skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest changing the title to something like: "Link Between Brain Cell Fat and Alzheimer’s Could Pave the Way for Innovative Treatments". Also here is the original Nature journal reference that can be linked to instead: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07185-7
Your point has been telling me my experiment isn't valid because it doesn't align with your preconceived notions, telling me I'm "seeing things that aren't there" and that you know better than me about what I went through, then coming up with bogus claim after bogus claim to try to justify that position, then back in reality after a half dozen messages you finally self-admit to having a mental condition that makes you reluctant to see patterns clear as day.

That's rude.
Just adding here that the understanding of the forces at play in a cultural war makes what you just said even more clear and for a vast spectrum of fields way beyond IT.
“Not every company can become a Google; but a Google can come from anywhere.”

- Peter O’Toole, probably.
See also: Network Mapper - low privileges, no-eBPF network observability tool for K8s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39761114
Thanks :) I edited the title.
the US pushback against 'Basel Endgame'
> Seeing that the students and teachers consistently missed the point, I stopped using it.

In retrospect you missed the point. But so did everyone else. As primitive as ELIZA is, it is actually closer to the LLM approach than, well, everything else in AI over the past 60 years.

People don't realize how simple LLMs' code is. We're talking a few hundred lines! That's comparable to that of ELIZA.

All the magic is in the data those lines process. That's what takes up gigabytes of storage and requires many gigabytes of memory and GPUs/Apple Silicon to run. (Quite possibly representative of how seven pounds of meat and 20w of power can still outperform said gigabytes and silicon.) Had such compute power been available, there is no reason to think that Weizenbaum or others at the AI Lab could not have built a true language model in 1967.

I suspect that, if anything, ELIZA's simplicity caused researchers to not pursue it further, as it was obvious that true AI would of course require millions of intricate lines of code. Thus we got 50 wasted years building ever more-complex expert systems (i.e., fancy versions of Twenty Questions, or Akinator), or attempts to replicate the human brain in hardware (Danny Hillis named his company Thinking Machines for a reason). A future history of AI may describe the 50 years between ELIZA and "Attention is All You Need" in a chapter called "The Route Not Taken".
I believe they are father and son. The `Books` section on the Toledo family website links to books written by Oscar Toledo G.
My car is a dual-clutch automatic. On a long highway ride, where I'm doing nothing special besides just driving at a steady speed or using cruise control, I'll often get +6 or more MPG over my car's highway rating.
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent
Absolutely! https://simonwillison.net/tags/xfml/
Yes, that’s inherent to the problem statement. Any guidance on “how to become a gold medalist Olympic athlete” would suffer from the same limitation.

That doesn’t mean that there aren’t insightful things to say about building a Google or becoming a gold Olympic medalist.
It's official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites
I don't think the title is correct, this isn't "a new kind" of anything. This is the usual well-known attack on MD5 where you can create a pair of inputs with the same hash.
> The world’s largest toymaker announced two years ago that it had tested a prototype brick made of recycled plastic bottles rather than oil-based ABS, currently used in about 80 per cent of the billions of pieces it makes each year.
However, Niels Christiansen, chief executive of the family-owned Danish group, told the Financial Times that using recycled polyethylene terephthalate (RPET) would have led to higher carbon emissions over the product’s lifetime as it would have required new equipment.

I just thought that particular issue around new equipment was interesting.
Tiny Storefronts: Human settlements need small commercial spaces
I love the idea, but the year axis starting so early makes the days more difficult to read, esp. on mobile.
Ouch, it seems I've accidentally posted the link on the same post.
This might sound odd, but do you do much physical exercise?

There's nothing quite like hitting the gym and lifting weights (or whatever you like), to get things pumping and getting dopamine hits.

Personally I find it a great way to not think about work and may help. IANAT
Oh that’s right. My company didn’t want to pay the insane Oracle fees to keep getting support. I think it wasn’t even a discussion once the saw the number, but that’s basically a rumor.

