skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YAML is kind of like C++:

> You like C++ because you're only using 20% of it. And that's fine, everyone only uses 20% of C++, the problem is that everyone uses a different 20% :)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/10/17/the-c-bashing-seaso...

The YAML footguns are too numerous to reproduce here, so here are some sources:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3790454/how-do-i-break-a...

https://www.arp242.net/yaml-config.html

https://noyaml.com/

YAML isn't terrible if you only ever have to read what you wrote. Now consider that there are 63 different ways to write multi-line strings in YAML -- how many of those have you committed to memory? Yeah... now throw 10-100 developers into the mix, each with their own favorite alternative syntaxes -- good luck making sense of your YAML.
Among the A.I. doomsayers
I think that it's not legally fraud (in the US) because an important component of fraud is that the lie is used to steal something of value from the victims. Advertising a job that doesn't exist doesn't do this unless you're charging an application fee or using the data collected from applicants for a purpose other than what was represented.

The practice is lying, though, and I'll join in the chorus of voices saying that it's terrible behavior.
My experience has been: Kdenlive is full-featured and weird to use. Blender is missing features and weird to use. Openshot is simple and easy, but crashes. shortcut is simple and easy and does not crash.
There is no question that biology plays a role in gender outcomes, but the view that gendered outcomes in society are 100% explainable by biology and unavoidable is the bio-essentialist view, which is naive and simplistic. Why would Harari's -- a historian's -- hot take be preferable to the consemsus ofof gender researchers and sociologists who actually study gender in experiments and statistical studies?

I don't think I'm vilifying anyone by saying this. But if that's where we're heading, yes, I think he's a grifter, same as Michio Kaku. He goes far beyond his area of expertise to make big statements that give him publicity.
All of them. Building a value moat and rolling up the ladder 101.
They didn't need to trick anyone. They withheld knowledge.

Every tech company agreed they could do whatever they wanted with user created data and the user had no rights over that data.

No user was informed of the full extent of the consequences of agreeing to use new tech... or allowed to alter the 'agreement' tech companies offered the user.

The 'trick' was hiding sales tactics that were illegal in traditional businesses, behind TOS, EULAs and unregulated internet space.

We all know deep down inside that no man would agree to what big tech did, so the deal was made unintelligble to the user.
Or tell the voters they're stupid. That seemed to work for the UK's Remain campaign.
Isn't that also similar to the (formerly?) Microsoft Guidance project? https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance
I believe you are right in your hesitancy. I was administered an IQ test as part of the diagnostic process for another medical condition. To be honest, I wish I was never shown the results. Now, to be be fair, I did kind of intentionally dodge a few questions and did get in a slight argument with the proctor over one of the sections. But I doubt either one of those actions had much of an impact on the grand total of my score. I did end up receiving a medical diagnosis, and was informed that my IQ is not an accurate assessment of my intelligence due to the test not being calibrated for people with my disability. Still, seeing that that I had 2.5 SD between some scores did kind of explain some things about my past.

Of course, IQ is highly debated and all that. I think there is some merit to IQ, and I also think intelligence is far more complex than what can be measured on a test. Still, I wish I never knew my score because it forever lives in the back of my mind rent free when applying for jobs, trying to learn new skills, etc.. I've always had low self-esteem, so perhaps it a matter of personality when it comes to these things.
A case of Poe's law in action.

"We must destroy democracy to save democracy."

EDIT:

The OP strikes me as the kind of guy that would side with a group of religious extremists trying to unilaterally execute the democratically elected head of government because "He's too dangerous to be left alive." during the middle of a civil war.
Yeah I think you're right actually. Seems like they do per-object locking instead.
My beef with SQLite is the weaker typing + not even enforcing foreign keys unless you open the DB in a certain mode.

IMO it should become more opinionated and stricter. I'd honestly pay to buy a license for SQLite with the legacy baggage removed and rewritten to be as strict as PostgreSQL or more. Well... basically embedded PostgreSQL I guess.
Audio wouldn't be going via the DOM or JS, right? I know that Firefox has its own codec support and that Safari on Mac uses different AV stuff than other browsers.

I don't think that AV stuff would be tested by Speedometer.
What's in a Name? Hello Posette: An Event for Postgres 2024
India enacts citizenship law criticised as 'discriminatory' to Muslims
AI's carbon emissions are about to be a problem
Please be specific about how the screenshot advocates piracy.

(Also, a personal preference: never use the phrase "seems to suggest" again; if you're going to make an accusation, be honest enough to actually make it.)
Good point. I believe it could be solved with backtracking, just like it is done in compilers/lexers.
If there's an appropriate place for me to do so, yeah.

And if there's not (as often), I at least gather all the trash together and make that task as easy as possible for whoever's stuck with the thankless job of cleaning up after me.

