skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the stars, in conjunction with the planets, can give you a half decent fix.

What was lacking then was precision. The landers from the 60s (Soviet and US) targeted landing areas that were massive. You basically ensured that the initial descent trajectory would intersect a certain area (using ground-based orbit determination) and the terminal landing sequence just ensured a soft-landing ... wherever that might be.

What is even more impressive is that they did all that without any digital computer on board. For example, in the Surveyor lander, the landing guidance was made up of analog electronics, using the radar signals to command a thrust-vector and throttle to the gimbaled rocket engines. Here is an interesting read about NASA's surveyor probe, if you want to know more: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147466701...

In contrast, the new commercial landers are trying to land at very precise locations within hundreds, if not tens of meters of a certain point. And they are doing that with a fraction of the budget of the programs from the 60s. For example, the entire Surveyor program (with 7 landers) cost ~$469 million in 1966. That is nearly 4.5 billion in 2024 dollars with a large part of that going into R&D. The IM-1 lander in contrast, was awarded $118 million. The Japanese SLIM lander cost $121.5 million.

So for what they have, they are doing really well!
In an "anything's possible" sense then yeah. But the fact that FB was not letting me login with the credentials I knew to be correct was directly attributed to a global outage, rather than a me-specific issue. Which I can now verify by checking the devices that are authorised to my account.
taking the coattails of your comment with great artists to throw out The Bad Plus. Fantastic body of work, highly creative and absolutely rocking jazz band. Granted, I'm most familiar with their Ethan Iverson discography. Dave King (drummer) is exciting as hell to watch.

To the uninitiated but curious - start with their mind blowing covers and branch out from there.
are they still the commercial affiliate of the CompVis group at Ludwig Maximillian University?
I have mostly worked in creating automation tools in Python(scrapers, bots, etc) and since the inception of chatGPT I have tried to use LLMs in existing solutions; obviously for automation purposes. Like recently I integrated a few customGPTs with web applications as currently GPTs do not support monetization nor you can distribute to others(unless the other person have a GPT4 account). If you opt for this route then there is definitely a need. Frameworks like CrewAI and langchain agents are going to help businesses to automate their internal processes.
You need at least sun direction, temperature and humidity sensors and reasonable software behind them to have good automatic AC.

Basic thermostat is somewhere in center console, which doesn't help much if your chest is blasted with sun. Also temperature you feel is different depending on humidity.
> Is it worth entering the field today starting from scratch?

Here's a personal anecdote: I'm only really good / competent in technical areas that truly interest me.

In technical areas that I've pursued only for career / money reasons, my performance has been sub-par. Especially when compared to that of developers who are truly interested.

I don't really know how much my experience generalizes to other developers. Maybe it's related to my ADD.
It's probably simply efficiency. You can check an entire pipeline faster from space than from the air, and from the air vs. the ground. Those efficiencies save a fair bit of money, and probably also lead to earlier detection.

And while they are expensive, we're talking about low single-digit millions of dollars for a satellite which has a lifespan of 5+ years. Relatively inexpensive for the companies who would want to use them.
And compatible!
All that's fine, but totally misses the point.

Take a look at https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ ; scroll down to the comments.

"SSH and Dbconnect stopped on all of my EC2 instances. Anyone else?"

"I can't add a payment method"

The chart shows a big spike this morning, but there was no AWS outage, nor does Amazon use Facebook login.

Again, DownDetector can be a useful "is something unusual happening right now" signal, but it'd be a mistake to take its attribution at face value.
Many people who love flying really love flying. I once met an extremely attractive woman who was a pilot. The problem was that flying is all she ever wanted to talk about. (I should say that that's just a problem for me. If I loved flight too then I'd be head over heels.)
Announced today, support ends same day in 2025.
The kind of GPGPU code where the language is a thin architecture agnostic layer over the opcodes is how most GPU code (eg shaders used in graphics applications) are implemented. This is also how OpenCL, Vulkan Compute etc do their thing. This approach requires a lot of boilerplate and babysitting, but works well for relatively short bits of code.

