skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't context matter? If I went on a site mostly used by doctors to discuss medicine and posted my guide to doctoring french fries, wouldn't that sort of implicitly be saying I consider myself to be a doctor too? Wouldn't it either be offensive or a joke, if not an offensive joke?
You’re comparing single-year market value of a commodity that is dug straight out of an open pit with multi-year capital investment into one of the most advanced technologies the human race has created, currently offered by a single company? I’m not sure where to begin with that.

How much money do you think it takes to finance and build a lithium mine? How much capital investment is there in lithium right now? A lot.
> This company is planning to spend 1bn just this year in order to run some numbers through someone else's algorithm.

“Just”? Reductive mischaracterizations like this are not useful. It looks like a rhetorical technique. What is the actual argument?

It doesn’t matter much “whose” algorithm it is or isn’t, unless IP is important. But in these areas, the ideas and algorithms underlying language models are out there. The training data is available too, for varying costs. Some key differentiators include scale, timeliness, curation, and liability.

> Clearly it's all bullshit. There's no way they need that much and somebody will be siphoning it all off.

There is plenty of investor exaggeration out there. But what percentage of your disposable money would you put on the line to bet against? On what timeframe?

If I had $100 M of disposable wealth, I would definitely not bet against some organizations in the so-called AI arms race becoming big winners.

Again, I’m seeing the pattern of overreaction to perceived overreaction.
Levi's is already using AI models. AI will do some of the work that would have gone to a fashion photographer, but not 100% in 1 year.
Everything being a vector is one of the best things about R. You can write a function that looks sensible for scalars:

in_circle <- function(x, y) {
x^2 + y^2 <= 1
}

It works as you would expect:

> in_circle(.2, .3)
[1] TRUE
> in_circle(1, 1)
[1] FALSE

But you can also evaluate `in_circle` for multiple points with a single function call. You can pass in vectors as arguments, and you'll get back the results as a vector:

> in_circle(c(.2, 1), c(.3, 1))
[1] TRUE FALSE

Since the columns of a data frame, a tibble, or a data table are all vectors, it becomes very natural to apply simple functions to them. With tibbles:

> data <- tibble(a = c(.2, 1), b = c(.3, 1))
> data
# A tibble: 2 × 2
a b
<dbl> <dbl>
1 0.2 0.3
2 1 1
> data %>% mutate(inside = in_circle(a, b))
# A tibble: 2 × 3
a b inside
<dbl> <dbl> <lgl>
1 0.2 0.3 TRUE
2 1 1 FALSE
It depends. Terrain, vehicle, tires, and driver all play a role. Lockers and 4wd aren't always necessary to be effective but they can usually help.

It might surprise you what can be done with a sedan.
This is so true.

Another factor: when there are people in pictures, they're often looking at phones.

My Dad ( https://petermcgrath.me/#/people ) is a great enthusiast of "street photography." He doesn't sell his work, but it's more than a hobby for him--Garry Winograd was one of his graduate school instructors and he's been shooting actively since the late 1960s.

He says his big challenge in the last decade has been finding interesting shots of people when most in a crowd are looking down.
To be fair, what transfers is determined by the school you're transferring to. Then on top of that you have to match up the requirements for your major, i.e. you might have a CC science course that is accepted by the university but doesn't meet the science required by your major. I suspect there are a LOT of CC students who only have vague goals of transferring somewhere to finish a four year degree (I was one of them many years ago), and in many cases it's just going to be difficult to give them solid advice.
It would probably pay for itself in reduced fuel/rolling resistance when going fast in a straight line on the highway.

The design could be as simple as a $15 compressor bolted inside each wheel, powered by either the rotation of the wheels or a slipring arrangement.
How many more laws like this one need to get passed for people to stop saying Brexit was the worst thing that could have happened to the UK?
A game engine agnostic third person camera math implementation
I was referring to social studies. Biology on the other hand is a real science. A science has laws.
If your team's just 5 people, having a strong leader can make the difference. But with a whole business, it's no longer about one strong leader. The more people you have, the more you have to invest in levelling up individual performance. Almost universally that doesn't scale, so instead you work on process, and use that process, not individual leadership, to ensure better results.
Though I don't entirely agree, your premises are incorrect.

1. Online is not inherently better than a CC. A CC is not entirely in person, either.

2. High achieving peer groups are not necessary. They simply need to be good enough

3. Prestige and signaling is relative - again this is adjusted to the community. A community where there are not schools could still benefit from a CC.

4. You could certainly fun at a CC, but you're right that the dorms help a lot.
How exactly was the 'hat' pattern arrived at? Was it through experiment or through an analytic process.
> fewer shading units

This is incorrect. NVIDIA uses a unified graphics and compute engine. A CUDA core is a shading unit. These datacenter GPUs have a shit ton of these (CUDA cores).

