skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can slap this kind of “maybe X really cures Y but big pharma doesn’t want you to know” onto essentially any X and Y. It’s a conspiracy which is an unfalsifiable patch of epistemological quicksand: the more proof you provide, the more bs “evidence” and bad faith skepticism comes up.

At the end of the day, if X really cured Y, I don’t see why big pharma wouldn’t be all over it as well. There are plenty of countries that didn’t have American resources to buy expensive vaccines, why wouldn’t they use something cheap like ivermectin? In India they were manufacturing ivermectin and shipping it out to rich countries like the US while they were burning bodies in the streets because they couldn’t afford treatments. If ivermectin really worked, they would’ve used it.
yea its cuz the website I used to make the game is a game builder xD Intercom probably useful for the builders
> A settings option to have vertical tabs.

How come it's the browser engine who deals with that and not the browser itself?
>You enjoy building products from 0 to 1

yes! and let's hear it for embracing two's complement!
It's definitely not just MSFT doing this. But MSFT is the one I worry about most because they've shown in the past that they don't hesitate to employ really shady tactics if they think that it will get them an advantage and they can get away with it.

Arguably of a slightly worse shade than Google and Apple, though the latter have plenty in the skeleton cupboards as well.
No, it's not better than nothing. Having played out the exact situation you are describing, If you have some data, but it has no firm causal link between your input and your output, it is simply a distraction and a waste of time and effort to utilize it. You are better off experimenting purely randomly or based on first principles in that case.
I did a quick glance to see if anybody was funding this, correct me if I'm wrong but it looks to me like a random dude in Czechia who happens to still use the card.
For what it's worth that doesn't follow - the gmail account may well be an AMD employee. Using an email that survives changing employer can be less hassle.
I've encountered several services that demand a mobile number for verification. Google Voice numbers are rejected and surprisingly, so are landline numbers. Only numbers for mobile are accepted. It's just another case of how the tech world has outsources identity verification to the mobile telecom companies.
That makes sense, my experience is with a first gen VW e-golf which just has plain batteries- no cooling.

I actually do that with my phone- I use a fast charger with a peltier cooler, that can rapidly charge the phone while keeping it cold. Family/friends think I'm crazy for caring about it, lol
Are there some similar models that are currently better?
I'd love it if we could have a single story that's even somewhat tangentially related to V not devolve into rehashing the past. Let it go.
> Way later she was asked to apply for a loan, and she did. Of course she did not provide any personal details, but the data the company provided to her - but given how much time had passed she didn’t realize that these data were from the bank account she had opened in her own name.

I’m confused about this. What information, if not her own, was used to acquire the loan? All of loans I have applied for (which is admittedly single digits over the course of my life) required my personal info.
If she didn’t use hers for the loan, why did they need her at all after the bank account was set up?
Agreed, not sure the hate. I'd rather have a sweet bunker than a Yacht.
Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
We have multiple well known, well respected indie PUBLISHER'S now, like tinyBUILD and MicroProse (new) and even Humble Games, at least until Amazon milks the final few drops of value out of the Humble brand.
The skepticism is laudable. The pessimism is laughable. The hindsight is predictable.

In the skies, they streak, these UAPs, so sleek,
A dance of lights, TR-3B secrets they keep.
At the edge of science, a silent peak,
Superconductivity at psyop strength, not for the meek.

Whispers of tech, beyond our grasp, a sign,
In the shadow of stars, conspiracies align.
Truth obscured, in a skeptic's design,
But in hindsight's glow, the patterns entwine.
Let's say you enter at 6 o'clock, indicating left to leave the roundabout at 9 o'clock. The car seeing you at 12 o'clock doesn't know if your "left blinking" means you exit at 12 o'clock, 9 o'clock or even 3 o'clock.

