skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The future will be agentic.

Minor pet-peeve, but I can't take anyone who uses the term "agentic" seriously. Computer Science has long used the concept of an "agent" and the adjective form of such systems has been "agent based" [0].

There is nothing that makes "agent based" LLMs different than other "agent" systems in computer science, so using the term "agentic", for me at least, is just short hand for "I'm not familiar with the history of AI in computer science".

I don't know if Karpathy has used that exact phrase, and if he has, he obviously is an expert in both AI in particular and computer science in general. But the majority of people I've heard use the phrase "agentic" are just trying to sound cool/cutting edge when referring to a concept that has a long history in the field.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model
what cookie thing are you refering to?
A figma customer won't exceed the requirements of an i3.metal...
Show HN: Serendipity – A VSCode theme adapted to different interfaces
They want pretty full SQL support, so FoundationDB would be out. I’d think “buy” options for them would be more like Citus, Yugabyte, Cockroach or Spanner.
San Francisco kills cell phone radiation "Right to Know" law (2013)
I'd be fine with 99.9% availability to my house. That means it's down for at most 9 hours per year. That's probably on par with how much my electricity goes out during an average winter.

But what they mean by "99.9% network-wide availability" and what I mean by "99.9% availability to my house" are very, very different things.
Sexist?
I think what OP meant is if you could use the beeper app with your own matrix account, not with username@beeper.com.
The test flights have been right in line with how spacex does development and testing. I’m confident that everyone involved with granting them that money knew this going in.
I think there's quite a few people chasing similar ideas, like Azure's Durable Entities.

I've been calling it the Lots of Little Databases model vs the Globe Spanning Gorilla.

Like the Spanner paper points out, even if your distributed database semantically appears like a single giant instance, in practice performance means developers avoid using distributed joins, etc, because these can lead to shuffling very large amounts of intermediate results across the network. So the illusion of being on a single giant machine ends up leaking through the reality, and people end up writing workarounds for distributed joins like async materialization.

If we give up the single machine illusion we get a lot of simplification, at the cost of features devs were unlikely to use anyhow. I see having consistent distributed commit but without cross shard joins as a really interesting alternative.

And besides scalability I like the extra security rope of fine grained partitioning from the start.

I'll write a blog post along these lines if I get anything worthwhile done.
How much would you think this degrades Signal security? I don't know exactly how the Signal bridge works, but Signal's putting so much effort into security and the people use it through an app like this one not vetted by Signal, it can't be too good I assume...
Good point. My main distro is NixOS, so I am not too familiar with Guix. After a quick glance at the code, Guix seems to be similar to bwrap et al. as it uses kernel namespaces for sandboxing [1].

I think the pure option is not really for (security) sandboxing, but rather for making sure your programs do not use any dependencies that are not explicitly declared, i.e. to ensure referential transparency.

[1] https://github.com/lfam/guix/blob/master/gnu/build/linux-con...
The Dark Matter Crisis Is Solved (2023)
- twenty years (this is forbidden by the laws of physics)
Strategies to Combat Terrorism: Addressing the Ideological Infrastructure

In the ongoing battle against terrorism, it has become increasingly clear that addressing the root causes is just as vital as implementing military and security measures. While these measures are essential, eradicating the ideological support system behind terrorism is equally crucial. This blog post delves into the significance of tackling the ideological infrastructure of terrorism and outlines strategies to effectively combat it.

To begin with, it is imperative to shed light on the flaws and inconsistencies within the ideologies that fuel terrorism. By exposing these weaknesses, we can weaken the very foundation on which terrorism stands. Moreover, promoting non-violent ideals and peaceful ideologies as viable alternatives is a proactive step towards steering individuals away from extremist beliefs.

Intellectual engagement plays a pivotal role in challenging the ideas that drive terrorism. Encouraging critical thinking, fostering rational discourse, and presenting diverse perspectives are essential components of this strategy. Education and awareness initiatives are also key in raising consciousness about the perils of extremist ideologies and nurturing critical thinking skills within society.

