skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be missing the rather important point that chemical elements are a thing. The atomic number uniquely identifies an element. There are not two distinct elements with atomic number 92 - there is one element, which we call Uranium. It has a number of isotopes (as do all elements - you can keep stuffing as many neutrons into a nucleus as your particle accelerator will let you). But Uranium is identifiably Uranium.

Sure, if I’m trying to build a table of atoms I can’t use their atomic number as a key. I would need some sort of UUID scheme. But in among all those atoms I’d find a bunch of them had stuff in common, and that that stuff is 100% correlated to each of those atoms’ atomic number.

See, the challenge here is to build a table of something where everyone can agree there is a single unambiguous natural key we can use for that thing.

And my (and OP’s) proposal is that you can do that with a table of ‘elements’ with ‘atomic number’ as the key.

You can’t do the same normalization trick with books.

Say you build a table of books with ‘title’, ‘author’, ‘publisher’, ‘year’, ‘ISBN’, ‘edition’, ‘page count’.

Are any of these - or combinations of them - actually a natural key of a common entity in disguise?

Maybe author/title/year? No. For one, I’m sure you can find distinct books that share these values. And ‘year’ is, it turns out, a synthetic key for identifying arbitrary Earth orbital cycles - not a ‘natural’ label for a time period at all. And ‘author’ names are a synthetic key too - many authors publish under multiple names (JK Rowling = Robert Galbraith) and names are just arbitrary keys assigned to specific consciousnesses embodied in particular bundles of cells for a period of years. And of course they aren’t unique, so… no good as a key anyway.

Sure you could say ‘well, I want to make “n page books” into an entity and extract that to a table but you wouldn’t find any properties you could extract out to that table - there isn’t anything that all 92 page books have in common that you could tag onto that relation.

Whereas your chemical elements table has LOTS of properties that are common to everything with each atomic number. Electron structure. What molecules it can form. What crystalline structures it forms. Sure, not its half life or its melting point, but still - useful facts that are common to all atoms with the same atomic number.
You might mean that it does not detonate -- it does not. It is not a high explosive. But gunpowder (of both smoking and non-smoking varieties) is still generally considered an explosive. An explosive is something that can produce an explosion - a blast. And they can certainly do that.
I haven't even included UPI in this which has been an absolute game changer. Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would know how transformational UPI has been to India and growth of India in the past few years. But yeah we should neglect all that because the West said so. Sure there are problems in India just like there are problems in every other country in the World. But when it comes to India, the problems are amplified to an unwarranted degree in the West. Maybe because we don't toe the Western line when it comes to many things (like staying non-aligned or not signing the non-proliferation treaty) and the West just doesn't like it. Has been holding a grudge since the 90s when India conducted reciprocal nuclear tests (after China conducted its own nuclear tests). Bill Clinton saw it fit to sanction Democratic India but not Authoritarian CCP. It is not something new. And pre-90s was even worse with the West supporting Dictatorial Islamic Republic of Pakistan against Democratic India.
To start, small things like getting the json format to work 100% of the time is impossible.
Why? “This community” worked extremely hard to bring this technology to fruition, and got handsomely rewarded for doing so. The “success” already happened. At least Mr. Altman had the decency to wait until his product had been released before getting up on his moral high horse about the risks of what he’d built, whereas poor Google did the hard work of firing all their AI ethicists and making their priorities clear a while ago, only for them to get scooped on their own technology.
Naming conventions in Standard ML (2016)
The National Cyber Security Agency said in its latest alert that an Android malware called "booster" infects mobile phones and compromises sensitive data such as call logs, contacts, history and camera.
So I watched the video at 1.5 speed, and so much of what he is talking about is adding layers of insulation to mitigate rot that can happen when a structure is framed with wood, especially newer cheaper wood which isn't nearly as resilient as old lumber was. Not to mention the termite issue.

This dovetails with my other point, which is that masonry (not just as a facade) especially cement controls noise and seems to prevent needing all of these complex workarounds. I'd love to learn aside from "it's more efficient" (aka cheaper) the compelling reason for using wood vs cement.

It seems like it's just a foregone conclusion that of course we should be building houses with wood as the central element.
> The house was built in 1870, before ACs. I suspect the original residents had techniques for keeping it cool

I think it's tempting to ascribe some lost ancestral knowledge to older house, but to be completely honnest a lot of them weren't designed with thermal considerations in mind (or rather, the thermal efficiency was accidently achieved by following some heuristics).

A lot of these older houses were simply badly insulated. They required a lot of wood or coal to keep warm during the winter or had the occupants wearing layers inside at all times but would cool down quite fast in the summer during the night, only to heat up again during the day.

