skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahhh the grid, I remember that. There was another highly touted company around the same time that also had some mildly interesting tech and ideas sort of in the same vein but just burned through VC money. I was hoping the grid layout system based on constraints would mature enough to become a proper css standard at some point. We did eventually get css grid, which is pretty good, but having a constraints solver in css would be pretty neat. (Or just a performance nightmare.)
I do not understand why we're letting these companies test autonomous cars without someone clearly on the hook for both financial and criminal liability for each car.
You don't understand. You can't just e.g. sleep late, fish a little, play with your children, take siesta with your spouse, and spend evenings playing guitar and sipping wine with your friends; you have to spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat, then with the proceeds from the bigger boat buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats, then you open your own cannery, controlling the product, processing and distribution. You would expand, branch out, acquire and merge, do an IPO and then, in twenty or so years if everything goes well, you could retire with millions in your bank account and then, I don't know, move to live somewhere on a nice coast, where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your children, take siesta with your spouse, and spend evenings playing guitar and sipping wine with your friends.
Someone needs to start building the Linux of spaceships now if we're ever going to have one. In terms of AI, the difference is that advances in AI can self adapt new advances. So the question is, at what point do you invest in AI given we haven't reached that stage yet - because by then you'll have waited too long. So, in reality, any time is the best time to invest in AI as long as it's before that line.
I've implemented JFA successfully (in C) using nothing but the original paper but still haven't managed to get my head around Fortune. It's one of those things that's just crying out for someone to make a "This is how ..." tutorial / walkthrough kind of thing for.
I'm so old, I thought this video was going to be about a vacuum cleaner.
Well, the test involved playing recordings of human voices, lions, hunting sounds, or control sounds at animals gathered at a watering hole and measured their responses.

What they found was that the animals ran from the human sounds much more than the lion sounds; and elephants and rhinos ran particularly fast: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)...

That said, elephants are smart, and have been known to seek out human camps for medical attention when injured: https://www.itv.com/news/2016-06-03/wounded-elephant-shot-by...
Your obsession with someone calling out one of your favorite podcasters, that you need to be so defensive, is honestly bizarre.

Stop.
> You’re making an explicit choice to be an ambitious young urban professional (for an exploitative employer) rather than a healthy person.

More explicitly, you only have room for so much in your life. You're letting your job take all of it, then complaining that you don't have room for what you need to do to stay healthy. Choose a less exploitative job, then choose to put time for you (including your health) in the space that's freed up.

That may mean making less money. But "What will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?" (Yeah, Jesus was explicitly talking about spiritual things, not physical. But what does it profit you, if you make tons of money but drop dead at 50 because you had no time for your own health?)
Not aside from Word2Vec and I'd like to learn more about that.
The Children of Time series is fantastic! I'm glad that Adrian Tchaikovsky is getting more well deserved recognition.
I used a note system built on top of Fossil as my primary system for quite a while. Here are the details in case anyone is interested.

Fossil allows CGI extensions[1]. There's a database for tickets, but that's just a regular SQLite table that you can use to store anything you want, and it's version controlled and queryable. I stored the notes plus metadata in the tickets database. The CGI returned HTML with the Ace editor for creating/editing notes.[2] Notes were stored using the command line.[3] I needed to add the web server user to the sudoers file to access the Fossil binary.

There were two reasons to use Fossil for this. The biggest was that it handled authentication. The second is that I had a version controlled database to do all the work for me.

I think I eventually moved away from it because I prefer working locally. The "transition" was dumping the data out of the database and into markdown files.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/serverext.wiki

[2] https://ace.c9.io/

[3] https://fossil-scm.org/home/help?cmd=ticket
> We'll never know because it was never really tried. With novel tech, there needs to be plenty of experimentation.

I call bs, the original Kinect was a commercial success and around for long enough. The tech was there, casual gamers were there, anyone could've picked it up and release an awesome AAA game with kinect to conquer the existing gaming audience. The price of the Kinect quickly dropped to 100$ after the initial price of 150$, which any serious gamer would've spent without hesitation. How is it Microsoft's fault that nobody did create such a killer app? Again, give me an example of anything that had at least potential. Or if you're that convinced it would've worked, you must have come up with your own ideas over the years, right?

> The market did not try quite a few things with Kinect.

Hit me.
Youre right it's not their fault directly. Instead, taxes should be higher on texh companies so planners can do their jobs.
It is not information-free though. It describes what it actually is, and no one could agree on a shorter and unambiguous term. I personally prefer `CNLabelContactRelationBiaoMei` just in case [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37607801
I don't think transcription from Greek is standardised. I've met several people "officially" called Vassilios or Vassileios or Vasileios or Vasilios while they were in the UK, but they all had the same name (Βασίλειος) in Greek, I think. I don't think the transcription of Russian names has been effectively standardised, either. I think I heard about a recent effort to standardise the Latin transscription of Bulgarian names, but that just suggests that they weren't standardised before then (or were standardised differently, at least).

