skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a very cool book of photos of micrometeorites:

In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters

By Jon Larsen, ISBN: 9780760352649
Indeed, the demon of Descartes predates the Brain in Vat hypothesis put forward in modern terms, using a computer, by Hilary Putnam around 1968 (same year?! idk..)
My aunt started showing symptoms of Alzheimer's. My grandfather passed from it. Is there any thing to do in order to prevent or delay the disease?
Comes from here [1]. Basically 100 racks of H vs 8 racks of B.

I think there may be a typo though, I assume this also includes liquid-cooled vs air-cooled.

[1] https://nvdam.widen.net/s/xqt56dflgh/nvidia-blackwell-archit...
I belive by 2030 or so we will may have models that can generate video, audio, and text that is indistinguishable from a normal human being ("The Zoom Call Turing Test"). But that doesn't mean anything- it's unclear whether such a system is intelligent, or merely a highly generalized mimic.

It will probably require an enormous amount of compute power and data, which means it will only be available to groups with $100+B to spend.
this is neat. you should check out macrofactor, they have an option like this that uses voice to text and AI to suggest items.
// Also being older I don’t care about making a unicorn

You can use that term as a proxy for delivering large impact to the world. It's approximately the same thing. If you do something like "aged care" and "dealing with kids schools" in a way that helps millions of people, you'll end up a billionaire whether you want to or not.

I don't use the term "unicorn" but I think keeping score in financial terms helps because that's how you know you've delivered something people want and at scale. If you remove money out of the equation it's easier to fool yourself thinking you're making some difference and you're not.
Css2wind – a minigame to learn Tailwind CSS
It's actually difficult to build something that isn't a temperature sensor!
I think it's definitely going to be done by 2040, 2030 is a maybe though. I'm a bit skeptical about using LLMs as the basis for AGI - you would call a human conscious even if they had never learned a language in their life. Maybe some kind of model trained on audio/video with a video-based "internal monologue" could be more likely to achieve it.

But by 2040 I think we'll have the capabilities to simulate every neuron in a human brain, and that will get us undeniable AGI, unless intelligence comes from some other source that we haven't discovered yet.
You can't call kernel APIs from eBPF without triggering the license, I suppose?
just think about all the keyboards that will get thrown away because people upgraded to one that has a copilot key.
> it's unclear whether such a system is intelligent, or merely a highly generalized mimic.

This seems to ignore the entire point of the Turing Test.
It's incredibly easy to build hypermedia as the engine of application state sites. You generate html pages with state in them, and hyperlinks and forms that filter and change the state.

Hateoas didn't invent anything. He literally just described how web 1.0 worked.
Logseq (https://logseq.com/) as an offline-first, open-source variant.
Wait, just that A to E!?!?
Glad you like it :) I'll check out your suggestion too thank you!
But can mills easily move? No, people can, so people are still viable.
I tend to use it as an infinitely patient tutor that lets me ask it "stupid" questions or throw analogies at it to see if my understanding of a topic is on the right track or not. (I'm fully aware of hallucination and seek further sourcing for facts).

So the "wow" moment for me is less to do with a response from an LLM and more looking back at a session and thinking of how much more effort and time it would have been to learn about a concept without it, particularly in counting the number of unknown unknowns it introduced me to (topics that I either didn't know existed, or would have known a name for in order for me to Google it).
Wrong link? This appears to just be the main tailwind website?
Well, according to German CS profs, actually writing software is beneath computer scientists. They seem to have so little experience with actually writing software that they completely miss how much practice inspires and validates (or invalidates - at least regarding usefulness) theory. It boggles the mind how much potential was squandered by these fools.
if you think GSearch is bad now, just wait until Liz is done with it :p
What is your usual set and why did you choose each one, please?
The optimist in me wants to believe that long term, things like these will grow our food and maintain our houses for free so that labor generally won't be necessary. Once we've fully automated the necessities of life to the degree that it is free for all (no world hunger, no housing crisis, etc.) then we can get to the tough stuff like hard academic problems in physics, solving death, room temperature superconductors, fusion, etc. In the meantime the average person who used to slave away at a 9-5 can now just do whatever they want because they don't have to worry about where their next meal will come from. People not used to having a hobby or any spare time at all might have a hard time adapting here (at least at first), but I think in general people will be happier with life.