Good, explicit thermal design appeared with mid-century houses. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq-3cZ0cbws
Carnyx
But then aren't pesticides and herbicides a problem for a plant based diet too?
basically a high profile youtuber decided to weaponize his fanbase to smear and slander a talented developer because he couldn't get what he wanted out of him. Rossmann mischaracterizes his interactions with Micay and even attempts to used his admitted diagnosis of autism against him. He claims one thing but if you actually read the interactions yourself you'll notice Micay is upset but adamant about his allegations of harassment. Rossmann quite dismissive of his entire explanation and decides he has a better narrative that most people will swallow. Rossmann tone policing a talented dev off his own open source project is the latest in a long line of unwarranted cancellations
Sure. But there was an era that lasted around 100 years when a photo alone was pretty reliable. Photos and especially videos were at least hard to fake. That era is over. Absolutely anything can be faked cheaply and easily.
Nvidia Collaborates with SoftBank for Next-Gen Generative AI, 5G/6G Datacenters
My motto is: It isn't fast until you have to disable gnu zip
Also calling it a "dissolved mineral" is pointlessly euphemistic. Fluoride is sold as a poison.

You may as well call the following "dissolved minerals": lead, arsenic, uranium, mercury, asbestos
The success of Javascript is entirely due to there being only two languages in which you can program a web page with full control over client behavior: Javascript, or something that translates to Javascript.

It could never have survived on its own in the wild.

Javascript is not the first scripting language with C like syntax. Before Javascript there was LPC (C-like language for programming LPMud). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPMud
And of course the C-like language within Awk where you can write things like:

function add(a, b)
{
return a + b;
}

LPC was cloned by a GPL-ed language called Pike in the mid 1990's. You don't hear about LPC or Pike today. (Part of the reason for which is probably the rise of Java to prominence in the area of "managed languages that look like C"). Awk is around because it's part of POSIX. It's the only language other than the shell you can count on being there.

A Javascript developed as a project not connected to the web would likely receded into obscurity like Pike.
It looks like the best description of the methodology is here: https://docs.gitguardian.com/secrets-detection/detectors/gen...

It's pretty much checking if there's a variable called "_token" or "_secret" or similar which is then assigned to a string matching a regex looking for high entropy random-looking values.
“Roughly every decade, technology makes a giant leap that erases the old rules and wipes out our assumptions. The Internet. Mobile. Video. Blockchain.”

You know you’re in the silicon valley echo chamber when you think blockchain is some sea change. So far it’s proven to be of basically no use at all except perhaps convincing your dumbest friends they’re now expert currency traders.
> No I think his problem is putting his assets on the line in order to have a commitment to which he think is ridiculous when he could just simply, ya know, commit.

How does the other party know if the claim of committing is genuine or a lie? The sacrifice is the signaling mechanism.

It is like celebrating with a “high value” food or drink. Something that took time and effort to prepare, or cost a lot. Practically, you can share a meal from Chipotle and still obtain your calories, but the point of the exercise was not the meal, but the sacrifice.

Similarly, you can text someone “congrats” or you can sacrifice your time to go to their wedding. And on the other side, the couple can sign the documents at city hall, and text everyone a picture of it, or they can sacrifice and have a ceremony they invite people to.
I believe the author's point is not that you can't have thoughts (how can you not?), but that they're not identical with identity, and that awareness is more fundamental to identity, a great insight of Eastern philosophy.

I have wondered if Socrates had this insight. Judging from Plato and Xenophon's writings about him he may have not had such a clear view of it, but he does speak of his bodily feelings as being separate from himself (e.g. in Plato's Phaedo, while sitting in prison he remarks that if it was up to his legs he would be in earnest flight from Athens.)

I think the author is pretty close to the truth of things; however, things like anger and "addiction to thinking" are not so easily overcome (at least in my experience), but awareness of them seems like a necessary first step.
And I feel fine.
Nvidia: The chip maker that became an AI superpower
The concrete thing I'm doing and generalizing from boils down to:

* Starting from Lua which seems to have a decent security story;

* Changing a few lines of _safe_ Lua for yourself without introducing new buffer overflows and so on;

* and limiting the reach of those changes to a few thousand people _at most_. (99% of forks won't have even that, thanks to the tyranny of the power law.)

Your comment is very much something I think about. I don't think it's as cut and dried as you make it sound. It seems worth exploring. It seems analogous to doing controlled burns every year to avoid humongous wildfires.
> Sure. I suppose we should also agree on the same understanding of "real understanding". I'm only proposing that LLMs pick up the same kind of "understanding" your unconscious/subconscious mind does, and produce output of similar nature. This implies that, to replicate human reasoning/performance, we'll need to layer some additional models/systems on top of the LLM.