Wouldn't it be better to just indicate right when leaving the roundabout, that way no one can get confused?
For another fascinating but mostly useless technique if you mean. Sincerely, someone who wasted a few years trying to get STORM to work and give anything biologically useful.
My dad was always going on about how he never got colds because he did alternate hot/cold showers (as in hot/cold within one shower session). This is also something I saw the old folks do at the mineral baths in my hometown of Stuttgart: take blisteringly hot showers, then jump into the cold, bubbly, sulphury pool, repeat as long as you can withstand it. It's very relaxing but not sure it has any lasting benefits.
I did some dotnet OSS in the past, but there's something special about Rust community and I guess that if I'd picked another language instead, I wouldn't gather such an amazing team :)
Nice analogy about the stairs.
Technology is not as fast paced as headlines make people think. For web applications, XHR (XMLHttpRequest) came from Microsoft in ~1998 and has essentially been used ad nauseam to do all sorts of dynamically rendering parts of HTML pages for 25 years. Its much cheaper/better than building client side software that has to be deployed and patched across a bunch of OSes. Sure there are patterns and frameworks, etc. that have come (and gone) for the web but the core fundamentals for building a web app are mostly unchanged. What about AI/ML? Companies 20+ years ago built out search engines, I see this as an evolution of that, indexing web content/text and providing more context driven outputs.

Some employers value degrees, some don't. Having a degree opens doors or rather you don't get HR/profiling to slam doors in your face because you didn't check the box.

My path was CS before Google was a household name (mid 90's). CS was just barely spun off of Math departments. I picked CS because I liked computer games and building PC's and doing stuff with computers was (and still is) fun. I found the CS program beneficial, establishing a core knowledge of how computers work and what happens when you run programs.

I'd say if you're in it for a career (aka a lifetime), get a degree. If you're in it as a stepping stone or changing careers or see the salaries and are chasing money, go to a bootcamp or equivalent to get up to speed to be proficient.
A platform play like this assumes a captive market that is using the platform and who faces significant pain to leave. iPhone, Android and Windows had this. OpenAI does not because other APIs and open source models are hot on their heels.

For many dev needs, an open source model can be used far cheaper, without vendor lockin, with more flexibility, free of censorship, and with lower latency.

To make this play and sustain it, OpenAI has to continue to have a model that is significantly better than open source models in particular- I’d say perhaps as much as one order of magnitude.

They are vulnerable. If Meta, for example, releases another Llama that is close to the current GPT state of the art, it may be a silver bullet.

My world view is tainted. I’m profoundly opposed to AI via API, and I think supporting open source models is so important that it has the potential to affect the future of our species, given how important the AI revolution will be this century.
Nostalgia certainly hits hard! In the early 2000s, someone showed me how they ran an ssh terminal on their Blackberry. They were amazed how a device that size could do real work.
Gvasm: Assembler and disassembler designed specifically for GBA homebrew
Scrolling with the trackpad is continuous and smooth in Terminal.app. On macOS I often prefer to cat files and then scroll them myself because of how nice it feels - and how much direct control I feel like I have over the scrolling position.

I wish it worked with man pages, vim and less. But that sounds like a hard problem.
I'm from Kent, and it's nice to see a familiar name! Normally it's Rochester...New York :)
Washington D.C., being a small, densely populated region that is covered by a coherent public transit system, is very different from Colorado (which has large areas that are rural and heavily car-dependent) in ways that might well bias obesity rates independently of the (relatively small) effect from altitude.

A comparison between Colorado and an actual state (which will involve non-urban regions) might be better.
"Markedly slowed" is apparently what we say when growth is 87% of what it was last time this year.

And this somehow means that sales are less than they were? The spin doctors have lost their minds.
What's a version of a ChatGPT? A custom model? With custom pretraining, or just custom fine-tuning? Or just a custom prompt, lol.
Interesting project, thanks!

Quick reactions from trying it out: One of my questions about this is the same as my question about "low-code" tools-- how they enable novices to debug errors or edge cases in the generated code.

