skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case-in-point: my org has licensed tech from a big academic institute (which we, the founders, generated at said big institute). We have industry recognized success and awards for said commercial solutions.

The academic research has lagged our commercial developments and continued to publish things that are commercially available in our systems... which use the same code-base and algorithms to demonstrate it. When we founders were at the big academic institute we won many academic awards for this tech, published the algorithms and methods.

One could make many arguments for training people or expertise at said academic institute or whatever but instead these publications are presented as "novel, unpublished etc". Just not true, and the licensure of this technology means that they need to move forward. So far 5 years later they are not.

Their public press releases deliberately do not mention our industry awards because if they did, they would not have much to publish.
There is a cultural thing. Japan, like the US, has gun nuts. But the ones in Japan don't have access to real guns. So there's much business in non-functional replica guns. An anime for that market, Gunsmith Cats, came out around 1995. It's set in a gun store in Chicago. So the production team from Japan visited Chicago and and went to a real Chicago gun store to see what one looked like. There's video.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/o8dBJ2mxxFk?t=683
Most of the reason for cops being security and being excluded from most firearms safety bills is because rhey already have a credential that was more strenuous to achieve than what the proposed bill is. That training, whether effective or not, is also seen to mitigate risks around litigation when they work security due to how our courts work (how things look can be more important).

Although there are other laws that do illustrate what you are saying.
Say goodbye to bots looking for emails and phone numbers
I’ve used iPhone lidar to 3D scan, the results are no where near this level of fidelity.
On September 25, 2023, OpenAI announced the launch of a new feature that expands how people interact with its latest and most advanced model, GPT-4V(ision): the ability to ask questions about images. Among other things, GPT-4 is now able to read the text found in uploaded images. At the same time, this update opened a new vector of attack on Large Language Models (LLMs). Instead of putting a malicious phrase in a text prompt, it can be injected through an image.

- text vs. vision prompt injection
- vision prompt injection using INVISIBLE text
- STEALING data with vision prompt injection
- preventing prompt injection (spoiler: not much you can do for now)
A gem it was! I'm not interested in an internet that does not have Casiocore in its Ishkur's guide. Guess I'm getting old.
Not this well you cant. Lidar is super low res. Luma scans look way better than my lidar scans.
Right sure, you'll notice I'm not taking a position about its viability either way right?

I'm pointing out that this conversation needs to be started by the ones creating the "primer", not us. "We made a thing from a book, the author thinks it wouldn't work but here's why we do" is a reasonable place to start. "We're reproducing a canonically failed fictional project without further consideration" is unserious at best. Torment nexus-y at worst. https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538
Productionizing RAG: LLMs, embeddings, and cross-encoders
A quick online search reveals that this C.G.Aspiotis is a Greek publisher from Corfu [1] who founded a successful printing company (lithography) that survived until 1928 (when it merged with another entity).

Now how might he have come to own this book? It turns out C.G.Aspiotis was the son of a N.Aspiotis [2] who was born in 1816 and died 1891 (thus years before the son sold the book to the British Library).

How could the father Aspiotis get into possessing such a treasure? (Assuming he indeed bequeathed it to his son?). It turns out N.Aspiotis was an important iconographer [3] (painter of religious icons in the Byzantine culture).

Again a search reveals that circa 1860 [4] he traveled to Montenegro on commission to paint a church. Which one? Here the trail becomes hazy if one only uses a web browser. There are quite a few Orthodox monasteries in Montenegro. Even a casual scan reveals that several of these go back to the 14th century. [5], [6]. One could visit them and ask about records of the N.Aspiotis commission etc.

So there you have it, a plausible trajectory: from Theodosius of Prinkipos living in the 13th century in the Constantinopolis area the book - of obvious religious significance to the Byzantines - was smuggled to the Montenegro area ahead of the advancing Ottoman invasion (which ended in 1453). The book remained in a monastery library for centuries. It was given to N.Aspiotis, possibly as payment for his painting work. Assuming the record of such a transaction can be found the likelihood that the book was faked feels negligible.

