skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who would you rather trust to do bounds checking, computers who are zealously good at doing what they are told to do to the point of absurdity or humans who are notoriously bad at following rigorous procedures? I mean, we've seen from several other fields that the only way to get the safety standards of human procedures up is to introduce checklists and get people to rigorously follow them [1].

If you want to elide bounds checks for performance reasons, which is easier: manually verifying for yourself that every single array access is guarded by a bounds check somewhere and ensuring that no subsequent code changes break this verification, or getting the compiler to prove for you that every bounds check can be safely elided?

[1] And of course we still have several issues in fields like medicine where practitioners refuse to adopt this methodology because they find checklists to be an insult to their intelligence.
> Every time I read an article like this, they fail to mention an important factor:

The writers or publishers are knowingly putting out clickbait / ragebait, and people eat it up, even on a forum such as this one filled with somewhat educated individuals.
And maybe that's a good thing? The consensus that something should be done is dangerous. It leads to "something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done", which is terribly flawed logic that leads to terrible things being done.

If all the proposals are brain-dead stupidity, then refusing to pass one is actually Congress doing their job.
> And I find it amusing for folks here to cheer Grovian culture. Andy Grove's management style had all of what people criticize Amazon's culture, on steroids.

People tend to forgive a leader's flaws, including really terrible flaws, if the leader seems to be producing results that people like.
Your are doing "If I can find few counterexamples I debunked your argument."
If I were reviewing AI written code that passes all tests vs reviewing human written code that passes all tests, I think I’d trust the human written code more.
This is really cool! I just uploaded my documentation site that I'm working on. Some quick feedback:

- The "ssh to create account" is cool and I'm thinking of copying this idea. Can you share other feedback you've gotten, is this something people find intuitive?

- The UI for creating an account was slighly non-intuitive: I didn't realize that i could just start typing my username since there wasn't a cursor and there was a default name. It also didn't work very well in the vscode terminal.

- I will probably forget my username. When I exit after creating an account, the contents of the window are lost so I can't even scroll back to write it down. Honestly I'd gladly give my email address (I realize that you're probably intentionally not requiring it but it is an easy thing for me to give if I actually want to use the service.)

- Uploading the site worked but finding the right URL was a challenge. I was able to run the rsync command but it took me a while to figure out what exactly my URL was. I was able to look at the rsync output and conjure that my URL is https://jayhotswap-scratchdata.pgs.sh/public/

- It would be nice if sshing into pgs.sh told me what my sites were.

- I totally respect your pricing at $20/month. Unfortunately - like slices of NYC pizza - static hosting is super super cheap and I'd pay on the order of $5/month or less for it.

Anyway, this is really cool, love that you're building open-source software in go (as I am) that simplifies the entire setup process. Definitely going to copy some ideas here around simplicity!
I don't understand the purpose of the Vision Pro. VR tends to fall into the gaming niche use case. Which the Vision Pro doesn't do well.

The other gimmicks like "big adjustable screen" are still... 2D screens in 3D space, and you still have to mount heavy goggles to your eyes to see. Monitors seem like a simpler way to have big screens. And the Vision Pro limits your Mac extended screen to only 1 external floating screen, for some reason.

If you're traveling, are you really going to carry around a Vision Pro with you, or are you just going to adjust your workflow to use a single screen on your laptop? Alternatively, you could just use a portable monitor for another screen. Those are very cheap and work pretty well.

The closed ecosystem also makes it difficult to be more productive. Fewer desktop apps. And a lot of iPad apps, in which case... why not just use an iPad?

If I'm buying a VR headset I'm buying it for gaming, in which case I'm looking elsewhere.

The Vision Pro seems like a consolation product because Apple couldn't get AR glasses to work. And it doesn't seem to do much of anything useful.