It's wild and disheartening that people here feel justified in not doing basic tidying of whatever mess they made when traveling or that it's some big demand of a host to ask them to.
This sort of brushes on it but for a long time there was hope at resolving the Hubble Tension by saying that Hubble telescope’s measurements were incorrect, because that would be the most simple explanation. This was not the case, so if anything, the mystery deepens. I don’t know for certain but I believe Hubble’s estimation has been widely accepted for a while though, because we’ve been using the 13.8 billion cosmological age estimate ever since I started brushing up my layman's understanding of the subject.
Just like any other data collection and “tailored” to it service the only purpose is to justify a charge not to actually work. Targeted ads work better than traditional ones? Who knows but how can you say that your service is better if it has nothing innovative. Just like “feature-rich” devices is just a sales pitch.
Yeah definitions are tricky. If you saw a house consumed with fire, you might look at the circumstances and conclude that it was likely the offspring of the fire that consumed the house across the street, but there wouldn't be anything about the fire's phenotype that would help you come to that conclusion.

If the flames carried the characteristic shape of their parents fire, and they could be distinguished as not the offspring of some other fire by their features alone, then I'd be arguing that fire is alive.

I feel like I'm at risk of classifying certain periodic crystals as alive here, but they wouldn't meet the thermodynamic requirements that I have in mind (which fire does meet).
Well those cost tens of thousands of dollars. But even a cheap (by comparison) Apple XDR display is properly calibrated and surpasses the color gamut of professional CRT monitors. (100% of DCI-P3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI-P3)
(not on the team) I believe the project are open to supporting other devices that meet the criteria, or collaborating with hardware partners to that effect.

As I understand, the way it works is that the project first has to scope out a hardware target that meets their security requirements before support can be considered and funded for. Just that right now there are no other phones that meet the requirements specified in https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

If a phone met those requirements and was not made by Google, GrapheneOS would consider supporting it. In the case that Google didn't meet the requirements but a different phone did, GrapheneOS would support that phone and not the Pixels.
My take on the Garry Tan interview (which seems pretty clear, regardless of whether this is snake oil or not) is that Extropic are building low power analog chips because we're hitting up against the limits of Moore's Law (limit's of physics in reducing transistor size), and at the same time the power consumption for LLM/AI training and inference is starting to get out of hand.

So, their solution is to embrace the stochastic operation of smaller chip geometries where transistors become unreliable, and double down on it by running the chips at low power where the stochasticity is even worse. They are using an analog chip design/architecture of some sort (presumably some sort of matmul equivalent?) and using a "full-stack" design whereby they have custom software to run neural nets on their chips, taking advantage of the fact the neural nets can tolerate, and utilize, randomness.
See this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39670199
Command-R, a new RAG-optimized LLM aimed at large-scale production workloads
Multiple times I've been the first candidate in an interview loop (out of say 3 or 4 candidates) and gotten picked.
The point Marcus is making is that LLMs are solely next word predictors - intelligence requires far more than that.

LLMs will always have the same basic challenges - their 'kinda copy what a human has written' algorithm has hit its limit.

He is an advocate of symbolic learning - getting that to work is a lot harder, however it's far more likely to result in genuine intelligence.
At Kellogg they used to say it's best to either be the first to be interviewed or the last—assuming you're a decent candidate and well prepared to begin with.

First because you set the benchmark, and your outstanding qualities become "requirements" for the candidates that follow to meet that benchmark.

Last because of recency bias, so whatever qualities you have are better recalled by interviewers.

Everyone else becomes somewhat forgettable.

(I would guess they mentioned a study about it, but it's been 10 years and I don't have the reference handy.)

In my experience as an interviewer, everyone in the middle does get somewhat mixed up together, especially when I had less than 5 minutes to scribble notes and reset between candidates.

But I would modify "first" and "last" to "towards the start" and "towards the end" e.g., I will (subconsciously) more easily benchmark candidates against a very strong "second interview of the day" than against a lackluster "very first candidate", if that makes sense.

Said differently, whoever is the first candidate that hits it out of the park becomes the benchmark. And whoever happens to be the best relatively strong candidate is more easily recalled than other relatively strong candidates.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk
Yup it's bad. From TFA:

> They could prevent him from becoming prime minister, but in almost any conceivable circumstance, his party would have to be a part of the government. There is almost no getting around it.

It's the same issue in many other european countries, like Belgium or France. The "regular" political parties (and their mainstream media, which they basically own and which they use for propaganda) try to demonize the far-right but there's a reason so many people are voting for the far-right european parties.

I'm not saying these are good reasons, but it is what people vote for.

And mainstream politicians, instead of addressing the issues that make people vote for the far-right, try to do what politicians do best: dodge the issues, demonize the far-right, and collude to prevent those who won the election from putting in place what they promised their voters they'd do.