Example: I played the tower defense style game example you linked in the comments for a few minutes, and found a bug (or perhaps a gameplay edge case I'd want to treat differently: a second bullet gets fired in the direction of an enemy that just died, wasting a shot). I cloned the project and poked around in the code to try to fix that, though without knowing the language and generated code that wasn't trivial.

Next, I thought-- I'll use the chat interface to explain this bug / edge case and ask for a suggestion. I was impressed, the conceptual explanation of how you might fix this seemed reasonable! However, the suggested generated code seemed incomplete and was full of "// ... rest of the code ..." comments, and when I clicked "Apply suggestions" that seemed to overwrite the existing program, so the application no longer runs (chunks of the program are just "// ... rest of the code..." lines). And I didn't see an obvious way to undo or get back to the previous code.

Anyway, that's feedback on my initial experience, I could see this being useful to generate the skeleton of a program or as an interface to get how-to suggestions that I'd then more carefully implement/integrate myself.
> If someone on HN knows how to do it, they will jump in and tell me exactly why it's "trivial,"

n.b. to you and your parent comment's commenter: you're the only two who used the word trivial in the entire comments section modulo another comment not in this thread that contains "SQL in theory makes this trivial...". The HNer claiming to build a streaming median function in a weekend fantasy might not come to fruition :(
> How can gradient descent work on compute graphs when the space of compute graphs is discrete?

You can un-discretize the space of compute graphs by interpolating its points by simplices. More precisely, each graph is a subgraph of the complete graph, and the subgraph is identified by the indicator function of its edges whose values are either 0 or 1. By using weighted edges with values between 0 and 1, the space of all graphs (with the same number of vertices) becomes continuous and connected, and you can gradient move around it in small steps.

Of course, "compute graphs" are more general beasts than "graphs", but it is likely that the same idea will apply. At least, for a reasonably large class of compute graphs.
I loved Aperture!
The mall in my hometown isn't dead yet, but the flagship stores are all gone. Biggest things that have moved in are a Rural King and a Planet Fitness, and the former Macy's may turn into a casino depending on an ongoing court case over it. We'll likely see more of this type of project as mall businesses continue to dry up.

Austin Community College previously turned one into their Highland campus.

https://www.austincc.edu/campuses/highland-campus
>Your honor, it's not important to define what an engineer is, or isn't. THIS IS AN EXPERT!

In all honesty this doesn't help non-engineers larping as engineers. It just means, you have the right to present yourself as something you're not, even if it's a lie.
Maybe, but not sure how practically useful this new method is. If any other lab published this they'd get nowhere near a journal like Cell.
Yes, I agree. But in practice, this stuff is evolutionary to the point that they'd simply keep a token amount of SKUs in reserve that will never be actually sold but that are theoretically still available in order to be able to block that compulsory order. Because if the competition gets direct insight into how the previous generation looked they will be able to make a much better stab at competing with the current one.

So to solve this you'd have to mandate that they open source all drivers right from when the goods are sold the first time or commit to supporting devices for as long as there are viable units out in the field or something like that. Again, not likely to ever happen for obvious reasons.
I think I still have my T-shirts somewhere.
Very interesting. I expected smooth scroll in VSCode to do like the video does. But no, it does not affect single-line scrolling. It affects scrolling a page!

For Firefox, smooth scrolling behaves exactly as I expect, but it affects scrolling via the cursor keys only (and the space bar), not via the mouse/trackpad. Also, the animation is quite fast, so it's easy to miss. (In Firefox, scrolling via the trackpad is always smooth; I haven't used a mouse with a whell in ages, so I don't know how that behaves.)
Also discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870249
Can this be confirmed or refuted?

There is so much variation confounding any study, in tasks, specifications, programmer inclination.

I use both staticly typed (rust) and dynamically typed (perl) a lot. I like rust for the big projects and perl to hold everything together-job control

That is my inclination, not a fact.

