skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How interesting. I was just this weekend looking to implement a DAG/multitree-based tasks app as a side project, and my first thought was to do it as an obsidian plugin with D3 for rendering. I ended up canning that idea because it felt like a bridge too far to cram nodes and links into a human-readable format like markdown. I went with SQLite and a TUI instead. Seeing this spec emerge makes me think that Obsidian might be a good place for that kind of plugin after all. It’s becoming something of an emacs, Obsidian is!
Seeing the leaning tower in person was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in real life, I can't believe how hard it made me laugh.

It was cathartic to see it and think of all the projects I've worked on in the past that were poorly run.

Also while Pisa isn't much to see you can also walk the quite long Tunnel Di Pini and it makes for quite a lovely day of picnics and nature.

Though to be fair, Florence in general is hard to beat.
As another user replied, hotels have a cleaning staff that they just pay a salary to - it is, for the most part, a fixed cost. The owner of a single rental/room really is usually paying a flat fee every time they need their placed cleaned, and thus can have widely different costs based on whether someone stays 1 night or 28. They simply don't have the luxury of averaging their costs over a wide base, no matter how many times you put that word in italics.
I think a lot of HNers seem to forget that barely 25 years ago it was very common to see "Made in Mexico"/"Hecho en Mexico" products in North America.

It was our original China/"Factory of the World".

That only changed in the early 2000s when China was admitted to the WTO, and low wage manufacturing (eg. Maquiladoras) shut down and moved to China.

Now that Chinese manufacturing costs roughly rival those in Mexico, a number of industries such as Chemicals and Machining have returned.
It's definitely a simulation at this point
BERT is a language model! It was considered a "large" language model for its time, and it's even based on transformers. It's a very small language model by today's standards (340MM params), and is encoder-only instead of decoder-only, but trying to draw a hard line between "BERT" and "LLMs" is more about parameter count than capabilities — in fact, the original GPT-3 paper benchmarked GPT-3 against finetuned BERT-large and beat it on nearly every measure [1]. And BERT-large is not unique in being able to be finetuned; finetuning Mistral 7B on your task should result in very good performance (similarly, OpenAI allows finetuning of gpt-3.5-turbo, and there are plenty of non-Mistral open-source LLMs like Yi and Qwen that should do well too).

I'm not sure what BloombergGPT has to do with LLMs vs non-LLMs; BloombergGPT is an LLM [2], and it defeating other LLMs on financial benchmarks doesn't prove much about large language models other than "LLMs can be trained to be better at specific tasks."

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

2: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberggpt-50-bill...
And for anyone wondering about an opportunity to shake up the market just estimate TAM and you'll see quickly why boat stuff is priced at such a premium.

The number of people using things like Open plotter is even smaller, but still greatly appreciated by all!
There's a technical name for that stuff. That's one on the main ingredients of Spam.
I’d imagine any car since 2019 can likely share such data.
Familiarity brings fondness !!
Stateless tokens come with independent security concerns, and moving towards stateful tokens is prudent just to ensure more robust systems. [...] Our main recommendation is to use stateful tokens where possible, given their additional security benefits.

This is smart. PQC schemes often add too much overhead for interoperable cookie sizes. Instead of trying to cram a PQC signature into a cookie, just stop using the stateless cookie designs that require asymmetric signatures.

I'm not sure I buy the Global Risk Institute chart. I get that they need to motivate adoption, but practical cryptanalytic work with quantum computers seems unpromising right now.
> If you've ever tried to squeeze yourself under the kitchen sink, work one hand behind the 5" gap around the garbage disposal, work the other hand around the tiny gap between the garbage disposal and the main sink, try to coordinate the 2 hands to tighten the faucet, then I'm sure you'll agree with OP.

What's hard for me doesn't tell you anything about what's hard for a differently shaped body, and robots don't need to look like us — two left hands is easy, extra joints is easy.

Most robots don't look like us, one way or another. Famously Spot, but there are as many sizes and shapes as there is commercial demand for them. Humanoid ones are popular right now, but I grew up hearing about how that was "actually a bad shape for a robot" (was the past just sour grapes, or are the current humanoid ones CEOs watching too much SciFi?)

> We don't even have a commercial robot to unload and store dishes from the dishwasher nor unload and store clothes from dryer.

Both dishwashers and clothes driers are special purpose robots designed to solve problems without having to first solve human-level sensation or dexterity.

> What makes you think robotics will be solved in a century, let alone ten years?

Have you seen demo videos from the last 12 months? The videos are sped up, indicating they're compute-bound; the accuracy of joint positioning, the strength, etc. is already superhuman whenever we want it to be.