Edit: actually the point I want to make is the A100 only retains those hardware units which can be used for compute. Some of these units may have a (dual) use for graphics processing but that is besides the point (since this is true of all CUDA enabled NVIDIA GPUs).
I had a homeless stint. I did day labor for money and parked my tent in places where it was legal for me to stay, or where I hadn't been trespassed and wasn't marked, thus it would not be illegal unless someone asked me to leave and I didn't. In many states camping on property isn't illegal unless you've been trespassed, it is posted, or it is gated off etc.

Plenty of homeless people who don't commit crime, you just don't notice them because they aren't bothering anyone.
I did this and was 100% successful, although the article propagandizes by asking what percentage of students once considered possibly obtaining a bachelors degree in the future which I'm sure is very high, whereas I was in a specific program with a specific track directly primarily toward cooperating with the transfer schools, so our success rate was very high (something like 80% got their BS degree along with me).

Also my CC fed the state U system and three private colleges, not solely state U.
For me those are different use-cases. In this one, I just need someone to run me through HN while I drive to work, they don't need to have a personality
There will not be technical writers or technical documentation. It will just be whatever the engineers output.

Companies will train an LLM on their product and users will simply interface with that AI. Or there will be a common AI (like chatGPT) that companies offer up all their gross engineering speak documentation to train on.
It's disheartening to see such a myopic and misinformed perspective on the complex issue of homelessness and addiction. I personally know a number of former addicts who were helped by SF's compassionate approach to the issue. To claim that "every single policy" enacted by activists does nothing to help the situation is an oversimplification that disregards the multifaceted nature of these problems. Your sweeping generalizations about San Francisco's progressive policies not only lack nuance but also betray a deep-seated ideological bias.

It's essential to recognize that the increase in homelessness is not merely a result of "far-left policies," but rather a combination of various factors such as housing shortages, economic disparities, and systemic issues. Dismissing the entire progressive approach as a "failed experiment" is a narrow-minded view that stifles any potential for constructive dialogue on the matter.

Additionally, insinuating that all progressives are interested only in lining their pockets with government money is a baseless accusation that only serves to further divide the conversation. Your hostility toward progressive policies and activists detracts from any meaningful discussion about finding long-term solutions to homelessness and addiction.

If we are to make any progress in addressing these issues, it's crucial to engage in an open, honest, and evidence-based dialogue, rather than resorting to incendiary rhetoric and unfounded accusations. A more balanced and informed perspective is necessary to truly understand the complexities of the situation and work towards sustainable solutions.
Yes I work in automotive and have routinely replaced ECUs. I work for an American OEM, I guess we don’t pair ecus to each vehicle. Unless its ecm/tcm/radio/security gateway and probably the key fob ecu. Everything else is just a part number that you can easily swap out. The few screws holding the controller and the wiring connector(assuming the controller is easily accessible)…
Though I own an Audi and use VCDS I was not familiar with pairing an ecu to the vehicle, however I was aware of coding in the VCDS. (I have not yet needed to swap an ecu on my car)
“Why is the blender component selection system as it currently is a problem?”
Thanks for the link. I knew i was ignorant on the subject, Just seemed like a great deal. Apparently too good to be true.
Historically grown indeed ;-) It's fine to segment the market with a separate enterprise plan, I agree! I believe "keeping security hostage" by only allowing it for way too high prices (multiple of previous tier) is not right though.
A solution to transportation related climate change, traffic, and parking infrastructure is trains. The scenario isn't EVs or nothing.
If the EU is willing to hold you financially liable for something you provided for free with no promise of it functioning or being safe to use, might they also hold you financially liable even though you said it shouldn't be used by anyone in the EU?
A huge factor you're overlooking here is that a lot of the time there simply is no effective treatment.
It'll be that price multiplied by how many SaaS tools you use, each of which will have some premium for their Enterprise plan supporting SSO, and typically they won't be transparent about what the price is or how to sign up for it, so you'll then have to go through the steps of negotiating an enterprise plan. Spending a few minutes to figure out their API sounds more fun
Usually the teams know what they need to build based on user feedback (which we get a lot of).

We don't have Product Managers, the developers are expected to be very product-focused and user-facing. After every launch week we ask them what they want to build and then they get to work.
This is an interesting recent addition to the Wikipedia article.

From the summary:

> In 2019 and 2023, historians of psychiatry published evidence that the experiment is a hoax.