If your question is "what's the point of anything when a robot could do it," your real question is "what's the point of life," which is an exercise left to the reader.
Compared to my 25 and 15 year old self, my 35 (now 40) self is a lot wiser in terms of dealing with people, applying humility and being crisp on the wide gulf between "what I find is worth doing at the moment" and "what's valuable." I think these are all hugely valuable and serve me well.
The coda to the story is hilarious. CCPA apparently has an exemption (I'd say loophole) for the sale of personal information to consumer reporting agencies, as long as the use of that data is covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. So if FCRA allows it, CCPA says go right ahead!
I just use the wakeonlan plugin for Homebridge. Just tell Siri to do it or press a button on my phone. Works anywhere as long as I have internet.
Man, they are scrambling. Hopefully the adsense will keep up while they figure out how to run a business.
Collect it yourself. I don't have a detailed log because the results were immediately obvious. You pretend to claim nothing can be obvious. I'm sure if you saw 12 people in a row guess your sign you'd think the correlation was obvious. My experience was similar.

> I didn't say "seeing things that aren't there" either. I said reading more into things than are there and seeing patterns where they don't exist.

Ha.

And it's not an ad hominum when the trait is something directly related to the topic at hand.
Shifting the burden of proof
This really works!
Precisely! I await the time when more people realize the turing test doesn't tell you anything about the underlying intelligence of the agent you're interacting with.
Hilariously enough, 4chan, if it is still functions how I remember it, sounds like it would be the most protected given the lack of algorithmicly promoted content.

Still, trying to prove a negative though, isn't it?
+1

What stuck with me is Lee Sedol's strong emotional reaction, leading him to leave professional Go playing.

It's understandable he didn't expect AlphaGo to be that strong. Or that (for him) losing to a machine took the 'soul' out of the game.

But come on... I've been cornered by Pac-Man ghosts many times. That doesn't make Pac-Man less fun to play.

Nor does losing to the crude 'AI' steering those ghosts. Instead, you play, aim for a high score, see how long you can survive, how many levels you can complete, or how many fruits & ghosts you can eat in a game.

And (if you care) compare how those 'metrics' stack up against other players.

If a machine with superhuman Go-playing ability isn't fun or challenging, then stick to human opponents.

Of course it's his views and choices, and I respect that. But other than providing extremely challenging opponent, I don't see how human-beating machine would take the fun out of a game. Rather the opposite: new tactics, new insights, a raised upper bound for a Go player's strength (human or otherwise), etc.
The key to interviewing well and confidently is to understand that you are not the only one being interviewed. You are interviewing them! And you want to ask probing questions that reveal the employer's mindset and working conditions.

Many employers go into these discussions thinking that they are going to put you under the microscope. But if you direct hard questions in their direction, the power dynamic changes. Suddenly they are trying to convince you that you should work for them.

One of the best questions to ask early in interviews is "Outside of what's in the job description, what are the qualities that you are looking for in the ideal candidate?" Then you can frame your responses in a manner that aligns with their description.

Another great question to ask: "What are the circumstances that led to the availability of this position?" I asked this question recently and the employer revealed that 1) a former employee in that position had left, and (after further probing) 2) this employer tended to hire inexperienced engineers, who frequently left after a couple years to pursue better jobs. Needless to say, that info prompted me to end the conversation.

Remember: It's far better to be rejected by a good employer than it is to end up working for a shitty one because you didn't ask the right questions.
> As developers, I would say we're second only (maybe) to government in the ability to make the world accessible

This isn't something I've really considered, but it's both very true and very important. Thank you
> How do I script it? OF's automation is a must-have, as that's how I integrate it with my other apps. Extensive Shortcuts support (ala Things) is a minimum. AppleScript or JavaScript is better.

What's the usecase for scripting in todo apps? Are you using it like some kind of "cron job"?
Culture isn't defined purely by demographic size but by the ability to spread influence which is a function of monetary and political power. Evangelicalism is the de facto culture of Christianity in the US by virtue (so to speak) of the relationship between it and the Republican Party.
I blocked Reddit with my pihole. That cured me of the habit. It keeps you from reflexively going there.
First 'cyberflasher' convicted under UK's new law, gets more than 5 years prison
What's the difference then between something being intelligent and something being able to do everything something that is intelligent can but isn't intelligent?
Product Liability lawsuits don't get enough discussion time yet, I would like to see more discussion on them.

I think it can be beneficial for social media sites and other ventures to collaborate with society more
Rulers want the social status that they derive from ruling over millions of people. If they were no people to rule over they would have zero status, even if all their material needs were met.
The conclusion I draw when I watch the evidence presented in this video is that Avi Loeb is a narcissist who's made his way into the big leagues and is finding out that tooting your own horn doesn't work on people like Jill Tarter.
I’ve been blaming him for years, though as others said he’s certainly not the only one.

But the pieces that recommended live-coding during the interview and dire warnings to never hire a “B player” lest it destroy your company, were incredibly influential and destructive.

Of course the same followers who corrupted Agile (into a straightjacket) and now push leetcode, are even more to blame. But I'd argue he started the largest avalanche.