Quality of vision, that's the hard part. Cars can only lose their steering wheels[0] when that's solved in terms of quality, not before; a Moore-like exponential on reducing electrical power requirements for a fixed level of compute, would take 10 years to reduce power draw by a factor of 100, which seems about right given cars can afford to (regardless of what current hardware actually uses) burn a few kilowatts on an autopilot.

[0] Until the Waymo etc. is available everywhere rather than geofenced to a few specific locations, this is still not sufficiently solved despite, yes, having no steering wheel:
https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2023/01/05/waymos-new...
These are awesome feedback, thanks!
Signal K is an open source server / data format for marine electronics, often paired with OpenPlotter for building custom nav and monitoring systems with web standards (JSON, Websockets and HTTP).

http://signalk.org/

Has an excellent community of developers and hardware components.
By Moravec's paradox, the ones we find the simplest.

So driving for Uber and mowing lawns.
Yes, it sounds like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe
"The odd photon hitting us" is also a pretty good description of eyesight, radio, and fiber optics.
Is that what nodered uses for its diagrams?
OnLogic Factor.
But how do you know the PGP key the market gave you is really the vendors and they didn't man-in-the-middle you?
Nice! Love seeing new ways to share music on IG without having to be a professional video editor.

I'm working on a similar tool https://kaizen.place/reel-generator . Moved the video rendering onto the client which helps keep rendering times quick and avoids the headache of managing an extra service.

+1 to the suggestion I saw for some kind of sound visual to make it even more clear there's audio.
Most of the many taxes and fees associated with air tickets are built in. Not checked luggage in particular in many cases although I don't pay that on my usual airline and rarely have it anyway. Otherwise, unless I want to upgrade, the price it gives me is what I pay.
This is a very small audience. Most want just/need coin and are jumping through crazy interviews processes as seen here somewhat frequently
A Bee's-Eye View of the World
Philosophical indeed, as it's impossible to define the idea of a rate of time, when the idea of rate is defined in terms on time itself.
The scale of the universe sometimes feels terrifying to me
The author of SQLite is quite open about it. The lack of typing has been part of the design from the beginning. Sqlite has hardly any types:

INT
INTEGER
REAL
TEXT
BLOB
ANY

Of course one can program all kind of check constraints, like one can program all kinds of value validations in javascript.

Unfortunately, that is not the same as typing. Sqlite lacks typing because, as the sqlite author explains in the docs, flexibility is the goal. He continues with "But other developers are aghast", and so strict tables where born, but you can clearly see this cannot overcome real concerns. Try to look for the DATETIME datetype in that list.

Deep bow to sqlite, its design goal was to be the ini file replacement and it has outperformed itself on that one.

Thanks for the extension link. Although constraints are not reuable type definitions, they would still be helpful in this context. Pity that json doesn't have a type for dates, one has to rely on string formats: https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/books/review/what-the-bee...
It's the finger problem, you've got to get the number, size, angle, position, etc. right every single time or people can tell very fast. It's not like tree branches where people won't notice if the splitting positions are "wrong".
You have backups running on Android — the linked post is about how iOS doesn’t support backups. (And hasn’t for years, so it’s clearly not a priority)

Anyway, this related comment thread notes similar impressions of the Signal team:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686475

> “I've tried to report bugs and talk to developers about this but there's one fundamental problem here - the Signal team fundamentally does not value chat history the same way a lot of people do. They think that destroying all chats is a reasonable thing to do when things get hard - which is the exact opposite to many WhatsApp users, which deeply value images and texts sent to them on that platform.”

> “It's not a technical issue - they just think you're wrong when you want to keep your conversations.”
Weird. What information could they leak? I don't know this market in particular, but around a decade ago, in the times of Silk Road 2.0, all communication between vendor and customer was encrypted according to the OpenPGP standard.

Vendors shared their public key and customers where supposed to use this to encrypt their messages send via the market
I’d assume that we have some notion of how the laws of physics have changed, if at all, since the Big Bang.

We measure time in vibrations of a cesium isotope IIRC
For the conditioning and t there are different possibilities, for example the unpooled text embeddings (if the model is conditioned on text) usually go in the cross-attn while the pooled text embedding plus t is used in adaLN blocks like StyleGAN (the first one), but there are many other different strategies.
Nothing actually stops the score from going higher than 140, it will just max out the visual dashboard at that point. On Speedometer 2, Safari on M3 Macs ended up over 500. At scores that high it’s harder to have intuition, thus the changed scale of the new test.
Clearly the even photon is for parity checking and error correction ;)
SpiderStep Is a New Optimized Calculation of Navigation Steps in 2D Grids
Er, because they can.

And do.

As evidenced by the recent changes.

The point is, you should either charge cleaning costs and not require the customer to do anything other than leave it in a “used” state - or - not charge cleaning costs but require the customer at least does some basic cleaning.

Charging and also requiring customers to clean is unethical in my book.
These can also be used for machine learning actually (see Dali for data loading for instance)
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I'm not defending it, I said I understood it. I have similar cameras in my own house, so why wouldn't others?