[1] https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%83%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%8E...

[2] https://www.corfu-museum.gr/index.php/el/ct-menu-item-27/57-...

[3] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_art

[4] https://www.corfuland.gr/el/istorika-kerkyra/corfu-history/n...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Serbian_Orthodox_mona...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora%C4%8Dnik_Monastery
Show HN: Socketioxide – Power of Rust with Simplicity of Socket.io
Rust itself is a hard language to master. Writing networking code is not an easy task in any language, let alone Rust. This is the beauty of socket.io, it has so low barrier of entry that anyone can code websocket logic with this framework.

Now that Socketioxide is out, it can combine the power of Rust with its natural simplicity. Check it out and star if you like!
I use bluebeam, on old 11.7 license, but they deactivated license server so I will need to change to their now subscription only or perhaps PDF-XChange Editor Pro.
Do you think that's a Neal Stephenson issue? Don't get me wrong, I love his writing, but I found this to be the case with Fall too. I can see it becoming tiring if one is writing 400+ page books.
It's almost like these folks haven't heard of a wiki. The term doesn't appear in the primary reference on possible solutions.[9]

> classical model tested over millennia

Peer review as standard practice is less than a century old. Scientific journals are less than 400 years old.

[9] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10838-022-09607-4
Star if you like the work and want to see the project go forward!
Living in New York never gets old…
How did things get like this?
Nice. I'd probably have settled for something simple like <form action="http://127.1/wp-login.php">. These days, you could serve a JS bitcoin miner instead.
>Multiple cities have already implemented trial programs to replace police services with mental health and EMT professionals to wild success.

That's chill, but it doesn't seem nearly as radical as the "abolish the police" slogan? What fraction of police calls have been replaced with mental health/EMT calls in these cities?

Suppose someone is suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill -- does Denver now call a mental health or EMT professional for that person?

>Proponents of capitalism seem to have never encountered Goodhart's law. [1]

The severity of Goodhart's law depends on the mismatch between what you want and how you measure it. If you're able to measure what you want very accurately, Goodhart's law is not as much of an issue.

Goodhart's law doesn't just apply to capitalism, it applies in many social domains -- including the political domain. The grandparent comment states:

>There are many broken feedback loops right now from the grand (lobbying and campaign finance) to the minuscule (niche price fixing, bribery, police-ran protection rackets), all compounding unfavorably, all seemingly booming.

Lobbying, campaign finance, price fixing, bribery, and police-ran protection rackets only relate to free-enterprise competition in the vaguest possible sense ("they all involve money").

I brought up the logo police idea for discussion because I think it's possible that it could align feedback loops better than the status quo. I invite you and everyone else to shoot holes in the idea, and guess how specifically it could fail. It could be that it fails in predictable ways, yet is still an improvement on the status quo.

One of my hot takes is that it's good to rotate your metric on a regular basis, in order to flush out actors who are purely optimizing for the current metric and nothing else.

Unfortunately, any beneficiary of the status quo has a strong incentive to maintain it even if it's flawed, and random members of society only have a weak incentive to fix it. That creates friction that prevents rotating metrics.

From an incentive engineering perspective, this meta problem seems like the highest-leverage thing to solve. If we could fix that public goods problem, we could keep tweaking incentives on a regular basis and hopefully outrun Goodhart's Law faster and better than we are currently able to do.

I wonder if mechanisms for solving public goods problems, like dominant assurance contracts, could be helpful here.

Ultimately standard left/right debates sound pretty tired to my ears. In an ideal world, "incentive engineering" would be just as rich of a discussion as "software engineering" is today. The current situation is like if every HN post about software engineering was either an argument for why static typing sucks, or an argument for why static typing rocks. There's a much bigger world out there people. The heroes vs villains frame that people want to apply to every problem is often an impoverished one, IMO.
Maybe we would say, "whether you are required to marry your brother's widow" - it would be a somewhat unusual choice in modern western cultures, but not forbidden.
IMO, the PinePhone never had the specs to be a good daily driver. The Pro is closer but still not quite there.

