skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the difference between now and back then is that now the top administration of the universities have become politically more active. Before it was mostly students and faculty, which makes sense.

edit: I would also note that the such actions by top administration imperils and has a chilling effect for faculty and student's contrarian thoughts and free speech. You you're not as likely to speak out against your boss/principal's ideas.
My exact case was something like this: I've made a bunch of style libraries for web (my latest is Tamagui). The one before Tamagui was similar, it had variants and a `styled` helper, but it didn't output to "atomic CSS". A full year plus into the development of it it was working alright but was quite slow due to all the crazy CSS is was generating and inserting all the time. Atomic CSS really helps this in many ways.

So I dove in, technically I felt I could keep the API surface the same. But after about a full month of refactoring it to work with atomic CSS I found many problems. There are just some fundamental limitations to the API design you must enforce to make it work, and without such you really can't merge things properly. It's hard to explain without writing a mini-book, but needless to say the API surface very much can dictate the performance, and if you stuff your API with a bunch of features before making things fast, you may end up like me having to basically start from scratch.

My take: work/right/fast is a loop you must run many times. They also bleed into each other. Sometimes you do work/right and it feels fast, but you haven't deployed it at scale, so you never realize it's not fast. Keep your API as simple as you can, try and hit the fast part somewhat early before you add many features, and don't be afraid to take all your lessons and restart things. If fast is important to your lib, making it right must also be done in tandem with make it fast.
Spurious CVEs have been around for a long time, it seems that people feeding open source codebases into LLMs and asking it to point out potential issues is just the next step in that approach.

LLMs don't understand the code they're being fed, and it seems the people feeding the LLMs don't understand it either...
I didn't know he had died, it's really sad... I remember seeing some random Tetris videos on YouTube with him and the guy saying 'Boom Tetris'.
> Square pixel 360×240

Did you mean 320×240?
Direct arxiv link, interesting stuff!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07750
I'd be curious to know from someone with more knowledge: are there any technological improvements that could prevent this kind of accident?

It seems as though it should be possible (though perhaps not easy) to automatically detect an aircraft on runway and relay that to the approaching aircraft.

With all respect for the coast guard pilots who died, I would say this incident is the "best case" scenario we could hope for when two large aircraft crash on a runway. Had the other plane been carrying passengers the casualties could have easily been in the hundreds.

It seems odd to me that with all the safety advancements in aviation we don't have the technology to prevent this.
To me at least, Yunus appeared to be just another oligarch trying to enter the political arena - similar to Shinawatra in Thailand, Poroshenko in Ukraine, and Garibashvili in Georgia.

He attempted to enter the political arena in the 2000s with what appeared to be the backing of the Military [0][1] and he has a history of committing tax fraud and corruption [2][3] (though, tbf, any businessperson in Asia has to do this).

He also seems to use the same PR and Lobbying firm that Azerbaijan, Rwanda, Qatar, Milo Đukanović (Montenegro's former strongman and an actual mob boss), Muhammadu Buhari (former Dictator and later elected President of Nigeria), Uhuru Kenyatta (former President of Kenya wanted for rapes and murders in the aftermath of the 2013 election), and a couple conglomerates affiliated to Hezbollah use as well [4]

Sheikh Hasina is no angel, but it doesn't seem like Yunus or Grameen Bank/Telecom were ethical either [5]

I'm curious whether my read on this is correct though. I'd appreciate Banglas giving me feedback (especially Raynier)

[0] - http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/02/23/d7022301075.htm

[1] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6530781.stm

[2] - https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/2137-bangladesh-microfinance-...

[3] - https://www.devex.com/news/norway-orders-probe-on-grameen-ai...

[4] - https://btpadvisers.com/case-studies/muhammad-yunus

[5] - https://www.thestatesman.com/opinion/india-fuelled-hasinas-d...
Imposing limitations is how you come to interesting mechanics.
Here's one about shoe lacing: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm

And they do shoe tying: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm

Knots in general: https://www.animatedknots.com/complete-knot-list
I'm not sure that screen-shotting the image will work FWIW - any rescaling interpolation in rendering the image on the page or loading it for a model will likely reduce or nullify the effect.

Also these perturbation based adversarial attacks are often model specific. You take the model's gradient at each pixel and iteratively perturbate the image to make it more and more confident that it's e.g. a cat.
Well, considering Windows and MacOS have system settings to tune this (key repeat rate and key repeat delay), and considering the modern Tetris innovations are about how you can physically press a button faster, it doesn't seem that strange.
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Note that the difficulty curve is logistic, not exponential, because you are creating your own labor pool; older kids not only learn to take care of themselves, but can also be prevailed upon to look after their younger siblings.

There is an ultimate ceiling to the labor involved, because your oldest eventually move out; my parents raised eleven children, but the most they had in the house at once was nine.
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This extension is licensed under the Business Source License[0], which makes it incompatible with most DBaaS offerings. The BSL is a closed-source license. Good choice for Lantern, but unusable for everyone else.

