skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So... we're actually worse off

Careful about inferring causality here.

What kind of active person suddenly stops being active? You presumably don't want to be that kind of person... but the stopping isn't necessarily a causal factor of the cardiovascular events (and the initial "being active" seems still far less likely to be a causal factor).
The PDF figures for 'Why does deep learning work' seem to point to 'Deep learning and ethics' and vice versa.
I don't expect it to work anytime soon, but I'd love to see Logic on this.

I own a Mac and a copy of logic, but I really would love to be able to travel with a single laptop instead of carrying my Air just for recording.
This comes down to arguing over semantics. Many will argue that "open source" means using a license listed at https://opensource.org/licenses/ . Even CC0 isn't considered open source by this standard.

Even I feel that "700M monthly active user" gives not-so-open vibes, but frankly many of these "open source" licenses have oddly restrictive requirements as well.
I wrote an article [1] back in June about Lemmy and how reddit communities leaving should approach it but it seems like in practice it's been a lot more unstructured than I thought it should have been. Most users/boards are on lemmy.world. That's probably fine though, there are still some more niche boards. I just wish there was a better automatic cross-posting between parallel boards.

Personally I have essentially not used reddit since June outside of following links there from searches. It was the thing that got me to make an HN account after being a passive reader for like 7 years.

[1] https://tr3y.io/articles/tech/reddit.html
The PowerMac G5 and iMac G5 all the way back to 2003 are 64-bit. Apple actually had to drop 64-bit for one year during the intel transition in 2005-2006. (The original Intel Core Duo chips were 32-bit.
Humans and our tools are, in my opinion, a singular thing.

We evolved _with_ our tools — they afforded us greater access to food, which led to more intelligence, which led to more advanced tools, and on, and on.

A lot of people take this kind of "other" view. Technology is "bad", when really it comes down to how we choose to use it.

It's like Herbie Hancock said when talking about machines and music in the 1980s: an axe can be used to slaughter your neighbor, or it can be used to build a house. They're tools, and ultimately it comes down to what we choose to do with them.
>The reliance of Ukraine’s substations on GPS for time synchronization, a standard in industrial control systems for its accuracy and affordability, becomes a vulnerability when faced with such jamming.

>Cisco’s response involved shipping a large order of modified equipment, specifically designed to maintain accurate time even under radio jamming conditions. This solution employs the Cisco Industrial Ethernet switch with an internal crystal oscillator, enabling new clock recovery algorithms for accurate timekeeping when GPS is unavailable.

That's really neat. Didn't know GPS was also used for time synchronization.
I wish it wasn't an X post. Can't see responses at all without an account.
I use Ripgrep daily, and it helps me a lot when navigating codebases, and I even use it to search through my notes. A while ago, I made a script that looks for file paths in the output from Ripgrep in order to turn the paths into clickable links, as I couldn't get it to work properly back then. I'm so happy to hear that «the headlining feature in this release is hyperlink support»! I'm really looking forward to using the new update.
Too many computer screens, not enough typewriters.

Most of those photos probably date from the late 80s, after IBM made small computers 'normal'.

Up till about 83-85, most offices had lots of typewriters and no screens.
I think that of the people that have left Reddit. There are two basic groups.

Those that replaced it with Lemmy, and those that took it as a moment to kick a habit.

I think the latter is the larger group.
90% of people that filled out a random mall survey in the early 2000s survived a global pandemic

according to the survey they checked that they walked and really really like free 2009 Nissan Altimas. In comparison to the control group it looks like walking is different.
it's kind of funny that the standards are so low for the body to not be a wreck, but that we still figured out how to be so comfortable with technology we are killing ourselves.
they tried that once, that is how Russia and China were able to close off their own internet loops...via Cisco's own help.
> It's only open source if you can generate the binary weights from the training data and the training algorithm and training (hyper) parameters, from scratch. Releasing only the binary weights, does not make it open source, just like releasing only binary executables has nothing to do with open source.

The weights aren’t binary. It’s not a compile form, it’s the actual source of the AI model.

The same code used to train the model / generate the weights will not produce the same model weights if run again, it is not deterministic.

Also you will need millions of dollars to retrain, retraining is not the goal. The model weights are the source that was opened. The weights can be used to modify the model.
But that's pretty common, no? For people from various institutes to collaborate. Or is there something special about this one?
Bank apps should have the ability to see if you're on a call when the app is opened. If this is the case and the call doesn't actually originate from their systems, they should ask you whether you're currently called by them and freeze your account if yes is clicked.
Note that the abstract of underlying paper[1] is much more carefully drawing conclusions from the study. It mainly claims that ther exists an association between "climbing five flights of stairs daily" and an "over a 20% lower risk of ASCVD", but not of a direct causation (as the linked article does). Therefore the title of the article: "Walking more than five flights of stairs a day can cut risk of heart disease by 20%, study says" is misrepresenting the findings.

