skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do Black Holes Have Singularities?
It's a very small number, admittedly, but the damage is huge.

People in general aren't great at dealing with low-probability high-impact events. I think we're also not so great at dealing with legal and economic issues where the effect on most people is tiny but a small number are either affected extremely negatively (by losing these cases) or extremely positively (becoming tremendously wealthy as copyright holders).
There are a few things a person could do that we can’t because of CSRF.

Intent is not something you can work out programmatically, so we can’t have nice things in some situations.

The last fancy form I worked on, I had to make sure the click event fired the form submit fairly directly so the browser would allow it.
I love this thought from the article.

> Limit our brain diet the same way we try not to eat (delicious) fatty food every day to avoid the total collapse of our bodies.

Gives me hope that after our societal binge on social media and genai, we will come up with healthy patterns.

It only took us a hundred years or so after the Industrial Revolution to start adapting habits after the relative plenty that resulted.
> But also, it's pretty fair to mention the availability of crates, because they're easy to integrate, liberally used by the project itself

Yes

This is a strength and a weakness in Rust

The crate ecosystem is broad an deep. It is seemless to integrate crates if you are connected to the internet. That is a strength

But it is also a weaknesses. "seemless to integrate crates if you are connected to the internet" but of unknown provenance and varying quality.

There are steps you can take, tools you can use to ameliorate the issue, but it is a real danger

It depends what you are working on. For systems which must be secure and reliable -weapons, flight control, banking, maybe Ada is a better choice

For me I make musical instruments, and I will stick with Rust for that

I know Rust, not Ada. A very interesting discussion for me to
I’ll add my two cents, I have mild tinnitus on the left ear, like other readers I learned to ignore it and only really notice it when focusing or drawing attention to it. Luckily doesn’t affect my sleep or work. Stress and similar situations seem to intensify it a little and I become more aware. I’ll add a curious one to the discussion, I’m a big AirPods fan, as soon as Apple released the AirPods Pro I bought them, on the first week of use I started getting horrible headaches/nauseas which I associated (most likely wrongly) to having tinnitus and it causing some balance “imbalance”. Returned them and got back to regular AirPods.
Can you name some examples where open source won?

In the past I wanted to believe this can be the future, where open source will somehow win (at least in some parts). What I see is that even the biggest projects are mere tools in the hands of the big corporations. Linux, Postgres, etc. All great! But have been assimilated. I cannot really consider them a win.

It seems to me that it goes back and forth - it also seems to me that the advancements in LLMs will go a similar route.
> The project seeks to revive a Trump administration effort to include a question of whether an individual counted in the decennial Census is a U.S. citizen. The census population count is used to reapportion congressional seats and the Electoral College.

This is incredibly based. Letting tens of millions of illegal immigrants be counted towards appropriating congressional seats/electoral votes is literal insanity.
Thanks a lot for the reply!

I am not aware of any such consultation offerings but I will investigate if that is an option, thanks for pointing this out.

After consulting her fortunately that is most likely an option, we have a buffer on our shared account to pay rent for ~3 more months but I'd just be shifting the debt to a place that wants it back less urgently, I still have to figure out how to get the extra income to make it happen.

I am about halfway through the required modules to start my bachelor's thesis so I still have a bit to go; The biggest problem is that I have a bunch of failed exams resulting from a multitude of things (both psychological because of the pandemic, idealistic because of some sketchy privacy practices, and very bad sleep causing me to _oversleep_ on exams). This is hard to explain to anyone asking, which happened to me before while I tried to apply for a job.

The course I study has requirements for how many credit points you need at the end of certain semesters to be allowed to continue studying, which I fear I will not reach if I lessen the uni load to focus more on earning enough to pay my bills.

