skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tried customer_id … That also worked!

What did you try exactly?

There's several of these "I changed X and got Y" without ever showing what X is, just alluding to it. That grinds my gears in any blog post, perhaps only second to not stating which version/system some code is running against.
Yes, this is not bad business niche, so existing news companies, usually have some sort of paid service exactly for this.

Unfortunately, these services are not advertised much, but usually, they could being found in lists of products of top information companies.
> experimental

mRNA vaccines may be fairly novel, but the technology is not new. And there are other, more conventional COVID vaccines out there.

> rushed

How can this argument be made today? The Emergency Use Authorization no longer applies to mRNA vaccines: they're fully approved, and billions of people have been vaccinated.

> bullshit

And this is just offensive, given the efficacy of COVID vaccines with regard to preventing death and serious illness. Big pharma may be greedy, but they've also saved millions of lives during this pandemic.

> Is this meant to be a snooty response to troll for a reply instead of an actual engagement based on your non elaborated assertions?

Yes, because arguing on forums and social media is completely pointless. If you ever win a debate with someone, they will simply vanish from the discussion instead of copping to it, and someone new will take their place. Besides, everyone knows all the arguments already. Reciting them just feels like a ritual at this point.

(One that I still feel like observing, alas, because people who blithely dismiss COVID vaccines really piss me off. I hope that the actual human beings that you talk to face to face with don't really believe that COVID vaccines are "bullshit," regardless of whether they choose to get vaccinated or not.)
FWIW, there was a near miss during a blue angels flyover a couple years ago.

https://youtu.be/Wh3TIy2gtPs
would a strike directly on the prop possibly cause a stall or some other force to move the fighter that far out of position, or change course that drastically? I'm curious given the distinct differences between piston engine and jet engine planes.
that is kinda neat. I've long thought we should move away from plain text for source code, when it is stored on disk, and rely on tools to present that source to the developer and the compiler in more efficient ways depending on who/what is doing reading the source.

not at all sure that SQL is a good approach, but it's something that isn't plain text files, so it's kinda nice to see.
Oh, thanks for mentioning this, I wasn't aware of its existence.

(Nice intro for anyone else interested: https://hlorus.github.io/CAD_Sketcher/getting_started/#creat...)

It's cool that CAD Sketcher is able to build on the Solvespace solver. I played around a bit with Solvespace in its early days as I liked the constraint-based approach but the... very "specific" :D aesthetic of its UI didn't quite gel with me as much as it clearly does with others. :)

Will watch CAD Sketcher development with interest!
Didnt they say that they would always be separate teams? Im not surprised by this move but surprised because I could swear when they bought it they said they would maintain both teams...
Did you learn that recently because you have young children into dinosaurs or did you already know that information? Curious because Im now so deep into dinosaur era fauna (which is why i know that fun fact) and space knowledge as a function of kids, and its great!
I've had better luck with Linux than Windows, especially when running 32-bit software on 64-bit hardware.
not only multiplied, in number, but these can also be antigen primed to a very specific suite of targets
I think probably memgraph.com is what's going on with neo4j
That’s not how it was marketed.

I used the Dover and its postscript predecessor (I can’t remember the name) so I’m familiar with the page description languages described in the article (I was at PARC for a while). PDF was supposed to go beyond that, and its parametric model was a conceptual win…then mostly constrained as a semantic-free rendering system.
Totally unrelated to the question of whether vaccines are efficacious or not.

If I was from Germany or the UK, why would I even care what the CDC said? The study linked at the top of this thread finds this effect across all developed nations.
TYVYS shadowbanning and silently removing comment is such cowardly behavior. Against spam bots, fine. But against what are obviously real people? It's wrong.
Hmm, it's been awhile for me - I entered military training in 1980. ("In those days, wearing an onion on our belt as was the custom" - sorry :), I initially trained with a bog-standard civilian instructor at our local college (for those in ROTC) for about 20 hours, with most of us soloing after 10 hours and mostly being judged on simple airmanship and attitude. I paid for the next 20 hours myself with a different instructor and happily learned to fly off a tiny little grass strip and got my private. At UPT I think I had around 20 hours in the T-37 to first fly solo, and probably less in the T-38, since we had probably 100 hours by the time we go to the higher speed jet. We didn't do a whole lot of solo as I remember because there were specific agenda items that needed to be covered dual (formation work, instrument work, etc.), rather than just giving the kids the keys to the jets and letting them wander around the country. I recall that I graduated with about 175 hours, plus perhaps 100 hours of simulator time. The training all together lasted a year and was a full-time job with a flight or two every other day or so, plus lots of academics. I couldn't properly comment on the scheduling of the flight schools that are run for civilian pilots, other than to think they've got a decent track record and certainly meet whatever the FAA minimums are - the basics of flying indeed are pretty much the same and having 1000 hours of reasonably solid time already would be pretty good for the new aircraft experience training you're really getting, I'd think. Having the personal budget of both time and money to pursue training without rush or struggle is going to be the best thing you can do for yourself if that's within your control.

