skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that simultaneous invention is an important concept, but I view it separately from Great Man Theory of History. GMTH is invariably trying to capture the idea that when you have a person who has a lot power, then their successes or failures can have a large impact on the rest of society. I don't dispute that they can be part of the zeitgeist of forces that are driving society, but sometimes what one person in power says matters a lot. I think it probably matters less for scientific pursuits where a lot of people are thinking about something and one person happens to be the person who got there first (not that this doesn't deserve praise either).
Mobsters now overlap with cybercrime gangs and use AI for evil, Europol warns
The Open Source Initiative Election is over: The debate about it is not
Saying “who invented this?” is how the collective celebrates, strengthens and participates in its own tradition. In every field the neophyte meets illustrious predecessors who paved the way.
> Other laptops with beamformed arrays simply don't expose the raw mics to userland

Not always true, back in the Windows XP days (!!!) some laptops would expose the array to software and let the user configure where the mics record from.

It is unfortunate that user control has been polished out of modern systems in exchange for "it just kind of works".
It's on the "maybe" issue list :)
Yep. I live near the library. I just go there if I have to print anything. It's really rare these days that I have to. I think I have paid maybe $5 to print in the past 5 years and I can take out a book or movie afterwards too!
Quite right. The comment to which I replied said, "I don't see how medical insurance would be able to do so" and I was adding a data point.
Personally I disagree with the technical stack, but I love the project and the people behind it so I too wanna support it as much as possible.

It's hard to be "the Wikipedia of X" but once a tool has achieved Wikipedia status, competitors have basically no chance. A truly crowd-sourced and people funded solution is irreplaceable once it's mature and fully established
how are users' voice recordings handled? Any guarantees about storage duration, privacy, etc.?
Killing people off after they get cancer saves money but it does nothing for the gene pool if they already reproduced. Individuals who represent high cancer risks can be forced into sterilization and can consider other options for children in the future, such as adoption or raising a genetic alternative child. Totalitarian regimes can take note here.
We still mostly use Leibniz' dy/dx notation. Newton's fluxions and y-dot (a dot over the y) notation are largely forgotten.

The Hooke debate gave us a great quote from Newton. "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants." (Hooke was a dwarf...)
Religion and theism are orthogonal concepts. You can be an atheist and religious at the same time - many Buddhist sects are entirely atheistic, for example. Many cults are also atheistic.

A good example of atheistic, even materialistic, religion was the official doctrine of the USSR, "marxist dialectical materialism". This had all of the hallmarks of a religion, complete with religious texts, priests, condemnation of non-believers, and so on - but caked in fully materialistic and dogmatically atheist concepts.
Bible is full of contradictions. And old testament is quite cruel at places.

They are Christians. Destructive Christians on the quest to harm others ... but Christians.
It is a win-win even when one side wins more than the other.

Also you are operating in dollars space instead of utility space, which is a mistake. Even if a poor person "only" gains an extra $2000/year in annual earnings due to globalization, that can be a life changing amount of additional wealth given that their utility function is highly sensitive to small changes.
Pain is relative because the psychological factor can amplify pain, say, someone afraid of getting a needle. The amount of hate they have for it definitely makes it worse
Purchasing as in buying / taking over the app, or paying for a personal copy?
Ok, fair point on the nature of the feedback.

I don't think the fee idea is very workable. The interview process already has a high amount of hassle on the employer side. Adding in collecting, holding, and returning some kind of fee is a big addition of annoying overhead.

I don't think there's any way to incentivize giving feedback besides changing the cultural expectation across the industry.
I don't know. Maybe newer printers "fixed" it, but older printers didn't say "only works with HP ink". It's a bit different than a user choosing to install different firmware on their hardware, something they go out of their way to do. The ink is in interface, not the core structure.

Also, consider a layman's perspective. They won't read into the error codes and all that stuff. They update a printer that was printing paper yesterday, and now it won't print paper today. The printer says ink is fine but it's not printing. That sounds like a "brick" to them, right?
I never put my real headshot on LinkedIn even before it was scrapped for AI training. LinkedIn still bugs me to put a picture to "increase engagement".

Putting headshot in resumes is not expected and even cringe in my country, but some countries expect headshots and other highly personal info. No thanks.
But many would list the things you've just listed as table stakes for any 10x engineer.
I mean, the photo is clearly a cat drinking milk from a saucer.

Details and alternative cat photos that are as old (which is "first" is unknown) https://workman.tumblr.com/post/120829319747/houghtonlib-hou...
> > The fifth of six children fathered by Rev. Walter Green, God has always been at the forefront of Hobby Lobby patriarch David Green’s life.

> Imagine having a family of ordinary children, plus God. And yes, the remainder of the article confirms the promise of this gaffe.

