skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an odd bit of gatekeeping and I really don’t understand your position here. Calling this egregious seems odder still. It suggests that companies that choose to publish how they do things have some obligation to do so under a specific framework or shouldn’t do so unless they’re willing to get public buyin.

Many of the best projects that become defacto standards start as a solution to a very specific and real problem that had no public input.

If JSON canvas isn’t a good solution for broad adoption/interoperability, it won’t become one. The world is not harmed by its release, and at worst, it’s now far easier for people building software to understand and make tools that can interact with Obsidian. At best, it becomes a solid foundation and option for tools going forward.

Obsidian didn’t have to do anything here. I’m glad they did.
Every drummer, bassist and guitarist too! It's insane how so many of them later on went on to pioneer the fusion movement.

Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Tony Williams, Marcus Miller and so on!
Depth of desk is a consideration too
> Turbulence occurs in all aircraft.

True, but "technical events" (as reportedly commented by LATAM) don't.
If you really believe AI is going to be significantly more intelligent than humans, then things like "it'll just threaten to kill you if you don't maintain it's infrastructure" sound wildly off base. That's how similarly-intelligent creatures interact with each other.

If it's truly a "we couldn't possibly outsmart the AI" scenario why would it be likely to end up like that instead of something more like how humans get along with dogs, cats, cattle, insects, or microbes? With obviously wildly-varying levels of human quality of life in each of those different cases.

Though even these scenarios are still playing a human-religion-style game of "the gods are just like us, just more powerful." VERY confident in a VERY specifically anthropomorphic entity.
Users have now expressed interest totaling over 350 points in several hours.
Yeah, but Elon is one of one.
Find a good Obesity specialist near you who does medical weight loss without resorting to gastric bypass surgery, that also provide nutritionist support, and do the program. These days you’ll probably be prescribed medication like Ozempic/Wegovy/etc and be put on medical grade meal replacements for a while. Your Obesity specialist will help you with any comorbidities and help you avoid gallbladder attacks and other complications of weight loss. Get a personal trainer and do regular weight training although be careful not to overdo it! Ease into exercising. Good luck!
Virtually all journalists work for the same system POTUS is headlining, why would he kill his own henchmen? Those rare cases where some don't are handled much better by censorship and deplatforming. Why kill someone if you can make it so virtually nobody would listen to him anyway and all "respectable" news outlets would declare he is insane and likely is working for the enemy, whatever that is today? Killing the story is much easier and much more efficient, and has been done many times.
every prolific creator i've seen in practice has been a far more indulgent consumer than the average person. that, and in the chicken and egg of inspiration and production, i've found that production is usually wrung out of a surplus of inspiration.

it genuinely surprises me how popular and intuitive this "create more than you consume" meme is
I’m confused by the comments. This seems really cool.

Are there other solutions that take JSON and do the same thing just as easily?
Thank you for trying out the app!

Actually, I want Memozora to be an alternative for Anki, so my app is somewhat similar to it.
My goal is to make a more friendly & intuitive version of it.

Yes, multiple choice would be a good feature to add.
I need to build something different from Anki, so having many types of quiz would be a good advantage.

Also, I will also think about adding dark mode in the future.
(For shortcut keys, you can actually press arrow keys to shortcut the mouse click.)

Thank you for the feedback!
Do you have a better licensing solution for companies who resell and profit on open source and don’t give back commits or support?
This article doesn't specify what's new about this engine. There's lots of YouTube videos of people running pulsejets that look like this on bicycles, skateboards and boats. I'm unconvinced this is new.
Study: Conflicting values for Hubble constant not due to measurement error
Keep in mind it took us quite a while to move to short (ECC based) public key schemes for classical crypto. Although some of that is for non-technical reasons.
In France/Lybia, the last two witnesses of khadafi personnal finances died within a week of each other, in two different countries (one Irak, one Netherlands if I remember correctly) once revelations from journalists about ex-president Sarkozy financing of his 2007 campaign hit. They also raised questions about the reason Khadafi was the first foreign leader invited in France, and why France took the lead in starting the Lybia war (representatives of the rebel groups were present in the Elysée two days before the start of the lybian Civil War).
So less noble that the Swedes invalided their own yes vote on the acceptance of OOXML once they discovered how it was obtained: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070830155109351

Quoting the article:

"Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish
subsidiary offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in
favor of the Office Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard."
What do you mean by will and intent?

I guess if humans have will and are part of the universe, then the universe has it too, but I don't think that's what you meant.
AGI escaping a sandbox is truly terrifying. There will be a subgroup of the population that will worship it and work for it. It's not so much AGI that scares me - it's the humans I'm scared of.
Krugman, another one of the economists who was a staunch supporter (if not the initiator) of the globalization doctrine has backtracked on it since 2019. He hasn’t been as vociferous as Deaton though.