When the study says that there is an association, the causation might also be the other way round, ie. a higher disposition of heart disease leads to people not climbing a lot of stairs. The last sentence of the abstract points into this direction: "Participants who stopped stair climbing between baseline and resurvey had a higher risk [32%] of ASCVD compared with those who never climbed stairs." When stopping stair climbing is worse correlated with ASCVD risk than not even starting stair climbing, one might suspect that there are other hidden causes that govern the correlation, such as people getting old or sick, which is their real cause for their increased ASCVD risk, and thus move into the basement or use the elevator more often, which in turn decreases their climbing stairs a lot. If this is the case, than there is no proof that climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease at all. We just have a correlation, no causation.

To really find out whether there exists a causation, an intervention study would be necessary: we would need a representative sample of people of the particular group we are interested in (in this case people who do only climb very few steps a day). One half of the sample is not changing anything; the other half from now on consistently climbs 50 steps a day for a certain period of time. Afterwards we compare the two. (Ideally we would like to perform a double-blind experiment[2], but this seems impossible in this case.)

[1] https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(2...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_experiment
Actually, these quotes have become outdated by the language itself! ... in favor of this quote:

> I don't like garbage. I don't like littering. My ideal is to eliminate the need for a garbage collector by not producing any garbage. That is now possible.

See this question:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/147130/1593077

and this answer (of mine):

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48046118/1593077
I will think on how to improve this.
Oh that is really great! A job thru the internet of programmers and engineers such a blessing. May it last till your end. Do you enjoy that job a lot?
There's a tool I use called Petal https://www.petal.org/reference-manager. The free tier allows up to 1GB of PDFs, which I believe are processed by GROBID and chunked for LLM QA.

The feature I find most useful is the table automation which I use for literature review, since it lets me run the same QA prompts on a collection of documents all at once.
Interesting tool! Does it get around rate limiting?
It's embarrassing when it's your home town, and everywhere else in that area is becoming nicer and more gentrified.
Related question, does anyone have experience with using the AMD MI100 for deep learning? With 32GB and a second hand price of ~1100 USD, it could be a good choice.
Works on KDE.
Man, "The Terror" is such good series, I love the eerie/dread feeling of the first season. The actors are top notch too.
> The model weights are the source that was opened.

Model weights are not "the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program" but more like "the output of a preprocessor or translator" [0], and thus are not "source code", but viewed as code, are more like object code. The training data, training configuration, and program source for the training routines are "source code", without which the model as a whole is not truly open source, just as much as the program source for the inference routines are.

[0] for the relevance of the quoted material to whether or not your description meets the Open Source Definition, see the definition itself: https://opensource.org/osd/
Because Socrates already did this.. :)

Since so many have said..
The youths will be the doom for us.

Nowadays, the young ones learn less and less, know less than ever.. true true.. but also they use different tools as you and the tools are much better at what you do :) so actually we're accelerating.
They use a custom version trained on BBC output.
I still have mod status on a large-ish (70k+) subreddit so I can view reddit's internal traffic statistics for it, and these estimates are definitely wrong.

These stats claim the sub has had 10-20 comments per day in just the past month, so maybe 300-600 tops.

In reality it's had 1200+ comments just in the past week alone and probably closer to 5000 for the month. And you can see the activity with your own eyes in every thread, so I definitely trust reddit's own stats more.
Why? Sounds like they made good improvements to their product. It would be cool if these improvements make it to other customers.
I live in small town too. I'm sure Richmond, VA has many HN users. Hello from FXBG/ <3 Be Kind
I think the US government would rather make Cisco stay in politics.
All the more incentive to hang onto the failing mall: the land underneath it continues to grow in value while the owners put in no work and hardly any taxes! No wonder it’s one of their portfolio’s stars.
Honestly, if you’re appealing to these kinds of arguments, you’ve already lost.

It sounds a lot like “digital photography” is not art (or that photography itself is not art, before that).
Doing a font, as shown in the post, for the ASCII character range is good for hobbysts. But learning about OCR and how it affect font recognition and accessibility, covering the unicode range decently, and more... Maybe that's what make it for professionals.
I don't want to support the guy you replied to, he doesn't understand what open source means, but I belive and have argued it is possible to exercise the freedoms that are part of open source software without access to the training data. See https://www.marble.onl/posts/considerations_for_copyrighting...
You guys exist IRL ?
Be careful bringing up this phenomenon, it's already been explicitly mentioned in the rules [0] - which means that it can't possibly be actually taking place here at all.

