skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter used to be a place for those who were wired in to get exposed to a ton of information.

I have a pocket hypothesis that perhaps these folks were the patient 2, patient 3, patient 4s of social media. The wired in folk would get exposed to all sorts of stuff on twitter and forward along to other networks.

There was an article just yesterday saying social media traffic is way down. This will almost certainly drop traffic to media sites inbound from X. But the potential knock on effect of making people on X not actually aware of or seeing the news being shared in most cases: that has huge potential to damped the total traffic flows.

These early adopters lose a huge amount of the ambient awareness they'd otherwise be gaining. Headlines aren't always the greatest, but de-informationising your platform is a crazy bold step. I liked being on the cresting edge of news, and X is saying it is no longer a place to plug in & get that. Wild.
>Not only is it a complex topic, but it's fraught with political and religious ideology. When my history and anthropology professors started talking about it, certain folks of a particular religious bent almost immediately started trying to correct them about it.

If you don't mind clarifying just a bit. What types of religious folks would get upset about a professor in a course (for a scientific discipline they presumably want to do well in no less) describing the very real history of terrible infant mortality across pretty much all premodern cultures and societies? Why would this even be a problem for them? Daily life in the past was known to be very harsh, even the bible itself (among other religious texts) alludes to that constantly.
I don't even have a Cloudflare account. You don't need a Cloudflare account to use their public DNS servers
Approximation.

Imputation, Reasoning, Fabrication will end up sending people down the anthropomorphization rabbit hole.

Approximation is "good enough".
Systems SWE w/ 20+ years experience. C/C++ mostly.
if baz is meant to be relationship then I was low key wrong in my comment (I thought baz was the kind of bar, which can be untyped). But I guess the relationship must be a property at least
If they wanted a new sale, why not do nothing and let the phones reboot? Why only target individual handsets with degraded batteries? Why bring the phone back to full speed when the battery was changed? Why does the feature still exist?

The only thing that has changed is they now tell you if it’s happening.
thank you for this correction to my snarky comment
Companies that pays a salary for someone to work on 3d visualizations can also afford to pay epic for a subscription, it doesn't change anything fundamental its just a small extra fee for the company/contractor.

The reason this doesn't work for games is that many games are made by unsalaried hobbyists just playing around, there revenue share is much more reasonable than a per seat cost for both parties. Epic wants to get a part if the game goes big, hobbyists don't want to pay if they make no money.
In January, there'll be 50 cm of snow and the ground will be frozen. Pour water on the ground, smooth it with tractors, let it freeze and be covered with a bit of snow for friction. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/101015/
I think GP is talking about gains at scale of society. And at this scale, everyone's heavily missing out on what could be.

Even admitting that entrepreneurs and investors should get more of the gains[0], that's only gains on the particular thing a given enterprise brought. But even those people, at the same time, are short-charged by all the other tech being brought to market. There's a lot of ratcheting going on here, key aspect highlighted by GP:

> we're strongly pushed to the technological option because last-year's default is now significantly more expensive

This is the nature of markets and society as dynamic systems: they adjust to change, incorporate and fixate and eventually become dependent on any new capacity. And since we're not in Star Trek economy just yet[1], the cheapest things are the ones we're doing at scale. If a simple thing is displaced by complex one, over time that simple thing becomes more expensive and less available, until it's all but gone.

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[0] - I have some issue with them getting it exponentially more, indefinitely, way after it paid back the risk - it doesn't seem fair. For extreme examples, see Disney, or various estates, (ab)using copyright to maintain passive income from works of art decades after their authors died.

[1] - With replicators and energy too cheap to meter, turning almost all physical problems into "print this document" problems, eliminating supply chains behind almost everything.
What is the state of NX on Apple hardware?
I sometimes wonder how people will remember the invention of computers, smartphones, and the internet in a few centuries.

People will most probably learn that either Bill Gates or Elon Musk invented it all in one evening when an apple fell from a tree.
Elm does have runtime errors. It doesn’t statically analyze division by zero, for example.
I meant after she exploded in popularity.
A little. They are not very creative, and I assume that their output can't be trusted for any use case that matters. Perhaps I lack imagination myself.
afraid of change?

leave it here!
> Although most distros should work out of the box these days (I think?) nothing beats these smaller ones

This one (minios) looks quiet big.

But the idea looks interesting.
DIY Lighted Arrow Nocks
My current Samsung Note does.
To me predicting the next token is obviously not how humans think.

If I ask you to envision a green triangle and a red square next to each other, and then swap the shapes but keep the colors in the same locations, and answer what color is the triangle now, you say the triangle is red, but you do so because you envisioned the triangle swapping places and did the mental steps etc.

An LLM if even answering correctly, is statistically answering based on billions of lines of text + rlhf and all of this, I highly doubt there is a mental model of the world, but rather a large set of constraints in the probabilities which leads to the resulting answer. The reasoning ability is a secondary effect of the probabilities which is why it's hard to make it so every probability is correct for every answer I think.

