skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, network and get to know more friends and improve "people skills". Hard skills like programming are probably going to be less valuable.
The original ones are wrong though (well, not adaptive). Hunger is pointless when you can't eat.
If you really care about performance, then you should consider using technologies other than js and python, instead of asking hardware vendors to run their implementations faster.
Oh, there are limits to my tolerance of Shift modifiers, though, and they are small.

Something truly revolutionary, imho, would just be a row of about 32 Mod-wheels, all lined up along the back edge, some screens underneath, and nothing but flashy graphics AND VERY LITTLE TEXT (could even turn off the text with a dedicated key) ..

It'll happen, eventually. Someone will have the balls to abandon the washing machine methods, and just go freaky. It'll have to sound good as well, though ..
It's surprising to me how willing some people are to do the equivalent of yelling "I am stupid and have no idea what I'm doing," to a large public audience.

This is a reminder to all you Americans to create a Social Security account and print out your statement.
A little bit of good news today.
No world leader honestly expects Russia (population 150M, GDP $2T (nominal)) to start a general European war. NATO's combined population is 950M and their combined GDP is $50T. Not even the Russians are that crazy.

The people scaremongering about the Russian menace are playing a cynical game designed to drum up support for the war in Ukraine. They understand that people are selfish, and are thus more likely to support the war in Ukraine if they believe that it keeps the Russian bear from their doorstep.
For those of us who used to fix PCBs and wire breadboards, it’s nice to see the traces are still there, like knowing where your food comes from, even if any hope of an analog baseband project is long past. Lightning is one of Apple’s hits.
The person is alive when you kill them, but yes, I think it's not unusual to think that somebody's death doesn't particularly bother the dead person but everybody around them.
> Unlike other parts of India such as Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderbad -- it's tropical and lush with much less pollution than what you might see in those other parts of India.

Somewhat ironically these are relatively low pollution as large cities in India go. There is still a good amount of greenery in Bengaluru (it is famous for it) but obviously far less than a few decades ago, as many residents lament.
> Images should above all never be funny.

Why on Earth not? Maybe a blog about conflict in the middle east isn't the place, but a blog sharing stories about the tech industry? Surely some humorous screenshots will add to the experience.

Obviously just throwing in random images totally unrelated to the subject matter would be a huge turnoff, but I cannot think of any reason why you'd take such an absolute position on something so low-stakes.
Nice! Can you tell that it's copper from the RP2350 image?
Can most people not see the sort of briefly appearing cloudiness/ cloudy streaks of light (idk how to describe it)/ galaxy arms in the sky, if you're in the middle of a forest/ with no light pollution??
Apple did switch to USB-C on the iPad, as Lightning was showing its age both in max power draw and data rate. Putting it on phones was inevitable at that point.

I’m not a huge fan of the EU government making specific demands of specific companies to adopt specific technologies, but this is Wi-Fi and telecom tech has a long history of adoption through legislation. So it’s not at all unprecedented and is probably the lesser evil in this case.
A superellipse is only a squircle if a and b are 1. As with squares and rectangles, all squircles are superellipses but not all superellipses are squircles.
> 100 = 3*4*...*50*50*...99

You can’t replace 2*100 with 50, it has to be 4*50. But there’s no reason you have to divide by 2 at all - why not replace 2*99 with 6*33?
The new director started somewhere how he did not like how big and bulky the original robots were. Which was the entire point of the movie! They are beefy tanks. It felt as real as you could imagine building sized robots to be.
Google's Digging a Moat
Try the email otp for now.
Indeed fraud certainly is lying. And sure they might also be rejected for other reasons like being a convicted criminal. In the US we also have "willful misrepresentation", which I will count with fraud informally. But my comment, again, specified economic migrants. They know they are economic migrants. The fraud is to claim otherwise on one's application in the name of "hoping optimistically" that this other story will suffice. It sure is hard to maintain focus on this point.
The problem is that it's an AI program's impression, not an artist's impression.

Edit: If you can't get past the fact that AI image generators are not equivalent as an artistic medium to different types of paint, think of it this way: if I describe something to an artist and have them paint it, is the resulting image my impression because I prompted the artist, or is it the artist's impression of what I described? Clearly it's the artist's impression. So just because an "AI artist" prompts an AI app, that wouldn't make it the prompter's impression; it's still the AI app's impression. And an AI app's not an "artist" itself by virtue of being a computer program and not a human (as you yourself admit by attempting to liken it to a tool such as paint).
Actually, when literal communists run your government, you become China-rich, as OP put it. Contrast China's economic development with that of India's post 1950.
Or submarines swim ;)
It looks to me like the original image from that PDF was possibly fed into an AI program to generate a similar version, probably to get rid of the text (and possibly also to change the aspect ratio and/or just make it more picturesque for a news article).
It doesn't look like zero-copy though in this example:

UserPacket packet;
stream >> packet;

That is at least one copy.
Ok.

