skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, e.g. compare that to agriculture where emissions are still increasing exponentially. The political power the farmers have is amazing, apart from the fact that they managed to get exempt from emissions penalties in many countries, they also continue to be able to push increased meat and dairy consumption which does not only increase pollution but has many other serious environmental and health impacts.
In fairness we don't really have such models, at least not anymore.

We used to, that's what “macro” economics was about. The models where crude but they did the job for a while, we used them for more than 30 years between the 40s and the late 70s, with great success (no economic crisis for the longest time since the industrial revolution).

But they conflicted with the idea that economist made of their job, as these models didn't include any if the classical economics credo that economists had been worshipping for almost two centuries (markets, competition, scarcity, supply and demand, etc.). So people started building “micro-founded” macro models, that tried to reconcile the empirical models that worked with the ideological principles of classical economics. But you can't have good models if you design them to match an ideological paradigm.

And then as you said, it failed catastrophically: the oil shock came, and suddenly the forecasts of the models became useless for a while. At that very moment, everyone who opposed to using models to justify state intervention where thrilled, and the era of short-terms economic engineering based on models was dead.
That's not how Archive works - it saves pages using people's browsers. Try archiving a page yourself and you can watch it do so.
Once you try a rolling-release distro you realize it's actually a very good idea
the industrial revolution made the horse redundant

I love this analogy. People hope they'll be like carriage drivers who transitioned into driving cars. Not this time. On the other hand, I'm not sure how this transition actually affected the horses — they weren't killed off or driven to extinction, were they?
Software and binary formats with a 100% chance of being blocked as malware doesn't count.
I think the actual link is supposed to be this one, which appears in this submission directly adjacent to a newsletter signup, so it's very easy to miss: https://worksimplification.netlify.app/
Also star of Real Genius
A purpose of death taxes is to even out the effect of not being born into wealth. I'd rather make it easier for living people by 'punishing' dead people than make it harder for living people by punishing them for not being born into the right family.
This approach has a problem when the mobile client is on the end of a very slow connection, yet the diff that needs to be synced is gigabytes, perhaps because it's an initial sync or the database got bloated for whatever reason.

A hybrid approach is to detect slow syncing (for example when sync hasn't completed after 5 seconds), and instead send queries directly to the server because there is a good chance the task the user wants to complete doesn't depend on the bloated records.
Simple Denoising Diffusion
> Deep learning models produce their outputs using a series of transformations distributed across many computational units (artificial “neurons”). The field of mechanistic interpretability seeks to describe these transformations in human-understandable language.

This is the central theme behind why I find techniques like genetic programming to be so compelling. You get interpretability by default. The second order effect of this seems to be that you can generalize using substantially less training data. The humans developing the model can look inside the box and set breakpoints, inspect memory, snapshot/restore state, follow the rabbit, etc.

The biggest tradeoff here being that the search space over computer programs tends to be substantially more rugged. You can't use math tricks to cheat the computation. You have to run every damn program end-to-end and measure the performance of each directly. However, you can execute linear program tapes very, very quickly on modern x86 CPUs. You can search through a billion programs with a high degree of statistical certainty in a few minutes. I believe we are at a point where some of the ideas from the 20th century are viable again.
Tinycorp (owned by George Hotz, also behind Comma.ai) is working on it after AMD finally understood that it was a no-brainer: https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/08/AMD-Y...
Exciting times ahead!
Cars become worse the more you approach colder climates. Every fall and spring there are multiple weeks during which asphalt roads are dry from sunlight and warmth, which leads to studded tyres chewing through asphalt. Not only that, the sand we spread on roads to help people stay on their feet also helps in creating massive amounts of dust. It's so difficult to time the change from summer tyres to winter tyres.

It's quite possible to survive with friction tyres with the help of good traction control (especially from an EV) but there are vast areas of the country that do not get roads plowed in a timely manner, so it's "safer" to go with studs.
There was a time where front-end devs would have sat down and cried had they had to make closing tags.
Google have a history of releasing products on april 1st, gmail itself was right?
Malfunctional Timekeeping with the Vetinari Clock
> Russia is not a democracy

How do you determine this though? There are candidates. Majority of the people vote. The one voted for the most wins.

Sure, _some_ candidates are in jail (or dead) — but that's strictly because they were convicted in a fair trial, they're criminals, you see.

I argue that there are similarities between two regimes blacklisting political candidates from the democratic process.

> When in a real democracy

If we cherry-pick the ones we like to be "real", and the ones we dislike to be "fake", then by definition the "real" ones are the good ones.

> Not in Ukraine either

E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspen...