As you might probably guess, I am not convinced. It may be part of something that can match up to human intelligence. But is it enough to layer more mechanisms on top of it? I am not sure.

I think the real question is how to define "real understanding" as you pointed out. I am not sure this will be possible using language alone. Also I think it will probably be hard to compare it to the human mind in a scientific sense, since we don't know how that works and we have no way of knowing other than collecting anecdotes like those that we came up with in our comments here.
Deploying Syncthing on a Fly.io Cloud Server
The Future Path of Human Evolution
What web browser are you using? Option arrow works right for DDG's location bar on safari + firefox, and duckduckgo.com and google.com's search bar's option arrow works properly under safari.
I’m pretty happy with the Kindle Scribe if you don’t mind being part of the Amazon ecosystem. It supports sideloading epub and PDF fine, and you can use email to sideload files which is convenient when on the road. I haven’t played with exporting the notes yet. The large screen is very comfortable for reading.
I only skimmed the article, but it was enough to ignite my fire and actually take the time to write up a response based in my experiences. I can say as a UI/UX specialist myself, a lot of terrible design is due to not putting enough thought into the design and/or not allowing UI/UX engineers to do their jobs. I will also say that UI/UX is very much an art as opposed to a science, and even the best designers can get it wrong or the final product will frustrate someone due to unexpected edge cases or accidental dark patterns. Some observations over the past two or so decades:

- Not engaging enough with the customer, i.e., finding out what they actually and truly need as opposed to pandering to their egos because they’re SMEs or whatnot
- Engaging too much with the customer by allowing them to have too much say in the design. I’ve seen it go so far as to allow the customer to actually make their own designs (wireframes or mockups, etc.) and then handing that off to the devs to implement, no questions asked, which ended up in a ton of rework for obvious reasons
- Relying too heavily on frameworks by allowing yourself to believe that you MUST use one of their built-in widgets or patterns and not create a custom solution that makes sense for the use case
- Somewhat contrary to the above, not relying enough on a given framework’s widgets or patterns which can lead to inconsistent design and UX and unnecessary reinventing the wheel
- The use of so-called no-code or low-code solutions: Not that these are bad per se, but it leads to the fallacy that a non-engineer (usually mid-level IT manager or “system analyst”) can use these tools to create a complete or even somewhat viable solution (I speak from experience)
- Sacrificing a good design for any reason, e.g., ad space requirements, various types of compliance (including even the virtuous ones such as Section 508)
- Relying on a framework to
do the UX for you, leading to another fallacy that you
don't need a UX specialist

UX research still very much needs
to be a thing, and I don't say
that because it benefits me (it
does), but because I wholeheartedly believe in the need for it. I wouldn't design a house or even a
pool without the expertise of an architect, so why would an entire dev team build a multi-million dollar UI without a UI/UX engineer?
Also the post has been editorialised. Sure parties have IT cells doing all kind of things to build narratives, but I am not so sure if there are basis for the inference in this case.

Even if political, I personally expect better on HN.
It seems like you've been burned too many times with these issues. I'd be curious to know what you have built / brought to market and what you think about this rule of the retail price being 3 ton 4x the BOM.
"Friendships" can be quite a headache, huh? That's why I don't have any friends and don't consider coworkers as friends either. Zero problems, simple as.
You are asking anyone to tell you what a 3x more intelligent human can do, and if nobody can tell you, you conclude that a 3x more intelligent human cannot do anything. That isn't convincing. We know there are individual humans who can do things no large group of humans can do - no company is Euler. Since no individual has 3x human intelligence, none of us can tell you. But that's not convincing that such an individual therefore cannot do anything novel or useful. I offer cellular biology as a thing which humans have some understanding of, but nothing like total understanding of - not in the details, not in the overall organization. And suggest that a more intelligent human might be able to move the needle there in a way which could lead to anything from nanofactories to cures for diseases to new life forms to new chemical synthesis methods. Kary Mullis won a Nobel Prize for the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Einstein for seeing relativity - why couldn't or wouldn't there be more techniques or concepts like that waiting for the right intelligence to see them? Either there are no more, or any remaining ones need hyper-intelligence to find, but why would either of those things be likely?

Also humans don't make trees, humans stand watching while trees make themselves. Humans cannot make a plant or animal cell in a lab starting from atoms; nature can so it isn't a physical limitation. It's a matter of limited understanding of both how they are made, and the techniques to make them. Limited understanding is the thing more intelligence would attack.
I was also going to suggest TechinAsia.com
I wasn’t raised in the US.

Aside from that my anecdote is no less scientific than your conjecture. Correlation is not causation, it is far more likely that this statistical indicator comes from a third variable, say poverty.

