said that the government risks bankruptcy if we fail to submit to his ideas. Obviously, manipulatively untrue. Trump relies on lying for even more control than that.
who is going to pay for the review of packages and updates? how do we know we can trust the reviewers?

github actions are name-spaced and that didn't help anything here...
Alphonso the robot waiter delighting cafe visitors
>I still find journald a bit annoying

I've come to like it. At first, probably around 15 years ago, I was kind of annoyed at it and just wanted my old /var/log/syslog back. But it has some really nice features, especially for log processing and tooling, like "show me logs from the last minute" (--since) or "show me logs from where I left off" (--cursor).
tags do not help, they're just a labelor a pointer
For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
Anybody have a snapshot of the good one, or maybe a drop in replacement? The repo is gone now.
> And creating continuations for recursion requires memory allocation.

So every recursion in a language that supports programmer-managed state and memory allocation can be transformed into a tail recursion. That still means any recursion in all serious programming languages and most joke programming languages too.
I have an application that does this. When the AI response comes back, there's code that checks the citation pointers to ensure they were part of the request and flags the response as problematic if any of the citation pointers are invalid.

The idea is that, hopefully, requests that end up with invalid citations have something in common and we can make changes to minimize them.
If such a singularity exists at all. The thing we "observe" about black holes is the event horizon. It could be that space inside a black hole is just regular space.
Yes. Also, people who tell you to google the answer, instead of telling you the answer, apparently to train you to avoid interaction, oversight and discussion. (Or because they don't know it, but wanted to say something anyway. That can also cause these YX deflections.)
You can't donate to Firefox anyway—you can only donate to the Mozilla Foundation, which isn't alowed to work on Firefox. The Mozilla Corporation owns Firefox, and money can only flow from the Corporation to the Foundation.

So every donation that has ever been made to "Firefox" has actually gone to whatever random stuff the Foundation is working on this week and, yes, to the Foundation's CEO.
Swing Primer (2021)
I think that the guilt comes from not working to make society more equal and/or doing things that promote inequality.
Quebec stands as the undisputed leader in Canada’s wine consumption landscape, accounting for 34.94% of the country’s total wine consumption according to the 2024 data. Ontario follows closely at 33.7%, meaning these two provinces alone represent nearly 70% of all wine consumed in Canada. British Columbia claims a respectable 14.43% share, while Alberta contributes 8.35%. The remaining provinces and territories collectively account for less than 10% of the nation’s wine consumption.
Swing Aerial Safety – Running a swing team (2017)
2n + 1 is a basic minimum amount of redundancy for anything critical in a high-value space mission.
You are right; they really, obviously, do not actually use their own product... (T_T)
The Snapchat Move That Leaves Teen Girls Heartbroken
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/snapchat-half-swipe-t...
The animation in the article looks like a simplified diagram of a rotary engine or a drill that will cut polygon-shaped holes instead of round holes.

The article mentions a connection to the Fourier transform, which makes sense because nested rotations are essentially summed sine waves in a different coordinate space.[1]

Is there more of a connection than that between the Kakeya conjecture, physical machines like rotary engines, and additive wave synthesis, or are they all fairly different branches of "interesting things one can do with nested rotations / summed sine waves"?

I'm curious if proving the conjecture opens up new possibilities in mechanical engineering or sound/EM wave synthesis/analysis, in other words.

[1] Apologies in advance if I mauled this description.
It took 5 days but yes it’s fixed at least for those who did not factory reset
Redis is single-threaded for dataset-modifying commands (SET, DEL, etc.), but multi-threaded for networking and I/O. nubmq, on the other hand, is fully multi-threaded—distributing reads and writes across all cores. So yes, this is fundamentally a comparison between Go’s concurrency model and Redis’s single-threaded event loop.

For benchmarking, I used the same test script (included in the repo) for both Redis and nubmq—100 concurrent clients hammering the server with requests. The core execution models remain unchanged; only the endpoints differ. So if you're asking whether the comparison reflects actual engine throughput rather than just connection handling—yes, it does.

The real ‘secret sauce’ is how nubmq prevents bottlenecks under load. When per-shard contention spikes, it spins up a larger store in the background, shifts new writes to it, and lazily migrates keys over. No pauses, no blocking. Meanwhile, Redis has no way to redistribute the load—it just starts choking when contention builds.

Also, Redis carries Lua scripting overhead in some cases. nubmq skips all that—pure Golang, no dependencies, no interpreter overhead
Obviously anything has a bunch of single points of failure, or catastrophic means of failure, but a battery isn't like "one engine". It's basically hundreds of little power modules wired in parallel, so an individual battery cell loss shouldn't bring down the whole pack.