So we have to stick to OpenJDK which means 8 doesn’t receive security updates and is untenable.
TL;DR

https://old.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1biunsl/hacked_in... has the smoking gun

> That all said, this is a plasmoid that was written for KDE 5. Maybe some interaction with KDE6 lead to the issue? One issue that could have happened is that property string configPath <SNIP> now uses another StandardPaths.standardLocations due to KDE6. This could lead to configPath looking like somepath / (note the space), which expands to sh save.sh somepath / ..., which will happily remove everything. The whole situation reminds me of the Steam uninstaller, where a single space had some remarkable results.
FDA approved a lifesaving therapy for children with a rare genetic disease
> The user seemed to install the theme through something suggested by the desktop environment without seemingly making it clear that it was unverified, unsourced user submitted code.

Any source of that statement? I'm pretty sure it made it clear the last time I saw the KHotNewStuff dialog, which was about a week ago.
He had some failures. The Apple III, arguably the first Mac (it really didn't gain traction until Apple loosened on things like expandability and fans that Jobs didn't want), G4 Cube, iPod Hifi, Ping, 3rd gen iPod Shuffle, Apple TV.
feeling using ipython
Same pricing for a non profit by chance?
How much of hiring practices are just about legal liability? If firing someone when they don't work out is a massive potential liability that requires 6 months of extensive documentation to fend off lawsuits, you design processes with many false negatives to avoid that scenario.
Privacy clusterfucks: a depressingly regular series
This happened to me. Company was on the verge of extending me an offer for a full time position. Hiring manager and team loved me. Then the CTO pulled some bullshit and the offer became one for a 6 month contractor, not a FTE.

I took the job anyways because I was desperate (had just been laid off). But I continued interviewing every chance I got and jumped ship at around the 5 month mark. The CTO was livid that I abandoned ship.
One option would be to invest through syndicates where typically the minimum is $1k per investment.
Cat and Kitten Sneaking
"not much". at that age it's material!
who I was at 18 and who I was at 23 is way different than the difference between 35 and 40
900m users actively partaking in conversation, or just 900M user accounts?

As I can imagine there are lot of burner accounts on the platform.
Tips to Make Your Next.js App More Stable
Which is exactly the problem. If I'm pushing my car to redline, it's because I want the car there. Maybe I'm trying to climb a questionably legal driveway, maybe I'm trying to smoke some Beamer off a stoplight to impress a date. I made the jump over to full electric after my 90's Integra got stolen, and damn do I miss that car sometimes.
Nvidia and Qualcomm Join Open Source Robotics Alliance to Support ROS Dev
The fact that you’re asking this question in this place, in this way and to this audience, it pretty much says it all to me. Programming computers is the „best career” for you my friend.
But they're not Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc.

Isn't the point of Lego that every set can be Harry Potter, or Star Wars, or whatever you want?

/Haven't Legoed in 45 years, but have fond memories.
Sounds like a description of understanding a concept in some latent space while not having fully verbalized it yet. (:
Now where's the tool to lookup all my coworkers.
It's slave labor (or close to slave labor) during production (Cobalt Red, Dying for an iPhone are some good overview books on the matter, though you can dive in further if you care), it's working against the "owner" of the device (who often doesn't actually have much in the way of access) during life, collecting behavioral surplus to sell to people who'd like to influence the owner (Zuboff's book on Surveillance Capitalism is a good read here, though the recent Means of Control book looking at the data flows from adtech into government is a useful one too), and it's burned in a third world country at end of life.

Maybe digital consumer tech was a bad idea. At least the way we've gone about it.
Making babies.
> Its an identical-prefix collision attack where you can pick your own allowed charset (say alphanum, base64, all printable). It also allows to force some specific bytes (mainly 0-7 and 20-27) to some extent.

https://x.com/realhashbreaker/status/1770175862484197616

Worse still, sounds like a family of collisions might follow.
> In fact, I can commute faster than some people living _in_ the city.

