skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had an explosion about 3 years ago. It was our fault (hot dish touching cold steel sink rim), but it still caught me by surprise. I'd known since I was a kid in the 70s that Pyrex was highly tolerant of heat changes, so I felt that shouldn't have happened. (And so violently! Glass went everywhere. All the food was out and prepped for dinner and it all went in the bin and we ordered takeout.)

That's when we dug into it. Now we have a bunch of PYREX that we've picked up up second-hand.

And we don't let it touch the sink after the oven. :)
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I took a Mac at my current job since I really don't like Windows and I figured I would probably be able to hack it. I use Linux for all my personal stuff, all I need is bash and a browser, yeah?

Pfft. Nothing works, and a patronizing, laggy OS that actively tries to fight me at every step because it knows better than me.

What a joy. I'm sticking with Ubuntu/Fedora and having to figure out a driver issue every once in a while.
> Substitution is a new concept for kids.

Children learn substitution with language. Hand signs and words are substituted for the objects, feelings and actions they know inherently. It’s tempting to apply adult context on children but it’s a mistake.
> Annotations can and should be checked

Unfortunately Python’s type system is unsound. It’s possible to pass all the checks and yet still have a function annotated `int` that returns a `list`.
Out of curiosity, I wondered how tight these bounds are. Consider the case of 300,000 which Terry has put a lower bound of 90,000 on, and would like a bound of 100,000 on. If a perfect division of factors into equal buckets could be achieved, the answer would be 110366.49020484093 per bucket. That's e^(log(n!)/n), to within the precision that Python calculates it. (My first try was to use Stirling's formula. That estimated it at 110366.49020476094, which is pretty darned close!)

A straightforward greedy approach will see those final buckets differing by factors of around 2. Which is a lot worse than Terry's current approach.

This really is a knapsack problem.
Korematsu vs. United States
Conservative minorities don't shift to the right, they're far right and temporarily move left whenever the Republicans get a little too on-the-nose. A Democrat in office means they won't be exposed to that rhetoric for a few years so the "bloc" will swing back to their baseline for a cycle or two. I'm trying to think of a visual analogy that isn't a double pendulum.

I feel like the "voting against their best interests" trope exists because people don't realize that conservative minorities vote as far right as the GOP will let them. Because they're conservative.
Is the phrase "cartel members are violent, abusive thugs" also equally bad in your book?

Being black is not a choice...
And the lunatic fringe saw her as overly deferential to republicans because there were a few notable republicans that were willing to stand up and say "Actually, I would prefer this democrat over this republican" and she thought that was worth highlighting in her campaign.

There's no winning everyone, that's for sure.
But we don’t know the capabilities of the machine systems watching the cameras, although we should assume they are getting more capable.

So the results are unpredictable, just as they would be if humans randomly checked the cameras recordings.
I used WordPress for years built a simpler alternative using Notion
After 10+ years of using WordPress, I created a simpler publishing solution that uses Notion as its backend. The goal was to maintain the power of WordPress while eliminating the complexity that often comes with managing WordPress sites.

Key features:
- Zero maintenance - Notion handles the backend
- Fast page loads
- Clean, minimal interface
- No plugin management needed
- Automatic backups via Notion

Live App : https://app.wondersites.co

Looking for feedback from the HN community, especially from those who've faced similar WordPress pain points.
Software Engineering is only about 60 years old - i.e. the term has existed.
At the point in the history of civil engineering, they didn't even know what a right angle was.
Civil engineers were able to provide much utility before the underlying theory was available. I do wonder about the safety of structures at the time.
> That generates a “vehicle fingerprint” for every car or truck, which none of the agencies I FOIA’d would provide me.

I hope there's also litigation for this given it is also public record when it's being purchased with tax dollars. Especially if they're just asking for the identifications of their own vehicle. It seems similar to denying me a copy of their record of my actual fingerprint.
Is there a debate? No, they do not “understand”.
> all implementations

Are you speaking for yourself or everyone?
Quoting the ask ...