And following the link:

> In The Great Pretender, a 2019 book on Rosenhan, author Susannah Cahalan questions the veracity and validity of the Rosenhan experiment. Examining documents left behind by Rosenhan after his death, Cahalan finds apparent distortion in the Science article: inconsistent data, misleading descriptions, and inaccurate or fabricated quotations from psychiatric records. Moreover, despite an extensive search, she is only able to identify two of the eight pseudopatients: Rosenhan himself, and a graduate student whose testimony is allegedly inconsistent with Rosenhan's description in the article. In light of Rosenhan's seeming willingness to bend the truth in other ways regarding the experiment, Cahalan questions whether some or all of the six other pseudopatients might have been simply invented by Rosenhan.[11][12] In February 2023, Andrew Scull of the University of California at San Diego published an article[13] in the peer-reviewed journal History of Psychiatry in support of Cahalan's allegations.

Still - it’s scary how many rights you lose once you’ve been declared unwell. We might just want to start using more recent evidence since that experiment has come under question.
> There’s also solutions to FTL travel that don’t have to violate causality. Space itself is expanding faster than light.

But you can't use expansion of space to move matter or to travel. You could even argue that distant galaxies aren't even moving at all, they just appear to do so because the distance between them and us increases. Comparing velocities of distant objects in curved spacetime is tricky in general.
Mostly. There are some exceptions. For example, with cars, tires are often warrantied directly with the tire manufacturer. Also, in the case of material defect, e.g. the airbag issue a number of years back, the auto manufacturer is mostly the entity on the hook for consumers but there are absolutely various liabilities up the supply chain.
Oh, please, same thing here.

Let's do us all one better and nail this down.

"Predictable, repeatable action"
Nah, it's all vector so it's a fine format choice.
It means that the web is built on top of a bunch of working draft specifications.

If you work in the web space you quickly learn to shrug, double check that browsers do actually implement this version, and proceed.
This was the obvious next step to anyone paying attention. I refer to my earlier comment on a recent thread regarding AI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35512567
40 Years of Dyalog APL
Show HN: Self Sovereign Verification – don’t pay for verified
Hi HN, I’m excited to share a prototype[1] that enables self-sovereign verification. It uses public key signatures to establish a trusted relationship.

In light of the recent Twitter spat between Elon Musk and The NY Times[2][3], I thought it would be useful to demonstrate how verification can be done without reliance on platforms / third parties.

Here's how it works, let’s say Alice is on Twitter and wants to prove to Bob that she is a NY Times reporter.

1. The NY Times will create a signing key pair, and publish their public key on their website.

2. Alice will also create a key pair.

3. Alice will create a document that includes her public key, name, twitter handle, position at the NY Times and any other information (i.e. “claims”), Alice will self sign this document.

4. Alice will send this to the NY Times, where the NY Times will verify the validity of Alice’s relationship, if valid the NY Times will sign this document.

5. The NY Times will publish this signed document or send it back to Alice to publish.

6. Alice will then link to the signed document from her Twitter bio.

7. Bob can now verify that Alice works at the NY Times by following the links and verifying the signatures and information in the signed document.

The repo [1] enables you to generate a key pair, sign an object, and verify signatures on a signed object. There is also a script to generate HTML pages to publish (it takes signed objects and a root public key as input). I also made a simple verifier page where you can link a signed document to verify signatures.

You can see a working example of how my cofounder, Jenna, and I leveraged this to establish a relationship between our domain and our twitter handles.

- https://v.arxsky.com/ - List / Index

- https://v.arxsky.com/jenna - Jenna’s Verified Credential

- https://v.arxsky.com/michael - Michael’s Verified Credential

- https://v.arxsky.com/verifier - Demo verifier to check signatures

I’m bullish on extending the usability of public key cryptography beyond its current uses (e.g. HTTPS, SSH). I’m also bullish on a self-sovereign world where this technology enables privacy, data ownership, interoperability, and security. Ultimately these will create a more trusted and human driven internet.

Excited to hear what the community thinks, and what questions or ideas you have.

Thank you!

—

1 - https://github.com/arxskycom/ssi-verification/

2 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/30/new-york-t...

3 -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/04/02/elon-musk-...
Show HN: Open-source platform to Standardise API Integrations using GraphQL
Founder here,
Poozle integrates different APIs [Gmail, JIRA, Github, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Slack etc.] and provides a single GraphQL layer to integrate third party APIs and perform CRUD operations.

In our previous jobs, we did many integrations, but we found that there is no standardization to the process. We had to write separate authentication code for each application, and for some applications, we had to integrate via APIs because the SDKs were stale. We also found that some integrations were completed quickly, while others took longer.

Started working full time on this idea from Jan’23 but the real progress have happened in the last 7 weeks.I strongly believe open source is the only way to create standardisation for API integrations.
What a throw back you mean! Haven't seen one of those in years
Because the EU wants to make sure someone else than the user liable for everything. Fully controlling the Internet is part of this development. It started with cookie laws and is now creeping towards total controlism a la China.

