skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of genuine curiosity, which medical conditions preclude train travel but are fine for commercial air travel?

Rail has pretty smooth acceleration, no sudden pressure changes, more accessible in case of emergency and no risk of turbulences
its very good for the first time you make something or if you arent used to the kitchen at a friends place, but efficient home cooking doesnt really resemble efficient restaurant cooking
Sure, but I thought it was obvious you wouldn't use one word. I'm saying a six megabyte file plus a one line shell script is enough to generate secure passwords with just four words by producing something like "Gargantuan Lackadaisical Lugubrious Flibbertigibbet" which while a bit of a mouthful isn't terribly difficult to memorize compared to 76 bits of line noise or even base64.
Megabyte sounds tiny.
Insane.

School shootings are genuinely frightful, not the subject of artificial fear-mongering.

This shallow and ideological analysis represents such a callous disregard for the trauma that any child would experience is they had to go through that.
I found a couple in my (earth)worm bin a couple years ago (also in the OC). That might be a good way to bait them, actually.
There are roughly three ways you can look at files.

The first is the traditional way: a file is a bag of bytes. Operating systems could do a better job of handling bags of bytes (really, they should default to making sure that the bags of bytes are updated atomically--you either see only the old bag of bytes or the new bag of bytes, never a weird mixture of both), but this is the fundamental view that most APIs tend to expose.

The second is a file is a collection of fixed-sized blocks, stored at not-necessarily-contiguous offsets. This is where something like mmap comes into play, or sparse storage files. A lot of higher-level formats actually tend to built on this model, and this tends to be how underlying storage thinks of files.

The third is that a file is a collection of data structures. It's tempting to think that the OS should expose this view of files natively in its API, but this turns out to be a really bad idea. If you limit it to well-supportable primitives, it's too simple for many applications, so they need to build their own serialization logic anyways. Cast too wide a net, and now applications have to worry about representing things they can't support. Or you take a third option and have a full serialization/deserialization framework that allows custom pluggable things, which is a ticking time bomb for security.
Interesting to see if/how this is different (or maybe built upon) Segment Anything[0].

For folks in the know: I often see segmentation models on video frames producing patchy results (see the DinoV2 video of the running dog, the body gets black patches randomly, so the segmentation fails for certain frames). What methods are folks using to deal with this - standard fine-tuning, or is there a way to "force" the area to be cleanly segmented (ie, add a bounding box around the class to supplement the data)?

And is it something that can be implemented in foundation models, or are we always going to have patchy zero-shot results like this on video files?

[0]https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything
I guess that's the motivation, but China likely reads it as the west trying to keep it down or the west preparing for war.
> It certainly beats the average human at many tasks already

This is not the revolution you think it is.

```python
> 338383*887282
... ANSWER ...
```

Yet skynet never came.
It's tempting to say that the only people with longer memories and deeper resentment than the descendants of Eastern European blood feuds are the OG Hewlett-Packard employees who were there when Fiorina took over. But the truth is, Boeing employees who predate the McDonnell-Douglas merger make them both look like gracious exemplars of forgiveness.

Those folks are sore. Their lines will carry the grudge against McDonnell's management for a thousand years.
Original release from Meta (April 17): https://ai.facebook.com/blog/dino-v2-computer-vision-self-su...

Demos: https://dinov2.metademolab.com/
Ahhhh- so much to fear. What’s next, a sharknado perhaps?
I feel Meta, Google and OpenAI are the real AI leaders of this industry. Definitely not Microsoft who is riding on integrations with OpenAI APIs. Just saying.
I hope these return to work policies get outdated. Remote work is the single greatest thing about high speed communication in my opinion. A lot of tech advancement related to computers has proven to be underwhelming. We have fancy 3D games and social media and search engines. None of these things are better than a climbing rope, mountain bike, or good library in my experience.
> The idea was to build something fun that never shows adverts to them or tricks them into sneaky purchases by “accident”.