> However, I was not able to adjust parameters to reach t(300000) >= 100000 in this manner. Perhaps some readers here who are adept with computers can come up with a more efficient construction to get closer to this bound? If one can find a way to reach this bound, most likely it can be adapted to then resolve conjectures (ii) and (iii) above after some additional numerical effort.
Build LLM Workflows Before Agents
AIUI, products with "PYREX" (all-upper) is the old/original product, and "pyrex" (all-lower) is the new stuff:

* https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-the-difference-be...
Laws that protect individuals vs corporations usually hurt small businesses vs individuals a lot. Maybe not more than the harm caused by big corps, but it certainly has unfortunate side-effects.
Do not know things on Iphone side but in android I justs end the device to myself and click the number,then it gives option to chat via whatsapp.
You're right it will make its way to to a consumer one way or another, even if it's the raw materials. It's still a lot of "waste" I think.
Since RMS said it, I have no doubt that it reflects the general consensus of people on HN, but in general terms it seems a bit out of touch with reality. No one actually uses the term "creator" to imply some elevated divine right to copyright power, nor does "content" imply " an interchangeable commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and make money". This isn't how people think or act or use this language in the real world.

I mean... "malcontent providers?" Really?
Parse, Don't Validate a.k.a. Some C Safety Tips
I hear you, but I got into crypto in 2012. This was back in the day when we were trying to build a decentralized alternative payment ecosystem, not gambling on a speculative investment.

The rest of the sentence is sort of the point:

>when Bitcoin was really the only game in town, and I’ve been exposed to more hype than any man should have to witness.
What I learned over time is that if a product/service requires contacting an agent or a salesperson, then its price is only affordable for businesses and is not intended for regular consumers.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842...

This is a direct link to the study for anyone who is interested.
> 99% of use cases

You're being very generous.
Great to see that somebody else creates a true open source XSLT 3 and XPATH 3 implementation!

I worked on projects which refused to use anything more modern than XSLT & XPATH 1.0 because of lack of support in the non Java/Net World (1.0 = tech from 1999). Kudos to Saxon though, it was and is great but I wished there were more implementations of XSLT 2.0 & XPATH 2.0 and beyond in the open source World... both are so much more fun and easier to use in 2.0+ versions.
For that reason I've never touched XSLT 3.0 (because I stuck to Saxon B 9.1 from 2009). I have no doubt it's a great spec but there should be other ways than only Saxon HE to run it in an open source way.

It's like we have an amazing modern spec but only one browser engine to run it ;)
hilarious:

John William Dawson, a Canadian scientist, studied Prototaxites fossils, which he described as partially rotten giant conifers, containing the remains of the fungi which had been decomposing them. This concept was not disputed until 1872, when the rival scientist William Carruthers poured ridicule on the idea. ... Dawson fought adamantly to defend his original interpretation until studies of the microstructure made it clear that his position was untenable, whence he promptly attempted to rename the genus himself, calling it Nematophyton ("stringy plant"), and denying with great vehemence that he had ever considered it to be a tree.
My intellimouse explorer lasted until someone stole it after ten years, which isn't bad. I do think since then mainstream mouses are less durable (they only last 5 years!) but they didn't have the loose click feeling that the Microsoft mouses did. So Logitech and Razer for me.
2,200-year-old pyramid filled with coins and weapons found near Dead Sea
> Sounds like a good solution. Not having children then I should also have the choice to not pay any tax towards other people's children's education.

I'd certainly be in favor of that. I don't expect anyone to subsidize my children's education. Granted, as one commenter pointed out, some people believe it to be a societal good (like state-sponsored health care), so you're likely to get a lot of pushback.

