skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few internal wires/cables might allow the final inflated structure to be roughly parabolic. All sorts of wacky shapes can be made with internal stays. Also, at low pressures the outer shape of the balloon could be made parabolic. Not every balloon need be perfectly round. When inflated a balance occures between internal pressure and outer structure. Just look at any birthday baloon. They arent spheres. And perfection isnt needed for a radio antenna. It just needs to be better than one of the same mass.
> I can't understand the mindset of any AI researchers who stay at Google at this point.

Have you heard of money?

But seriously, Google have talent because they pay insane salaries like all the other big tech companies
The nomadlist slack is effectively a forum in this niche that's a lot more active, and people tend to follow the rules because you have to pay $100-$300 to get in. Not really sure it's worth the money though. I do like the idea of accounts having a cost so the service can pay for mods & hosting, but the price is a bit steep. Something in the price range of something awful forums might be better, because there's a lot of real nomads who wouldn't pay $100 just to get in a slack.
DjVu was such a wonderful technology.
Maybe.

Growing up in the 1960s we all expected to die in the imminent nuclear holocaust. That was a relatively good thing because if we didn't most people were expected to perish from mass starvation by the year 2000 due to the global population bomb.

But yeah, kids today have it hard because their future looks bleak.
Calvin was always a crass kid. That was half the point of the character!
joking, but maybe they have achieved agi (internally) ;)
Is it just me or the UK has been losing its moral highground over the years?
I guess its a typo

https://huggingface.co/codellama/CodeLlama-34b-hf
So out of touch. 99% cities in US simply can not use bike as main transportation just because how it is built.
Thanks, that was a total brain fart on my part.

> I don't get what Service Workers have to do being on the server-side though

Yeah, this is extremely confusing. Other posts talk about running your own CloudFlare workers... but I fail to see any potential connection between service workers and code that executes on edge nodes.

EDIT: Here's an example "service worker" on wasmer: https://github.com/wasmerio/js-service-worker-example/blob/m...

I think they're calling these edge workers "service workers" which is an unfortunate name as it clashes with the name of the Service Worker web API. This is just some JS running under a reduced set of runtime APIs (vs Node or the browser).

Also I think the project's goal is to extend the Wasmer platform (which appears to have the limitation of only running WASM assemblies) with the ability to run JS workers. Hence the need for a JS interpreter and runtime compiled to WASM.
By the way, inflatable parabolic SATCOM antennas have been sold by a company called GATR for at least 10 years:

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/rf-analog/article/16715763...
because the differences between competitors are minute. as such the only real differentiator is how much they can afford to pay for being the default. if there was a huge breakthrough product it wouldn’t need to pay anything, people would just flock to it, defaults be damned.
There’s already been hacks with 100k user account data leaked:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-100-000-...

OpenAI says it was an issue with the user devices not their service, though.
Lockbit Ransomware Group Claims to Have Ransomed Boeing via Zero-Day
Not 100% sure but I believe Llama [1] is a LLM created by meta. Code Llama is probably one tailored as a coding assistant

[1] https://ai.meta.com/llama/
Nokia Bell Labs are working on a earbud (i.e. earable computing) that does (indirectly) blood pressure sensing by using PPG sensors.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3572864.3580341
I think you need to give the country, as the infrastructure in a rural area varies widely.

In Britain every road is for cars, and in rural areas they can travel at 80km/h on them. There will be footpaths within a village, but not necessarily on the roads between villages. Cycling on footpaths is illegal, including for teenagers.

Other countries (Netherlands, Denmark, probably more) can have roads only for use by residents or farmers plus cyclists/pedestrians (e.g. gates at each end), or roads with much lower speed limits, or guaranteed footpaths. I've visited but not lived in a rural area like this, so I'm not sure how well it works in practise.
Sadly you can't even make the hyper-efficient IA-style DjVus yourself because the MRC (mixed raster content) compressor they use is proprietary to LizardTech and there's no open source equivalent. So even if you wanted to re-render the file to put into an ereader with the same readability, it'll be huge (like 500MB vs 10MB).

The best thing you can do is just delete the JPX layer because it's probably just the background of the page. It'll destroy non-bitonal images, but the book will render literally about 1000 times faster.

Keeping that compressor locked away probably killed the format because PDF can package up a straight image compression just as well, but the JPX decompression is a dog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_raster_content
I used to play a graphical version of Moria. I've just recently started playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup online (there's offline playable builds as well). If you like classical Rogue-likes, you might enjoy it too.
If my ISP was hosting the page, sure. The article is the thing. And if you can't read the article due to false positives around how the article is hosted, how in the hell is that irrelevant? "I got mine, screw you." is a disappointing lifestyle choice.
>They're good at research. They're bad at turning the research into a product.