This part really resonated with me. Google promotes the absolute worst spammy shit these days. I have to browse tech forums to find clean simple games.

Last week I was trying to find a simple memory cards game and the search results were complete dog shit so I started building my own memory cards game. In a couple hours I made https://memorycardsgame.com/. Then browsing a svelte forum I found https://toddler-games.com which is much further ahead of mine but I'd never be able to find stuff like this by searching for it. Of course none of the good games are filled with a bunch of SEO spam which is kind of the point.
Since Steve Jobs didn't let his kid use an iPad we've decided the game isn't needed now.

Nice app.
I have to re-watch that movie.
I hate scammers in the crypto space as much as anyone else. And it feels good at some level to see them getting flushed out in the current environment. Having said that

> cryptofinance will not leave much to show for it

I completely disagree with this. I can confidently bet that Bitcoin's price will cross 50K USD in the next 5 years, and 100K in the next 10 years. I am personally putting my money where my mouth is.
these are interesting ideas!

a potential drawback is that it seems like the paths could be several times larger than the original image (consider a checkerboard pattern, where each pixel is its own fill area, or the pathological spiral pattern i suggested in a comment below)
The ability of starfish to regenerate varies from species to species. I’m not sure that any have the ability to regenerate from a tiny bit (well, depends on the definition of tiny of course).

Their mouths are in the center of their body, so if that part is destroyed anything that is going to regenerate will have to deal with the inability to eat while doing so, which is problematic!
A risible comparison.
"Exploit" and "use" have multiple meanings, some positive and some negative.

It's the words people hear based on their own particular biases determine if those words associate with anything particularly positive, neutral, or negative.

The problem with creating abstract business jingo is it's typically viewed as an artificial "thieves' cant" between managers. A sublanguage meant to obscure and hide meaning.
AT&T Buildings Around US Reportedly Used as Part of NSA Spying
I'm not sure who the people group is that you're assigning to me. But if your were wondering why I reacted this way. I felt that you were needling me. "I bet you're fun at parties" is a way of saying you're being too pedantic.

It wasn't meant to hurt your feelings up it's a way of pushing back. Yes your correct but did you're not being very gracious about it.
Why have the LLM do arithmetic at all though? Just have it generate python if you need a calculation.
The U.S. was basically settled by rural survivalists not even four or five generations ago in most of the country. There is an abundance of clean water and food in North America but that never stopped rival natives from warring with each other, and raiding, enslaving and pillaging their opponents, even before the Europeans brought their wars and rivalries to the continent.

That all being said, there isn't enough land in a town to feed a town. No, you can't live on an herb garden. You need many acres to feed a single family. All modern cities in particular are completely dependent on reliable deliveries from mass production farming operations in rural communities. If that supply chain ever was cut off, there would not be enough food in the cities for the millions that live in them.
The jobmarket is "unfair", we all have different conditions and earn a different wages. Suddenly when Musk hates WFH he cares about fairness?
It's a business and politics. Meta doesn't make money on AI. It wants to have 'cool' aura, to be attractive. Meta gave away much more than, say, OpenAI. This lowers the entry point for startups. Other companies in stead are trying to create kill zones around their businesses. Some of them advocating for regulations, one way of doing it. I'm on Meta's side, as personally interested. Second reason is it's good for the progress in general in both ways, AI itself and its applications in real world. I understand not everybody like it. But it's unstoppable, the only questions are where and how fast. If you believe in some global blocks by united nations, then look at how those nations deal with climate change.
Jonathan Blow puts it as the "cost of experimentation being too high" which I would agree with. Generally, as an individual or small group the limiting factor for you at times becomes time.

Sort of the philosophy where you design by programming instead of whiteboard or clearcut stuff. Less flexible design but more automatic correctness is worth it for big companies because projects involve millions of lines of code and thousands of people over the lifecycle.