Edit: to add a little to this since I started thinking about it, while the total flight time seems fairly low, we would go fly in absolutely any weather short of an actual thunderstorm, and the IPs for the most part made the students do the flying/navigating/communicating/planning/etc. Flying close formation in drafty clouds with pounding rain would humble a low-time pilot, and occasionally it'd be bad enough to get a grunt out of the mostly drowsing (it seemed) graybeard in the backseat. My last assignment in the AF was to go teach UPT (at the base I learned at), and hoo boy, did I see that the vast majority of the stress that the students underwent was mostly self-induced and the flying was about as basic as we could do - it just seemed (and was) hard for the students because we all were so, to paraphrase a great philosopher, unknowing about our unknowns.

Anyway, I'm sure you'll do fine learning to fly the L-39. It's a popular and comparatively affordable jet airplane I understand and looks like fun.
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In fairness, I believed I was paying $10k for a couple specific existing features and that anything else was Elon's insane dreams with no basis in reality.

Honestly, the main surprise to me is that I assumed Tesla would keep shipping minor quality of life improvements/features while they kept lying about FSD, but I hadn't accounted for the possibility they'd actually pivot all their dev cycles onto the Fraud Project.
I strongly disagree, most software engineers will not have excellent knowledge of modelling, and someone who is mainly a data scientist will not be able to compete with a dedicated engineer that studied distributed systems, kubernetes, and knows undefined C behaviour by heart.

When building a house, the guy that lay concrete are welders are different people, Anastesiologists and surgeons are not interchangeable, etc.

Many Industries will produce code, just like many people often need to nail two wooden bits together, but that does not make them a qualified structural engineer.
there many hype like releases, with bold claims you can't verify, but very few cases when results are good enough to be applied on real world tasks.
Would love to know why the title of this story was re-written to majorly soften it (it was the number 1 story when published as Google Ads are down worldwide)
Paradox is making turn-based 4X games that's not what people think when you say Real-Time Strategy.
In auto shop, we were told that a car should be run at high rpm routinely enough to remove/prevent a hard wear edge in a cylinder, which could then present a hard limit if the that car was once, rarely, run at high accelleration/power. I recall a reference to the piston rods stretching more at higher rpm. So you don't want to buy the used car "which was only driven to church on Sunday."
Tell her to make a new account and see how many accounts she can complete.
A decade would be nice.
He didn't agree to hand over all rights to the work
Stable diffusion, for Chatgpt, I like it.
> How many times?

Once.
> How did you even find it?

When you submit with the same link, HN brings you to the post.

I'm pretty into this topic, having spent the last four years trying to raise awareness about it. First I thought it was only one political side abusing it, then I thought it was only Reddit, and this summer I realized it was happening on every platform. I suppose others have known for longer but FWIW this is a talk I gave on what I know [1], and an HN discussion on it [2]. See also my other comment in this thread about where else it happens [3].

It's hard to figure out how to tell the story about what's going on because it keeps expanding. I've learned something new about this almost every day for a long time. I think it does boil down to a single point though, which may be treat others how you want to be treated. That doesn't always win out in the real world, but it does when the issue is big enough.

[1] https://cantsayanything.win/2022-10-transparent-moderation/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33475391

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916414
Spanish condors - they look bigger when they suddenly appear in your way.
Then half of all crypto is a mere failure to realize a long-term, aspirational goal (the moon), not fraud.
The DMCA notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2022/12/2022-12-0...

And the complaint itself:

> On GitHub at https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patches there is a patch that unlocks the subscription without payment for "Pflotsh ECMWF" and various other products.

If that’s true, this can’t really be very controversial?
True!

I remember "upgrading" from ipython as a terminal REPL to ipython notebooks when it was a shiny new thing.

Since though, I've more or less joined the anti-notebook camp and use the ipython REPL almost exclusively. My workflow, interestingly, is a callback to how MatLab, R-Studio, Spyder (and probably other IDEs, especially those catered to data or scientific work) traditionally facilitate work, which is to edit source along with a REPL and some interactions between source code and the REPL for some sort of quasi REPL driven development. With ipython as a REPL, and the ability to just dump code from source into the REPL, I find notebooks way too bloated for most needs while providing the niceties of an actual text editor or IDE with all the normal linting etc that jupyter are struggling to provide last I checked.