I do have years of hobby-level programming in a multitude of different languages and environments, some of it going as far as almost being "professional" (I was paid on a few occassions to develop custom web solutions) and having contributed to a charity project centered around Minecraft a few years ago. I am unsure how to present any of this and if it actually matters at all, outside of just linking my GitHub profile. The same goes for my Scrum Master certificate, it feels a bit wasted after I found out how little people actually care about it.

I wish I could utilize a network to look for solutions, but outside of my siblings and that flatmate I don't really have any contacts (there wasn't much social interaction during the covid semesters and I never recovered from that). Especially none who would be working at places that'd look for someone like me.
That really rubs me the wrong way. You're buying GitHub stars, blog posts, and LinkedIn reviews, all under the guise of "participate in open source". All for a chance to win one of 3 swag bags.
Awesome, thanks for sharing that. Love real world feedback.

> I've primarily settled on it because it already has approval at our org, it's simple, and fairly well documented

Those are great reasons to select a product. If it works for you, it works for you!

> especially compared to something like Cognito.

I was half expecting a new CIAM solution from AWS at Re:Invent. I don't understand why they don't invest more in Cognito. Such an own-goal.
I literally just copied my desktop's Debian install onto a flash drive & ran systemd-boot installer from chroot (after mount --bind'ing some drives in) and, boom, had a great OS that I knew worked for me!

(Some other thanks also required i guess. Regen your machine-id. I use the auto-mounting partition types but if you don't (most people don't), update your fstab and kernel cmdline.)
The root of every logical proof is an inductive step to assert some group of axioms or believe something. So all possible logical proofs are tainted by induction. If you believe induction makes a proof invalid, then all proofs are invalid.

The inductive and deductive reasoning separation is useful just to categorize each step and identify where your beliefs/probabilities enter the proof so you can manage them.
> I hope we eventually get to a place where browsers that don't support these features

Uhm... I wonder whatever happened to "decay gracefully"?
Could have been the program, could be your different comfort levels, hard to know.
How do these cables split in the middle of the ocean? Is there a fiber switch laying on the ocean floor?
Note that I don't think that subtitle is intended to summarize the overall findings but just provide some interesting details.

The graph is probably the best overall summary of the article: hybrids have 26% fewer problems than normal gas vehicles, electric vehicles have 79% more problems than normal gas vehicles, and PHEVs have 146% more problems than normal gas vehicles.

However, I'm not sure even those overall conclusions are that useful because, as the article notes, the reliability varies by vehicle, so you really just need to look at the specific model.
You are conflating a ton of completely unrelated issues here to a point of total ignorance.
I dream suburbias where every child is brave and funny, where a green-skinned scientist cackling at dusk or a journey to the sherbet-wastes of Mars are childhood commonplaces. I dream teenagers, the boys with letter sweatshirts, girls with single brush-stroke brows, in endless ice-cream parlors, never growing old or running out of flavors, dream them in moon-chilled jalopies when their sit-com day is through... the delicate perfume of sex and leatherette pervades the air, the radios playing new Gene Vincent songs, new episodes of discontinued but beloved shows.

I dream of cities that old futurists would weep with joy to see, of wharfside neighborhoods where tough kids track down spies, where crumbling tenements contort to teetering and eccentric shapes that seem to spell out words against the night.

I dream of rugged, mustard-yellow monsters from the deep, with vulgar and percussive names like Zax and Rul-Rah-Room. I dream a world of dreams fulfilled, a place where ecstasy and not his brother pain has run amok, and even as I dream I know my dreams are almost true, a planet of attained desire and concrete fantasy that spins and glitters, balanced on the diamond capstone of Olympus.
You'll get far more than 80% of the way with just running a pretrained text embeddings model.

There's always room for optimization (e.g. finetuning on your own data) but it's an incredible baseline.
> We’ve been seeing this in vision too.

