skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I am seeing so many cool ideas. Thanks for yet another awesome idea. Would you be interested in this if there was an audiogram and with better podcast options? I have got a whole lotta ideas from this thread, so I am definitively going to make this more flexible!
It's wild that the government supports businesses that write terrible software by charging people with felony charges for exploiting that software on their behalf. When do the companies bear the responsibility for the software they put out in the world.

Now the counterexample is that 'well this is no different than if an employee left the front door of the gas station unlocked and someone stole from it', but there has to be a line where if an exploit is so easy that all it takes is double scanning your card you should be able to use it all you want - it's on the company to do QC and fix the issues.
The article is pretty light on facts. I wish there was some real analysis here. There's no shame in going to CSU traditionally; lots of great schools in the system and certainly fine alumni.
Ha, I was a Domino person for WAY longer than anyone should have been. Even ran a modern SaaS off of it with a React front-end. I KTed it off to a new dev team just last year, believe it or not.

Because you are absolutely correct - while the client side of that platform was a disaster, the underlying database and its built-in everything was a powerhouse. We ran about 50 million daily requests to the databases, and although we did load balance it to multiple data centers, we also tested it successfully all running off a single server.

Not that I recommend it today - too little talent who knows it, too much baggage around the bad UX from people who don't actually know it, the wrong pricing, and while it does scale quite well up to tens of millions of records and requests, it gets complex after that point, requiring integration with external resources to hold indexes, etc, so even if you did scale it to billions, you've lost that "one server to rule them all" concept that made it so easy to work with.

All that being said, the killer feature of it was how baked in auth was - It had groups, roles, and granular security baked into the platform, even down to field-level security and encryption. So anywhere you wanted to write code, you knew exactly who the user was and what access they had. Everything else about that platform is sufficiently replicated in modern frameworks, except for that

To bring this nostalgic review back to the current point, if I wanted to build a low-code system that would truly meet a variety of use cases, that is were I would focus - auth.
one year ago I was thinking about ~10 years and at least safe 5 years. Considering how it's all progressing right now and we had chatGPT just 15 months ago I think you might be right or salaries will get reduced significantly.
"Boards are invested in their C.E.O.s until they're not." [Boeing]
Or, and hear me out on this, maybe I want to make useful apps that don't data mine their users and I also would like not to take donations. This is a valid want to have (and I honestly can't believe you would suggest to 'just' sell out your users) and it would take a single app getting popular (or apple just straight up lying, I would have no way of verifying their count) to wipe out all of my capital.

It's 'nice' that there exists options to pay for the fee, but realistically the fee shouldn't exist, and it is also illegal.
Embeddings and vector stores wouldn't have taken off in the way that they did if they didn't actually work.
The headline could read: Parents and children are waking up to the student loan con game.
How can you tell the difference?
That's fine, but once one assumes the impact of this technology is wholly without precedent then they're left speculating about a future informed only by their own imagination.

They'll always be able to re-affirm their own preconceptions (fears) because its the "just so" fantasy future of their own making.

I don't see the point of coming to HN to trade those invented stories, as people here traditionally push to stay within the engineer's realm of how real things work, how they fit into the history of innovation, and what people might practically build with those things based on how they work.

There are countless speculative fiction communities better suited to idle "yeah, but what if the sky was purple tomorrow?" discussions.
I've never seen an extended-stay hotel in a neighborhood that I would visit for leisure. They're usually in pretty ugly, utilitarian spots - off a cloverleaf or behind a strip mall - serving business travelers.
[dupe], discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39675735

The twitter post adds no new information and poorly links to the same paper.
Currently impossible.

We have no idea what technology will exist in say, 300 years.
most languages don't even have a specification.
I don't really care about iMessage or iCloud. Yes the blue text looks nicer and the quality of images in messages is a little better, but it's not a deal breaker if I'm messaging an Android user. I have less than a gigabyte of stuff in iCloud and I don't know how it got there.

I use iPhones because they're smaller than Android phones. Would I like it if Apple still made phones in the form factor of the iPhone 4 or 5? Absolutely. Should the government force Apple to do that? Probably not.
I buy the semaglutide as a research peptide and manage my own dosing based on symptoms and ended up at 0.25mg per week which is a low dose but also makes it very cheap. I appear to be much more sensitive than most and I consider it a very strong drug. I was researching it for personal use before the ozempic craze but it was hard to get dosing and safety data - additionally if I had worrisome complications it would be hard to find a doctor that understood the medication. Now those issues have been fixed. I think more people would benefit from much lower doses for longer - alongside diet and lifestyle changes. Chronic GI issues are definitely something that should be avoided and I think lower dosing helps with that.
Lucas Pope's Mars After Midnight Released
Okay but money laundering is https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1956
I like the idea of this and I'll probably use it. But what I really want to know is when my extensions are updated. Some extensions will open an information page when this happens, but I want a browser setting to let me know when any extension updates.