But I think the current system lacks the correct incentives. My theory is that free market competition among public schools, similar to what we have in universities, will align the incentives more than they do now. The first step is introducing consumer choice back into the system.
I'm reading Gabor Mate's "Myth of Normal" and it helped me understand a lot more the nature of some of our misery and how much of it can be traced back to consumerism.
And all you need to do is not spend any of that $1.2m on food and rent in the meantime!
Who would have thought?

'Use it, or lose it' anyone?
> Generally agree with what you said, but "Cops are known to be abusive, violent thugs" is a terrible thing to say completely unqualified like that.

That's true, it should be qualified “within a subculture of violent thuggery, in organizations which lack any unifying focus other than the application of force, and which both protect them from and are themselves insulated from effective accountability for abuses.”
>So far off from what actually happens

I disagree strongly, based on 20 years of using Python without annotations and ~5 years of seeing people ask questions about how to do advanced things with types. And based on reading Python code, and comparing that to how I feel when reading code in any manifest-typed language.

>Reading Python functions in isolation, you might not even know what data/structure you’re getting as input

I'm concerned with what capabilities the input offers, not the name given to one particular implementation of that set of capabilities. If I have to think about it in any more detail than "`ducks` is an iterable of Ducklike" (n.b.: a code definition for an ABC need not actually exist; it would be dead code that just complicates method resolution) I'm trying to do too much in that function. If I have to care about whether the iterable is a list or a string (given that length-1 strings satisfy the ABC), I'm either trying to do the wrong thing or using the wrong language.

> if there’s something that muddles up immediate clarity it’s ambiguity about what data code is operating on.

There is no ambiguity. There is just disregard for things that don't actually matter, and designing to make sure that they indeed don't matter.
Great article, makes sense, one can reduce entropy, of course.
The people who are indifferent to resurgent Nazism are going to destroy this world too
Is the coating made of PFAS, or wax?
I absolutely love the AI labyrinth Cloudflare implemented recently. Wasting their time and resources and feeding them more and more garbage. Wonderful.
That assumes the conservative press will actually cover this scandal for what it is.

I checked Fox, OANN, Breitbart, Newsmax, and Infowars. Of those outlets, Newsmax is only covering the attacks themselves, not the breach of national security[0], Fox is criticizing The Atlantic and calling them a partisan rag that's getting humiliated by Trump[1], and Infowars is downplaying and making excuses while also claiming The Atlantic is run by globalist (by which Alex Jones means Jewish) pedophiles[2]. For Infowars and Fox, I had to scroll pretty far down their respective front pages to find any mention of this.

I think it's safe to say Trump will continue to retain the support of his base because his base are insulated from these inconvenient truths.

[0]: https://archive.is/ZUtgw

[1]: https://archive.is/pKox7

[2]: https://archive.is/8ZHip
My go-to strategy still seems to hold up:
https://www.g2a.com/search?query=microsoft%20office
> this became much less true over time as porting the renderer to linux (specifically debian)

Strange how you ported the renderer to Debian, and yet you couldn't even find a link to a game that has a native Linux support.

Was there ever a port?

> Proton has absolutely no hope of working without the changes

You keep saying this as the absolute truth, and yet at the time when Stadia launched Proton already had 5k working games under its belt.

Strange how Stadia is this monumental achievement without which Linux gaming wouldn't happen according to you.... and yet no one ever mentions Stadia ever contributing any code to any of the constituent parts of what makes Proton tick. Apart from the changes that engines supposedly made to work on a yet another game streaming platform.
A lot of business basically just steal from their future selves in perpetuity until the interest they’ve accumulated is too great and they implode.

It’s the GM and intel school of business. Constantly choose what makes money now, and avoid advancements and infrastructure. Wait now the competition is 20 years ahead? So you have 20 years worth of infrastructure to pay off, right now? Oh…

Everyone is just faking it until the chicken inevitably comes homes to roost. Then they walk about from the explosion and go to another company and say “see? Look how much share holder value I made! Nevermind that the company got destroyed shortly after I left!”
The electrical efficiency of breaking water to hydrogen, then combusting hydrogen through a turbine to generate electricity, compares extremely disfavourably to most other forms of storage - it takes about 50kWh of electricity to produce 1kg of Hydrogen, and if you propagate that back through a turbine and make some conservative assumptions about electrolyser costs and so on and so on, you're sort of approaching 5x the cost of others forms of renewable electricity to make electricity from stored hydrogen.