So a battery pack should actually be heavily redundant ... assuming the pack has enough modules for a loss of vehicle to get to some charging station.
I appreciate your comment and the humor in the situation since the original topic does everything the post you're glibly replying to requests. And so you just had to re-link it.

But it's still rolling-only code. And having to change it for every ubuntu release (even if per-release everything is targeted to the static version of rustc in Ubuntu) is silly since cargo editions won't save you. And since anyone actually compiling rust programs will have had to update their rustc constantly they'll have to do some containerization or something to compile the $version-written tool for $ubuntu-release-number.
If you remove holocaust from the WWII ... the nazi Germany was still supper awful. Holocaust was not the only thing going on nor the reason why WWII started.

Nazi were idiots too in a lot of ways. Being idiot in some sense does not make you not dangerous.
Not disagreeing, but the number of parameters are listed in the single digit millions size (which surprised me). So, I would expect this to be very fast on modern hardware.
This is what people said about Search before Kagi. And, incidentally, those folks are also working on a paid browser that real people do buy.

Times change. Subscriptions are normalized, and tech people are increasingly aware of the hazards of "free".
I'm familiar, but I broke it up that way for a reason.
If one was aware that the prosperity disparity is predominantly due to circumstance and if one had empathy for other fellow human beings. Then I think it would be a natural response to want to alleviate other's suffering by sharing some of their prosperity. You can call it guilt, or perhaps just empathy. The other heritable attributes can't be easily be shared.
There's an old SciFi story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30797/pg30797-images.ht... that uses that idea as part of the plot. The hole is not very deep, maybe 150 feet, so the "glass" walls would presumably be strong enough. Much deeper, though, and the walls would almost certainly not be able to withstand the pressure.

What I was wondering when reading the story, though, was what happened to all the rock that was vaporized. It has to leave the hole, else it will prevent the energy beam (in the case of the story, a laser beam) from getting to the bottom of the hole. If you've ever seen smoke (or even steam) coming out of a smoke stack, you have to wonder how the efficiency of the beam would not be cut to zero after the first few feet.
Google has been working on replacing the ad-hoc Signal protocol with MLS since before Apple announced they'd support RCS, it would have happened anyway.

It's more likely Apple was made aware of the spec/Jibe/Messages roadmap when they finally got on board, decided not to target the latest UP version for some reason, and realized implementing the current E2EE scheme would be wasted effort given it would need to be revamped within a year. The iOS RCS client is still pretty far from being provisioned worldwide.
I’m Turkish as well (and over forty). It’s a joke, I have no data on its prevalence except anecdotal. It does seem much more common nowadays than when I was a kid though.
This is possible but very very hard! Actually getting the model to converge on something that sounds reasonable will make you pull your hair out. It’s definitely a fun and worthwhile project though. I attempted something similar a few years ago. Good luck!
Scales are a very interesting thing to think about. There's a theory that the universe didn't really 'start' with the big bang, that it was always there, but at a different scale. The big bang was essentially an increase in the scale of the universe, possibly in terms of time and space.
Righteous violence.

One of the benefits of stored procedures they don't mention is SECURITY DEFINER, which is like setuid.

You can for instance have a user table with login and hashed password, have a stored procedure that can verify login and password, without giving SELECT access to the user table to the database user your application use.

Stored procedures also block SQL injection attacks.
That sounds great you sound delightful and clearly nothing to be worried about because nothing like that ever changes so you'll be fine forever I'll leave you to your gloating now. Make sure you keep doing it all in public like this just in case though.
Our health care system is a profit making enterprise with medical care as a side effect
>I think the scale you’re thinking of is unnecessary.

Well, if that's the case, then out of that 500 million a year, we already have 50 to 60% of that going to software development, so something on the order of 250 million. So it sounds like you're saying an additional 1 million is a difference between 3% market share and 30% market share.

We seem to be on the same page about what plausibly could come in from revenue, but I just don't see how that moves the needle in ways that people seem to be expecting. I feel like the psychological comfort from pointing to that as an underutilized option is intended to make the point that there's not enough resources for software development. But if you compare it to what they're already spending, they're spending more than would ever be generated from such revenue. Which admittedly is a little bit off-track from the point you're making. It'll be interesting to see if Lady Bird does well with economics along the lines of what you're describing.
Being enjoyable the first time is just meeting the standard. To rise above mediocrity the book needs to be able to be read more than once. Great books get better the more times you read them.
If someone is blessed with wealth, they should only feel guilty if they don't use their blessing to fight for societal change to make things more just, if they achieved their wealth at the expense of others, or if their actions promote inequality.
This is just masochistic.