First of all, you have a point - Trump is a great object lesson for why its probably not a great idea to have a huge, powerful, monolithic state and a commander in chief that can launch nuclear weapons. I don't think anyone would dispute that.

But most people see that the government as currently comported isn't going anywhere, even acknowledging the dedicated if incondite attempts of the current administration to "tame administrative bloat," as they might describe it. Thus your average "liberal" thinks first that government should be executed carefully by professional policy makers that respect the power of the state and second it should "take people's guns away."

But I will say that almost no liberal wants to totally disarm the public, anyway. That is a cartoon position which charitably could be attributed to loud voices on social media or something, but not a real policy position held by typical "libs". Most liberals just want guns to be properly regulated (perhaps even restricted to well regulated militias, to recall a phrase from somewhere). There might be some quibbling about precisely where the line between proper regulation and enabling oppression go, but I'd wager a majority of Americans are in favor of some version of the right to bear arms.

As evidence of this I proffer this pew research poll (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts...) which indicates that more than half of people who do not own guns could see themselves buying one in the future. 32% of people own guns in the U.S.
Show HN: A FlashAttention backwards-over-backwards pass
> Isn't it customary for new hires or teams to drop into a legacy codebase and within weeks propose a rewrite.

And if they're actually serious and not just venting, it's also customary calibrate downward how much you trust their judgements.
> edit: I think I read HN comments more than HN articles. Interesting

Nothing wrong with that, in my opinion.

I always check comments first before clicking the link, unless it's something I'm knowledgeable about and/or interested in and already know I want to read. It saves a lot of time.
The same could be said for half the formats Apple ships: HEIF/HEVC, for example. Or even LZFSE: who asked for an algorithm that compresses worse, slower?
I’m sorry, is the proposal here that you remove your legally-required number plates and travel that way (in which case Flock’s “vehicle DNA” feature recognition will quickly reidentify you), or that you buy or rent other cars? I guess starting and ending somewhere other than your home?

Or did you have a different mode of travel in mind that compares favorably to wheeled transportation on public streets?
Show HN: DTasks – a zero-abstraction Durable Task library
DTasks is a C# library that introduces a new awaitable type: DTask. DTask is the distributed counterpart to Task: just as Task allows resuming execution of an async flow on a different thread, DTask enables resuming on a different process or machine.
If it was a "strategic warfare" reason, there would be no talk of anything, since Greenland has been very involved in NATO efforts for decades and we literally have a military base there already, and have worked hard to build infrastructure there to deny Russia the ability to escape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIUK_gap

If the Trump admin was concerned about Russia, we would be cozying up to NATO, Canada, Europe, Denmark, Greenland etc, not fucking with them.

So why are we fucking with them if it's so important to work with them to defend against Russia?

The obvious answer is that Fascists ALWAYS do this bullshit. Because they are morons that can't conceive of power on the world stage in a way OTHER than outright ownership of territory.
Don't muddle semantics. You're wrong.

Is there a biological baces for behavioral differences based on melanocyte stimulating hormone and melanin concentrating hormone activities? Undoubtably.
Canvas actually has a mix of this sandbox (with a different container) and fully client-side.

The "run" option for generated code was removed due to underutilization, but the sandbox is still used for things like the data analysis workflow and running extensions amongst other things. It's really just a general purpose sandbox for running untrusted code server-side.
The agreed error rate is less than 1%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06H7J0Wjg98&t=233s

a number much lower than the various rates of wage theft that occur/defraud funding of social security by American businesses. Funny which one DOGE is going after first. Seems like Elon should go after businesses fraudulently not funding Social Security as the first priority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
Russian researcher at Harvard, protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE
Typically "a bad place to be ambitious" implies that others will try to exploit you instead. Keep in mind that a mismanaged government can be a lot more predatory than any private actor.
Never thought a post about Kerala will reach the front page of HN.
Great points. I think much of the pessimism is based on fear of inadequacy. Also the fact that these things bring up truly base-level epistemological quandaries that question human perception and reality fundamentally. Average joe doesnt want to think about how we dont know if consciousness is a real thing, let alone determine if the robot is.

We are going through a societal change. There will always be the people who reject AI no matter the capabilities. I'm at the point where if ANYTHING tells me that it's conscious... I just have to believe them and act accordingly to my own morals
WeAreCurrentlyClearOnOPSEC.com – building a meme to merch pipeline
Feel free to teach your child whatever you’d like, language is totally fungible.

The reason I’d suggest not to is because speaking in this way will, in fact, cause people to think less highly of you.

