skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is not a Bad Thing (tm)

I wholeheartedly agree. I am often one to critique ML systems, especially LLMs and GPT. But this is my training as a researcher. I think it is important that we recognize critiques and discussions of limitations are not equivalent to calling a tool useless or worthless. It does not even devalue the tool. Rather the discussions are beneficial for two contexts: we learn the limitations to build better tools (since no tool is perfect there will always be critiques available) and we learn how to use the tool effectively (you're still not going to use LLMs to do you differential equations homework despite this certainly being within the training set). There's also the important context that we are on a tech form in a community that is well known to be inhabited by the exact type of people that build, test, and deploy these types of systems (myself included). These are not the same discussions we'd be having in the context of sitting around with my parents who are absolutely tech illiterate.

My thoughts as a highly critical person (check my history, or even a very recent highly relevant comment in another thread) are "this is pretty fucking cool" (same to that very same thread btw). I hope to see more stuff like this. It is what makes me passionate about ML and it is what keeps me coming to HN.

Your work doesn't need to be novel to be useful. Nor does it need to be useful to be good. I'm just happy to be seeing people do shit and having fun.
If my neighbor doesn't wire their home to code and it burns down and the fire spreads to my house it doesn't matter who is "responsible", I'd still lose my stuff (or my life).

Hell, if my neighbor's tree falls into my property and causes damages I can't be sure I'd be fully compensated for my losses. You can take someone to court, but they can't give you what they don't have.

People also just don't want to live in slums filled with run down barely standing shacks since it hurts their property value too. Part of living in a community means giving consideration to other people around you. The closer you are to others the more responsibility you have to be considerate of your impacts on those others.
Then you'd need scaling and all that. Seems a bit overkill for something people rarely use.
Anybody within hundreds of miles of New York, London, Frankfurt, and Shanghai would be dead. That's just 4 h-bombs, and thousands would be exploded. Get a grip man, any war between any two nuclear powers simply cannot be priced into markets. Surely to determine a market price for anything presupposes the existence of the market.
Tom Scott recently posted a great, 30-minute video about this telescope. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRREz0iBes
Yes, "Watt" and "Newton" are surely the most common culprits.

When speaking of them as people, they are of course capitalized.

When speaking of them as units, they are not capitalized (1 watt). However the abbreviation is capitalized (1 W), and I think this is mainly what confuses people.
> Why would high resolution make it worse?

Because the person you are replying to hasn’t learned about the existence of the resolution scaling setting yet.
The Definitive Guide to API Test Automation with Playwright
Really useful guide for getting playwright going.
Sunday's GitHub Outage
Looks nice, but it's quite pricy compared to OpenAI's API pricing or ChatGPT.
> Kids who grow up without a religion doesn't get told anything

I work in edtech with a bunch of former teachers, and this is absolutely untrue. Many elementary and middle school teachers see part of their role (regardless of the subject they're officially teaching) as being to teach morals to their students, and the morality that they choose to teach is every bit as subjective as the morality that comes out of a religion.

And if it's not their teachers teaching them morals, then it's their parents. You can't raise a child without intentionally or unintentionally instilling in them your own value system.

The biggest factor in whether someone feels that something is "indoctrination" isn't whether it originates from a religion but whether they agree with the principles being taught.
I’m curious how hard this is going to hit commercial real estate, which already seems to be on the brink of collapse. What are the cascading effects like the subprime mortgage crisis?
There is a no-funding land that is needed to advance society. Between basic scientific research and advanced low probability engineering research no for-profit corporation is willing to fund - so it’s mostly the domain of the government allocating grants to universities and labs.
Hi, nice one! Much much better and great to be able to move so quick! Best of luck with the business.
Haha, oof, it's evil to compare to that! Adam is a "10x programmer" genius.
Does anyone recommend any CLI utilities to extract the main body test of a webpage?
American Evangelicals seem to gravitate toward their belief as a form of authoritarianism. It's less about compassion and more about incontestable moral authority over others.
> they never EVER publicly admit any faults or mistakes with their products

Of course they do. They’re just secretive in general, and keep communications edited. Compared to the word salad of modern companies on social media, I find it refreshing. Just fix the problem, issue replacements for those affected and move on quietly.
The link says:

> As such, on their 120hz devices, requestAnimationFrame is throttled to 60hz, whereas CSS animations run at 120hz.

