skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a great paper[1] I read about the human components in complex technical systems which argues that one of the roles of the human is to take the blame when the entire system fails. This does real valuable work for the companies involved and helps them avoid needing to answer the most uncomfortable questions.

[1] Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction by Madeline Clare Elish
A reminder that even smart people are human and can get caught up in irrationality.
And as with all of these things they ebb and flow. I would challenge you on the point that he represents a dominant ideology any longer, he may have once and he may still have adherents but he is not as instrumental as he once was. So perhaps he started a dissident and will end as one too, but for different reasons.
For people wanting to do LLM work at home, a fully loaded MacBook has more memory available to it than anything else a consumer can buy. All in a laptop form factor (versus Nvidia GPUs).

A small market, sure, but one they have on lock down.
Right?

My keyboard came with RGB. I don’t care for it but I let it light up if any kind of lock is engaged and it glows a low red colour beneath the keys that I click.

That’s the only step I go beyond you. And the only reason I did it was because no lights at all for the keyboard meant cycling through every possible setting.

My computer is a machine. Its beauty is in its functionality. Being able to look at it and know what it’s doing is important.
> Is there a reason we should care about his belief regarding this?

The scientific method proposes begining with conjectures, have Gödel's afterlife hypothesis been disproved? Could it be disproved? Can it trigger thoughts in an intelligence? Are those thoughts valued?
This is exactly how normalization of deviance leads to death.

The MAX8 does not have a fix, it has a complicated checklist of workarounds for dynamic behaviors that should be automated.

Then the next level of failure you're inducing is that ' 8 = 7 '.

The combined systems of the MAX8 are not and do not equal the combined systems of the MAX7. You have re-asses the mitigation on every airframe that differs or you end up with a field of people splattered everywhere. If Boeing actually does the reassessment as they should, it will be about as intensive as actually removing the issue and reducing the workload of the pilot in the first place.

That's why a lot of people are pissy about this, as Boeing is trying to say they did it once and that work transfers to a new system perfectly. Didn't work so well with the other MAX8's that splattered themselves.
Your 500€ DSLR isn’t a €300 phone, a €300 camera, a €300 navigation device, a €300 Sonos Remote, a €300 PDA all in one.
Toyota kept going on and on about how their software code wasn’t faulty, but analysts showed that it was so incredibly riddled with bugs that unintended acceleration was not only “in there”, but was hiding under a layer of literally(!) thousands of other critical bugs.

Did Toyota change their safety culture as a result?

Hah… no.
Unfortunately, I believe this is a common problem across most, if not all, tech giants.
Because the burden of proof is on the person claiming that pink elephants exist. I don't have to prove it doesn't, you have to prove it does.
I rather like to believe that the universe is infinite[1], and that the laws of physics change imperceptibly across long distances, meaning that our observable part has properties that helped life, and intelligent life, evolve[2]. There does seem to be a compelling negentropic "urge" present at almost every level of physical reality, that complexity accretes over time in a manner that almost seems designed[3]. This idea preserves both the notion that the universe is rational in some sense, AND that we occupy no special place in it. Indeed, one could see the biosphere of earth, and humans, as merely data pointing to a particular bundle of physical constants in this local region.

I do not believe there is a heaven unless we build one.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negentropy
Ah, that's a good point, thank you!
If the user fails the train stops.

If the use fails the plane crashes.

Two very different problems.
> What damage can they actually suffer though? Boeing is a strategic asset of the US government, they would never allow any harm to come to it.

Boeing's staff and plant are strategic assets, its executives and shareholders aren't. The US government could totally let harm come the latter group.
It's usually not possible to fix a company that is broken, simply because of Gall's Law. ("A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.") Large companies are complex systems; they develop their own set of internal incentives, communications architectures, org politics, membership tests, etc. Over time, these incentives inevitably adapt themselves toward maintaining the organization rather than delivering the product or service that is the reason why the organization exists. At that point, everyone who actually wants to deliver the product leaves, leaving an organization consisting solely of people whose full-time job is maintaining their position in the organization.

Ask yourself: would you take a position at Boeing trying to "fix the company"?

The only way out of this is to poach the few remaining employees that still have technical knowledge, setup a new company that refuses to employ everyone with a vested interest in Boeing, and take their market. This is hard for aerospace because of the sheer complexity of the product and the baseline quality levels needed to deliver a safe experience.
Article doesn't really really explain the proof of god - but a version of the proof is here https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.4526.pdf
I visit your site every day. Thank you for creating it and evolving it past simple summaries to show paper details!

