skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next do Ford!
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Cops in California Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition
Ooh, interesting - starred and going to dig into this later today!
I love that app, I've set it to have a single task-bar icon with the screen's brightness, which I can control via mouse wheel in 25% increments when I hover over that icon.
I remember using Bulma years ago, and they just hit 1.0? What’s the reason it took so long?
Well, we often deal with untestable questions in science, such as: what was the molecular pathway that led to the origin of life? Time has erased the data we'd need to test any hypothesis, thus even if we do create a living cell from simple elements, there's no way at all to be sure that was the route that life took. Hence we can't rule out some supernatural being jiggling the atoms about just so at the origin of life.

So, even if we choose to believe in a purely mechanistic universe, we can't definitively test that hypothesis using the tools and methods of science. Practically, this means that the scope of science as a means for discovering the nature of reality is limited.

edit: note that a reproducible glitch in the simulation would be of interest, and one could even argue that looking for such glitches is in part what scientists do.
> the deafening sound of the sound barrier being broken

As someone who grew up hearing sonic booms all the time this is very puzzling to me. I keep seeing mentions of how the sonic boom is such a huge issue... really?
What does the tech stack look like?
> Monkey C, just isn't good.

If anyone involved in it could explain to me why they chose to force an OO language on people on a platform where some targets have so little memory that you’ll find yourself cutting lines of code to save memory used by the code itself, not even when it’s executing, thus throwing away a bunch of bytes supporting objects when there’s not enough space to even really take advantage of inheritance—I’d love to know the story. It’s such a weird choice.
I believe the above poster is saying that hotels want their staff to periodically barge in with little warning just to catch the rare moment when there's an alarming array of guns or a dead person or something other than recreational amounts of drugs laying in plain sight.
The supersonic biz jet fails because they all need longer runways. The biz jet wants to land at smaller private airports to avoid the hassle (security) of large airports. Any supersonic biz jet capable of also landing on a short runway ends up looking more like a fighter jet with some extra seats.
On the first test flight you want to minimize risk as much as possible - there’s many, many things that can go wrong, so adding variables is a bad idea. Landing gear can’t get stuck up if it’s never retracted.
The thing that's annoying me right now is how Ford wants to sell you back features like their advanced cruise control and navigation systems. If my employment contract didn't make things legally murky I'd totally be trying to replace this shit with something less user hostile.

Now I don't really want to be on the road where people are running random self driving algorithms they downloaded from the internets on their electric deathwagons, but the automakers rent seeking behavior seems to be driving us ever closer to that dystopian future.
Do you have the exact quote for sure?
> [The US gov] issued its warning several hours after the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said it had foiled an attack on a synagogue in Moscow by a cell of the militant Sunni Muslim group Islamic State.
I think HN's policy against personal attacks doesn't have exceptions for folks you deem to be deluded.
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The internet has become an unusable joke
Agreed. I always read the first few paragraphs then see that I'm not even 1/8th of the way down the page but have gotten all of the info I need and click off and read HN comments.
I've been on redeye flights where, a few hours in, the pilot came on the PA, told us about something to see out the window, and also about the drink we could buy from the flight attendants - credit cards only please!

Air travel is just endless indignities and discomfort.
feels like an allegory for something, i'm not quite sure what, but it's there
Yeah the classnames are so well thought out
Why reveal your entire hand?
Expressed by a vested interest, but I don't fully disagree. A generation that has unwanted change imposed on them without seeing it coming may swing the pendulum back.

Civilization sort of worked before the advent of the printing press, though. Let's see.
Or, his expertise from Onerep helps him build a better Nuwber.
"After careful consideration, Rolls-Royce has determined that the commercial aviation supersonic market is not currently a priority for us and, therefore, will not pursue further work on the program at this time. It has been a pleasure to work with the Boom team and we wish them every success in the future."

Guess it was a cost thing. Wasn't worth their time. Not enough customers probably.
Were the dams ineffective or is the regulation ineffective?
Anecdotes: I interacted with both Alexis and Steve, at different times in the history of Reddit.

With Alexis: in the early days of Reddit. First was to ask him some general questions, probably. (Don't fully recollect.)

Then he mentioned that they have just created this new feature called subreddits, and that any user can create a subreddit. I was into Ruby at that time, so I created one for Ruby.
Didn't use it much, though, after that. I don't know if the current Ruby subreddit is the one I created or not.

