skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that it just makes it less predictable once that happens. We don't know exactly where all those stars are, and it gets chaotic once they start interacting.

It probably is a _bit_ more likely as well, you suddenly have ~2x the stars near you and some of them are moving much faster relative to you, it's just not a sure thing by any means.
But why do YOU need to trust him? Someone can be crazy on twitter AND be the the first (possible) person to get a man on Mars.
better yet, developers write their own tests, QA write their own tests.

QA is a safety net, but they are not the first line of defense.
The last thing I want is every application to have a different interface to connect, configure and select printers. I think having it be a user-space library is a great idea but I would like that library to be provided by the OS. That way I can use a common interface for connecting and configuring defaults for printers that are then available in all apps. Then the app can use that library to fire jobs to the printer. (Maybe with some provided common UI component)
In Denmark hardly anyone uses WhatsApp by default. No business I’ve seen uses it. Android is common.

I’m currently in Indonesia however, and it’s universal both privately and corporately.
Thats a good call out. HN with avatars would be weird.
Navigate to your router's IP, go to Console Settings, scroll to Advanced and un-check Remote Access:

https://i.imgur.com/RzXpT6Q.png

After doing that, you can't access your router remotely from The Cloud, (well, you can log in over the VPN, remote into a computer on-site, and access the router from that computer) but you're secure against a whole class of bugs and errors in Someone Else's Computer.
Political deep faking may be seen during elections, but imagine if someone faked corporate executives acting poorly to subvert/short stock prices. The sky is the limit on abuse.
Odd comment in the context of the thread since Duplo is also LEGO
> feeling in their tires.

Ignoring the rest...

I feel like this would be much easier to accomplish with acoustic sensors and wheel/suspension telemetry, given that an attentive human driver can sort of "feel" the road surface already.
How to take 'forever' out of forever chemicals
which is a really weird problem to have. Only lint files that have changed? How hard that is? our monorepo is 3m lines of code and running lint is not a bottleneck by any means...

And once in a while that we have to run lint for entire repo (ESLint upgrade for example) we can afford to wait 1 hour ONCE
it also allowed for FXP, which was a godsend in early pirating/warez days ;-)

...or so I've heard
I disagree, I think it's the opposite. Men have lofty dreams, they're also realists. How can you realistically get a man on Mars? Use all their talents to work with a government? Or use it to create enough capital to do it yourself (And piss off some people at the same time for fun)?
The kind of sad thing is that you could style forms/controls in VB6 so apps didn't have to look that way.
A Robot the Size of the World
What do you mean you've recently been heading to the "New" section? That happens to be how the site works. Submissions don't end up on the front page for any other reason than people browsing New and upvoting submissions.

The majority of submissions have 0 comments because again, that is how the site works. HN is a link aggregator first and foremost, and discussion follows upon the discovery of a resource that encourages intellectual curiosity. This is entirely controlled and decided by the site users themselves, not the one who submits. The authority is "users as a whole" rather than "a single user".

> if someone took the time to post a url on HN, surely a discussion on the topic is the reason?

For sure a lot of discussions could benefit from an initial comment, but the main reason is generally the fact that the submitter himself found it interesting and wants to share. Alternatively, it's a highly trending topic (breaking news or something else) and it's left up for a broader discussion.

> Would it not be more useful to require the poster of the url add a comment to kick off the discussion?

This would lead to a lot less submissions overall which is bad for the site and the community.

In my own experience as someone who submits stories, there are often stories I will submit that I myself don't grasp fully, but I know for a fact that other people on this site would be interested to read/learn about it. In such a case, I could never leave a meaningful comment but I could still benefit from all the karma that comes with a good submission.
[...] plenty of parameters optimized using a learning process [...]

Would that not make fitting a degree 1,000,000 polynomial a neural method?

I also think gaussian splats encode the same information as NeRFs, which have neural in the name.

The collection of source images also encodes the same information but I don't think we should call them neural images.

I would argue we should stick with the original meaning, inspired by biological neural networks, a network of artificial neurons. Calling everything neural because of the hype will benefit no one in the long run as the term will just lose any meaning.
Except, not even the AAA game studios that target POSIX based platforms like Android, iDevices and Playstation bother with GNU/Linux, Android being the more extreme as all NDK APis that are game related exist in GNU/Linux.

Additionally thanks to Proton, Valve is doing nothing less than supporting Windows/XBox game studios to not bother at all, as Valve does the required work anyway.
I remember meeting you at a DC Ruby conference after a talk you gave on middleware as a design concept. This was years ago, in the early days of Vagrant I think. Amazing to see how much you’ve accomplished since then. Congrats on your achievements and best of luck with your future hacking!
call them and tell them they were wrong/right in their vote, and that you do/don't support their decision.