As you imply, it's a bit of a shame. Ipython (REPL) and the kernel interface are probably the best parts of the jupyter ecosystem.
Personally, I'd like to do both the data science and the engineering. I'd also like to be in a team where each member does both. I at least "feel" like these two skills are close enough spiritually to one another that you can find a team composed entirely of people that do both.
Elon Musk and His Fans Create a Conspiracy Theory About Wikipedia
Why has the title been changed from the article's actual title of "Concrete Built The Modern World. Now It’s Destroying It." to part of the summary?

Aside from that, interesting, and with the odd funny line, if not completely from the author themself:

> One booklet described it as a “concrete temple enthroned in a mineral universe,” another as akin to the great pyramids of Egypt, except “useful.”
I think the keyword to look for is „bootstrapping compilers“
TYVYS?
And they did for 9.5 years.
Assuming you're writing actually detailed and complete user stories and those user stories are for functionality that basically amounts to "just math" (i.e. no UI or API standards or whatever to worry about alongside the business logic) I imagine it's not much more difficult or time consuming to just write the code rather than describing it in a user story.

Having one person write user stories and a second person, who understands the domain less than the first person write the actual code would be twice as much work for a worse result.
I've been playing with this the last few minutes.

The ergonomics of Bumblebee are so perfect.

I've also been doing the fastai course, where you learn Gradio and pytorch.

Python has such a messy library story. I'm not a python developer, and coming into this ecosystem and trying to make things work with pip, conda, docker, etc. It's a mess.

I like Gradio, and built a few small apps, but it is still messy compared to Bumblebee.

Livebook + Bumblebee is magical. I'm productive in an instant, and the opportunity to build with Elixir and Phoenix makes this so exciting.

I'm blown away.
It's fine, as articles go, but I submitted this in part because Jimmy Wales tweeted that it was the best article about how Wikipedia actually works that he's ever seen. "How Wikipedia actually works, contrary to the expectation of onlookers" is a hobby horse of mine. It's a whole Vice article about AfD!
Well, sure you don't want to hit anything unless you want to hit it, but doing so is unlikely to be the mushroom cloud event that seems to be believed occurs when hitting a drone.
Yeah, that's a better way of putting it :) 90% of the time, I'm something like Sequence[T], but I'm sure I've used Sequence[Optional[T]] a couple of times. I mean, I could drive donuts in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot at 3a, I just don't, and the same for heterogenous lists.
Where are you based? Id love to hear more about this set of adventures over tea or coffee sometime
The Blancolirio channel is pretty respected when it comes to covering aviation incidents. (Seriously, the first article of the site linked in the parent comment was just talking about most expensive airports for Christmas car parking.)
> when it doesn't impact your daily life or choices

I don't think this is correct.

Theism vs atheism has pretty drastic impacts on how you live your life. If you believe that you are going to hell unless you do X, Y and Z, you are going to make sacrifices to accomplish those requirements.
Apparently you can avoid hallucination by basically reading the model’s mind instead of asking it questions.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03827

Raises some ethical issues…
I believe that clause had an end date of 5 years after the acquisition, google kept their end far longer than that, but it’s still sad to see
I gave chatgpt some python code and it told me that the loop would never execute, determined what was wrong with it and suggested a change which it then said would never terminate unless a check was added.
Have you.... even lived in a city? You see miles of idling cars in cities... do you think those are city residents sitting in cars? Those cars are suburban commuters. People in cities don't own cars. You know that right? The whole point of living in a city is to avoid wasting hours of your life every day sitting in a car. What a depressing existence that is. And even so, the miles and miles of highway are an order of magnitude more - you just don't experience it the same way so it's hard to compare. Think about it.

It's not really debated that the carbon emissions of suburban life is an order of magnitude more than urban life. They just aren't comparable.
Of course, the history of AI is one of punctuated equilibrium, so it might be 30-50 years before the next 10x advance shows up, with nothing very interesting happening in the meantime.

But my thinking is that 30-50 years isn't that long, compared to the magnitude of the changes in the nature of knowledge work that may become possible.
Larry and Sergei do not have to listen to owners. They can do whatever they want as long as they can credibly claim they believed it was good for the company in some sense.
There's a difference between having long term aspirational goals, and taking money from people promising to deliver it. Feels a bit like snake oil to me.
As pointed out by Yannic[0], ChatGPT is actually a source code model first, then they trained natural language model on top of that. Source code is still language but it has more math in it.

