skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I remember reading older math texts (way pre-computer works in things like diffeq and PDE) and often thinking the explanations were clearer."

This is 100% the case in chess as well. The books before and after the computer era are orders of magnitude different in terms of readability. I think a major shift in society has been in motivation. In the past if you were studying advanced mathematics, let alone writing about it, it was solely and exclusively because you absolutely loved the field. And you were also probably several sigmas outside the mean intellectually. Now? It's most often because of some vague direction such as wanting a decent paying job, which may through the twists and turns of fate eventually see you writing books in a subject you don't particularly have much enthusiasm for.

And the much more crowded 'intellectual market', alongside various image crafting or signaling motivations, also creates a really perverse incentive. Exceptional competence and understanding within a subject makes it easy to explain things, even the esoteric and fabulously complex. See: Richard Feynman. But in modern times there often seems to be a desire to go the other direction - and make things sound utterly complex, even when they aren't. I think Einstein's paper on special relativity vs many (most?) modern papers is a good example. Einstein's writing was such that anybody with a basic education could clearly understand the paper, even if they might not fully follow the math. By contrast, so many modern papers seem to be written as if the author had a well worn copy of the Thesaurus of Incomprehensibility at his bedside table.
I'm reading my thesis next tuesday, and the advances in AI the last couple of years have already made most of it obsolete :/

Anyway I'm excited and looking forward to the code and models to be released, hopefully I can use them for my research! I think it's easy to overlook how revolutionary the transformer "way" of doing things has been, and the fact that so many different tasks can be reformulated in a "language" way I believe hints at something deeper about how the universe, our minds and language work.
And I refuse use chrome because I use

full-screen-api.ignore-widgets

which makes videos full screen to the browser size.
Until you walk out your front door...

Or use the internet for anything...
And there will be increased demand for hacking the cars too.

I can't wait! The auto makers will deserve everything they get for going down this road.
I remember the forced obsolescence. There were a few good software packages but many would frequently force you to upgrade from version 12.31 to 13.0 which isn't backward compatible i.e., "This software doesn't run on Windows XP"
Commercial lighting controls do tend to use low-voltage cable for switching, dimming, and occupancy sensing power/signaling, I am much less familiar with the residential world.
Congrats on the launch, it looks like you worked very hard on it.

But I’m an engineer, I read the README and the website, and I still don’t know what Super-duper is.

Is it just a python library? Does it have its own persistence (it must)? It doesn’t appear to be a set of plugins for various DB’s but I could be wrong.

As such I don’t know how I’d use it. It might be helpful to describe the product in more concrete terms.

One of the phrases used in YC is: ACME makes soup taste better. We do it with a seasoning that chefs add to their broth.

Maybe that’s helpful. Explaining a product can be hard!
If this hypothesis is true, would it give us a way to distinguish many-worlds vs. wave function collapse? If the many "worlds" are all interacting with a single classical spacetime, we should be able to measure the gravity of other worlds, right? I'm not a physicist, but that sounds a lot like dark matter to me.
The 2nd Amendment is worded as a conditional ("since well-trained militia is required for the state security, the citizens must be allowed to bear firearms") and its premise is actually false, so shouldn't it, technically speaking, have lost its legal power?
There's already a ton of those operating, I get iMessage spam at least once per day.
I love this story so much. It goes to show that there is an "art" side to software creation that is often missed and ignored.
> and owning that much would probably have made you a very weathly person when owning 300K USD today does not.

I guess it depends on whether we want to measure relative wealth to the rest of the society or what can you actually buy with that money which would probably change the valuation 10-100+ times.

This applies to goods rather than labor to a much higher degree. Permanently owning the labour of 10 people working 16 hours per days is worth a lot more today than 10 slaves back then.
As someone who was formerly in a mental ward for acute crisis, I would say that at least the 72 hour hold was an essential and necessary part of my treatment. I don't think that staying at home with unprepared family members for the acute period would have worked out, and I don't even have a problematic home environment!

The flip side of the coin is that I was in a really high quality hospital, I'm sure there are hospitals or facilities that can be more harmful rather than helpful.

I also have a problem with the way that they treat mental health like cancer, that once you have a diagnosis you will always have it. There are zero diagnostic criteria for "fully recovered" or removing dependence on medication, even after 5 or 10 years. It's also treated like a scarlet letter for insurance and unrelated things like TSA pre check - no matter how well you are doing you are still some level of risk to yourself and society. Though I could be wrong... the reoccurrence chart over time for my specific acute mania (with no depressive episodes) does look a lot like cancer remission charts with asymptotic approach to 80%+ reoccurrence after 2-4 years.
3.240756e-11 parsec
Denmark to block its ports against Tesla shipments to Sweden
I completely agree that chargers need to have simple payment methods, but doesn't the largest public network (Electrify America) already work this way? Yes they have an app, and you can get cheaper prices if you pay their subscription, but you don't need to use it. You can just pay with no account using the card swiper on every charge point, I'm pretty sure.
No white people were oppressed in the making of this statement.