It's always amazing to me that __researchers__ still ask if there are uses for GANs, thinking diffusion killed them. I have a hard time taking anyone's claim that they are an expert in synthetic image synthesis but it seems top companies hire them. I see the same thing with ResNets and I just don't get it. There's a tendency to not just railroad, but to actively build it.
Yeah it’s one of those things that kind of sits uncomfortably in the “native Americans were wise nature wizards and we have to unlearn our toxic western industrial capitalist beliefs in order to rediscover their hidden mystical wisdom to save the planet” territory

Like it’s a good story, and it’s true to some degree, but the pageantry around the language people use when treating it is… I dunno it just still sounds like gross Cowboys-and-Indians prose.
It's interesting how Europe-Asia interconnects are so small relative to US-Asia and US-Europe.
>It's not simple.

Neither is using virtualenvs for Python packages with native extensions.
Telekom in Germany but I also use a secondary sim that is only used for emergencies and 2FA.
Which platform? On Windows there is a straightforward installer, and afterwards `haxelib` command installs e.g. HaxeFlixel, HaxeUI with all of the dependencies without any hiccups.
Roughly the same content from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38463355 (521 points, 1056 comments)
The rejection of XML technology means that the web is condemned to endless reimplement shitty versions of what it provided. We'll still be implementing our own basic UI controls for the rest of our lives.
A majority of Firefox's funding comes from Google. I doubt they're willing to aggressively market their browser as "the one to use to get around Google's ads". I'm not sure of the exact figures but as I recall, losing Google's funding would be a company-ending event.
My understanding is that at some point the model needs to gain an understanding of how the world works if it needs to know the right set of words that come next to keep reducing perplexity. But I don't think this can scale to AGI but I have nothing to back it up
It is somewhat obvious that webassembly performs better than JavaScript but it’s nice to have some hard numbers.
Https is not interdicted. UDP quic and http3 are stateless. Http is used myriad places outside the browser. You can send whatever you want over http. I hate it but Flutter is showing you can use the web as a low level platform & render however you want, disregarding the standards processes (which are open & democratic and participative, imo).
Atropos: JavaScript library to create stunning 3D parallax hover effects
Following fashions can bring you a bit of short term cash, but it won’t build a long-term sustainable business.
I have never asked for hand-outs like this, but a friend of mine said I should post here. I just finished paying off years of medical debt over the summer, and quit working temporarily to travel halfway across the U.S. to help my cousin cope with her mother dying suddenly. I chanced it without getting private insurance during this short time in my life.

After returning to my hometown, I was suddenly hit overnight with crippling medical debt that I cannot even begin to pay as I have run out of funds from paying off other bills. I was debt-free for almost one day. In less than 24 hours, I fell into about $31,000 of debt and don't even know where to begin paying this off, due to an emergency surgery to remove a kidney stone.

Even if it's just a small amount to make one payment to keep the bills out of collections, anything helps.
Avoiding triggering buyer’s remorse is something high end consumer business understand and Amazon emphatically does not. I just bought a kayak, don’t advertise $3000 kayaks to me. Advertise dry bags and paddles and dry suits, you numpties.
I don't think that revised statement is an equal parallel, as spin art and generative models are not dependent on each other. Although someone could, and probably will, make a generative spin art model if they haven't already done so.

Basically, I think there is a risk that someone becomes overly enamored with the generative process, and just creates something that is solely an outcome of that generative process. A good example for this is the generative tree drawing algorithms. Great, a line drawing that resembles a tree, "look what we can make tech do!" That is math and algorithms, not art.
LinkedIn deserves an entire article to list their each and every dark pattern.
Some of the few that come to my mind:

- Asking you to install app when browsing from mobile (which goes away when you use "Desktop Mode").

- Saying that you have a message in your inbox but not the very message itself.