That said, there's plenty of other things that could be used for: a wall mounted control panel for your smart home, retro game console, security camera, asset tracker, audiobook player, etc.

Just don't leave them to rot in a drawer forever - if you don't think you're going to use them, then put them up on ebay (or craigslist or r/hardwareswap, or whatever)!
I don't know what people want or expect. I thought it was a fine ending.
Geometric returns for the AI company of the tool you are using. As a user of the tool unless you have some other advantage or moat it’s a bit like a factory worker seeing new machines put in and wondering if that means their wages will increase with their increased productivity. Unless you own the means, as a user of AI you will always be a renter.
Or esp32 over wifi.
Or... brand new $189 Ryzen 7 4800H at https://store.minisforum.com/collections/amd-%C2%AE-ryzen-%C....
United Airlines to Change Its Boarding Process, a Win for Window Seats
I am blown away by how well the country and opera genres work.
Country: https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/746af7e4-0578-4688-9a5f-69e3...
Opera: https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/7bce0bd1-4faf-4919-ac66-a5d0...
I see the corpos from cyberpunk with their own police forces are getting realer every day
Also see, cjdns (https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns)

(adding to the list of similar projects)
Or guy 1 and guy 2 both have 1000 more, so guy 1 still buys the second house, and the second guy uses Ubi to pay rent.
You could run it through marching cubes and get a mesh, whether or not that mesh would be printable is a different question entirely.

It might actually be better to slice the point cloud directly. Go layer by layer and trace the boundary of the shape. I’d wager someone will make that work in the near future.
It didn't work with the mouse army, it made them into the mouse army.
That is so funny - I was just asking myself that same thing. Why did I just intentionally goatse myself? I knew what would be there and did it anyways…:)
Ask HN: Distributed Systems Course Suggestions
I'm looking for course suggestions in intermediate to advanced topics in Distributed systems and operating systems.

Example: this course on Raft by David Beazley https://www.dabeaz.com/raft.html.

Any suggestions/help/advice is much appreaciated.
I had one that wasn't fabricated when I worked at Strip. There was an old bug in the requests library for Python where it was sending wrong data when posting a stream and the response had to be retried. The bug had already been fixed upstream.

We cloned a repo, ran they tests, it failed, and the task was to identify why it failed.

It was a tough process for me, since I've never really used Python debugging tools, so I actually had to learn during the interview, but I was able to reason well and picked things up quickly enough that I found the cause, and we had time to discuss ways it could have been fixed.

It was different. I do well during Leetcode questions, so stepping out of that framework was uncomfortable and stressful. I got an offer, but I felt like it was closer than it should have been.
> whether or not that mesh would be printable is a different question entirely.

In point of fact, I believe that was the question :P

And that is the fundamental problem. The answer is “no, it’s not printable” in almost all cases without significant manual work.
I think it's one of those things where you'd want to look at it statistically, or 'at the margin'. Many - most - people will grow up and settle down some. But high housing costs kind of force the issue even more, and leave less room for people to have some more freedom to explore.
At the moment, the geometry produced is not great. Everything looks great but the actual underlying geometry is messy - for now.
“10 second charge enables electric vehicles to travel 1km”

my spider sense is tingling
A New Conceptualization of "Lyfe" Can Widen Scientific Understanding (2020)
After reading this article, I recalled that Sean Carroll interviewed Stuart Bartlett for his Mindscape podcast. [1]

[1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/07/20/106-...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Condemning AI Critics [video]
FWIW, Joseph Allen comments on here from time to time https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jhallenworld

Personally, I've been using joe since one of my IRC buddies told me about it in ~1996 or something, and it's served me well since. Much love to Joe and the rest of the contributors.