Though I would like us to move the pendulum back towards being more… open about the faults of different ethnicities, nationalities, and cultures besides the Western one — without being hateful about it.

In the case of the American “white” culture the cons are obviously: boring, gentrifying, lack of culture, lack of risk taking or openness to (real) new experience, lame, orthodox, etc. It’s a real aspect of locales that’s important to take into consideration. Just the same as it is for any other culture: if you’re in a place dominated by it, and you’re not part of the group, you will have a hard time acclimating and fitting in. If you’re not American “white” then you might find Seattle boring or unwelcoming.
FIY, that has been rejected: https://fortune.com/europe/2023/10/26/eu-chat-control-csam-e...
While we were talking, this came out: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67615719

My point is that the current UK government is a messy bunch of profiteers who will support any possible law that benefits them or their corporate friends. In addition, they and their "technical advisors" both are extremely incompetent.

That's why some version of "Linux is illegal" doesn't belong strictly to the fantasy realm to me. As a matter of fact, if I see that story on the headlines, I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
Your comment got me curious, so I did some googling. The answer is pretty straightforward: those calculators use ridiculously little power. They have bytes of memory, use the simplest LCD displays, and are idle essentially 100% of the time. Moreover, the assumption is that you're not working in the dark. The solar strip is essentially exactly the size needed to run the calculator: as soon as the light goes away (or even gets dim) the device powers off. For a light switch, that's kind of exactly what you don't want. A cross country flight in the cargo hold of an airplane would be enough to pretty much drain a solar air tag: a thief would just need to put your luggage in a black garbage bag to render the air tag useless.

I suspect you'd need a panel that's a few inches large for it to charge faster than a device like an air tag could draw power. But again, that assumes it'll routinely see some fairly bright light.
So you can use this to spam iMessage?
Is there anything at all interesting or controversial about paying to have more access to a provider’s services? It’s basically the businesses model for everything for all of time.
Invidious:
https://redirect.invidious.io/Qndz54SGCAs
It should always be personal productivity but as a CEO your productivity is how much better you're doing than someone else in that role would. In the modern world too often executive compensation is viewed as "How valuable is this company" instead of "How much is this particular executive adding to the value of this company" - that's why we're seeing it spiral into simply ludicrous numbers.
This is the way. Singapore math and Russian math programs have exploded in popularity due to school failure.
The optimal free market with no government is for corporations (collections of people) to use violent force to enforce their goals. A sufficiently powerful corporation is indistinguishable from a government.
Sure, everything is ultimately a political problem, but this one is completely driven by technological change. In the USSR (and GDR), it took them a staff of hundreds of thousands of people to write up their reports.

Now it would take a single skilled person the better part of an afternoon to, for example, download a HN dump, and have an LLM create reports on the users. You could put in things like political affiliation, laws broken, countries travelled recently, net worth range, education and work history, professional contacts, ...
I so hate the enshittification of the Internets that I have really started to move to a so-called suckless way with a lot of features/malfeatures just cut off from my attention. Modern browsers (Firefox+Chrome duopoly) are less and less welcome on my machine.
Integration is not innovation.
I think the killer feature of Mojo is that it's basically syntax sugar for MLIR, which is a new "mid level IR" for the LLVM project, and many 'dialects' have been added that can target specialized transformations for machine learning workloads and data structures. It's the secret sauce that Rust doesn't have.

In their early roadmap they said they wanted to take ideas from swift and rust (and C++), and this is just one part of it. They'd been planning on adding Traits eventually, they're just getting there carefully.

Knowing Lattner's previous work, I'm confident Mojo will eventually be open source, they've just said they want to get it right first, which I can respect. But If you compare Mojo with other new 'systems-level' languages like Carbon and Hylo, the Mojo team is basically speed running language development, which is really impressive. I think a big part of what makes that possible is that they're building directly on top of MLIR.
not really, they would benefit from people being stuck in their chairs and needing to order everything online.
After an editor, who has edited millions of pages and seems to be a jack-of-all-trades, unjustifiably rejects your contribution on a topic where you have dozens of scientific articles published, the only conclusion is that the system is flawed. There's a need for a fundamental change in approach, probably to a system where censorship exists only in cases of clearly illegal content, and various opinions are allowed to be expressed. On the other hand, to filter out the noise, there's a need for a trust propagation system among editors and viewers, so that each time, you get the most probable form of a page based on the trust given to direct contacts and indirectly to recursive contacts. Maybe AI could also help a bit. Who dare to start a new Wikipedia ;) ?
I wish they'd concentrate on the browser.
Most people don't want to pay for anything. Look at all of the workarounds for news sites. I try to pay or donate for most of what I use but there seem to be a lot of people who want to get everything for free.
> Making a pretty diagram where all the behaviours from various DBMSs are listed is left as an exercise to the author. :)

It's there already!