So who are the buyers here?
So I have a question about the audio at the beginning of the video. How low is LEO and how much atmosphere is there? You know, the whole sci-fi movie trope with lasers making noise in space?
The military already plays hot dog or not except they use a 19 year old with a grainy FLIR display to make that judgement today, with the end result being a ridiculous amount of civilian casualties in all modern conflicts. The AI model here can’t come soon enough imo.
Starlink seems to be somewhat limited in using a ~400 km^2 cell of shared bandwidth instead of a 4 km^2 cell typical of older mobile networks, a 0.04 km^2 cell which is more appropriate for newer 5G service, or a 0.0004km^2 wifi cell that covers most of the house.

It's perfect for a sailboat or a wartime forward operating base, but not so much for a city.

That may not be very relevant now, as barely anyone uses Starlink and as their bandwidth needs are 2024 bandwidth needs rather than 2034 or 2044. But eventually, starting with the densest cells, congestion will occur. If your city is tied to an electrical grid, it's not that much harder to run gobs of fiber.

Starlink could shrink cell size with larger antennas (see Starlink 2.0), but I suspect it's abusing the deep magic of phased array antenna gain to expect a many-phased-array-N-to-many-phased-array-M network connection to scale feasibly at high SNR. Just taking a clever mathematical innovation and asking it to do things in too many dimensions with too many orders of magnitude improvements.

ph'nglui Nyquist mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

The problems with physical/geometrical high-gain antennas are not so arcane; I wouldn't be surprised if we go back to dishes or equivalently free-space optical networking for fixed antennas. You could run an almost indefinite number of satellite-client connections simultaneously in something as high-gain as a laser/LED launch telescope.
I got started with short stories and later moved on to novellas, then novels. Now I write a mix of novellas (25000-ish words) and novels (up to 120000 words). I started publishing only on Amazon (in their Kindle Unlimited program, which pays you per page read) and later moved to wide (no longer liked the idea of Amazon exclusivity).

I picked a genre (science fiction romance) and stick within it, but am still not "narrowed down" enough from a business perspective. This takes longer to build traction. There are so many different niches in this genre, that if I could stick to just one of them I'd get momentum faster. But the reason I started doing this was only partly profits - mostly I just wanted to write cool stories - so I don't mind it taking longer.

Perfectionism can be tough to overcome, but I think of it like this: If I don't put out more books and see how they perform, I will never get as close to perfect as I could be. That feedback loop (reviews, profits, rank, whatever measure you care about) is a driver of improved quality and presentation. I always put real effort into my stories of course, but now I look back at the first thing I published and cringe. But if I didn't publish it and learn from it for the next thing, I'd still be writing at that level.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature
> Well... yeah, sure, why not... but it's not very important. Lots of other goals will overshadow this one.

For you. For me having to tinker with a repo full of YAML files just to have a Kafka topic provisioned (like it just happened to me this week) can and has killed motivation to the point of not working at all after, for a day or two.

This stuff should be blindingly obvious, to the point a trained monkey should be able to do it.

I have the feeling that many agents are working against such a goal though. Vested interests and all.

You even kinda sorta agree with me by qualifying your statement with this, right after the previous quote:

> Also, if we are talking in the context of whatever-as-a-service, there's very little incentive to work on the speed aspect as long as it not taking ages.

Maybe to me time_it_should_take == X and to you X times 3 is fine, but in the end the brain schemata is the same: have it take LongEnough™ (subjective value) and the person responsible simply checks out mentally.

If I were a CTO or an IT manager I'd be very worried about stuff like this.

> But having a worthless QA department isn't really something to wish for in Infrastructure 2.0. I don't see how this is a good goal.

This is IMO not at all related to the article, nowadays QA depts are removed either because leadership wants to save money or because iteration would grind to a crawl, and many businesses need the next feature the next Wednesday. Nothing to do with infra management I'd think.

Though don't get me wrong, QA is hugely important per se. But I wonder if proper end-to-end automated frontend testing (e.g. with Playwright) won't eventually make them truly extinct. Who knows. I don't.

> This is such an MBA b/s... Just give it a break.