Some Postgres offerings allow you to bring your own extensions to workaround limitations of these restrictive licenses, for instance Neon[1], where I work. I tried to look at the AWS docs for you, but couldn't find anything about that. I did find Trusted Language Extensions[2], but that seems to be more about writing your own extension. Couldn't find a way to upload arbitrary extensions.

I will add that you could use logical replication[3] to mirror data from your primary database into a Lantern-hosted database (or host your own database with the Lantern extension). This obviously has a couple downsides, but thought I would mention it.

[0]: https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern/commit/dda7f064ca80af...

[1]: https://neon.tech/docs/extensions/pg-extensions#custom-built...

[2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Postg...

[3]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/logical-replication....
I spent a month exploring all over the Ivory Coast, driving my own 4x4 [1].

When I give talks about my 3 years driving right around Africa I use Ivory Coast as the example of road conditions. A road where trucks were stuck for two weeks [2], potholes and broken pavement so bad I was in first gear for days, and then some of the best freeways on the entire continent. All in the same country, sometimes only hours apart.

The story of the The Basilica of Yamoussoukro [3] is insane. It's the world's biggest Catholic monument, costing around $600 million USD. The final cost doubled Ivory Coast’s national debt. Seriously.

Before the Pope would sanction such a thing, he insisted a hospital also be built to help the citizens of the country. Strangely enough after the Pope visited the Basilica and gave his blessing, the hospital was never finished, and still sits half finished, closed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUGJLcHUDEg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z740focQL4U

[3] http://theroadchoseme.com/the-basilica-of-yamoussoukro
I doubt TV watching stats collected by Nielsen were anywhere near as accurately as streaming analytics. Plenty of Americans kept the TV on all day, while they did housework or took care of a child. TV doesn't ask "are you still watching?"
I'm pretty sure I've seen that in some Sci-Fi except replace "LLM" with "mods"
This is a poor bit of research. The question "is it more cat-like?" Is leading as it specifically instructs the participant to look for cat-like features. The experimenters neglect to establish the null hypothesis.
> 1. If mass incarceration worked, the US would be the safest country in the world. The US has 5% of the world population but 25% of the world's prisoners [1]. The US has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world [2];

I keep hearing this and I just have a hard time believing it. Like okay maybe technically Saudi Arabia does have fewer people in prison than the US but that's because the punishment for theft is having your hand removed rather than going to jail, I guess yes technically that isn't prison, but generally in an elightened society we moved away from those methods of punishment for the most part. Then of course China, I mean China also consistently reported the lowest COVID numbers, and are their numbers including people all those Uighyr's that are undergoing "reeducation"?

Honestly every time I hear this I get the same feeling as when the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women condemns the US treatment of women's rights despite having on it's board such well known champions of Women's rights as Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Suadi Arabia, The Russian Federation and Turkey. Something just seems to not smell quite right.
Try getting that level of documentation for a modern or even just slightly older (as in a decade ago) GPU.
The fact that the public could get these at all. I have another one of these with the BIOS source code. I don't think e.g. HP would publish a schematic or BIOS source for one of their laptops today(I'd love it if you prove me wrong, of course) . Otoh, I have an old 1960's tube radio, and the full circuit is attached to the backplate, in the expectation that you might want to replace a resistor some day.
Sure, they could, but if they're making money on a substandard implementation, then why would they bother making a good one?

This sort of thing is another example of our collective race to the bottom.
TBH, looking into the history of surveying in the US is fascinating. The level of accuracy they were able to achieve over such long distances so long ago is awesome. I fell deep down this rabbit hole when I started flying a LIADR unit on a drone and working with PLS.
The FDIC insurance fund has been below its target reserve rate for years now and continues to be underfunded.

At the end of 2022 the fund had $128.2 billion. I can't find a solid number on domestic deposits that are covered by FDIC based on the maximum deposit amount, but their Q2 2023 report showed $17.2 trillion in total domestic deposits across all FDIC institutions.

I'd expect that more than 0.7% of all deposits are under the $250k deposit limit. Let's just say 30% is actually covered, SVB had 89% of deposits above the limit when it failed, the insurance fund couldn't cover the failure of a bank with more than 3% of the market share of deposits.

The caveat there is that bank assets can be liquidated, but if the failure is fast enough that becomes really hairy. I haven't yet seen clear details on what strings they pulled and what sweetheart deals they gave when SVB was sold at the last minute, but that really means the fund isn't funded to cover enough and the hope really lies in market manipulation and a forced sale (likely funded in part by tax payers).
Yes, because later on, when I have topics in languages other than English, I plan to allow users to have a language filter that will display the topics and countries that correspond to the selected language. But at the moment, as I only have topics in English and news sources by country, I've kept this structure
AMD budget GPU listed with twice memory of RTX 4060, RX 7600 XT with 16GB GDDR6
"I understand where the data is going, but we're going the other way"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_Games

Oh, I had completely forgotten about aba games (the work of Kenta Cho) for some years until seeing this HN post! He has been making little mini-games and posting them on his site (both browser-based and windows-based) for more than 20 years now.

Here's his games (I always liked Torus Trooper):
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In this case, I was first seeing what could be done with basic Scheme algorithmic programming language mechanisms (e.g., using procedures and the magic of toplevel definitions).