Why would you even try to encode a striped background into a font? And then make kerning work? I don't even know what to say. "The hard way" indeed...

Backgrounds are backgrounds, fonts are fonts, and never the twain should meet...
Instead of training on vast amounts of arbitrary data that may lead to hallucinations, wouldn't it be better to train on high-resolution images of the specific subject we want to upscale? For example, using high-resolution modern photos of a building to enhance an old photo of the same building, or using a family album of a person to upscale an old image of that person. Does such an approach exist?
I was about to ask whether it worked then I finished reading your comment.

This reinvigorated phase of allergies in my late 30s is so much hell. I just wish I am able to get some kind of safer “cure”. Safer than those steroid based nasal sprays (which not always work) and those oral antihistamine. I sometimes think whether there has been not enough research in this field because it’s not fatal? Or maybe not too many people are badly enough affected by this?
When you left, do you have a sense for how many developers were actually working on Firefox full-time? I'm curious because people always say that Firefox would be impossible to fund, pointing to Mozilla's expenses, but I've never seen someone actually put forward the math for what portion of those expenses are actually Firefox.
Time in high gravity usually flows slower than in flat regions, not faster.
And once the race was no longer between two old guys, age ceased to matter much to a number of news outfits.

If you look at old Trump interviews, from say 20 years ago, he has absolutely degraded, and not by a small amount.
I don’t think anyone here disagrees with the premise that fat people can lose weight by eating fewer calories than they expend. What you are missing is that — for many people — your solution is akin to telling an alcoholic to just drink less. Yes, it would solve their problem, but for a variety of reasons it’s probably not gonna happen.

Most fat people who want to lose weight have already tried eating less food. Just like many alcoholics have tried to cut down or stop drinking. Some of those people succeed, but many others don’t. The reasons why are far more complex than commitment and willpower.
awesome article. Do you know how to access the other articles in the series that are linked (dead) in the first paragraph? Would be great to read if still available.
Confusing education with 'ideological bias'.
Your scaling with the Plasma compositor implementing the Wayland protocol will depend heavily on the graphical toolkit the specific application is using. Gtk vs Qt vs Flutter, etc. Each of these has to implement custom backends for the waylands and that work is far from done re: fractional scaling. And each wayland compositor is quite a bit different too since the core wayland protocol is so slim and each has to implement core features their own way.

Whereas there's just one thing to target with X11. Far more consistent, less buggy overall. At least up to now. But with megacorps like IBM/Red Hat having their employees abandon X11 entirely for Gtk5, etc, it's gonna be rough going everywhere.
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yes, it's the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy
Depends on what angle you are interested in. If you are interested in continual learning for something like mitigating model drift such that a model can stay up-to-date where the goal is attain speed ups during training see these works:

Compared to other methods for continual learning on ImageNet-1K, SIESTA requires 7x-60x less compute than other methods and achieves the same performance as a model trained in an offline/batch manner. It also works for arbitrary distributions rather than a lot of continual learning methods that only work for specific distributions (and hence don't really match any real-world use case):
https://yousuf907.github.io/siestasite/

In this one we focused on mitigating the drop in performance when a system encounters a new distribution. This resulted in a 16x speed up or so: https://yousuf907.github.io/sgmsite/

In this one, we show how the strategy for creating multi-modal LLMs like LLaVA is identical to a two-task continual learning system and we note that many LLMs once they become multi-modal forget a large amount of the capabilities of the original LLM. We demonstrate that continual learning methods can mitigate that drop in accuracy enabling the multi-modal task to be learned while not impairing uni-modal performance: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19925 [We have a couple approaches that are better now that will be out in the next few months]

It really depends on what you are interested in. For production AI, the real need is computational efficiency and keeping strong models up-to-date. Not many labs besides mine are focusing on that.