I'll always despise MBA speak but the point of programmer productivity is important. I have no problem churning out features and fixing bugs but give me a slow bureaucratic process and you'll find out what it's like to pay a salary to somebody who pushes to the GitHub repo 5 times a month with diffs like +30-20.
Did they ever fix the audio quality? It was poor even compared to real world ATC audio.
I mean, literally people with Math PhDs are being paid to work on the product, full-time. And they have a financial incentive to address feedback from customers and try to solve as many problems as possible.

By comparison, open source projects are developed by people with a wide range of knowledge level and commitment, and you simply can't expect the quality to be the same.

I find that discussions on HN often fail to acknowledge that proprietary software is usually extremely good at their domain, and what companies put into UX, support and the development/feedback loop are actually very valuable.
> This marks the first time a commercial company has landed a spacecraft on United States soil.

I'm assuming SpaceX doesn't count somehow? Boosters have landed on soil for sure (well, technically on landing pads), but maybe they didn't become spacecraft.
Can we add jxl to that list? Doesn't have nearly as wide support but you could be part of a turning tide.
Hi Harshit!
My tool does send the image to the LLM and return the output, but it will provide a better way to do it. It will be saved on the web app and it will be shareable. Also, we will be using premium versions of LLMs to make sure they work well.

The trial for the app isn't available yet, but you can give me an image over here or reply below this tweet "https://twitter.com/Adnan_Jindani/status/1762838221577204124" and I will personally send you the output.

In case you want anything else, you can get back to me!
Also, after you buy you will get a personal email to contact me, if you want to and need any help or custom stuff.
There's an interesting phenomenon, where certain keywords in your post will trigger bot rings to advertise their services. Keywords such as: "Crypto", "Metamask", "Hacked", "IPTV".

https://twitter.com/avion19e/status/1761816241390473228
Agreed with the idea that no transformation is instant. This is called "movie time" by Nolan, if I recall. It happens with romances in showing people "get to know each other."

That all said... transformations can happen way faster than people realize. I remember in my 20s I could turn my fitness around stupid fast. Even as an older adult, things can change faster than I would anticipate. You have to treat it like a job, though.
better yet, enact a land value tax, on top of automation taxes, which could probably cover all the needs of society, also have a VAT to get back some of the money doled out, but do away with income taxes. Then of course universal basic income + healthcare should be a given. Then we need to figure out how we can retain value as a society when AI can do most jobs, personally I hope that society devolves into two main professions after that -- entertainers, and scientists. Sure, Super AGI can outthink any scientist, but the more science thinkers the better IMHO. I think a huge swath of society will also be tied up in virtual worlds, which is probably good so we don't tick off a war against AI, if we stay out of each others way, then there's no need for our annihilation, or being turned into a zoo.
The NASA exoplanet visualizer is very cool. Did not know about that. Thanks for sharing. I imagine those hypothetical visualizations will improve over time as our understanding of the exoplanet data gets better. It is amazing what you can derive from a single pixel of light.
> To use, not to collect. And thermodynamics says you can't just store it.

I don't think these semantic games are productive. Thermodynamics says you can transform energy. "Collect" in this context means using energy in a way that allows you to retrieve it in the future. For example, charging a battery or condenser with light with a PV panel, powering a motor that accelerates a flywheel, coiling a spring, heating a material, etc.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39536545

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39531662
I've often wondered what prevents a state like Hawaii from enacting laws to limit the amount of land or homes that non-residents can have. Are there federal restrictions preventing this?
Calendar meeting links used to spread Mac malware
A thermostat would count as an AI to somebody from the 1800s.

My general experience is that AI is just beyond what somebody understands and when they understand how it works they just use a more specific wording.
Elon Musk is Big Tech! He owns Twitter!
I've been really enjoying Oliver Pett's work recently - https://www.tiktok.com/@mechanicalcreations and https://www.youtube.com/@mechanicalOlly1977

He was inspired to start building automata by the Cabaret Mechanical Theater in Covent Garden in the 80s/90s - which was my absolute favourite thing to do in London back then.
towards the end of the paper they mentioned training on 2T tokens.
Absolutely. The documentation is first class, and I took love how easy it is to jump into the source. Often, reading the source helps me understand how a package is meant to be used.