Tbh, Google Lens is one of the best computer vision products in the market. Generally speaking, it's hard to crate a product around something that is completely new.
Yes! This is exactly the kind of response when you love React and are not interested in alternatives, regardless of the benefits they offer.
Beautiful pedantry. :D
>I can't understand the mindset of any AI researchers who stay at Google at this point.
>You're there (presumably) because you want to make an impact.

I can't speak to AI researchers specifically but I can speak to research more generally. Ideally you want to focus on somewhere you can make and impact, pursue the general line of research you find interesting/promising, AND have stability to at least live (or ideally enough pay to not care).

I've known enough highly talented researchers who almost always have to sacrifice the "making a difference" and "pursuing their pathway" to large degree just to survive. Ultimately what people are paying for to be researched is what matters, be it some business R&D division's head, federal agency biased directions, of whatever philanthropic connections some organizations are able to extract decide you should be doing. It's not just medicore researchers, it's what one might consider "world class" top of their field researchers. Everyone at some point makes sacrifices to pay the bills but there's this neverending gaslighting that occurs about what researchers want to do and what areas they choose to impact or some nonsense like that. That happens in very few idealized cases. E.g., tenured professorship at highly endowed institutions where they've already invested enough time doing the stuff they don't want to game the system to get to a point they can finally pursue their own paths and so on.

If you want to focus on an impact and perform research you need to be able to self-fund that and hope the area you work isn't capital intensive (AI specifically DNN, LLM, and highly data/compute intensive approaches is for the most part pretty capital intensive, hence one reason big tech pursued them to reduce competition--you can pursue paths theoretically but ultimately unless you find approaches that aren't as capital intensive it'll be awhile before you can experimentally test and iterate approaches).

Researchers just hope to get remotely close to the area they want to work in but by in large have to chase the money and lines of research behind it if they hope to remain a researcher. Maybe Google is different but I doubt it. This happens in other industries as well with people in R&D near the tops of their field working at market leaders still caving.

If by some miracle you happen to be near the top of your field and happen to guess or have some natural deep insight to the path forward where you're fortunate enough to make a huge breakthrough, you can often just spin it out yourself or take on some investment risk. Why work for Google if you have the practical path to say AGI in your hands? Try and do it on your own or find someone who doesn't own all your IP at the end of it. You work at big corp because there's ideally some stability balance with some semi-interesting research paths to you, probably not exactly what you want but as close as you can get.
It's concerning how much of the "opposition" are only upset that this bill doesn't restrict freedom of espression enough. Including the author of this article, it seems, including the obligatory claim that disagreeing with one's personally preferred form of urban planning is a "far-right conspiracy theory"

An easy test the sanity of measures to combat "misinformation" is to mentally replace that term with "fake news"
The tone and hype in the article is a little bit dramatic for my tastes, but at the same time I'm happy that PDFs can be now annotated in Firefox. This is an incredibly useful feature.
Can you explain? I'm not sure I get how this benefits the US specifically.

I'm not American but have held and used cards from a European and Asian country and am not sure how the behavior is any different.
It's great to see so much interest in this post on HN! In view of the attention, I feel like I need to emphasize that although my writing and illustrations are original, the "big idea" certainly is not. In fact, my goal was just to present the simplest example I could find that illustrates a connection between gradient descent and kernel methods. There's already a lot of work being done on this relationship, most of which I'm just now learning of.

(Although I don't have time to respond meaningfully today, I really appreciate the comments pointing out other relationships by mvcalder, Joschkabraun, yagyu and others.)
That ship sailed a few hundred years ago.
AI and ICE: U.S. Immigration Scans Social Media Before Approving Visas
I've recently subscribed too. The huge context window is a game-changer and I can't wait for API access. Unfortunately it hallucinates a lot. It's amazing for extracting information out of large documents, altough doing so made me realize how limited current models are in terms of detecting "subtleties" that would be obvious to a human.
I have a simple answer for you - researchers measure impact differently. If they measured it primarily by shipping products, they would work as engineers, not research scientists. As a researcher you realize impact by researching and publishing (internally or externally) and are ok with the idea that it's up to others to pick it up and turn into cool products.

Hopefully they work at the same company, but if they don't - it's not your problem to solve, but VPs and above.

But yes, it can be frustrating if you're junior and take your work personally and attribute its success to its (and even worse, your own) value. After a few years of career, you learn to look at it from a distance.

Google publishes amazing stuff, people are paid great salaries, they have a ton of fun doing it, work life balance is way better than at startups - what's not to like?
Unclear to me is whether this would apply to peer to peer apps like Nostr or non-profit federated systems like Mastodon or Matrix.

None of these have coherent entities behind them.