Discourse on the internet in general is becoming less open and candid as people self-censor out of fear of retribution, ostracization, and/or cancellation. Expect more people to withdraw into exclusive, closed communities and cliques where frank, quality discussion can actually be had, away from the preying eyes of the censorious authoritarians and moderator types, as well as the vapid Tweet-length, Reddit-style shitposting that the masses bring with them.

Prepare to enter a new informational dark age, far from the original ethos of the early Internet hackers and engineers who sought to democratize and maximize open access to information for all. Now information can be dangerous - it can be false, misleading, misinformative, and therefore its dissemination should be strictly controlled and moderated to prevent people from getting "the wrong idea." Moreover whatever you say online is more likely to be used against you, and so it is preferable to practice a policy of reticence and silence than speak at all.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberto-rodriguez-jr-281b77253/
I'm just trying to understand why ImGui needs to read and write window positions, because it's not immediately obvious from that paltry description. It sounds like you're describing a use case where it needs to be able to set the position of a new window relative to an existing window. So APIs to read the position of the current window and write the position of the new window are probably what they're looking for—though I can readily imagine narrower APIs to handle that use case. Does that sound to you like an accurate explanation of their complaint?

(None of the above explains why ImGui cannot in the interim accept a janky experience where newly created child windows pop up wherever the window manager puts them, as commonly happens for transient dialog boxes. This seems like a nice to have feature, but not a complete showstopper.)
Most impressive about nuclear physics, is knowledge, that in classic rigid matter exists huge-huge emptiness - atom core is just about 1/100,000 of volume of atom.

And this emptiness is so huge, that to make safety blanket against cosmic particles for interstellar flights (on current level of radiology medicine), need few METERS of solid shield, or hundred KILOmeters of atmosphere.

Second important consideration, nuclear fission reactions are very slow if compare to speed of light, this is why possible nuclear bomb, as if cores explode immediately, all nuclear fuel will be just fly out and not react.

So, high probability, if SINGLE high energy particle will intersect human body, will nothing happen, this particle will just fly right through body without any visible effects.

But even if particle will be so fortunate to directly hit some core in human body, according to rule of impulse saving, this core will also got very high speed and will fly out of body before fission appear (when high energy particles hit core of air at high altitude, they have some time to fission, so on surface usually detected traces of fission).
> At the end of the day, I just want to dump all my links somewhere and be able to find them again. I don't want to think about where they should go.

You might want to check out xBrowserSync. Its open source, can be self-hosted, has browser extensions and an Android app.

You don't have to organize anything. When you add bookmarks, you add them with tags and they will all go into the default bookmark folder. The beauty is that you never have to interact with that folder. Instead you use the browser extension to search for tags, name, and description. Its a very simple app that does 1 thing well.

The UI does look a little dated, but there's so little of it that it doesn't matter much.
Do those red dwarves have the heavier atomic elements necessary to make diverse biological interactions, on a planet geologically active enough to protect the biosphere with a magnetic field?

I recently encountered a description of how Earth relies on the remnants of some interactions between stellar remnants which would have been far rarer early on, even if red dwarf stars were present for so long.
I also live on an 8th floor and taking the stairs on a regular basis has been really beneficial. At first I had to stop and catch my breath at the 5th floor, but now that I’m doing it 1-2 times a day it’s a lot easier. I’ve been largely sedentary so this plus some time at the building’s gym has helped with weight loss and endurance.
Unless it’s made illegal I’m sure there would be plenty of streamers that can get a hold of one NYPD talkie talkie and broadcast that.
I switched from zsh to fish a couple of years ago. My setups are very similar in capability but my fish config is about 10% the size. I get nearly everything I want for free and now only use one plugin, fzf.fish
For writing on the command-line, yes. For anything over a screenful of code and/or using non-trivial math or non-scalar variables, I’ve found the opposite to be true. Python forces multi-line code more but the functionality is so much richer that it’s easy to end up replacing a hundred line shell script with half as many lines of easier-to-read code. Literally every time I’ve done that with a mature shell script I’ve also found at least one bug in the process, usually related to error handling or escaping, which the original author knew about but also knew would be painful to handle in shell.
If I climb 10 stairs, 5 times a day - does that count?
How about 2 stairs, 25 times a day?
100 stairs, on odd days?
Despite their conviction, the "difficulty is admirable" crowd sure do make a lot of exceptions.
It's cool if GNOME doesn't work well for you, but for me it's near-perfect. For sure it's rough around the edges, but what isn't? GNOME helps me get work done, stays out of my way until I need it, etc.