Sure, not a court per se — it was apparently the country's national security and defense council that took the decision to ban the parties from any political activity.

But I agree, it's whatever.

> Trump was elected after that!

Yep, despite well-documented efforts to block him from running. The outcome is I think a win for democracy. That democrats think of this as a defeat is amusing to me. (I'm an foreigner and don't live or vote in the US, so no horse in the race either way.)
There's CodeQL, but it seems to be mostly limited to security research (code review automation to find vulns). See: https://codeql.github.com/
> Wonder how many people have turned off the emergency/amber alerts because of non-critical use of the system?

I turned them off because I don't care about any of the things they consider critical.
Vibe coders will be so busy solving the problem of making something work that they wont invest time into understanding the business problem at hand
Common approach is to use a data warehouse that is suitable for executing OLAP queries (to load/calculate data for your dashboards) in seconds. In simplest cases ('small data') this can be simply app's database replica - a separate (read-only) DB server that is used for reporting/analytics purposes. It is easy to configure master-slave replication with built-in SQL Server/PostgreSql/Mysql capabilities.

If replica server cannot execute queries fast enough, a specialized (optimized for OLAP-workload) database should be used instead. This can be a cloud service (like BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Motherduck) or self-hosted solutions (ClickHouse, PostgreSql with pg_analytics extension, or even in-process DuckDB). Data sync is performed either with scheduled full-copy (simple, but not suitable for near real-time analytics) or via CDC (see Airbyte).
While I'm not going to make any food according to the recipes yet, the recipes gave me good chuckle. I'm always amazed by the creativity people have, a feeling that dissipates the moment I know something is AI generated. Comprehensive JavaScript Tutorial https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_VDcP5QiJjAPVhV/comprehen... is my favourite so far.
I mean, I would probably have highlighted his starring in Top Secret! first, considering it was his break-out role, and he is excellent in that film. And also that Top Secret! is an excellent film, that too few people have seen.
Drives? I havent seen one yet. Floppies yes, but just like SD cards its just a plastic piece being read by controller GPIO and a mere suggestion to the hardware.

There are forensic Write blockers for drives tho starting at around $200 for SATA/IDE solution.
It has happened in plants over and over again.
I watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang recently and really appreciated his performance in that movie. He’s one of the original “indie stars” of my generation. Sorry to see him go.
Isn't the compatibility promise what syscalls essentially are?

Historically, they (almost) never break and they are steadily incremented to prevent overlaps in differences of parameters.

As WASI is also implementing syscalls for WASM, I'd argue that the binary format doesn't really matter as long as it's using the same syscalls in the end.

I understand this topic is mostly focussing on glibc/muslc problems, but if you want to develop stable software, use CGo free Go binaries. They likely will run in 10 years the same way they do today.

C ABI compatibility is a mess on linux mostly because upstream maintainers don't give a damn about semantic versioning. Just take a look at the SO file headers, and how they differ from upstream "semantic" versions of the library. As long as shared objects differ in versions due to breaking changes, and as long as the C ecosystem doesn't enforce correct versioning, this won't change.
Should be easy to verify with a vegan control group, no?
My wife used ChatGPT to fix a garage door opener while I was out. Uploaded a picture, and followed the instructions. She's not a manual labor inclined person by any stretch and knew nothing about garage door openers.
Phoenix 1.8.0-RC Released
Highlights from the article:

• The first release candidate of Phoenix 1.8 is out with some big quality-of-life improvements! We’ve focused on making the getting started experience smoother, tightened up our code generators, and introduced scopes for secure data access that scales with your codebase. On the UX side, we added long-requested dark mode support — plus a few extra perks along the way. And phx.gen.auth now ships with magic link support out of the box for a better login and registration experience.
• Phoenix 1.8 extends our built-in tailwindcss support with daisyUI, adding a flexible component and theming system.
• The phx.gen.auth generator now uses magic links by default for login and registration.
• Scopes are a new first-class pattern in Phoenix, designed to make secure data access the default, not something you remember (or forget) to do later. Reminder that broken access control is the most common OWASP vulnerability.
• Streamlined onboarding: we chose to simplify several of our code generators. Our goal is to give seasoned folks a better foundation to build the real features they want to ship, while giving newcomers simplified code which will help them get up to speed on the basics more quickly.
• We have also revised Phoenix nested layouts, root.html.heex and app.html.heex, in favor of a single layout that is then augmented with function components.
• You can update existing phx.new installations with: mix archive.install hex phx_new 1.8.0-rc.0 --force
Really?! Making this project must have taken tens or hundreds of hours - if they are proud of the work, why not show it off? The video looks like it wasn't faked.