Also looks like the UK is about as bad a place to host something as mainland China.
Ask HN: Anyone else having bitflips in Azure Network traffic?
It seems we are having bit flips inside of packets coming into Azure (Germany West Central) via our Express Route. Anyone else seeing this?
You won this one. Your sources of "just trust me bro" and "start searching dude" are truly notable.
wikichip.org was good for me with explaining a lot of those low level functionality and how those improvements in new CPU work
This magsafe wireless charging system is great, although you still have to make sure it actually starts charging because the magnets can align it incorrectly if the phone placement is too far off.
“age verification” modalities does not seems to be expressed, so a simple “confirm your age” à la porn websites may suffice?
Are magstripe cards expected to survive that?
Ford, GM, Mercedes come clean on EV demand weakness
All publicity is publicity. This delay means i now know the title of the book. Yesturday, i did not know that the book existed. Through all the debate, I see a sucessful marketing strategy.
> losing its moral highground over the years

Ever since about 1215, I'd say
> I believe smartphones have completely destroyed most people’s ability to be bored

I used to teach and consult on various forms of emergency preparedness and wilderness survival. It would amaze me at how people getting disconnected from their phones, would put extra stressors on them when I was training them.

When in the outdoors, the very first thing I would do, was to take each student's cell phone from them and tell them "you have no cell service in this situation, else rescue could be here in a few hours". That in itself would bring on extra stress into their training for the whole weekend.

When I would consult with families on preparedness in the home, the first thing I would do is cut off their internet connection and take their cell phones. It amazed me on how they could not find anything to do with their new found boredom.

Snippet from one of my documents - "... many people practice shelters, fire making, water procurement and are really good at these skills. But one should practice boredom,
putting themselves in uncomfortable controlled situations, and/or practicing "embracing the suck". Practicing a physical skill for an hour and then walking back
into your comfortable home is nice, but what did you really learn? "
You will be exploited for amplification attacks if you design your protocol badly.
> The reason we disabled SSLv2 at scale is not that it is in itself insecure, or that it is old or anything.

It is just insecure and even the DROWN link states that:

> SSLv2 has been known to be insecure for 20 years
As much as I think it's futile to argue with people willing to make such sweeping generalizations, I exist, and I drive a large, relatively new, high trim half-ton truck and I LOVE well thought-out bike infrastructure.

I am however frequently opposed to the sort of half-assed, dangerous, bikes-as-an-afterthought band-aid ideas that I've seen coming out of my city. (The ideas from the county and surrounding cities are much better.) They're almost worse than nothing because they let the people in charge pat themselves on the back for being so pro-bike while doing almost nothing to improve bike safety.
Of all the strange and things to have happened in 2023, 'cooties are real' was perhaps the most unpredictable.
A "third place" can be as little as a bench, a wall, or a piece of undeveloped or derelict land.
It should be possible to have a third party IdP provide the site with a trustworthy claim that the user is an adult without any more information, shouldn't it? I think people are a little too quick to claim victory because something is "technically impossible" when it actually isn't (efficacy of public sector IT projects notwithstanding)
It's a board space and cost saving measure but it does not change performance. The tooling is also expensive and Intel have their own internal mature packaging processes.

The drams on an apple chip are still bog standard lpddr. Most benchmarks find the actual memory middle of the road at best.

Critically they aren't magically on the die or any more inside the package than most other high end mobile chips.
Echoes here of "Pretendian" Sacheen Littlefeather (born Maria Louise Cruz).
I have a 2019 Microsoft Surface laptop which cost a pretty penny (bought it for the wife). It doesn’t support Windows 11, I think because of TPM.

With end of life at 2025, I would have gotten about same life from a Chromebook which famously have expiration dates, for a fraction of the cost.

Is there really no way to work around the missing hardware with virtualization? Apple supports processor changes for several version (I have an Intel and an M2 MacBook both running same software). What is the deal? Forget extending windows 10 — get Windows 11 working somehow.
There was a startup years ago, not sure what happened to it, that was using earlobes for realtime blood pressure monitoring which is a "holy grail"

Ultimate accessory for a sports watch would be to have earbuds that also monitor HRV and blood pressure which is pretty much garbage from the risk at high intensity.
Google doesn’t pay very well, actually
If zero is a number, atheism is a religion and asexuality is a sexuality.

I don't disagree with how zero is used but the english language is the debate here not math. Zero is a legitimate concept in math, if a term describes certain things then is the concept of the lack of those things by default considered a member of those things? Sounds like a linguistic convention in part.

