skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in honors freshman chemistry at university. Tough class, all homework (lots of it) graded rigorously, but only the midterm and final counted toward the course grade. So if you wanted an A you had to get an A on both exams.

After midterm, during every other lecture at least, the professor would sound a refrain: “An orbital is not a house! An electron does not live in a house!”

Final exam had a small number of complex problems to work out with pen and paper, tough stuff, lots of calculus. But the last question ended with “where does the electron live?”

That final problem, if you ignored the end wording, was super easy, something almost trivial to do with Helium iirc. The class had about 25 students in it; about 5 of us independently had the same thought: “this is a trick question, ‘the orbital is not a house in which the electron lives!’” And, independently, that’s how we five answered.

And we got marked wrong, all our course grades dropped to B+/- because of that one damn question.

Over a lunch or whatever, we discovered our shared experience and approached the professor as a group. He listened patiently and said: “Ah, right, I did insist on that idea, it’s understandable why you would think it’s a trick question and answer that way. But I still consider your answers wrong, grades stay as they are.” Some in the group even went to the dean and, to my understanding, he said it’s best to consider it a life lesson and move on.
Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
Thank you for all the kind responses.

I also want to make a similar article, where I calculate an ECG for the simulation, and then make and explain the changes necessary to make the ECG look realistic. A main challenge will be that the depolarization has to happen very fast relative to the repolarization, which may be computationally difficult for a cell-based simulation.
> Most of these VPN services are also trying to get you to do DNS with their DNS servers. Again, a major potential privacy leak problem.

The privacy problem is most people using Google's DNS servers in the first place. A VPN is unlikely to keep your browsing history out of Google's hands when you're sending them a record of every domain you visit, when, and how often.

A VPN service is basically saying "Trust us more than you trust Google/your ISP" and that by necessity means giving them your DNS traffic as well.

> I'd have an inherent mistrust in one that has both a cheap fee and the seemingly endless budget to advertise everywhere on youtube. They are getting money from somewhere and I doubt it's from grandmas signing up for the service.

They make a lot of their money from file sharers (some of which are also grandmas). The VPN will keep your ISP off your back and the MPA/RIAA at bay.
I assume most VPNs like that are being monitored (if not outright operated) by the NSA or some other three letter agency. It's fine if you're just using the VPN for regular browsing or to torrent TV shows though because they're not going to spoil their honeypot over something so trivial and the VPN's success at keeping pirates safe builds their reputation as a secure service.
What Does OAuth Do? [video]
> The average Amazon engineer is not expected to have awareness of CS fundamentals that go beyond LeetCode-y challenges

I find this a bit unsettling. There are dozens of great CS schools in the US. Even non-elite BSc programs in EU sometimes teach formal methods.

There are also some good introductory books now, e.g. [1]. Perhaps its time to interview more on concepts and less on algorithmic tricks favored by LeetCode?

I doubt current undergrads can't go beyond LeetCode-like challenges.

[1] Formal Methods, An Appetizer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-05156-3
Apple Patches Older iPhones Against 'Sophisticated' Hacker Attacks
AFAIK 18650s like he's using never swell as they're in hard metal shells not pouches like most consumer electronics, so they don't have the ability to swell until they're catastrophically damaged. He's built a small building 50m away from his house to hold it anyways so it can probably be safely allowed to just burn, it's not like fire departments have much better options than waiting for it to burn out and hoping it doesn't reignite anyways.
Don't Stop Asking
Pretty sure the search mission has been taken over by sats and drones for the most part
> One major reason why EU capabilities are lagging is because they hitched their geopolitical wagon to the US and assumed that the US launch providers would be sufficient for commercial purposes, and that ESA/Arianespace only had to preserve enough capability to meet truly strategic requirements.

This is just not true.

Ariane Group was a market leader in space launch when SpaceX started launching rockets, and Ariane 6 was designed specifically to help Ariane Group maintain commercial competitiveness with Falcon 9. They just did a bad job of it[1].

The story line of Ariane 5/6 only being there to preserve independent access to space only appeared on the scene after SpaceX conclusively trounced them in the market.

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1. The reasons why this happened are complicated by some of them are:

* For a long time Ariane Group leadership maintained a belief that SpaceX was selling F9 launches below cost and that the USG was subsidizing them with higher cost government launches.

* Ariane Group publicly claimed that reuse was not economically feasible and that that capability in F9 didn't matter.

* Ariane Group has long maintained (and continues to do so) a policy of "economic return" where countries get contracts for subcomponents in rough proportion to the amount of money they contribute to the program. This necessitates a "big design up front" approach, and makes iteration very slow and difficult.

