skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mathematicians attempt to express ideas in the most readable and clear way possible.

I buy this from the mathematicians and scientists that I know and have interacted with.

I also think mathematicians spend more time trying to discover/play with new math than optimizing the communication of what already exists and is communicable.

My speculation is that this naturally leads cruft that needs to be worked through by people entering the field. The cruft can not get too big or people don't enter the field so people are motivated to keep the cruft below a certain level but not the minimum.

The cruft makes it harder to enter the field and once you have over come that hurdle you move on to do things in the field not reduce the cruft.

Other things that make it hard to reduce cruft

1. not everyone is going to agree what is cruft

2. Person X spend time on reducing cruft in sub field Y may find out that Y is no longer hot topic so while there is less cruft there are not many people taking advantage of the reduced cruft in Y.

3. Mathematicians and scientists are reward more for new and interesting things than better pedagogical practice/techniques.

4. Optimizing for communication/pedagogy is mostly a different skill than science/mathematics so you have to split your focus or not dive as deeply into one or both.

5. I am sure there are others.

This seems reasonable to me. It is s system where most everyone is well meaning and want to improve things and where things do improve over time, but where it is still easy to find areas that would benefit from substantial from improvement.
Oops. Should have googled it first.
Why can't you take VC money and run the business the way you want? They can't force you to do anything. Sure they can pressure you, but if you have ownership and they have a minority stake, you can do what you want. Ello could have stopped at any time. Why did they raise 5 million only 6 months after their first round and another 5 million 6 months after that? What were they spending their money on? I don't see how this would have worked if they hadn't taken money

> X.com is probably the only & last experiment on whether switching to subscription rev is achievable at scale. Looks pretty clear so far that it’s not.

I don't know. X showed that you can fire ~80% of your employees and the product could still exist. Not only exist but push product at a faster pace. In the last year you got editable comments, subscriptions, revenue sharing, blue checkmark for sale, alternative check marks for govts and org, culling of old accounts, API restrictions, forcing people to put parody identify themselves, longer videos, just to name a few off the top of my head. I noticed more large changes in the last year than the last 5. You don't need a lot of people to run a SaaS company and you can cut a lot of bullshit. And all tech companies are coming around to that conclusion.

Maybe if Ello had raised only a few million and kept around a dozen employees or so, it could have succeeded.
Unless you're Royalty.
I followed it too. It's a crazy feeling: one of my favorite teachers from University (A PhD in AI at the time backbin 2001) is nowadays in prison for murder .

Apparently he is gay and slept with a student, got drunk and passion got the worst of him. This happened years after I have finished school, but finding about it was shocking.

It shows that invariably everyone has a human side that may make us do stupid things out of passion.
Thought experiment: If I steal someone else's credit card to buy things (example from FindLaw [1]) that I won't use just to harm my victim, would I be committing fraud? Or would only the non-fraud charges apply?

[1] https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/fraud.html
Europe has wildfires and rural areas. How will a large fire truck help you when a wood house is burning? Being grotesquely large doesn't mean they put the fire out faster.
Interferometric Single-Shot Parity Measurement in an InAs-Al Hybrid Device
Are you doing the online classes or only the books? I wanted to register for the online classes but they seem to be heavily oriented towards interactive learning.
It has always been pretty vague, it's hard to define a proper bar for intelligence let alone the intelligence of any specific animal. We just don't understand intelligence well enough (which is why in my opinion Zucc saying they want to work on AGI is at the level of if Musk or Bezos came out saying they want to work on FTL travel).
Letting the wider community do your r&d for free
I wish more than anything we could legislate the fee structures backwards. If the government wants an environmental impact study then the government is footing the bill for it. Putting it on the builder is stupid and just a way of hiding the budget item in other people's wallets.
Even our wood has so much fire safety chemicals baked in now that it's not nearly as flammable as it used to be. The safety standards should be reevaluated. Plus, I'm sure that there are some developers who would happily build the whole MFH out of concrete if it lets them only use a single stair.
They also had DOS/16M which targeted 286 protected mode. The company I worked for used it when moving the Clipper programming language to protected mode.
So what percentage of the sexual harassment involves adults, and what percentage is grooming?