Giving away manufacturing is like handing over the keys to your war machine to someone else. The ONLY thing the US has going for it now is the dollar. However, given our behavior on freezing Russian funds and weaponizing it countries will look elsewhere.

There are no alternatives - yet. But when one begins to emerges it will cause the next world war. Interestingly the conservatives who complain about fiscal imbalance should embrace a neutral currency. It will force the US to balance its books.

The implications to workers over the years has been horrendous with whole industries being decommissioned across the United State, especially in poor rural areas. And you wonder why they look towards Trump. Well, it’s because the mainstream has been lying for a long time.

What doesn’t get enough attention is the impact to national security. This level of outsourcing and hollowing out of US industry is going to take a long time to rebuild. In the meantime - battle readiness suffers which in turn will bring challenges to the USD.
I’m glad Obsidian is publishing this, even though the spec clearly isn’t ready yet.

If I had the final say for how this format were to be publicized, I would probably just include the JSON schema “as-is” in the Obsidian developer docs. Then, it’s just as usable by third parties without making promises about interoperability.

But Obsidian is thinking ahead here. They’ve intentionally given us a duck to poke at[1], knowing we’d offer feedback and critique. If the goal is to get people to imagine a better implementation, preying on HN’s “I could implement this so much better” sense is one hecking smart way to get the community to pitch in.

1: https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/
I find helpful this analogy of the space-time (4-dimension) expansion from the big bang: the surface (2D) of an expanding bubble. YMMV.
Both are data points to measure social status. Both are dependent on the group (I've certainly had the experience of having more fun with some coworkers than others). And neither are actionable.

And I don't think either are all that relevant to this post.
Have the alarm go off in the cabin as well.
Underlying paper:

JWST Observations Reject Unrecognized Crowding of Cepheid Photometry as an Explanation for the Hubble Tension at 8σ Confidence

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad1ddd
Paradoxically, too much blind faith in the free market sometimes leads to bad decision making. You don’t want your prophets to believe too deeply in their own divinity. You want a bit of cynicism at the top, a bit of understanding that there really isn’t any perfect system. I think that explains why leftist leaders (such as Obrador) sometimes make the best stewards of capitalist economies. (Bolivia under morales might be another example)
They aren’t really an alternative to anything. For one thing they’re now often slower on per-accelerator basis than NVIDIA stuff. They’re cheaper, of course, but because of disparity in performance you’ll need to estimate cost per flop on your own particular workload. They are also more difficult and slower to develop against, and SWE cost is always an issue if you don’t own a money printer like Google. Furthermore, for advanced users who can do their own CUDA kernels or Triton, that too can unlock additional efficiency from GPU. Such capability can’t even be contemplated on the TPU side because you basically get a black box. Then there’s the issue of limited capacity, further exacerbated by the fact that this capacity is provided by a single supplier who is struggling to fulfill its internal needs (which is why you can’t get v5). You can’t just get TPUs elsewhere. You can’t get them under your desk for dev work either.

That said, it wouldn’t be too difficult to port most models to Jax, load in the existing weights, and export the result for serving. Should you bother? IMO, no, unless we’re talking really large scale inference. Your time and money are almost certainly better spent iterating on the models.
> Cars made before this decade are going to become insanely valuable as time goes on.

Why? What value does it add?
But sport is by definition set up so what is measured is the result we care about.

We would perhaps not care so much about the "vicious cycle" if the incentives were aligned with "good" research. If cancer gets cured, at the end of the day I'm not going to lose a lot of sleep over how. But the concern is the incentives are misaligned in favour of exploiting the metrics instead of "good" research.
I wouldn't use HTTP/json for any path that needs to close a control loop at hundreds of Hz, but to loosely couple a bunch of systems in a plant? No problem.

If you have a specific concern, explain it, instead of just exuding judgment.
MEMS display?

Apple has taken over Qualcomm's IMOD Mirasol display lab in Taiwan and has been dead ever since.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-o...
I think the problem is you are still going to write your notes down with increasing negativity.
Is Cosine-Similarity of Embeddings Really About Similarity?
I'm in my late 30s and evaluating my activity level; 150 minutes of moderate to intense (120bpm) exercise a week is what the gov recommends; probably what I got as a kid or in my 20s, and what I'm not getting now so

Not a money or technology problem, likely a social one

1. Go to a running store and do a group 5k 2x a week; develop friendships; eventually move to the 10k level

2. Join a sports ball league (tennis?) for 2 nights a week

3. Workout to get better at the above
I've said before that any sufficiently powerful corporation is indistinguishable from a government. The East India company was a good example, they had their own army & fought wars of conquest.
> The ONLY thing the US has going for it now is the dollar