Cultural and social programs that advocate for tolerance, understanding, and appreciation of diversity contribute to countering the appeal of extremist ideologies. By fostering an environment that values inclusivity and respect, we create a stronger defense against the lure of radical beliefs. Additionally, addressing the underlying issues that lead to radicalization, including social, economic, and political grievances, is paramount to preventing the spread of extremist ideologies.

By focusing on these strategies that target the ideological and intellectual roots of terrorism, we can develop a more comprehensive approach to combating this global threat. Rather than merely scratching the surface, it is crucial to delve deep into the fundamental causes and beliefs that sustain terrorism. Through a concerted effort to dismantle the ideological infrastructure, we can work towards a safer and more secure world for all.
That's because old furniture is usually made of heartwood and not the cheaper sapwood part of the tree; I like to call it cardboard furniture.

Same goes for old wooden windows etc. that can last a hundred years or more if properly taken care of.

"Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work you can always hit them with it." — Boris 'The Blade' Yurinov
Yeah but also that you can load data to the client and then have components react to it just like you would do with a regular frontend framework.
Yes. However, I'm only aware of a Tesla that actually turns your phone/watch into an actual proximity key fob.

Not to be confused with what others do:

- open an app

- login again because devs can't figure out persistence between updates

- wait for thing to connect and load slow af UI

- click on unlock button in the app

- wait

- wait

- wait

- wait

- give up

- do not renew service after 1 year trial expired because it never worked
I hope you just hit 'reply' accidentally, and you're editing your response now to tell the story !
How YC, champion of 'little tech,' became the biggest machine in Silicon Valley
I remember Postgres table spaces being used to separate customers at a previous job - I can't remember how migrations were handled (pretty sure they were applied per table space) but I don't think it was a problem (at our scale anyway).
Play music from command line and continue your work on the terminal
Well, there used to be 6 trillion trees on earth and today there are only 3 trillion left. Planting 3 trillion trees manually is certainly a lot more work then allowing them to reproduce exponentially.
I recently visited Hong Kong. In a mall I spotted a shop called Sinéquanone (sic). It was flogging "French fashion", quite pricy "French fashion". Who knows, it might be French inspired. You can tell its authentic French thanks to the e acute and the trailing e!

Sine qua non is Latin.

To be fair, the quality did look pretty decent but marketing needs to try harder. Mind you that's not the daftest brand name or trademark ever! Who could forget the Rolls Royce Silver Mist? Mist in German means dung, manure or shit. Someone thankfully noticed before it was released (Frankfurt motor show) and it became the Silver Shadow. Then there was "Consignia" ...
The Case for Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies
What is drainage in this context?
Lol how'd you get 99 percent of your chats on Signal I envy you
Ask HN: Did the compiler get slower in Xcode 15 (vs Xcode 14)?
> Surely packet loss due to poor signal quality is rather common over mobile networks and that packet loss still affects TCP's congestion window.

Two points:

1. It's not commonly realised the TCP is terrible on lossy networks, where terrible means gets less than 10% of the potential throughput. It only becomes apparent when you try to use TCP over a lossy network of course, and most real networks we use aren't lossy. Engineers who try to use TCP over lossy networks end up replacing it with something else. FWIW, the problem is TCP uses packet loss as a congestion signal. It handles congestion pretty well by backing off. But packet loss can also mean the packet was actually lost. The right responses in that case are to reduce the packet size and/or increase error correction, but _not_ decrease your transmission rate. Thus two responses to the same signal conflict.

2. Because of that, the layer two networks the internet uses have evolved to have really low error rates, which is why most people don't experience TCP's problems in that area. As it happens just about any sort of wireless has really high error rates, so they have to mask it. And they do, by having lots of ECC and doing their own ACK/NAKs. This might create lots of fluctuations in available bandwidth - but that is what TCP is good at handling.