Imagine not being able to parse a sentence.

> > This begs an obvious question.

> That's not what "begging the question" actually means.

If you're referring to the logical fallacy, as a foreign English speaker it's the first time I hear about that "begging the question" sense.

You're going to have a hard time with English if you don't know its current universal de-facto sense (which the author employed).

> What -- in 2025, no spell checker?

The horror
In the US?

In New York I am finding the expectations getting higher and the salaries stagnating, to the point that I'm considering taking the plunge into consulting.

There's not a lot of infrastructure job talk on HN as everyone is a software developer or academic type.
The British Museum saved many artifacts which would have been destroyed by various nutty religious types ( a' la Greens ) over the centuries.

In doing so, I doubt that they broke any export regulations.

And entrance to the British Museum is free, for everyone.
I like it, it reminds me of the olden days when sites were basic and functional before everything got crammed full of design practices and analytics and ads and marketing and tons of things vying for your attention at once.

People have a username, they make a post, it's all text, it's fast, it's simple, it works. We still have the rest of the internet to have "good UI" and "readability".
Maybe they can still install the array, and we can simply "apt-get install illegal-package".

But all joking aside, there is a tremendous amount of literature on the mathematics of beamforming. I'd be surprised if any of it is patented in a way that isn't circumventable.
I agree that belief plays a role, and that it would be difficult to perfectly replicate interactions between human beings, but I think you can get partly there, and especially for those that don't have human beings that they can interact with, it could provide benefits to them.

I've been working on my own for some time now, and I find talking to an AI via text or voice helps me work through problems, and it does give me a partial feeling of having a coworker.

Personally, while I have various social connections, there are certain things that I find interesting that none of my social connections do, and so there are certain conversations I cannot have with my social group. I sense engaging with an AI about these topics could give me more pleasure than talking to a disinterested friend about it. An interested friend would still be the best case scenario, but that is why I was thinking a product like this could be useful for those that don't have friends.

As @bsenftner mentioned as well, if you've withdrawn from social situations due to past interactions, because you feel misunderstood, or aren't good at expressing yourself, then having this no-risk platform to experiment / practice socializing with a conversational AI could be something that appeals to you, and over time gets you to a place where you seek out the real thing.
Medicalxpress is a subsidiary of the more known https://phys.org/ which is a decades-old aggregator of published material containing innovative studies and engineering techniques. They write their own summaries in an AP/Reuters style but with more quantified detail and less exaggeration than the usual pop media and university PR pieces. A bit like Quanta Magazine, great for keeping tabs on new findings with clear and consistent hyperlinks to the source material.
I mean I hear what you're saying but at the same time avoidable bullshit like scrambling off rope 50'+ off the deck, rapping off of some random stripper's thong that got caught in a shrub, or letting your intrusive thoughts win while belaying are all dirt common in the community. Its one thing to get caught out while engaging in dangerous hobbies, it's something else entirely to die doing something that's obviously stupid. I absolutely cannot even when someone goes for a 10th of a mile slide off of one of the flatirons in Tevas and the locals have the gall to call it a tragedy.
An AI Agent to Build AI Agents – Vulcan
There is no more recent press release available. People are quoting it, but nobody has given a link to it. It's all bogus.
Thanks. That's similar to prior uses. Makes sense.

I think some readers next question might be: are you all hiring?
There is no major component of the Model 3/Y that has not seen a major redesign over the years: frame, motor, battery, Heat & A/C & battery/engine cooling/warming, suspension, computer, windows, auxiliary battery, et cetera.
Reposting because somehow the first url ended up as a Google link rather than to the Cambridge site.

I think about this paper a bunch because it really challenges some assumptions we have about time and how long things stick around. It's pretty interesting to think that, had there been some advanced technological society in ancient times, there wouldn't actually be much evidence. Hard to believe, but the authors walk through the logic of their thinking in the paper.

People sometimes get a little huffy about this paper because they think it's trying to advance some kind of 'ancient aliens on earth' narrative. But, it's not saying there WAS an ancient civilization. Just showing how hard it would be to actually show that one did exist.

I also think about this a lot in the context of Venus, with its runaway greenhouse effect. A mystery in our own cosmic backyard.
We will soon enough know what's going on in people's heads. While it may help us better understand pain, it will probably cause all kinds of other unforeseen consequences.
Man who almost 'ate himself to the grave' loses 30 stone
Another example of their managed services is Kubernetes.

If someone is interested in getting to know STACKIT, feel free to contact me. I'm working for a STACKIT partner.
This is all really great feedback and it's great to hear you've used my app! A couple of things:

1. I'm currently testing a new way of generating practices with some patterns and elements that make it feel more musical. I'd love to have you test the beta if you're interested. You can just email me in the settings screen.