Of course, if we're building enough renewable capacity that electricity is basically free when it's sunny or windy, that changes the eceonomics and maybe we should all be making hydrogen in that sort of [bumpily]-abundant future.

However, storing hydrogen is also a pain - the density is crap even as a liquid and very technically challenging, and the density is mind-bogglingly crap as a gas - you'd want to find some vast geological underground reservoir in which to store it economically.

None of these are insurmountable, it's just not an especially attractive option as things stand.
"An artist's impression of the new plastic, showing the strong bonds above the water and how they break down when submerged in saltwater"

No, that's an AI image. Which is not itself a problem, but it's also useless garbage because neither the AI, nor the person generating it, appear to understand what is actually happening, and consequently the image is literally worse than useless. Image has what appear to be benzene rings, although the AI is clearly crossing that concept with neurons, but sodium hexametaphosphate has a fairly different shape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hexametaphosphate that I would expect an artist to pick up on... and of course the cross-contamination of the neuron concept is just wrong.

And even by strictly non-scientific standards, the ocean having two distinct surfaces, one below another, is just unsightly and obviously wrong. Alternatively, this plastic really does rip holes in the ocean's surface and directly expose The Murky Depths to the surface world in a geometrically anomalous manner, in which case for C'thulu's sake we should probably never manufacture this stuff in any quantity.

I won't go so far as to say AI image generation shouldn't be used here, but this is a nominally educational context. It needs to be screened by someone who can make sure it actually means something other than "you are a dummy who can't handle too much text in a single block so here's some bling to stab your dopamine receptors so you can bear the terrible drudgery of continuing to read".
There is a lot to digest here, but the presentation of the activation networks is fascinating (not to mention the stunning visualisations).

I would love to have access to these kinds of visualisations and audit trail when using an LLM.
not WASM but there is also https://www.npmjs.com/package/saxon-js
Nothing, but since Apple is the only user of AWDL and WiFi Aware makes it redundant, why support both (in long term)?
PS/2 is like the 90s. If it didn't have screws for positive affixation it doesn't count.
Yea, almost anyone in the US asking about the productivity implications of unionization will be coming from the ownership class, as US unions don't see that as their problem vs. building worker power.

I couldn't find a paper about US unions increasing productivity. Can you?
One effect of this technology being almost totally opaque, non-explainable, and also nondeterministic is that most of the arguments for it (and maybe most against it?) take on an anecdotal character.

I was surprised to hear Dr. Bubeck, who is in kind of a privileged position wrt OpenAI and obviously an accomplished scientist, essentially saying things like "I tried asking it X and I am pretty sure it's not in the training set, and it worked, therefore I think it understands".

A really big problem with the anecdata approach to proving out AI is alluded to in Dr. Bender's story about the "Everything in the Whole Wide World" museum (for those who didn't watch, Grover the muppet goes to the aforementioned museum, sees many things — but not "everything", then walks through a door labeled "Everything Else" that leads outside). That is, no individual prompt-and-response can be relied on to inform about another prompt-and-response that you haven't yet tried. And with nondeterminism, you can't even rely on that prompt-and-response to remain stable. But a failed prompt also carries the possibility that a tweaked prompt could produce a success. So (as we saw with the twitter post yesterday complaining about LLMs not working well that was both heavily upvoted and heavily contested in the comments), we are in a world where nobody can say much except to provide anecdotes of the thing failing or succeeding or having characteristic Y, which are exercises in narrative construction to support or oppose investment, not principled discussion.
>the inability to actual do anything about them

That is called trained helplessness. You could be on a flight today if you want. You could be donating to relief in minutes without leaving your computer chair.
Good bye free market.