I recall you were looking to sell it at some point. Was wondering what that process looked like, and why you ended up holding on to the site.
> I can get the same power that a 3k Macbook pro has with about 1k when I build my own PC

But not, as you acknowledge, a laptop.
The US holiday season slowdown is only for a handful of days and not sufficient to explain a 19-day review time.

From Apple's announcement[1]:

> On average, 90% of submissions are reviewed in less than 24 hours. However, reviews may take a bit longer to complete from December 22 to 27.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=uijoypq9
You're really grasping at straws here. They've been an NIH company since the beginning, and now you & few others are desperately touting the one, or one of the few areas where they embraced standards. Assuming they did.

As for "In the late 90's/early 00's, who were using technology like that? Designers. "

I believe that is just wrong. Mac users might have had an outsized impact, but the mass market always refrained from jumping on things until they were available for Windows.
> Some dynamic languages (such as Python with type hints or TypeScript) are more strongly typed than C or even Java (with its type erasure).

The Python runtime does not care about type hints; TS types are erased when compiled down to JS. How does Java's type erasure make it less strongly typed than those two? You can compare the capability of the type systems, and Java's may well be lesser, but I don't really see how erasure matters here.
> no reported cases of parts departing aircraft due to...

Wow, that's a great phrase. "No reported cases" is a serious weasel-phrase, and "parts departing aircraft" is much easier to take than "things falling off planes."
That's impressive! Anyone know if there are similar libraries available for other languages?
> Am I going to give someone a disease if I leave a needle out?

You are engaging with a severely addictive product produced by addiction-merchants that produces nothing other than good feelings for the user. Your disease of gaming addiction is contagious to others if they see you enjoying it or hear about you enjoying it. The supply chains needed to support your drug of choice involve ripping millions of pounds of rare materials out of the dirt of poor nations that have virtually no labor protections. The thing you enjoy has outrageous externalities that society chooses to accept and legally profit from. There are probably 20x more human life-hours devoured by gaming than by being high all the time, and much less good art is made by the gamers.

"dude ran at me and pushed me..."
Yes, in this completely heartless monstrosity we call "American society" there's no help for people who are crazy. Many of those people turn into drug addicts simply looking for relief from their mental illnesses. Seeing this in action can be scary or violent, but this is the outcome you support if you're a tax-payer in America.

The issue is that we have a horrible, violent, selfish, greedy, and self-important society and culture in America. Being exposed to that is uncomfortable, but that's what it is. Trying to imprison the outcomes of that society, or ignore it, or condemn it, etc, is an effort to extract your personal culpability from it. We created this place where people would rather be unhealthy than be healthy. It's human nature to react to a sick place like this, and it's totally unproductive to blame the least amongst us in society for a problem created by the wealthiest amongst us.

Don't like drug dealers? Me neither - the State should provide free drugs.
Don't like drug addicts? Me neither - the State should provide all the support needed to rehabilitate citizens, which goes much farther than putting people in a clinic.
Don't like drugs? Everything in America is drugs in one form or another.
maybe confirmation bias because people who like stuff in Facebook are already in a bucket of lame people
I’d prefer this done privately as has been done before; different set of tradeoffs but ones I prefer, namely people getting options.
FYI you can remap that button to open another app, or two (different actions for press vs hold). I use an app called "Button Mapper"
Documentation absolutely has a cost, but that last sentence is a substantial overgeneralization. Counterexamples include a search engine, a quilt, an impact driver, and a box of a basic LEGO bricks.
What the actual f*ck is wrong with Boeing's management? After the MAX fiasco that left several hundreds dead, I would have expected the new management to be more cautious about safety issues. As a consumer, I feel the need to vote with my wallet and feet. I feel it is time to boycott flying on Boeing's unsafe planes. Unfortunately, due to consolidation and lack of competition there are very few choices left for us.
It uses Passkeys to secure a user's account (https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys/).

Passkeys use public key cryptography, so in this case we have a private key that remains securely on the user's device, and a public key that's stored on the server. Most modern devices are able to secure the passkey using biometrics, but users can also choose to use a password managed that supports passkeys.
> This is like asking why I can’t go to Princeton but have my favorite Stanford professor come teach my class

You can do that. You just convince them to teach the class at Princeton. Professors move from one school to another all the time. You can also go take a class at one school while attending another if you want to do that, and the other school will not only not stand in your way, you'll generally get transfer credit.

> or why I can’t play CS:GO inside Mario Party.

These are two different games. The example you're looking for is that you can't play Mario Party on a PlayStation. But that's barely even an analogy, it's just the same situation -- why shouldn't you be able to play Mario Party on a PlayStation except for nefarious anticompetitive BS?

