skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
like the analysis but I disagree somewhat. Taken to extreme, de-coupling with force repatriation of supply chain either directly to the US or to US controlled / US influenced countries. Also, developments new material science, 4D printing, hydroponic farming etc will reduce the dependency on the necessity of trade - which is fundamentally about the acquisition of resources which you could not provide for yourself.

The course for a de-coupled future is probably set; the challenge for humanity is: are we able to co-exist without interdependence?
You have to click on "buy" in the top banner first, even though it looks like it's already selected.
Thank you so much! Andi's strong point is these type of factual answers, and I think you're 100% right to be optimist about models being within reach.

The question answering feature has only just been released for the first time today for this post, and for an entire field of questions it already surprises us that not only does it work but it does *well*. We can iterate on the intent error correction and verbal tricks. And we're just a tiny team standing on the shoulders of giants. The entire field is moving quickly and making astonishing progress.

The exciting thing in this area is the rate of improvement. The thing language models have lacked is factual accuracy, and that's definitely a hard challenge. We have problems to solve with applying common sense and reason to things like information safety/confidence, and fixing misunderstood intents is mostly just iterative training. But the exciting thing is that this already works in many cases.

It's interesting to try it out with current news too. Something from today like "why does tesla want to split its stock?"

You can see the progress in this space is real and getting faster. The verbal tricks are fun to laugh at, but the underlying progress is real.
Proprietary OS from a company that has gotten caught with their proverbial security pants down around the ankles? No, thank you.

When this can run non-Mikrotik open source software, this'll be great!
I think your question would have been a lot better if it was just:

> What do you think about the argument that standardized tests are systemically racist?
I think that you can be "anti-war" to the extent of saying that NATO should not directly be at war with Russia (if possible). I think you can get away with that position without being cancelled.

If you're "anti-war" to the extent of saying "we shouldn't supply Ukraine with arms", or even worse, "Ukraine should just surrender", I think that most people rightly find those positions to be abhorrent. That looks far too much like Neville Chamberlain's politics (and morals) for most of our taste.

And if you're "anti-war" in the sense of "this is all NATO's fault; Russia was right to invade", you get cancelled very quickly, because you have become indistinguishable from a Russian propagandist, and we know that there are plenty of Russian propagandists trying to influence the west's cultural mindset.

If you have a thoughtful, considered reason to hold one of the positions I labeled problematic, you can probably express it on HN. You'll get argued with, you may get yelled at and downvoted, but you probably won't get banned. In the wider culture... no guarantees.
There was IBM Chef Watson
Thanks for the tips.

> I've been able to play Factorio like I'm gardening

On gardening, same advice would apply: choosing low maintenance, well fitted with the climate or “tough” species is underrated.

Going only for the visual aspect will easily make gardening a second job. Except it’s an actual living thing, and it’s more pressure than the bullshit deadline we have on our projects.
Ugh, I hate that they advertise as non-gmo.
What a fun idea! Didn’t get today’s just because I didn’t know the song and don’t really listen to that genre. But I DID guess that artist choosing an arbitrary song.
Could the yellow tile of wordle mean something like “correct genre or artist”?
Alternatively is an easy mode possible that accepts the artist only as a correct answer?
Yikes! I'm just trying to solve for cofounder amicability, so that the startup doesn't implode over cofounder political disagreements :)
Yeah I adopted my confused face from the 'problem' statement/'killer' start-up pitch on. Have a headache and don't know which drug to buy? Come on. You have a headache and you take either acetaminophen or ibuprofen, both of which you already have. You don't buy anything.

I'm not a physician, I just take (rarely anything other than max dose) them per the label, which is different to your suggestion (1g/4h, max 4g/day) at least where I am. Ibuprofen if something seems 'inflamationy' or if I have drunk/will drink alcohol (on some sort of naïve hand-wavy basis to lighten the livery load).
Conflicts of interest.

The need to make money modifies the artistic process. Some expressions will be modified or straight up suppressed if they are perceived as unprofitable or offensive.

Advertising is the simplest example. All it takes for a website to censor itself is for someone to complain to Google that some page is offensive, causing them to suspend their revenue stream.
The ADL changed the definition of the term racism somewhere in 2020 to mean The marginalization of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people. They changed it to something slightly less inflammatory in the beginning of 2022 but the fact stands that this organisation deemed the time to be ripe to go fully anti-white - i.e. to become racist according to the correct, printed-dictionary interpretation of that term. This is not the Twitterverse, it is (or at least used to be) one of the mainstays in the "fight" for a "more just society".
Good point, that's an improvement.
I don't think so ivy league discrimination of asian american applicants despite high standardized test scores is very much a published statistic one that is often met with emotional fervor by groups that seek to continue it.