Please let me know if I am misunderstanding, it has been a few years since I've done this type of work.
I wonder why anyone would turn ProMotion off considering that 120Hz massively improves responsiveness.

...and I bet that's exactly the attitude Apple had when implementing things, which lead to this mess.
Hi! I'm the creator of the site. Good news: I'm currently working on animations and an explainer video on transformers and self-attention. The best way to be notified is probably to subscribe to my YouTube channel and hit the bell icon for notifications.
There is now also a button for “advanced resolution settings” in display settings menu, and behind it there is a toggle to permanently display all possible resolutions among the existing ones already there.
I can't tell if this is a legitimate suggestion, or a satirical comment poking fun at crypto-folk.
No it’s not. The only other real player is Regus and they are absolutely f’cking horrible with bad poorly run spaces and predatory billing. They’re a scourge.

The WeWork product is fantastic and I’ve tried all alternatives. I’m in a different city basically every week and if they go under or stop being basically the same I’ll seriously mourn the loss.
I agree with you somewhat, in that human rights should be protected and law is just a tool, that I feel should be used to better humanity.
There is a philosophical thought behind the whole idea of copyright, I suspect it'd be best to use that as a starting point rather as I'm sure it would weigh the pros and cons of your point against other factors. It fundamentally is designed to strike a balance between a creator and wider society.
I love the irony of this.
Sorry but there is an incomparable difference between knowledge obtained by revelation and scientific method. The book is the vehicle, not the source of knowledge for the latter.
Will this help bring Linux to the upcoming Qualcomm Elite X laptop SoC?

A viable Linux ARM laptop would be cool, especially if it promised high performance and long battery life!
Extremely Large Telescope is the budget version.

The original plan was Overwhelmingly Large Telescope
https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/owl/OWL_design.html
the biggest difference is that the output is automatically generated content for human consumption* at scale.

* it remains to be seen if man or machine will be the biggest consumer of the content. It is entirely possible that the internet will become dominated by AI readers and writers instead of cats and naked activities, though these will likely become largely AI generated too, maybe not cats since they provide ample content by just being themselves
Having a warm dark sky is not to be underestimated. I don’t have great darkness where I live but it’s certainly enough to pick out a fair few sights

The problem is a clear night tends to be rare, and in winter when it’s 5C outside.
Was about to post the same. Contiki actually came to fame though as it was commonly used for sensor networks an IoT application. Particularly integrating 6lowpan (ZigBee IPv6) made it interesting for us at the time.
> It's one thing to argue over whether basic user facing software like an image compressor or a text editor should have telemetry, but a web browser is one of the least controversial scenarios for telemetry I can imagine. It is constantly sending and receiving data on your behalf with hundreds or thousands of servers spread across the internet as a user agent.

It's probably no accident that spying on users got popular just as this became the case. Constant network traffic while web browsing didn't start to become the norm until late in the '00s, either. If you weren't clicking links, you could often open Wireshark or sniff with Netcat and see nothing. Not from your browser, not from anything. Certainly ~nobody was collecting heatmaps of where you move your mouse, or firing a network request if you selected text. Or recording entire user sessions for playback, or so you can watch them live (god, those tools are creepy as hell)
If I turn on autopilot on my plane and get shitfaced, it will crash and it would be my fault. I think Tesla’s marketing is over the top and their refusal to use radar frustrating. But I’m surprised this case made it to a jury, assuming he was actually drunk versus had a drink at one point in the day.
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.2 beta 4
There's no incentive for them to even show it.
This seems like far in the future, where the direct use of the nuclear wouldn't prevent more CO2 from being introduced into the atmosphere, than could be removed.
I think the problem is more that the idea isn't sustainable in any way.
I don't accept the vague claim of "patent trolls" as enough for Microsoft to bar support of AV1 in Edge.