It's in the chart as footnote "b": Outer reference must be the only argument (doesn’t support F441)

That's the one thing SQL Server doesn't eat. Those that are green in the chart work fine in this case.
Data leak and loss in some free tier databases
“get the consumerist culture, higher willingness to pay, etc”

Who cares if you’re the king of some country in Africa. Manhattan has more money to slush around on apps than the entire continent combined and that’s literally just one area of one city in one state in the USA.
I don’t think so. The security researcher is a kid in high school that seems really fucking sharp.
Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story”. Stories that were often too good to be true, because many of them weren’t.
If this becomes mainstream, then the economies of scale should bring down the cost significantly. And cost aside, it would be safer and more customisable- you can install the switch anywhere and even change the location easily, don’t need a conduit with wires behind it.
Hi Eric! Big fan of Beeper, Pebble, and hopefully the yet-to-be small android phone. I had some questions that I was ill-equipped to answer, and hoped I could throw them your way!

When I installed beeper, I mentioned it to my friends that I was using it as a bridge for Signal. They threw a pretty big conniption about the implementation and the fact that all our messages were being routed through an unknown server in Germany with source code we could not read or audit (the Synapse/Matrix server beeper.com, as I understand it).

There were also some unfounded tinfoil-hat allegations that Beeper is an intelligence honeypot meant to slurp up all Signal encrypted comms that pass through its Matrix bridge, before forwarding them (although I don't give those any credence)

What reassurances might I be able to provide them? The UX for the Signal app has been going somewhat downhill as of late and I'd like to keep using Beeper if I can assuage their fears.
Beeper (Cloud) has been around for 3 years. It supports iMessage, Whatsapp, Signal and 12 other chat networks. We have 100,000 users on Beeper Cloud.

We haven't had a single problem like the one you're describing. Not to say it will never happen.
> A website can be blocked at the DNS level, but that is exceedingly rare.

This is done more then you think. Probably the most known one is thepiratebay for example
Given this each, I'm surprised the headline isn't 10,000:1 bet.

Also, who wants 10,000 <$20 items? It's a cool payout, but if I wanted to spend ~$200,000, I wouldn't do it in 10,000 pieces.
If Elon calls it insane then I'll support it.
Large Language Model (LLM) Security and Privacy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This looks impressive! The UI looks nice to use, and I'd probably use this instead of wireshark the next time I'm doing network analysis.

Another "why": you want to do live capture and analysis, but don't want to run a GUI program as root for a variety of reasons.
As someone who has launched countless of products, services, demos and more on HN (for almost two decades now) and other places, you can't really let those overly negative comments get to you. And it happens everywhere, not just on HN, even though people here tend to try to hit your soft spots, for some reason.

But at least I've found that the overly negative comments on HN has at least a tiny bit of feedback one could learn from, compared to other platforms where it's just outright vile comments with zero feedback one could use.

So yeah, HN can be ruthless, but so is the rest of the internet. At least here there is a tiny bit of feedback mixed in, and usually the rest of the comments have something insightful to say.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1428420/Nucleares/

Another nuclear plant simulator, haven't played too much but diving into later today with a friend.
David Salle on the Experience of Art
That's only a small piece of it.
Traceloop's landing page is all about model quality, not metrics. Their open source OpenLLMetry is the metrics part and hooks into the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. There should be no issue with getting alerts via the ecosystem, it's promanent on their pages.

https://www.traceloop.com/
...They obviously would do it in a way that doesn't do that? Do you think this company can outsmart them in the long-run?
I wish this was an episode in the ‘Rome’ (HBO - 2005) series. It’s a great watch nonetheless.
Fining offenses is a great way to fund finding more offenses.
Seems likely. "We're all Cubans now."
I am the other post-author, and I am available too.
He addresses this in the interview:

Evan: They’re like, “Oh, Vue has scalability issues. We have a huge Vue product. We have these huge components that nobody wants to touch anymore. We don’t know how to extract and reuse things. TypeScript support isn’t great.”

Adam: So they started Vue 3, right? A breaking change. Vue had to stay relevant. People were looking for a scalable, if more complex, framework. Expectations had changed.

Evan: They’re like, “Hey. You’re taking away the very reason we love Vue, and it’s not going to be Vue anymore.”

In a way, our early user base are mostly people who preferred lightweight solutions, simple interactions, simple apps.