BTW, Do we have an open source alternative to LinkedIn like there is Mastodon to Twitter? :(

Another teeth-biting favorite is Adobe's "free" online tools (like PDF pages splitter etc.) where you will be able to do everything and once you click "Download", Adobe asks you to create an account to continue. :/
Sure, but I doubt any honest scientist has axioms that lets them prove anything related to a gas feedback-feeding loop, especially one they can't interact with.
Because as a customer there’s nothing that makes me happier than when I contact customer service and they say “our website is made for Windows so you’ll need to use the exact same OS as us”
Some machines have really bad analog audio output.. either bad quality or noisy. Plus, for systems that have toslink/spdif you can get a USB DAC that has optical out and avoid the issue entirely.
We could use ammonia or co2.
Monkey Island ÷ Intro ÷ IBM PS/2 ÷ Original PC Speaker Music
Is South Korea Disappearing?
Time and time again ive tried Ionic (7 years ago, and again 1 year ago) and every time it underwhelmed. I like that you can do react now. But Ionic documentations has and still is really bad (thin) and the forums are full of unanswered questions or with answers for Ionic versions that are very old.

If you try to make something real/production grade in Ionic, it will quickly disappoint.
I have a feeling this article was partly written by a GPT. This part

> For LLMs to be effective, they require a few things:

And then that list are just a dead giveaway.

I'm not nearly as cynical about GPT as many are (in fact I use them myself), but I think text written by it should be marked as such.

edit: The author expressed that it was indeed not written using any GPT.
I don't even bother raising it as a problem these days. More effective is to implement it exactly as specified so the designer is happy and the the managers are happy and the client is happy.

Then a month or so later, "accidentally" introduce a regression. Oops, the checkbox isn't checked by default any more! Nobody is thinking about it by then, nobody is checking it, and nobody will notice.
> but the invasion was prompted by the desire to expand NATO.

No. The invasion was prompted by Putin's desire to correct the historical "wrong" of the fall of the Soviet Union. Many Russians have now pointlessly died for one man's vanity.

Remember: Putin has said that Ukraine isn't a real country and that Ukrainians are not a real people. Ukrainians are busy explaining to him that he is wrong.

> Against whom?

You really need to learn your history. War always comes.
Wyden is maybe the best politician to ever come from Oregon. Thank you, Ron.
Any chance of switching to Fastly? Or at least testing it? There's excellent documentation for a working setup here: https://docs.lagoon.sh/drupal/integrate-drupal-and-fastly/ I don't know how to get invalidation working on Akamai, but the process of getting it working on another provider might get you the insight you need to get Akamai working.
mmWave has a few categories. There are "it works out of line of sight as long as you are in range" devices but that range is like a city block, maybe two.

The idea being that you could use it in the city and there'd be transceivers on the roofs and walls of the buildings so that the city stays densely covered.

So realistically anywhere you can actually get mmWave, you are probably within less than a thousand feet of a fiber optic installation.
Anyone interested in trees and/or great writing should read "The Overstory: A Novel", which earned author Richard Powers a well-deserved Pulitzer. Highly recommended.
> Linux, Postgres, etc. All great! But have been assimilated. I cannot really consider them a win.

Are you trying to argue that free software becomes less free because specific groups of people contribute to it?
Eh, I don't know; that's perhaps like giving credit to HP and Dell and perhaps Apple for Linux?
fasttext/word2vec/training-your-own-word-embeddings-from-scratch requires very optimistic assumptions about your data that rarely hold well in practice, such as not having idiosyncratic syntax from user input. I've learnt this the hard way.

Transformers-based LLMs with a BPE tokenizer compensate for this well.
That was one contest at the very beginning of the gen ai craze and even that was highly controversial. It's pretty bad form to pollute spaces meant for human output with ai bullshit. Clarke's World had to shut down submissions for a while because of the tide of auto-generated bullshit.