This is extra bad when you consider what Microsoft does to pressure people into using Edge, despite Edge itself being literally Chromium with features disabled.
Doesn't this lead to perverse incentives ?

If they had to pay the ransom there would be a price set on security complacency, and that becomes the yardstick to use on further investments to harden their systems.

In contrast, losing all patient data is now associated with a malicious attack, so they can hide behind the victim status, the actual damage isn't directly on their bottom line but on the quality of the care to their patient, and they can keep underinvesting in security as long as they have plausible deniability of wrongdoing in the next attack.
Did they not have luxury cars in apartheid South Africa? Does having a dealership make the whole shit show in both countries okay?
This was one of the causes of the creation of the Frustration-Free Packaging:

https://www.bebolddigital.com/blog/what-is-amazon-frustratio....
Did you forget ann ar?dic - for Antarctic. What is that ?d sound? WHY is that sound?

Oh and eeeand. The word and used to be monosyllabic.

I bet there are a list of words where the loss of each of the 26 letters can be lamented. For example (off the top of my head), the a in head, the b in dumb, the first c in necklace, the d in handsaw ...
This is your regular reminder that anyone can create a LinkedIn account and see your profile, regardless of your privacy settings.
One of the best classes I took in college was a "learn how to study class", I never had to study before college so I was woefully unprepared for engineering school. Probably the best thing I learned in the class was the Cornell Note Taking Method. I implemented the method the next semester of college and totally crushed it with limited studying, I probably should have continued using it but I was a knucklehead and didn't.
I lived down the road from a startup I worked for with work from home Thurs/Fri. Worked from the office every day.
sigh perhaps this was an overreaction. How about we nuke clickbait titles?
The super power of GPT is allowing a generalist to become specialists in diverse disciplines just-in-time.
I mean, you pick the subject, there's a hot-button issue.

Could be evolution in the science side of things, the legacy of slavery or colonization in the history side of things.

Math is generally pretty safe, although I do see a steady stream of "I'm so glad I'm homeschooling my kids, I can't believe what $currentEducationalBogeyman is trying to pass off as education" when presented with some way to understand math that I had to teach myself, in college, to do the math faster in my head.

Composition is pretty safe, but as its frequently combined with literature (that is, the study of rhetoric in other people's writing) which also has a lot of self-censorship. It's also unsteady ground, as the Bible should be study as literature as well as religious tome, but that can lead to kids thinking about the humans who wrote the bible and what rhetorical outcome they were reaching towards.

Physical education is safe so long as it limits itself to exercise, but health topics like human sexuality are obviously going to raise some hackles.

I think it really depends on the parent what is the absolute bogeyman of public schooling, but evolution has posed the most consistent existential threat to the stereotypical fundamentalist who is looking to avoid "sinful" public schools.
I don't understand how a user will be liable when they are receiving non-deterministic outputs and have no objective way to know or control what they receive.
There are no real players in the coworking space, and any interest for startups in the field was destroyed by WeWork. So no, this is not good news, just a nail in the coffin for the industry.
Really hard to keep a molecule that small in one place for long! I've definitely heard that it really just flies out of steel containers at shockingly high rates
Oh, fair enough, got my wires crossed from the M3 announcement.

The A17 floorplan looks nothing like that either.

https://twitter.com/highyieldYT/status/1711453511848706228
Also what's with the magic trick of entering DFU mode by pressing the buttons at a very specific time for a very specific number of seconds? Felt like singing a song to some fictional Mac OS gods and hoping for the stars to align for the laptop to show up in the second Mac.
Ah, also the port you use for the USB-C cable matters!! Has to be the first from the left? But why?