Currently, I'm focused on continual learning for creating systems beyond LLMs that incrementally learn meta-cognition and working on continual learning to explain memory consolidation works in mammals and why we have REM phases during sleep, but that's more of a cognitive science contribution so the constraints on the algorithms differ since the goal differs.
Our universe may be a rotating detonation engine only it's our universe being made not combustion.
This reminds me of The Fifth Element. The restaurant should fly to my balcony and serve me there.
Several fast food restaurants in my town tried to keep their dining rooms closed well beyond the health emergency. They were reminded by the town that their business licenses depended on them having dine in service. If they wanted to be drive thru and pick up only, they'd need to convert to a different business license, including a new traffic study and payment of road impact fees. They reopened the dining rooms instead. A couple of Taco Bell locations tried to game this by having dining room hours that they didn't honor. Not sure if someone complained to the town or Taco Bell corporate but one day the dining room hours suddenly expanded and AFAIK, were no longer unreliable.
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I think in this case ‘concern troll’ means someone who can’t mind their own business and chooses to troll someone by stirring up unnecessary drama or conflict, using insincere concern as a pretext.

We know the concern is insincere because the OP’s example (children playing in their yard) cannot be considered concerning by a reasonable person.
Nope. I'm very fortunate
I don't know much about lasers, but this seems a very "dirty" environment for that sort of thing. Wouldn't the lenses etc get all fouled up?
And Green is a huge efficiency loss. I suppose if the energy used to do it truly "green" and "surplus"...

> As of 2022, commercial electrolysis requires around 53 kWh of electricity to produce one kg of hydrogen, which holds 39.4 kWh (HHV) of energy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water
Wow, I honestly had no idea about that and you're exactly right, and everything I can see suggests that those were small donors to Thunderbird. It's hard to extrapolate, but it certainly seems like 10 to 20 million per year could be in play.
Dust? Vaporized rock going through a vacuum is not going to be kind to the inside of that vacuum.
I'm not much of an openbsd user, but I have been meaning to understand if this is the hole execpromises is intended to fill.

At the very least, I think execpromises was added a year after the documentation that you linked, so it's worth looking into.
Ask HN: Best way to learn STM32 and embedded for beginner
My google foo is producing garbage - Most tutorials don't go past blinky. Most suggest CubeIDE, others have suggested ChibiOS. I followed some tutorials on stmbase to get a blinky going on a ST Nucleo, but it used a HAL library and it feels like cheating. I'm really looking for a good book/site that walks through a bunch of tutorials/learning to go from blinking an LED on a STM32 right the way up to me being able to design and build my own Smart watch based on a Cortex M33 or M55. QSPI flash, I2C sensors, bluetooth, power management, some DSP. What would be the best suggested way to do this?
The "someone" refers to me.
> rise of the radical right

I'm not happy with the rise of populism and radical parties, but just to put some nuance, I'd argue the "radical" right in Western Europe isn't even comparable to Trumpism. To give an idea, Marine Le Pen in France voted to put the right to abortion in the constitution. On many social issues, they are closer to Bernie Sanders than Trump.
Deliberately disingenuous? Pretending it's a diet problem, and not a psychological one.

Try this experiment: put a gun to your head and pull the trigger. You may find it hard. Your hand may shake; you will start sweating; rising panic will cloud your thinking.

But it's so easy! Just a couple pounds of pressure on the trigger. Anybody can do it.

That's me substituting a physiological problem for a psychological one.
Since an H1-B or O-1 visa is an employment visa, it has to be used as an employee to work for an employer.

Two founders can form a board and hire each other, creating an employee-employer relationship to the business. This has been done with great success for O-1s; I doubt it would be as easy for an H-1B.

There isn’t a visa that allows immigrant or nonimmigrant intent to come to the U.S. and be self employed. Therefore your business structure must not contain a whiff of self employment.
My province has a hydrogen village powered by windmills no oil companies involved.

https://frontierpowersystems.ca/hydrogen-village/
I run engineering for a venture backed AI-first startup and we use Ruby/Rails.

For us, it made sense to leverage one of the best domain modeling and ORM frameworks out there. Most of our inference is http calls to foundational models, but we can still fine tune and host models on GPUs using Python.

Inference matters, but part of building an effective user platform are the same old SaaS problems we’ve had before, and Rails just works. Inbound and outbound email done in a day. Turning an OCR’d title from ALL CAPS into Title Case is one method call and not a whole custom algorithm, etc.

A lot of people seem to think Ruby is slow for some reason but it’s as fast as Python, and with falcon as fast as node for async behavior. Safe to say the application language taking 0.03 seconds instead of 0.003 seconds when you have to wait 3 seconds for first token is absolutely not the bottleneck with LLM heavy workflows, anyway.

And yes, metaprogramming is a powerful tool with which you can easily shoot yourself in the foot. We culturally just don’t write any code that’s not greppable so don’t use method_missing kinds of things unless it’s in a robust gem like active record. Pretty trivial problem to solve really.

PS - We’re hiring, if that philosophy aligns with you!
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