I feel like people like you who think things like "what's the problem?" don't actually understand what the effect of this technology has been on these creative communities. We still want to hone these skills and produce good work. Flooding online spaces with that stuff makes it harder to curate the signal to noise. Sharing art and getting feedback is how humans improve, and the glut of hacks who now think they're an artist is harming these communities. It's not necessarily about the final product, but the effect of the technology on these communities. AI companies steal the labor then people who were never part of the community come in and flood the space with low effort work. Then people like you dismiss it as gatekeeping. It's a super frustrating conversation to have.
I’m not sure how to describe it exactly, but it just feels like a lot of other people have a very different feeling about AI that is incredibly tedious for me. I’m fed up with it, with articles like this one, fawning over ‘real’ art and bemoaning ‘fake’ computer generated stuff.
It was an interesting read, mostly though it says what we already know: the mathematics of black holes often produce singularities, but we have no evidence to support the notion that they exist. The thing is whatever is behind the event horizon of a black hole might as well not exist, we can't report observations of it ever. Even in principle.

If someday we know what's inside the event horizon, it will emerge from a robust theory of quantum gravity that can be tested at a lower limit.
$17B for 10 years https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/12/18661193/l...

Assuming that it doesn't balloon like any real projects
Open source has won hands down for developers. It’s basically a giant tool bin and parts yard for people who build things with software. It’s also useful to extremely tech savvy people who like to DIY homelab type stuff.

In the consumer realm it has lost equally decisively.

The reason, I think, is that the distance between software nerds can use and software the general public can (or wants) to use is significantly larger than anyone understood. Getting something to work gets it like 5% of the way to making it usable.

Even worse, making it usable requires a huge amount of the kind of nit picky UI/UX work that programmers hate to do. This means they have to be paid to do it, which means usable software is many many times more expensive than technical software.

The situation is hopeless unless people start paying for open software, which is hard because the FOSS movement taught everyone that software should be free.
Linux absolutely won the OS wars.

We just didn't fully realize what that would look like before it happened.
> Popular languages typically have garbage collectors and are memory safe. I

Yes

And those languages are unsuitable for real time systems

Where Rust, and it seems Ada, excell
And if we split it up by model or even brand does this alter things? E.g. could it be that one or two EVs are bucking the trend and outperform most gas cars? And so on.
Sorry but lots of things are substandard in Firefox. On the rare occasion that I do use it the first thing I'm always promted with is "there's an update available - click here to restart" like it's 2003 again. Numerous pages have rendering problems with Firefox. Performance is not good enough. Dev tools have fallen behind. It aggressively pushes shitty "value-adds" like that lame bookmarking service (Pocket Mark or something). And the never ending UI refreshes are exhausting.
Are the electric vehicles fundamentally less reliable, or is it the current state of the art? Latter is important to call out, but so is projecting ourselves into the future.

Electric Vehicles are being actively (re)introduced in the market for what, like 20 years? While ICE were perfected for more than 100 years now. Give it some time.
> the Elf will reach into the bag, grab a handful of random cubes, show them to you, and then put them back in the bag. He'll do this a few times per game.

That was actually really clear to me. It clearly says the whole thing happens multiple time per game, where the thing includes "put them back in the bag". There are also examples.
Why Substack's subscription model does Not scale and is losing ground to Twitter
talk about dangerous job conditions.
More concretely, an ML mode is only "open source" if both the training code and the training data are freely available.

Otherwise, it's not possible for the community to reproduce the model.
oh yeah, I forgot about the HDMI to OLED display that was crazy
I like the term surveillance capitalism.

We need to move quickly, because the “moat” that big tech monopolies will seek to create will be regulatory, decelerationist, and authoritarian.
I live in Columbia, SC -- a place that is surprisingly pedestrian-friendly but where there is little awareness of this. I walk to most places I go -- decidedly unusual here.

I would actually defend right-on-red. Indeed, when I do drive, I get annoyed by all the "no turn on red" signs which slow things down.

In my estimation, the problem (locally, anyway) is cultural: drivers don't think to look, or else they feel entitled to turn first even if I'm crossing already and they think they can squeeze by faster. Convince these drivers to care about pedestrians, and to yield when legally required to, and you've solved the problem.