skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider "modern" to mean NN/connectionist vs GOFAI AI attempts like CYC or SOAR.

I dunno. The earliest research into what we now call "neural networks" dates back to at least the 1950's (Frank Rosenblatt and the Perceptron) and arguably into the 1940's (Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts and the TLU "neuron"). And depending on how generous one is with their interpretation of certain things, arguments have been made that the history of neural network research dates back to before the invention of the digital computer altogether, or even before electrical power was ubiquitous (eg, late 1800's). Regarding the latter bit, I believe it was Jurgen Schmidhuber who advanced that argument in an interview I saw a while back and as best as I can recall, he was referring to a certain line of mathematical research from that era.

In the end, defining "modern" is probably not something we're ever going to reach consensus on, but I really think your proposal misses the mark by a small touch.
I wouldn't say so much that we don't care to contain it, but that pandemic means it's sweeping over a population, endemic means it's simply always present in the population without major swings in prevalence. Impossible to contain because it's already everywhere.
They made that change a while ago. When I first logged in and saw it, so began the illustrious Taco Bell food service career of Frank Offerman, known to his friends as "F. Off".
Consider switching to Libre Office. I work for a government entity in the USA and have had very little trouble using .odt (open document text) files for contracts- our attorney and insurer handle them no problem and return the documents in the same format, not converted to .docx or anything else. Only one person (a developer) had trouble with Track Changes, not necessarily related to the format, and nothing diffing the two documents couldn't resolve.
Grey areas: Few people live there and none have set up a public ADS receiver. And/or no planes flying in the area. https://gpsjam.org/faq/#why-arent-there-red-or-green

Red areas: Military experiments and exercises, probably. https://gpsjam.org/faq/#what-can-cause-aircraft-to-report-lo...
Are you talking about options?
Musk should have spent 44B on a chip company.
The irony, of course, with that, is that then Google/Alphabet like Microsoft eat its lunch in the space by poorly supporting The Broad and allowing Verily to sign a $150m deal with Azure. Quite a few of the folks who were working on HCLS products in Cloud (were you one of them?) subsequently departed for Verily.
I shared an office with Uszkoreit when I was a phd intern and I always admired him for him having dropped out of his phd program.
Launch HN: CamelQA (YC W24) – AI that tests mobile apps
Hey HN! We're camelQA (https://camelqa.com/). We’re building an AI agent that can automate mobile devices using computer vision. Our first use case is for mobile app QA. We convert natural language test cases into tests that run on real iOS and Android devices in our device farm.

Flaky UI tests suck. We want to create a solution where engineers don’t waste time maintaining fragile scripts.

camelQA uses a combination of accessibility element data along with an in-house custom vision-only RCNN object detection model paired with Google Siglip for UI element classification (see a sample output here - https://camelqa.com/blog/sole-ui-element-detector.png). This way we’re able to detect elements even if they do not have accessibility elements associated with them.

Under the hood the agent is using Appium to interface with the device. We use GPT-4V to reason at a high level and GPT-3.5 to execute the high-level actions. Check out a gif of our playground here (https://camelqa.com/blog/sole-signup.gif)

Since we’re vision based, we don’t need access to your source code and we work across all app types - SwiftUI and UIKit, React Native, Flutter.

We built a demo for HN where you can use our model to control Wikipedia on a simulated iPhone. Check that out here (https://demo.camelqa.com/). Try giving it a task like “Bookmark the wiki page for Ilya Sutskever“ or “Find San Francisco in the Places tab”. We only have 5 simulators running so there may be a wait. You get 5 minutes once you enter your first command.

If you want to see what our front end looks like, we made an account with some test runs. Use this login (Username: hackerNews Password: 1337hackerNews!) to view our sandboxed HN account (https://dash.camelqa.com/login).

Last year we left our corporate jobs to build in the AI space. It felt like we were endlessly testing our apps, even for minor updates, and we still shipped a bug that caused one of our apps to crash on subscribe (the app in question - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tldr-ai-summarizer/id644930471...). That was the catalyst for camelQA.

We’re excited to hear what you all think!
If we don't count the CPU people use the most, in their pocket computers, AKA smartphones, Intel leads by a wide margin. Otherwise, they are in 4th place.
Card Sorting: Why and When [video]
What a tease! They describe in detail two problems they had to “invent workarounds” for, but say nothing about what the workarounds are. I’m very curious, since both of the problems sound quite hard to work around. I wonder if they’re being purposefully vague to make it harder for competitors to replicate their work…
I remember playing basketball as a kid and being very entertained beating kids that were much taller than I was. Sure, they had the height, but they lacked so many fundamental skills and sometimes it was clear they didn't think they had to work very hard or do practice drills because they were tall.