I know there is a setting to not auto-update on an case-by-case basis, as browsers auto-update extensions by default as a security measure. In that case, an alert that there are updates would be welcome.

Any solution to this, or am I missing a setting somewhere? (On Firefox or Chrome)
350k H100 cards, around ten billion dollars just for the GPUs. Less if Nvidia gives a volume discount, which I imagine they do not.
Yeah that's fair, it does seem like Bebop and capnp are targeted at different use cases, even if they're both Protobuf alternatives.

It obviously doesn't make sense to benchmark a JavaScript Bebop implementation against a C++ Cap'n Proto implementation, nor does it make sense to compare against a JS Cap'n Proto implementation written by a third-party contributor that is incomplete and unmaintained... so there isn't really a sensible comparison to make.
It helps if you file bugs in Bugzilla. You can link to them here, there's a good chance a developer will find them.
what's a "demographic cliff"?
I mean, "some degree of proficiency" means the person self-reported "at least minimal proficiency." I could achieve minimal proficiency through a few hours of language tapes.
An array of 4D points implies some sort of construct upon which the points exist. As far as I know, the that was the concept of "the ether" and that fell out of fashion long ago.

So again, how can you tell the difference between space expanding or two things actually just moving away from each other (to keep it to a very simple example of two bodies).
How were able to detect the subsonic sound?
Reddit, AI, and Advertising – The IDK IPO
Interesting. How does it compare to Slice?

https://docs.icerpc.dev/slice2
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679787
"self inflicted gunshot wound"
There is a comment below pointing to STL himself saying that it is https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/151cnlc/a_safety_cultu...

He doesn't cite it, but if there's anyone I'd trust to have correct information here, it's him.
Not worse than any other type of ads.
I understand that concept. I'm asking, how can you materially tell the difference?
Also useful to keep in mind is that predictions can become more accurate without necessarily improving in precision.
The reality is there is no perfect solution.

But people, like myself, bought an iPhone knowing about the App Store and the restrictions it has. If I wanted a more open platform I could have gotten an Android phone.

Those restrictions do not harm me.

What would harm me is apps suddenly not being available through the App Store because developers are the one that choose to distribute on another store.

Which again is not a hypothetical concern when you look at Fortnite.

That isn't giving me more choice, that is giving the developer a choice and I just have to choose if I want to follow along or not if I want to use a specific app.

Would it be great if I really did have that choice and every app was still available on the App Store and I could use Apple's billing if I want. Yes! And if that was the case I would not care at all. But it's clearly not going to be that case for at least one app and possibly others if it becomes normalized.

The most likely reality is that it will be a developers choice not the users, if an App Store from Facebook or Epic become big enough why would they force themselves to play by Apple's rules?
CSU is the cheaper state university system in California. It costs like $6,000 per year for in-state students. If they were waking up to the con game, more would be going there.
From the article:

>Devin correctly resolves 13.86%* of the issues end-to-end... previous state-of-the-art of 1.96%."

While the cliff everybody will be shoved off is coming closer, it still seems engineers have plenty of room to do their job. Whether the next shove will come in months or years it is still early to tell.
If we got universal basic income, people could do whatever they want. I for one would be content spending my time gardening and trekking in the nature. I despise office work and do it only for money.

It's forcing the rich to give us UBI that is the problem.
I've seen variations in weather literally 10 miles apart. With torrential rain at work and nothing at home.

I can't see how any weather predictor could be correct in that situation.
Bicycle 0.2.0 adds support for WebAssembly SPROCs
Almost certainly modern industrialized dominates ... by far.

And this has issues in more than just "highly processed". Listeria is also an issue.

Finding a deli that makes their own meat is practically impossible nowadays.
Oh yes, it's ridiculously unlikely. Just the point is there are lots of ways for the timing to be not a coincidence, yet the death still a suicide.
A sudden lack of population at certain ages.
You misspelled "Human Right"
> As important as it is to entirely eliminate one "critical" class, as important it is to realize even with that gone, bugs/issues/security problems will remain.

Sure. Nobody believes that memory safety is the sole security issue. Or at least, no serious people, or any of the organizations doing advocacy around this issue.
as I don't believe in the genetic transfer, the only other way it seems to be is that the older rats would be telling youngsters a tale of "a shiny prongy thing which gives a painful scare on touch", and such possibility seems very fascinating for me.
I'm not suggesting great work didn't go into this, but I was able to build a very crude version of this on GPT 3.5. It was evident then that the real power of these models isn't in chat, but in a sandboxed environment where they can recursively iterate on solutions and feedback from their sandboxed environment. I was able to feed mine small applications with bugs and have it comb through and find the bugs, write and apply solutions, write tests for solutions, etc.