2. I updated the lessons visual aids by only showing the hint on the staff itself for what was new to that lesson. It was previously overkill to do all notes if it was just adding a couple to the range. The visual aid of notes on the keyboard may also be too far but I think it's helpful or maybe I can fade them out eventually.

3. I hear this and something I should address. Years ago I originally made extremely long lessons but I'd get feedback asking me to make lessons that had an end. I could very easily make the lesson length configurable.

4. I really appreciate the coffee subscription idea. Maybe I can consider adding that and be explicit that it doesn't provide anything other than support of me.

It's great to hear the app practice has helped with your eye. Maybe it's the repetitive back and forth of the reading?
Nvida was started in a booth at a Denny’s.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-dennys-trillion/
Just export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.0 and things should mostly work. Off the top of my head, some of the fp8 types aren't supported but <shrug>
Can't really pinpoint the place where they were located, but guessing some place between Portillo and Montaña Blanca at an altitude of 2200 meters, I'd say they could have seen either people coming down from the Altavista shelter to Montaña Blanca, or from the workers hut in Montaña Blanca (I think it's for the volcanologists).

I think the shelter's closed right now, so I guess in both cases it would probably be workers coming down.

Seems like they decided last minute to hike up for doing the shooting, so I hope they got the night permit.
I use it mostly as glorified auto-complete. I don’t think it’s good at replacing the creative parts of coding, but it’s very good at replacing the grunt work. I use it to write the majority of my unit tests, for example. (They of course still need tweaking, but it saves me significant amounts of time.)
language changes. A definition of "literally" is now "figuratively".

Here:

>to render (an electronic device, such as a smartphone) nonfunctional (as by accidental damage, malicious hacking, or software changes)

A printer with ink not printing would seem like a brick to a layman, no? under this colloquial definition, at least.
The show “Connections” with James Burke does a wonderful job of highlighting these sorts of overlapping of ideas and people and their collective results. Old, but well worth a watch!

https://archive.org/details/bbc-connections-1978
Unveiling the mysterious 'red sprite' lightning strikes over the Himalayas
I'm not sure if the HN article title was changed but the iNaturalist title of the Project is "First Known Photographs of Living Specimens"
I'm reading "The Secret Lives of Numbers" which has some fascinating deep dives into lesser taught math history (at least in western culture), including the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics in India where significant contributions to calculus were made in the 1500's well before Newton and Leibniz!
Regarding the SIMD optimizations, the authors may want to look into faer. I haven't had a great experience with its underlying library pulp, as I'm trying to things that go beyond its linear algebra roots, but if the goal is primarily to accelerate linear algebra operations, I think it will go well.

I've got a blog post and associated podcast on Rust SIMD in the pipeline, we'll touch on this.

[1]: https://docs.rs/faer/latest/faer/
This is how Apple addressed audio hardware and do something similar for speakers. Instead of trying to make speakers that have the desired frequency response or microphones that produce the desired signal, they let the analog hardware do whatever it does.

Then in software they use digital signal processing. For speakers they modify what gets sent to the hardware so that the actual output then does match the frequency response, and for the microphones they do this work to extract the desired signal.

If Linux addressed the speakers as is, you would get unpleasant sound, and if it read the microphones as is, it would get a lot of noise. That is why Asahi had to add digital signal processing to the audio input and output, to get the "correct" audio.

It does mean the processing is specific to the analogue audio hardware in each of the different Mac models.

The processing could be done in additional hardware, but why bother when you have a very good CPU that can do the work.
Honestly seems like it would be better to build a browser extension that makes LI livable, rather than trying to david-and-goliath them. Taking them on is unlikely to succeed, and even though you'll have to adapt the extension as their site changes, you'll be able to get some passionate fans who use your tool.
The article includes a video.

Lacking precise timestamps for detailed analysis, the research team developed an innovative method to synchronize video time using satellite trajectories and star field analysis. This innovative approach allowed them to determine the exact occurrence times of the sprites and link them to their parent lightning discharges.

The paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-024-4143-5
From HN guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.
Big recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42106700 among several over the years https://hn.algolia.com/?q=silurian+hypothesis
It might not be possible if there are tagalong/dragalong agreements. And from the perspective of a shareholder, the shares might become a bit of a riskier proposition if you allow her to control the company, vs the current status quo.
your question was non specific so guessing a bit at what you're asking, because some of it is already answered in the docs... but conceptually it's similar how gps triangulation works, but in the other direction, (information flows from the source point, speaker in this case, to the mic array) and with audio waves instead of rf waves. Each mic will have a slightly different view of the audio coming in, and using the timing between them, you can use the wave form that one mic records to figure out what's to early or too late to be audio from directly in front of the laptop. And then delete that audio, leaving just audio from the speaker directly in front of the laptop.

eg

A ------ MIC1 --- B --- MIC2 ------ C

any sound coming from A, will be picked up by MIC1 well before MIC2, same for sounds coming from C. If you delete that audio from the income waveform, you have beam forming. And thus much better audio noise filtering.