By the by, another reason we have come to depend on really low error rates on layer 2. That's because TCP's error detection is poor. It lets roughly one bad packet through in every 10,000. (Adler32 is very poor on small packets.) You can send 100,000 packets a second at 1Gb/sec, so you need to keep the underlying error rate very low to ensure the backup you are sending to Backblaze isn't mysteriously corrupted a few times a year. <rant>IMO, we should have switched to 64 bit CRC's decades ago.</rant>
That is probably the bigger story right here. Not trusting scammy businesses is easy. Getting fooled by big name like Mozilla a different story.
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Emailed Gabe Newell to Call Valve 'Assholes' over Fees
Thanks for answering.

I like the ideas behind nix and flox, and I ack it's not an easy problem.

I'll keep my eye on the project and check again in the future. GL.
Most robotic companies today still use traditional tracking and filtering (e.g. kalman filters) to help with associating detected objects with tracks (objects over time). Solving this in an fully differentiable / ML-first way for multiple targets is still WIP at most companies, since deepnet-to-detect + filtering is still a strong baseline and there are still challenges to be solved.

Occlusions, short-lived tracks, misassociations, low frame rate + high-rate-of-change features (e.g. flashing lights) are all still very challenging when you get down to brass tacks.
It was meant to be an analogy...
Ye old cinder block bookcase is probably the best, and the internet has a lot of good ideas.

The old clay pipes used to be the best for those, look much better than cinder blocks, but whatever.
Race-baiting manipulation against NIMBY zoning laws. Personally, none of the sides provoke any sympathy.

However, what's important is the law. If they have proved their right to the land in court, that's the only thing that should really matter. And aside from the PR manipulation, a corporation building residential buildings is obviously a positive thing, providing value for everybody involved: their shareholders, land owners and future residents. The only who suffers are their neighbours who tried to prop up their property values by strangling development.
When I moved to an area for work I wasn’t planning to live long-term I ended up buying the cheapest sofa in the store. I think it was around $270. After a prolonged illness I grew more and more displeased with it, to the point that I went and bought a better one after I was better. I bought from a place that advertised the inside of the sofa more than the outside. It was all about the build quality and how long it would last. Ended up coming out to around $3k if I remember correctly, but it has a lifetime warranty on everything but the cushions, and even the cushions after 6-7 years of daily use are just now only starting to get to the point of feeling like they are beginning to break in.

Quality can still be found, it just can’t be assumed. I think that’s the case for far too many things these days.
You can listen to audiobooks while you drive too.
The article does have a quip about how society teaches _boys_ about consent, which does imply that they read the article even though their next sentence re “whole EU cookie thing” seems completely out of place
From what we found, no public school (Go! or gemeente) in Antwerp does that, brooddoos in all of them.

All schools in West Flanders do provide lunch though, and at least some in East Flanders too (obviously we only looked up the areas that matter to us and we didn't conduct an exhaustive study though). So we just concluded that it depends on the province.

At the very least it does not depend on the school system or the region since it varies within Flanders and within the Go! system.
>It's true everywhere.

I just described an industry where it's not. You don't make money playing sports in your 30's. If you still wanna work by that time, you teach others sport, be a newscaster, or sell your brand. They may or may not make millions. It depends on how you sell yourself, but most athletes aren't salesmen.

> In a freer market, it wouldn't be the case.

We're about as free as we're going to get. You can quit or be laid off at anytime and hires in tech get amazing compensation for relatively little experience compared to fields like medicine, law, or accounting.