If a "new industry thing" is far superior and what customers want, why other vendors don't do it?

Now, if government sees a benefit in driving and sharing technology I'd be happy the government would actively participate in R&D.
There are other companies that sell borosilicate glass products:

* https://www.duralexusa.com/collections/duralex-bakeware

* https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/4gxf5w/found_...
All of this is a ridiculous amount of work/red tape for an app that never will make a single cent (my case).

I guess we have to read that as virtue signaling: if you aren’t here to make money, go away. Interestingly, they choose a quite stupid way to do so, when they could just straight forward charge a recurring fee like Apple does.
Excited to never see this technology get used!
Wood frogs can survive freezing solid. Their liver produces glucose to flood all cells, prevent cell freezing, and protect against dehydration. Ice forms around cells and organs but not inside them, preventing lethal damage.

https://www.nps.gov/gaar/learn/nature/wood-frog-page-2.htm
> Prize winner’s age at the time they receive their prizes is steadily increasing over time, though the age when they do their prize-winning work isn’t, suggesting Nobel’s are increasingly being awarded to past work. This could be due to a slowdown of groundbreaking discoveries in the fields the Nobel rewards, or it could be due to the sociology of how prizes get awarded, with my guess being a combination of both.

I suspect one factor was the Nobel Comitee just becoming more careful about the risk of hastily awarding a prize for something that initially looks like a great idea but does not pan out later. Let's take the example of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Egas Moniz[1] for the development of lobotomy ("leucotomy")[2]. That particular prize surely did not age well. Perhaps putting a buffer of a couple decades between the work and the award helps avoid such blunders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Egas_Moniz

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
Journal of Teaching in Social Work: Special Issue Critiques CSJ Practice
This definitely is going to break SSA. Republican leadership has already been publicly saying "only fraudsters will complain about a late social security payment." They know this will be a disaster.
Going back up a few levels,

> I think the crazy thing about ANPR/ALPR is just quite how simple it is to create a massive panopticon. The UK has a fairly established national ANPR system, and it generates on the order of 90M records per day [1]. All of this data is available to various law enforcement agencies. If you drive, you're probably being recorded in a way accessible to the PNC every day.

So we're talking about tracking plate numbers, in public. No expectations of privacy.

Now regarding what the panopticon was,

> The panopticon is a prison design by Jeremy Bentham, characterized by a central observation tower allowing a guard to see all inmates without the inmates knowing if they are being watched, fostering a sense of constant surveillance and self-discipline.

So we're talking about monitoring prisoners, in prison cells. No expectations of privacy.

---

> I was drawing a contrast between the prisoner in the panopticon (does not have privacy) and the citizen in their home (has privacy).

Now we're talking about citizens in their homes. When did that enter the discussion?

> I was suggesting that panopticon is an inappropriate term for surveillance that happens only in public spaces.

OK... Why?
I had lunch this week with some former coworkers.

When I'd started working with them it was on the 20 year old C++ engine that ran everything.

Even at that time there was large team 'rewriting' it in Java. That team was dissolved about 2 years later.

During the course of my employment two more large teams were spun up to do a rewrite and then came crashing down after a year or two.

I hadn't seen my coworkers for about 7 years. Naturally they were still working on the C++ code. Naturally they'd seen two more rewrite teams come and go while I'd been gone.

I'm not sure why I'm bringing this up......
> We will absolutely be supporting KiCad

I wonder why there's no standard API for autorouting so that a particular EDA must be supported. I'd love to see autorouter as a standardized HTTP endpoint so that I can run one locally or even buy Autorouter-As-A-Service.
E.g. I'd happily pay for TopoR¹ as a service for some projects while others are fine with classic rouing.

¹) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopoR
I suspect so as well. IIUC, this is a textbook example of "enshitification".
But that footnote about 5x doesn't make it into statistics that show that standards of living are constantly rising.