skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The larger news outlets are some of the few remaining places that actually hold their news rooms to some kind of factual standard and facsimile of objective reality. If NYT or the Economist or the BBC tells me the sky is blue, I'm pretty sure it is. If they report on some scientific topic the reporter is not an expert on, I understand that there's probably some signal lost. If they publish something on a contested political topic, I understand there might be some slant in the direction of their overall political leaning. I also understand that they have an interest in the direction of their corporate ownership and host country. But there are plenty of other outlets trying (and succeeding) at capturing audiences who have all those same conflicts of interest, and more, but do not hold themselves to a factual standard.

While media companies have indeed "eroded their own credibility", in that there's a steady stream of falseness alongside truth, I would add with equal measure that "their credibility has been undermined by others". The loudest voices that castigate the media, in America at least, tend to be the ones that profit the most from being the sole arbiter of truth for their own audiences.

The business model of having an autonomous news room that holds itself to factual standards and is largely sequestered from advertising is shrinking and shrinking. I mourn its death, for I see no replacement coming along.
Would you define collapse? If you can meet in San Francisco and are a credible individual, I will give you $10k right away and you can give me $40k 10 years and one day from now (15% compounding).

At least if you agree that the dollar won't be useful once we have total global ecosystem collapse.
You could try Calico. They are an Alphabet company that specifically studies aging. There how a good amount of machine learning roles. However biotech typically pays less than finance or software.

https://calicolabs.com/careers/
I don't understand alarm systems too. Why shouldn't I be able to fix a part of it?

About consoles, I wonder what's inside that we can't replace a failed part with a working one.
Does it make it any easier to snapshot Chromosomes and see them evolve with age and perhaps better correlate that with the onset of diseases? The correlation is still possible but will having multiple snapshots enable better association?
Here's how it was explained to me once:

1. There is external hyperactivity (like Ace Ventura or any other Jim Carey character)

2. There is internal hyperactivity (Racing thoughts, excessive talking, anxiety-like symptoms, etc.).

Those with ADHD all have hyperactivity, it just manifests differently across the subtypes (ADHD-Predominately Hyperactive, ADHD Predominately Inattentive, and ADHD-Combined).
> cockroachDB using column families is much like a columnar MPP.

I am wondering why they are saying it is not for OLAP workload..
Ask HN: What tooling do you use for organizing/offloading your thoughts?
How does this compare to DuckDb[1] in terms of features ? Vanilla performance comparison of the two: https://tinyurl.com/duckdbvhydra

1:https://duckdb.org/why_duckdb
He's also a psychologist and not a psychiatrist, so take that for what it's worth.
I was confused with the traveled distance vs jumping time plot.

Intuitively there should be three points at which the traveled distance is zero: at the two max swing heights, and at the min swing height (assuming your legs touch the ground at min swing height).

However the plot seems to only show zero traveled distances at min swing height? Or did I misunderstand the plot?
True. I can't do a full table scan on an non-indexed column in a RDBMS with billions of rows on a single machine without it grinding to a halt.

Tools have limitations.
It wasn’t you. It really wasn’t. But you will be cursed all the same by the generations that follow, as part of the collective guilt we all bear. Sainthood is impossible in this world; who can do all that is asked of him?

Being a climatologist is like being a prophet, in the old Biblical sense. Wrath will be visited upon us if we do not change our avaricious and prideful ways. Some people change, but not enough. The wrath of God still comes, just like it was foretold in the holy equations and the great models. Paradise has burned, the land of flowers will fall into the intemperate sea.
19 year olds helm aircraft carriers.
Thanks for noticing. I have tried to be quite thorough and I enjoy trying to get every little detail.

I did indeed try and keep things as responsive as possible. Usually it works out but some of the apps are not as good as others when it comes to resizing and inputs.