Tossing everything into a single number isn't very helpful.
But then those models are possibly used downstream, EG for Mistral's "medium" API model (and many other startups).

I guess if its behind an API and no one discloses the training data, OpenAI can't prove anything? Even obvious GPTisms could ostensibly be from internet data.
You’re out of control bro.
Thank you. Truly scary stuff.
Bigco creates a VR/AR/Metaverse seemingly for entertainment but really is gathering data of the "guests", esp how they will behave when they think nobody is watching and/or judging, and in time, uses the data for nefarious purposes... I think I have seen this show before...
AI allowing the pairing of 'ideas' and appropriate tools without the need to dive into surrouding details for task at hand. aka telepresence/tricorers/ etc. [0][1][2][3][4]

[0] : https://www.tricorderproject.org/

[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uwbq9e9Ftw

[2] : https://www.unit-led.com/mandalorian-led-wall

[3] : with 3d printer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRIVSDzVzlE

[4] : https://www.startrek.com/news/10-cutting-edge-real-world-sta...
That's fair. I was merely talking about being able to make better "first guesses." Nowhere near the predictability of a much simpler phenomenon such as radiance mapping, of course.

And as the article says,
>"There were a lot of models that we didn’t even try because we thought they were so bad,...”
Yuuuuuuup this right here. That's right when I was in university and was definitely the peak. Maybe a bit before when mephedrone was big. I feel like I aged out of it at just the right time. Now I don't even recognize the names of what's going around.
I went back just to see and it chose WHITE as the first option, making the text invisible lol
Browser extension is what we originally thought for exactly the same reasons you did. We started to see some requests show up from iOS devices which didn't support extensions so that made us think MitM corporate proxies.

The diversity of cloud networks looks to be due to these being deployed by individual institutions (eg. universities, corporations etc.) rather than only run from Palo Alto Network's data centers.

We also saw slightly different configurations with different browser versions, but with the same pattern of behaviour.
I am very happy to see someone so highly respected state something that I often say. ~“We are all pretty much just AutoCorrect on steroids. “
> California’s water board doesn’t have the staff it would need to monitor river levels statewide

Isn't water flow rate automatically collected, at least for larger rivers and creeks? Can't low flow be flagged automatically?

> Even if the state water board had learned of the Merced’s withered conditions earlier that summer, it might still have taken months to enact new regulations to protect the river

This seems like something that shouldn't require enacting new regulations. Enact the regulation once, and enforce the regulation always.
Ask HN: How will Apple celebrate the Mac's 40th anniversary?
They did a killer microsite in 2014 highlighting a single product every year since 1984. There was a section called ‘Your first Mac’, where Apple asked you to state what your first Mac was and what you used it for and that data was rolled into a poll. Tim Cook, Craig Federighi and Phil Schiller gave interviews to the press claiming “the Mac keeps going forever”.

The quality of the photos was phenomenal and they covered these products for each of the years:

1984: Macintosh
1985: Macintosh XL
1986: Macintosh Plus
1987: Macintosh II
1988: Macintosh IIx
1989: Macintosh Portable
1990: Macintosh LC
1991: PowerBook
1992: Macintosh Quadra 950
1993: Macintosh TV
1994: PowerBook 540c
1995: Power Macintosh 8500
1996: PowerBook 1400
1997: Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
1998: iMac
1999: Power Mac G4
2000: iBook
2001: PowerBook G4
2002: iMac
2003: Power Mac G5
2004: iBook G4
2005: iMac G5
2006: MacBook Pro
2007: iMac
2008: MacBook Air
2009: iMac
2010: MacBook Air
2011: MacBook Pro
2012: MacBook Pro with Retina display
2013: iMac
2014: Mac Pro

You can see it in the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20140124112428/http://www.apple.com/30-years/

How will they celebrate the 40th anniversary coming up next week on the 24th?
To this day, I fail to understand why some people cannot enjoy constructive mathematics or practical engineering without shitting on traditional maths or CS.

