skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice for you.

We got starlink for our rural property. We were previously paying over $200 a month for vastly inferior service (long range Wi-Fi), much slower and dropped out all the time.

If you can get a wired connection, get it. Starlink is for people who can't, and it's far and away the best option for those people.
AI to do literature review while giving line-by-line citations
Maybe we then need an LLM to tell us if two pieces of compiled code are equivalent in an input-output mapping sense (ignoring execution time).

I'm actually serious; it would be exceedingly easy to get training data for this just by running the same source code through a bunch of different compiler versions and optimization flags.
> as black holes have the odd property of getting less 'dense' as their mass grows

What is a black hole's density?
A fixed limit is a clear attack on carrying cash anyways, 10k€ won't be worth as much in 10 years just due to inflation, you just need to wait.
I was genuinely curious to learn what are the arguments to keep cash around (I myself am pretty happy with digital payments). This article was such as tedious read and in the end I am still not well educated on the arguments. mostly that there is a narrative against cash, that it is demonized and that somehow digital money is like casino chips? As far as I know banks and their apps do function based on gov regulations so it is pretty far from chips or uber points.
Ah, okay. So you have no idea what you're talking about and don't care about what we're discussing here then, thanks for clarifying. There are devices that don't come from Apple or Google at all that rely on MLS and need a location service, regardless of whether you believe it's worth the effort or not.
Peter Attia doesn't recommend rapamycin for most patients.

https://peterattiamd.com/davidsabatini-mattkaeberlein/
"Longevity enthusiasts" sound like people who spend like 1/10 of their time on Earth desperately searching for ways to live several weeks longer.
Compressing Images with Neural Networks
Proteomics searching so fast it seems like Magic
Uppercase is impressive for 3x4 pixels. Lowercase is pretty much unreadable…
Don't talk it down just because you don't like it and you are cheap

I did Rosetta for years and I was fully aware what and why I was supporting it...
It is! Modern macOS, fresh install: no Python, no Ruby, but Perl is there. Git for Windows adds Bash with Perl in it. Every linux server has it. You probably can come up with some Docker image that doesn't have it installed, but it comes in as a dependency to a lot of linux software.

The cool thing is that Perl is compatible, and maintaining compatibility is the top priority for Perl developers. so, many distros keep updating it because it's very safe to do so. When many projects switched from GPL2 to GPL3 macOS famously decided to either freeze some bundled tools, switch to alternatives or removed them entirely. It took them years and years, but all this time Perl has been a notable exception.

As a result nowadays you can be very certain that every machine you run your code on has a very recent Perl installed, so you can use many new stuff, too. It's an old language, but the code you can write can be pretty modern, which is nice.

It's still Perl: lots of symbols, some variables get set up implicitly for you, some keywords look silly to modern eyes (`my` to declare a variable, `sub` declares a function). Some newish stuff is handy. Like, these days you can specify types of parameters in function signatures, and it does a rudimentary type-checking for you. And Perl regexes are still better than in ANY language out there, for 35 years and counting!
Feels like celebrating someone for finishing the good draft of theirPhD dissertation after 17 years. Just glad it's kind of close to the end. The paper is pretty good, even if the field has changed dramatically and the thesis might not even be super relevant anymore.
Show HN: retry-later – Retry a function without blocking the flow of execution
Seems like a sign that taxes are too low.
Depends how you see it. Spending resources to do it in house when an outside shop does it could be seen as a waste of money too. if someone else is already doing it, why spend money redoing what they do?
> 100 Times safer cars

I wish companies would back up numbers like this. Are they really going to reduce the number of accidents on the road by a factor of 100 due to a better os? I really struggle to believe that.
It uses direct udp peer discovery on Lan though?
That should be done on a branch and not merged to the trunk until there is a net improvement.
> but Amazon for example? Or Decathlon? (a big sports/outdoor chain in europe)

Pretty much every company out there employs oxygen wasters who need "engagement" to justify their promotions/salaries. They don't care whether said "engagement" translates to actual profit.

If bloating the page or adding some annoying cookie banner allows them to come up with some random number that goes up (no matter whether the measurement is even correct) they'll happily take that opportunity even if would cause actual profits to go down.
Until they try to expand outside the Romanian car market…
> Everyone with a IQ above double figures can see it's one power outage away from food riots

It is super classy to pre-emptively call everyone stupid who disagrees with you.
There's one great piece of advice: "Keep your identity small" [1].

(If people ask me about my political affiliations, I usually answer something like "Hamilton for president! Of maybe Jefferson."; this kind of statesmanship is hard to find now though.)

[1]: https://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html (It's short, read it now.)
In my old tests, with data clustered by organization_id, the SQLite and SQLServer run the query very fast.