With Steve: years later, I was consulting to a new fintech SaaS startup, in it's earliest stage, so was helping them with requirements, high level app design and database design, and forms (UI). I pinged Steve with a few questions about architecture and technology, since Reddit was already at scale, and he replied with some suggestions.
That was related to the fake elections in Russia. It was expected that some people would attempt to protest and the police will react violently
Like frogs boiling in water.
One thing to know about data scientists are (1) there's the job posting and (2) there's the work. Often you'll be hired for one thing and end up doing entirely different work.

To improve your chops in this field, (a) learn the basics of NLP, (b) build yourself a RAG using llamaindex or langchain (or other but build it).

As for fine tuning and deep learning, without experience in that field it's tough. It's like any complex thing (fine tuning not so much but deep learning), knowledge comes with time and exposure. So go find a reason to fine tune or build and train a neural network and go friggin do it.
One dynamic that may be at play: Designing a new engine is a gamble. For a company who already makes money with existing designs, there may be little upside on a small-volume new product. This is likely the reason the "Big 3" passed on designing an engine they don't have an off-the-shelf option for.

Boom would probably be the primary beneficiary of such an engine existing, so it isn't all that surprising that they will have to fund the development. The second supersonic airframe that can use their engine would be the one to turn that R&D profitable for Boom (and ease the introduction of more supersonic airframe options).
But in many cases people, myself included, swapped to using Apple products because Android and Windows Phone were so much worse and had peripherals that interfaced way worse. I spent most of a decade on Android, paying essentially the same price as I would have on Apple, to get products that worked worse, lasted less time before losing official support, and interoperated worse even within the Google, LG, or Samsung ecosystems.

I ate the cost to swap off of Android (which also doesn't make it easy to get off of it, though maybe better than Apple) because I got value out of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake#Terminology
You know they're full of shit when CTRL+F "terror" on the full text of that regulation gets 195 hits.
I use Logseq and never had a problem with data loss so I did that search. Looks like the problem with data loss is a problem with people using sync. I don't use Logseq Sync and just backup my markdown folder to a cloud storage using any number of third party tools like Syncthing.
Just not upgrading and use patch-package to apply security fixes work so far.
speed of sound changes with altitude right?
I was gonna make a jokey comment, but I’m seriously at a loss for words. This is the most overtorqued ridiculous take I’ve read all week. Who cares who else is using the free libraries that you’re using?
And what are you implying exactly?
The buyers of a certain bridge in Brooklyn, clearly.
This is completely my subjective opinion, but I find "early 3D" ugly. In my opinion, pixel art has aged better. In fact, some of it still looks beautiful to me. But early 3D I find almost completely unappealing.

About the only exceptions I can think of are some flightsims like SSI's Flanker (which had very complex graphics for being simply flat-shaded 3D) and the games that emulate this nowadays, like Tiny Combat Arena.
Yes and no. Line of sight was one reason, but aerodynamics was another. Pointing the nose into the wind (ie slightly down) is more efficient during landing and takeoff. Boom is avoiding the concept because it would cost tens of millions to develop and test such a configuration.
> Anonymous cash payments over €3,000 will be banned in commercial transactions. Cash payments over €10,000 will even be completely banned in business transactions. And anonymous payments in cryptocurrencies to wallets operated by providers (hosted wallets) will be prohibited even for minimum amounts without a threshold.

For the regular person, there is no issue here. Cash is still fine, anonymous payments are possible.

Anonymous online / digital payments seems to exclusively facilitate crime, but doesn’t seem to be relevant to regular ‘normal’ people.

I think banning anonymous crypto payments is therefore a good thing.

The vast majority of people shopping online do so with their identity known and that’s totally OK (and required when buying physical stuff)

A ton of people will probably want to point out at this point that banks and merchants sell their customer data and their shopping behavior, which to me is absolute bonkers and immoral. However that’s a different issue, one that is only fixed with legislation, which makes it a political topic.

Anonymous crypto payments may also help specific dissidents in certain countries but that upside doesn’t justify the enormous downside.
What new car can you buy nowadays that either has:

* No pushing of driving data to the cloud, or

* this pushing of data can easily be disabled (pulling a fuse, etc)

for privacy minded folks? It seems almost like a lost battle.
While I broadly agree with you, most of the dam removal projects I see in the US are tiny dams which have little to no potential for use as fresh water sources and generate tiny amounts of electricity.

I'm strongly in favor of replacing the lost capacity with much larger dams though which have the ability to hold non-trivial amounts of water and have the ability to generate significant amounts of power.

Relatively speaking, the ecological impacts are disproportionately large for what we gain with smaller dams.
> BTW how many times China and Russia vetoed at the same time resolutions at the UN? Countin that from [2].