The "runtime on real data" thing is a trope by now, an algorithm that is exponential is in general not going to miraculously be very fast on "real-world" data, and even if it is, chances are, it won't be anymore once you change your data (with some few exceptions like the Simplex algorithm).
> A couch and a fire and that couch can't be pushed over or jumped over.

Not everyone is young and in shape to push couches or jump over them.
Yi 200K finetunes cover a lot for me.

Its not just smart, but the ability to just dump a huge context on it and get something coherent (after a few retries maybe) is really cool.
Controls on the wheel or yoke include: turn signals, horn, windshield wipers, high beams, cruise/autopilot/FSD, voice command, and two 5-way scroll wheel things which are somewhat programmable and enable additional options when another button is pressed. By default I think they control audio, cruise speed, and following distance.

Older models have some of the above on stalks.

Beyond the wheel you've got window controls, gear selector, map lights, buttons and levers to open the doors, a gas and brake pedal, I think that's it

That said, you mostly tell the car what to do with voice commands. "Defrost the windows" or "open the glove box" or "drive to Costco" etc.

Edit: Hazard lights too
You need an AI art of your anniversary date in the form of a goatse
I don't know anyone starting a family happy with the situation. Most people I know are moving to suburbs only because they can't get 3 bedroom apartments in cities. If MFH's became broadly available I think many new families would flock there.
To some extend, yes.

Hacker News, the _link list_ is still fine and surfaces interesting things at least every other day. The comment section however has fared less well, the heroic and thankless job the moderators have been doing notwithstanding.

At some point later this year given some time, I will probably reduce HN to that first part. Plug it into a custom link aggregator / filter / agent I have yet to write.

Delete my fifteen year old reddit account before the IPO. Find myself a nice, old school forum off the beaten path for the human element. And then I'll finally be free from the "modern" Internet.

2024 is going to be a good year.
> But the really important conclusion of the paper, which I truly hope bears out, is that AF2 models are useful for finding binders to GPCRs.

What seems more likely to you: that the (obviously worse [1]) structures produced by alphafold are somehow magically capturing protein dynamics, or…the virtual screening method (DOCK) used by the paper is relatively insensitive to the quality of the underlying model? They say right there in the article that neither screen was obviously enriched versus the other (the hit rate was around 50% for both branches, which was essentially the same as for the very different retrospective screening method in the same paper [2]).

I’m putting my money on the parsimonious answer. Running structures through a large enough virtual screen will almost always find something that binds, even if the starting model isn't great.

[1] at least in the case of the x-ray structure. Using a cryoEM structure is sort of interesting, since they’re blurry anyway.

[2] the actual paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.20.572662v1....
This is why I'm against the death penalty. I don't think that executing 95(97?) actual murderers is worth the chance of killing 5(3?) completely innocent people. That's not justice, that's just good odds, and it shouldn't apply to human life. Lock them up for life. Give an option for execution if they want to take that way out.
Night terrors for me when I was a tween.
Josh on our team is so happy people discovered and liked his easter egg!
YouTube slowdown caused by an old bug in AdBlock engine
Wondering exactly how one does a "placebo" for breathwork, I checked the article.

What was actually found was that breathing at a particular pace appeared to have no significant difference from breathing at a different pace for primary and secondary stress markers.

Valuable information, but...
> but this is not the experience you want to have every day.