* SpaceX was able to improve Falcon 9's performance far more than anyone probably expected through aggressive iteration, more than doubling its payload to LEO over its lifetime. This was, in large part, due to the Merlin 1D engine doubling the thrust of the Merlin 1C. For context, over 30 years, the Space Shuttle's RS-25 engines increased in thrust by only ~10%.
> There’s no reason to do ToList there

In this case, I would move it to the very end if we are concerned about the underlying data shifting when the collection is actually enumerated.

Forgetting to materialize LINQ results can cause a lot of trouble, oftentimes in ways that happily evade detection while a debugger is attached.
I got got.
This reply would be a lot easier to read with some capitalization after punctuation.
In the US ISPs monitor, collect, and sell your browsing history.
Since the orders being given here are distasteful but not illegal, your argument is irrelevant.

Since we're discussing history, here's some for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_junta . You do not want to live in places where the military can ignore the decisions of the civilian government if they don't feel like doing it. Such places are not nice places to live.
Sadly, I got all the way to the photo at the end.
Agree regarding easiness of building rust (`cargo build`), extremely satisfying (git clone and cargo build...)

Does anyone have any comments on Bazel[1] because I'm kind of settling on using it whenever it's appropriate (c/c++)?..

[1] https://bazel.build/
That's the neat part about lithium fires you just can't, they're self oxidizing so there's not much you can do to definitively put them out the best option is usually to flood them with water to cool them down and contain the damage they cause.
My startup is working on playing soothing music on drones using differential timing of rotor speeds. We've made some impressive inroads in the past few years. We're planning on adding a model that also plays birdsong for exactly this use case in the next couple of years!
> it was revoked based on allegations of him cheating

Twin galaxies settled out of courst and reinstated his scores, albeit on a newly created 'legacy record database' instead of the actual leaderboards.

So officially he was a world record holder at some time in the past, although everybody and their dog knows he cheated.
Is this not https://diataxis.fr/ ?

(I'm engaged somewhat in trying to get our team to write any documentation; once I've got that, I'll start trying to organize along exactly these principles)
The headline only tells half the story. This guy had previously been scheduled for deportation due to sufficient evidence that linked him to MS-13. It was an administrative error that he was deported to the wrong country. Here’s a link to the court case: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/abrego-garcia-...
Did I miss where an actual oval is explained in this method? I assume it is just drawing the same arc upside down but wanted to be sure there isn’t a follow up post or something.
To put the long story short: yes.

Americans made their bed, now let them lay in it. Ideally those tools would have been used against him, but since they weren't... now is the time to reap the results of that inaction.
> Posts without URLs get penalized. If you post with a link and then add the text as a first comment you have more visibility.

Source: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...
Use Inclusive Ranges for PRNGs
> segregation (since poorer people both tend to be minorities and tend to not have capacity/time to jump through lottery hoops)

charter schools tend to have _more_ minority students than public schools. eg in philadelphia, charter schools are 80% black/hispanic versus 71% for the public schools. nationwide they are 60% black/hispanic vs 42% for public schools (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/06/us-public...). they're also generally lower income than public schools.

this is not super surprising because families with money already get school selection within public systems by virtue of spending more to live in better catchments.

i don't really have an opinion on charter schools being good or bad, but at least from what i've seen their primary audience is lower income families (often minorities) who look at their local public school and decide it's not good enough.
Virtual 86 in Swedish Chef mode
> You shouldn't be running multiple instances of Postgresql, or anything for that matter, at home.

It's not uncommon with self-hosting services using docker. It makes it easier to try out a new stack and you can mix and match versions of postgresql according to the needs of the software. It's also easier to remove if you decide you don't like the bit of software that you're trying out.
Even many of the images themselves have been "translated".
Edit: I emailed rms about this idea (by emailing him the text.) I asked if he's willing to use a partially or fully proprietary displayport alt mode over usb c monitor that he can add wireless shielding for privacy and verify that no screen data is stored.

And I asked if he's willing to use a partially or fully proprietary storage medium but if it only stores encrypted data with the private key he gives to the Qomu when prompted upon boot, the private key kept in Sram the entire time, and erased on poweroff.
The dude has a warehouse/workshop to do this work and house the system. I’m super impressed by what he’s accomplished, don’t get me wrong; but, what he’s done just isn’t viable for 99.99999999999% of people.

Give me an array and battery system that can pull off the grid and/or array and power most of my home without me having to think a whole lot or pay a vendor thousands to install while making the total cost under $1000 and I’ll do it.