> is not to be so certain that there is "a correct query plan"

Yes, data distribution, type, row size, machine power, SSD vs HD can affect which is the “best plan”.
Definitely not! I play both and Letter Boxed accepts many more words.
Earth to satellite connection is as jammable as other wireless connection. And don't forget that gps sygnals are also jammed and replaced with fake location.
The author points out that plenty of societies have starved and killed their population en masse because cash crops were more valuable.

Then he states that he doesn’t believe that societies will starve out their population en masse to bid up energy for AI because it’s never happened before.

What.
Here’s more stuff to add I did before:

- Scan for drones that are using RC link

- Scan nearby cell operators and their metrics.

- Scan and pentest cellular networks

- Create your own LTE/5G tower.

- Transmitting FM/AM radio

- Communicate with other pilots by tuning on airband

Among others, for this you need a full duplex SDR, so rtl or hackrf won’t do, limeSDR or bladRF would.

For the author: I did have a realtime voice over SDRangel, it allows you to have the sdr in a physical location away from you, if I got some time I will write how to do it.
>if you know something is there, you have a way better chance of tracking it.

Fighter jets can maneuver. For a successful missile launch you need a good enough lock to track the plane precisely as it moves. Just knowing roughly where the plane was a few minutes ago doesn't help all that much when it comes to killing it.
Did a food riot start?
I asked ChatGPT to consider your point:

Understandably, concerns about the quality of LLM-generated content are valid. However, it's crucial to recognize that academic research goes through rigorous processes before publication, including oversight by advisors and peer review. These layers of scrutiny help ensure that any content, whether initially drafted with the aid of AI like GPT-4 or not, meets the high standards of accuracy, reliability, and originality expected in scholarly work. AI tools are used as aids in the research process, not replacements for human intellect, and the responsibility for the final output always rests with the human authors. Hence, the academic community already has strong mechanisms in place to filter out inaccuracies or "bullshit," ensuring that the integrity of published research is maintained.
Technically, yes!

A more reasonable answer, though, is "no."

I've technically gone through random tutorials and trained various toy networks, including a GAN at some point, but I don't think that should really count. I also have a ton of experience with neural networks that's decades out-of-date (HUNDREDS of nodes, doing things like OCR). And I've read a bunch of modern papers and used a bunch of Hugging Face models.

Which is to say, I'm not completely ignorant, but I do not have credible experience training GANs.
I did a one year graduate diploma in secondary teaching, can now teach math, physics and IT.

I taught in Asia for a number of years, easy to find work there if you're a native English speaker.

Another option would be to take up a trade, painting house interiors is something that you can learn fairly quickly, don't need a lot of tools for, and can charge well for.

That being said, each sector has its downsides, trades are quite prone to the boom/bust economic cycle and there are no shortage of, shall we say, mediocre schools around
"because you are cheap"
What a weird take.
0 growth at the moment.
Uber is regulated also?
Meta obviously has the money; $135B revenue, $88B in expenses, $18B in debt.

Even assuming the current push toward general AI is a bubble, which is not unreasonable, the company can afford to throw away billions of dollars. It doesn't matter at all; they own the money printer and can make as many bets in as many markets as they want.

The same GPUs that are presently being used to create semi-open AI projects can just as easily be repurposed to power a public launch of their Codec avatars, which are lightyears ahead of what Apple has, or for better prediction engines in what are quite probably the best sales engines of all time: Their websites.

Their data centers will be useful for the future of selling products to gullible consumers: Short-form video, which is the first chance in years that they've had to meaningfully take market share from Google.

Even assuming it was all vanity, Zuckerberg has earned the right at this stage in his career to make vanity plays. He still has majority control over his company, which shareholders have insisted upon, and he has an almost untarnished record of making incredible long-term bets that seem irrational at the time (Instagram acquisition, Whatsapp acquisition, arguably the Oculus acquisition).

He's earned drastic amounts of money for speculators, who have done little to deserve any of it. It would be a strange thing to argue that the speculators suddenly have a better grasp of what he's doing than he does; there are millions of speculators, but only one person with a track record like Zuckerberg.
Maybe. I think it's just a high-level library for a specialized domain. It's not like imperatively coding JavaScript, spelling out each action step-by-step. The fact that I just need a little of it to do a lot means I just don't need to use it that much, and then I forget how.

I could see a better tutorial experience with live examples for common patterns. Something like SolidJS does (https://www.solidjs.com/tutorial/introduction_basics). That would be a good reference. Alternatively, a copy/paste pattern library, like what a lot of people are doing with Tailwind (https://daisyui.com/components/).
It works if simonw means the refactoring/rearchitecting/redesign project and not the broader encompassing project. In the former case, it means making sure your changes are mergeable (ideally merged) all along the way so that if that effort is canceled the broader project can still benefit from it. In the latter case, then you're correct it doesn't matter. If the encompassing project is canceled who cares what state the change effort is in since everything is getting tossed.
The two-party system easily evokes the ancient knee-jerk reflexes. The millennia-old "us against them" tends to eschew any nuance and instill the war mentality. Either you are "one of us", and subscribe to the bulk of "our" views, or you are "one of them", and are assumed to subscribe to the bulk of "their" views.