It's sort of like writing microservices when you're an one man shop. The correct philosophy is monolith first - until you're doing something useful, don't obsess that much.

If you've got a clear vision of each project, or perhaps it's a larger scale project more similar to those in big tech, then perhaps Rust is best. But those kinds of projects typically don't even need C++/Rust. I use C++ for high performance experimental software.

I would like a C++ replacement also though, maybe through a design like Carbon where it's built above it. You could also then do stuff like making the borrow checker optional and with parts of the program instead, as a sort of finalization refactor. Combining the best of both worlds.
Just need that small last gust of wind for an updraft in initial claims, and the AI bubble pops
https://www.nginx.com/about/the-nginx-name/
Exactly, we need to be more careful with what billionaires do with our idiots. Who controls the idiots controls the planet.
Sure, you can always find some people struggling. But your statement simply doesn't match reality. Retail sales are growing fast https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/nrf-forecasts-20.... Discretionary spending on travel is through the roof. https://www.mastercardservices.com/en/reports-insights/econo...
Earliest surviving record. Evolution takes a very very long time. I’d take a bet (if we had a magical oracle) that likely some people have been recording their kissing and/or sexual exploits for a very very long time. Technology changes the expression but not really so much the message, sentiment, or desires.

> An ancient wine jug depicting a customer and a sex worker (a money pouch is hanging on the wall) dated between 480 and 470 B.C.E. Greece.

Sure more recent but that’s because things from Ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt survived. Most of the other stuff from more ancient civilizations just didn’t. Do we really think humans spontaneously decided 4k years ago “hey I like this sex thing - maybe I should write it down”?

> A clay plaque depicting a couple copulating. Old Babylonian Period, 2nd millennium B.C.E. Mesopotamia (Iraq).

https://allthatsinteresting.com/erotic-art
Maybe the Western US was. The Midwest and East has been settled for many times that.
The post I'm replying to is downvoted and I should probably simply move on but there's key phrasing here I'd like to point out:

> optimized for junior programmers to write babby's first enterprise

This is the (toxic) attitude Go strives to distance itself from. There is no magic, we can all be equals in this place. It's humbling. I'm not aware of any other mainstream project that captures this essence so well.

There is power in a language equalizing things. If you aspire to wring elegance out of complex or esoteric language features then by all means have fun with that but I have no interest in working with you on that. Your definition of pain could not possibly be more diametrically opposed to mine.
I despise plastic cutting boards, they slip around too much.

A plastic (or maybe it is some type of rubber, not sure) that goes on top of my wooden board works well, it stays in place and it also pops into the dish washer.

Best of both worlds.
Well, Meta invested 36 billion dollars between 2019 and Oct 2022 trying to diversify beyond social media apps into the multiverse and VR with Meta Quest and Meta Reality Labs. They've also invested in NFTs.
> I think most of the criticism is from people like me coming from C++. I am continually baffled that people write web backends in Python and Node at all, to me they seem so inappropriate that criticizing them would be a waste of time

Care to elaborate? I'm curious what's wrong with either for web backends
In the highly interesting recent memo leaked from Google, the argument is made that open source will come out the winner in the AI battle and specifically that

"Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is Meta. Because the leaked model was theirs, they have effectively garnered an entire planet's worth of free labor. Since most open source innovation is happening on top of their architecture, there is nothing stopping them from directly incorporating it into their products.

The value of owning the ecosystem cannot be overstated. Google itself has successfully used this paradigm in its open source offerings, like Chrome and Android. By owning the platform where innovation happens, Google cements itself as a thought leader and direction-setter, earning the ability to shape the narrative on ideas that are larger than itself."

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
Earthsiege 2, which I picked up for $9.99 back in the day had a real nice manual
It burns pretty hot on my intel MacBook, I don’t think it’s the emulation.
Contractors are treated pretty poorly at those companies
I didn't say anything about profit. Non-profits do (and should) make and spend money, too.
Like all the disruptors and reimagineers in tech before, all they really offered was the same thing we already had (but with a few billion lining their pocket).
> You can rewrite it in Rust once your system is large enough that eliminating the garbage collector will save you a few million dollars a year.