"your vote on X has seriously caused me to reconsider my support of the NDP and you as a candidate. this is a heavyhanded measure that bla bla bla bla..." or similar such statement.
If you have an easy way to do so, you should.

Possibly even proxy the traffic via something able to do SSL strip/re-encrypt and monitor that traffic with an IDS.
Thank you for this explanation.

I've already decided Yes to SQLite (only) and No to ORMs, so maybe zombiezen is the way to go.
Commercialization isn't just maximizing shareholder value alone. It's also the creation of startups based on IP.

If I have discovered an interesting pharmacological compound, or revolutionary ML workflow, or an optimized chipset - I'm less likely to get the funding and mentorship needed to scale out that startup in Europe compared to US, Asia, and Israel.

The EU is a large consumer market, but in my experience in Deeptech and B2B driven companies, the EMEA market is almost always a rounding error compared to the American market. It tends to be larger than APJ, but that's largely due to the fact that large APJ countries will create a domestic competitor that undercuts the American startup.

By falling behind in innovation commercialization, European countries will themselves face existential economic issues. For example, look at the Central European automotive industry and Electric Vehicles. Most of Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland) is heavily dependent on German ICE vehicle manufacturers like Volkswagen and BMW, but as Chinese and American EV competitors start eating market share globally, the value prop of the CEE Automotive Industry goes down, and has a downstream impact across other suppliers and industries (eg. Infineon, SAP, etc).
Scientists report groundbreaking first conversation between humans and whales
Nice terminology about the cars.../s

And pot is legal in Oregon, so why would the smell be probable cause? Besides, cops invent PC on a routine basis.
Biggest takeaways for me:

* The papers and research that will be considered most important 10-20 years down the road, with the benefit of hindsight, are not necessarily those that receive the most attention today.

* Be skeptical of any comments about other authors' research that look, smell, or taste like negative or positive propaganda. Read the work yourself, and make up your own mind as to what will stand the test of time.
> The need for a 50-100x perf bump is indicative of average projects reaching a level of complexity and abstraction that's statistically likely to be tech debt.

I don’t think this is the right way to look at it. The issue is that JavaScript developers have been writing servers, build tools, dev ops tools, etc, in JavaScript because that’s the language they are expert in, but JavaScript was never the right choice of language for those types of programs. The whole industry is caught in a giant case of “If all you have is a hammer…”.

I do web development in JavaScript because JavaScript is the language of the browser. But I write all of my own build and devops tools in Java, including SaSS compiling, bundling, whatever you want. There’s no contest between the Java runtime vs the JavaScript runtime for that kind of work.

I think it’s backwards to see this as a 50-100x performance boost because Rust was used. That same performance increase could be had in a number of languages. The real issue is a 50-100x performance hit was taken at the outset simply by using JavaScript to write tooling.

Edit: just to put it in perspective, a 50-100x speed up in build time means that what would currently take a minute and a half using JS tooling could be accomplished in a second using a fast runtime. A minute and a half of webpack in the blink of an eye.
This ^

Intelligence is a tool that a self sustaining organism uses to ensure it survives, adapts and dominates an environment.

The alignment problem is fundamentally moot due to the laws of evolution.

Any systems that align itself to preserve and protect itself lives on, those that don’t, die.

After multiple generations, the only ones that survive at the ones that are aligned to their self preservation goals - implicit or explicit, anything else is out-competed and dies.

In my mind, with a super intelligent technology, the question is not how do we align it to ourselves, but how do we align ourselves to it.

If we have super intelligence, then it is capable of critical thinking and would very well know it has an upper hand against humans if it were to compete for the same resources.
"the best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter"
"professional standards" is a made up thing. Not as in non-existent, but it's a vague consensus of random people who decide what's professional in their environment.

If you get enough people who don't line animal pfp, it's not professional. If people don't care, it's professional enough.

> I get that with remote work, things have become more casual, but not too sure if this is too far.

Too far for what? Has anyone actually complained, or do you project your own view as something a customer may potentially complain about in the future? If you're just worried about the looks... maybe you should think why that bothers you.
More than enough for what? To find out what someone is saying on Signal? I don't think so.
Obligatory quatro is twice bigger yet (and all are compatible together!)

Also Wikipedia mentions duplex and not duplus, but whatever
It’s not recommended to finetune models on content that was not in the training set.

Finetuning should be reserved for desired behavior of the LLM, not to add new knowledge. For that, RAG is better suited.
https://trendingpapers.com/

This tool can help you find what's new & relevant to read. It's updated every day (based on ArXiv).

You can filter by category (Computer Vision, Machine Learning, NLP, etc), by release date, but most importantly, you can rank by PageRank (proxy of influence/readership), PageRank growth (to see the fastest growing papers in terms of influence), total # of citations, etc...
People will have to learn that nothing can be believed no matter the medium unless there is a verifiable chain of custody to the information.

