skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How are you supposed to do professional stats work after university on a mobile phone?

Generally your employer or institution will supply you with a computer (or access to one in the case of students)? The test described was devised during the lockdown because people didn't have had access to the university's facilities.
This is quite literally "picking the LLM's brain"
Telegram: Social media giant or the new 'dark web'?
If a company's profit margins rely on their "employees" not understanding how depreciation leaves them with wages below the minimum, then yes those jobs need to be destroyed via regulation.
What? Sure I do. Where did I say otherwise?
if this would be helpful to tinnitus that would be game changer!
I think they're referring to estimating what restaurant food "should" cost, based on what it is. Rule of thumb I heard years ago was aiming to sell for about 3x what your ingredients cost you plus tax, but that may have increased since.
His 98% figure sounds about right, doesn’t it? Eliminate 98% of C++ CVEs and that’s enough to compete with memory safe languages.
Which is why minimizing the mass portion budgeted toward shielding makes sense. If you're going to send 10 smaller ships or 1 large one, you better send the 1 large one.
> A colleague once claimed that there is nothing wrong with out-of-bounds accesses as long as we don’t crash.

I need to find the source, but someone pointed out that the safety advantages of Rust are, in part, cultural and I increasingly agree. People use Rust because they care about memory safety and that care is reflected in the programs they write.
This puts a name to the approach that I've been using to write my Rust book. Leaping directly to a final, idiomatic solution without explaining all of the fundamentals first doesn't actually teach anything (except memorisation). It's often more effective to show a more straightforward, but possibly less idiomatic or performant, solution first. Then later introduce more complexity.

But I realise that if you stop reading after a few chapters you might go off into the world and write suboptimal code. In my mind this highlights the difference between a reference and a textbook designed to teach. If you just want the final answer, check the reference. (Or have an AI autocomplete for you.) But to teach you have to bring people on a journey and show some "mistakes" along the way.

My premise is that people learn better that way and retain the knowledge because you are giving them the chance to "discover" it themselves.
How the makers of the "Suyu" Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued
Research explores design rules and synthesis of quantum memory candidates
I have my own theory, which is not disproved yet: gravitational background noise slow down light a bit. Gravitation affects whole stream of photons in uniform way, not individual photons. Moreover, it doesn't change direction of photons, so no blur or scattering. My napking maths, which I did few months ago, tells that gravitational delaying should case effect of same magnitude as in red shift, (I did calculation for one frequency only, for proper calculation I need to know the temperature of the noise).
I'm not too up on this entirely, quite a bit of it is going over my head, but am I right in thinking that this would be some form of reverse engineering as opposed to 'stealing' ?
Whether it was actually a suicide or murder, this (suing a large organization) is not the kind of thing an individual should take on alone. We are fragile. We can hurt ourselves, and others can hurt us. Without a companion keeping him company and supporting him, either path to harm is too easy.
>Furthermore, it cannot directly access a computer’s file system or its open network connections.

Those are its two strongest features, not bugs. If you're not going to respect those, just use native code, and the broken ambient authority model of computing, which never works out in the long run.

Edit: The article doesn't focus much on these limitations, but I think that putting up with the current limitations of WASM in terms of memory size or lack of threading might suck, but it's worth the ability to just try things out and run them without risking your whole computer.

Younger folks who never had a PC with only write protectable floppy drives missed out on a wonderful care-free period when you could just TRY OUT any new software, and your other data was safe, no matter what.
I also haven't seen Google/Microsoft "weaponizing" their customers against regulation in such an aggressive way as Apple does.

But then again, I also haven't seen so many citizens willingly stepping up to defend a trillion dollar company against mere investigations to ensure fair competition...
Shock Wave Formation in Transonic Flight (On a Boeing 767) [video]
Yeah, some things you can only imagine, if you experience them.

Still, people murdered for way less.
>I think the HN crowd forgets that what really runs the world are min wage workers running around and doing real world things, not code monkeys and glorified type writers filling excel sheets.

This is not true at all. How many products do you use that come primarily from minimum wage workers?

If a few people responsible for Google maps running stopped working the GDP loss would be much bigger than if magnitudes more minimum wage workers did the same.
Not all pieces of software are created equal. A desktop CAD application that doesn't do any networking and doesn't manipulate sensitive user data isn't worthy of binary exploitation. If there is adequate security at the system OS layer, at worst it will corrupt a user's file.