I've noticed a similar thing here in Berlin with some of the surrounding commuter towns.

I certainly hope the Deutschlandticket stays at the current price; but you're right, it will still be good value even if the price goes up — even the more expensive BVG ABC ticket is still only around 1/5th the price of a UK Cambridge-London season ticket.

Unfortunately, the UK does not have particularly good train service any more, thanks to cuts made in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts
Heated gel is a nice feature for obstetrics and gynecological exams.
I hope it's at least smart enough to definitively prove Gary Marcus wrong on all his predictions.
It's somewhat of a backhanded compliment though -- calling Erlang a "modern assembly" is like the quip that C is a "portable assembler" -- that is, a tool useful for low-level stuff but which you should mostly use to implement higher level languages on top of.
Yup we’ve done that a bunch - please fill in the form and we’d love to consider :)
That’s a good use-case. Like RPCs that also support REST or web-sockets.
I don't see what's strange about that, different functions grow at different rates. That's like saying it's strange that exp(x) is a billion for x = 21 while sqrt(x) is merely ~4 when x = 21.

Go's complexity grows much faster than tic tac toe's complexity as a function of legal positions, but the complexity is still a function of the number of legal positions (among other things, as I pointed out).
My QR Code Tattoo
Here's a short writeup of one of my favorite projects so far. I've not included a picture for privacy reasons (sorry if the title is misleading).
I didn't see any mention in the cost of licensing impacting the price of sets. That's a huge factor. Kits from Lego's own IP such as Ninjago, etc can offer a better PPP value because they aren't cutting in Disney or some other media brand.
A single programmer can create something new, which is not something any "AI" is doing now.
Show HN: Build Your Own Chip
That's indeed amusing! I just published a post with title "When Postgres is not enough". It seems that the true distributed databases we have evaluated aren't quite Postgres's cup of tea: https://blog.ydb.tech/when-postgres-is-not-enough-performanc...
I wouldn't fixate on the Google part too much. It's pretty clear he is using it as a common point of reference for 14 and 15 year olds. "You guys know about Google?, the giant company with the web site? Okay well let me tell you how companies like that are built."

Building a successful company depends on many things. The point made here is that you are unlikely to be expert enough, and motivated enough to build a successful business in an area you are not interested in, and haven't played around in. So to increase the amount of domains that you could create a business in from 0 to a small positive integer you should build things that interest you.

Of course if you have money, or know how to persuade people who have money, you can be something of an idiot and still develop a successful business. Usually you are not really developing the business in this case, more attaching yourself to a business that smart people are running for you.

In a pool of high school freshmen, most probably have a better chance of success following the first path, than the second.
What I've done (and again, this is routers where you have access, though maybe some somewhere have wakeonlan capabilities) is make it so that if you port knock right, the router itself sends a wakeonlan packet for you.

Maybe some have the feature if you're forwarding a port, it will send a wakeonlan packet if it detects traffic on that port.
We’ve done some marketing partnerships with Ramp before, would be great to eventually get that data live in Causal!
Pure nonsense, except for the licensing cost comment.

SQL Server has arguably the best query planner/optimizer in the RDBMS space, and it also has tons of management tools and simple integrations in a Windows environment (tight AD integration) that admin very easy. If cost were no object and you need a DB that requires essentially zero babysitting after the initial setup, SQL Server is a better choice than PG.

TSQL takes some getting used to, but it allows for powerful/flexible stored procedures that can replace the vast majority of external business logic (for better or worse, depending on the application architecture.)

That said, PG is definitely more flexible with things like custom types and all the extensions you can add, and SQL Server's better query/clustered index performance isn't likely to make a huge difference in most workloads. The cost of SQL Server is also outrageous, especially run on large (CPU) instances. PG is usually a better choice for cost alone, but SQL Server is not an inferior DB by any means.
In the zero interest rate environment it was easier to get good advice and orders of magnitude more more money. A lot of those companies are crap.