- most powerful war machine

- most powerful propaganda machine (international and domestic)

- genuinely powerful economy

- best geopolitical "alliances" (see above)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare
> being under constant surveillance

Don your tinfoil hat sir. SAR sats can track cars already.
Not sure if this is what they are using, but this is a way.

https://github.com/nektos/act
Bike to work is awesome. Totally agree. By default it gives you a set of miles.
The 2d toy models such as the swissroll takes 2 mins to train on the CPU, whereas the fashionMNIST model takes a couple hours on any modern GPU
Maybe they should have just not thrown such a slow pitch over the plate with running the whole thing on discord in the open.

I am not sure what they expected to happen.
Super cool article, the only word I can find to describe the geometry shown is “radical”.

Harbor Freight sells a cheap Japanese hand saw and am always happy to use it. It seems with a taller blade though, deep cuts are difficult due to friction/binding forces on the blade. Curious how the tall blade shown works out - am sure it does fine but curious on feel
Mrs. Davis[0] offers a pretty compelling vision of this - absurd but not wholly unbelievable. The machine doesn’t necessarily have to supply the physical threat if it has humans who happily do its bidding.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Davis
We do one person per branch with rare exception. When trying to piece together past changes while debugging I basically don’t care what the commit messages are, I use JetBrains’ “show history for selection” in most cases.

Much more useful to me than the messages is the changeset file name highlighting so I can see which files I’ve touched for the thing I’m trying to accomplish right this second. Pushing resets that. So the push is based on “I’m thinking about a new thing now”. Often my commit messages are “x” because there is no cohesion to anything since my last push, I went around making a bunch of nit picks while exploring some code path(s).

If it works for me and my team, it’s the right way. Same for everyone else.
“But, you keen, they’re too hard to make! They take too long! Nay. Sit down.”

“the subsequent dinner’s conversation remained imperturbably anchored to how unbelievably tasty it was”

Can’t say I’m a fan of this writing. Nigel Slater is similarly precious and self-regarding.

DIY stock can be great but it’s a long process and the result is usually cloudy, in my experience.
Of course, an empiricist can just point to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Get a treadmill desk with a seat that will sit on top of it - barstool type seat - so you can switch back and forth. Super helpful to get 10k steps per day.
> non-fantastical explanation of how AGI takes over.

There's like a million ways this can happen, and if it does happen, it will probably be a way that nobody expected. Any specific details are unlikely to be accurate. But just because you seem to be lacking imagination, I'll draw one out of a hat. I'll assume that the AI's reasons for taking over are out-of-scope.

The AI proves to be very effective at all manner of corporate tasks, and very good at earning money for shareholders. It proves especially good at managing money and directing investments. An aging Masayoshi Son decides that the AI will probably be better than him at picking winners, and puts it in charge of SoftBank's investment portfolio. The AI incorporates its own startup company. It staffs the company with several fictional personas that the AI has created; they have names, roles, profile photos, email addresses. The AI answers their emails on their behalf.

The AI directs SoftBank's billions into the startup that it has created. It hires a large team of humans, who are unaware that some of their colleagues are actually the AI; they seem like ordinary humans over Zoom calls. The "CTO" proposes to build a new, say, nuclear power and desalination plant in, say, Morocco. The AI creates the architectural and plant drawings itself, and its engineering personas approve them. Human welders build the plant, following the plans. The plant proves highly profitable. Some nay-sayers are concerned about the lack of independent environmental regulatory oversight in Morocco, but the Moroccan government is happy with the foreign investment, clean water, electricity, and tax revenue, and Softbank is happy with their valuation going up. Pakistan wants to build one in their country next.

After three years, large underground storage tanks explode, releasing an accumulation of fluorochemicals and radioactive salts that destroy the ozone layer and render much of the Earth's surface unsuitable for agriculture. At the same time, a network failure causes communications infrastructure to become suddenly unreliable. Supply chains begin seizing up. Nobody is entirely sure what has happened or who is at fault; everyone is hungry for someone to blame. The messages that do get through reliably suggest a deliberate attack by a hostile nation. The AI presents convincing evidence of this. Only a few widely-ridiculed doomsayers say that the AI has orchestrated this itself. ET cetera.

If there was any time at which pulling the plug could have defeated the AI's plans, it would have been during the "AI was making tons of money for influential people" phase, which is exactly when the plug would not have been pulled, and that's not coincidence, it's strategy, because a superintelligent AI is not an idiot.