Then, after seeing how tax form logic ended up that way, one direction would be to define a DSL that makes that easier to work with. For example, if we find everything can be implemented as these procedures, or with maybe with an additional concept (such as to handle cycles like in the article), a simple first step DSL might be another s-expression language that has magic variables that are more akin to spreadsheet cell references, in that the dependencies are evaluated in order. And it might also do things like populate a hashtable with the cached values for application use (e.g., PDF form-filling). That DSL might be implemented as a simple `syntax-case` or `syntax-parse` transformer. If that works and could, we could optimally make it more palatable/marketable/politic by defining a keywords-and-whitespace grammar that parses by transforming those syntax objects to syntax objects in our intermediate s-expression DSL (which transforms to the basic Scheme code approach we worked out originally).

There are other valid ways (say, you want tax law logic to be definable dynamically at run time). Though some involve `eval`, which I discourage. https://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2014-July/063597...
Thanks for sharing! Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see the Security Director role listed on the careers page? I do see an Eng Director role listed under the R&D: Security section, however. Uncertain which is which. Thanks again!
The coastguard aircraft involved only has a Mode S transponder and so those flight tracker websites can only determine the plane's position when there's enough receiver coverage to do multilateration
The game is man vs machine. The machine fills the space with blocks; the human clears space for the blocks. The machine wins when the human fails to make room for the next block. The human wins when the machine fails to deliver the next block.
A priori, data-driven decision making is very powerful. One nice thing about working with former Amazon engineers, is they do bring that mindset. No premature optimization, no belief in facts without data. I think when you get burned a few many times to realize you believe things that are wrong and data shows you to be wrong, you tend to think more about why you know things and what data you have. It's powerful.

By way of clarification, I rarely observed the same feature being shipped twice. It's generally more the 'A' test was the existing functionality and 'B' was whatever change you wanted to make.

The A/B testing platform at Amazon received a lot of investment - it's powerful and so it's used for a lot more than mere A/B testing. It's also a feature toggle platform, lots of things are shipped under that framework so they can be "turned on & off". The metrics collection was powerful and highly integrated. Even if there is no actual comparison in parallel, the metrics that are generated were worth a lot (and often needed, as everyone's goals are all data based, so you want data to show you are hitting those goals. Can't just say we launched 5 features, and can't say we are just still here, it's data or nothing at Amazon)

Most importantly, the "great decisions" is interesting. The power of gathering data very quickly and often is you see when decisions were not great. Amazon was excellent at this, things that made more money were given support, things that lost money were quickly terminated and re-organized. The data provides light on the decisions, it's virtually a BizDev super-power to be able to pivot away from losers so quickly like that.
Very interesting results. There's a massive overlap between the current generation of AI research/development and neuroscience, and it's fitting that by so desperately trying to make a computer intelligent we are unexpectedly learning more about how our own brains work.
Meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies
We're talking about the NES here, the physical output is analog, and locked to ~60.whatever fps
This reads to me like "at a certain scale, it's too risky to develop an application that is actually good."
CSS is a classic case of road to hell paved by good intentions.

"We'll have one style for the browser and one for printing!" - but turns out that nobody really gives a crap about printing, and when they do they want stuff printed exactly like it looks on screen.

"Forget tables, we'll have stuff floating around the screen!" - but turns out that there are more requirements for positioning rules that can be contained in anyone's philosophy.

Etc etc...
if master has a clean history, then use git-blame on the file to see where a change was introduced, and git show to see the entire change. then you can walk back through the git log to understand the context of the change.
I care enough to violate TOS by bridging (some of) them to my Matrix server and chatting through a Matrix client instead. But absolutely not enough to (A) write one, and (B) attempt to acquire market share.
> It's a well known adage that democracy is the worst system of government, but the alternatives are worse.

That doesn't make it true. In any case, I believe democracy is desired. I don't believe it's achieved in very meaningful ways with this model of representative democracy most countries implement.
If we implement UBI, what's forcing people to work? And if people stop working, how can we afford UBI?

I hope some country that I don't live in tries it so I can see if my intuition is right.
Nice, the Django ORM + https://www.django-unicorn.com/ makes for very quick prototyping of UIs.
When I initially engaged with you in this conversation I did so because you appeared to be discussing things honestly but based on other comments you've made here its clear you are in fact trying to push an agenda that denies reality and instead excuses murder.
On the contrary, I have never been a heavy twitter user, yet I would dearly love all articles I read to be broken down like this. I definitely find it easier to process a list structure like this.
> is idea that modern engineers are idiots and can't think of anything people 100 years

That is not what I was trying to say. I'm saying that politicians and managers are unable to think of things that people 100 years didn't think of. While that isn't 100% true, it is very close.

Though most of the time engineers today couldn't think of anything they didn't think of 100 years ago. However sometimes advances in other science means ideas that wouldn't work back then could work today. This is almost entirely incremental improvements though.

Crossrail didn't follow the same practices as building 100 years ago. And the results are terrible. (of course some of this is good - better safety standards - but the whole is a system that costs far more than expected for lower quality than possible elsewhere using modern standards)