Did nobody look at the image after they generated it? If they live in a bedsit and don't have a nice windowsill, they could easily generate the background and if the product is vaporware they could drop a rendering over the top - I think that might actually be easier than training an AI on your product... I'll be grumpy at clouds next!
Show HN: Atri Reports – Automated security report writing with DOCX
I've released an application that can speed up security assessment reporting process by automating report writing using predefined vulnerability database and report templating using standard DOCX files and Jinja-like templates.
> I actually tried contacting some researchers locally, because I live near a university hospital that does a lot of research into testing for cancer. They basically said it was impossible and to stop wasting their time… like damn okay sorry

Too bad. I guess a blind study with a control group wouldn't be too hard to conduct. Worst case, it was a waste of time. Otherwise, might lead to interesting discoveries.
Afaik you can "erase" contents of a disk with open session. Data is still there just invisible without specialized tools, enough to fool non nerds.
iOS Mail Is Shite – Kev Quirk
Your comment reminds me of a picture I saw a few days ago of a telescope shot, caption "there are no stars in this picture, only galaxies" and there were so. Many. Bright spots.

I don't know where or when it was taken, or what part of the sky that happens in. Maybe it's just a really long lens, so it's seeing "through" the galaxy we normally see "stars" from?

Anyhow, how do you think you could prove this or how someone could prove it? Is it like, two observers on opposite sides of the planet observing the same thing, say during an eclipse or something? Maybe radioastronomy?
I think the other commenter is correct, that it's one company (Regent) trying to make "Seaglider" a thing.

For obvious reasons - which word would you rather introduce to the public: "Ekranoplan", or "Seaglider".

If anyone else is working on modern Ekranoplans, I'd like to know. But AFAIK, it's just one company working on it, and promoting it.
Haha, someone downvoted me for saying this!
Never seen any of those, I'd have mentioned Heat instead.
https://kommandostore.com/products/the-heat-rig

note: Would definitely not recommend wearing this loaded outside of a LARP environment at a range, with friends that have a sense of humor
Yes, it is and this is projection again. We had years with arguments "they are a private company", "free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences", etc. pp.

Perhaps integrity would demand that people speak up and in my experience they indeed still do. But you shouldn't be surprised if the criticism is quite a bit less loud if it concerns speech from a politicized crowd that demanded more content control and censorship just a few weeks before. Petty? Maybe. Wrong? Maybe. But certainly not surprising that bad life decisions in the past do have an effect.
You've stumbled upon Chaos Theory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory), which aims to study chaotic systems (charactesised by very high relation to initial variables - see weather prediction, double pendulum, etc).

Some problems are too sensible to initial variables and solutions are not prescriptive like regular physics - meaning that variability at the 20th decimal in your initial variables will induce massive output differences. Lorentz discovery of this is interesting as he was working on weather modelling, it's a clear example of the issues with chaotic systems. He was running simulations of weather systems with multiple fixed initial variables (temperature, wind speed, etc) and seeing how the system progressed over a few hours. He realised that after a typo on a very far away decimal on a single parameter, the system was modelling the complete opposite of what we had seen in the previous test (think it was forecasting a typhoon when it used to say sunny day), even while using values that would be "equal" with relation to the precision of the measuring equipement. And that's nothing to talk about getting clean, precise enough data for such models, which is practically impossible (see the observer effect, between other causes). Garbage in, garbage out.

All this to say that problems in this sphere are characterized by quickly becoming untractable and impossible to model precisely how they evolve over time.

I can recommend James Gleick's Chaos: Making a new science for a overview for the layperson.
VMware says Siemens pirated "thousands" of copies of its software
> and an equilibrium assumption to recover the parameters

That parts makes no sense though, there isn't an equilibrium and can never be, economies are a chaotic system. One of the key problems of economic modeling is that they used mathematical tool that aren't suited for that.

You can't consider an economy as a steam engine. Walras was a trained engineer in the 19th century so I can excuse him for making this approximation, but I can't excuse anyone still following his course more than a century later.
Because it's dangerous and borderline illegal to play outside?
Did you use this library on the advent of code 2024? I'd never heard of topological sorting prior to that problem - and it was real early in the game.
Yeah, but there's a big difference between dying a few months earlier when you'd already be bedridden with your mind mostly gone and dying 50 years early.

Which is why QALYs are such a good metric.
> Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for digital music players.
The Shipwrecked Slaves of Tromelin Island
PCBs get more expensive with larger area, but it should probably be ok.

I hunted down the Gerbers and uploaded to JLCPCB real quick, the cost for the bare PCB at the current size (218x218 mm) is $22 for 5 pieces, excluding shipping. I thought it was interesting to have as a reference.