Infrastructure network code that runs on millions of servers worldwide is a completely different story. Being able to send a sequence of bytes that unlocks funny side-effects of a network service can be weaponised on a mass scale.
Veryl – A modern HDL based on SystemVerilog
The problem here is the workers have no protection for when the algorithm stops picking them. There need to be laws for how disputes like that are solved, because the person has already made some investment to participate, expecting to pay that by getting gigs, so they're left with nothing and the company isn't liable for anything. People need to be protected from the actions of the companies they choose to work for, yes.
The best coins will follow Bitcoin and make you millionaires. Identifying what is best and what is not is one of the single most important factors in making huge gains in any asset class. Some tokens and coins are going to give high returns on investment. You can make good returns on investing in these coins early on. One such coin making headlines for giving investors a huge return is Bitgert coin (BRISE)
An in-depth overview by Vincent Zegna, of OpenAIs ChatGPT AI program and its history, usages and ethical considerations.
JDK 22 and JDK 23: What We Know So Far
Except the CVEs in Rust are far more likely to be low severity issues that C++ would never acknowledge to begin with.
Not sure that's convincing: Why would I multiply a unit of time (Yug) with unit of distance (Yojan) to arrive at the distance to the sun? Also note that per Wikipedia, the historical value of the Yogan can range from 3.5km (~2.2 miles) to 15km (~9.3 miles). How was the value of 8 miles chosen?
The hour before Thomas Newcomen invented the first practical fuel-burning engine in 1712, the most informed person in the world to do so was an ironmonger by the name Thomas Newcomen.

The hour before the Kitty Hawk flight, the two most informed people in the world on the topic of heavier than air flight were a pair of bicycle retailers and manufacturers named Wilbur and Orville.

These people sure don't spot everything, but they're still way closer than the average human.
At some point, can’t we just admit to ourselves that we operate from a human-centric worldview and that clouds pretty much all of our thinking on what makes humans special (if anything)?

As a species we definitely have some narcissistic tendencies.
Forget "how many", without those people, you'd end up without food on your table. Then the rest of the products you use wouldn't matter.
But one 10x large ship is 10^2 more expensive.
The Catholic hierarchy evidently thinks that he is just as “interested in needlessly enriching consultants, architects, or construction firms” as before the 1960s, just that he now prefers a more secular and perhaps Masonic influence, like that of famous Le Corbusier.

It’s this discontinuity that I struggle to understand, and there would still be a discontinuity to explain if they had instead decided that we should all go sit on a tree stump in the woods instead.
For programmatically filling, checkout https://platoforms.com. It even provides a API playground, https://www.platoforms.com/docs/advanced/api-playground/, super easy to test the API on your actual PDF form.
If that's how they made decisions NASA would already be broke in the first 3 years
The higher the IQ, the higher the income:

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2023/02/there-is-no-iq-threshol...
This changes when travelling with kids.
Total solar eclipse 2024: Everything you need to know
Network Traffic Analysis with Silk [pdf]
> I wonder what could I have done better.

6 hours is roughly 10MB/s, so you likely could have gone much much quicker. Did you compress with `-z`? If you could use ethernetyou probably could have done it at closer to 100MB/s on most deviceds, which would have been 35 minutes.
Carbs are vital for nutrient partitioning and uptake and this is why every serious athlete manipulates carb feeding, and bodybuilders especially play with insulin, etc. People were always mixing maltodextrin into their intra and post workout refeeds, and if a normal person tried eating the white rice portions bodybuilders and strength athletes eat alongside their other macros they’d be shocked.
This is like how regular Gatorade with sugar took a heel turn when it tried to go mainstream “electrolytes healthy, sugar bad” despite the sugar being necessary for optimal replenishment as carbs aids electrolyte uptake in the gut and the sugar free versions are far less effective at rehydration [0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK231364/#:~:text=Glucos....
Cooking for Engineers has a unique recipe card format that visualizes how all the ingredients combine together into a single dish:

https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/188/Anghelikas-Ts...
Covariant Announces a Universal AI Platform for Robots
All that means is that the murder wouldn't be rational. Do you expect rationality from the executives that gutted one of America's best companies?
I'm non-American and found the usage fine. The bad usage is normally the context.

In this case, the context is contrasting with the normal sources of HN. It's literally a mainstream source.
Physicists explore fiber optic computing using distributed feedback
AI is just one facet of the issue, and it only exacerbates the real problem. Algorithmification, enshitification, etc.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-in...

The old guards of Amazon and Google are gone - no one is there to nurture the product. The new business school jocks are there to juice it, juice it to the max, bro! Quarter to quarter, so that the vaunted SHAREHOLDER does not get all madzies.
One example: Fossil (https://fossil-scm.org), the version control system used by SQLite itself. Fossil is Git-like in its underlying design but has a different interface. Fossil stores a complete source code repository as an SQLite database, rather than a pile-of-files as Git does. Storing content this way gives Fossil UI advantages over Git, such as the ability to easily find decedents of a check-in, and the ability to assign the same tag to multiple check-ins (ex: tagging every release with the "release" tag.)
> I have proven to you logically that they cannot have more knowledge then anyone else, but you continue to present their authority as knowledge.