You may think this is hyperbole, but several years ago, after almost twenty years of experience as the most technical person in multiple industries I was laid off from a downsizing company. I couldn't find work for a year and a half in a booming economy. Our family faced homelessness and my bank account went negative the month I finally found an offer from the (one out of hundreds) company that didn't take the Spolsky Interview seriously.

That org literally saved our lives. How's that for hyperbole?

(I've really enjoyed his work as a whole though.)
> I have postgres on my mac.

For any Mac users who don't know about it yet, Postgres.app is amazing: https://postgresapp.com/
Homeland Security will test out using GenAI to train US immigration officers
Have you looked at Microsoft's Win32 API metadata package [0]? They're using it to generate C# and Rust bindings, and other people have targeted other languages.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata
Epic! thank you!

I loved going to Valley Faire Mall in San Jose and scooping parts by the pound.

I didnt see any of the lego store by-the-pound model.

An interesting method for sus-ing up what parts they had would be looking into the shipments to-from lego entities in NL and USA - sea shipping bills of lading can be found on import yeti (now obviously unless someone has digitized historic bills of lading, etc (and we all know that ship hands (pirates) and long-shoremen (mob) have famously been the definition of corruption - so we can hardly ever trust any bill of lading...

So with that in mind though:

Lets look at the shipments of LEGO https://i.imgur.com/HgLlBuF.png

Nathan appears to be a top importer of Lego https://i.imgur.com/xYDvko5.png

Ships mostly a container a month to LA. https://i.imgur.com/7ZALaMi.png

LegoLand is his customer: https://i.imgur.com/I0oS1wu.png

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But I cant find out contents of shipment .... AH Check this out: https://i.imgur.com/7CjqVBW.png

So you can see that they are ~1,000 lbs per shipment... rounding up - then remove ~30% for weight of packaging and basically you have 750 pounds of plastic bricks - then apply part existance probability and you can see how much of each part is being imported and a costing idea...

We could probably map out all lego sets and shipments with some dilligence.

Should also look at the environmental impact of lego long term. its a LOT of plastic.
>I really mean the "scripting language that sees data mid-transaction" aspect of the language. Sounds like you're not really seeing the value there either?

I do see value there as long as it is a general purpose programming language running in your sandbox and not something vendor-specific.
This is excellent news for people who needs to run Redis (or compatible in this case) directly on Microsoft Windows Server, without relying on WSL2. Previously, there was a Redis port available [1] (which is now in archive status) that had memory usage issues (mainly because of memory-mapped files AFAIK) and, of course, is no longer supported.

It's also quite intriguing for me to see it's written in C#, as that's my native tongue. I'd be keen on dedicating some time to delve into the code.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoftarchive/redis
Amazing tool.
Rogue ISPs Tamper with Geofeeds
> you really want to have data distributed across machines

It's funny how poorly Hadoop, HDFS, and HBase learned this lesson. HBase tries to keep a replica of its data on the local machine, under the incorrect belief that a local RegionServer (approx: chunk server) will be somehow better than a building full of them. This is why HBase performance is hideous. But it is all supposedly inspired by or modeled after GFS and Bigtable?
Sorry is "real estate agents need their cut" an argument against moving, or an argument for reducing the power of real estate agents, who are pretty much useless for 99% of residential transactions anyway?
Manifold isn't Java.
My understanding is that's not how ultrasound works?

CT and MRI give pretty clean images that even a layman can understand. I have no problem identifying things on them.

Ultrasound is looking for a vague voxel of density that is or isn't where it's supposed to be. The implies that you need to know what the density looks like when it's normal vs abnormal. It's more like "Your liver is supposed to be there but there is a blob of water instead. Let's get you a CT scan." If it's abnormal, then you go confirm with a high-resolution scan system.

This has a LOT of room for error. Ultrasound is how they identify gallstones, but, in my case, the ultrasound said "Yeah, you've got some gallstones, but no big deal." When they removed them after my gallbladder exploded, they were almost an inch and a half across. The problem is that gallstones are mostly just globs of cholesterol that isn't much diferent in density from the surrounding fluid.

Ultrasound is okay, but cheaper, smaller, faster CT/MRI systems that don't need contrast dye would enable far better diagnosis as it would put imaging much closer to office physicians.
Researchers used NYC buildings to measure the 1925 solar eclipse
Htmlq: Like Jq, but for HTML
eh I'll just delete this stupid webpage then
Of course very few people are experts in visual display of data, but this one is so horribly bad. Log scale please? The title of the post should be a simple chart, and there are charts on the page, but it's completely impossible to get the useful data out of the charts. Sheesh.
Pen plotting SVGs at a small scale
Very cool, small nitpicks:
- Very slow for medium-sized JSON (16MB)
- Fonts are too dark (made a PR)
Looking for performant alternatives, I found fx (https://fx.wtf) which doesn't have the jq features but is a fast json viewer.
Yeah I keep Glacier as an extra redundancy step to have another copy of my important data on a different continent.