Until then, it just isn’t financially viable when my electricity costs are well under $70/month average across the year.

Recouping the costs for install of solar systems are estimated at 30-40 years as of 4 years ago when I researched it. I’m sorry, but that’s just not worth it for me and most others.
Yes, my strict adherence to “trust but verify” was born from literal tears. It’s not worth trusting others if it takes a small fraction of the projects time to verify. It has saved me incredible amounts of time in my professional life, and I’ve seen months wasted, and projects delayed, by others who hadn’t cried enough yet.
Amazon Nova Act: AI for devs to build browser-action agents
actually yes, that web site is quite different than talking to the engineers in person.. Isn't that a tip of the iceburg indicator for the difference between engineering and senior management! I don't have any non-public details about that company.. to be clear
I mean, the other side of the coin is that engineering schools are a giant circle jerk that churn out thousands of graduates every year who if left to their own devices will design things that cannot be made out of inputs and using processes that are not appropriate.

I'm not saying you gotta prioritize looks but you gotta think a few steps ahead and understand what the ancillary criteria that will make or break a design all else being equal, or nearly equal are or what the unstated assumptions of the party evaluating your work (e.g won't look like ass, can be made in volume, etc.) are.
I was able to compile ollama for AMD Radeon 780M GPUs and I use it regularly on my AMD mini-PC which cost me 500$. It does require a bit more work. I get pretty decent performance with LLMs - just making a qualitative statement as I didn't do any formal testing, but I got comparable performance vibes as a NVIDIA 4050 GPU laptop I use as well.

https://github.com/likelovewant/ROCmLibs-for-gfx1103-AMD780M...
What happens if you write a TCP stack in Python? (2014)
In the first grade I knew exactly where on my fingers the width was an inch or a cm.

I got called up in front of class and punished for cheating on a length estimation assignment.

They told everyone I was a cheater that used a ruler :P

Besides contributing to the sob stories, my point is maybe some of those kids got lucky with a good measurement/timer. Sorry you had a really bad teacher.
> as multi-generational living

Arguably this still improves the housing situation overall (slightly), if the grandmother was previously living somewhere else.
April Fools eyeroll...

But Three-Body would have been the comedy of the century if it was quantum-entangled sheep taking over the world.

> "And the wolf, is he also lying? Is he still in the grandmother's house? We would like to speak to him."
> the last good normal newspaper at this point

I guess "in English" was implied.
Most brand's acquisition cost is higher than their first sale
Two near lifesize sculptures found during excavations of Pompeii tomb
This can't be done remote so you will need to bring that labor to where the work is.
For reference, F# slack is already dead, community has moved to Discord https://discord.com/invite/fsharp-196693847965696000
Narco law reigns in paradise: The unsolved massacre of young people in Tlaxcala
> Nothing is inherently wrong but I trust my ISP a lot more than some random guys in Switzerland or Israel

In the US ISPs collect, monitor, and sell your browsing history. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-i...
I don't think it's just adoption and network effects, though that is part of the equation. The other big (bigger?) piece is that the CUDA landscape is very complete, with libraries and examples for many different kinds of use cases, and they are well documented and easy to get started with. Ctrl+F this page for "ecosystem" and you'll find another comment that explains it better than I can.
Interesting point. But I usually prefer `(lower..upper).choose()`. So, if I want it inclusive, I can simply do `(lower..=upper).choose()`. No downcasting required. And perfectly obvious behaviour thanks to a known API.
> All these superlatives ("voracious appetite", "devours", "conquering America", "dazzling", "crazy number")

Yes, which is why this looks like an ad or planted story.
2.8 billion accounts, 340 million users.

If this leak proves that more than 80% of Twitter accounts are bots, it should cause some damage
> I should've declared CS. I still wouldn't have any women, but at least I'd be rolling in cash.

Should we tell him?
I agree, several little issues with Japanese that don't make it currently useful. Cool idea though!
A thousand old laptop batteries and bunch of solar panels. The headline is a touch nonsensical as-is.
I would highly recommend not to go this route but to buy LFP prismatic cells. Much safer, stable chemistry that isn’t as sensitive to heat.

Look at Off Grid Garage (Andy) or Will Prowse YT channels for more info.
I find Rust vastly simpler than C. If the code compiles, it's probably a valid expression of the business logic I encoded. I might've screwed up that logic, of course, and no language can prevent me from messing that up. I know! Many have tried, and I've defeated them with my ability to misrepresent my ideas! But at least with Rust, I'm reasonably confident that the code will actually do the thing I asked it to do. I'm never confident like that with C until I've run it a few hundred times without crashing.