This is distinct from technical capability. If you can't play Mario Party on a Sega Genesis because it only has 64KB of RAM, too bad. But if you can't play it on <whatever device> even though you paid for it solely because of some anti-competitive lock-in even if the hardware is capable and you're willing to e.g. create a compatibility layer, that's something else.
Anti-gravity toys.
Green/MMS messages end up having much lower quality images and videos than iMessages. Send the video to another iPhone user and they see it in HD. Send it via MMS and someone gets a blurry postage stamp video.
Now I want to know more about your sunflower breeding program :)
LOL, Zero Hedge... The never ending doomerism will always have readers. Do yourself a favor and read old content on the wayback machine or something. They never get anything right, not even the housing crash of 07. But it sure is entertaining!
Could you build a CPU from superconducting material, maybe partially, so that it generates much less heat when operating?
> The idea that everything in the world has meaning is, by the way, the exact analogue of the principle that everything has a cause on which the whole of science is based.’ Gödel – just like Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, whom he idolised – believed that everything in the world has a reason for its being so and not otherwise.

This is the core mistake, I believe, to assume that causation implies meaning, instead of causation just being a logical correlation, and meaning being a construction of the human mind.

It’s interesting, though, that Gödel took his incompleteness theorems as an indication that materialism (or naturalism) can’t be the truth, while still thinking that the world is rational.
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Lots of discussion about the bankruptcy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706781
What's your point exactly? Oh I see, should we care. I don't. You can reason it either way.

As for alchemy it's a meditative practice that makes sense if you understand it. Where the external alchemists went wrong was no one told them what the symbols meant so they thought it was a physical transformation of base metals rather than of consciousness, which is what it is. In fact, the alchemists aimed for direct spiritual knowledge, not faith. From that perspective it's perfectly rational.
Not if you go by the number of blog posts complaining about NPM and bundling in javascript
How to Properly Advertise a Revshare/Collab Project
I’ve been browsing job posts lately and found a lot of poorly written posts looking for collaborators. Here’s a post I wrote highlighting common pitfalls, and how to convince collaborators to join your project!
Well, they are also giving away a ton of games for free to try to bust Valve's defacto monopoly. That's probably not cheap.
Not sure if you are joking or not. But since its not funny I assume not.

Switching from one airplane to another isn't like switching from a Honda to a Toyota car. It requires lots of training and thus cost.

Southwest as the prim example has many 100s of pilots trained on a 737, they have a huge maintenance network that is trained for the 737. They don't fly any Airbus at all, thus they have 0 experience in their whole operation.

Switching would a monumental task. It was reported that Southwest took a serious look at A220 program, but has since doubled down on 737 for the next couple decades.

Many airlines have switched to higher amounts of Airbus and Airbus has made inroads into the US market. But partly now Airbus has so many orders for 737 Max sized planes that if you order one, your gone have to wait for a long time. So, maybe you still rather get that 737MAX instead.

For a while the market was more like 50/50, now we are trending towards a 40/60 market, or potentially even more. And that doesn't take into account that Boeing lowering prices quite to get some of these contracts.
Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/technology/antitrust-appl...
Really looks nice and like a lot of work...

...but I honestly hate, hate, hate it when I can't even try out some basic functionality of an app without having to create another account on some unknown platform which will probably faceblaste me with !!! ONLY THIS MONTH %%% DISCOUNT LIFETIME ACCESS $$$ spam emails for all eternity. Meh. :(

Would love the ability to just test at least one image without signing up, that's all.
I disagree with this. If you are truly building for yourself there is no criticism, no prying eyes, it is well and truly yours. Even with PR and issues closed people read it, maybe comment about it on social media or hackernews. There is beauty in a creation that is complete private.
At no point above have you actually answered the question posed. Since you seem to be easily distractible, here it is again in concise form: How would you react if someone told you that (in their opinion) one of your preferred activities (such as gaming) is unproductive and detrimental to society. Would you stop that activity?

It's pretty clear that your answer is "obviously not", and that it's causing you great discomfort to reconcile that answer with your hatred towards the different ways that others choose to live their lives.
I like Steam, including the work they’ve done with Linux/Proton and their hardware access. I wouldn’t give Tencent Epic Games a single penny.
If you want more on RAG with a concrete example: https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-rag-pipelines-with-txtai
January 1st 1983 the internet goes live.

July 1st 1984 Neuromancer is published.

Today, we are easily over 60% of the way to the future envisaged in the sprawl. Just give it time.
I turned on showdead, and still don't see what he's talking about.
A freezer that uses almost no energy :D.