Not sure what you mean... Should we be surprised? It is normal that whenever something is discussed, usually either China is against, or Russia, or both - and the list you linked to confirms that.
Not even remotely correct. They flew supersonic aircraft over Oklhahoma City a thousand times and basically drove the city insane and had to cut testing short when it was obviously untenable to regularly Sonic Boom half a million people for commercial aviation, let alone every large city in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

If I'm doing my calculations correct, their targeted sound pressure levels of 50-100 pascal is equivalent to 127-133 decibels, which is over the threshold of discomfort for most, and getting close to the threshold of pain.
Why is E2EE the argument people keep jumping to with RCS? The bigger problem is the reliance on carriers, that's far worse. Far fewer people are talking about that issue (thankfully there are some in the comments below, I've never seen anyone on Reddit mention it)
It's a small ISP, so even though 10k is probably negligible, it's still non trivial probably. I can't imagine ISPs in Toronto, Ohio, a city of 5000, (2000 households paying $60 = $120k)
I remember looking at it sometimes ago and indeed it was not easy to use. Maybe it's time to try again!
I was talking about an AI song where you say "give me a Wu-Tang Clan song in the style of Elvis Presley using steel drums".

You brought up AI visual art, and used the word "editing" to describe what happens after the image is generated from the prompt. I think that's a very important distinction --- between creating an image or work of art by your own hand (yes even in something like Illustrator or digital art tools because people like to erroneously conflate those with AI image generation) and editing the output of an AI model. I would argue the same happens in a DAW with an AI song.

> And even then, have you seen prompts for really good stuff? Those are def not one shot things, and are a creative process in itself. It's annoying honestly, since I'm rarely ever able to get images that are as good as I've seen.

I have, hence why the prompts are the human and actually artistic part of AI art. You need to be creative to actually create a prompt that uses AI model well and skillfully. They honestly read like bizarre modernist or formalist poetry.
Police, Prosecutors Used Junk Science to Decide 911 Callers Were Liars (2022)
Only half of Istanbul is in Europe (yes, the side with the Airport) and the other half and the rest of the country is Anatolia/Asia Minor.

Turkey has many of the political markers of being in Europe but is really a unique situation and its leaders like to take the best of being European and not-European where it suits them.

Do most people consider it a European country? Doubtful. I've never known any Turks who considered themselves European...even the super cosmopolitain globe-trotting kids of Turkish diplomats that I grew up around.
I will vote against whoever tried to make my flights less convenient
AI Surpasses Doctors in Spotting Early Breast Cancer Signs in NHS Trial
The recent NHS pilot study introduces a significant advancement in medical diagnostics through the application of artificial intelligence. The study focused on the AI tool 'Mia,' which has demonstrated a unique capability to detect early signs of breast cancer in mammograms—identifying cases that were not detected by human radiologists. This tool analyzed over 10,000 mammograms, flagging signs of cancer in 11 individuals previously undiagnosed by medical professionals.

1. AI and Radiology: The study prompts a reevaluation of the role of AI in diagnostic radiology, potentially augmenting or transforming traditional methodologies.

2. Ethical Considerations: Implementing AI in diagnostics introduces complex ethical considerations, including data privacy, algorithmic bias, and the impact on patient trust.

3. Operational Efficiency: Mia's ability to reduce diagnostic wait times suggests a broader operational impact, possibly streamlining patient care pathways and improving early intervention outcomes.

This case study underscores the transformative potential of AI in healthcare, particularly in enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. It also highlights the necessity for ongoing research, ethical scrutiny, and interdisciplinary collaboration to fully integrate AI tools like Mia into clinical practice.

The implications of this study extend beyond oncology, proposing a paradigm shift in medical diagnostics. I encourage a discourse on the integration challenges and opportunities presented by AI, with a focus on ensuring equitable, ethical, and patient-centered care.

For detailed insights, refer to the original article from BBC News:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68607059
I always called them 'couplers'.

They have saved me a few times too. When I was in the thick of IT, I used to carry a little tool kit with push down-tools for patch panels, screwdrivers, and an rj45 crimper. I carried it for years but only used it a handful of time, mostly on network wall sockets that hadn't been pushed down fully.

My geekiest item was a zip up case with my usb flash drives, with the usual Linux distros + Kali, Windows installers and of course Hirens boot USB (and cd!). Hirens was mostly just for resetting local admin passwords, but the disk recovery stuff was useful too.