This is, by the way, not a very good science fiction story. There's no nail-biting struggle between human and AI, just a bunch of happy people toasting the fruits of their success before it all suddenly falls apart, checkmated before they even realized they were playing chess.
I wrote implementation of "javascript promises" for c++ that is still used by the company. It needs event loop implementation for platform to work (few lines of code usually), but other than that it works pretty well. However, nowadays I probably would instead use coroutines, promises while cool the callbacky catch / then API isn't very nice. One difference to JS promises is that I implemented cancel-ability.
I'm reading their comment as a joke about how software engineers tend to overestimate their own expertise on things like physics and are not actually anywhere close to experts.

Software engineers presenting weird pseudo science as serious physics is one way this manifests.

I could be wrong.
He’s simply rediscovered Hayak’s central grievance with Keynes, but somehow made the leap to placing the blame for this with corporations, rather than the actual governors of macroeconomics, central banks…
please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls
The opposite of globalization is protectionism. Protectionism is when a country embargoes itself.

How can it be that we punish other countries with embargoes if protectionism makes a country more prosperous?
Some others have already mentioned some of these things. My approach is one of both mind and body.

Mind:
1. Do a 10-day Vipassana[1] to jump into meditation (this could take some time as they usually have a wait list). My belief is everything starts with the mind. This will help establish a foundational meditation practice (which in time will become your ultimate weapon against stress). Not to say one can ever be stress-free, but more along the lines that you will have tools to deal with it in a healthy manner.
2. See a therapist so that you can talk to someone about the struggles you have (using BetterHelp you could start this today). I don't think anyone is immune from stress. Stressors (like work, relationships, money, kids etc) can (for some people) show up as weight on the body as a defense mechanism. Talking to someone regularly may help with this.

Body:
1. Hire a sport nutrition person to come up with meals that work for you that take any food allergies into account. Sounds like you already found something that works for you.
2. Do blood work regularly (every 3 months) to track various health markers.
2. Hire someone to cook the meals from the nutritionist
3. Hire a personal trainer that can help keep you getting to the gym. The personal trainer can help come up with a program that will help you achieve your goals.

Consistency is more important that how much weight you can lift or how far you can walk.

[1] https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index
Hi! Thank you, I'm having lots of fun using Bevy!!!
Amazon finished training a 200B parameter LLM and nobody noticed (slide 21) [pdf]
Admittedly, we're speculating in conspiracy-land right now, but...
Yeah, going to jail for years is a pretty decent deterrent for committing murder. But a criminal investigation was officially opened into Boeing. Maybe some powerful individuals realized they could be looking at jail time anyway if certain information comes to court, so they ran a risk analysis and decided it was worth it.
It need not even be the company ordering it, just someone who knows they’re going to get the blame acting out of their own self interest.

I’m holding out on speculation but it’s not a stretch to say there’s a clear motive for murder.
While you can't buy discipline you can buy accountability, which is very powerful for affecting change.

Given your budget you can hire a trainer for every session. A good trainer won't just tell you what to do but will also help track that you're doing it. It's only a partial solution, but it's a start.

I'd also suggest tracking more bio metrics so you get a sense of progress before you see it in the mirror, which can take a while.

Some related reading from a few years ago -- A millionaire seeing how far they can get by throwing money at the problem: https://medium.com/hackernoon/im-32-and-spent-200k-on-biohac...
Japanese tools remind me of cast iron cookware in the sense that: they are more difficult to care for in that they have to be used and cared for in a specific way; however, they are easier to care for in that there is an established way to use and care for them.
> do we account for velocity in determining whether light traveling at c towards earth will ever reach us?

No, because the speed of light is constant for all observers. From our frame of reference on earth, light from distant receding galaxies is always moving towards us at exactly the speed of light, c. Those galaxies also observe the light moving away from them at exactly c.

That seems contradictory and unintuitive, that two observers moving away from each other both measure light moving c relative to themselves, but that’s reality.

It’s another measurement that changes: if c is always constant, then it must be the passage of time and the distance travelled that we observe differently.
For zig take a look at https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev and https://github.com/rsepassi/zigcoro
The submitted title was "Nobel laureate economist savages his own profession" - that's against the HN guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). I've reverted it now.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Promise/future/channels are implemented as objects in OO languages. But there are non-OO languages that have them (futures/promises, for sure), and they aren’t objects there.
> upcoming Blender 4.1 (which just became beta and can be downloaded from…
I feel like you’re confusing free movement of goods/capital with free movement of people.

The two can have different policies applied to them. It’s a bit silly to use “globalization” to mean both.
That was my thought as well.

Additionally, they’ve formalized activities that happens organically in most teams and seem convinced they’ve done something novel.
The website has a picture https://arbitrand.com/fpga.png but it is difficult to understand what it represents. Needs clarification.