And as it says in the link, Apple decided to implement this is software, not hardware, so you'd need to reimplement it if you're not using macos.
I like watching cats more than cat food.
That's 1 to 1.5 tiers too many:

https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v12/how-tos/providing-html-con...
I too suffer chronic neck pain after an overstretch injury. It's been life-changing. And immensely frustrating that no diagnosis can be done.
Setuptools version 78.0.1 breaks install of many packages
On iNaturalist, a Homo sapiens species would automatically be marked as "casual" meaning its not eligible to be a "research-grade" observation

Anyhow species that were first photographed outside of iNaturalist would not be eligible for this project. It is possible however to upload an observation that happened many years ago (even before iNaturalist existed)
thanks for the feedback, will work on this :)
Yes. And then this comes back to the original question: how do you prevent EU users from access their services?
Long-lived trees in the Tanzanian rainforest are a new species
Absolutely agreed, but there's a vast difference between "would be nice" and "should require". I for one strongly prefer to avoid putting up any additional barriers to sharing, even at the cost of the default value being all rights reserved (which is a sensible default).
Well, if it's available on crates.io, I guess nobody will think that it's from Apple. Also, it could conceivably be used in other software besides Asahi too...
I hear you on the other instruments and guitar request. I tried making a violin app years ago and it was a tiny fraction of the traffic of the piano version which I'm guessing is common theme amongst other developers. That's not an excuse but just the reason I didn't focus on other instruments in the past. Now technically I did slightly support guitar in my app in that you can offset the input of notes in settings which would mean you could use the mic as input and play the guitar as you'd expect while sight reading but the onscreen is still piano. Maybe sometime soon
not OP but I am forced to. Services are too expensive these days and even when you pay, the quality is usually very hit or miss. I have lost count the number of times where a mechanic does the job right but its sloppy. Even my plumber or electrician gets things done but my drive for perfection cringes at the sloppy craftsmanship. I'm not a multi millionaire so I can't get the people that supposedly made things like Apple Park. A DIYer might not be able to do every job but many of the low hanging fruit can be done well.
The 7900 models are all 1100, the 7800XT is 1101 and the 7600 is 1102.

See Shader ISA: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-7600-xt.c419...
Once asked by a nurse if it's a stabbing pain or an aching pain, I replied that I've never been stabbed so I wouldn't know.
What's a "de facto vassal state"? That's a pretty vague notion, one could fill it with any meaning. What Trump has shown is that Europe is not as dependent as to follow US politics whatever it is.
That sounds a bit like pain asymbolia. I'm surprised it would happen in just one instance, but I don't know much about it.
Most engineering teams often overlook the importance of communicating with customers during incidents. While your team is frantically trying to identify the root cause, your customers are simultaneously searching for your brand on the internet, asking questions such as "Is XYZ down?"
I think mental disposition is a huge component of perceiving pain, and it can be entirely sub-conscious. I can't speak for your case of course, but perhaps you were "ready" for the pain in your finger and what is to come and thus the panic inducing element was gone. You could be almost just an observer of the pain rather than the subject.

Fear of the pain can make things much-much worse. If that fear is removed, you won half the battle.

Of course, there are levels of pain where all of the above goes out the window and it is absolutely debilitating, but maybe that's the 13/10 pain level that hopefully most of us never have to experience.
I mostly just solved my own problem for a lot of those years and it was always a bonus that others used it.
Yes, it was an "increase code coverage" task. The same director wanted 100% code coverage so I had the intern write tests for existing code that didn't have many tests.
Careful. Exercise also causes a stress response in-and-of itself.
In most cases the company isnt paid by the end EU user. They can still serve ads to EU users.

Say Google doesnt play ball with the EU and the EU disallows them from operating in the EU. EU user visits a search page and sees an ad. This ad comes from some company outside the EU. The EU user can access Google and Google gets paid. How do you stop the EU user from accessing Google.
Class actions aren't really known for their activism per se. A lot of setting it up is just calling or emailing people and getting their signature. I'm not too surprised the engagement is on the level of a Change.org petition.

>their reported fees are $750k, which seems like not much to be honest.

paying themselves high 6 figures to just shake hands with oligarchs is way too much, imo. There was no justice here, they just wanted a cut of the heist.
This is like the opposite of a gap buffer.
Published in the journal Phytotaxa: https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.694....