It’s been the experience I’ve been having every day since the original oculus devkit. I’ve rarely touched a flatscreen title since. Eventually I hope they’ll become good enough to work in when I travel.

edit

In saying that, i've always maintained its not ready for normies yet, and that we were probably a good decade or two away from the point where its going to be in a format/design that the mass market would accept/have interest in. In fact in many cases, I still actively reccomend against purchase because I know it's still kinda incuating along.
With the rise of “store all the things you see / interact with for LLM recall” solutions, it could just be that. Some kind of async archival
Next week Alabama plans to execute inmate with nitrogen gas in first
I would describe myself as a YIMBY and have been surprised many people online are against this project.

I think it comes down to the fact that some YIMBYs (like myself) believe the housing market is bad because central has large (intended and unintended) negative consequences. Others are fine with lots of central planning in theory, just not the car-centric current regime, so they partner with YIMBYs on some urbanist issues.

One insult I've seen thrown at this project is that it is "sprawl" or "suburban". I wonder if these people would have been against building in Mountain View in 1950 when its population was 6,000. Or San Jose 100 years ago when it was 1/10th the size of SF (it is now larger than SF). It seems like the only way to create both the medium and large cities of tomorrow is to start relatively small.

My worry is that if self-described "urbanists" are able to block this development on ground it is sprawl, that really gives political courage to any future NIMBY to use the "sprawl" argument to veto housing near them.
In the Jurassic age. More info if you are curious:

https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...
That would inflate the numbers… correctly
that's not what premeditated murder is though. That's trying to cover up the murder which is also a crime, but a far cry from premeditated murder which is one of the most heinous crimes recognized by the legal system.
I did a year and a half ago before getting too busy with work. I found it to be a bit spartan, but still the most efficient tool for math study I've used.

I was a math major long ago, so it was more a case of relearning than initial learning for me but the built-in SRS helped a lot and so did the granularity of the lessons. It's head and shoulders above Brilliant, IMO.

If it didn't exist or I couldn't afford it, I'd probably go the OpenCourseWare approach. https://ocw.mit.edu/
Before you look into paid options for your tuition needs I'd look into the Khan Academy first. It's free, very high quality and it's more than just math if you want it. Sal Khan is one of the greats and the Khan Academy, together with WikiPedia is one of the best things to come out of the internet.
There’s closure in death.
They (we) were working on that more than 15 years ago with mallet library. Unfortunately some of the drawbacks of public companies are they too focused on the current quarter and all effort is towards increasing EPS
Just self study with the (physical) books. I did also try the ebook combo for the Prealgebra book, but I found typing latex in the answers to the exercises was cumbersome.

I think the online classes with interactive lessons is a separate thing, but I don't have any experience with that.
You misunderstand the problem. There's an 80 page article concerned with the spelling of one word and its inflections.

The typical solution would be to squint at it and write down the classical Greek form. That would be roughly equivalent to me talking English in Holland because I'm shy of Dutch, as a German native.
You're right - it was a lazy swipe at 'move fast and break things' culture but it didn't really land (pardon the pun).
> […] and I get why they are important if you don't know what software is running on your computer.

Side channel attacks are not limited to attackers on the same device. Timing attacks can be remote for instance, and with RSA some operations are slow enough to be noticeable over networks.

> Wouldn't a fuzz tester (comparing your implementation to a known good one) be well adapted to making sure you didn't do it wrong?

Not really. Cryptography is inherently not very conducive to tests, because they can only prove the outcome of specific inputs. You need to be a lot more defensive than that, and use reason, proofs etc to prove properties like “an adversary cannot gain any knowledge about X or Y given that they control Z”.

Of course reimplementing a vetted spec like RSA is better than rolling your own primitives which is beyond doomed. OTOH an opportunistic attacker will probably not bother with a custom crypto - it’s still a lot of work to find the flaws. But once found, game over..
There is a lengthy discussion of this topic in Codebreakers by Kanh.
Curl is now a CVE Numbering Authority
It's really good for its goals. I've used it for a few months and was really happy with the results. The spaced repetition aspect worked perfectly. The courses are still being worked on - already 99% there with quality, but you can report any issues and they get fixed. Just keep in mind that the target is largely students, (at least at the moment) so the aim is mastery of the subject - if you're interested in learning the concept but not actually doing a lot of practice of using it, then it may not be the right service. And there are magic internet points / leaderboards if gamification is something that works for you.