Adding features was too hard to implement in my limited spare time, but was clearly possible. I would have needed some form of test running for UIs or CLIs, and I wasn't prepared to go that deep on a project I wasn't going to get much out of.

It was crude and overly specific to what I was trying to get it to do, but it worked well enough to convince me that someone smarter than me could make a capable and truly useful version of it that could actually impact the industry meaningfully.
We should have listened to the doomsayers. Our llama-conomy has become over-taxonomic of our resources, and now we’re going to have to reboot the whole system!

We didn’t listen. We didn’t listen!! ;)

The actual topic is interesting, but yes I definitely thought the same as you.
Like NFTs
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/...

Take a look at the 20-24 and 15-19 age groups. Note that 15-19 is smaller, and consider that members of that age group will move up to the next group over the next 5 years. They're also entering typical college age. Now, in this chart, it's far from a "cliff", but it is smaller, so that would mean that you could reasonably expect a lower enrollment since that age bracket is smaller than those that came before it.
Yeah, Dark Reader is known to totally plummet Firefox performance.

Not sure if it's a coding issue in the Firefox version of Dark Reader, or it's hitting some slow path in Firefox itself.
In-state tuition for the CSUs is on the order of $13,000/yr. I don't think an aversion towards student loans explains this.
That's not "all embeddings", that's just implementations like word2vec/fastText. And even though they are fast, they both don't get context as well and require significant preprocessing (e.g. stemming/stop word removal).

Implementations that use a LLM require a full forward pass, but the many optimizations in inference speed make it not noticable for small applications.
That’s why I hope they compete hard in the AI-in-your-pocket space. Seems like they got the hardware talent to make that happen (software-wise I’m not so sure, but at least it sounds like they focus a bit more on that now the car project is dead). I want Apple to win by selling expensive devices, not by collecting 30% fee on minors gambling for loot boxes.
This makes sense. I have fairly good L2 German production, but I go from conversant to barely coherent when fatigued. My L1 English production diminishes, but not nearly as much. Likewise, my friends who speak English as an L2, even those who have spoken it with a strong command for over a decade, will struggle when very tired. Though we usually speak in English (her English is way better than my German), I've had a German friend ask me to switch a few times when she was very stressed or tired. She speaks at least five languages, with English being her most fluent after German.

That said, I'm most interested in the follow-up research mentioned at the end of the article.

> They also plan to study people who learned one language from infancy but moved to the United States at a very young age and began speaking English as their dominant language, while becoming less proficient in their native language, to help disentangle the effects of proficiency versus age of acquisition on brain responses.
> thin disc shape bullets

Very powerful fans blowing in the direction of the flat side
>There's no shame in going to CSU traditionally; lots of great schools in the system and certainly fine alumni.

Nonsense. Everyone knows that CSU grads are viewed as strictly second tier to UC grads in this industry, even though CSU standards are higher than just about any other state university. It's the most pathetic and meaningless form of credentialism I've ever seen, but don't pretend like it isn't the case. Even Merced is seen as above Cal Poly.
> No, it's not, it's our best current model's description of the actual physical reality of our universe.

OK, it's our best model, but it doesn't invalidate other models, less complete or less popular, it compete with them.

> That's true, but it's also true that we can show models to be incorrect, as in, falsified by the data.

Yep. The article is about the Huble Tension, which invalidates Big Bang model. We still use it.

> the second is known to be false because there is no "gravitational redshift" of light in the universe as a whole (because models in which there would be such a redshift are known not to correctly model our data on the universe as a whole)

The Big Bang model is incomplete too: galaxies with FTL speeds, different speeds of expansion, no center of bang, no flows, no source of energy, it stretches time and space, etc.

I assume that the only infinite thing in infinite Universe is Universe itselft. All other things are finite. Thus, a photon has finite life, like any other wave.

> there is no "end of the medium"

The right-hand rule in EM suggests that we are in north hemisphere of something, so south hemisphere will have symmetrical rule, unless you believe that God chose right-hand rule for the whole infinite universe. If we are in a sphere, then that sphere rotates and have a boundary.

> what "waves" is the electromagnetic field.

"Field" is an array of numbers. You are mixing model and reality.
> Could you talk more about correct hypotheses resulting in loss in trading?

Not the person you are asking, but I can answer this.

You can have a correct hypothesis, but still fail if enough market participants had the exact same hypothesis that they acted on. Because it would lead to the effects of that hypothesis being priced-in.