If you remove the 5% (approximative) of muslim in the Netherlands (who obviously didn't vote for a party that is anti-islam), there are 26% of voters in the Netherlands who voted for Geert Wilders.

Why? Why is more than one person out of every four in a country voting for a far-right party? How shitty have things become for that to happen? (they won 37 out of 150 seats).

I do believe that, at some point, politicians have to address that question.

P.S: FWIW I'm originally from one the rare (european) country where voting is mandatory but I don't give a crap and still don't go voting. Never had any fine (even though technically I could get one).
From the example, it appears you still need to setup schema yourself using SQL. This makes the library a leaky abstraction because it only partially hides the SQL.
Your sarcasm is valid on its own, but here the issue is more towards DoS rather than copying of the content.
K8s LAN Party – A Network Security CTF
Ask HN: What library does Apple use for its OCR engine?
It seems very good.
From people studying a subject through formal training? I agree, more people should do that!
This collaboration is pretty exciting. I would expect that the teams of all three rendering engines (WebKit, Blink, Gecko) have done whatever they could to improve performance for the launch and that there won't be any outliers at the beginning with all of them having similar performance.

But the title of future performance king is up for grabs! And now we have a de-facto standard for browser performance benchmarking.
Anthropic Prompt Library
Sure, ban the people you disagree with. That's a good, practical solution with no unintended consequences.

Oh, wait, now you're the fascist.
I'm more of a proponent for small community hosted nodes that require manual approval to join, and federate in a larger network.

That way each node in the larger community can vet new members, but they can still communicate across nodes. Sort of like ActivityPub, or something like it. Not trying to prefer one design over another, we'll see what comes.
You will get locked in to the one/two vendors that can make those free and open document formats and protocols work, interoperate, and integrate with all the processes and requirements of a government.

"Free and open" is not a silver bullet. Neither is Microsoft, but Microsoft has been providing government services for decades, and they know the ins and outs, the requirements, the policies, the access levels and a billion other details. None of that exists in "free and open". I wouldn't be surprised if just resolving the complex web of Active Directories in a small government department will make anyone mad.
I question describing this as a cognitive bias, let alone an unconscious one, and the experimental protocol used here is awful for attempting to show that it is.

The examples they give: Job interviews, dating, auditions, are all cases of search for the best out of a set of possibilities. The earliest candidates have the initial advantage of there being few in the set, or none, for the first candidate. Since the purpose is to compare the entire set, by definition, the first one is the best you've seen. Even if they objectively aren't great, the rating at that time will tend to be more positive. That isn't a bias, it's a best-effort judgement in the face of incomplete information. You'd need a crystal ball not to do this.

What they're measuring is immediate impressions, while what they should be measuring is decisions made after the search concludes. I've certainly had the experience of interviewing a candidate for a job and telling myself "yeah, might be ok", then a later candidate comes by and I adjust that to "no, this one is much better". If they want to show that being first or early in such a sequence makes it more likely someone will get picked, they've failed to do so with this protocol.
Google: if your website is full of ads, we'll downrank you. >:(

Also Google: we automatically enabled vignette interstitials on your website. :)
I think it depends a lot on priming, IQ, memory capacity, ability to notice details, etc.

Donald Trump tends to like the last person he spoke to best, but probably because that's the person who comes to mind when asked, and anyway he doesn't really care one way or the other.

Unless the topic of conversation was himself: Donald Trump, in which case he cares a lot, will remember details, and will like whichever person said the nicest things about him, regardless of sequencing.
Isn't PrinceXML pretty much up to date? What's missing?
I think it's the other way around. Apple was heavily inspired by Braun/Dieter Rams. When I look at this work I immediately think premium. And this was long before Apple.
I wonder what proportion of that (ridiculous) R&D figure consisted of infrastructure - I can only imagine that it was justified as an investment in network and compute infrastructure, rather than marketing research and development in the web apps (which is notoriously unstable and unusable on mobile)
Yeah true, I'm starting to remember the headaches with yaml when I was using kubernetes or cloudformation....
After now getting time to read the thread. Don't take my sentences as any negativity towards the dev in the thread, it is meant more generally.

Please keep backups of your data, your backup does not need to be full git history etc... Even just a zip export of the current state every now and then although just a full dump of the repo is small enough for most repos.
There is a pure Golang SQLite implementation btw, I love that aspect of the Golang ecosystem. Not even Rust has that and I am envious.
If the old you is already dead - why should it get to decide whether or not to kill the new one, which wants to go on living.
> That said, Safari for macOS and iOS plays all the examples at https://opus-codec.org/examples/ except the last.

That's because none of those samples are Opus files, except the last one. It even says so on the page.

> You don't, because HE-AACv2 is as universal as MP3 and better than Opus at low bitrates.