Also, remember that it's Gorbachev in English, Gorbatchev in French, Gorbatschow in German, and so on, so there isn't likely to be a single Latin transcription unless it's one that's incompatible with existing usage.

Also note that it's usually "Rachmaninoff" in English, because he moved to the USA and became a US citizen at age 69, though you'd normally expect that name to be written as "Rakhmaninov" in English, I think; it's written "Rachmaninow" in German, for example. But that's an example of a different problem, really: people changing their names. While they're alive perhaps you might want to use their current official name, but when they're dead and if they're famous then you probably don't want to be forced to use the name that they adopted as a joke just before they died.

Names are not unique anyway. For most official purposes you should identify people with some kind of number and use the name as a check or to help a human sort things out when something doesn't match and you suspect that the number is wrong.
Create ML [1] is just so simple, non-AI developers can bring AI into their apps with ease. I can imagine that they will be adding generative model creation/training/usage soon.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/create-ml/
As others have said, read access for refs / directories is a bit more complicated than just embedding a secret in the repository given how Git works. We have more exploring to do but it's possible that this isn't easy to implement without leaking some information about directory structure and so on, especially if someone can access one branch but not another.
The much loved Shopsin's was one of a kind not just for the food but also its gruff but lovable chef Kenny Shopsin.
Documentary: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0390109/
Profiled by Calvin Trillin in the New Yorker: https://web.archive.org/web/20230313065345/https://www.newyo...
Unique Menu rules: https://www.kottke.org/04/08/shopsins-menu
Show HN: LintGPT – Write API Style Guides in Natural Language
Thank you for all of this! I chuckled at "... then they sue. It's all very organic and it's very uplifting" out of context lol

This stuff is really interesting to me for sure! I guess my biggest concerns are kind of just a generic paranoia about "getting on some list" and also the kind of thing that happened in the article. They send you too much info then suddenly are threatening you and are asking to scan your hard drive. Not saying I'm deterred but dealing with government feels like a kind of frightening task at times for some reason!
Unless we are talking about generic things that already exist in forms of boilerplate/templates (like what all of GPT-generated apps are) - can be in a few years, can be never.
You can argue whether communism necessarily would lead to surveillance, but there is no argument that it generally has in the past.
Git Version Controlled Datasets in S3
I was using DVC (https://dvc.org/) for some time to help solve this but it was getting hard to manage the storage connections and I would run into cache issues a lot, but this solves it using git-lfs itself.
This is running in a barebones Ubuntu container on my MacBook as BSDs don't use /proc:

root@74c03a282fbe:/# ed
a
ls /proc/[0-9]/status | xargs -n 1 cat | awk '/^Name:/ { name = $2 } /^Pid:/ { pid = $2 } END { print "cmd: " name ", pid: " pid }'
.
w prc.sh
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q
root@74c03a282fbe:/# chmod +x ./prc.sh
root@74c03a282fbe:/# hyperfine --warmup=100 "./prc.sh"
Benchmark 1: ./prc.sh
Time (mean ± σ): 2.2 ms ± 0.3 ms [User: 1.3 ms, System: 2.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.8 ms … 5.0 ms 880 runs

Warning: Command took less than 5 ms to complete. Results might be inaccurate.
Warning: Statistical outliers were detected. Consider re-running this benchmark on a quiet PC without any interferences from other programs. It might help to use the '--warmup' or '--prepare' options.
FTA: “the first vaccine approved to fight malaria cut deaths among young children by 13% over nearly 4 years”

I read that as 13% of all young children deaths.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402...:

“Malaria was the fourth highest cause of mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for 10% of children's deaths”

“In 2013, malaria in Malawi was the leading cause of hospital admissions and death in children under five years of age and pregnant women. The disease accounted for 20% of all deaths of children under five”

⇒ I guesstimate this decreased mortality by malaria in those regions by 50-ish percent.
Something kinda similar, I applied for a PH passport and they ADDED a third name to my name. Instead of my actual "first second last" on my official PH documents I'm " first-second third last". The third isn't anywhere in my name/us birth certificate or any other identifying documents and not at all what my parents named me. I only use my US passport now because it caused a bit of confusion with my US departing airline ticket first name not matching my PH passport and if it had that, then the arrival into the US would not match my US passport.
Due to automobile lobbying last century, the American city is very car dependent. At this point, creating good public transport in places with giant urban sprawl seems pretty much impossible without redesigning full cities.. Also Insane amount of money interested keeping it car-focused, which driverless cars fit in to.