Scaling up the PCB is not possible in their web UI since the Gerbers "lock in" the size, of course.
> there is an underserved audience that wants an engaging way to learn a language and are disillusioned with Duolingo already

I'm just very unsure whether it's possible to design an effective language learning program that is "engaging" in the way that Duolingo users want it. At the end of the day, you should feel engagement from using the language (and seeing yourself improve) and not from external gimmicks.
A useful thing to note, thanks. A link to the actual inconclusive report would have been better fwiw.

Sounds like it's not important to address fluorine reduction if a casual relationship can be established.

I do wonder how they compensated properly for fluoride being added in poorer areas. Will dig it out when I get chance.
I'd straight up pay 5 or 10 bucks a month for this if it was like... 200% more functional/featured/professional/working. VERY good proof of concept and I love it. Target language is german fwiw.
I highly recommend his autobiographical documentary Val (2021). I also recommend the absurd comedy Top Secret! (1984), his first movie.
I thought that this article will address an elephant in the room but either it missed it or I missed it.

My problem with pollution is that… you need to measure it, and those who pollute don’t do it consciously. Anecdotally I often drive through a small town. You can smell pollution, a plastic smell. In winter you can see column of smoke coming out of chimney. Sometimes it’s milky white, sometimes it thick black. There are many like that. I asked shop keeper is it happening often, she confirmed and said that no one is interested in doing otherwise, installing sensors was directly opposed by town council.

The town is not on a pollution map. Nearby cities are with medium-high pollution but that particular region is supposedly clean as reported by a single sensor positioned somewhere on a hill.

It’s not like there is one town like that in the world. There are nations that pollute heavily and don’t care and don’t meter the impact. I would be curious if all the effort, regulations etc. are worth it when applied to average Joe versus huge polluters.
Click the link and put in the fifteenth word in the third paragraph, then click "about" and put in the fourth word in the second sentence.

The good old days before cookies and trackers...
What this mostly seems to demonstrate is that hip-pop is endlessly derivative. That might be a consequence of their data source:

> To build this project, we used the dataset of hundreds of thousands of songs on Genius.com accessible through their API, over 200,000 of which were “connected” in some way by sample, interpolation, cover, or remix.

Genres where sampling is openly and explicitly acknowledged are going to be massively over-represented. It would be cool build a relationship network using feature extraction on the actual audio.
> The last thing we need is hallucinations fucking up the more grounded astrophysics.

You're thinking of the wrong ML. Generative models "hallucinate" and it's as much a feature as it's a bug. ML in astrophysics is not generative. They use it for flagging, "binning" data and in general (simplified) classification.
That time may seem negligible, since the OS can context switch threads anyway, but it’s still additional time during which your code isn’t doing its actual work.

Generations are used almost exclusively in moving GCs — precisely to reduce the negative performance impact of data relocation. Non-moving GCs are less invasive, which is why they don’t need generations and can be fully concurrent.
can the economy even be predicted ? Was it ever done to any successful degree in the past ? And if so, to what end ?

I like the idea conceptually, but it doesn't seem to be good enough to halt economic disasters (or correction as we like to call them nowadays).
Damn, we have it good in France. It costs less than 10 euros to open a micro-company and you only need to have a separate account in your personnal bank (you dont need to open a pro account) . Of course its limited in term of revenue you can make with it but it erase totally the "I cant do this one shot consulting gig a friend ask me to do"
I'm guessing the overlap of those who know how to fix it with those willing to pay is not that large.
You're taking this from the perspective of people who are stuck in a specific mental framework who want to prove that their mental framework is the right one, no matter how impossible it is in practice.

What if you don't care about tuning against a real macro-economy? What if the economy being fictional was the entire point?

Let's suppose you wanted to make a game that simulates a realistic economy as a gameplay element no different from say a physics engine. Why wouldn't you do it using agent based modeling? What you're saying sounds purely dogmatic now. It's more about thought termination than actually accomplishing something. After all, central banks and businesses don't give a damn that agent X did action Y at time Z for all agents, actions and times. Meanwhile in a game? It's actually essential, because the model is the reality inside that fictional world. The model is "perfect".
Prepare to be disappointed. Career journalists can certainly be too liberal or too conservative for you, but their job is to check receipts. Why is Kari Lake lying?

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-government-waste-fra...

Are you comfortable tallying their $8 Billion -> $8 Million typo to count as savings?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-the-misleading-a...

They’re using DOGE to do something that avoids accountability.
This timeline is so cursed I can't tell if this is real or just an April Fools joke.