And regarding OP about hallucinating vs confabulating. To me hallucinating is a fine word for it, because it is filling in a gap or there aren't enough constraints in the model/data/tuning to account for that specific answer that it gave that was incorrect. Hence it "hallucinates" something in the gap. The real power of LLM's is that it seems to accumulate these 'constraints' (generalization), so that with the right model, it should be able to answer more and more prompts correctly, which is kind of amazing.

Confabulation works too but is a little more high level IMO.
Sure, but my perfectly working Pixel 5 is going out of support before the end of the year, I expect the resale value to be 0.
> software for 1 user.

This bogus assumption is the whole problem with the "upstream or nothing" attitude.

You're letting a single project -- and usually a single individual -- be the gatekeeper between you and the entire remainder of humanity. That is stupid.
> supposedly he met Thales, was initiated as Egyptian priest in Hermopolis, spent time in Babylon after being captured, and was initiated into every mystery cult he could

It should be noted that such claims were made about many ancient sages to boost their "wisdom pedigree". Plato is said by ancient sources to have traveled to Egypt and Italy, but my understanding is that most modern scholars doubt that those journeys really happened.
I believe the whole story is imaginary.
What is stopping you from just using your old phone until it actually needs replacing?

I have a Pixel 6 which takes excellent photos. In two years time, it will still take excellent photos, regardless of what the Pixel 8 or 9 or 10 does.
> Having no friends usually is associated with sadness but some people actually associate it with determination and ambition as “friends” are distractions.

Just a few years ago (5-10), it was popular in tech circles to claim basically "I am hard worker because I did solitary hobby instead of socializing in school". Quite a lot of tech guys in my generations were effectively pushing that as ideology - socializing is waste of time for lazy people. You know, the true programmer is coding during christmas eve kind of meme (which was a thing in the past).

Now days, the same circles talk about loneliness (and sometimes blame lack of traditional values for it).
The Terminal Escapes: Engineering Unexpected Execution from CLI
How does agile fit into TDD? Thinking about it while writing this, perhaps the answer is to write a set of specifications that are deliverable within a 2 week period, write tests based on those specs, then deliver the code to meet those tests in that period then review. Yeah that could be a smart way to handle projects I would consider trialing - especially since trying longer term waterfall schedules dont work anyway, even though non software dev actors demand them.
Winter ice roads are routinely made in climate in that place. Except glassy ice is actually very hard to produce. Instead you get a spongy surface, plus it snows there frequently, and snow isn't slippery.

Traction is needed to fight crosswind.
F3D is an open source 3D viewer, fast and minimalist
F3D 2.2.1 just released!
Open source, fast and minimalist 3D viewer with full python integration and better HDRI.

Install with `pip install f3d` or download our binary release: https://f3d.app/doc/user/INSTALLATION.html
My Garmin Enduro 2 has a touchscreen, and battery lasts somewhere from 2 to 3 weeks depending on how much I use it during an activity.
"shit falling apart" is a little dramatic. They're a big reputable org that always does writeups when they fuck up. tech people appreciate that.

I have my own unrelated issues with Cloudflare as a company
Dude, where’s my self-driving car? [video]
yes it does make sense.

tax office has very little similarity with a retail store, idk what you are advocating here.
Nice that it tells you that some colour is not available in your current gamut but it is in e.g P3... which reminded me that my monitor is P3-able but I forgot to set the proper profile!
My Polestar won't let me lock the car if the phone is left inside
It’s all smoke and mirrors and doesn’t work at all. I’ve used it multiple times.

The scam caller card bounty thing is cool though.
I asked interpol upfront if it would be okay to send them the data for them to review and they said OK.

There would probably not be a reason to upload "legal nudity" on a demo site of a selfhostable service and also I wipe the whole database in irregular intervals.

But actually now I'm using the CSAM detection tool from cloudflare which automatically detects, flags and reports CSAM which takes the hassle out for me. Not sure about false positives though but afterall. It's just a demo site and nobody should upload anything other than test things
Evals do help to account for correctness when it comes to LLMs
Oh, absolutely not. They had no idea, and it wasn't really a thing outside of a few minutes of pranking one engineer visiting us + a bit of photoshopping for fun.

The only ones to ever get in touch about this whole thing was, 1) The Y! corporate blog who wanted us to make a lighthearted a fun write-up about the polar bears, which I cannot seem to find online anymore, and 2) a random local from Trondheim, Norway who sent me quite the angry e-mail telling me that I was single-handedly ruining the tourism business in town with that silly image.
This is not Reddit, you do not need to prefix comments with personal attacks. Nor is karma farmed here by insinuating that you are poor, confused about your gender, or had abusive parents.