I see so much general hate towards GNOME on HN, and it's really annoying. If it doesn't work for you, great, I'd like to hear why. But saying it's "strictly downsides" simply isn't true, nor productive.
FWIW, I think Bjarne and other C++ magnates have a plan for eating Rust's lunch by allowing for "safe"/"unsafe" within C++.
Strange and Unusual Flight Accidents
> Oh, and the once or twice a month you had to clean your mice balls because to much crust was building up inside them.

To me it always felt like a mouse with a clean ball was more responsive and accurate than a laser mouse. Especially in competitive gaming in the early 2000s. Not sure if that was just imagined on my part though. Part of me still thinks it's better. There's just something about the mechanical nature of the ball mouse. It felt like a precision instrument that had be cared for. A laser mouse in comparison has always been a bit gimmicky. Even though technically a modern laser mouse surely has way higher sample rates.
Yeah, so many programmers had to find the time to implement them or find an STL library with the stuff.

The really important stuff was printing with "<<", or whatever ...
That’s genuine metamathematics, only one joke in there https://ncatlab.org/nlab/list/joke
The terrific Lego tower of technique
Why couldn't it be an agent for the short time that it's generating an intelligent looking paragraph?

Do you know what gives rise to consciousness? If not how can we be sure it doesn't arise from a giant pile of linear algebra?
I don’t know, deciding not to support multi-window mode seems ok to me. It’s a relic of the past and dragging around all that baggage often isn’t worth it.
> If a car can receive OTA updates it can receive OTA hacks, no passenger in car required.

True, but that seems like a different threat model—the title is "Can a Passenger Hack an Airplane?", so I was taking the analogue to be "Can a Passenger Hack a Car?" Specifically, the response

> Your car has the same problem

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38423710) was to

> wow, I came here to comment that of course passengers can't hack an airplane, at least in the sense of taking control of it, because there's no way that anyone with half a brain wouldn't have an absolute air gap between the passenger facing systems and the flight control systems.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421652), meaning, I assume, that my car has the problem that there isn't such an air gap.
The problem is that this is still just retrieval and mechanical. In RAG, you split a PDF into small chunks, but this is way different from how humans digest PDFs. If I hire an RA to go through my Zotero lib and make a mind-map of sorts, he/she would combine papers, paragraphs, figures, etc. to come up with a "concepts" map, which is way richer than a retrieval system that merely finds the semantic similarity between my query and pieces of text.

RAG is good for semantic search, but really we need something that works at a knowledge/understanding level as opposed to data/information level.
Thank you for saying it. Undetonated ordinance is the best analogy I have ever heard.
"Ignore NVIDIA" in this context means "run it under X11 for NVIDIA", not "fail to run at all".
> LLAMA2 is very much open source.

The inference and training software used to run the model are open source, the concrete model -- that is, the thing for which the weights are the object code -- is not.

The concrete model is free-to-use closed source, which is better than an undisclosed blob hiding behind a SaaS service, but still not open source.

It's also good that the inference and training code are open source, even though the training data and configuration is not.
Care to share strong recommendations? Interested in maker spaces, agile, entrepreneurship & prototyping.
I know there's limitations, but I'd really prefer if it used real music. Plain MIDI makes it feel so sterile and also makes it much easier.
I have enjoyed reading on a Stairmaster for the last couple of months (after weight-training). I find I can get a high intensity and still read unlike with running, rowing or out of the saddle cycling.

Sadly I've found it causes knee pain. This is despite a long history of leg training with no knee issues. It's a real shame but just the old story of not focussing on a single exercise/movement too much I guess.
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I personally find the stair climber exponentially easier than long distance running.
I do stair climber when I have a mental block for doing a decent distance as it’s rather robotic and easy, whereas, doing a proper decent long distance run requires me to be both physically and mentally up for it.
Most likely reason is because it doesn't matter, "Elo" stopped being a person long ago, similar to many named streets, cities, states, etc. throughout the world

ELO is just as accurate as Elo when referring to the rating system.
Better if the article stuck to providing info and omit "communism bad! nuclear good!" sermon.
With biking you can get away with not pushing yourself or coasting whereas running always has a baseline power output which is required to maintain. Also with biking you are not using as many muscles as with running.

I started trail running this year and the benefits to my overall health, muscle balance, and injury rehab has been massive. Running over uneven terrain is maybe the most natural form of movement and your body reflects that.
Cisco not only stopped but in fact never did either of those things, so they're already way ahead of you!
It’s really the only way to do accurate time.
I used bash heavily for years but decided I’d spent enough time maintaining dotfiles & working around quirks around the middle of the last decade. I looked at a few alternatives but since fish had everything I wanted builtin, I decided to try it for a while. After the first day, I decided the experiment was over and switched everywhere. It’s great software both for how much it does and how little it forces you to think about how it works as opposed to what you’re trying to do.