You've asserted it, not proven it.

Given their entire research field is "how to make the thing", it's a fair bet that they know more than me — even if what they know is, to paraphrase Thomas Edison, "1000 ways to not make an AGI", that's still more than me, and I follow some of the research and read some of the papers.
AWS CodePipeline adds support for Branch-based development and Monorepos
My assumption is that difference is not that something is missing but just in complexity of things.

It is strange that people put other mammals in same category with birds for example. Thinking that humans are separate kingdom. I'm closer to pig than pig is to chicken.
Which means I'll never ever buy it with my own money! But it'll be cross platform for orgs that decide to invest in them.
> Its not really an “OOP concept”.

It sort of is, because what you're doing is encapsulating the concept of "a value that may arrive in the future" with an object. Both Promises (in JS) and Futures (in Kotlin) work this way.

What I'm saying is that you don't necessarily need to encapsulate that. Rust doesn't: Futures may be called "futures", but they're actually more like "suspendable computations" (not to be confused with generators, which have their own proposal, or coroutines, which also have their own proposal). You can await one as part of another suspendable computation, but you're not holding an object that represents a concept (as in a Promise), you're holding the computation itself. By awaiting it, it becomes a part of you.

The only place a Promise/Future is necessary is when you're not using the computation directly: when you chuck a function off to a task scheduler in order for it to be executed for you. Then, in order to get anything back, you need a handle to that eventual return value. There's your Promise/Future. But if you simply don't chuck it off in the first place, and integrate it into your own suspendable computation instead, you don't need any sort of Promise/Future.

I should note that having taken a look at this library myself, it seems like both paradigms should be possible to implement on top.
With that I don't even disagree with. But I find it sad that they need to be employed, that they need to be dependent on one employer. Protection from algorithms and fair treatment is important!
SVGator[1] offers CSS or JS for animation export (no SMIL or hybrid it seems). I haven't used it but it came up in a prior HN discussion. Due to the traditional dearth of authoring tools I'm used to creating self-contained SVG animations manually via a text editor, by translating raster mockups, but glad there's at least one GUI authoring tool that considers such use cases.

[1] https://www.svgator.com/help/getting-started/js-animations-v...
Also not true, I know the big farms of my state and they don't depend on minimum wage workers and I live in a third world country.

I doubt agricultural wages or truck drivers are minimum wage jobs where you live. Assuming US https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Farm_Labor/fl_allw...
I remember it happened with Bukkit once but I don't know a good search engine with which I could actually search for a link.
man that's a hit!

Lesson learnt, adding fail2ban
Airbnb's Lottie has a Web Player now I think? Make your animation in AE or Figma, export to "Lottie JSON" with players in JS, Swift, Kotlin & React Native.
Disappointed that this is a web application. But great work. The user interface is very intuitive and easy to use.

Feature request: Add 'Export to JPEG-XL' option (JPEGXL - https://jpegxl.info/why-jxl.html . See also - FFmpeg Adds Support for Animated JPEG-XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36243889 ).
Good guy dang. Thanks for all your hard work making this place great.
Ask HN: BCI + AI top resources
So recently I have decided to make a big career turn and start working on something much more important than vanilla SaaS and B2B sector

I switched to BCI. And it feels very unattainable , very hard to even approach. Of course there is chatGPT and so on. But I really had a hard time finding good resources where I can learn and exponentially grow my skills

My objective is to be able to connect my consciousness through the non-invasive BCI and merge it with LLM eventually.

I want to systematically approach it and understand:

1. What are the fundamental principles of how BCI works?

2. Who are the top people and companies I need to follow?

3. What is the current frontier of research?

4. What are the most fundamental principles I should follow to optimize the brain signal and be able to do "mind reading"?

About my background: real ML knowledge (Kaggle competitions), a lot of LLM coding & training, software engineering at saas and my own startup.
I keep checking in on the Solid project, but I'm confused about what problems its solving for users or developers.
Look - I did this too, I breached trust.

But think about it - you set him up for a fall. You lied, then he spotted it and you told him the truth. This is a loss of trust - the child now knows that his parents lie to him. (Great that you admit it, after, of course.)

Perhaps the lying is to some extent useful - such is the nature of this world and all that - but that whole charade could have been avoided without any deceit in the first place.

But I really don't see how you can argue that its ok to lie 'in the right way' to naive, trusting children, for the sake of some cultural convention.