Google had good timing but importantly, a good product and market fit. Prior search engines sucked in comparison with obnoxious monetization.
Yup. This is the difference between computer science and software engineering. Build systems in the real world have to be resilient in all sorts of crazy scenarios.
In typical US healthcare economics fashion, this price does not include the cost of being wrong.
> Never thought of that...

By last year's end, real estate agents in Israel already started releasing concept art for beachfront properties built in stolen palestinian lands from Gaza Strip: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1846727/israel-real-est...

There is a recurrent misunderstanding in this conflict, where people think it is a religious war. It's not. It's plain old landgrabbing and pillaging. The best historical parallel it's not the crusades. It's what happened in the Americas after Columbus arrived here. The indigenous people got decimated and the remnants expelled because people from far away felt entitled to take their lands, and had the means to do so.

Also, we see lots of comparisons between Gaza and Ukraine, but one important difference, as pointed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb[1](the author of Black Swan), is that despite being an anachronistic expansionary nationalist, Putin views Ukrainians as Russians and wants to forcibly incorporate them in his nation. On the other hand, the Israeli regime considers Palestinians as just vermin to exclude, displace and exterminate. Once they are forced out of Gaza, the chance they will be allowed to return is zero.

[1]. https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1761371368929554802
There's a followup tweet explaining it, which you wouldn't see if you're not logged in:

> This is the first md5 collision with only printable ascii that I know of.
I have been asked before if this was possible, but I used to respond its not practically doable.
Socrates as Hoplite
It is true, they are used widely, the problem is that if one can get access to the embedded board, it can explore one of the vulnerabilities and get sensitive data
This is generally called code golf, and there’s a whole forum for it: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/

I think once you try to get something small enough the code will naturally tend towards obfuscation.
FAISS Mobile for iOS / macOS
Something like https://dust3r.europe.naverlabs.com/ might be more appropriate?
i think this is the part of superstition. Reproductive, effective, correlation is the start of a scientific path to true discoveries. Superstition only begins when the correlation has never truly never been observed, but only repeated from generations to generations without any other kind of justification other than "that's what i heard".
Works for me (Firefox on Linux).
How to learn quadratic scaling the hard way.
it doesn't matter what the back end looks like. even if it's all just a call center in the Philippines driving the cars with playstation controllers, on the customer end, there's an app, and it summons a car with no driver in it, and it takes me to my destination.

Their profitability relies on just how much that call center needs to get paid, so it's in their interests to drive that down, and have it be real, but that's their business. As a customer, all I know is that there's a competitor to Uber/Lyft called Waymo, and it's better and worse in specific ways.

No driver means no having to deal with a person. If I'm sending a girlfriend home late at night, she doesn't need to get into a strangers car. the driver could be drinking or hit on her or whatever. robo taxi isn't going to do that, even if it's a call center in the Philippines.
Geological Features and Volcanic Activity in the Tsiolkovsky Region of the Moon
boring reply
Then, maybe, we can re-invent libraries. (https://xkcd.com/1909/)
if you can afford the cost of that, just write your program in any other language c with asan is a lot slower than the safe alternatives
On my desktop, wake on LAN stopped working after a BIOS update, so I set it to "power on after power fail" (when the power comes back) and plugged it into a WiFi switchable power socket on which I installed the Tasmota firmware.

Power outages and therefore undesired activation are extremely rare where I live. Probably less than one in five years.
> It’s possibly the most empirically supported finding in macroeconomics.

... he asserts confidently while providing literally no examples or counterexamples. Or explaining the analogy - I don't adjust my thermostat very often, I know the temperature that I like, so setting it years in advance is feasible although weird. And governments mandating thermostat settings is a value-destructive idea - much like governments mandating that people use a specific currency (the argument there seems to be that it is necessary for the tax system to function, which is fair, but the mandate isn't value-creating).