So when we propose solutions to address these more advanced cases, these simple case users get pissed off because they’re like, “Don’t touch my framework. I don’t want to work that way.”

“I don’t care about these complex cases. Why are you adding these complex APIs? Why are you making things more complicated?” But at the same time, these complex case users are like, “I won’t use Vue if it stays only for simple use cases because it shows it doesn’t scale. We are gonna just migrate to React, migrate to Angular.”

[discussion continues for a while https://corecursive.com/vue-with-evan-you/#composition-api]
I had a similar experience in SO, I used the term "the most bulletproof-y way I can think of" or something like that in my answer, definitely used "bulletproof-y." Someone responded with something like "You shouldn't say that. Nothing's really bulletproof, you know."
The underlying issue here is that European car manufacturers are in deep financial trouble. Employees are getting more expensive. Cars are getting more complicated and contain more chips. This increases R&D expenses. Margins are getting squeezed. Asian competitors are on their tails. Lexus and Mazda are attacking the lower end of luxury cars and Chinese manufacturers are the only ones that can produce economy (electric) cars at a profit.

European carmakers are looking into subscriptions, knowing it will anger their most loyal customers, because their main business is struggling. They look at sofware companies with envy. To put it in perspective, Volkswagen, Europe's largest carmaker with 675,000 employees has the same market cap as Crowdstrike and Snowflake.
JJTech is a high school student. Neat!

https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/
Node.js/node at 99.9k GitHub Stars
(Sorry I missed the word “occasionally” there!)
It improves things, but wet saws still throw an absolute pile of slurry into the air. Sure, it's weighed down with water, but it's still not great for you.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
I watched a youtube video on this recently, and I believe that they never mentioned battery lifetime in it. This article said that one of the chemistries only lasts a few hundred cycles, but, because of the use pattern of the dual chemistry is "expected to last the lifetime of the vehicle".

I really hope this turns out well, but given the current lack of specificity, I'm going to guess that overall pack longevity is going to be the Achilles heel of this battery.

Always happy to see people trying innovative new ideas though. Most of them won't work, but we can only find the ones that do if someone tries it. Hope this one turns out better than I fear.
If you can find some laws or contractual terms where some homeowners insurance is disclaiming homeowners doing things that are not "reasonable", I'm all ears. I'd love to find out where this meme started, or a list of jurisdictions where this can actually happen. I just think this tendency to assert that DIY causes all these scary things, especially on the pan-jurisdiction Web, is terribly harmful FUD. It appears to be from the same vein as that "voiding your warranty" nonsense (which has thankfully started to go away).
This isn't really a very good comparison.

It's difficult to simply live life and never, ever be in a public space.

No one has to publicly stream on Twitch or other services. If someone wants to broadcast video but do it privately, there are ways to do that.

It might be a small stage for a small streamer, but turning that stream on still means you're getting up on a stage, and you are implicitly accepting that you'll be watched. It's a choice to put yourself out there.
The economics of college vs. the economics of private tutors (2020)
Building it is not enough. Need incentive to maintain the network.

Next, make the vehicles cheap enough by some means that we adopt electric vehicles faster.
Are you a US doctor? I urge you to explain why you charge so much and have the poorest performance out of all 1st world countries? It may change your perspective on treating patients like idiots when really the US doctor is the epitome of fraudulent incompetence.

Over testing is a problem. The way to lessen over testing is to not be an incompetent doctor so that patients don't take things into their own hands. Barring that you have no choice but to let the patient test himself. It's the moral thing to do.

I guess here's an interim solution. Even if the disease is extremely unlikely, if the possibility remains valid based on the given symptoms and the patient requests the test you should allow it. The reason is the patient is more intimately familiar with his own symptoms and your just pattern matching based off of a high level probability. If you've never seen a patient with a certain condition you often bias towards the conditions you've seen.

Yes patients can be biased but so can you. And there's no denying that patients can do more detailed research and they have a perspective with a resolution you will never achieve. The good doctor needs to listen to them.
> you realize nobody understands WHY or HOW these models work under the hood right?

Of course we understand how they work, we built them! There is no mystery in their mechanisms, we know the number of neurons, their connectivity, everything from the weights to the activation functions. This is not a mystery, this is several decades of technical developments.

> it's akin to evolution - we understand the process - that part is simple.

There is nothing simple about evolution. Things like horizontal gene transfer is very much not obvious, and the effect of things like environment is a field of active research.

> But the output/organisms we have to investigate how they work.

There is a fundamental difference with neural networks here: there are a lot of molecules in an animal’s body about which we have no clue. Similarly, we don’t know what a lot of almost any animal’s DNA encodes. Model species that are entirely mapped are few and far between. An artificial neural network is built from simple bricks that interact in well defined ways. We really cannot say the same thing about chemistry in general, much less bio chemistry.