skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's user base and brand. Just like with Pepsi and Coca Cola. There's a reason OpenAI ran a Super Bowl ad.
I'm thinking that we can parse the input into an expression tree, and then for each x coordinate, have each node in the tree tell us which intervals of y coordinates it would return a value < 0 (or <= 0 without loss of generality). Since we're basically dealing with real numbers we can pretend true 0 doesn't exist.

Composing these intervals is trivial for all operations except addition/subtraction. (For example, `mul` is less than 0 if exactly one of its arguments is less than 0, `neg` is less than 0 if its argument is not less than 0, `min` less than 0 if either of its arguments is less than 0, etc.).

And then we define add(a, b) as sub(a, neg(b)). So then we only need to work out which y values sub(a, b) will return a negative result for.

sub(a,b) is negative when a<b.

We can have the sub() node asks its 2 child nodes which values they would return a negative result for. Every y coordinate where a gives a negative result and b gives a positive result is a y coordinate where sub(a,b) is negative. Every y coordinate where a is positive and b is negative is positive. For the remaining y values I think we have to actually evaluate the children and find out which ones give a negative result.

Obviously memoise the evaluation so that we don't repeat any work, and turn the expression tree into a DAG by combining any identical nodes. Some subtrees won't contain var-x, so the memoisation of those nodes can persist across different x coordinates.

And then for each x coordinate we ask the expression tree to tell us which y coordinates give negative outputs, and plot those. It's possible that the idea would generalise to 2-dimensional intervals, not sure.

I haven't implemented this yet but I'm planning to try it out, but to be honest I don't expect it to be faster than Matt's GPU version based on recursive subdivision with interval arithmetic. Btw his talk is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxGxsGnbyJ4&t=80s

And, a second fun challenge would be to reverse engineer the input file to extract the font! I expect the file is basically a union of x/y translations of functions that plot individual letters, so it shouldn't be crazy hard to split out the top-level union, then split-out the x/y translations, and then collect the letters. It's possible that it's more complicated though. In particular, is each character translated in x/y individually, or is each character translated only in x to form each line of text, and then the line as a whole is translated in y? Or something weirder?
The new puzzles seem very hard. Took me quite a while to get some of them
I'm going to keep flagging all of them, because these stories are all activating and attract tons of upvotes and comments, filling the front page with repetitive recapitulations of the same tired arguments. It's not what HN is for.
I'm not interested in litigating Israel with you, sorry.
In as few words as possible, JIRA, Agile, shareholders.

Most programmers don’t really seem to understand that programming isn’t really their job. It’s an illusion. Their job is to create value to the shareholders. That’s not really that much fun, and once the joy of writing and reading code is slowly squeezed away from their position is when those with sanity still intact start thinking “Man, I ought to get the fuck up out of here and find a real job or something.” The really lucky ones are outdoorsy folks that can afford to do the homesteading thing, or are willing to forego the immense compensation that tech work so often allures them with.

Just my two cents. I was blessed to retire in my thirties, so I could be entirely out of touch, though I hear many things.
Some other countries have their own (legally mandated and publicly funded) web archives, and have had them for a decade and more. The Internet Archive led (and leads) the way, but this is an established and growing medium now.

https://netpreserve.org/about-us/members/
Decent living standards for 8.5B would require 30% of current resource use
If you’re not doing it for survival, you can just slack off you know
Yeah, for the Mac Studio, which is likely to stay in one place, this probably works well. In actuality, I use a Macbook Pro, which has the same pricing issue.

In my experience, the fastest option for this is NFS without encryption, which is only really viable on a local network as it's hecking insecure (sure, wrap it in Wireguard, but now you're slowing it down again) and over Wifi at least, it's definitely slower than using an NVMe drive plugged into the Macbook, at least for 40 MP files coming out of my Fuji.

The external NVMe drive w/ Thunderbolt works... OK. But it's annoying (both physically and in terms of sleep/wake causing dismount warnings, etc.)
The skids were for landing. I don't recall them ever taking off using the skids.
Okay, so you are admitting that Martin Luther had a measurable impact on the practices of the church, right?
"There's God's side and the other side." --Katt Williams

Forms of religion are not important compared to effortful compassion that seeks to help others suffer less and enjoy more happiness.

God always looks into our heart, for the soul's heart is where our moral compass resides. That is what we must nurture, evolve, and -- above all -- question on the spiritual path. We must find our vices and transmute them into their corresponding virtues, all 19 of them.

We are all one human race, with one Creator, and one ability to manifest loving compassion, if we are adamant in our desire to become better citizens of this blessed Earth.

Rememember that that serviceful compassion is required for every human infant to survive and thrive. It is also required for successful societies and cultures of any and all sizes. That such boundaryless compassion is sorely lacking is the source of ALL this world's problems.