You're free to enact such a model yourself and see how well it works if you're confident in it. But market forces aren't dumb either.
Citus seems incredibly close to what they built, I wonder why they did not use it
Two points actually: Teak is great. How it gets around to being a sofa is not. This is a doubly good thing you're doing keeping it going instead of disposing of it like most people would.
In the Let's Encrypt blog post [1] they suggest installing Firefox:

> If you use Android 7.0 or earlier, you may need to take action to ensure you can still access websites secured by Let’s Encrypt certificates. We recommend installing and using Firefox Mobile, which uses its own trust store instead of the Android OS trust store, and therefore trusts ISRG Root X1.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/2023/07/10/cross-sign-expiration.htm...
Yes, Jelly phone seems decent, though I'm not a fan of the "rugged" design. I liked the Palm Phone, great concept. But they don't make them anymore.
Ask HN: What is easiest back end to learn and scale cheaply for apps?
Well in the US we are on track for that to be true.

But seriously - trading both sides (or, selling protection, as the case may be) is quite a profitable business model.
Yeah I left out the other countries because I felt that at least they have a health care system that could try and correct for it which would affect the long term results(may not even cause them to deviate in the long run if they can catch the issue in time).

I don't see a mechanism for widespread correction in the US with its current health care system. The current system as it stands has people dying before they can age to see their Medicare healthcare and even then too much damage will be done by that age to fully correct.
I would gladly pay a few bucks a month for such product. It solves a real problem
I'm a little disappointed that their linked preprint doesn't appear to include any molecular biology; i.e. they don't actually try to synthesize any of their predicted sequences and test function. It wouldn't be an outrageous synthesis task to make some of the CRISPR-Cas sequences they generated.

Also interesting that AlphaMisense is omitted from Figure 2B; it substantially outperforms the ESM-based ESM1b in our hands. But I guess the idea is that this is a general-purpose DNA language model whereas AlphaMissense is domain-specific for variant effect prediction?
in my experience when it comes to sofas the old "buy cheap buy twice" holds true. there are reputable brands such as ligne roset for example. they are pricey bit if you can commit to buying and owning for > 15 years. owning a clam and a togo for more than ten years and the are basically like new. foam & fabric. i understand this might unaffordable to a lot of people but buying second hand can be a great deal on high end sofas.
Beetlejuice fans will recognize it easily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4
H.R.1332 – Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act
I'm sorry you've had experiences that made you think this.
God damn honest is maybe slightly exaggerated.
Just checked. Pornhub is also still disabled in Montana as well from our similar law last year.
>It's not like real Coach bags utilize some magic leather that doesn't degrade just the same as the $200 leather purse you buy from a local artisan.

Not sure why Coach was chosen for this example - I don't believe they are expensive; last I checked they were in the range of $200-500, which doesn't seem egregious as the actual luxury brands (ex. Hermes, where the entry level bags are $4,000).

That said, I feel there is a real difference in quality at various price points, and focusing on the material ("magic leather") is wrong. When I'm paying a premium I'm usually looking for in the dimensions of construction, and usually that means paying an actual professional who may charge $100/hr, vs 19 year old in Bangladesh. The two might be using the same material but the price difference comes from the person assembling the item.

The problem is you have a ton of companies (even "luxury" ones), that in an attempt to juice their stock price, have also focused on getting costs super low and are now using the same factories as junk brands but just slapping their logo on it. Even products of the same brand can vary wildly in quality depending even on the year it was made.

I have jackets from "luxury" brands that I bought 10 years ago that still look brand new for thousands of dollars (and probably saved money in the long run), but buying a similar item new or even trying to replace it is impossible.
2 things. One on dark mode on iOS, it’s practically impossible to see what’s going on. And 2 the “losses” don’t make sense. I played three times with 1000$ a go, won 1100 quid but my losses were listed as 3k… maybe that should be spent?
Serverless event-driven architectures are great.
Sell the disease, and then sell the cure. Capitalism at its finest!
I was reading a blog today[1] that was pretty confident that "continual orders-of-magnitude increases in compute usage [by AI] will utterly drown any changes in efficiency" but this is just one of a million ways we can make AI more efficient. It doesn't seem like a foregone conclusion that the costs will get order-of-magnitudeS more expensive on every axis.

1: Paywalled: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/three-threats-to-the-age-of-en...
>Same goes for old wooden windows etc. that can last a hundred years or more if properly taken care of.