Fun fact, the ball and hoop don't care about any of that. It lets me steal it from you and it lets me put it into the hoop. The scorekeepers even add two to the scoreboard!
Ok, but let's acknowledge the difference between no data (depicted as no colored cell in the map) and data which reports high interference (depicted as a red cell). In remote western Aus we see a few red cells to the west of a large area of empty cells. So they do have ADS-B receivers there, and at least some of them are reporting a troublesome NIC, and there are enough reports for FR24 to place a colored cell there rather than an empty cell. Why exactly do you think that a red cell comes from no data or very limited data, when the article does not indicate that no data / limited data results in a red cell?
They have been "at war" with water for centuries now. Several floods have occurred, the last major flood was in the 1950's, IIRC. For the most part they have managed to keep the water out, but I wouldn't consider their battle fully settled yet.
To be honest West Virginia is the best US state (I also am close with back to landers communities, and visited through their lenses, so I am biased). Homemade booze (I don't drink, but still), homemade goat cheese (best cheese I had in the US), best kayaking rivers, great hiking trails, great people, great horses, great musicians. What's not to love.
Rockets turned out to be expensive not because the technology demanded it, but because the companies were intentionally inefficient, e.g. it was actually fine to build a rocket in a tent with simple tools than to setup a massive clean room facility. This was fine because the government would hand them a blank check with a guaranteed profit percentage, and the handful of commercial customers would just swallow the cost.

However, it isn't as clear if the same applies to semiconductors, since even a bit of dust is indeed a serious problem for producing a chip where the transistors are much smaller than most dust. Until very recently there were no blank checks, every improvement required mostly private investment, so it's less likely that the inefficiencies are intentional.
Posting paywalled links should be, as well. It's borderline marketing. If I pay for the source, I don't need to find it on HN.
One thing is that getting a PhD is a good way to get into the U.S. As a foreigner, many visa and job opportunities open up to you with the PhD.

For an American, it's less of a good deal. Once you have the PhD, you make somewhat more money, but you're trading that for 6 years of hard work and very low pay. The numbers aren't favorable -- you have to love the topic for it to make any sense.

As a result, U.S. PhD programs are heavily foreign born.
If you click through some different days, it looks like that is just a patch of the larger overall jamming zone around Kaliningrad.
I think it's really a problem of different incentives.

Somebody (A) at the bank does not want to give out loans that are well beyond a properties value.

Somebody (B) _else_ at the bank is actually the one giving you the loan and makes money from you getting it.

So A requires B to have an appraiser so they can't completely run away writing loans. From talking to some real estate agents, the appraiser will only fudge so much for you. An appraiser might agree that the house is worth 750k even if they actually think its 699k but if you try to get a 700k loan for a 350k house they'll write down 350k in their appraisal.

--

IIRC, the government's crack down on "junk fees" is mostly that you can't advertise a price and then inflate it later with fees. So as long as the bank states that they require an appraiser and their in-house cost is $X; it doesn't count as a junk fee. But if the bank says that the loan is going to cost say $5k in overhead and then later says it doesn't include appraisal fee then it be a junk fee.
By that argument we should also eliminate the internet, yes?
Thanks for the feedback! Do you mean a custom dropdown with checkboxes inside?

BTW, it's completely normal to use paper/pencil while you're getting the hang of it.
The Terrifying Allure of Mona Island
That link would have been a better submission than the blog.
Then the right response is, e.g.

“Do you have any evidence that the CHIPS act require DEI?”

Yes, see the relevant sections here: https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1766467529151557788?s=4...

“Do you have any evidence that DEI distributes outcomes to favored activist identities?”

A summary: https://youtu.be/n0fpeiFNWMY?si=eiCnRL0LX8RhOlxI

Happy to provide evidence from woke literature if you are interested in evidence of any aspect of how it works. They are pretty straightforward about it, but incredibly wordy.
I don’t get it.

Is the point of this change to get real people to delete their reviews in favor of the “fake” reviews made by companies to suppress wages?
PDF.js is great. I used to even use a chrome extension to use it in chrome back when I needed to use it. I think that extension hasn't been kept up to date though.

I'm no longer concerned about exploits from sketchy PDFs.
I use Thunderbird, and one benefit of doing it all manually is that I end up intentionally deleting a lot of what I decide to be junk, which is liberating.
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The weave on that flax linen is fantastic. It's very tight-knit for something that would be hand-woven. A great amount of time would have gone into that.
How does this statement square with the existence of Mistrel AI?
Interesting way to put it, but I'm still not sure that quite applies. The game is a multiplayer game intended to be played with other people. Commercial endeavors change with movie viewing. It's implied that single entity can own a single copy while charging admission to profit from their single copy of the movie. Meanwhile, movie companies (mostly) don't care if I play _The Lord of the Rings_ in a private setting to a small audience of known people.