I think I would be viewed with some suspicion carrying that in my new workplace!
No shots intended, I swear it! Logseq is really nice and I liked it a lot when I tried it. However, the bug reports in the forums kept me from seriously considering it. For now at least I just keep my notes in a synced folder of Markdown docs and maintain them with a regular editor.
Humans: overly aggressive pattern matchers!
The swarm of negative comments here is both disheartening and unwarranted. How many of you are building ad networks or chat-with-PDF while these folks are working on truly difficult problems?

Flying supersonic is awesome, actually. Count me in for one at the first opportunity (25% of the cost of a Concorde ticket would really be something)

Congratulations for a successful launch to Boom!
There is a segment in a recent Linus Tech Tips video [1] that showcased media asset management software [2] where you can search for portions of locally stored videos via natural language. e.g. Person X holding object Y, working on task Z. If this type of AI video tagging comes to mobile I think it will be a game changer.

[1] https://youtu.be/CcHevgjAnV0?feature=shared&t=1374
[2] https://axle.ai/
That's happened to my area.

It used to be the countryside; now's it's the suburbs.

But now the suburbs complain about the smells from the few farms that are left.
Anyone who didn't see this coming has fundamental misconceptions about how the world works. Frankly I'm surprised it took so long.
Time is literally the one thing you can't buy more of, and therefore, when you are rich enough, is the only thing that has real value.
Maybe it’s generational, I too prefer to jot down my notes with pen and paper then I parse or rewrite for posterity whatever is relevant/important.

Sometimes I fell it’s wasteful though, because one page of scribbled notes can take me half hour to process and convert into a properly filed note.

So I learned to embrace chaos and not care so much. And fzf is your friend and all is well in the world.
https://julialang.org/jsoc/gsoc/wasm/
And we're supposed to just believe that?

It's almost guaranteed that after a "long and thorough review" (showing consultants the local fine dining scene) they'll share "limited data" (literally everything) which has been "thoroughly anonymized" (with ROT-13) with "carefully selected partners" (anyone willing to pay) for "diagnostic purposes" (we diagnose a need for more money).

Let's be honest here, they are only sorry that they got caught.
I am not the person you're replying to but I reached the same conclusion that they have. When someone claims as impossible that which you have experienced (and in fact, experienced consistently across decades) - at some point you have to conclude that they simply lack the experience that would make this as obvious to them. It's not a bad thing but it's just kinda real.

It's like the opposite of survivorship bias. Because you have only seen things go badly, you conclude the good is impossible, something like that.
No, the paper targets "constant time" operations, not timing agnostic.

The paper even mentions that blinding works, and that to me is the canonical "separate the time and power use of the operation from the key material" solution. The complaint about this approach in the paper being is that it would be specific to these prefetchers, but it seems this type of prefetcher is increasingly prevalent across multiple cpus and architectures so it seems unlikely to be apple specific for long. The paper even mentions new intel processors have these prefetchers and so necessarily provide functionality to disable them there too. This is all before we get to the numerous prior articles showing that key extraction via side channels is already possible with these constant time algorithms (a la last months(I think?) "get the secrets from the power led" paper). The solution is to use either specialized hardware (as done for AES) or timing agnostic code.

Trying to create side channel free code by clever construction based on assumptions about power and performance of all hardware based on a simple model of how CPUs behave is going to just change the side channels, not remove them. If it's a real attack vector that you are really concerned about you should probably just do best effort and monitor for repeated key reuse or the like, and then start blinding at some threshold.
There are so many commies in HN that I have to think that's deliberate. That's gotta be state actors at play. CCP?

Like, who the f*k cares? There are other companies working on that too.
If fact there was active work to make Dalio top on believability and have it flow from there. The developer behind it is extensively interviewed in "The Firm."

Dalio and others being on top of rating was a way Dalio sanity checked the algo, per the book and was not happy when it drifted away from that standard.

How much of the book's content is shaded by sour grapes is unclear though.
I wonder if landlords should be required to disclose noise sources.

As a renter there's no easy way for you to know that every Friday night the bar a block away has music so loud you can hear it in your apartment til 2am or that a band practices at the school down the street etc...

You generally have about 5 minutes too look around a apartment and a few more to look around the neighborhood and then sign a contract for $60k not knowing the place will be unacceptable once you actually spend a week there.

maybe this is only a problem in expensive cities like SF/NYC/LA where when you find a place you have to take it immediately nor lose it to the line of people ready to rent
Insurance is for unknown risks.

Once a risk is sufficiently known and likely, it becomes a subsidy.