This does not explain why there is no good trains in highly populated corridors like Quebec City–Windsor Corridor tho.
Hey HN - I’ve been working on adding support for natural language rules to Optic’s API linting + testing tool [0].

Instead of generating API designs, we’re using LLMs to check if a team’s API is “good” by their own standards.

Many large companies that use OpenAPI have custom Spectral + Optic rules to enforce API security practices, consistent styles, versioning policies, SLA adherence, and to prevent breaking change. These tests are hard to write and cannot verify a lot of the more abstract aspects of an API design. It’s really hard to write code to check if an OpenAPI operation allows batch creation, but when you give an LLM YAML and the rule “No endpoint should allow users to create multiple resources at once” — it does a surprisingly good job at testing the design and writing a nice error message when it fails.

The hardest technical challenge has been:
- figuring out how to fit OpenAPI files (sometimes 10k lines or more) into the context window. Optic already breaks up API specs into their parts: ie parameters, response bodies, headers, etc. We’ve been putting just the relevant lines of the OpenAPI file into the LLMs and resolving all their dependencies beforehand so the model has all the context it needs.
- Minimizing API calls. The first time you run LintGPT it is pretty slow because it has to run every rule across every part of the API specification (1000s of calls). But we shouldn’t have to repeat that work. Most of the time parameters, properties, etc don’t change and neither do the rules. We’re building caching into our web app to make this fast / save $ for end users.

Happy to answer any questions. I really think there’s a huge use case here for linting all kinds of code, config, database schemas, policies in ways that were never possible before. And personally, I like the idea of having these smart tools guiding me towards making my work better vs generating it all for me — idk something about that just feels good.

[0] https://github.com/opticdev/optic
Actually, it's probably a simpler reason than that. The Japanese language is largely a CV syllable string (consisting of a consonant and vowels); consonant clusters do not exist, and the only final consonant permitted is 'n'. English, by contrast, is a much more phonotactically complex language--consonants can pretty freely appear both before and after vowels in a syllable, and English also has several consonant clusters. Imagine trying to pronounce the word "strengths" if your native language lacks consonant clusters--it's like an English person trying to pronounce the Czech phrase "Strč prst skrz krk". On top of that, Japan is not great at English proficiency (it's definitely weaker than any other rich country, see https://www.ef.com/wwen/epi/).

It's not really that the written language makes the names hard for them to pronounce, it's that the spoken language doesn't make it easy, and there's probably not enough care to try to pronounce them. Where the written language does make it hard, it's usually when people try to localize Japanese media into foreign languages, and the intended references in names are lost because of the mangling process of transcription into katakana.
No, it's not.

"It seems odd that self driving cars have been skipping this step." is an opinion referencing well-known current events. You can't expect everyone commenting on this article to re-reference the saga of Cruise in San Francisco; especially when it's frequently covered on the front page of Hacker News.

Furthermore, you should know that a Hacker News discussion is not Wikipedia. These discussions are not the kind of things where every off-the-cuff statement needs to be backed up with references.
Just like a month ago there was a study showing that no amount of quick walks could offset a day of sitting.
Well, the explanation is rather banal https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/1cc1c10e-c137-4111-bd6e-2...
I wonder if teaching kids the law is a better investment. Many people including myself seem naive to the way the legal system really works. I guess there are already enough lawyers, but at the same time lawyers are very expensive.
People intentionally or unintentionally get under trains and get killed. Train service in many countries continues to function.

The thing about trains is the rails are only made for trains.

I don’t think it is a good idea to mix human and machine driven cars, especially in city roads where there are cyclists, pedestrians, trucks.

I would love to see AV only lanes restricted to geofenced parts of the cities.
... and there as well https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/1cc1c10e-c137-4111-bd6e-2...
APImatic – VS Code ext. for validating, linting and auto-fixing OpenAPI files
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It's the "thees" and "thous" that break the immersion for me. It feels like reading the Bible. I just can't relate to characters who talk like that. They don't talk like real people
How? Aren’t most malls in TX still deploying gun dogs and posting the gun free zone signs that hold the force of a felony?
I like the section on how it works: https://payperrun.com/%3E/search?display=How%20this%20servic...

The vector search is using https://lancedb.com/ and OpenAI embeddings.
They’re mirroring reddit content
Weirdly, there's only a link to the old paper [0] that initially reported only on severe malaria cases and the complications. I can't find the source of the reduction in deaths.

But regardless, I found "slashing" to be a bit exaggerated when the fatality reduction was 13% in a small pilot program. Very promising, but sensationalistic. I guess when you're up against anti-vax fear mongering, you need to fight fire with fire.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25913272/
I recently learned that Kubernetes is running on a lot of free labour. The main draw and ever increasing underpinning for lots of services provided by the behemoth infrastructure entities…

GOOG, AMZN, MSFT really?
It’s the only thing that reliably works after living in Texas for a lifetime. That and Benadryl.