Made up example: you have a hypothesis that a seemingly unrelated event A will lead to a price increase in sesame seed futures, so you decided to purchase them (expecting them to go in price due to event A, so that you can sell it later at a profit).

The issue you might encounter is that many other market participants recognized the potential effects of event A, so when you buy those sesame seed futures, that potential profit from event A is already priced-in (due to others recognizing it and trading accordingly, thus increasing the price of the futures by the time you buy it, which means that the future gain you expect on those futures has already happened), so you won’t make any gains from that.

As a bonus, if that event A doesn’t manage to factually affect sesame futures once it happens, or it won’t happen at all, you can expect the priced-in portion of the futures’ value pretty much vaporize. Which makes it really lucrative to trade against priced-in events, but it is also risky.

You might ask “but wouldn’t that mean that almost everything is priced-in”, and the answer is “kinda yes”, which is where the origin of the “everything is priced-in” meme comes from (note: it isn’t really true, but it is also really kinda is true).
> Intellectual property has no reason to exist

Intellectual property is a very weird construct. Imagine if we had Star Trek-style replicators, and in principle there was no scarcity of, say, diamond rings, but we passed a bunch of laws which forced you to pay $10,000 if you wanted a diamond ring.

But we do have Star Trek-style replicators for information!! So why do we take something which has no intrinsic scarcity, and impose this whole edifice copywrite, patents, etc, to artificially create scarcity, and make it property?

Because private property is how we keep score: you can get stuff you want if you make enough stuff that other people want. Market prices--how much you have to pay for stuff--is how we collectively decide what kinds of stuff other people want.

We have no other way of 1) signaling what kinds of stuff we want produced, or 2) motivating people to produce the stuff that everybody else's actually wants. Or, at least, it's the best way we've found to predict and plan what to do, without wasting effort and resources on stuff nobody wants.

We don't have to do it this way. Richard Stallman suggested a software tax: 2-3% of society are good programmers, so if we taxed society 2-3% of GDP, and distributed it to all good programmers, we could just let them work on whatever they wanted as long as they gave it away freely.

It's a great idea really. At least we wouldn't have the best computer science minds furiously working on how to make us doom scroll. But it's fair to ask, who decides who is a "good programmer?" How do we decide the appropriate tax rate, to ensure we're getting enough software? If programmers can work on whatever they want, how can we ensure we get the software we want and need? How do we allocate the money? Do we just distribute it evenly? Or do programmers get more proportional to (insert bogus metric here)?

We don't have any better way of answering those questions than by just creating a market for IP. And for a market to exist, there has to be scarcity. Treating information the same way you treat a plot of land or a case of beer seems really artificial, and it is absolutely artificial, but we don't know any better way to do it.
Andrej Karpathy on automating software engineering
>originating from a single spot at a single point in time

That's based on a simplified model of the big bang which isn't what scientist use. It is everywhere, and time itself isn't defined. One major result of this is that many people treat the visible universe as the universe, but those are two different concepts and while the visible universe is finite, the universe might not be (it might be infinite, finite unbounded, or finite unbounded).

Also, science isn't saying "This is what happened". It is saying "Our best model to date says this is happening". In the end it is only a model and the model is still open to being refined and there is always the possibility of data resulting in the entire model being overturned, though often this leads to an ever more complex model that is harder to work with but better fits the experimental data (such as the wave/particle nature of light which is hard for a person to conceptualize).
That sounds like a good point. Any research you know about extracting the curvature tensor from the a transformer-like model?
Probably the cost of the medication. Generic Adderall for me is about $30/month
23.8-gigahertz 5G signals can look like water vapor to the instruments on weather satellites.
In addition to all of those things, it also burned your battery like crazy. Jobs was very public about his annoyance with Flash’s battery drain.
The Construction Physics Substack had a good piece on the economics of building commercial aircraft a bit ago: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/a-cycle-of-misery-the..., with discussion on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39339149.

It seems that, on paper, in this case specifically, re-engining rather than clean sheet made a lot of sense. Of course, we all know how things ended up in practice...

But at this point, if Boeing were to spend a lot of money on a clean-sheet design – even if they shipped it on time, would they have customers? It's hard to see how that would play out.
A lot of safety related improvements(at least in the US) are also due to the FAA and generally the open process of anonymously reporting issues on flights. Each crash has also been meticulously investigated and vast improvements were put in place. The reality is that the most dangerous times on a flight are take off and landing, which is also where human judgement and process plays a large part.

As far as breaking out of a duopoly, I don't know the path for that, as the barrier to entry to building commercial planes is sky high, but I do think one more player would be a net benefit.
> ACs tend to dehumidify the interior space.

Right. It condenses on cooler surfaces INSIDE the AC unit and drains outside.