Other ecosystems seem to have a "don't worry yourself about that" approach to viewing a package's source, and it's maddening. In contrast to Go, trying to get from docs to source code in the JVM ecosystem is by no means straightforward.
I agree. I have a Withings Steel HR - it cost $90 in 2020 (early pandemic purchase). The battery takes 10 minutes to charge from 20% to full, and lasts 4 months of constant wearing.

It's what I call a dumb smartwatch. It uses your phone for GPS, and notifications, and things like that. It keeps time on its own, and heart rate monitoring every 5 minutes unless you are in workout mode.
Have you looked at the other watches in the Garmin line? None are omega watches, that's for certain, but different models have different aesthetics
I've heard it called 'ai' before.... But I do not see this at all. Do you think there's any comparison?

Maybe it's a terms thing... Is an image ai? Is a piece of factory equipment?
I think if you treat infinity as a special case of NaN (which it basically is for many math systems), you get the behavior you want. A lot of people think that +/-0 represent +/-epsilon, but they really don't. +0 is the default 0, and -0 is what you get when you underflow specifically from the left.
I hope you'll forgive the nitpick, but those percentiles aren't a measure of consistency, they're a measure of the impact of outliers on the high end. E.g. [30,30,30,30,30,30,30,30,60,60] (8 30's and 2 60's) has the same p90/95/99 as [20,20,20,20,40,40,40,40,60,60] (4 20's, 4 40's, and 2 60's), but they're not equally consistent.

They're probably fine here, because I don't think we actually care about consistency (I wouldn't complain if suddenly half my packets had lower latency) we care about the worst case latency and how often it happens.

Standard deviation is what I'd use if I was measuring consistency.
Thanks for the feedback. We're aware of this issue, and it will be fixed (labeled correctly) in our next release.

Whisper small and base are coming in the next release as well, so look out for that in the next week or two.
The experiences of awakening astronauts get when they see Earth for the first time make sense to me now.
Thanks, I missed that. I can see how that would complicate things.
Those reentered from suborbital trajectories. If reaching space (> 100 km) was necessary, I think even amateur rocket people have achieved that.
This is such a ridiculous way to do, well anything. Especially something that’s supposed to be based on technology and science. It’s how you would sell infomercial products or gas station virility pills.
Huh,
once you add a compiler step to turn normal code into "golfed" code, it feels like a different thing, with the goal being to write a compact bytecode format.

This one seems mostly like a workaround for having to type weird Unicode characters, so it still seem "fair" to me whatever that means.

But I wonder how much a normal java program can be auto golfed by playing with the bytecode output.
It is, someone vouched for that comment and then it was flag killed.
‘Stuck in a time loop’ stories are essentially extended montages where the point is to watch the protagonist repeatedly fail to get it, give up, look for easy ways out, until finally they figure out the redemptive path to escape. In fact the montage trope within such movies is generally the ‘repeated failure in increasingly awful ways’ montage. Groundhog Day culminates its darkest chapter in a sequence of suicide attempts; Edge of Tomorrow has montages of Tom Cruise doing stuff like misremembering whether to go left or right and dying messily. Both also feature days where the protagonist just doesn’t want to do it, and days they try to just sneak away from the challenge.
Due to the higher fidelity scenery in newer flight sims (like MSFS 2020), I like to fly VFR (visual flight rules -- not relying on instruments for navigation, good weather, basically what you see when a typical Cessna 172 flies over your house).

In general, it seems VATSIM is more focused on IFR and people flying routes in airliners from Point A to Point B using various navigation waypoints.

That said, I still wanted to try it out and was really nervous. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos, got everything setup, loaded up on a ramp KBOS with VATSIM coverage in my trusty Cessna 152 and sat there listening to the ridiculous amount of radio traffic. It was pretty awesome.