I had some great memories from DX-Ball and was quite happy to find a random Russian JavaScript port that I was able to integrate into my site.
Obsidian Git has been working great for me too. I use different configuration directories for each device to avoid configuration conflicts. It works very seamlessly once set up.
What is a performance difference at OS level?
Sandboxed execution environment. Alway up to date for both sides doing the sharing. And because I don't want to download some unrelated software just to be able to download a file from one of my other devices. And unless I'm building this app for each platform I use, I have no guarantees that the binary I'm downloading is from the code on the github.
By my own research and classification, "general news" sites accounted for 4.1% of front-page stories on HN in 2022 (most recent complete year's data), and that percentage has fallen over the years (it was 8% in 2009), with a corresponding rise in programming-specific sites (GitHub/GitLab, and language-specific sites, e.g., "python.org" or "golang.org".)

Sites classified as "general news" (ordered by frequency in the front-page archive): nytimes.com, bbc.com, bbc.co.uk, theguardian.com, washingtonpost.com, reuters.com, npr.org, cnn.com, slate.com, vice.com, latimes.com, cnet.com, yahoo.com, sfgate.com, cbc.ca, cnbc.com, guardian.co.uk, bits.blogs.nytimes.com, vox.com, salon.com, time.com, nymag.com, telegraph.co.uk, boston.com, newsweek.com, chronicle.com, msn.com, axios.com, news.com.com, propublica.org, independent.co.uk, timesonline.co.uk, mercurynews.com, theglobeandmail.com, pbs.org, theintercept.com, usatoday.com, buzzfeednews.com, spiegel.de, rollingstone.com, thestandard.com, go.com, smh.com.au, cbsnews.com, abc.net.au, nbcnews.com, seattletimes.com, aljazeera.com, bloombergview.com, motherjones.com, firstlook.org, thehill.com, apnews.com, informationweek.com, news.com, thedailybeast.com, huffingtonpost.com, theage.com.au, csmonitor.com, nwsource.com, japantimes.co.jp, thestar.com, bostonglobe.com, dw.com, indiatimes.com, nypost.com, ap.org, chicagotribune.com, sfchronicle.com, dailymail.co.uk, news.com.au, foxnews.com, kqed.org, theatlanticwire.com, scmp.com, texasmonthly.com, wbur.org, yahoo.net, swissinfo.ch, nationalpost.com, spectator.co.uk, sfweekly.com, detroitnews.com, theweek.com, nzherald.co.nz, washingtonexaminer.com, aljazeera.net, cbslocal.com, nltimes.nl, weeklystandard.com, ctvnews.ca, miamiherald.com, nydailynews.com, thetimes.co.uk, dallasnews.com, startribune.com, bostonherald.com, euronews.com, kuow.org, themorningnews.org, upi.com, globalnews.ca, guardiannews.com, theherald.com.au, thesun.co.uk, belfasttelegraph.co.uk, houstonchronicle.com, ibtimes.co.uk, koreaherald.com, metro.co.uk, mirror.co.uk, seattleweekly.com, standard.co.uk, dailyherald.com, huffingtonpost.co.uk, huffingtonpost.com.au, huffpost.com, inquirer.com, ktvu.com, ocweekly.com, sundayherald.com, theweek.co.uk, wpri.com, wtsp.com, americanchronicle.com, annarborchronicle.com, augustachronicle.com, catholicherald.co.uk, dukechronicle.com, heraldsun.com.au, katu.com, kdvr.com, kfor.com, ktla.com, myfox8.com, myfoxdc.com, myfoxny.com, news-herald.com, news.google.ca, pressherald.com, thechronicleherald.ca, timesherald.com, wttw.com, wtvr.com, wunc.org, wvgazette.com.

This is based on downloading all archived HN front pages from 2007-02-20 through 2023-06-21 and analysing stories by title, site, votes, comments, and submitter.
This is nuanced and interesting, despite most likely being completely wrong - as others have mentioned, it's predicted on LLMs being at the top of the sigmoid and they just ain't.