I would argue that the competitive nature of tournaments implies that the entrants all have a copy of the game along with hardware to run the game (emulation withstanding). The only thing is streaming the event. Even then, what would be the difference between streaming a tournament and streaming myself or a small group of friends playing? It doesn't seem like that would infringe upon the core purpose of the game.
There are unspoken rules, and neither spoken nor unspoken rules are perfectly enforced. It’s only a game if you treat it as such.
Here is the form to delete your data and more: https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US
What's a static animation?
Perhaps we’d have better written laws
Probably something like this

https://youtu.be/Ynvoriv09Ks?t=105
Form to delete your data from Glassdoor
Related:

Suspicious Discontinuities - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28452926 - Sept 2021 (54 comments)

Suspicious Discontinuities - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22378555 - Feb 2020 (297 comments)
> Its outright the worst possible place in whole Europe to be rich

I guess it's a good thing Europe has free movement! They are free to be rich in Amsterdam, Berlin or Brussels. If the wealth is generated in France, then they should put up with the French inconveniences.
Yeah, that kind of irked me with the commit. Currently (769b306) it says:

> this commit removes a section of the footer as we have received a voluntary enquiry from a state authority that included a requirement for confidentiality

Which... is just saying what happened? Point is to remove it without saying anything, as if you do, you'd break the "requirement for confidentiality" and put yourself at risk.
This https://www.webworm.co/p/glassdoor should have convinced anyone to go ahead and delete all their data and account from Glassdoor.
I will do some reading up on the different techniques being used. I am just at a low point in my trust for companies at the moment.
Theoretically all those interactions breach the social contract and could be acted upon by making complaints. However, someone loudly driving a multi-ton car down your road is always "okay".

Also... I live in a low-density urban neighborhood currently and it's the loudest place I've ever lived. Mostly it's road noise, but also one of my neighbors parties 12+ hours every weekend playing music very loudly. Some people are just loud, but cars make everybody loud.
A sinister method is to state your birthday as Jan 2nd 1919. Just enough time to be remotely plausible. Bugs are sure to follow the account for the remainder of its existence.
The devil is in the details.

For example, Make decides to rebuild based on timestamp, while Bazel decides to recompute based of file hashes. Thus, if you touch a file but don't change its contents, Make might rebuild things that Bazel wouldn't. Another example in the paper is the INDIRECT function in Excel. This makes it so that Excel cannot compute the dependency graph before the build starts. Excel has ways to deal with this, but they might cause some cells to be recomputed even when they didn't actually need to be. The paper has a bunch of interesting examples like this, it's worth the read :)

The problem of dynamic dependencies is particularly tricky. For example, suppose that you want to teach your makefile that your compilation depends on the source C file, but also on all the headers that are #included by that C file. And you want to actually look inside the C file to get that list of headers, not just copy paste the list into the makefile. There's more than one way to handle this.
I use fastmail with my own domains. I got a separate domain for myself that I use for trashmails.
Imagining Further Decentralization for Nostr
Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content
Blind seems to be where tech people post reviews now. Non-tech people just use an alternative Google account and post the review on the company's page Google Maps reviews page.
Stability AI had massive support when Stable Diffusion 1.x and SDXL each hit the scene. But the Gen AI industry has evolved so rapidly that forks and iterations on the models outpaced them, especially commercially.

That's a feature of open-source development, not a bug. But it's a reason (along with the general financial issues which are the company's fault alone) why Stability is switching to a "need a membership to use commercially" business model, and IMO it won't work.
The CEO being a fraud could be a possible reason. Just saying.
> Static libraries, despite ostensibly being shared code

No, there is no basis for the presumption that a static library be shared at run time.
If the workers don't live in the city, how can they be considered part of its lifeblood? All of their cultural pursuits happen elsewhere.
Pro tip: always use example.com because then you are sure you are not spamming someone's inbox.
Russians do plenty of jamming that expands beyond their borders in the Baltic, either on purpose or just as a spillover as they don't care. Before Finland joined NATO they used to also violate our airspace on frequent basis, but since then that has stopped.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20079715
A 155lb human burns 177kcal when walking at 2.5mph[1], so that's 71kcal per mile

There are 340kcal in 100g of wholemeal wheat flour[2], so walking one mile takes around 21g of wheat

Wheat flour creates carbon emissions of 0.80 kg CO₂e/kg [3], so walking one mile creates carbon emissions of 170 g CO₂e

Driving a vehicle powered by gasoline produces tailpipe emissions of around 400g per mile [4]

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/calories-burned-walking#Wa...
[2] https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/health-promotion-knowl...
[3] https://apps.carboncloud.com/climatehub/product-reports/id/9...
[4] https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...
LLMs Getting Stuck in the MUD
I tried building a MUD with GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus. They were able to give me the initial setup no problem, but iterating on it was a disaster.