If by "bubble" you mean my family, nobody but the eight year old has seen a new phone since before the first COVID lockdowns. And the phones that my children use were are purchased with money they earned themselves - including the eight year old. He decided at six that he wants a phone, and saved for two years to buy one - not a grain of which was aquired through his parents.
But it's a pretty cool idea :-)
Love the journal current biology. Extremely accessible yet thought provoking science.

It’s way more readable than the “broad audience” Cell, Nature, Science journals.
I can’t quite make out from the paper but did they just kill eight cats and remove their larynx for this experiment? Was it really worth doing that to determine this? I don’t think learning this was worth even eight cats dying and being mutilated if so. I’m from academia and science and I keep getting more disillusioned with the whole thing the longer I’m in it.
That seems like more of a tooling issue than a reflection of static vs dynamic typing.
This is a beautiful summary of what happens in reality with these statistical algorithms applied to digitized representations of human language.

But as you can see in the comments, people simply do not want to internalize the mundane truth. Confabulating fake AGI narratives and hallucinating AI supremacy is more fun (also more profitable).
Thank you, I'm sorry I wasn't aware of the prefetch feature. That's actually pretty cool.
That's such an US centric view. In Singapore, public transit is clean and reliable and everyone uses it. There's also no "you are poor" stigma attached to it so when we wanted to get to the afterparty of a startup event, everyone (including the CEOs) just took the MRT together. There's truly no need to own a car. Unless maybe as a status symbol or a collector's item.
I would argue with you, but you've just produced a bunch of squiggles.

> It's very much a stretch to say the person who etched those markings intended to express the Pythagorean theorem.

No it isn't.

There are legit reasons to question a lot of the research on ancient civs, but that isn't one of them.
Not really. I kinda feel like the categorization contains group of people you are social with, but does not have actual category for a "real friend". These are all groups of acquittances, people you are polite to who are polite to you back. Mutual interest friends sounds to be activity related acquittances. Once you are not in activity, neither of us cares. Fun friend is person you to go be drunk with or on trip with.

But person I actually trust and can talk about more private issues openly, someone that may be fun or not but I feel deeper non-romantic connection to seems to be missing.
> It's obvious astroturfing.

Are you really suggesting that Amazon is paying people to post comments on HN of all places? That sounds utterly deranged.
Note that they said "I didn't want to look through all of these images", not the ones that are detected. They probably manually reviewed the ones that are detected by the automated system before sending them to Interpol.
The larynges were taken from euthanised cats that had terminal diseases.
I think the confusion is you're reading this like it is meant to be a presentation of next-gen text-to-image models. It's more like a fancy UI iteration. And I think it can find use cases in different tools.
> “Prior to covid, we were more pro-remote than the consensus,” said Collison. “Post-covid, we’re more pro office.” He said this was a societal thing rather than a shift in Stripe’s own ideology. Stripe's views “haven't changed that much, the consensus has just bounced around.”

That makes it sound like Stripe has zero convictions and just follows what everyone else does.
We need new rules that improve enforcement. And then enforce the enforcement with rules about enforcing enforcement!1

That's the thinking of bureocrats who see the world in terms of rules and enforce, but fail to see the bigger picture that it's easier for everyone to just relax the rules.
That story actually cracked me up, the way he ends it.
Crypto is actually net negative for UA if it is what keeps Russia going. If crypto vanished overnight UA would still get aid through legal channels while Russia would be crippled.

Btw I think those bank laundering events you mention date to before the war.
This is pretty much a os/exec + stdin/stdout redirection library.

I've been using cgo for accessing sqlite for ages, never ever had any trouble. cgo is not remotely as bad as what people might believe. give cgo a go, and you will realize that it saves your time, let you focus on your projects rather than non-senses like how to use stdin/stdout redirection to bypass cgo.
A junior programmer's code? This makes no sense. It's happening right in front of you. A junior programmer isn't going to write on my screen. I can just correct it right here I am currently holding the context in my head.

These "security weakness" examples are

print("first user registered, role set to admin", user, password)

and

pprint({"json":"somejunk", "classes": somefunc(user)})

Nah, this stuff I can easily spot while I'm writing code. For a junior programmer, I'm going to be looking at design, and then at common specific mistakes. For Copilot it's writing in front of me. I can easily exclude anything that isn't obviously correct because I'm in the state right there.

It's a fantastic tool. If you go and use it and end up with `print(user_credentials)` I don't know what to tell you.
I expected to get this kind of response, but applying it so broadly is kind of overly cynical and doesn't really account for the realities of early career research.

These urgent emails can be about things like quick questions about my code. If they had to wait for me to reply (which would cause them to just switch to another in their large backlog of tasks in the meantime), it'd take even longer than the year it has already taken to make meaningful progress on integrating my work.