I have used many languages over the years. Static/dynamic typing is just one dimension, and not necessarily related to quality
Putting this on top comment because I can't edit:

I am silly and wrote 'mode' and shouldn't have :P (wetware error: saw list of 3 items corresponding to leetcode and temperature dataset, my 3 were min/max/average, their 3 are mean/median/mode)
OpenAI has promised to pay out a rev share to GPT devs. Undisclosed is what that rev share will amount to. But presumably OpenAI would love to tout a huge number of developers making a living from GPTs, as this will drive a flywheel encouraging more people and orgs to make GPTs, and make existing GPTs more ambitious.
The same has been said about Roblox but you’re also not producing Roblox quality games. And Roblox loses a billion dollars a year.

I mean I’m not trying to be a dick and I get that you’re just starting here but I don’t get the sense that the team understands what’s required to ship a game.

You should not show the content on “trending”. You should show something you have made with your tools that you are happy to call a fun game that is shippable and buildable with your tools as promised.

For example, 1D Pac-Man as featured here. Can you build a clone of that game?
Do redlines here refer to size measurements, or suggested revisions?

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/781354942292031141
Man, I miss my TJ. I now have a family car with excellent crash ratings. Take the top off and enjoy it while you can :P
This is the truth. I'm not sure where a reputable award would come from, or how to keep them honest, but it seems like an award coming from journalists will be doomed to fail thanks to corruption and lack of integrity. The incestuous nature of journalism, advertising, and industry makes it all but inevitable.
RAG Using Structured Data: Overview and Important Questions
This is the first blog post on a series of posts I plan to write on the role graph DBMSs and knowledge graphs play on LLM applications and recent text-to-high-level-query-language work I read up on over the holiday season.

These blogs have two goals:

(i) give an overview of what I learned as an outsider looking for technical depth;
(ii) discuss some venues of work that I ran into that looked important.

This first post is on "Retrieval Augmented Generation using structured data", so private records stored in relational or graph DBMSs. The post is long and full of links to some of the important material I read (given my academic background, many of these are papers) but it should be an easy read especially if you were an outsider intimidated by this fast moving space.

tl;dr for this post:
- I provide an overview of RAG.
- Compared to pre-LLM work, the simplicity and effectiveness of developing a natural language interface over your database using LLMs is impressive.
- There is little work that studies LLMs' ability to generate Cypher or SPARQL. I also hope to see more work on nested, recursive and union-of-join queries.
- Everyone is studying how to prompt LLMs so they generate correct DBMS queries. Here, I hope to see work studying the effects of data modeling (normalization, views, graph modeling) on the accuracy of LLM-generated queries.

Hope some find this interesting.
Thank you, and yeah, I didn't even think about that aspect of it too, but you're right. I think the reason it's a popular formulation of the semantic is that it's kind of like, trying to describe it from a statement-oriented viewpoint, and there's certainly value in trying to help bridge an understanding gap by relating it to things that you know. But I worry that it either gives the wrong impression (heck I would hate true "implicit returns" too!) or that people tend to stop there as opposed to truly making the mental shift. This stuff is hard!
I have doubts about this simply because I knew people who needed HCQ for other diseases (lupus and rheumatoid arthritis) had trouble getting it during the epidemic because the government restricted supplies. Also that the only deaths that happened during the studies happened because the studies were rigged with improper dosages.

(On the other hand, I know my sister, recovering from cancer, died on remdesivir and my mom was long-term crippled by the disease while taking it, but there's no articles about how-many-people-died-on-Remdesivir because The Experts Are Always Right, Peon!)
It would be funny if it were, especially if a large regulator makes a move.
Asking a random person for their kwh usage is not realistic. Dollars per month change (where they haven't changed driving drastically) is more practical.
The ACME protocol allows this; you just need to control either the DNS records or port 80 on all of the network paths that the certificate authority (e.g. Let’s Encrypt) uses as part of the challenge response protocol.

(Is there a way to permanently opt a DNS name out of such things, I wonder? It seems unlikely that anything would survive a DNS name transfer.)
In that case TLS or similar would also trigger it.