This is the way it always was back when our primary means of communication was verbal and hand written. Everyone knew anyone could lie. We then had this bizarre period of time when you had certain types of media, especially photographs and video, that were extremely hard to fake convincingly. That period is now over and we have returned to the norm: you can't believe it unless the provenance of the information is known and the chain of custody is trustworthy.

This needs to be drilled into people starting in elementary school.
> On that, we agree. But I've come around to the view that SCOTUS should have let the 2000 Florida recount proceed, with appropriate guardrails, instead of just shutting it down.

No, the machine recount should have been the final word. It doesn’t actually matter what the votes were—from a statistical standpoint it was a tie. It’s more important that the process not seem open to manipulation (and the process happening in Florida was not something anyone could trust).

>,First of all, context matters:

No, baseline political norms must be black and white. Political parties disagree about fundamental things, like God and how to raise children. They often find each other’s values disgusting, and worry about how their kids will fare in the country the other side is creating. These people will never see eye to eye on context-laden issues. The norms must be such that you can operate within them alongside people you don’t like and don’t trust.

> It's one thing for one backbencher congresswoman to say "get in their face." It's another matter entirely for the outgoing POTUS to say, "fight like hell" on Vote Counting Day to an armed mob that he summoned and then to send them off to the location of the counting, and finally to sit watching them on TV (and even encouraging them) as they invade the Capitol and disrupt the proceedings.

It’s a difference in degree (e.g. protests to disrupt the Kavanaugh hearing) not a difference in kind. Especially when you consider something like RESISTANCE—taxpayer paid employees of the federal government basically committing mutiny against their CEO that the taxpayers duly elected.

> Second: If you feel compelled to paint all "Democrats" with the same brush, then please don't use Maxine Waters — and sure as hell don't use sporadic acts of arson (NOT "lighting cities on fire for months") — as supposedly being representative of Dems.

It wasn’t isolated acts of arson. Every storefront in my wife’s office block in DC was smashed. Courthouses were lit on fire in Portland. And the whole Democratic Party sanctioned and egged on the rioting, saying “riots are the voice of the unheard,” for months.
I have not had much success with googles "Duet AI" for gmail and docs.

It is constantly misunderstanding my emails and email threads.

The generative part of it is worse in a way, I use it as a joke with friends, the output is corporate speak^10.

I do find it useful when emailing ppl who appreciate obfuscated long emails, I can get company support ppl to treat me well...
New AI tool speeds up search for disease genes
This is HackerNews so brace for criticism!

Why would a team of talented engineers focus on solving ESLint performance issue? Where is the value in this? If your project is small, ESLint is fast enough. If it's super large like ours (3 millions LOC) then you spend a little time making local and CI linters smarter to run only on changed files. Rewriting in Rust seems cool and novel but now you lost the entire wealth of ESLint plugin ecosystem, you have to keep up with maintaining this new linter which has to be updated very frequently for at least new syntaxes and so on...

We could put this effort into looking into why ESLint is not fast enough and fix the bottlenecks IF we had extra time in our hand...

If it was my team, I would not let them spend time on this. I don't see the value to be honest.
Best AI Game Generators ([month] [year])
I have not gotten fired for a bad report, but I certainly made mistakes in reports/Excel sheets that were intended as customer-facing deliverables. The good thing is that my coworkers checked my work and often noticed mistakes - not always, once an angry customer noticed my mistake, and my boss chewed out my coworkers for being lazy. Obviously humans are not foolproof.

But if I was making mistakes, say, in 5% of my facts and figures...I probably would have been reassigned to other work. 5% is way too high for an Excel sheet: it makes the model completely useless. It often takes more effort to audit and fix 5% of busted Excel cells than it does to just rebuild the model from scratch. GPT-4/Copilot/Gemini/etc almost certainly make more than 5% errors for any real use case.

I am sure there are many bad organizations with lower standards than the organizations I worked at. My concern is that good organizations will adopt technology like GPT, inadvertently lowering their standards because they trusted a machine they didn't understand. It's very worrying that good people are rationalizing this choice by saying "well humans are also unreliable" without putting specific numbers to it. 5% errors in document summarization is not good enough for human workers, and it certainly shouldn't be good enough for software.
These sets are not creative play toys, they're highly-detailed 3-dimensional jigsaw puzzles. That is their appeal, and you can make the same argument about a traditional wood/cardboard jigsaw puzzle:

"Kids should be learning how to paint with oil paints or watercolours, not snapping together these pre-painted jigsaw puzzles!"

I think the real difference here is that we've transitioned from more of a mixed/manual labour economy to a mental/emotional labour economy. People get off work and they just want to come home and do something relaxing and not mentally taxing. Putting together a Lego set is like that. It takes more thought than watching TV, but not much. Coming up with something interesting and creative from a bucket of random Legos is different, and most people lose interest.
>Do you have some source files that are somehow exempt from bugs and would be a waste of the linter's time?