Finally, I got the courage to make my first radio call and it was insanely nerve-racking! (I recorded a video of my first call, happens at 1:55. Apologies for the bouncy video, was using some head tracking software) [1]:

Me: "Boston Tower, November 112 Charlie Delta, requesting radio check."

Tower: "November 112 Charlie Delta, Boston Tower, you're 5x5, how me?"

Hahaha! That was pretty damn cool!

It felt good to talk to and listen to other people via voice chat in an Internet game without being called some slur, music blasting in the background, or people yelling at their mom to get them Cheetohs.

EDIT: There was a guy awhile back who would stream his VATSIM controller sessions out of KBOS. I haven't seen him online in ages. But I think he was the controller I was talking to. Here is a 10 hour (!) stream of one of his sessions. The dude was amazing. [2]

[1] https://youtu.be/-JTmCG0zeOM?t=95

[2] https://www.twitch.tv/sh3ed/clip/DoubtfulVenomousKittenHumbl...
Reliance, Disney to merge India media assets to create $8.5B powerhouse
So, like, the aliens elected a lizard version of Donald Trump? Make the planets gold and it all tracks.
Yeah... feels like someone isn't familiar with the law of large numbers...
Don't indulge Intel's attempts to erase Cannon Lake from history. The 10nm that Intel shipped in 2019 was significantly scaled back from what they originally planned for their 10nm node, but was still a year later to the market than TSMC N7 and was never good enough to be competitive for desktop CPUs. By the time they had iterated enough to have a new process that could be used to offer faster desktop CPUs than their mature 14nm process, they decided to rename it to "Intel 7" and shipped it at the same time as TSMC N5 products (though still before AMD's N5 products).
In a certain sense, all open models skimp on fine-tuning. Since ChatGPT gets user feedback, OpenAI theoretically sits on a growing pile of data that can be used for continuous fine-tuning and alignment. For local models, you'd have to look for new checkpoints every few months or track good and bad responses and do your own alignment.
Memorize fundamentals and frameworks:

Logic, fallacies, philosophy, and science for arguments

Fundamental algorithms and structures for code

Common joke/meme formats and questions for social skills
Legal Writing That Works (2007)
Consent tea

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Exobo1GmYjs
There is also The Ring in the Xeelee universe - which is millions of lightyears across:

https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ring

Mind you it might not count as it's a means of escape, not a place to live.
Yes, of course. I made a pretty books statement with no support.

My friends who work in public health research despise the foundation because they are absolute gatekeepers on what can and cannot be funded. If you are trying to do research that is not part of the foundations priorities, good luck, they say.

The Foundation is essentially only accountable to themselves and can have global impacts on health research distribution. A recent example is that their whims affected the speed and distribution of COVID vaccines.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandem...
Legible, are you sure? (2012)
Fortunately, it's not a very big N. ;)
Then there is a preacher friend of mine who is a big runner. One Sunday he was traveling in Greece and is route home from church happened to cross the Marathon (the original marathon route!) around mile 22, so he jumped in the race there ran a few blocks while making his way across the street and then continued on to wherever he was supposed to be. He can now tell people he has run in "the marathon". He didn't run the whole thing and since he is a preacher he will never have Sundays free (even on vacation he will be at Church somewhere) - but since he has put in the training effort he can claim to have run in the Marathon and we all feel amusement at his story (and maybe pity)
The full email is at the bottom of this article, do the other FANG ceos not send bland, corporate emails to staff or something?:

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2024/google-ceo-sundar...
Eventually Red Bull is going to sponsor somebody to do this.
Interesting, I asked how to make bread and the explanation was good (in a nerdy view)
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
It must be a fundamental law of nature that the organisms with the smallest brains are the loudest.
I think the inferior of Rust vs C could be "over checking" ?
I believe so. I was speaking generally.
The pricing is $20/year if I'm not mistaken.