The exercise sizes are also very small almost all the time. That means instead of a whole topic at the time and figuring out where you left the last time, you can do as much as you want at a time and not be restricted by artificial "chapters".
Are you using any of the stuff you're learning for whatever practical 3d game-making things you're working on? Just curious how it's working out, you've picked a pretty broad foundation as a starting point.
How would you defend against such a variant without access to the sequence?
Indeed; it was intended as a joke about 'move fast and break things' culture but didn't pan out very well.
> I may be biased as I am a trained Mathematician, but I always feel when someone says "Math is Hard", that is because they had bad teachers.

You're biased.

I've had excellent teachers, math was - and still is - hard. Especially when you get into the more complex stuff. Not everybody is as gifted at math as you are.
> They could check the birthday of people, train an LLM to differentiate appropriate vs inappropriate comments on children's Instagram posts, and use that to help surface problematic comments. They could bring up a popup asking any child to report the conversation which would be triggered by client-side javascript based on a hashed word list of words commonly used by groomers. They could warn the kids whenever they upload images to share directly in DMs rather than publicly on their insta or fb.

All this reduces engagement.

That is the bottom line. Facebook can do more, but they won't unless something makes them, because it potentially costs billions.

In fact, they seem to lobby for this kind of thing... But only if someone makes all their competitors do that thing as well.
> It is plain why US manufacturing isn't the global top dog.

i do believe the US still does high-end (but low volume) manufacturing. It's just mass manufacturing that went away.
>absolutely true, within the constraints

Basically. Possible geometries relative to site limitations and building codes have been programmatically optimized to death to maximize number of units. There's not much hacking when living room + bedroom need windows. Occasionally there's a plot large enough where carving light wells / atriums makes sense. But developers would rather work on smaller plots that doesnt require wasting interior space, or larger plots where they can fit multiple buildings.
> White space in variable names is a bad idea.

In many contexts yes but as a blanket statement no. Calca allows whitespace in names and it is a delight to write as a result
Depends: I m probably the opposite of someone with autism: I love chatting with strangers, I can dance with girls in clubs until 8am on a whim at the despair of my gf, I m very chatty in general and overshare. I suffer strongly when I see others suffer so I probably have working mirror neurons (empathy). I seek social connections and moved to Hong Kong to be surrounded by dense population rather than feel so lonely in Paris. This immigration adventure was the highlight of my life and I enjoyed tremendously the danger, the unknown, the overloading of things to do and learn.

Yet, I feel connected to monotropism in some way: I can only get interested almost obsessively in one thing at a time and completely forget and disregard anything and anyone else. It s very annoying for people around me and many find me autistic somehow, geeky at best.

All Im saying is, either it s really what a "spectrum" is or it s just a sort of common human traits. Us programmers had to be a bit obsessed with computers to dedicate most of our waking time to it, and everyone here is probably sharing this trait, none of us being really autists and may sound disrespectful or misguided calling ourselves so ?
> It's about using your environment to gain an evolutionary advantage.

I don't think that's right either (it sounds like a description of adaptation), and I don't think your description of LLMs is fair, even though I'm fairly sure they're not AGI and won't scale to AGI.

Intelligence is more like the ability to generalize skills, applying knowledge gained in one scenario to another scenario.
You’d think everyone would understand this by now.
The fire escape can count as a separate staircase too and it can go over windows.
Because these third-party vendors are, most of the time, selling third-party China manufactured stuff at 1/10 of the price they are selling it to you. The problem is that China can't communicate well enough. At least not for niche products.
Why am I not surprised that a marketeer shows up in an 'organic' posting about a company.