No. I did evaluate it before picking Opus. It only beats Opus at very low bitrates, and open source encoders for AAC suck.
"very far away" isn't accurate - the A770 is pretty close to a 4060 - perfectly adequate for 1080p/1440p 60fps gaming on high settings in modern titles.
Python actually has type safety though, as you can't do `'1' + 1` like in JS (not that a linter wouldn't scream at you). If I hear another "I compile <insert language> so I know it will work, but you can't do that in Python" I'll lose it. Having the compiler not complain that the types match is not effing "testing".
> This is still nothing particularly heavy, I've run with systems with far more concurrent users a decade ago on a handful of servers.

The question isn't about "concurrent users". The question is about processes, documents, revisions, access levels, interdepartmental access, policies, and a billion other details.
Nothing to ask right now, just -- thank for your (and Alice's) work!

The (non-game) things that I do would be infinitely more painful without Bevy ECS, so I sponsored personally at Diamond for now.

Very excited for relations and I'm hoping that the Bevy Foundation can attract the support it's looking for (and I'll switch over to corporate in a few months if things don't go unexpectedly sideways with my company). :)
real recognizing real
was she running things? this is the first i am hearing of it
Posting just because nobody else has posted one this high:

Mac mini M2, macOS 14.4, Chrome 122: 30.2 ± 1.6

Good ol' Apple Silicon.
SpinLaunch: Ground-based, kinetic launch system for 200KG-class satellites
Author here, when I tried to understand diffusion models I realized that the code and math can be greatly simplified, which led to me writing this blog post and diffusion library.

Happy to answer any questions.
The government does things people don't want, those people vote for politicians that say they won't do those things, and the response should be to ban them... and somehow that isn't the death of democracy?
It's actually the opposite of that. You use bits of stuff you have left over -- ends from vegetables, chicken carcasses, etc... Throw all that stuff in the freezer instead of throwing it away and use it for stock later.
Cheers for these, appreciate everybody taking a look.

You've given good examples of what I am finding myself... your Researchgate link is indeed aeronautical, but is also a software machine learning related paper from 2023. So unfortunately doesn't prove this doesn't come from the modern software usage rather than the other direction.

And when I read the second Wikipedia entry previously I'd hoped to see an attribution... So could very well be correct, just there is no reference to look up.
Do we get calls to outlaw Nestlé every time it's campaign season? Hershey would love it.

Hating Nestlé is niche. Hating the Russians is partisan. Hating the Chinese is mainstream consensus.

Consider how confident you are in the slave labor accusation, for example. This was a thread about a non-compete dispute.
Snark has always been part of this website.
Interest in Building for Puerto Rico
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/shamiyal/
My engineering sense says RPi isn’t a good choice here, there’s a lot of potential failures that could happen, from a corrupted sd card, to overheating, harsh environment, among others, an industrial mini PC with proper protection and resources as well would be far better.
1) Britta Soho / longlast filter (96% of microplastics removed)
2) Aquagear pitcher (59% of microplastics removed after 2-3 flushes)
3) Aquasana and Pur pitchers (80% of microplastics removal after 3 flushes of filters)

Even though the Pur Filter cleaned up the water better overall, it took more flushes (3-4) to reach those numbers, and the filter supposedly emitted a bunch of carbon particles. I use the PUR filter, and it seems to work okay. It solved my problem of Water tasting funky. It would be nice if it also truly reduced microplastics and PFAS chemicals, but I don't have a lab capable of verifying such claims, so I need to trust folks like Consumer Lab.

The important thing to remember is that no matter what these tests say, they are a single sample in time. Manufacturers enshitify products for the benefit of shareholders whenever possible. None of us knows if the filters will continue to work as tested.
Is There Another System?
I don’t see it. For the highest grossing, three out of ten are original non-sequels if we are being generous in 2005, versus two of ten in 2023.
i use a mesh sieve, but i also give the vegetables a press as i'm doing it.
It's also always been possible to reach breakeven (and above) in magnetic mirrors. These are linear devices that leak out the ends, so just make them long enough and they will reach breakeven. The problem has been "long enough" has been "kilometers".
a hotspot that provides internet requires a cellular connection, you can still just make a hotspot that has not internet connection and acts as a regular lan
Exactly, you can’t have people voting for popular things. Doing what the majority want is not democracy.
Irony is something made out of metal in the VC money fueled world of make it useful then make it expensive.
In contrast, some of my favorite travel memories involve unique Airbnbs. People around the world have created some incredible living spaces, and hotels don't let you experience that aspect of travel.
We believe Guidance can run on top of AICI (we're working on efficient Earley parser for that [0], together with local Guidance folks). AICI is generally lower level (though our sample controllers are at similar level to Guidance).

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/aici/blob/main/controllers/aici...