It’s not a matter of principle and “formal correctness” is pretty meaningless in human language, but “don’t speak in a way that a substantial number of people regard as incorrect” is a meaningful goal!
CandyFab – A DIY 3D Sugar Printer
Microsoft seems to be especially obsessed with making as much as possible into attributes. Makes me wonder if there is some hidden historical reason for that like an especially powerful evangelist inside the company that loved attributes during the early days of adopting XML.
But also mad about how they made it.
Here’s 1% that gives 50% of result. Replace:

class C:
def __init__(self):
self.foo = ConcreteFoo()

with:

class C:
def __init__(self, foo: SupportsFoo):
self.foo = foo

where SupportsFoo is a Protocol. That’s it.
Yes, I think we’re going to see this moving forward. The tools are in place to make this possible.
Listening to this today, so far really good. Glad I found it. Thanks.
Scientists are so adorable
> What are some examples of prompts and responses that have made you pessimistic about the technology's ability to improve?

I'm not saying it won't improve. I think its lack of determinism puts a natural upper bound on reliability - something we don't have to worry about with compilers.

As for examples: Oh wow. As much as I love and use them for coding, almost every project I work on has cases of coming up with complex solutions to a task that do not work, where 1-2 lines of (simple!) code would have solved the problem. It's not just that it fails, but it kept failing even after I told it how to do it right.

Sometimes it does a great job and solves a hard problem for me. Other times I lose a lot of time getting it to do beginner level stuff. It has huge gaps/blind spots.
Sorry, half a century.
> but that's the author's prerogative

You submitted this.
That doesn't help, since multiple transits are a statistical impossibility no matter how many observers you have.

- "for transits that don't have a known source"

That's statistically about 100% of them: small, remote asteroids or interstellar objects that have never been catalogued, and are undetectable except via transits.
I kinda feel like Apple has been trying to say that for a long time, and finally got sick of people saying they abandoned the pro scene and said fuck it here's your massively overpriced "professional" version so you can feel like you're a pro.
Correct but it doesn't claim to be zero-copy overall. Apologies if it was misleading. In the README, zero-copy is mentioned in context of using view() and span() to obtain views into the buffer, which does allow for it. Very much a "there be dragons but if you're sure..." feature but it's there as an option.

I've also built some tooling on top that makes use of those functions to do zero-copy deserialisation where viable, so it is possible in the right scenarios with a bit of work but it definitely isn't going to always fit.
unsafe-io eliminates most fsyncs, but not all of them.
Unfortunately I believe it requires your WiFi firmware have the ability to switch channels with microsecond timing precision.

That means you couldn't do it with off the shelf WiFi hardware.

You might be able to do it whilst dropping existing WiFi connections during the transfer.
We have the data. Homeschooling outcomes are better. This isn't up in the air, we know the answer.
> USB link is offhand

3.3V <-> GND
That’s a flame war that’s been raging for decades for sure.

I do wonder what web application markup would look like today if designed from scratch. It is kind of amazing that HTML and CSS can be used for creating beautiful documents viewable on pretty much any device with a screen AND also for creating dynamic applications with pixel-perfect rendering, special effects, integrations with the device’s hardware, and even external peripherals.

If there was ever scope creep in a project this would be it. And given the recent discussion on here of curses based interfaces it reminded me just how primitive other GUI application layout tools can be while still achieving amazing results. Even something like GTK does not need the intense level of layout engine support and yet is somehow considered richer in some ways and probably more performant for a lot of stuff that’s done with it.

So I am curious what web application development would look like today if it wasn’t for HTML being “good enough”.
China is the best case, yes. But "literal communists" also ran Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba etc. Not so good!
Compare the policies and results of Deng to Mao, the latter is more "literally communist." Their embracing of capitalist principles is what enabled their boom, same with Vietnam with their Đổi Mới policies.
This is truly peak HN.

Yes, this multi billion dollar revenue stream is “one text input box and two buttons”.

Truly amazing insights.
"durability" isn't voodoo. Consider if dpkg updates libc.so and then you yank the power cord before the page cache is flushed to disk, or you're on a laptop and the battery dies.
No worries, entirely valid question. There may be ways to tune page cache to be more like this, but my mental model for what we've done is effectively make reads and writes transparently redirect to the equivalent of a tmpfs, up to a certain size. If you reserve 2GB of memory for the cache, and the CI job's read and written files are less than 2GB, then _everything_ stays in RAM, at RAM throughput/IOPS. When you exceed the limit of the cache, blocks are moved to the physical disk in the background. Feels like we have more direct control here than page cache (and the page cache is still helping out in this scenario too, so it's more that we're using both).
Agent Krasnov, hard at work [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...
Lightning’s form factor is nice, but there are still a few issues with it. Look at any Lightning cable you’ve used for a few years and you’ll probably notice one of the contacts is darker than the others. That’s from arcing every time you plug it in, and that just cannot be a good thing.