Just my observation as an outsider looking into America. Often sensitive debates that don't follow a certain mainstream narrative are brushed off as strawman or whataboutism.

I'm just seeing this from an objective data driven view and puzzled why ppl would react so harshly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30825144
And for the rush of it? And for the money itself? 300k when you earn 300k boosts you one year ahead. It's not a small amount of money. Also smart and wise is not the same.
Yes, prestigious schools open a huge number of doors. But more importantly, they teach elite mannerisms, standards and beliefs, and prejudices. If you are not a true genius (true geniuses can always make their way, but they are rare, even at MIT et al), this knowledge is invaluable and irreplaceable.

I’ll give you an example from my own career. I went to MIT/Berkeley, SB/PhD. But I practically washed out of grad school, not due to lack of ability, but because I hated it. What I did like was making things and explaining things, and had a successful career in the more business aspects of science where successful scientists were the customers and decision makers. I understood, in a fundamental way, how these people thought and what they expected. This was invaluable, and was conveyed, in an irreplaceablely concentrated way, by my being a 30th percentile student in a 95th percentile university.
One cannot even assume time is infinite- there are theories postulating infinite time and finite time, as well as theories postulating that time may not really exist at all.
Top AI Execs, Including Richard Socher, Launch AIX Ventures
What is going on with web servers
Well, they didn't - not really at least.

7.1 is only required on their brand new router targeted at enthusiast home users. The RB5009, which specifically says it's targeting home labs and explicitly came with the caveat of 7.1 being the minimum version and there is no LTS in the 7.x branch as-of yet. This is the only product that requires the 7.x branch.

Everything else ships with 6.48.x LTS or 6.49.x Stable. Nearly all serious users are using the LTS branch. The 7.x branch is well known within the RouterOS community to not be "production" ready... although that's where new features and stuff are going. It will be, one day.
I went to high school in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and almost all of the top academic students in my class were first or second generation immigrants (mostly Indian) that had no interest in extra-curricular activities like sports, band, choir, or really anything.

It's important that people, especially immigrants, can get into these schools based solely on their test scores and not have to do any of the other trivial stuff that demonstrates that they can participate in the society in which they live.
Yes

:-)
Yeah, it is always a matter how serious a MISRA certification happens to be made.

It would be great if AUTOSAR would encompass Rust as well, currently I think they are only evaluating it.
AFAIK burning coal releases mercury and radioisotopes into the atmosphere in addition to the CO2 and particulates that people worry about but somehow we haven't banned coal.
While I'm impressed by the results, I'm not convinced that they are significantly different from what Google or any other search engine can serve, which you need to prove if you make claims like "Google search is dying" and "results are overwhelmed with spam, clickbait and ads".

In fact I tried all of your sample queries in Google and the very first result was exactly what I needed, with the answer to the question returned in the highlighted blurb.
Mercury is actually a very old electric thruster propellant.

Xenon is a later invention, revealed in public only after the fall of the soviet union.
Depends which bit you look at in my experience, some of the home office stuff (especially around visas and immigration) still manages to be obscure and is sometimes defective. Perhaps a sufficiently misanthropic department can always get its institutional culture to bleed through the standardised stylesheets.
Leaked Details of the Lapsus$ Hack Make Okta’s Slow Response Look More Bizarre
I don’t really understand what this document is for. Or rather, I would have guessed it would be an attempt to respond to the NYT article and to convince readers to come to their point of view, but I think it totally fails at that.

The format is difficult to read, and the phrase-by-phrase analysis leaves it incohesive, scattershot and makes it feel nitpicky.

Lots of the arguments are fundamentally ideological (basically ‘crypto is libertarian but libertarianism is bad compared to my preferred ideology so crypto is bad’) and I think most people will recognise an ideological argument and decide the merits of the thing based on their own ideology. I think these arguments don’t do much to convince or inform.

It’s largely appealing to the in-group of crypto-skeptics with commenters riffing off each other or referring to unmentioned but agreed-upon facts.

I think a better argument could be made with a more cohesive narrative sticking to the most defensible points.
There is also plenty of bad names in physics, the "colour charge" and all other colour related names in quantum chromodynamics would be a very notable example.
how is it different? there are people that make that exact argument, after all it isn't some tabloid paper claiming it as such.
>>Three tech company employees along with family and friends charged in $1 million scheme

They should have just made YouTube livestreams pretending to be VItalik Buterin, Elon Musk, or Michael Saylor instead. Those guys making million every month, no arrests, no SEC.
I really really love having easy access to a reader view that isn't tied to a specific web browser. Thank you! \o/
Spotify paid 130 artists more than $5m in 2021
You made me laugh more than any joke in the article. The way of the world: when you want a thoughtful paragraph you get a list, when a list would be best you get something else.
it is very clunky though. there is no pattern matching support — you need to write non-trivial visitors to do any meaningful work and it takes the fun out of it. imo, Rust gets it right and borrows a lot of Haskell ergonomics
Great question. Models for generating plausible recipes have existed in some form for about a decade now.