Also, this goal-post-moving did crack me up rather:

> Sure, it is terrific at using its statistical models to come up with textual passages that read better than the average human’s writing, but that’s not a particularly high hurdle.
hehe, at the bottom of the release notes:

>>> And now for something completely different
In physics, Larmor precession (named after Joseph Larmor) is the precession of the magnetic moment of an object about an external magnetic field. The phenomenon is conceptually similar to the precession of a tilted classical gyroscope in an external torque-exerting gravitational field. Objects with a magnetic moment also have angular momentum and effective internal electric current proportional to their angular momentum; these include electrons, protons, other fermions, many atomic and nuclear systems, as well as classical macroscopic systems.
I had the privilege of working a co-op term at Stein's lab at the OICR. I encountered quite a bit of Perl during my short time there, and have yet to see it elsewhere in the modern enterprise tech world. BioPerl in particular stands out as a fairly substantial project in the bioinformatics space.
Aren't we all a bunch of amateurs hiding our lack of true expertise? Each passing decade I feel that all the more. I think you've described the human condition.
They came and visited our company when I was working on threat indicators.
You are correct, however a more practical read is:
In the short run, precluding net growth and change in supply, a rise in salary implies a redistribution from capital (shareholders) to labor.
> Not all coaches have all of those credentials—it'll differ by coach.

What decides who gets what coach? Is it a triage based on symptom severity or first-come-first-serve?
I genuinely had no idea the video surveillance tech was that good. The detail of the people on the roof in particular was astounding to me. It makes me wonder just what tech is like being used in the echelons (ahem) above regular law enforcement?
Probably, but not necessarily. Could also be a code change that works perfectly fine for the OEM part, but not the third-party one.

Manufacturers can't realistically be expected to guarantee a device will keep working as normal with third-party parts.
Why not "simply" multigen every (important) query and take the statistical average?

Hallucinations are random, the truth isn't.

This is absurdly expensive with GPT4, cheaper with 3, and dirt cheap locally with LLaMA
Here’s a demonstration with some more info:

https://michaelbach.de/ot/fcs-thompsonThatcher/
Moreover, middlebrow dismissals do go against HN's intent, as pg noted back in 2012:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920>
> The schemes Zcash and Monero use have never been tested at scale with a sophisticated adversary

Monero's ring signatures are not the same as ZCash's zero-knowledge crypto. Monero obfuscates, but ZCash hides completely, cryptographically.

https://z.cash/learn/is-zcash-traceable/
> They somehow managed to break using non-default branches.

Interesting. What's the thing with non-default branches that's broken?
Here's my autodiff in 26 lines of Python (2022): https://gist.github.com/sradc/d9d66e3898ffe3a02e0b6b266629b0...
Scale is an important distinguishing factor and also breaks the “human reads book and writes something inspired by it” analogy. A human can’t read all books ever written and then copy themselves an infinite number of times and create an infinite number of inspired works simultaneously but an ML model can.
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There is the 'threads' link at the top of the page, which shows you all your recent comments and their replies.
Thanks for that ACM SIGPLAN talk link, it was very fascinating and engaging.
LocalSend works on mobile and desktop, but requires installation.

https://localsend.org/

https://github.com/localsend/localsend
Negatives are not prime.
what is the cutoff knowledge of it? Also, what is the cheapest way to use it if I'm building a commercial tool on top of it?
August is almost over. Is there a similar guide for September?
You're asking a model which is just a big unfocused and highly alignment taxed mush of the entire internet across all language, regardless of if its natural or computer, then (maybe) sliced across 8 experts.

It can also simulate a Zizek vs Wittgenstein argument over Russian literature. the fact that it can usually write executing computer code is nothing short of magic to me.

What one would want is something like LLaMA2-Coding-Vue2, maybe with a LoRA for the library or concept.

I wrote a big word salad about all the other things you could do but suffice it to say there's no reason anyone should be limited to a single pass on a monolithic without automatic context window augmentation nor automatic code checking & regeneration & model escalation (e.g. query out to a 200B coding model or something).
Disingenuous: given the proper processing, you’d get a 100% deterministic and reliable answer.