CUDA is much higher level. It's roughly on par with a "C++ is C with classes" level in terms of language capability. This makes it much easier to develop complex applications. The C compatibility means that you can reuse the exact same code between CPU and GPU in many cases. It eliminates a lot of boilerplate, since you don't need to manage your data in as much detail (eg, while you still have to make sure your pointers are valid for the GPU, the code for uploading the function arguments is generated by the CUDA compiler).

The value add that makes CUDA especially strong is all the first party libraries which have been carefully optimized and have widespread and proven long term support.
I bet journal editors and reviewers share this tendency, so that papers favoring men are less likely to be published, and that professors who want to be published tend to avoid submitting such papers. I also wonder if the tendency is weaker among Republicans than Democrats in the U.S., since Republicans are more likely to believe that the problem of sex discrimination has largely been solved and may be less likely to worry about potential harms from research favoring men.
For modifying text or configs on a remote machine? No. I'm still using vim for those tasks until neovim somehow becomes standard on servers.

I've never really used it for any kind of serious programming as trying to twist a modal text editor into an IDE by propping it up with all sorts of plugins cost me so much time that I just abandoned that thought.

I just use the usual IDEs for their respective languages (pycharm for python, intellij for Java, visual studio for C#/dotnet, etc).

However, I am giving the helix editor a go for programming since I still like vim movements and while helix has their own set of movement keys, it's pretty nice. It also has LSP built-in but I found it way easier to setup for programming than vim/nvim.
I am also a member of a credit union that I also like, https://www.mycfcu.com/
WSL is used heavily inside MS. It’s not going anywhere.
Python Gevent in practice: common pitfalls to keep in mind
Amazon quality control is very bad. Don’t mind paying a little extra at Best Buy, Target, or Walmart if I could avoid poor QC.
Twas brillig...
I've been repeatedly disappointed in the build quality of the X1 series. My last one had cheap USB C sockets which wore out to the extent that it made charging impossible. The one prior to that had severe coil whine. I'm back on Macs despite preferring Linux to macOS.
Cuda is big deal because it works on every nv hw. Plus theyvhave fine tuned sw that utiluzes hw to max.

Amd doesn't. Go watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPinFkavsrk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqPIOtUkxNo

That is an attempt to avoid buggy amd implementation and go closer to hw. Everything crashes (kernel), their own demos lock up the card and so on.
I drove stick for most of my early driving years, and they were all over the place.
I find myself more upset with AMD for completely dropping the ball on firmware and software. Almost intentional levels of incompetence.
Exactly. I love the car in so many other ways that it just really makes some decisions stand out as ridiculous. Why try and skimp $50 manufacturing cost on stalks and sensors in a $50k vehicle when it's otherwise such a great car?

Ultimately poor wiper controls and fixed headrests are hardly the end of the world, but they could trivially make it so much better...
> Windows Subsystem for Android™ enables your Windows 11 device to run Android applications that are available in the Amazon Appstore.

This seems so niche it is not a huge surprise they are ending support. Though at the same time, the initial article is from August of last year so it had a very short life.
Yeah I figured long ago that they're just going to chase the next big thing marketing thing over and over forever. Fine, more room for competition in the CDN/DNS/WAF market for companies that still care about that sort of thing.
Curious what do you buy from temu.

I’ve always wondered who’s buying 2 dollar shoes
They killed any possible interest in this by going with the Amazon app store instead of Google Play.

They also did a horrible job of advertising it. This is the first I've heard about it from Microsoft since the feature first rolled out in Windows 11 2.5 years ago.
As long as it runs with an i2pd service in the same easy way as irc/usenet or email, I'm sold.
Sometimes that action is called "humility"
Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers' Historic Victory
That is not how contract law works...
Indeed. Code describes how something is done, and possibly what is done, but it seldom fully describes why something is done, or why code exists in the first place.