This article goes over my experience - https://naisys.org/articles/llms-getting-stuck-in-the-mud

Anyone else want to try letting a LLM build a web based MUD from scratch? I'm interested to see how far you can get with minimal help given to the AI.
You say that, but it sure was nice, last year when my dryer kept popping the breaker, for me to be able to easily track down that the electrician that replaced my panel ~8 years ago had (a) used the wrong breaker for the dryer, (b) used a physically damaged breaker, and (c) improperly torqued one of the legs leading to the dryer.

Learning DYI home maintenance is not for everyone, but I sure have enjoyed it. Being comfortable with so many aspects of my house is something I really like.
I do not think the typical language tutorial is well served by trying to teach a condensed version of all of CS.
We just released a fix for the version error, this will be the last one you see, we promise!
Exactly! You would think a free tool for such a simple purpose would be easier to find online. Glad to see Firefox raising the bar
Why not take finasteride as well to offset it?
I agree - management cruft abounds in most large corps. The hard thing is you need a really skilled CEO to cut through all of it correctly.
No you can't - they can still link which is the whole problem. The advertising industry has built such a tracking apparatus that some part of your system, maybe even your browser audio, is going to give up your fingerprint.
Oh sure, when an individual doxes someone it's harassment, but when a company doxes people it's a growth mindset.

This should be illegal.
DietPi released a new version 9.2
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.2 on March 16th, 2024.

The highlights of this version are:
NanoPi R4S: Improvements for ethernet ports
DietPi-Banner: Option for RAM usage display added
Gogs/Gitea: Improvements on user repositories via SSH
DietPi-Config: Stabilization for WiFi connection and for audio
Fixes for PaperMC, Nextcloud, Home Assistant, IceCast/DarkIce, LXQt
The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_2/
I imagine it would take a very serious effort to green up a hard desert like that, but it is well known that forests are capable of generating rain through photosynthesis and evapotranspiration.

Some large scale projects have already been undertaken, such as the restoration of the loess plateau in China, or the currently ongoing effort to establish a green belt across Africa to stop the Sahara desert from spreading southward.
Not all, but much of western society, definitely :)
You shouldn't judge people by what Forbes says, but what people do. So far, Emad delivers on what he promises (with some delays here and there), and Stability.ai is the only one that publish image / video generation models at production quality.
(the 13th and the 17th are getting better imho, but it's probably because I don't live there anymore :))
Hong Kong has some is highest skyscrapers next to housing that rents cages for people to sleep in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedspace_apartment
People live in the same neighborhood and there is a cruelty factor of understanding and accepting that in your city poor people live in cages. And people in the US live in tents. At least nobody profits from that.
If you can just say in a commit message "we have received a voluntary enquiry from a state authority that included a requirement for confidentiality" surely the whole song and dance about canaries is pointless, right? Or did the committer fuck up and ruin their plausible deniability?
This is a very simple and elegant solution to the problem. Kudos!
People in the replies sure seem to have a hard time accepting that markets aren't personal. It doesn't matter what you think tastes good. What matters is that buyers where this observation is being made think that salmon and trout taste good and that other fish do not. This is a very common situation in the US. You don't need to be offended by it or talk aggro-defensively about how your fish culture is superior to someone else's. The rise of salmon consumption isn't a conspiracy. It's just a flavor profile that agrees with the masses.
California & Nevada actively practice cloud seeding, I wonder if that affects Utah.
> The top answer given here is highly reductionist to the point of misleading

Is there a reason to take your opinion as being right? I am not an expert in physics, I don't want to study for the next 20 years to be one, how can I determine if you're correct, and that the top answer is indeed "highly reductionist to the point of misleading". Maybe _you_'re wrong and the other guy is right.
As far as I'm concerned the data has for a long time said that Covid typically causes lasting damage, it's just that for most people it's at a subclinical level.

If this were not the case why do we see rising odds for Long Covid with repeated infections? If there's no lasting damage and it's facing a more tuned-in immune system the expected result would be a lower incidence.

And we see athletes with higher rates of Long Covid than the population at large. Or do we? That could also be explained by athletes being more aware of where their limits are and are used to pushing themselves to those limits--hence they are more aware of impairment.
Data Abstraction and Object-Oriented Programming Explains [video]