Further, expectation of privacy are commonly accepted to be more complicated than "indoor vs outdoor". To suggest otherwise is just hyperbolic pearl clutching.

My two examples above are perfectly normal situations in which expectations of privacy are lowered.
I don't see any topic where he was really off the mark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer

e.g.

"Persian Gulf War" - "All of those predictions came true during the course of the war"

Ukraine: Putin will wreck it

Lebanon war: a desaster

Israel: "In fact, he argued that relations between Israel and the Palestinians were likely to get worse in the years ahead"

He predicted "that the United States was destined to compete aggressively with China" correctly.

China becoming aggressive is still open.
The Wax and the Wane of the Web
Senator Wyden has been a champion of data privacy. If you are an Oregon resident, please reach out to his office.

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/
Be honest and build the fee into your rates.

Why do you not do that?

What is your rationale for charging it separately?
True I guess, some vendors have a presence outside the market where their public key may be verified.
The fact that they will fight it does not mean we should not try it. At least in EU the GDPR gives quite a bit of power to regulate this.
I keep my rpi in a pelican case that I modified to include an opening port for the NMEA connection. It gets all its power/data from the single connection which has a mechanical connection as well.

I have over 5000 nautical miles logged (thanks to a very nifty influxdb integration as part of open plotter) using this set up since ~2021, and so far it’s held up better than I could have guessed. I keep a spare pi and sds on board but have never actually needed them. My use case is long distance races, mostly in sub tropics/temperate areas, and I’ve had limited exposure to really hot air temp (say 90F and up in the tropics which is where I could see SDs starting to fail)
It's not unique to english. In french, paprika is also used for the powder. While poivron is for bell pepper. And piment for the spicy variety. And piment doux for the sweet version.
is it illegal on this site to post this link in the first place?
They're still sometimes useful for old parts and the like. But there was a period when I used them all the time--admittedly as something of a novelty. Now, it's maybe a once a year sort of thing. Global supply chains have made a lot of the used market pretty tough for things you can just buy new. (I admittedly work a lot harder to get rid of stuff than acquire it these days.)
By "the people" you mean 25% of the people. 75% didn't vote for him but for somebody else. That's an absolute majority that did not vote for him.
> so basically "you can get spam from unknown contacts unless you pay us for the feature".

This did not cross my mind until you wrote it, but I would not be surprised the slightest if it went like this. AI spambots + direct access to people's message apps is not a future I'm looking forward to. The moment that happens and Telegram gives me a hint that with paid subscription I can avoid the spam, I am out of there.

> They're singing "I won't install another app on my on my phone"

I used to have an old as hell smart phone with limited memory, so I sympathise with this somewhat. Still, changing apps is a small price to pay if things start looking bad with Telegram.
It seems like maybe abstraction runs contrary to the concept of not being shitty, because while abstraction is meant to neutrally essentialize people, as often as not, the abstraction process is used to identify aberrations for individual treatment, rather than to streamline creating individual treatments for all.

Put another way, we typically tend to sort first for assholes, then maybe sort for other things later.
Extra so considering they are already boasting about expired data not getting deleted in the past.
I never saw one of those when buying my most recent car (Toyota). But, after creating an account on their website I was able to find this section:

Consent Centre
E-privacy: Your car data

Help us improve our products by sharing car data and diagnostic info.

We don’t currently have your consent to use this data. This may be for the following reasons:

Your car doesn’t have Connected Services. Contact your dealer to check if they can be added.

No (connected) car has been added to your account. Go to My Vehicle, add a car if needed, then connect your car via the Connected Services card.

You have a connected car but have yet to consent. Go to My Vehicle, and open the chosen car. You will be requested to give your consent.

Toyota thanks you for helping us to improve our products.

FWIW, their smartphone app contains a "consent" section with various toggles for the usual reasons (e.g. "sharing data to improve products") and these are all turned off.
There you go! :D https://github.com/maragudk/goqite/pull/31
Not that different from US consumers insisting on Mexican Coca-Cola because it is made with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.
I'm talking about the solutions we tend to produce, not our internal workings.

You contradicted yourself in that last paragraph. I don't know what else to say to you about that.
Kaizen looks so cool, I am jealous! When you say "Moved the video rendering onto the client" do you mean you are doing FFMPeg on the client side?
Feels like a bad point in the curve to try and sell them. “Oh our internal hypecycle is done… we’ll put them in the market now that they’re all worn out.
It did make me curious however, if we dropped the requirement that operations return correct values in favor of probably correct values - would we see any material computing gains in hardware? Large neural models are intrinsically error correcting and stochastic.