Anw, I followed a video by Mr. Macintosh and managed to get mine up and running, whew.
Lack of perfection doesn't mean you shouldn't try to be more neutral. Trying by itself (even if failing) earns the trust of voters.

And if you live in an area where evolution is a controversial topic, then you should leave it up to the parents. You don't have a right to use their money to teach something that a lot of people don't want to be taught. Of course, there's some line where something is fringe enough and you don't have to accommodate every last person. Again, try to be neutral, don't aim for perfection.

And you know what? Evolution is a nuanced topic. The actual claims that can be backed up by first principals using the scientific method are fairly narrow. Much of the reasoning is very prone to confirmation bias and all kinds of after-the-fact fitting rather than forward-looking predictions. To stick to the science on the topic of evolution you have to be pretty careful and most teachers are not. Not saying it shouldn't be taught... I think it has a lot of explanatory power outside of pure science and represents a large body of important observations. But I don't think it's a good example of science-vs-idiots.
> They generally aren't brainwashed to kill people.

Nor are homeschooled kids.
In terms of the code, I don't think it would be hard to create an Angry Bird clone of this quality using a GPT-4 scale model that had somehow had all knowledge of Angry Birds excluded from it.

Most of the Angry Birds mechanics in this demo come from the underlying Matter 2D library. Relevant demo here: https://brm.io/matter-js/demo/#slingshot

Honestly, that's most of the code part accounted for.

The bigger question is the graphical assets. The developer shared their prompts for those here: https://twitter.com/javilopen/status/1719363587351740711

Some of them make no mention of Angry Birds - "Wooden box. Large skeleton bone. Item assets sprites. White background. In-game sprites" - but others do: "Item assets sprites. Wooden planks. White background. In-game sprites. Similar to Angry Birds style"

My hunch is that a skilled image prompter could still get to results that were right for this particular demo even with a model that had not seen Angry Birds assets before.
Awesome model from a quick run-through comparison, it's comparable in results to GPT-4 with web search and references as a plus, but runs faster. Two small nitpicks:

- Dark mode is hard to read, the answer text font has too much weight and brightness which makes it hard to read long paragraphs of non-code text. Light mode is obviously too bright overall, but it's already nighttime where I'm at so maybe tomorrow at noon I'll have another opinion. I'd preferred gray (dark, ie OpenAI) and sepia (light, ie HN) as backgrounds when long lines of text are involved.

- Pricing page and ties to GPT-4: what does "500+ best model uses per day (GPT-4)" mean? What's the "GPT-4" part for? I saw I can pick GPT4 as a model on the landing page, but I just don't get the best model/GPT-4 thing. Is Phind announcing it's a competitor but also proxies GPT-4? Sorry, I'm not up-to-date on GPT-4 "resellers" and the story behind Phind, it's just weird when it announces it "beats GPT-4" then the pricing is about GPT-4 usage.
Choreography, or Orchestration, That Is the Wrong Question
Tell HN: Happy Halloween!
Boo!

That is all.
It was starting to really “feel like a hog” to me over the last 6 months, including random crashes and stutters, and I considered switching to Chrome.

I hadn’t noticed until I read this, but I think that feeling has gone away recently and I had already stopped thinking about switching.
The Starfish and the Spider (2017)
The social media company can decide whether and how to handle it. The government official can ask but not coerce the social media company to ban abusive comments.