How do you get that out of an LLM? What tool is any good if it doesn’t work 100% of the time predictably?
the problem is, will unregulated report shops be able to do the repair from knockoff parts? I know the last time a fingerprint sensor broke for a phone, i had to replaced for US$1. had to pay $3 for labour but the part cost just $1. its working for the past 3 years so yeah.
The DEA Accidentally Sent $50k of Seized Cryptocurrency to a Scammer
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I can't even access this page. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://x410.dev...
I posted this before, but...they have played this game before; creating RTR "friendly" programs and then forcing signing of strict NDAs, and requirements that leave repair shops worse then they would without the program. [1-4]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/18/we-are-lo...

2: https://www.howtogeek.com/894168/apples-self-repair-program-...

3: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjdjnv/apples-independent-re...

4: https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/28/apple_selfservice_sla...
Do you habitually generalize the behavior of one lying person to a entire half of the human population?
Must resist the urge to make a joke about Apple users "holding it wrong".
I think people often forget how poor the quality of an average health care provider truly is.

I would argue that most therapist are incompetent, undertrained, and potentially more damaging than helpful. Of course, there are absolute diamonds in the roughs, but they are few and far between in my (and many others') experience.
You say you're familiar, yet you make odd statements as though you're not familiar at all.
Yeah, as much as I hate how cynical he is, he is usually right.
Our DNA does not contain the mitochondria nor the gut bacteria so the raw data would most certainly not be enough to build a working copy
One step further would be to omit the second brace too. And we arrived at the Python design choice. I think only omitting the first brace is a middle ground most people find unappealing.
I think the idea behind doing it yourself is that you don’t need a permit. In the USA, while permits are technically required for a lot of things, the law is widely ignored, and enforcement is lax to nonexistent. Hell most of the licensed contractors I hire (electric, plumbing, etc) don’t bother to pull permits, even for new work.
You'd reject a candidate that is willing and legally able to work for free while also cloning themselves so they can pair program with every one of your employees at once?
wtf is "authorized part"?

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/businesspers...

>Under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (MMWA), it is illegal for a manufacturer to void a warranty or deny coverage if a customer has a repair or maintenance performed by an independent repair shop or using a third-party replacement part (unless the original manufacturer provides the service or part for free).
I still do not know which side of the fence do I sit on with regards to "genuine" parts.

A deliberately stretched example. Apple laptops are claimed to not need camera privacy shutter, because the recording light is hardware controlled, so the user always knows when the camera is recording. What if what if recording ight on non-genuine camera is software controlled via additional register and simply automatically turned on on recording to not cause suspicion, but could be manually turned off via software?

More generally the issue is about broad compatibility. People often mention screens and batteries as being observably worse. Sure off-brand screens do display pixels and batteries provide power, but they do that at an observably lower quality. A networking module may not support some "smart" features and so on.

Hardware quality levels are what differentiate macs from PCs. Whatever you say about Apple, you have to agree that with Apple you consistent (and relatively high) quality levels. With PCs it is quite another story. You can buy "business class" laptop that has durable frame, quality components that easily interface with the rest of the system and things mostly "just work". And then there are shit tier laptops where BSODs show up if you look at them weird, you need to hunt down right versions of drivers after every OS update and some features outright do not work.

Apple could maintain the quality floor mostly by being in tight control of hardware. With independent shops installing shit-tier components Apple is going to have shit-tier macs in the wild. I can understand Apple. But on the hand, I do not want to be forced into genuine-only programs, as long as I can make an informed decision that I am sacrificing something. it's not a small thing. An older laptop is quite often not worth to fix with genuine parts (that are expensive in part due to quality control), but it may make sense to revive with with an off brand component.

I have no idea how to coalesce these two ends of a stick.
The jobs are already created, unfilled. The lack of workers causes wages to go up which adds to inflation (e.g., the $1000 McDonalds bonus). But if you add more workers, you increase productivity, and reduce wage inflation.
Bit of an adjacent issue, but why is backup of a typical home/family network still not perfected in 2023?

What is needed (of the top of my head):

- runs on a nas, so it can coordinate the backups of the different machines

- nice browser based gui, with adequate security.

- can accomodate storage extensions for when space runs low

- backs up arbitrarily large files.