The real pro tip is that the four hour doses are just enough to deal with an exposure event and reduce the side effects to a minimum.
As a point of anecdata: I walk about 1.5 to 2 hours a day, mostly for cannabis consumption, in my late 40's with at least 12 hours per day of sitting, no gym/jogging/weights, eat whatever I want and I have none of the symptoms of being excessively sedentary. Also my walking is quite brisk.
Not OP, but Fossil is a bit more than just a VCS, it has built-in wiki, bug-tracker and a bunch of other stuff. And it keeps everything in a single file so it's pretty easy to copy around out-of VCS flows.
This app uses the built-in webserver to show the notes and the JSON api.
Anecdotally, I can sit in a chair for hours, but sitting on a rock or reclining on the ground (things I do often) seem to cause my (45+ year old) body to "set in" and it becomes difficult to move afterwards.
> But it's all been built on top of a base model trained by Stability AI at a cost of $600k (or at least, it would have cost that at AWS GPU prices).

The LAION dataset they used was notoriously poor quality, and the training process wasn't optimal by any measure, though. The costs of training are rapidly falling due to various optimizations.

Take a look at Pixart-alpha [0]. They claim SDXL-comparable performance for just $26k in training from scratch, with just 600M parameters in the unet and 25M pictures in the training set. Supposedly they achieved this due to the high quality training set tagged by a third-party model. The weights got leaked recently and the claim looks believable.

[0] https://pixart-alpha.github.io/
with the html output, one should have plenty to quickly scaffold out some html components only real requirement is tailwind
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_NanoNote

Less ridiculously
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5

The Psions were reasonably successful too. My hunch is we are going to experience a slow rediscovery of the benefits of non touch interfaces.
Not gonna walk around for 22 minutes, it's boring. I can barely get myself to exercise regularly, so I go on hikes on the weekend. During the day I do pushups, pullups, overhead press, squats, jump tucks. But I only do 10-20 reps per day (total); sometimes I only do 5. Surprisingly, I'm getting stronger every few weeks (can do more reps). And I'm a stronger hiker than anyone I know. So, if I die early, so be it.
If sitting for long periods is bad what about lying in bed for long periods (e.g. sleeping)? It's difficult to reconcile the findings that sleeping is great for the body and mind (essential actually) but sitting is terrible.
https://gizmodo.com/the-hugo-awards-were-always-political-no...

https://www.npr.org/2015/08/26/434644645/how-the-sad-puppies...
The media making excuses for the media? How convenient.

But how isn't the question, the better question is why? And then extrapolate that DNA across (nearly) all (so called) journalism. Low trust? More like no trust, and rightfully so.

The Fourth Estate fails us...again.
People were gene-edited in an effort to cure their HIV. The result is unknown
No, that's usually the way to go, although I couldn't guarantee you that inodes could theoretically get reused; I never checked. I would assume you don't reuse an inode that's still in use...
New York City Plans to Tackle Its Housing Crisis by Building Modesetly More
Fingers crossed for vlang[0]. It's like golang with better types and more syntactic sugar. Feels like a proper upgrade from Python.

I really hope they succeed.

[0]: https://vlang.io/
I took an Uber to/from Seattle Airport, but that was like 7 years ago back when they were in undercutting price mode lol. Iirc it was in the $80 range (per trip).

Well worth it to me because i dislike traffic and parking that much. However i bet i could find a park and ride that's easy and save myself a decent chunk. .. not sure how to find a _safe_ park and ride, though.. heh.

Autonomous rides would be great for me though as they represent stability. Getting a driver was always a mixed bag. Would they be creepy? Talk a lot? Drive poorly? etcetc. Down in Florida i had one break the law several times and in general drive like a maniac. I don't take that many ubers/etc, but the ones i have have really felt like a mixed bag. A dice roll on all the variables, more bad than good.
I loved her previous books but just couldn’t do Scholomance. I don’t mind the Harry Potter derivation, but she tripled down in the life is so unfair vibe that annoyed me in Potter. Still, glad to see her recognized, Spun Silver and Uprooted are amazing books.
Yeah I actually looked up whether preventive is cheaper, and while it may be in some cases not in all. It does sound overall BETTER though because it will result in better health outcomes. but the aging population is obviously a massive drain on medical costs and theres not much we can do
Before JSON and YAML, XML was all the rage in the sort of 2000-2005 era. Plenty of config files etc using it in the Linux desktop space.

Not sure if it’s related to this case or not but it was once much more popular even for sometimes human written files.
They spent a lot of time getting the artwork correct too.