And as I wrote [1] in reply to arp242's sibling comment:

> The politician should mirror the post on a website the politician controls with no comments allowed or simply post on such a website in the first place. The politician can then post a link to the relevant page of the politician's website to the politician's social media accounts and proceed to ignore the comments on the social media site. If the politician is a government official, this is still perfectly compatible with the First Amendment, because the official has the First Amendment freedom of association and therefore can refuse to host comments on the politician's announcements on the politician's own websites.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38092066
Also, it was never called “OSX”.
Has it really dried up or is it good for a few more pumps?
Kubernetes Is Killing the Cloud
Very fair point. Vim has benefited tremendously from that effort.
Thanks for the feedback. We also support GPT-4 as an answering model so users can pick and choose what's best for their use case, but we recommend the Phind Model for the majority of users.
Nearly every person I've met struggles with empathizing with people who aren't in their in-group, that's not a homeschooled-specific thing. The enormous polarization in the modern political climate is due to precisely the kind of insularism that you're calling out, and it's not because of the 1.5% of the adult population that was homeschooled.
We don't know that pale-skinned Caucasians need different recommendations in this scenario. That's the point. We barely know anything about nutritional science, let alone what one specific race of people needs.

If you have no clue how sun exposure actually affects the body beyond "ow burn hurt", you don't have the necessary knowledge to begin creating highly specific treatments. What would you base the science on? There's no real foundation.
I've seen it. Sometimes because the DSP is hyperspecialized for a particular codec. Sometimes just because the SoC vendor bought the hard codecs from different sub vendors.
> Knowing how it is done makes it _more_ impressive to me.

I agree to an extent: The choice of the number in his ACAANs makes me always wonder how he would recover from a "bad" spectator.

What always impressed me even more was Tamariz' handling of the Mnemonica stack. For example, he could ask to name a card and could immediately bring it to the top of the stack with one cut in a second.
I think its total mirror area is more than that of all existing (largest) professional reflecting optical telescopes combined

39.3m aperture, mirror area scales quadratically with that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_optical_reflec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_optical_telescop...
How many lives of man hours are lost from overhead for these costs and compliance? The issue is people enforcing these regulations see the dead bodies from the burned out home but not the dead bodies of the homeless or the kids with less food or the dude with untreated cancer because regulatory costs and materials safety margins sucked away money that could've been spent on other life critical things.

At this point it seems completely plausible more lives would be saved through complete deregulation including setting loose uncle joe the methhead electrician.

RE:

>cities to turn into dangerous shanty towns where anyone who can lean a piece of corrugated sheet metal against a mud pile can call themselves a home builder.

My whole county did this. No inspections or building plans. It turned out fine. I became a legal 'home builder' with nothing more than filing my signature with the county. It's the only way I can even afford a house.

re county: believe the options are unincorporated burrows of Alaska, greenlee or cochise Arizona, Jackson Wayne and several other county in Tennessee, bunch of others.
Because it damages their property values. Would you want to buy a house next to a dilapidated pile of abandoned rubble?
If that were true, I'd expect gabapentin, which is a GABA analogue, to be far more popular. I'm guessing it isn't as simple as that though.
Some for sure but all the algorithms (simple ones) and such is also done successfully by ChatGPT.
> There is no working `fsck` and the existing repair tools come with dire warnings

This stems from a misunderstanding. Fsck and fsck-adjacent tools have three purposes:

1. Replay journal entries in a journalled filesystem, so that the filesystem is repaired to a good state for mounting

2. Scrub through checksums and recover any data/metadata that has a redundant copy

3. In rare cases, a fsck tool encountering invalid data can make guesses as to how the filesystems should be structured -- basically, shot in the dark attempts at recovery.

Btrfs does not need #1 because it is not journalled. Assuming write barriers are working, any partially written copy of the filesystem is valid and will simply appear as if the pending writes had been rolled back. This aspect alone greatly diminishes the need for a fsck tool that filesystems like ext4 have.

As for #2, Btrfs already has scrub support. No issues there.

As for #3, it's questionable whether you should ever rely on such functionality, and fsck tools that do implement such functionality tend to have little maneuverability in the first place.
Seems so, and also only .com not even GHE https://github.com/CycodeLabs/raven/blob/v1.0.3/src/download...

I have no earthly idea why a security tool would roll their own GitHub access library in python :-/
God bless David Gerard.