USA has a abysmal social safety network. Single parents are left to fend for them selves, without protections in the workplace (meaning they can loose their jobs), without child sick leave, without financial support, with unavailable and unaffordable child care, etc. etc. Of course a kid raised under these conditions is gonna be statistically more likely to correlate with other negative outcome.

PS. I’m slightly insulted you unapologetically put future generational single parenthood in the category of negative social outcome. As if you’ve already concluded that it is bad.
Based on my family's experience with eldercare, I'd lump in the local and state governments of Sun City AZ too. Given the history of that place, I'd've assumed they'd be far more proactive at protecting elders.

And then there was a recent Nevada case of a judge in cahoots with some lawyers, together bilking 100s of families.

So given the lack of oversight these days, I assume that kind of scam is widespread.
I completely agree with you on the importance of developers being able to read and understand others' code and documentation. It's an essential part of their job. However, the focus of my newsletter is a bit different. It caters to a specific audience: managers and directors, who may not need to learn programming but need to at least understand what a server is for example.
"I pointed out the oversimplification to support the main argument of the linked post, which suffers from this as a result."

I don't understand this at all (along with several other sentences in your comments).

(I'm the author of OP.)
show me a video of a reel of old nitrocellulose film producing a pulse wave and I'll change my mind.

I was conventional munitions (non-nuclear) maintenance in the USAF. I am trained on these things.
So yeah it's sometimes a good thing - but in this situation, and at least in my neck of world woods,

most of the newer competing options to for my microsoft natural 4000 - not available to touch in person at my local best buy / office depot/max

So I look many times at amazon which has some similar at a good price, some with backlit keys and such - I've ordered a few - none of them feel the same.. one has a wierd feel that makes me cringe like touching neoprene (not everyone has that ick feel with that material) -

the keypresses are not the same either - so I am not using any of the new options but it looks like I will at some point.

I'd like to see more 'cases' for the non-msoft / non-logitech keyboards - (want to take full size ergo keys to different places) searching recently I've mainly seen just a couple of options for the two big known brands.

Of course this is keeping on the budget side of things. I've kicked the rabbit hole of ~200+ options and like what I see, but really want to touch and feel before such a buy.

tldr - the consolidation has sucked up choice at the retailers, and also the retailers themselves - and some competition has been good it seems, but not as great as if amazon had a mobile truck that would bring every no name ergo keyboard to touch and feel first before buying.
Removing the 57th copy of The Atkins Diet because nobody has checked it out since 1999 is not a doctrinal concern.
For the same reason almost ALL old companies that have existed in the tech sector for more than 20 years use more than one language/framework/programming practice/etc... Things grow, things get acquired, things languish.
Google's homepage, just a simple text box with a search button is over 1MB.
I strongly believe everything just has to go through OpenAI or Anthropic, for now. These models are significantly better than any NLP models I try swapping in.

But this isn’t much help if you must classify images.
What compiler is he/she using? I cannot get this to compile at all but I might not know the magic compiler incantation to get it to work.

template<typename T>
auto length(const T& value) noexcept {
if constexpr (std::integral<T>::value) { // is number
return value;
}
else {
return value.length();
}
}
That's concerning. Could you elaborate on how you identified the traffic as cloudflare workers? Also, what sorts of HTTP attacks? wp-admin probes? Plain DDoS?

Cloudflare has (had?) a murky history with not taking down DDoS for hire services ironically hosted behind cloudflare. But while you could argue they had an incentive to do that (sell protection), I can't think of any incentive to let Workers be abused.
Not a news aggregator - all original reporting
Very useful program, but god the UI is so bad..

As if it was designed for a touchscreen interface, and yet still poorly done, doesn't respect your aspect ratio, wastes ton of empty space, everything looks zoomed in, and the transition animation looks jarring

Gnome UX is killing the linux fun to me..

They want to clone the macOS UX, but they don't understand what makes it great..

Look at this beauty of an UX: https://eqmac.app/
My kindergartener definitely picked up conventional linux desktops faster than iPadOS.

(It's whatever Manjaro defaults to. It looks like xfce, but I'm pretty sure it's KDE. The point being that I don't know because it's not configured terribly out of the box like modern gnome.)

The minecraft launcher does regularly bring him to literal tears though. :-(
SpaceX has implemented last minute control of rocket launches and they land the booster rocket. Hard to see google and microsoft anywhere close to Tesla, Starlink, Twitter for AI potential even if you deliberately elide to mention SpaceX.
Build it at scale. Pump ocean water in from the Pacific to the southwest in aqueducts and surround them with this material. Probably a way to capture lots of resources that way and fresh water.
Here is a nice animation of this puzzle. https://www.geogebra.org/m/v3a437ux
Wikipedia had wrong Vatican flag for years – now incorrect flags are everywhere
Not yet, but we're working on that https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-rs/pull/324