The only serious issue I've had with joe was when a boss was snooping around in my home directory and was perturbed by all the DEADJOE files, since his name was also Joe. :)
Can you demonstrate how to understand and remember word genders in gendered languages, for instance? A table is masculine in one (German) and feminine in another (French).
I'm guessing the poster is referring to the last item on that disambiguation page.
I think it's more subtle. I think someone like Zuckerberg thinks the thing we interpret as the path to harm is actually the positive goal.

What I see as atomization, isolation, alienation, detachment from the real physical-lived social world, the hyper-focus/engagement into the "meta" or "virtual" world, specifically geared around commercial / advertisement interests, the loss of privacy? All of this is turned on its head by people like him and represented as a kind of liberation, transcendence, a kind of connectedness. If you listen to him talk, he seems to actually believe this stuff.

And all the harms that might come to youth along the way is seen as either not-their-problem, or "worth it" for that goal.

Oh, and it just so happens to make them billions. Ideology is an amazing thing, and usually driven from the wallet.
I think it's a well-known Stephenson issue. Here's his response when asked:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nealstephenson/comments/5jjwmq/neal...
Is that not exactly what Spotify does? I believe they have fairly detailed info available from public APIs too.
> I think your idea has many flaws, but I am very surprised and happy to see novel approaches here, and it absolutely represents my favorite part of HackerNews.

Really appreciate the words of encouragement here!

If you want to encourage me further, you should give details about the flaws and challenge me to address them :-)
No one earning $7.25 is going to pay anything to file their taxes, unless they got duped(which is totally possible).
Similar to the Alameda burrito tunnel that sends fresh Mission burritos to NYC: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
Sometime around 2010, after I had been burned by the nth webFoo that excited me as The Solution (tm) went under, I got very serious about Emacs and (mode)company, which I had used as just an avaliable text editor on Unix from 1993-1996 and off-and-on on Linux since 1998.

Everytime I start lusting after a sweet young thing I ask: Is it local? Is it future-proof? Is it plaintext? Is it extensible by competent users? The answer is always no to one of them (unless it's basically also a text editor like Vim (shudder)), and the "heat" dissipates, and I "rejoice in the wife of my youth."
I'm not sure about commentors being able to preserve the spirit. I'll be charitable and not name the blog, but I still RSS-follow one blog that is one of the oldest, most respectable, and once most-read in its subject area. It still gets comments regularly, but always by the same handful of people who are 1) obviously on the autistic spectrum, and 2) all getting on in years, because younger generations no longer follow blogs. The effect is sad, it makes the blogging feel even more declassé. In fact, its image would only improve by the owner turning off comments entirely and perhaps moving to a static site generator.
Did you see the unconventional events in the Middle East in the last few weeks? That demonstrates that while Paul may be usually correct, what he's describing is not fundamental.

The people running the show are well aware of such things and have them under control though so I wouldn't expect anything to change wrt distribution of fruits of labor in our part of the world...but the potential is always there.
You're right, and there's other things like restaurants that require capital and have a cap on earnings.

I should have phrased it as venture capital, which is structured to look for unicorns.

There are other forms of capital that are appropriate for businesses with a high chance of returning a moderate gains instead of a low chance of extraordinary gains.
Her eyes seemed to scan an unseen horizon as if daring it to contest her words. They had seen decades come and go, fads morph into nostalgia, and the trivial be elevated to the profound.

The room around her—a hodgepodge of vinyl records, old movie posters, and furniture that screamed “thrift store chic”—only added to the ambiance of cultured decay. It was as if she and the room were in a symbiotic relationship, both worn but defiant, aesthetically disheveled but fundamentally strong.