The latter is typically the realm of requirements, design documentation, and possibly test plans.

Generating such documentation from code seems quite impossible, or at least wrong.

It is unfortunate that most open source software is lacking in such documentation, giving off bad signals to junior developers.

Edit: not to take away from the product being discussed here, which seems very useful! I am merely supporting the parent here.
The Metaverse engineers and AI researchers don't actually run the infrastructure, but by all means, keep shitposting. It's so clever.
That's a stretch, I don't see tech giants as religious vehicles.
> all I see is fear of the unknown.

What's the unknown ? We're doing what we've been doing for 100 years, but this time "it's clean we swear"...

Run the maths on what 2b+ vehicles represent, making them electric makes it ever so slightly better but still a far cry from clean. And that's not even touching the topic of mining, processing, recycling, &c.

https://eurometaux.eu/media/20ad5yza/2022-policymaker-summar...
Didn’t take long.
That video is wonderful. And thanks for all the other information as well, it's very helpful.
https://www.becu.org

You get a free set of bolts with every new account.
How these satellites work (full text):

"Mapping methane point emissions with the PRISMA spaceborne imaging spectrometer" (2021)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00344...

> "The retrieval of methane from space measurements typically relies on spectrally-resolved measurements of solar radiation reflected by the Earth's surface in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) part of the spectrum (~1600–2500 nm). Methane presents two absorption bands in this region, a weaker one around 1700 nm and a stronger one around 2300 nm. Carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and especially water vapor also present optical activity in the SWIR (see Fig. 1)"
The work seems to be exclusively about using openAI apis and hacking response pipelines together, but the hiring processes are focused on getting ML specialists.

So yea, it’s weird
I don't really think so; what's in dispute isn't the bytecode translation, it's locking the higher-level library IP to hardware. This would be like Google saying "you can only run our Android applications on a Google-approved phone," which my understanding is, they do when it comes to their Play frameworks and things like Maps.
>> Should I in fact be keeping up with the latest RAG techniques (which seem to change every time a new foundational model gets released)?
>> Should I just stay out of the whole thing and double down on classical ML applications in my domain?

Thank you. Both questions are what I'm wondering right now.
everything there is true of course-for others curious on the details of "initially":

> It will cost $99 per year after the company’s promotional period, which ends May 18. Customers who have a Target Circle credit card will be able to pay the lower price of $49 per year beyond that.
> enables your Windows 11 device to run Android applications that are available in the Amazon Appstore

This might be the crux of it. Google probably will never port the Play store to Windows, MS doesn't want to maintain their own Android app store, and Amazon is a competitor with a pretty uncompelling app store to boot.
I'm using it from time to time. A lot of consumer equipment nowadays can only be operated with Android and iOS apps. For all those things I need WSA the Apps are off course not available in the official Amazon App Store, so i had to manually download them from f-droid and side load them with ADB.

I can see why WSA is not such an often used subsystem.
That's a lot of releases for a dead software. I had 5 bug fixes releases for a software that is in pre beta release stage ;)
Cofounder of Greptile here, good documentation is not going anywhere. What we do hate is going through bad documentation to find the tiny bit of information we need that is more often than not outdated to fit our needs. We are looking for ways to integrate information not explicitly written in code to understand codebases as well.
Even if they had, they agreed to a specific version, not all future versions. That's why the EULA comes up again and again if it changes.

Or am I totally wrong here?
I am English, and spend a fair bit of time in France.

In France particularly, the state is aggressively secular. They go out of their way to ensure no religion has any footing in any part of government and this occasionally makes it hard to be religious if you're unable to wear the expected garb or paraphernalia at school or at your government job.