The springs being on the socket is also not a great feature of Lightning, though usually the device itself has a shorter lifetime than the socket.
I think the novelty of the article was in the 2nd image, and why it's so much less well known. But my theory is there are not as many applications for symmetrical curvy lines that diverge than symmetrical curvy lines that converge.
Honoring it by ripping it off, minimizing countless hours of human labor, destroying their livelihoods, making mockery of their accomplishments.

I’m no AI Luddite, but this fad disgusts me.
RBIO may have been an idea but the US and the west have routinely violated their own laws over the decades. They, as you said, used their might to ignore the rules.

The open US support for genocide has fully destroyed the concept.
These communists sound like they have the right idea; maybe we should try it!
I submitted this HN link with a title that exactly matches the one on the article, but I didn't write the title on the article. AFAIK HN posts should match the title of the article they link to.
"Market-friendly political environment" did not bring the higher HDI that Kerala has now (and still prioritises), even before its economic development started. That was because of its left- (communist / marxist parties) and centre-left public policies. ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309363153_A_Compara... ). As Americans and Europeans today debate about how they can afford to have a family or buy a house, and the rise of right-wing politics due to this, there's something to be said about how bridging income / wealth inequality is important in a society.
How awfully unfortunate to spend your entire life in a panopticon without ever being told what one is. Perhaps this is a feature.
A note about even older AT keyboard connections they should not be hot plugged! Some older motherboards had a fuse soldered in that would blow if the keyboard was hot plugged. Fixed several in the days.
If you need different logic for different errors out of a function call you wouldn't use this, but your example code there... I think it's at the point where you've made things more complicated for your caller than just returning FirstError{err} no matter what the error is. The caller still has to deal with all the errors getFirst can cause, but they've been reorganized in a complicated bespoke way.

> Does Go even need to consider travelling into those spaces?

Oh come on. Changing how one common piece of boilerplate is written is not travelling into new spaces or moving away from Go's roots.
Deng famously said "white cat, black cat, as long as it catches mice it's a good cat". His policy choices were not driven by 'embracing' of any principles but pure pragmatism.
> Since the genie is out of the bottle, when it comes to ALPRs in the United States, I'd rather just have all the data publicly available. If the cops, data brokers, and insurance companies can see it I should be able to as well.

I try to help folks understand that locking up public data up with a privacy law only blocks them from seeing it.

It is still trivially available to those who use personal data to negatively impact others.

ref: https://datarade.ai/data-categories/b2b-contact-data/provide...
Space Force may only use SpaceX satellites for SDA, Golden Dome
Also, SpaceX and Anduril in talks to build American "Golden Dome" in Low Earth Orbit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1j8jc4k/spacex_and_a...
Honestly an ideal plastic is one that completely dissolves in water/salt water in 5-20 years. You want durability, just not the ability to last for tens of thousands of years.
nobody suggested anything otherwise

also original post only actually recommends $100 - $200 mics, so this entire subthread has been a bumbling series of utter nonsense
Certainly. I agree of course as to the problem of hype and I'm aware of how many people use LLMs today. I tried to emphasize in my earlier post that I can understand why someone like Sabine has the opinion she does -- I'm more confused how there's still similar positions to be found among software developers, evidenced often within Hacker News threads like the one we're in. I don't intend that to refer to you, who clearly has more than a passing knowledge of LLM internals, but more to the original commenter I was responding to.

More than marketing, I think from my experience it's chat with little control over context as the primary interface of most non-engineers with LLMs that leads to (mis)expectations of the tool in front of them. Having so little control over what is actually being input to the model makes it difficult to learn to treat a prompt as something more like a program.
We regularly parse ~1GB XML documents at work, and got laughed at by someone I know who worked with bulk invoices when I called it a large XML file.

Not sure how common 100GB files are but I can certainly image that being the norm in certain niches.
Ask HN: How Is Cursor Different Than GitHub Copilot or Sourcegraph Cody?
I see there is so much buzz about Cursor and wanted to know if it is worth paying ?
>>Don't overly simplify things for small minds, it creates a false picture and it kills the imagination.

I think we can all agree that in pedagogy and teaching, you have to start simplified; then it becomes a more productive discussion on what constitutes over simplifying, rather than a binary "do or do not over simplify". We can and absolutely should be open about complexity of the world, but at the same time be aware that average person goes through between 8 and 16 years of education (with important outliers on either side of the bell curve), and trying to fit all complexity and all the knowledge on day one generally does not lead to productive results.

The first lesson of the biology in this area I think is not so much "there are these and precisely these 4 or 7 or 9 fixed and immutable categories of life", but... "life can be categorized, and living creatures that look different actually have similarities". There's wonder, and insight, and enlightenment right there that's probably going to stick longer for vast vast vast majority of people, than the specifics of whether there were 4 or 7 or 9 categories. Heck, we changed number of planets and our understanding of "planet" remained the same :).