Pretty sad :(
Nothing more than a sarcophagus for the rich.
Pleasing everyone in engineering can be disastrous.

We'll see how it goes.
> Literally any definition of something infinite can always be reduced to a procedure that recursively transforms or observes some prior state.

You can’t generate R this way. This is a consequence of Cantor’s proof.
I may take you up on that if Tesla doesn’t come through. Although I have no desire to muck with the HV system myself.
According to my computations the total income tax on entrepreneurs is over 50% in most places in the US. Is that really too low?
And thanks to fossil fuel fertilizers and land degradation a lot of topsoil is less than 60 harvests from being degraded completely.
Do you have any URLs to read more about Russian anti-drone technology and the latest news of drone warfare?
Yes, but remember in this scenario people are desperate enough to riot for food. In this scenario, this is not just bad weather it's bad enough that it has become nearly logistically impossible for a developed nation to transfer enough resources to the people living in this region.

In this scenario, why would I trade the food which I need now for cash? I don't care about a potentially large payoff in the future when my immediate needs are not met.
I remember watching YouTube in 720p HD back in 2009 on a mid-range laptop of the era and it felt faster than the current experience on an M1 where the page often stutters and takes seconds to load.

As far as I know, nothing changed on the video detail page to justify such a huge performance degradation. There's still a player, there are still comments, there are ads and suggested videos.

Everyone working on that pile of shit should be ashamed. They would've been better off literally doing nothing and just enjoy the incremental performance gains as the hardware got faster.
It is a bit rich coming from a BBC that has become a major pusher of government propaganda in the past 10 years to be complaining about the normalisation process and blaming people for getting fed up of it. People are really fed up with mainstream media fielding liars and choosing grifters over science or more well supported positions. It's not people becoming fatigued with the same thing it's fatigue with propaganda and an unwillingness to continue to consume it.
According to some stats, India has 487 million WA users. Sending these many messages from a single account should have raised a red flag.

I can understand the sending of mass messages in a national emergency, but this one is for political gain.
Is that an argument? Because the open air drug markets exist in places that had drug use in them they are OK? How does B follow from A?

The point is that open air drug markets full of human misery, and usually unsanitary and violent conditions, are bad, and we should not tolerate them as part of our society.

It’s a sort of obvious mainstream view that everyone most likely shares outside of this sort of bizzare too-online culture that has developed.

My comment is just pointing out that having them in places where people are trying to live normal lives and raise children is bad.

The fact that this kind of thing will exist anyways isn’t a counter-argument any more than the argument that porn will always exist and is legal means it has to be allowed on billboards.
Not really. You know what is good for taking down air defense? Long range drones.

Instead of buying one stealth plane, army can buy 5000+ combat drones. And you know who has 5000+ air defense rockets ready to engage? No one!
Engima Breaker in Rust
Is anyone building a directory of these bunkers? That list would be worth quite a few boxes of ammunition if the apocalypse ever comes our way.

Someone needs to turn that into a TV show about a apocalypto-Robin Hood gang going from bunker to bunker, liberating supplies for the desperate survivors using any means necessary.
Does anyone know the size of the font from the first Pokemon games? They had similar constraints.
The ultra-rich avoid it entirely.

https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...

> Over the last 20 years, Thiel has quietly turned his Roth IRA — a humdrum retirement vehicle intended to spur Americans to save for their golden years — into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank, confidential Internal Revenue Service data shows. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, Thiel has taken a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall.
AutoGen Studio 2.0: Revolutionizing AI Agents
developers have already updated their software. by early 2021 a few months after the first M1 came out
For logical stuff, GPT-4 is still superior, especially for more complex stuff. I like Claude for creating more simple stuff that doesn't require that much reasoning because it generally writes very detailed output.
Microsoft’s own E-Discovery tools exports results as psts or .eml files. Neither of which are supported by new Outlook.

And despite it being a wrapper for Outlook Web, last time I used the New Outlook, I had to log in to the web version to inspect email headers.

The planned pst support has been taking months to arrive. Until then new outlook is effectively useless for my use cases.
I haven't found many places where I trust the results of an ML algorithm. I've found many places where they work astonishingly well 30-95% of the time, which is to say, save me or others a bunch of time.

It's been years, but I'm thinking back through things I've reverse-engineered before, and having something which kinda works most of the time would be super-useful still as a starting point.
They are claming that they resolved the vulnerability that caused the token leak but don't mention it. Doesn't exactly seem transparent to me or like handling it well.