The French have a long history of not wanting a single unimpeachable ruler. God just isn't welcome.
Damn, 49euro/month seems downright reasonable. I used to pay more, a decade ago, for a student ticket in Australia.
Congrats on shipping. Do you have a write up with more detail on your approach to coding using ChatGPT?
Perhaps there are important reasons why they are #1 and #2?
The short answer is to measure methane you rely on methane absorption features. To do that you need to be looking at a source through the methane plume, from a satellite this source is the ground. From a ground instrument you can use the sun as a source, but it limits the times of day/direction/location you can measure from.
> isn't a decentralized system

That's right, logically centralized and physically distributed (on our cloud infrastructure). The open-source kernel will likely include a filesystem driver for local disk instead of cloud storage (which is more convenient for self-hosting) with the option to also use cloud storage provided by puter.com.

Storage limits for puter.com start at 500MB for new users, with the ability to gain 1GB of storage by referring users (you and the user referred each get +1GB).

Static sites will be available until you decide to remove them.
Previously, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39583349. A single comment, and not listed on https://news.ycombinator.com/invited
Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character
AMD is just as fabless as NVIDIA, both compete for production capacity, and eventually TSMC etc will get around to producing more chips than the market will want to buy.
Seconded, I think. I've been very happy with my Valve Index, but I don't know how it compares to newer headsets on the market.

More broadly, I find that Valve represents my interests far more than Facebook/Meta does. So I'd much rather send my money to Valve.
Eesh I thought it was a hacking situation.
A story about 2 big egos.
A waste of time.
Lawmakers seek to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face US ban
World on brink of fourth mass coral reef bleaching event, NOAA says
Funny enough I recently came across this video [1] about ultra-processed foods maybe being labeled "predigested". It sort of got me thinking but makes an interesting point that if you take a basic ingredient like a potato and break it down into a starch slurry it does sound like it has been pre-digested.

1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz2WR6tVg5E&t=308s
Well it worked for Russia, didn't it.
The author discusses solving linear least squares problems using the normal equations. Often they are solved in numerically more accurate ways.
I use this ffmpeg command line:

ffmpeg -i "$input" -vf scale=w=640:-1 -b:v 200k -maxrate:v 400k -bufsize:v 1000k

Which scales the video to a width of 640 and tries to hit a bitrate of 200 kbit/s, peaking to 400 kbits/s. Definitely avoids frame skipping and makes hoarding much easier due to smaller file sizes.

Probably not what you were asking for if you're dissatisfied with 1080p downloads, but I thought I'd mention it anyways.
I don't think the article is meritless, it needs it's title adjusted to something less inflamatory. "Deepfake porn ruins lives and the law has to catch up".

Here is a link to the report the author references. https://www.homesecurityheroes.com/state-of-deepfakes/

A few interesting points - 74% of deepfake porn watchers feel no remorse, but 73% would want to report it to the authorities if it was someone close to them.

South Korea produces a large amount of deepfake porn ~50% and the top 8 of 10 subjects are South Korean singers.
We have lots of those. But memory is only one resource to manage. What does it offer for the rest?
Are you aware of instruction start and end tags like Mistral has? Do you think that sort of thing has good potential for ignoring instructions outside of those tags? Small task specific models that aren't instruction following would probably resist most prompt injection types too. Any thoughts on this?
awesome! congrats on the launch
Are you in a rent-controlled apartment? It seems an ok price for a single room available now, but not an easy price to get for a new arrival in Berlin.
I only took a brief look, but from an API perspective, this seems identical to "normal" garbage collectors? In the sense that from the programmer's perspective, all the allocations live forever?
Edit: sounds like I'm probably just wrong and spreading misinfo here, nvm

The irony here is that Germany's "green" party shut down all their nuclear powerplants and replaced them with natural gas from...drumroll...Russia, and can now only support their industry with lignite (cough, coal) which is horrible for the environment.