And I'm not even broaching the pros (?) and cons of the cultural convention.... I'm sure no one wants to hear my thoughts on the 'most wonderful time of the year', lol.
similar but with a bit more meat - https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die...
that's sounds great, will do. thank you!
No, what they have is several narrow ASIs.
Or just use Clonezilla? Then you also copy only the actual data blocks, and it can autoresize your partitions as well. That's how I always do it.

True, I do always just take the NVME disk out of the laptop and put it in a highspeed dock.
Why compare Tangram to Adobe Illustrator when Adobe offers animation software in their suite? Adobe After Effects does motion graphics. Adobe Animate does animations for the web, or so I heard. How is Tangram closer to Illustrator than After Effects or Animate?
If you’re making as much or more than a medical doctor, should you really complain if your comp is flat?

I’m in that boat, and my comp was more or less flat this year, as was most of the company. I’m overjoyed and ecstatic and thankful to be making this much.

But some of my colleagues are furious and upset. C’mon, really?

I guess if you’ve been making FAANG comp all your career, you have no experience making anything less? Versus if you’re coming from the non tech world where a senior or staff SWE will retire in their 60s making about as much as a FAANG junior SWE, you have a lot more to be thankful for.
I don't know about Mexico, but i know for sure they are opening a factory in Brasil.
Boeing, a defense contractor, relies on killing people for financial gain.
The Flash player is gone, but the authoring software called Adobe Flash was just rebranded to Adobe Animate. Back in the Flash times Flash was quite popular for Western-style 2d animation, and a lot of TV series were produced in Flash. Animate has been keeping that somewhat alive, though better alternatives have emerged.
This in fact happened to Cloudflare with Cloudbleed and their decision was to switch to Rust.

There is a human factor at work here. Rationally speaking, Herb is right 98% reduction is sufficient. But when the CTO's head is on the line, they won't listen and switch to Rust.
There used to be a brutalist Christian Science church about three blocks from the White House. Despite preservationist complaints and perhaps lawsuits, it came down some years ago, to be replaced with a glass box office building that houses a church and reading room, plus office space. It might have brought in a fair bit of revenue before the pandemic. Need I say that it has its own Wikipedia page? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Church_of_Christ,_Scient....) .

I can't offhand think of any operating brutalist church facilities in Washington--not that I spend much time looking for them.
Show HN: 3D Printed Footwear
Talk is free, but that doesn't say much. It can be a (natural) misguided attempt to deflect blame.

Were there any cockpit warnings? Full loss of instruments? Conflicting information displayed? Stall warnings with overspeed warnings? Altitude holding problems on autopilot? Erratic system inputs? Before and/or after the mishap?

It will take quite an input to push passengers to the ceiling, an acceleration well beyond what the FBW system will allow.

This particular article addresses none of those points, only repeating what the airline said.

So until new information emerges, this mishap reads like a fairly classic inflight turbulence encounter. See, for instance, this event from December:

https://avherald.com/h?article=51212eb5&opt=0
I think this

The old guards of Amazon and Google are gone - no one is there to nurture the product

really explains (perhaps obviously to many) why company culture changes over time, and that retaining engineering in leadership can be crucial to long-term success.
Intellectual property should not exist. All knowledge should be free if it is beneficial to the well-being of humanity. I believe that open source AIs will leak the knowledge from closed AIs, and provide democratized access to all human knowledge for any human who needs it for their well-being and survival. That is something that intellectual property cannot do because it is a mechanism for enforcing scarcity not universal survival and well-being.

If intellectual property has the potential to threaten our survival, and I sincerely believe that it already is doing so, then we must dissolve every single piece of it, and make it a common good for all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39673589
(unironically) HK
I thought it is pretty common to apply mixed / hierarchical linear models? I didn't study statistics but in our field of many problems of modelling biological effects we would do that.

E.g
https://www.pymc.io/projects/examples/en/latest/generalized_...
Since big tech decided to censor so many things off of youtube, etc, it's one of the few places you can actually find out what's going on in warzones and other places that are not big tech reality compliant.

As but one example, the difference in what Ukraine bloggers are able to put on youtube today vs 2 years ago is stunning. They get banned and demonetized for the most picayune reasons. They're all using media such as telegram now.

In the past, actual news organizations would cover that sort of thing, but their attention on things has always been fickle and selective. These days they tend to only report items that support a narrative they want to promote.
> Furthermore, too much focus on creation is even dangerous because it could lead to this "productivity hell" where you only evaluate your time in terms of productivity.

You don't need to be productive in order to create. I spend at least a joyful hour a day improvising on the piano. I produce nothing in the sense of being "productive". I don't record nor play for others, but nonetheless, I create.