I was contracting for them last year and tried, among other things to build an actual engineering culture that prevents and fixes issues that accumulate to catastrophic incidents like this.

They generally prefer to "ship fast".

I informed them very thoroughly again on January 13th (3+ months after they terminated me for "cultural differences"), because I was worried of this exact nightmare scenario happening very soon.

The reason for this was that they open sourced a package that let's an attacker easily practice and test locally in like a minute.

MDX exposes to Cross site Scripting easily.
I assume this is the "fixed vulnerability" they are talking about, just to be transparent.
You can also recoup some of the cost by attaching your Boinc to Gridcoin: https://gridcoin.us/
But your fighter jets can know where to look. Supported by all your drones you can send in the flight path. One drone close enough with a heat seeking missile and that was it.

And advanced radar probably also can get a lock, if the operators know something is there.
This is what I thought the question was really about.

I assume that an llm will simply see patterns that look similar to other patterns and make assosciations and assume ewuivalences on that level, meanwhile real code is full of things where the programmer, especially assembly programmers, modify something by a single instruction or offset value etc to get a very specific and functionally important result.

Often the result is code that not only isn't obvious, it's nominaly flatly wrong, violating standards, specs, intended function, datasheet docs, etc. If all you knew were the rules written in the docs, the code is broken and invalid.

Is the llm really going to see or understand the intent of that?

They find matching patterns in other existing stuff, and to the user who can not see the infinite body of that other stuff the llm pulled from, it looks like the llm understood the intent of a question, but I say it just found the prior work of some human who understood a similar intent somewhere else.

Maybe an llm or some other flavor of ai can operate some other way like actually playing out the binary like executing in a debugger and map out the results not just look at the code as fuzzy matching patterns. Can that take the place of understanding the intents the way a human would reading the decompiled assembly?

Guess we'll be finding out sooner of later since of course it will all be tried.
Thank you, that's quite a big list.
Playing more around with agents and multi-agent workflows. Figure the LLM space will just move at own uncontrollable pace but the the paradigm of having Agents talking to each other to solve problems is very powerful. Tried a couple of ideas around code generation and the output is better than just asking GPT-4. The issue is that GPT-4 seems the only good model to use for multi-agents (others get stuck in a loop) hence cost can become an issue.
Unlike: Do you want the government paving roads for you to drive on?
It happened in Puerto Rico after the 2017 hurricane.[1] 11 months without power. Fortunately the climate there is good.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/us/puerto-rico-shortages-...
Yeah, maybe that's the way to go. I could be up for joining such a venture maybe
It's from their 2022 WWDC presentation: https://youtu.be/q5D55G7Ejs8?t=2271
On paper. As far as I know there are a myriad of ways to circumvent paying taxes.

"In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes."

between 2014 and 2018, Bezos paid $972 million in total taxes on $4.22 billion of income.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
Maybe, though as a hard and fast rule I strongly disagree.

Delaying merge increases risk. It can also make the diff impossible to review. Overhead can be increased by way of merge conflict and re-doubling of efforts that would not be necessary had the update been merged.

Other times, sometimes you want the one step to be launched so you can ensure there is no regression. Sometimes the next steps are going to take a long time and themselves are multi-pronged and would be merged in multiple parallel phases.

Sometimes you just want to get rid of the inappropriate abstraction so that someone can complete task X where inappopriate abstraction was hindering that. In other times, "worse" is in the eye of the beholder, WET'ing the code first can sometimes be the right thing to do, even if it is never re-DRY'ied.
>SPAs require implementing safety checks on both sides in 2 different languages.

Nodejs is quite popular. One language works on front-end and back-end. Like any language, security is up to the developers.

>Many junior devs believe the client code is trustworthy and put important validation only in the client.

Who is letting "junior devs" make these decisions? It sounds like they deserve to be hacked.
> works with the assumption that the project could get cancelled at any moment

If I have that feeling, I have very, very little incentive to contribute to the project until I get better clarity on whether leadership wants to continue supporting the project and see it to launch.

I like working on tech because I want to see it launched or at LEAST open-sourced if not launched, not die in a NDA graveyard.
uBlock Origin lists seems that not yet blocked those ads since I'm able to see it https://www.reddit.com/user/PhillyCanada/comments/12ykrp1/he...
I don't think the RAM is the difference-maker. The old LG phone in question is a V35, which has 6GB and a Snapdragon 845.
You really went there?
It's a pretty great deal if you are a farmer. In California, you have unlimited rights to pump water from your own land, which extends to the ground underneath. So they just keep drilling deeper. Such a great system for the people who own land, I have no idea why anyone would complain about it...
Why mach 10? It is really expensive. Instead is better to get cheap slow kamikaze drones, which are 10x times cheaper to produce than to shoot down.