We will do well to focus on the commonalities of our positive potential, over our obvious differences. We are commanded to not break into separate groups, as the mammals -- our physical body's template -- do.

Most religious thinking revolves around their false belief that they are the only "chosen" path or people. That is the single biggest "tell" that they are on the destructive, selfish path of prideful ignorance, which also tends towards callous cruelty towards whichever out-groups they define.

Always love. Even one's enemies. Even as their power to harm others is stripped from them. Hope that their defeat helps them realize their grave mistakes and helps them turn towards the light. But know that our love for the oppressed must be of a different nature than that which we reserve for the oppressors. Such is the nature of the responsibility we have for this loving grace.
Sure, but now you're just larping because you can afford it.
As a side note, I really like the writing style of this blog post.
It's pretty natural to want to not feel alienated from nature and other human beings. The specific form of this fantasy is a little bit fantastical though.
Midlife crisis is a saying for a reason. Many many people have them at some point.
It's really just "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" all over again. I grew up on a farm, and that career absolutely will suck the life out of you as well, just in different ways. I wouldn't ever choose to give up my tech career for that, because even though I know it has very real downsides I know the downsides of doing physical labor all day to get by are worse.
Firejail sandboxing works well on these scenarios. You can trivially grant more or less privileges, including the removal of the entire sandbox if you wish.

It actually ships with rulesets for hundreds of programs that tend to be quite polished and work out of the box.

Personally, I dislike flatpak because it doesn't let me control the dependencies of packaged software, and I feel we loose one of the most important advantages of Linux.
If you postfacto cherry pick the criteria by which to credit the inventor of a plane then yes, the wright brother unequivocally invented the plane.
If one considers life to begin at conception, abortion unambiguously violates the commandment not to kill. I grew up Adventist, and contrary to OP, I didn’t know anyone pro-abortion. Ironically, literalism by evangelicals is why they opposed chattel slavery and now oppose abortion. The Bible doesn’t command Christians to own slaves and keeping other commandments literally would conflict with chattel slavery, but it does command not killing (murder).
> Also have never probably experienced harvesting things in the heat. It fucking sucks.

Cows also don't care how bad the weather is, you still need to wake up at 5 am and feed and water them :)
Wilbur tied of typhoid contracted from bad food.
why would I write that myself when chatgpt can do it 10x faster?

I knew there were several people working on the same thing as Newton at the exact same time. I didn't know the exact dates and their names.

What would you do, Google it all? Good choice.
Arc-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025
> some town in Germany

The Polish city of Gdańsk, of the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also born there at the time. [1]

> He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement.

Nope. It was neither about the temperatures in Gdańsk, nor about the temperature of his wife, btw. ;) [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
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It's not wise or historically accurate to consider these unrelated projects, or their goals unknowable. If you found it important to argue for it that way in 2017 I would call it naive, for doing it now I call you complicit.
> We can but [sic] 20 years of oil too.

The US annual oil demand costs around $500 billion (over 7 billion barrels used per year, but it's not all for energy). Since that does include other uses besides energy and energy demands are only increasing, it's still a useful baseline figure for estimating (because it's conservative, we'll likely need more in the future).

To acquire 20 years worth of our current demand would cost over $10 trillion (+ storage costs + future processing costs). Do you really think we can acquire 20 years worth of oil as easily as we can acquire solar panels? Panels which cost a fraction of that and don't require you to literally burn them to get energy, and instead can produce energy for decades with a little bit of maintenance (clean them, keep trees from growing over them).
See, this gets to the point others have made in this thread. Your reasoning implies that you should be happy if the US pulls out of NATO and leaves Europe, since Europe would no longer be "occupied" and would thus be an "equal partner".

Europeans are just impossible to satisfy, from my perspective. They will complain no matter what the US does.
The goal of capitalism is to get enough money to escape capitalism and live a life of leisure. It’s not weird to want to quit and start a homestead or enjoy other hobbies. That’s normal. The people who want to keep working and refuse to retire are the weirdos. What is wrong with them that they just can’t enjoy a life of luxury on the beach and leave well enough alone?
A largish minority of the scientists and researchers I know are looking to leave the US now. Trying to attract these people sounds like a really smart move to me.
Ask the GP. I was just clarifying the misunderstanding. However, an extremely cursory search turns up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Greece#View... where it is mentioned that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcidamas is one such person. Though it seems that slavery in ancient Greece was normalized and deeply intertwined within their society. I am sure there were critics but like everything unpopular, may have been discarded or suppressed.
My theory is that he had to balance the journalistic scoop of the century with the risk of being arrested for illegally accessing/storing classified information. If they had noticed before he published the story then he could have been vanned and the public told that he had infiltrated a secure channel, and who would be able to say otherwise? MAGA people would cheerfully call for his execution.
Yes exactly. It's more of a way to make use of many of the other pre-existing functions of the smartphone without having to have a purpose built device. Although there is at least one hardware addon i'm aware of for blind users:

https://www.iamhable.com/en-am
> with video, audio, and proof of your work

No text, I see. It's so last century.