Never gonna happen.
Even better, you can just use a single listener and on click verify the element under the cursor with document.elementFromPoint
Yeah. I find it far more likely that HSV just emerged to transmit through kissing like Monkey Pox virus or HIV just “spontaneously” came about as an STI that could take advantage of existing human sex practices. I find it unlikely that a new human behavior is going to suddenly transmit a new disease. Humans naturally tend to quarantine such behaviors that directly spread disease in this way.
Cool, I carry, so make my day.

By the way, threats to life, liberty, and property have always been illegal in this country. But no, I'm definitely not afraid or worried about some idle threats from basement dwelling neckbeards.
I think you should delete this, my dude.
Python and Javascript programmers so massively outnumber all other programmers that they are the majority of people converting to any language.
> It's also harder to invade, what with the lack of land routes, and there is a reason for the AUKUS nuclear submarine partnership and the US plan to equip sone of its existing ballistic missile subs with new high-speed, long-range, conventional precision weaponry starting within 5 years.

It seems like really bad idea that could easily be confused for a nuclear missile launch.
Simplifying Retool’s Inspector
How much of a solution can technologies such as carbon capture and storage be?
New HBO streaming service Max temporarily down on launch day
I think its important to realize that Elon's smart enough to realize that part of his job is performative - for his primary investors/faithful (i.e. Cathie Wood, Tesla Daily, Hyperchange, Ross Gerber).

They want Tesla to maintain that original "Elon sleeping under desks", all hands on deck, Tesla hunger of yore. To them - they probably were concerned about the design teams getting to soft from WFH and getting uppity.
There's a philosopher name Hubert Dreyfus who has written a couple of books about the subject. In 1972 he published What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence, a 3rd edition published in 1992 was titled What Computers Still Can't Do. He also co-wrote, with his brother Stuart, Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer

If you're not up for a whole book, there a 1965 paper titled "Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence" available at https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2006/P3244... that weighs in at only 98 pages.
This is not news. This article was published in (2018). There has been publicly available evidence of NSA wiretaps since 2006 [1] and rumors of such activity extend back to the 1980s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Developing ai models
Speaking of economic fluid, here's a fun fact:

Value of assets on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve in 2007: 0.9 trillion

Value of assets on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve in 2022: 9 trillion
I believe the Wagner Act is unconstitutional.
Nothing alike. Texas had it's independence on it's own well before trying to become a state.
Commoditize your complement https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
> Who cares about the price?

Most of the Bitcoin believers. They buy Bitcoin because they believe its value will be higher than the worthless currencies they have to put up with. See the latest news: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/05/22/why-t...

> Seriously. Its not that important.

Price (in the long run) is all that matters.

> People are worried about losing $X0,000+ as the next random exchange or cryptocoin-service collapses randomly.

I read this somewhere and it rings true - centralized exchanges are like public toilets. Try to avoid them as much as possible. If you have to use them, get in, do your job quickly and get out. Use such exchanges only to buy Bitcoin with your fiat and then move that bitcoin to your own wallet. In a lot of countries, it is much easier to maintain your own wallet compared to preserving your wealth via other means. I have compiled some real world examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32406095

> Yes, the banks collapsed, but no one actually lost any money over it.

If everyone lived in the US / Canada / Western Europe, maybe. What about people in Venezuela, Russia, Turkey, Iran, China or Sri Lanka. From the article I shared above: "Yet crypto use in Pakistan is nevertheless active, as people are reportedly converting their salaries into stablecoins to prevent currency erosion. The rupee has dropped more than 20% against the U.S. dollar year-to-date, more than 30% over the past year. Meanwhile, BTC in rupee terms is up 103% so far in 2023 (vs 63% in U.S. dollar terms). It’s probably not a coincidence that a 2022 report from forensics company Chainalysis placed Pakistan 6th in terms of global crypto adoption."