Why not have a separate term to describe zero and infinity as part of the same set, "anumerics"?
> Including the author of this article, it seems, including the obligatory claim that disagreeing with one's personally preferred form of urban planning is a "far-right conspiracy theory"

Sorry could you point to the referenced passage?
> tying your access to healthcare to employment is example one for me

This is plain wrong nowadays with ACA.
Thank you for a more nuanced reply - I did get half way through something like "but surely abuse is worse than over protection" but it did not seem to add much to the discussion - thank you for actually adding to the discussion
And music, too. It’s underrated what a cultural cognitive shift into multitasking and experiencing the world through an artificial auditory filter that the Walkman, and then the iPod, brought to society even before smartphones.
It appears that my web hosting can't survive hacker news. Sorry for that! Thanks to andreareina for commenting a working archive link. Also thanks to stereo for commenting my intro YouTube video and another post I wrote on MagSafe.
Yeah, I think the catch is the "pre-existing property specifications" part.
I think you need to carefully understand both AI & Human generated propositions.
While proofs once checked are just gravy.
I used to think this was just restricted to pre-college math, and to East-Asian parents. After I had erstwhile-parent types infantilize me over my adult hobbies, I realized, you need a creative person in order to facilitate creative discovery. But it takes guts to try to learn something the "right" way. Imagine going through a whole semester, never once learning what was going to be on the AP test. And it takes some stature to teach it too. Imagine doing a writing class, where there absolutely must not be any rules or criteria for grading, where you really must say, I'll know it when I see it, but there really are going to be some yeses and nos.

What do you want to produce? People who can come up with new solutions to new problems on their own, or people who do cookie-cutter rules? How do you keep doing that throughout your life, long after school? People say they want the former until they come up against the reality of uncertainty, the possibility that there might not actually be any answers, and then they go right back to memorizing and teaching rules. They go back to justifying things the way they are.
There's a difference between "all images" and "one in 100 million images"

S3 durability is "for every ten million objects stored, you can expect to incur an average loss of a single object once every 10,000 years". They could drop the durability by probably 5 9's and nobody would even notice.
TL;DR: amplification attacks

It was the first downside that came to mind, but it's so common knowledge that I expected the post to be about something else
But how can we possibly be this optimistic though? Like, time and time again there are these little glimmers of fantasy that some technology alone can alleviate the heinous/annoying parts of a mature capitalism, and every time the technology has ended up, after all is said and done, on the other side (so to speak).

Like, go back and read old mailing lists. See how everyone was so assured that computers themselves, then cryptography, then the modern internet, would create radical changes in the way the economy works, and enable avenues for greater self-determination and happiness. They all seem so naive in retrospect, knowing what we know and how it all played out.

I love that so many people are these days inspired by the llm tech to imagine a better world with them, and its important in itself to inspired like this. But precedence does not favor putting all your hopes in solely the technology itself for a better world. Hope I am wrong though!
This wipes out any doubt as to whether the UK has joined the Dark Side.
for what purpose? Are you assuming everyone will act in good faith or should we expect a rise in people presuming others are male by default for example? Once I know the stats, it's hard to ignore.
You’d think they would at least have offline games on their laptops and consoles
I've got a 500Mb wifi connection. it took me less than 5 minutes from git clone to having my first image (I did have python installed already, though).
> Suburbia may have little traffic, but they are also devoid of "third places" where teens can be teens.

Could you unpack this? I grew up in a small town, moved to a very walker/public transit friendly city for 10 years, and now live in a close suburb. I didn’t really see any extra third spaces geared towards teens in the city. In fact, I rarely saw kids out on the street or congregating anywhere. In the suburb I am in now, they are everywhere, biking to each others houses and hanging out in the town center.
1. "It's not in a package, stop spreading the myth"

2. "It is in a package like no other vendor, but it's not changing performance"

3. ???
1. You’re responding to a straw man. I never said it’s all fixed and solved. I merely said that there’s a nonzero amount of people working on the solution, which even a turbo pessimist like you has got to agree with.

2. But to respond to said straw man anyway, I believe that you’re severely underestimating the single good thing about capitalism: it can cause exponential growth, in bad ways but also good. We’re now at the point where renewable energy can be cheaper than fossil fuels, and the gap is widening. Those evil nasty greedy capitalists who you despise so much are going to want in on that deal and once they do, there’s no stopping them (except for governments not giving out permits for solar parks and wind parks and so on). Investment will keep increasing, the technology will keep getting cheaper and more plentiful. There can be a huge demand and supply cycle for renewable energy spinning way out of control if only we let it.

Where I live (NL) the government is the single biggest bottleneck. They just decided against (!) allowing more solar parks on fields, they take up to a decade to OK wind parks in the North Sea etc etc. To say you want more of that bureaucratic mess, and less commercial investment in the solution, frankly, that’s insane to me.

I agree with you that capitalism caused this thing, but I believe that we’re so far out already that nothing but capitalism can move fast enough to fix it.