Alternatively they may be requests to have a quick call to discuss a paper draft I sent for their review (because that's the only reasonable time they might have to discussit that week). With these, of course I should care about expediency as there are only a handful of papers with me as primary author. They directly count towards the progress of my career. Plus, with these there are strict submission deadlines to deal with, which are more important to me as primary author.

I'm in a research group of 4 people, 2 of whom are more scientist than computer engineer, and the other is mainly a Python person and also mainly a Windows person. Thus, any of our new developments relating to GPU acceleration, parallelization, automations and relating to our Linux systems are, in most cases, my child. This isn't a large company where there may be many different people who can handle the same task and where it's reasonable to make it difficult for them to reach me to avoid giving the impression of being a slave.

Plus, it isn't like I'm just doing everything I'm told either. I understand when someone's just asking me to do something that they likely won't even remember asking for and know to deprioritize those things appropriately.
Discussion on HN 7 years ago about parallel proofs after discovery in a 2600 year old Chinese book:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13952265
Would you presume murder, if a scientist worked on a human cavadier?
Why would you assume that? A, nobody wants to murder eight cats. B, it'd probably be illegal.

> The larynges were harvested from animals that had to be euthanised due to terminal disease unrelated to the respiratory tract in veterinary clinics in Vienna, Austria. The animals’ owners gave their explicit consent for the larynges to be investigated postmortem.
*anycast
Names are important as they indicate things; maybe Triangle Theorems would be better to cover the properties of triangles; perhaps there are other ones which we missed discovering... hubris has no limits
in the countryside. an hours drive away from the "big city" with 100k population should be good.

you probably have to adjust your sense of "habitable" as well and put in some work.

not saying it's easy or nice
because any production use case I'm aware of sooner or later uses both searches and combined the results

e.g. vector search is fundamentally terrible at finding keywords, but keywords search is fundamentally terrible at finding equal things which use slightly different words
The real question is whether many humans will pass it.
Or, you know, do not steal billions from your customers.
I've been there too and had the same impression. I suppose nothing says "we're rich!" like being able to afford green spaces in such a place.
+1 for that book. I’m surprised no one has yet tried to work it into a movie or at least a made-for-TV movie.
I understand it's impossible for a dev team to comb through all user feedback for a product as omnipresent as Windows, but the downside of this is probably that high quality feedback gets buried, because the average user might not understand the tech jibber jabber even if they have the same problem, so they don't upvote and just file a new report maybe not even describing the problem itself, just some random side effect that happens to annoy them.
They were already dead cats.

From the material and method section:

> The larynges were harvested from animals that had to be euthanised due to terminal disease unrelated to the respiratory tract in veterinary clinics in Vienna, Austria.
Some embedded stuff where the FPGA is used to implement some logic on I/Os, some processing that needs to be fast or implement some i2c, CAN, SPI controller trough IP core. Basically a more flexible way than having different chips on the board.
More information about the software they use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Observatory_Vector_Astro...

Manual: https://aa.usno.navy.mil/downloads/novas/NOVAS_F3.1_Guide.pd...
Did the ferrite on the power cord , reduce the charge efficiency ?
> That they won't say means the parts were used in service.

Or they don't know.
They probably had to trace all the certs for every certified part in their engines, and found 21 where the paperwork was suspect.
And then they mounted them on Legos.

> After removing excess tissue and all but four tracheal rings, each larynx was mounted on a vertical tube that could supply heated (∼37°C) and humidified (100% humidity) air. Larynx stability was maintained with an adjustable plastic support structure (using LEGO blocks, Billund, Denmark) and 3D-printed plastic mounts.
or at least more complex than described
The more detailed stories in the link do not mention that the material was forwarded unreviewed. In fact, they specifically mention that this concerns 16 images.
So your answer is that the guy in the mansion whose cook gets into a fight should be punished for personally breaking the other guy's leg?
owned a mitsubishi sigma once, nice car unless something broke.
I think everyone has their own definition of what a friend is for them and how they, mentally, acknowledge some people as friends and others as acquaintances.
Just think of russian aviation. They're effectively banned from buying spare parts directly from the manufacturers and they don't care about certificates as much as they are banned from flying to western nations anyways.

They're probably building or unknowingly ordering counterfeit parts and naturally those parts pop up elsewhere.
When considering its purpose, does anyone else find something distasteful (to put it much too politely) about the whole idea of this experiment?

And then there's this. https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-uc-davis-monkey-photos...
Nice, I didn't know that. In Australia they were a very welcome hang out for the neighborhood computer kids. A lot friendlier than the Computer Age folks, although I did get a lot more coding done in those shops ..
Redox OS Planning a Server Version, Stable ABI and Better Performance
> "two sources familiar with the matter" as saying employees on the team, still known as Facebook Agile Silicon Team (FAST), were notified of layoffs yesterday via Meta's internal communication platform Workplace.

"Agile Silicon". No wonder.