I sometimes feel the visceral reactions to Bitcoin are mainly from people who have experienced only great governance. They simply fail to see that Bitcoin[1] is a lifeline for a lot of people trapped in shitty places.

[1] and every diehard Bitcoiner will agree with you: don't buy shitcoins. not your keys, not your coins. centralized systems should be avoided or else minimally used.
> Did the top 4 not have hug e profit growth and fit comfortably into your narrative?

https://accountable.us/report-top-5-shipping-companies-saw-p...

"Fits your narrative" is a relatively aggressive position to take against such a comment.
ChatGPT has made 'Text inputs with no affordances' a popular talking point. While users learn over time what works, the burden of discovering effective prompts remains.

How can we improve this experience?
Every day the container ship is sitting outside port waiting to offload is a day it is not shipping goods, and I'm guessing a large container ship is a fairly expensive asset with a limited lifespan.
> shows they are masters of capitalism and creating tons of shareholder value

Um....maybe there's another takeaway here. Maybe Apple created something people love, are delighted by and find useful in their lives.

Maybe people want their most personal computers to be beautiful glass art objects. Intimate, daily-carry items have ALWAYS become fashion at some level (wallets, handbags, belts, etc). Phones were fashion and art long before the iPhone. Cases are perfectly great solutions for those who want more protection.

It's much tougher to look yourself in the mirror and admit that maybe they're not tricking anyone, you just don't understand the market.
Bashtard v2.0.0 Released
So how are Python packages signed? Are they just shipping rando code without any sort of E2E assurance?

FWIW, Ruby also did a piss-poor job of handling gem signing by making it both difficult and optional.

How fucking hard is it to get to the level of code release assurance as Debian or Fedora? Manage GPG keys, signfest them, and enforce a policy.
Bitcoin is also immensely useful. I have compiled some real world examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32406095

Also see the latest news: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/05/22/why-t...

"Yet crypto use in Pakistan is nevertheless active, as people are reportedly converting their salaries into stablecoins to prevent currency erosion. The rupee has dropped more than 20% against the U.S. dollar year-to-date, more than 30% over the past year. Meanwhile, BTC in rupee terms is up 103% so far in 2023 (vs 63% in U.S. dollar terms). It’s probably not a coincidence that a 2022 report from forensics company Chainalysis placed Pakistan 6th in terms of global crypto adoption."
I'm sure you meant sleep deprivation, not depravity
Surprise: A Small Change Leads to Big Results for Computer Security
Candela P12 – Electrical hydrofoil ferry
It would seem that experience, how you successfully budgeted around a sudden, significant, unexpected expense (possibly combined with loss of income), would be something you'd highlight and use as evidence of your qualifications. Companies want people who can handle the unexpected, especially in finance, since it happens so often.

Hiding it, so that's it's only revealed during a credit check, is the problem.
thank you gerald for getting this all exactly right.
Nothing alike. Texas had it's independence on it's own for 10 years before becoming a state.

Russia invaded Crimea and annexed it in months — about 9 years ago.
Great paper. But wow, I really wish everyone would use more easily searchable names for their projects. In 6 months, there’s a high probability I’ll end up googling/ddging “megabyte model” trying to find this paper again.
You seriously want to toss out travel spending as an indicator of how well things are going for the general population? Travel is a luxury, and rich people are not hurting yet. The people at the bottom of the economy ,your average walmart and target shopper, is who is hurting. Also, raw dollars is not a good metric for how much stuff is being bought. Sales in dollars can be way up, but the amount or quantity of goods can be flat or down when those goods are being purchased with a rapidly debased currency.
Congratulations! This personally identifying information has been immortalized in https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
If I can read the source code it is open source.