> No endless feeds. No humblebrags. Just real people open to new opportunities.

Question is: when the people from Linkedin come to your site, won't they post the same crap as they do on Linkedin?
Shanghai people are known to be disliked, a quick DDG confirms that this theory exists. https://www.thoughtco.com/beijing-vs-shanghai-687988
Hey HN, Greg from ARC Prize Foundation here.

Alongside Mike Knoop and François Francois Chollet, we’re launching ARC-AGI-2, a frontier AI benchmark that measures a model’s ability to generalize on tasks it hasn’t seen before, and the ARC Prize 2025 competition to beat it.

In Dec ‘24, ARC-AGI-1 (2019) pinpointed the moment AI moved beyond pure memorization as seen by OpenAI's o3.

ARC-AGI-2 targets test-time reasoning.

My view is that good AI benchmarks don't just measure progress, they inspire it. Our mission is to guide research towards general systems.

Base LLMs (no reasoning) are currently scoring 0% on ARC-AGI-2. Specialized AI reasoning systems (like R1 or o3-mini) are <4%.

Every (100%) of ARC-AGI-2 tasks, however, have been solved by at least two humans, quickly and easily. We know this because we tested 400 people live.

Our belief is that once we can no longer come up with quantifiable problems that are "feasible for humans and hard for AI" then we effectively have AGI. ARC-AGI-2 proves that we do not have AGI.

Change log from ARC-AGI-2 to ARC-AGI-2:
* The two main evaluation sets (semi-private, private eval) have increased to 120 tasks
* Solving tasks requires more reasoning vs pure intuition
* Each task has been confirmed to have been solved by at least 2 people (many more) out of an average of 7 test taskers in 2 attempts or less
* Non-training task sets are now difficulty-calibrated

The 2025 Prize ($1M, open-source required) is designed to drive progress on this specific gap. Last year's competition (also launched on HN) had 1.5K teams participate and had 40+ research papers published.

The Kaggle competition goes live later this week and you can sign up here: https://arcprize.org/competition

We're in an idea-constrained environment. The next AGI breakthrough might come from you, not a giant lab.

Happy to answer questions.
I can think of worse hobbies…

Doesn’t the Financial Times periodically run a column called “How to Spend It”?

A hobby farm sounds like a lovely and wholesome alternative to some of the luxury pursuits they outline.
What specifically makes AIX's approach to shared libraries "Windows like"?
Should we be concerned about the loss of weather balloons?
Thank you, I appreciate it! I've been wanting to write things more often that aren't just for work, so I was thinking I'd try to write blog posts like this to practice.
For me, it's that homesteading has lots of problem solving but in the physical realm.

It's not that it has strictly to do with being outside or away from the computer (that's nice though) but for me it's that you still get to build and be proud of what you've done.

When I do work away from the computer and more in farm/homestead situations, I'm still drawn to using technology to solve problems (e.g. Automating certain tasks with microcontrollers), so it's not a rejection of my $job.

I think it's that I'm a builder and a problem solver at heart, I love finding issues, fixing them and being glad. Homestead is often that 100x.

Have to disagree with the article though, I don't think it has anything to do with a mythos.
I believe Santos Dumont did it because:
1. Spite
2. He was a much cooler person

The US has claimed much more for much less in the past don't @ me.
The post talks like tech jobs have a societal benefit but it's difficult to see it due to the many layers of abstraction.

I would rather posit that most tech jobs have a negative societal impact and it's difficult to find a company which isn't focusing on fucking the maximum amount of profit out of their customers while utilising the cheapest lubricant.
i can imagine a tool where you take a picture of a cluttered desk or closet, and it produces a list of all the objects and then comes up with a plausible organization plan.

that's a little more complicated than these tools, but it seems within reach given publicly available technology. image segmentation models are really good now, the list of objects would be pretty reliable at least.
It's not hard to pick out the factors that enabled their success. Multiple breakthroughs were needed. What is hard is to find convincing proof that anyone beat them to it.
Is that a SCIF in your pocket or are you just displeased to see me
I think the problem is LinkedIn.

The itch it scratches could be handled without a feed at all. Give people a place to post their resume, their publications, links to their projects and achievements. Let them traverse their social graph to view each other's pages.