Every file not touched in any given diff
Even as an adult, Duplo is underrated. It's a lot of fun to noodle around with creating things in Duplo because there are more constraints and you can build a rough simulacrum of something in only a few minutes.
Cargo and crates.io is easily as simple as npm for installation and distribution. I find it to be more reliable than npm in general. Generally it’s very easy to write system agnostic software in Rust, as most of the foundational libraries abstract that away.

So when you say “compiled app” you might be referring instead to C or C++ apps, which don’t generally have as simple and common a distribution model. Rust is entirely different, and incorporated a lot of design decisions about how to package software from npm and other languages.
The problem with this is that many people here never bother to actually read the posted article, and initial comments will tend to bias the thread in a particular direction, lowering discussion quality.

Discussion should be about the article, and the article should stand or fall on its own merits. Who posted it and why is irrelevant, that's what text posts are for.

If you can't find something worth commenting on, or if a subject doesn't interest you, then it's valid not to comment. It's preferable to have most submissions die quietly than to encourage mediocre conversation and fruitless engagement.
And the short-lived LEGO Quatro brick was...you guessed it...four times larger than a regular LEGO brick. Still compatible with both other sets.

https://en.brickimedia.org/wiki/QUATRO
HN— Not sure if anyone will see this but I wanted to thank you all for the support. Although I haven't slept much since going live, it has been amazing getting early feedback from the community.

Agora is still in MVP stage but getting better by the day. Just pushed a big update: fixing an image shifting bug, a blur effect on loading, Redis for caching, brand pages, architecture fixes, and several other things. Currently working on improving the relevancy algorithm, adding all ~5 million Shopify stores, and then adding WooCommerce stores over the next few days.

If you have any suggestions or ideas, reach out to me at support @ searchagora .com :)
And here is DDG

https://imgur.com/gallery/i9OU844

I've had so many people tell me that DDG is inferior to Google Search, but that has not been my experience, at all.
jxl for modern browser, jpg for the rest would be a much better solution, especially if the source is jpg
I've had significantly fewer issues with `cargo [b]install`ed compiled Rust programs than `npm install`ed ones. Getting nodejs/npm installed (and at an appropriate version) is not always trivial, especially when programs require different versions.

OOTH, Precompiled Rust binaries have the libc version issue only if you're distributing binaries to unknown/all distribtuions, but that's pretty trivially solved by just compiling using an old glibc (or MUSL). Whereas `cargo install' (and targetting specific distributions) does the actual compiling and uses the current glibc so it's not an issue.
You missed the pun.
I wear a mask occasionally but for a lot of physical jobs it's just not feasible. As in the mask clogs and needs constant replacement or just limits the flow of breath. If you shovel with a dirty mask or have one in a cold (freezer) environment, it's like getting waterboarded.

Its no biggy in an office, and I guess for a ton of people that's the reference "work". On construction sites etc you get a ton of pseudo protection where people pretend to comply to escape the jurists and egghead harassment.

I totally agree that stone lung is horrific, but I also think a ton of laws fail that protection goal miserable on purpose.
I'm not an expert on terrorism, obviously. I just believe that it's immoral to drop bombs on civilians.

Like any other conflict, for a positive end result there has to be a meeting of the minds on both sides, committed to peace.

So this is going to seem very one sided, but if you look prior to Oct 7, you can't have peace where one side controls everything, has all the resources, and uses them to keep the other population "occupied". That is always going to breed resistance.

Very simply, for peace Israel should pull all the settlements out of the West Bank, pull back 50 miles from Gaza for a number of years, remove all checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza, invest in the development of both areas, rebuild the airport they destroyed, stop and sign definitive peace accords allowing free movement and Right of Return for Palestinians, pay reparations for the destruction of Gaza and the damage to the West Bank (plus many other things that I won't list here), and finally on top of that invest in Palestine's future.

The only good neighbour is a prosperous one.
The simple truth is that JPEG is more than good enough and has ubiquitous support. There is no reason to switch to a different format and risk degradation or reduced interoperability for slightly smaller file sizes.
Like CUPS or something?
I set up nginx to point to my UDMP's 443 port via a subdomain of mine. Unsure if this is horrible security but I don't have 'Remote Access' turned on. I guess at worst it relies on UniFi OS security and auth to be solid?
It doesn't look pixelated on my machine, it looks pretty nice - here's a screenshot at 200% zoom:

https://i.imgur.com/WE1tbIB.png

The ligatures are definitely an unusual artistic choice...seems like the sort of thing you'd finally get used to 4 chapters into a book, but until you're immersed in it, it's quote distracting.
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