(Yes, I'm familiar with the rich ecosystem around helping devs not write crummy C. I worked at Coverity at one point. If anything, that gave me enormous fear and respect of the hoops you have to jump through to be reasonably sure C code isn't completely broken.)
This 3 pounds of meat between my ears is certainly special (perhaps the most complicated thing in the known universe) but it certainly not magical.
Thank you for trying and the feedback!

I'm working on improving the feedback. It is a bit confusing since some words are very similar so you have no idea what went wrong.

I checked the Italian video. But I don't fully understand: https://imgur.com/a/YcF3dnb . It doesn't pick qualcuno as a filler word. Is it still broken?
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That's not true. You say the model will sometimes act outside of the schema, but models don't act at all, they don't hallucinate by themselves, they don't produce text at all, they do all of this in conjunction with your inference engine.

The model's output is a probability for every token. Constrained output is a feature of the inference engine. With a strict schema the inference engine can ignore every token that doesn't adhere to the schema and select the top token that does adhere to the schema.
Ah cool I didn't know, I thought the download of the actual full client was gated behind a login since even third party launchers seemed to require you to log in to play, good to know!
Princeton Says Trump Administration Is Halting Research Grant Funding
Yep. I run a small swarm at work and have a 5-node RPi-4 swarm at home. Interested in why you'd run a single-node swarm instead of stand-alone docker.
Correct, theaters at the time could not really been project anything other than 24fps. So there were 2 parts to the shooting style, and one of them is what you describe, shooting at the higher frame rate used in order to have it play back slower when conformed to 24. But they did this in a pretty unusual way. During the action sequences, they would ramp up frame rate from 24 to 30 and back down. They would do adjust during the shot, so the action scenes had these subtle but constantly-occurring increases and decreases in speed that looked very interesting and had not been done before.

The other major part was the shutter speed. They of course could not actually shoot/project 48/60fps, but they a shot a lot scenes at the high shutter speeds one typically uses when shooting those frame rates, a lot of it had that "ultratrealistic" look that people had weren't used to in films, resembling more the look of video, TV soap operas in 60i, etc.

I feel slightly absurd even writing about this considering how little of this really applies today, and how inconsequential changing the shutter speed on a camera is now. "I hit the '+ shutter' button a couple of times, revolutionary!" But it's crazy how conditioned everyone was to these looks at the time due to how little variety there was. I taught this film class where I would demonstrate to everyone, with nearly 100% success, that they all were influenced by and conditioned for these frame rates, even if they didn't know what a frame rate was. We'd shoot a scene with multiple cameras side-by-side shooting at different frames rates, play it back to the class later, and ask which one looked "more like a movie" to them. Invariably, even if they couldn't explain why, everyone always picked the 24p version
Consider it an inadvertent rhyme.
No one owns the likeness of a "style". Art would not be able to function that way at all. As for training data, I find that to be the issue as they're using copyrighted material, and as Meta avowed, it may be pirated.
I agree with everybody else: it smells like ChatGPT. And I thought this before reading this chain.

Actually, going through their entire profile, it makes it even more obvious:

> Author here. No need to update the resume yet—titles do keep shifting! React’s monolithic style has muddied the waters, making it tough to build clean business logic, prioritize performance, craft CSS design systems, or just focus on user experience. Nue’s here to unblock that—giving each role room to shine with leaner tools, not cramming everyone into the same heavy stack.

> Author here. React’s absolutely mature—no question there, with a skilled team behind it. But the button example highlights something off: a single component outweighing an entire app feels fundamentally broken. There’s clear room for fresh alternatives, especially now. You can see it here on HN—seasoned devs wrestling with React’s wild complexity. Nue’s a stab at fixing that.

Looks like they switch to ChatGPT-mode for most of their Nue replies.
> You made fine counterpoints to a strawman position that I never took.

I must be blind, because I can still see your comments.

Discussions are not about winning or losing, that is a toxic mentality to have. You need to review the HN guidelines. Good bye.
I’m not going to debate ratio of blame here because that would be a silly hypothetical about someone we don’t even know.

However It’s pretty clear from the GPs post that they took steps to integrate themselves.
Thanks for that link! Now I want pipe operators...
Same here on lenovo thinkpad 14s with AMD Ryzen™ AI 7 PRO 360 that has a Radeon 880M iGPU. Works OK on ubuntu.

Not saying it works everywhere but it wasn't even that hard to setup, comparable to cuda.

Hate the name though.
I've identified a possible use case for F# in a preexisting product; I'm looking for the simplest way to integrate F#.