> Yes, we separated the transactional (deposits) and store-of-value (Treasuries) functions of the U.S. dollar decades ago. Storing value in cash is literally using money wrong.

"We've implemented this policy on purpose" isn't a valid argument. A year or so ago Sri Lanka implemented a ban on fertiliser. They then had a food crisis because the policy worked as designed. The argument should be "here are the pros, here is the argument/evidence that the pros outweigh the cons". Deliberately doing something stupid just makes it more stupid.
Another possibility is that, in fact, vincent-manis and everyone else did not miss the point, and the folks who believe we can achieve “true AI” if we just give Eliza more CPU power and disk space are barking up the wrong tree.

To paraphrase Ted Chiang: a learning thermostat has a goal, but it has no preferences or subjective experience. You’re training it to maintain the temperature of your house, but you’re still interacting with a thermostat. The way we’re approaching AI currently supposes that if you just cobble enough thermostats together, you get a person.
I think we should just do the science. He got the materials and we can look at them to see if it's interstellar or not. There's nothing wrong with doing the expedition, that's what science is.

Why does it have to be called humiliating and basically attacking Dr. Loeb the whole time?
Google has a new head of Search – and she's all in on AI
I really enjoy your podcast! :)
> SSE connections keep a mobile device’s radio powered up all the time. You should avoid connecting a SSE stream on a device that has a low battery, or possibly avoid using SSE at all unless the device is plugged in.

Damn, that’s a huge downside
i coincidentally just watched something about this last night, https://youtu.be/LGBqUM29vic?si=6h_-JwbhbVdKqejA

very interesting, pretty sad
Neither Cilium nor Hubble are service meshes.

Cilium is a CNI - the functionality that provides the K8s cluster inter-pod networking. The fact that it uses eBPF to deliver its functionality is what gives it the impressive observability you usually only get from a service mesh. I agree that not everyone needs a service mesh.
My truck in tow/haul mode behaves very well with engine braking. Very responsive. I’m guessing it’s a software thing.
And what exactly is the output, other than talks and some programming learning tools for children? I haven't seen any significant new insights or advances.
Ask HN: Do you believe AGI is (practically) possible?
With AGI (Artificial general intelligence) being a computer system generally as smart and capable as a median human at all tasks, and can be trivially scaled learn to do any task at least as well as a human can.

Most leaders in AI claim it'll be developed before 2030. Some claim as early as 2027. However a lot of people seem to think AI is a hype cycle and that deep learning has hit or will hit a wall significantly below AGI capabilities.

Do you believe that AGI is possible? If so, do you believe it will be achieved within the decade? If not, what are your best arguments why it is impossible or not going to happen in the foreseeable future?
You could be a strategy consultant.
What is the language model pretrained on? Wouldn’t the far more robust LLM’s priors impact ability to generalize to “unseen” tasks?
Noting that Valhalla value types are about guaranteeing object value identity with memory layout and/or flattening supposedly deriving from that.
Modeling unmanaged sequence of bytes within the type system (like receiving a typed buffer from un managed code) might still be challenging
> just use Scala

Scala is a dying language, anyone boarding that ship is making a mistake. Anyhow, I prefer Java supplemented with powerful features Scala doesn't have, such as type-safe SQL.

> If you want type safe SQL in particular, you can pry JOOQ out of my cold dead hands.

Jooq isn't bad, but it's not SQL, it's Java trying to be SQL. Manifold lets you write type-safe, native _SQL_ of any complexity directly in your code.
CDC tools like Debezium hook into Postgres’ replication slots and you get the same CDC info. It’s not a dedicated bit of “feature” like it is in MSSQL, but the same functionality is there.
Sure, but the point was that nothing of the original logic will be recoverable, once the FPGA loses power.

Unless you make an ASIC that's effectively an FPGA.