Arguably the first "successful" attempt at this was Chef Watson, which blew my mind when it was first released in 2014 despite its well-documented tendency to suggest all kinds of spectacularly odd combinations of flavors and ingredients, like garlic ice cream and mayonnaise-spiked Bloody Marys[1].

It's worth noting that preprocessing the textual inputs isn't entirely necessary to produce somewhat reasonable, ML-generated recipes. For example GPT-3 is capable of generating fairly interesting zero-shot recipes, despite having been trained on raw text data without any preliminary feature selection to label (e.g.) a recipe's ingredients.[2] Still not exempt from the occasional wacky, whimsical suggestion[3], but I, for one, wouldn't want my ML-generated recipes any other way.

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016...

2. https://github.com/LARC-CMU-SMU/RecipeGPT-exp

3. https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-generated-recipes-three-cours...
This is one of the most impressive things I've seen lately built on top of WebAssembly.
I remember some years ago (10ish?) there was a push of Operating Systems in the browser, but they all mostly became unused long-term because the browser APIs where not as powerful then as they are now. I think those new APIs along with Wasm support changes completely that assumption.

Good work!
Amazing idea! I definitely will try it out. It's absolutly something i would pay to use!

I just wonder a few things:

1. The "Resources allocated to each app" on the plans page means that when i run an app, for example, i would have 8 GB for the app im running? What happens if i run two apps at same time?

2. How safe the platform is? I'm saying this, because if i put my personal data there to use my apps, how would i know that my data will not be stolen?

Apart from these questions i had, the platform looks amazing and will try it out soon.
Programming search is both one of its strong areas (we built Andi using Andi), but also the one with the most still to improve. So I'm grateful you tried it for that. We're doing pretty well with binning copycat and link farms in programming searches as well. Try asking some questions from documentation as well. Something like:

"what is the maximum memory you can allocate to an aws lambda function?"

Lots to do here. Thank you for your encouragement and the kind feedback. We've been working hard especially to get rid of spam from programming results, and it's one of the first areas we've made real progress on, with more to come!
If they reduced the salary by 3-6% but there’s no difference in the calculated high level metrics it means that they started spending that difference somewhere else.
Anchored in what way? The military did many concepts during the 1960s, like training pinniped to attack military subs. They didn't pan out. The plants that were built, especially those during the 1980, had nothing to do with the failed projects for nuclear weapons 2 decades earlier.

> Which as we know today did not pan out without huge subsidies.

Feel free to look up Swedish subsidies in the energy sector. Renewables get much more each year, as does fossil fuel. Nuclear power is currently the energy source in Sweden that get taxed highest per watt produced. Considering that those plants been operating for 40-50 years non-stop delivering consistently energy without releasing greenhouse gases, is taxed more than any other energy source, the claim of "huge subsidies" is plainly false in context of Swedish nuclear plants.

No nuclear bombs, less subsidies than any other energy source, no greenhouse gases. The military did not help fund the construction for them, nor are they using any aspect of the operation to research or build weapons. Sweden signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1968, 4 years before the first commercial nuclear plant. Sweden has been an active advocate for the Non-Proliferation Treaty for 50 years now.

Countries that combine nuclear power and nuclear weapons are those who refuses to sign the treaty, like the US, UK, France, China, Russia, India, Israel, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea. Sweden is not on that list.
>You said that as a means of supporting your larger point which is that capitalism is flawed. I am arguing that unfairness (as I defined it) is the whole essence of capitalism, which is very different from saying it's an unwanted byproduct of it. We want unfairness.

Thank you for the clarification. No we don't want unfairness. Wealth inequality is universally a very bad thing. Nobody wants this, you'd have to be insane to want it. That is unless you're the one doing the fucking.

Let me make one thing absolutely clear. I never said I prefer another system. I just said the current system is flawed. Please don't tell me to move to another country.

Also you obviously don't understand capitalism. Adam Smith originally conceived of the invisible hand that would influence market forces to distribute wealth fairly. This was the intent, the outcome is clearly not the case. Wealth is distributed unfairly with people who contribute the most to GDP not getting the most wealth.

The people who get the most wealth are owners of capital, not the people who generate or increase capital. The idea of capitalism started with the idea that wealth was fairly distributed. Modern economics now is fully aware that this is not the case and that there are huge flaws within capitalism even though there is currently no known superior system.

>It's equally possible for employees to fuck over employers, we just tend not to do it (for good reasons).

So? The problem here is every employee under a capitalist system is getting fucked over. So if I'm getting fucked over then of course I owe the employer nothing beyond stated business obligations.
I really mean Oberon.