It's just a different method of routing - wrapping the original packet in more and more envelopes.
OH yes I see.
2023 JavaScript Rising Stars
I think Sketch is maintaining a foothold, no? Avoids forever monthly recurring fees, even if they've not caught up yet offerings wise.
https://twinery.org/
In a lot of cases the relationship is not that. Instead, the publisher takes a healthy cut of the revenue for doing all the things that isn’t directly developing the game: marketing, testing, release, sales, etc.

Oftentimes the publisher can act as an advisor or matchmaker for finding the right people to solve problems. But this is meaningfully different from taking control of the game’s development.
In my experience, the 1% of the time it's not is with DoD clients, specifically with clearance jobs. If the job description does not specifically call out a security clearance level that is required, then they're just covering.
> No, you're the one with a theory.

Are you seriously claiming that "U-Haul is running a profit" is just a theory?

> I'm the one with an unexplained fact.

The explanation is not going to be "It's cheaper to rent than to buy", if you're looking at periods that ownership generally runs for.

"It's unexplained" does not mean "It's cheaper".
Nice one, looks quite similar indeed! May I ask why did you discontinue the further work?
> 'Choose the right tool for the job' is sensible but boring advice.

> It makes us small in our ambitions. I want us to dream bigger. I don't want to feel like my tools can't handle evolving requirements, or that if I want to dabble in a new field I need to learn an entirely new way of working first.

> Even if it turns out to be unachievable, I find it valuable to ask the question 'what would it take for SvelteKit to be the best framework for any app?', whether it's purely static content, or a realtime multiplayer app, or an offline-first productivity app, or even something built for an augmented reality headset.

Love this. No one ever tells you to use the right language for the topic.
I wouldn't trust any of them sure. At the least the 500 disorder panel is not by itself completely dangerous to your kin though - you can't map that via genealogy. Agree it's still dangerous. Honestly I'm not sure what I'd choose if I'm presented with doing this test.
I did wonder if they had the machine check finger to waldo distance and then readjust accordingly.
I used Keynote, especially the magic move function, to create the animation. A magic move is transition that creates the effect of objects moving from their positions on one slides to new positions on the next slide. Then you can export the keynote file as a GIF.
See, this is what I'm talking about. I agree about Hamas. I think most people do. But by inserting it unbidden into a response like this, you invite someone to either (a) misinterpret your point, or (b) worse, to challenge it --- and the only people who are going to do that are precisely the people you shouldn't want to see chiming in.

Worth noting maybe that the three of us on this thread are some of the last people keeping this unproductive conversation going, across the whole site. I'll do my best to reduce that count now!
It will be interesting to see if anyone has made any worthwhile custom GPTs. I've tried making custom GPTs and, to be frank, I found the functionality extremely basic and barely more effective than just copy/pasting a custom prompt.
so this is invision shutting down right? i couldn't really tell.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication in keeping this alive.
A fantastic example of this is 'the petrified forest'.

https://www.nps.gov/pefo/index.htm

Straight from the Triassic.
Ah cool! Just to be clear, I think you should do whatever you feel is best for your project. I don't see this in any sort of moral terms, purely engineering ones, and there are good reasons to use nightly just like there are good reasons to use stable.
Quit pedantic, useless, nitpicking over a casual reference to "robot"
At 6 o'clock your left blinker is on. At 5 o'clock your blinker is off. At 11:30 your right blinker is on.
I have nothing to do with "the other commenter upthread" and am disinclined to respond to anything framed that way.
I think you could argue that funding a game significantly changes the course of the work, by making it happen in the first place.
They don’t mention anything about rates of fire and how they suppress those fires (especially important in sunny rural California). Are they decommissioning packs before their absolute end of life to reduce this risk or are they trying to squeeze every last drop out of them?
No, as someone else pointed out the repairs were done in the cargo bay of the shuttle over the course of 5 days. GP is right though - just building and launching a replacement would make more sense that spinning up a shuttle program to do the repairs.
What did they change about the elden ring tutorial?