I’m unfortunately not familiar enough with hardware to weigh in.
This is a post about vegetable stock, not about meat stock.
Uninspired comment. The tower is worth the trip. It's absurd! I didn't think i'd be into it that much, i've seen the pictures. It's leaning. I get it.

It's unbelievable in real life. It's hilarious, it's fun, it's simple. Everyone is having a good time.

One of my favorite memories in Italy, and i've been to all the heavy hitter stuff in Rome.

It's its own thing. Please don't let this comment discourage anyone.
> To host RSS you just need a domain name and a server. It's pretty hard to stop somebody from getting those.

The word "just" is doing some heavy lifting here. Even cheapo web hosting (that automatically handles TLS) and a domain name still costs more than the "free" of Facebook/Twitter/etc. That's besides the non-zero technical competence to set it up and then actually update the RSS.

Then you're at the mercy of the host's AUP/EULA. You can have your account terminated for a number of reasons, like getting DDoSed because someone doesn't like what you said or your account is hacked and is used to host malware.

Most people, even the technically inclined, don't necessarily want to be their own system administrator. It's an order of magnitude more effort than signing up for a centralized platform and pressing a button. RSS might be fined for a certain demographic but it's completely untenable for the majority.

That is besides the ergonomics of RSS. Because RSS readers want to display item titles because they treat all items like more formal news articles they de facto require posts to have titles. Common blogging platforms also want titles on posts.

Short form content is attractive to many people because it doesn't require formalities like titles or subjects. Short form platforms even understand inline tags (hashtags etc) so posts have even less friction then the typical blog software.

RSS, because of common patterns of readers and generators, sucks for carrying short form content. To make it work you'd need not just generators to make items without titles but also add a "short form" mode to feed readers that don't try to make every feed item look like a long form blog post. Both sides of the equation would also need to capture things like references to posts to display posts as replies to others.

It's all doable but requires agreement on what changes need to be made to the format/schema then implement those in feed readers and generating software. The Atom format tried some of this but too few bits of software really leveraged the format.

I say all this as someone that loves the idea of RSS. The lack of affordance to short form message-like content is a major limitation of the format and a design oversight. I think social media would be very different today if RSS (as an ecosystem) handled informal short form content better.
In descending order....

MacBook Pro, M2 Pro, 16GB, plugged in, external display: Safari=31.2 Chrome=29.4

iPhone 12 mini, plugged in: Safari=19.4

HP Z2 mini (i7): Edge=15.9

Panasonic Toughbook CF19 (win 10): Edge=4.7 Chrome=5.6

Galaxy Tab S5e: Chrome=2.2

Oculus Quest 2: browser crashed

Tizen TV: displayed, wouldn't run

Nintendo 2DS: displayed, no css, wouldn't run
You don't need a quantum computer to sample noise from quantum processes.

It's a prohibitively expensive way to go, and depending on how you built the quantum computer, it may be more susceptible to interference and non-quantum noise than using good circuits and custom systems.
You've never heard of using cornstach slurries (sp) to thicken soups? I feel like that's a pretty well known trick for getting the mouth-feel right.
Self inflicted wound in the middle of several days of scheduled depositions.

Just about as suspicious as could be.
Thank you for sharing this! I've been searching for a good open-source handwriting app with pen and pdf support on android, and this is by far the most functional I've seen. Actually good enough to start taking notes on my tablet.
As someone with ADHD, I have had this discussion with doctors numerous times. Not a single one of them have ever read F4A, but many were aware of the plot at least.

I still warn people new to ADHD about the sinister side(s) of medication. One of the issues I learned real quick during the shortage of the past few years is that what ever is "given" can be "taken."

I have a decent enough job that provides me a stable life. Nothing to write home about. However, when I was off medication for bits during the shortage, I noticed that my life was built on a house a cards. I managed to create a life that I could not sustain without medication. Everything worked out in the end, but I got a nice glimpse of the what awaited me, and it's a long fall back to rock bottom.

It's made me a bit paranoid in the sense that I feel like I have to be overly cautious about financial and occupational decisions (not a bad thing, I suppose). If I were to buy a house with a certain level of income or take on a new role, I need to be certain that in a "worst case scenario" that I can still chew whatever I bit off.
He was scheduled to appear for day two of his deposition testimony the morning of his death. Had he died Sat night instead of Sat morning, the transcript of Saturday's testimony could have been read to the jury during trial. Obviously that can't happen now and whatever he was going to say in Saturday's testimony is lost forever.
Perl and CGI (2018)
I got 35.7 ± 2.3 on a MacBook Pro M3, Chrome 122.
calling it an insult is a weird insult!
Outside of the tinfoil, it just sounds like the universe is complex and not always predictable.
Seismic and acoustic signals from the 2014 'Interstellar Meteor'
That is interesting and useful discussion.

I do wonder what I am seeing on Lineage with an older device, where the OS security is current, but the vendor security is long out of date.