In the EUs model of social democracy citizens does not need to bear responsibility for their actions, but it’s government’s job to enforce everything is in harmony. “Someone else” e.g. corporates are responsible for any negative outcomes. Whether or not open source, or many other Internet produced contents, fits into this model is secondary. This is also very easy for politicians to sell as the evil is always outside (US corporations, China, Russia) and there is never anything wrong with country or its citizens themselves. If people can go to Internet and hurt themselves e.g. by downloading an application or a package of course it must be someone else’s liability.
The challenge is you then have someone whose specialty is law making psychological / spiritual / developmental determinations.
Agreed, fake photos. They're real images.
Because in the long term the world does not act like a glass of water: there are currents and gravity.
Maybe the safest approach is to firewall them off of the internet. They can have their own bureaucratic paradise without involving the rest of us in their mad schemes.
Real-Time FedNow Expected to Boost Instant Payments
> Do you want to force payment processors to do work they don't want to do? Isn't there a word for that?

Public utility. That’s what payment processors are at this point, and they should be regulated as such.
Also, I very much like their chatbots, Claude-instant and (paid) Claude+, which are available via Poe.com. But for some reasons, they do almost no marketing for it. Gpt-4 has better reasoning capabilities, but Claude+ is somehow "more pleasant" to talk to (my subjective impression), and it can also assemble the answer much quicker. Overall, I'd say Anthropic is very advanced already, but they prefer to be under radar.
I Like Powershell
Quality of education was the real issue for my son compared to when I attended the same school.

I was taught by local business leaders and real human instructors while he was 'guided' through many online sessions using computer-based curriculum. This strategic change dramatically lowered his interactive learning opportunities and made success very difficult. Frankly, it was the one of the most disappointing thing I had ever seen.

Ultimately, he gave up and switched to a technical school and moved on with his life rather than dig a mountain of debt for nothing.

People vote with their dollars and their feet.
Improved Unix socket networking in QEMU 7.2
It's pretty clear that Joe Armstrong respecting that the speed of light is a thing and that data locality/data gravity are real is starting to pay off in big ways.

I do wonder if maybe streaming large data chunks over Erlang distribution might be a problem and a secondary data channel (e.g. over udp or sctp) might be worth playing with.

Looking forward to NX transformations that take distributed training next level.
> The world of (actually!) distributed database design has significantly moved on since then.

What are some of the significant movements since then?
I really hope that companies stop putting SSO/SCIM into a separate plan but allow using it in lower plans.

Thanks for the idea. That makes sense. We hope that more recipes can be added soon so that there is more coverage for everyone.
Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine
I am still running an Intel Mac Mini from 2013 which was relatively lousy in various ways, is not getting MacOS update anymore, but it is still running strong with an Intel SSD. I just built a monster tower PC with AMD's latest but I am in no rush to replace the mac.
I don't know if that was the schools issue or what is going on in higher-education in general. I've been out of college for over 30 years but I like to take a class every year to learn things -I like a classroom setting. The first time I did this it was at the local CC and the prof was really behind the times are far as what is going on in industry, I learned a lot of good basics but I felt bad for the other students because they were learning stuff that was relevant 5 years ago. That said the students were fucking horrible, they were on their phones or playing games on the computers and didn't contribute or pay very much attention. The prof didn't seem to care and gave everyone an A because he didn't want to figure out Virtual Box. I've taken other classes at other universities, some of the best in the country and I'm not particularly impressed some are good and others are indifferent, like so many things you get out what you put in and you can't rely on a prof to inspire you.
> It’s a more fragmented electorate, with fault lines liberals can use to bypass the need to achieve consensus for social change. It’s an end-run around democracy that ultimately frays our system of self governance.

Methinks you have an overly-idealized notion of how democracy works (or at least its U.S. variant).
a16z 2023 State of Crypto: Introducing the State of Crypto Index
claude-instant-v1 is one of the "best kept secrets".

It is comperable in quality to gpt-3.5-turno, while being four times faster (!) and at half the price (!).

We just released a minimal python library PyLLMs [1] to simplify using various LLMs (openai, anthropic, AI21..) and as a part of that we designed a LLM benchmark. All open source.

[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/pyllms/tree/main#benchmarks
went to Disneyland for the first time two weeks ago, I'm almost certain they have mastered holographic displays. not sure if that would be considered mainstream or not, since it's still their proprietary magic tech, but it was fascinating.
What about extradition treaties? Do I need to be concerned about someone in Europe misusing my mathematical expression parser library in a medical device, people die, and then I get extradited?

I heard a third-hand story about a Boeing engineer held responsible for an aircraft crash in China, and the US was going to extradite him to China. He committed suicide. Don't know if it was true, although it was a Boeing employee who told me about it, and she certainly thought it was true.