The way ACME UI works, it is how the whole Oberon OS works, selecting text elements with mouse chords and executing commands if they happen to match Module.Command pattern.
That's kind of a nasty bait and switch, definitely not from scratch if you pick the indexer core up from GitHub on the way home after work.

Phil, I'm a bit disappointed in you. This hasn't been the sort of thing I've observed from your (excellent) prior writings.
Good to see this here!

I started using Maestral after finding myself increasingly annoyed by the unfortunately shitty experience of the official client on the Mac (and the lack of a native ARM release at the time). What I really like is that I haven’t ever really noticed it’s there, which is exactly what you want from a bit of software like this.

It’s a bit unfortunate that it doesn’t (or more accurately can’t) support smart sync, which is a very nice Dropbox feature. But it’s actually worth the sacrifice.
My friend and I have been working rigorously in our free time building a platform related to this space. We really feel that the community that forms around a creator is a creators biggest value capture. Our platform is intended to help centralize that community of core fans and give them ways to engage in deeper ways with one another. Looking to move out of our alpha stage in the near future.

https://aurdia.com/creators/
LOL, I thought the towing industry was already run by organized crime.
If you're worried about pre-OS code you will not believe what is running when your OS is running
That's extremely sad.
You're not wrong at all, but this line at the end really stuck out to me:

> If I’d articulated at the beginning how I expected to extract value from GlacierMD, maybe I would’ve researched the economics of an ad-based model, or I would’ve validated that doctors were willing to pay, or hospitals, or insurance companies.

The impression I got was this failure was induced by a complete lack of planning. It looks like the author had an idea, got some positive feedback, then drove the entire project based on random inputs they got from people. At no point do they talk about sitting down and doing the boring stuff. Like feasibility analysis, market studies, and developing a very, very basic concept of where the money will come from. The fact that the project had to fail before they realized they didn't think of how to monetize it is... baffling. That should be the one of first things you consider when trying to start a business: how will it make money?
I would like to know how much of an “improvement” in outcomes these tests bring.

From another article linked in the one from this discussion:

“In short: Our research has shown that, in most cases, we cannot reliably predict students will do well at MIT unless we consider standardized test results alongside grades, coursework, and other factors. These findings are statistically robust and stable over time, and hold when you control for socioeconomic factors and look across demographic groups. And the math component of the testing turns out to be most important.”

There seems to be a lot of hand-waving in that quote.

If the improvement is only marginal, we really need to ask, as a society, if the improvement is worth all the money, potential for cheating, angst, and outright conflict that come with maintaining these tests.

If we want better talent, we can invest more money and energy into building better schools and paying better salaries to teachers. If we want more diversity, we can target vulnerable communities specifically.

The test prep industry is milking families that care about (and might even be obsessed with) education. It encourages folks to think of the whole system as a rat race, and leads to selfishness and hoarding of knowledge.

If we did away with standardized testing and spent more money on schools and teachers, we could cultivate a perception of education as a public good. It would be less about who has more resources and more about raising the tide and giving more people a fair shot.
Wait, your state 529 plans penalize you for applying the funds to out of state schools? That sounds like a highly unusual setup. Not all states do this.
'High-Rise Hell’: NYC Skyscraper’s Elevator Breakdowns Strand Tenants
If you recast your civilization as simply the sum total of the economic activity generated by fungible worker-units, that's the sort of thing you get. A giant. somewhat dilapidated luxury shopping mall with a military attached.
> well, for one, members of congress are legally allowed to insider trade.

Are they?

Highlight link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act#:~:text=The%20law%20....
For others, embassy.dev are the main people working on embedded async.
Is Chrome clearing your cookies, or is Google invalidating them and pushing you to re-authenticate?

It seems wonky that Chrome would be going out of its way to delete stored cookies separate from their expiry timer, but much more plausible that Google is invalidating session tokens on the server side and making you re-authenticate.
Maybe. I'm just more than a little skeptical given that GP has a scant post history, and spends his other posts railing on about CRT being marxism.

There's a lot of people pedaling this kind of IQ stuff to justify blatant racism, so you'll forgive me for wanting to see the data and not just letting statements like that fly by unchallenged.
What do you think is the better way to test students for a specific univeristy?
The Knowledge Accelerator – Big Picture Thinking in Small Pieces
Because it's not as obvious regarding congress. Person A gets tip, hands to B and makes trade, is a direct link and can be proven in court. Also, Congress has 532 people, so by statistical certainty we should expect some to beat the market.
eInk/ePaper displays aren't cheap and getting them cheap requires buying pre-loved devices. The only way to drive down costs right now is bulk ordering. Unless your time is worth less than say $25/hr, this is likely much cheaper than building.
Save your click. Not a single joke is listed.