There was never any need to give them tools for spamming each other with updates to this info. If somebody is interested to know where you're working now, they can come to your page and view that info.
My guess is that he was consulting their lawyers during this. IANAL but it might have been a crime if he did not leave the group as soon as he was sure it was real. He keeps mentioning that he was not certain this is real until the first attacks. After the first attack, he could not continue this argument.
There's nothing special about engineers. A lot of knowledge workers spend their life in front of a screen now.
Arson and more broadly terrorism is not boycotting, and I'm rather tired of mainstream left-leaning media pretending that it is.

The fact that you're using the same script as said media makes you sound like a bot that's part of the same cartel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/business/media/sinclair-n... and more recently https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/dems-slammed-over-ap...
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As a sidenote, I hate it, can someone explain where does it come from?
But "retiring" to do leisurely amounts of farming is quite different than making it your career. It has always been a consideration for me.
This is exactly the reason why I spend all of my non-desk time outside working out, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, archery hunting, golfing and camping. I even choose to shovel snow over using the snowblower.
Hans-Juergen Schoenig: PostgreSQL: 1T Rows in Citus
I've always maintained hobbies outside of software. No one can claim I spent any years of my life behind a screen. Maybe just work hours. I highly recommend having hobbies.
>Uhh they don’t last forever. So yeah.
They can be controlled like oil if you are unable to make or source replacements.

I do not want to resort to Reddit-level insults but you are so misguided to imply you are trolling.

1) The Australian government is spending millions of dollars to ensure we can turn off excessive solar production to protect grid stability.

Every grid operator will do similar things when solar and wind reach 80% of the generation

2) Solar PV has an effective life of about 25 years and still produces about 75% of its nameplate capacity in 25 years.

If you are genuinely concerned about what the energy supply chain will look like in 25 years, you are either a fool or a liar or both.

Solar PV was invented at Bell Labs in 1954. Since then it has reduced in cost by more than 99.9%. And continues to fall in price.

To demonstrate how quickly solar can be deployed; Pakistan added 1/3 of its total generation capacity in 2024. That is over 17GW of solar in a poor and disorganised country.
He was probably worried about the legal ramifications of not doing so, though these days he may be more likely to get sent off to some El Salvadoran prison for writing the article and exposing their staggering incompetence than he would be for continuing to knowingly listen in on the chat.
As nation-state hacking becomes 'more in your face,' are supply chains secure?
You can already guess what consequences they're going to face: none.
Aircraft detection at planetary scale
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A podman pod is what you are looking for, in that case, and I would orchestrate all that via Ansible, and distribute the Ansible playbooks to everyone else so they can run it locally.
I meant Avro in my edit but can't edit the message anymore.
Walter Bright was replaced by a D9000 AI chatbot several years ago. He was jeopardizing the mission.
Yes, sorry for the typo, i saw the mistake but too late to edit it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Many sources, Chinese government could be one.
Yeah, in that case you're just retired and homesteading is your hobby. Nothing wrong with having a hobby when you retire from your job, but in no way is it comparable to doing the thing as a job.
Apple-Apple Bluetooth speech codec is a variation of AAC, I believe. AAC-LD if I remember correctly. But still, having microphones in one's ears is suboptimal. There's a lot of processing required even though the codec is no longer completely awful.

On an unrelated note, I tried doing calls with a stereo mic setup but participants were actually uncomfortable with the ASMR-like effect of the audio.
Kinda, but at least for gamma radiation (which is the main one you care about finding at standoff), the same radiation that induces the ionization these lasers detect will go right through tupperware and ionize the air outside, which will be just as detectable as long as it's strong enough to still produce enough ionization outside the tupperware.

Shielding the source with something that actually absorbs gammas like steel or lead is something that would actually render this laser detection null, but that's also true of conventional direct radiation detection methods too. No real way to find something that's not emitting something.

Regardless, this method is probably more intended for scenarios like nuclear accidents where you don't really have to worry about someone hiding the source from you. Though I still don't see that many applications for it even within that niche (and I did my PhD on finding radiation sources and currently work full time on it, so I'm fairly knowledgeable on the subject...), as there are a lot of limitations to this.
Interesting that one of the top comments is so negative. Do you guys not like your job at all? I've done that all my life, I love it, and I still have plenty of time to enjoy life and do other stuff.
You start to realize the RPG games you grinded on in your teens and 20s (or longer) really didn't amount to anything. Then you realize if you wood cut and fish in real life you can build things and feed yourself. Suddenly that seems far more interesting working on little hobby projects and skilling in the physical world than working on whatever bullshit pays for that in the 9-5.

After some point you'd rather you didn't have to do that 9-5 at all and become depressed a bit by the fact you have to spend so much time a day on something that doesn't fundamentally concern you and you don't therefore fundamentally care about. The fact it takes up your time and energy, and you don't get to get out of it until you are old and worn out unless you hit some lottery in the meanwhile.
Seems to be an example of before and after in the Rue Hemel

before https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/P1310754...

after https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/azdailysun.com/...