The key may be the "properly taken care of" part (or they didn't buy crap at the time part).

I live in a greater than 200 year old house and all the older windows dating to whenever are complete crap compared to newer Andersens I've had installed.
2.2 lbs to kg.

39 inches to the meter.

3.79 liters to 4 quarts.

1.6 km to the mile.

* 9/5 and + 32 for C to F.

I think those are correct? I think I was made to memorize those at some point, but of note, I am also an immigrant to the US from a wacky metric system nation.
tldr;

Today: 100Mbps down / 20Mbps up (45 million Americans lack access as of Dec 2022)

2015 onward: 25Mbps down / 3Mbps up

Pre-2015: 4Mbps down / 1Mbps up

The commission's longterm goal is 1Gbps down / 500Mbps up. These distinctions of 'broadband' help determine where to focus resources.
So on a serious note, we were discussing this in another thread about:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698546

and using that to automate the unsub from trackers:

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This really needs to be used to make a tool to automate all the "delete my data" requests and have users map out deleting their data/PII etc from data brokers to a git something and people can submit the recipes to delete your personal data.

I just did so on one of the more terrible ones yesterday - and the dark pattern was it would put you in captcha-loops... and youd have to reload/retry several times before stopped asking you firehydrant bus traffic motorcycle crosswalk over and over.

but to save unsub/delete me scripts with this would be nifty.

A recipe bounty would be neat - for example - Optery found me in more PII dbs than I expected - and it would be cool for people to see which brokers they are found in and there is a bounty list for all the brokers people are finding for someone to create a Delete-Me for each thing, so that one hopefully has the help of many to navigate the minefield of dark patterns in such.
I've been wanting to buy nice furniture for a very long time... unfortunately the housing crisis has prevented my from ever having a sense of permanence. If I had known I'd live in my last place for nearly a decade I would have purchased nice things, but as it stands, until I have a mortgage of my own, I refuse to spend good money on something I may need to replace next year.
No I haven't but I'm not trying to draw a distinction between the average post-Soviet neighborhood and the average US neighborhood. I'm trying to draw a distinction between Le Corbusier's vision of urbanism (still better than US suburbs!) and Jane Jacbos's, which in the rare cases where the US builds dense it actually hits decently well.
Highest-paying college majors, 5 years after graduation
Or ghosts? I mean if the house it comes from is haunted maybe an evil spirit will migrate with it. You never know.
AI Platform is a recent example that’s been deprecated.
Can't wait for e day on February 71st.
> Microsoft and Google are more private than Mozilla

Having used an app firewall, I have determined this to be false.
What's your system prompt?
Any opinions on Ekornes sofa from Norway?
Tvs are the exact fear I have for such tech. All the stuff you can't turn off or has been argued to even turn itself on after explicitly saying not too. It's not a hard problem so they'll find a way to make it harder and more profitable.

Modern consoles don't really have publicly accessible web browsers so that's another way to solve the problem. 17+ rated games would simply check the age on your profile instead of needing a device centric verification.
> Or the founding of Israel by Britain.

Jerusalem, City of David, was conquered by David more than 3000 years ago. The founding of Israel was not built out of thin air.
Instead of having an exception to the rule, make the exception the rule ->
It would have been great if IX was XIIII too.
> You'll notice the words "cookie" or "banner" appears nowhere in there. That's because they are not in the law at all.

> The only thing that matters is that if an entity wants to track people, they have to let them know in a way that is clear and request their approval

The author does say that it's not about cookies either. It's about tracking.
They should have definitely done a more thorough due diligence before partnering with them.
I’m not seeing numbers that show otherwise. Unless you meant that the 10% was for europe only?
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700256

Holy color use, Batman! Someone take the crayons away from that web designer.
I hate buying furniture because it's easy to tell that most of what's out there is utter junk, but not very easy to figure out what's at least decent but isn't super expensive. Or what's expensive but not just marked up.