But the truth is we don’t know. I personally wouldn’t be surprised if they do train it on a whole bunch of calculator output to boost its numerical reasoning.

[0] https://youtu.be/0A8ljAkdFtg 7:21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace

There was a patent lawsuit in the 90s about drive compression software in DOS 6.2. It was yanked in .21, and re-added in .22 with some changes.
Every person I introduce to reveddit has the exact same reaction. Shock and righteous indignation.
They won't. It is easy to detect AI generated answers (link in the parent thread).

Also the algorithms for detecting fake facts (e. g. "politician_name was born at <random date>") also exist; for knowledge graphs like Google Knowledge Graph it is fully automated; if a website consistently outputs answers that contradict other sources, GKG increases penalty coefficients for all facts from this source.
Damn I tried turning off my adblock just to see but it's probably been years since I've seen those sites _with_ ads so I have no way to relate to this experience
I suspect this is the case, but IMHO the practice should be illegal. If you accept returns for the purpose of price reduction you should just do the price reduction directly, both for the sake of the environmental cost and as a matter of treating consumers decently.
A shadowban has the property that it's hidden from the user. Elon seems to want to make these kinds of actions transparent, like, for instance, deboosted tweets being visible as deboosted by their creator/other users, which is a pretty big difference. This difference is already visible in initial intent: Twitter hid what they were doing https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1022658436704731136, while Elon is explicitly saying what he will do.
"Ad Manager is not delivering ads for affected users" is definitely a reasonable title, I am also curious on why it was changed into a vaguer title (which is very likely a mod edit).
Zoom already supports screen sharing with pipewire.
I got a lot of other things to dread, AI is far down on that list.
This is a bizarre take. The suburbs of the Bay Area are often wealthier and better run than the cities. In fact, it's true of most major cities. The urban core is likely lower income and the surrounding suburbs are where the wealthy live.

Kind of weird to talk about "living on a bunch of credit cards" when it's the cities who seem to burn cash with little to show for it.
Was it correct?
If you need people to be on an 'altruistic mission' to support them doing something, you're really narrowing your options.

If someone does something that helps a situation we should support it.
just teach them to download adblock. It might be an annoying 20 minutes of your life but it'll do wonders for their mental health in the long run
> It's my worst nightmare whenever I'm flying these days.

Maybe if someone is deliberately flying near an airport and moves into the exact right position at the right time without first being spotted

But in practice, mainstream drones are GPS locked to not fly anywhere near airports and it's not really realistic to just accidentally get a drone too close to an airplane anywhere else. Also, the sky is a massive place and drones have limited flight time. I think the drone-airplane collision fears are greatly exaggerated outside of unique low-altitude specialty flying like airshows.
https://twitter.com/44/status/1601027028144115712?s=46&t=Vtd...
That‘s a bit like calling credit card payment fraud negligible by contrasting it with all monetary movements, including HFT trading volumes and interbank payment flows.
be advised ITAR restrictions probably still apply regardless how benign the intent. thats not to say its impossible, there would be redtape to complete, if you are dronating certain devices or tech.

United States has these requirements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
Google Maps claims that much of the bay’s 101 is 55 mph. I don’t know if I believe that, but if true then it’s standard to do 20 above here.
Yep, I always tell people that the "plumbing" is by far the most important part of most software projects.

The actual business problems basically solve themselves if you can write all the glue between them in a way that doesn't add extra cognitive load.
If chatgpt cost money, I would pay for it. It's too useful for my work and one beautiful side effect I noticed is that it'll give me momentum.

That analysis paralysis you get sometimes before going on a long code run? Gone when the initial idea burst chatgpt gave me. It's a wonderful wonderful product. I'm floored at how good it is, and how useful it has become so quickly to my workflow.

I'd pay for it _today_.
I wonder how much CO2 emissions have been saved from 24 hours of the internet without ads
It's appeared on #27 and then be flagged. Just wow HN.
> Why does big tech, including HN all have the same auth-left wing bias?

I think intelligent people are abnormally capable of self-deception.
Aside from Indium Gallium paste drying out as another post mentioned, it also has significant downsides. A big one is that it's electrically conductive so if it gets on the motherboard or oozes off the cpu, it can short out things on the motherboard. Another one is that the gallium in liquid metal will react with metals like aluminum, copper, and nickel and over the long term might cause bad things to occur.