But there’s lots of applications - computers that are orders of magnitude faster and use way less energy, maglev trains that are orders of magnitude cheaper. Think about how as electronics got cheaper they permeated nearly every aspect to the point that cheapo $20 gadgets probably have a simple microcontroller instead of an analog circuit. Room temperature semiconductors would be a material science breakthrough that would permeate every aspect of our lives within ~40 tears similar to how semiconductors did in the 1960s (assuming we got better and cheaper at manufacturing it at scale which would be the next challenge after confirmation).

That being said, I think it’s something we should remain hyper skeptical about as a prior because of the low likelihood and how difficult it is to verify superconductance (because the samples are so small they have to use roundabout techniques to establish it like the Meisner effect that can be confused with other properties because measuring 0 resistance itself is even harder and more error prone).
I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, languages are just tools. On the other hand, I have favorite tools!

I've worked enough jobs to know that I'd rather be happy with the tools in my toolkit, and I've also been around long enough to know that there are jobs out there that use the tools that I like! Why compromise if I don't have to?

So personally? I hold out for jobs that are in the languages I like, and I don't apply to jobs that are in languages I don't like.

That said, it never hurts to learn something new!
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00999.pdf

Possible Meissner effect near room temperature in
copper-substituted lead apatite
Hongyang Wang1∗
, Yao Yao2†
, Ke Shi3
, Yijing Zhao3
, Hao
Wu4
, Zhixing Wu5
, Zhihui Geng6
, Shufeng Ye1
, and Ning Chen7
1 Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering,
Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
2 State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices and Department of Physics,
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
3 Beijing 2060 Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing 100084, China
4 School of Materials Science and Engineering,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
5 Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food safety,
College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
6 School of Engineering, Course of Applied Science,
Tokai University, Hiratsuka 2591292, Japan
7 School of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
(Dated: January 3, 2024)

"In summary, the diamagnetism in CSLA has been investigated via both M-T curves and
hysteresis M-H loops, which can be observed up to 250 K. Given the ZFC-FC bifurcation
at above 300 K, we think there is still great chance to observe room-temperature superconductivity. The signals in our sample are still extremely weak, so we have to devote efforts
to further synthesizing scalable samples with more active components."
It hasn't been an "Apple key" since 2010 or so. On all recent machines, it's just labeled as "Command", with the ⌘ symbol.
Bit of a flamewar
I am new to this space. Is it hard to fine tune this model?
Astra is functionally bankrupt. They ain't developing nuting anytime soon.
> You say systems problems like Go is for embedded work.

I'm not sure who is talking about embedded work. That didn't come from me. There is nothing in this thread about embedded. Did you accidentally press the wrong reply button?

I say that Go is for systems. Do you think Go is actually designed for scripting? If so, why?

> Half the things I have seen replaced Python scripts

Python is often used to build systems.

Python is a scripting language, yes, but that doesn't mean you can't build systems in it – just as you can build scripts in a systems language. But there are tradeoffs in crossing paths like that. Systems languages will be better for building systems, and scripting languages will be better for building scripts.

Perhaps the applications you speak of are actually systems and that is why developers saw reason to convert them into using a systems language?

> Seeing what your internal state is after taking X action is exactly what REPLs are good at...

Quite good. But that workload is not systems in nature, so why would you ever do that in a systems language? That is a scripting workload. Naturally you would use a scripting language. And, lucky for you, most scripting languages include REPLs out of the box!
https://harlequin.sh/

There was a Show HN: from the author and this thread and discussion last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37588526
In this case, the simple solution is for Apple is to have an Android app. Which, as per the email revealed in court cases, they have had and haven't launched since 2013.
I am so tired of these patterns. Google Photos also does not allow any easy or good way to clean up junk. Why would they? They want you to run out of space so you can pay for their cloud storage. They also have low incentive to keep photo/video storage space-efficient for the same reason.
Sometimes when I want to "right click" something, it's more comfortable to use the Menu key than to reach for the mouse. For example, when going through a list of items with the arrow keys.
Link to model on HF Hub: https://huggingface.co/TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0
"I mean it's like turning down free work... Why?"

It is currently also creating lots of pressure for people to also buy an IPhone to not be cut out of circles. And once they have an IPhone, they can integrate it better with other Apple devices and once you are inside the walled garden, you will likely stay there, if you can afford it.

I don't see Apple opening up on their own anytime soon.
What is good for RAG?
Consistency and Accuracy of AI for Providing Nutritional Information
Peterson's a psychologist, an important field that many evolutionary biologists and HNers sadly don't quite understand, though they do very good work otherwise.
Discussed here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871037
Call them Americans. As in "My fellow Americans.".