- uses VSS on Windows for snapshot consistency and to back up (permanently) open files

- uses global deduplication to save up significant space

- can do disk image as well as arbitrary file/folder selection backups

- offers advanced retention policies with good out of the box defaults

- allows both server and user side throtteling and pauses

- offers bandwith limiter

- offers archiving

- auto client agent updates

- bootable usb smart restore to changed hardware

- no 'call us for getting a price quotation'

- no complicated extras license needs for PC/Server/VM/DB/... , just a simple one site family non commercial use price.

Synology active backup for business, which I use now, goes there about 70% of the way. Any suggestions for alternatives?
Ask HN: Codebases and writeups that beginner programmers can learn from?
Peter Norvig's pytudes is a great example of what I am talking about. Are there other such code repositories or similar things in any language that one can learn from?
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> Apple supports

If Apple supports something, it 99% of the time means they already have a way to exploit for it. They've been doing it for decades sadly, if Apple endorses regulation it almost always implies their bottom line won't be impacted from it.
The human-like robot dream is a complete non starter for me, total science fiction. Unless economic reality changes radically it will always be cheaper to simply pay a human to do these jobs. There are already many jobs that could be replaced by robots but by and large they haven’t been because buying, maintaining and powering robots costs more than paying humans minimum wage, and this fact isn’t changing any time soon. The type of robots you’re envisioning are even more complex and expensive… Do you really think a human-like robot with some level of useful general AI is going to be cheaper to build, maintain and run then low skilled workers?
The announcement for this is actually here:

https://honeycodecommunity.aws/t/honeycode-ending-soon-commu...
Given code written for unknown hardware... can you execute it?
if the machine boots in 20ms, I think that message is actually useful, because something would reboot your machine and you'd think you got logged out because you blinked
> it's a clear giant flashing sign that the market is fully broken

If so many people need mental health treatment, then I think it's a more gigantic sign that our society is absolutely toxic and FUBAR.
In a capitalistic economy, what is it that signals we need to produce more of some product? Buehler? Buehler?
For those interested, there is a really nice course with lecture notes taught by Vidit Nanda (Oxford).

https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/nanda/cat/

Unlike what people commented elsewhere, TDA has growing application in computer graphics, 3D reconstructions and computer vision.

PS: I am told the new version of this course is narrated/illustrated by Robert Ghrist. He's famous for his foundational calculus course
I have a little notebook which I keep some of my ideas in, so I can go back to them when I feel bored.
“The utility didn't have a plan to cut power, county says”

Why didn’t the county? Don’t they literally run the fire department and set all the municipal codes? Sounds like a way to point fingers before the finger gets pointed at county officials.
Ask HN: What's the status of the web vs. mobile app debate?
It's 2023 and web app capabilities are increasing at high speed.

Have any major companies or organizations moved to a web app only model yet ? (meaning not packaging an app for any app store)

What's the current reasoning behind explicitly made choices ?

Have you found any good resources on that subject recently ?
Some comes from datasheets (HDD seek), some comes from pure mathematical calculations (network throughput), and some are kind of "today it might be true for a specific configuration, but in 20 minutes it will be just a random outdated number" (branch misprediction or fetching from memory - these are extrapolated from number of CPU cycles needed to execute them, which also come from datasheets). And of course there are some that can be easily measured with a stopwatch (or code, if you are that kind of person), like network latency.
If you live in a dry, western state, there’s a 100% chance this won’t work. I live in the Southwest, and outside of some exceptions wells go down a thousand feet or more. You ain’t doing that without heavy equipment.
That's sick, thanks for sharing!
The problem is that their software is trash. The new Steam update is so nice. On Epic you need to reinstall your games when you reinstall windows, you can't just point it at a directory. Steam has had that for like 15 years.
Another case where looking through dang's moderation comments is helpful.

The duplicates-detection code is deliberately porous: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7650172>

But overwhelming the front page with multiple takes on a story (e.g., the Tver aircraft downing yesterday) would be tiresome, and even multiple takes on what's essentially the same story over a span of a few days or weeks can get tedious.

The critical qualifying exception is "significant new information": <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8406835>