Glacier shouldn't even be your redundancy solution, it should be the redundancy of your redundancy :)

Like you're alluding, if you actually need to pull the data out of glacier, you've probably screwed up in the design/testing of your primary backup systems, but we're all fallible so it's an insurance policy.
I have opened and built hundreds of lego sets over the years, and the only missing pieces I’ve ever had were in the Saturn V set. I think they had a QC issue on that set specifically.
Yes I was thinking the same thing. Certain factories may have worse quality control, and those sets end up in different regions from sets that come from better production facilities
Blue and green honey makes French beekeepers see red
> Always has been.

It definitely has not always been.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-MySQL-more-popular-than-Postgre... (2010)
jiq is no longer maintained
'A landmark moment': scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch
In case you never read this at the time - he's talked about it on HN a few times:

Sorting 2 Metric Tons of Lego
https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
There are stories about the UK being overrun with sketchy businesses like manual car washes and sweets shops

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/26/more-than-90...
As a kid I did the math on all the lego sets, and came to the conclusion that the 500 piece bucket was the best bargain, beating out the 1000 piece bucket by a decent amount. Most other sets were an awful value in comparison.

As an adult, I realized buying new was idiotic when I could just buy used. I ended up buying a former lego employee's collection for $60, selling the monorail it contained for $1000, and keeping the massive washing-machine sized rest for myself. Too bad deals like that come once in a lifetime!
>redesigning the formula editor to make human friendly yet expressive enough for the most hardcore user (fun UX challenge)

I work in this space. I don't envy this. Been through it more than once.

Did you also have challenges with circular references?
Here's what the authors speculate [1],

> A recent report showed that innate immune triggers (for example, Escherichia coli and Salmonella) induce LD formation in peripheral macrophages as part of an evolutionarily conserved antimicrobial defence in which LDs coated with antimicrobial proteins, such as cathelicidin (CAMP), kill bacteria8. We speculate that a similar programme can be triggered in human microglia exposed to Aβ, LPS and other innate immune activators and disrupt brain homeostasis. Protein aggregates found in other neurodegenerative diseases may trigger the LDAM state. For example, alpha-synuclein binding to TLR2 and TLR5 induces microglial NLRP3 inflammasome activation, which is a shared signature seen in LDAM36. Given that we recently identified that LDAM are abundant in the ageing mouse brain, LDAMs may also be triggered by hitherto unknown protein aggregates and innate immune activators which accumulate with age. Interestingly, the most enriched pathway in human LD-containing iMGs is ‘cellular senescence’, similar to lipid-laden ‘foamy macrophages’ in atherosclerosis which have a senescent phenotype and are drivers of pathology37. Perhaps in the natural ageing of various organs, LD-accumulating tissue-resident macrophages represent a general class of senescent myeloid cells which are drivers of tissue inflammation.

It could be a lot of things, and there might be multiple pathways that lead to this state.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07185-7#Sec6
The barista isn’t an axe murderer.
Wow, this is what our top talent is working on?
Don’t know about Ducati but on other bikes a clutch job is a stupidly simple process.
I'd love to see a chart of lego part prices over the years. Instead, what I saw was a couple charts showing only the outliers of the most-expensive parts over the years.

Data visualization fail.
I read the blurb on the page you linked me to and I don't understand why you say that. Could you please clarify why you linked me to that book so I don't have to guess?
So why don’t they use those companies as examples instead?
U.S. Accuses Two Men of Stealing Tesla Trade Secrets
Halo co-creator that joined EA 'gut punched' as publisher lays off entire team
Outlook is a part of Office. Also, I’m not sure ‘vertical integration’ is the only way to succeed at business. Google is trying to do that here - with a fast-changing landscape, one would want to use the best downstream provider.
There is almost nothing better than getting violently stoned and playing this game.
That's a great question! I would say that probably (but hard to prove), if something is a generalized intelligence mimic, it's probably best to treat it as intelligent, and as long as we don't have a reliable, quantitative metric for intelligence, we won't be able to say for sure. Although I was originally a solipsist, I take it as given that other humans, dogs, cats, octopuses, and a wide range of other creatures are "truly" intelligent, but I honestly have no biophysical way to test that.
Don't know about AGI, but humanity has convincingly achieved NGS (Natural General Stupidity).
Less startup, more starting a business.

The older I get the less I want to build a startup and more I want to start a business. Something that takes a little bit of capital, lots of hard work, gets some customers and provides goods or services, without venture capital firms and 100x returns and everything that comes with that, just a standard business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1SLHEC98I
My crystal ball tells me this will neither usher in an end to scarcity nor will it reduce the cost of healthcare.

EDIT: to say nothing of it’s effectiveness re: outcomes.