There are strong arguments that the greens were manipulated by FSB, for so perfectly did they sabotage their own economy and industrial base as the new Russian imperalist period has evolved.
Nissan drops app support for the original Leaf
HN is for real discussion, not quipy Reddit comments.
indeed, and that goes into the heart of it.

ie, things we construct by the computer are deterministic. the turing machine (and other equivalent models like the lambda calculus etc) being the canonical machine that models our computations. Arguably, all human knowledge is symbolic and determistic - even though it may model probabilistic phenomena.
I have an open-source project that is similar to this. Its purpose is to allow easy creation of an off-grid digital library. It can automatically download videos, archive web pages, PDFs, etc. It has a global search which searches all your files, as well as any Zim files you have downloaded (Wikipedia, etc). It also uses OpenStreetMap to display a map which renders the map tiles offline.

I would love more people to use it! Check it out: https://wrolpi.org

https://github.com/lrnselfreliance/wrolpi
IIRC it didn't even ship with the original Windows 11 release and was a year behind or so. Did it ever even get out of beta?

This was the only feature of Windows 11 that was remotely interesting to me. I guess I don't have to worry about missing out on anything avoiding 11 now.
Badlands
Yeah, but it's not explictly called out in the rules. And it's sad that HN readers take "free" over "quality."
Make sure you know the cost to serve that 2MB MP3, especially if you're go viral.
SW here to second this comment as well as note that while deepfake porn seems to disproportionately target women, it has the capacity to do so to anyone and the article doesn't seem to use that frame of reference either. Reducing the problem to something "tech bros" need only to pay attention to is not helpful and arguably counter-productive.
> a personal non-ML related project

Not everything is DNNs and tensors...

As for the Stable Diffusion thing, a silly edge case - because MIOpen (and therefore PyTorch-on-ROCm) doesn't work on Windows yet (they're slated to ship it next month, I think).
Literally yes he is. You can argue about whether this should be enforced, but by the text of the contract, it is not allowed.
Really good q I'm shocked too. Riffing:

Without Play Store it's not viable/interesting. Also, it's so. much. work. keeping up with Android releases, even inside Google. Wear and ChromeOS are always a version or two behind, and vast majority of the time, it is two versions.

If Google internally wasn't helpful enough to each other, I can't imagine they played nice with Microsoft on this.

The broad business war means there's no incentive for VPs to drive it.

Technical challenges via CTS* mean there's no incentive for 1-3 steps up the org chart to enable it.

The narrow-er business challenge of not having the Play Store is the final nail for any cooperation. I don't think Google is interested in proactively collaborating unless you do CTS.

* Android's CTS, compatibility test suite, has to be passed to get the Play Store, and broadly, it is organized around individual device launches, rather than a subsystem than can run on any hardware.

(n.b. I worked on Wear then Android at Google, 6 years total)
It's odd how people's lives have different value. Four random guys get injured and we brush it off. If one of those guys happened to be Prince William then it could start a war. Just odd.
Machine learning engineer. Other titles have AI engineer in them. Roles encompass everything needed to try to get open LLMs to do a specific task, so hosting, evaluation, prompt tweaks, writing harnesses. We do some data generation and fine tuning but it is less common.
The law cannot catch up without a constitutional amendment. Bernstein v DOJ protects software as speech, and Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition protects art as speech.
I followed the link because I was curious and it still said processing, so I navigated to the homepage and clicked "Try a popular repo" leading to <https://app.greptile.com/chat/3t4qpefuh9eqckcdt0b8i?repo=pos...> which then said "We couldn't access this repo." It seems the actual syntax is app.greptile.com/chat/github/postgres/postgres -> https://app.greptile.com/chat/lfbc034nkj7w03v2kb5zp?repo=git... so wherever that list of "popular repos" is coming from needs to be updated to avoid other people having bad first experiences

It also appears that the vote buttons do nothing if one is not logged in, so I'd recommend eliding them unless logged in since it's just frustrating to wonder if some JS error ate the vote or what
> do you really think there are masses of people who can’t tell the difference between a single sign on service being down and individual sites being down and reporting it to downdetector?

Yes, absolutely. 100%.

> Even if there were doesn’t the outage graph give you exactly the information your asking be curated?

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

Was there an AWS outage this morning? The graph sure looks like it, but there wasn't.