“Ah, life,” she mused to herself, “where the mundane and the magnificent dance in the gray area of absurdity.” And with that, she took a sip of her overpriced, artisanal gin, as if toasting to the glorious contradiction that is existence.
Can you please make your substantive points without snark? We're trying for something else here.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You might consider checking out Linearity Curve (Vectornator) if you need vector tracing. It's in their free tier. The app itself is decent (if you're on Mac or iOS), but the UI does take some getting used to. Seems like a decent complement to Affinity Designer for certain things.

https://www.linearity.io/
I’m sure to anyone in the UK these ancient oddities seem pretty familiar.
I am simply making an observation about the nature of causality, don't blame me for what you overlay upon it.
Wonderful!

I used to use joe on my 486-50 running Linux way back in like, 94? Many university papers, and a lot of cringe poetry, too.
how did the Z80 cards work interfacing with the Apple hardware? I presume CP/M software loaded onto the Z80 was accessing (what I will call) "S-100 memory and displays"? Did you run a piece of software on the 6502 that translated/transported that virtual hardware state on the Z80 card to the real Apple hardware? Or did the Z80 card translate the available Apple hardware memory and display to be directly accessible to the Z80, and put the 6502 to sleep? The mind boggles. Hardware was much simpler back then, seems like anything could be possible, but memory was expensive so you wouldn't want to duplicate it or waste it.

I once heard from a reliable source that Paul Allen's Z80 card was Microsoft's big cash cow funding Microsoft's growth in between the BASIC era and the MS-DOS era, it was a really important product.
> AZ, CA, FL, TX, NY alone gets you to about 120m people.

Not quite; ~71.8 million constrained to just individual income tax filings based on 2022 stats[1]. Excludes estate, corps, gift, tax-exempt orgs and excise, but includes both paper and electronic filings.

AZ 4,197,918
CA 23,209,479
FL 14,563,047
TX 16,750,330
NY 13,115,425
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71,836,199
===============
US 204,434,236

Surely, only a subset will qualify.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-state-data-fy-2...
Wow, this is fascinating, thank you!

Made me wonder whether editors get in the way too.
I've just added some defensive programming to the site. Sorry to say. Appreciate that you hacked it with your image onerror, pretty clever.

TBH I haven't thought about most of these things. Nobody typically reads my blogs when I've made them before and this is likely the only interest it will get for quite a while.
Simulating Data with NumPy and Scipy
Oh huh maybe I've been running mine in the throttled mode unknowingly, thanks for the pointer.

Edit:

I ran the `cpufreq-info` command in your write-up and it gave me the correct:

> hardware limits: 800 MHz - 3.00 GHz

Maybe it's because the usb-c to barrel jack cable I picked up was marketed for dell laptops?
Generated by Neal Stephenson, I believe. :)
Related ongoing thread:

AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37915393 - Oct 2023 (49 comments)
Custom and outdated distros is a big problem with ARM boards unfortunately, unless you are a big and popular player like the Raspberry Pi. But even then a lot is not supported in mainline
Interesting! but it looks like a different algorithm
Think about the consequences
I think you're competing directly with https://reclaim.ai/features/tasks here. Good luck!
And is reported to be using low-regulation states to get favorable/low regulation; for for example asking Kingdom of Tonga to approve of more than doubling the total number of satellites in orbit. https://www.spaceintelreport.com/spacex-files-29988-satellit...
unfortunately patched now
> demand EVs be 6% to 8%

"keep your speed under 25 mph to reach your destination"
Text sucks, but it was a necessity before the advent of streaming video and cellphone cameras. Now you can find all of that blog content over in video form on youtube and tiktok.
There is not sufficient evidence to support the hypothesis that COVID would not have happened if these experiments were banned.
Man, I forgot how much people on hacker news absolutely hate the idea of side projects, a.k.a. passion for engineering and an interest in creating new things.

Somehow the implication is that if you build even one little side project for fun that means that you spend every single hour of your time coding. It's such a reductio ad absurdum argument.

If I was hiring an architect, I'd expect to see samples of their work.

If I was hiring an artist, I'd expect them to have a portfolio on Behance or Artstation.

etc. etc.
Hah this is clever. Mixed feelings on patching this but I patched it for now.