skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it is ableist, it's hard to imagine a game making fun of any other illness or disorder these days.
Other firms who think that the price is too high could simply.... not invest in those companies.

I am not sure what is confusing about this. If a company is too expensive, the qualified investors who are spending their investment dollars are free to not buy equity in those too expensive companies.

They manage billions of dollars! I am sure they can figure out how much a company is actually valued! They aren't going to be "tricked" by some valuation scheme that randos are pointing out in HN comments.
Thank you ! I am so tired of all those unmaintainable nor debugable notebooks.
Years ago, Databricks had a specific page on their documentation where they stated that notebooks where not for production grade software. It has been removed. And now you have a chatgpt like in their notebooks ... What a step backwards.
How can all those developers be so happy without having the bare minimum tools to diagnosis their code ? And I am not even talking about unit testing here.
I agree the distinctiveness of the default style is definitely a problem, but on the other hand at least the default style is pretty good. Could be worse - something like Motif, TK or FLTK.

It would definitely benefit from a more "neutral" style though, or even better a few style choices. GTK2 used to have a ton of actually attractive styles available back in the day.
Show HN: X/Twitter's Community Notes for the entire internet (OS and non-profit)
Hey HN,

Here's UniversalNotes, an open-source, non-profit browser extension that brings X/Twitter's Community Notes to the entire internet.

Here's my demo showing how it works: https://www.twitter.com/amalsony_/status/1761213504718016763...

and here's the link to the repo: https://www.github.com/amalsony/universalnotes

I'd love to know what you think and what we can improve!
Fine-tune an open source LLM from Postgres data in 5 minutes
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The process of fine-tuning open source LLMs has become incredibly easy, we'll walk you through it
There's another issue here as well, which is that many of the tech folks who would be ok working for the government, even at reduced rates, cant get through the hiring morass that uncle sam puts up. The fed gov simply isnt set up to quickly acquired talent from industry. They also remain remarkably hidebound by old rules like requiring advanced degrees for senior positions.
Got Unity Perception 1.0 working
Isn't that just really shrewd investing on Amazon's end though? Just because you've identified the win-win doesn't mean it's illegal? In fact it's what investments should look like: companies that invest in other companies for the synergies.
It's the student loan industry and lowering standards for college admissions. Most of them should not be in college.
I lived in NYC for 35 years and most trucks do not make their deliveries at night.
Personally, I found looking at open source work to be much more instructive in learning about AI and how things like training data and such are done from the ground up. I suspect this is because training data is one of the bigger moats an AI company can have, as well as all the class action lawsuits surrounding training data.

One of the best open source datasets that are freely available is The Pile by EleutherAI [1]. It's a few years old now (~2020), but they did some really diligent work in putting together the dataset and documenting it. A more recent and even larger dataset would be the Falcon-RefinedWeb dataset [2].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027
[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01116
Is there a "hello world" example available that is a highly simplified version of https://qrlew.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/getting_sta... ? Just 2 tables, 2 fields apiece, with the join bringing private data into the mix?
in any case

> Those tolls will be discounted by 75 percent at night,

which is when most truck deliveries are made

I would bet the value in time saved to a freight delivery business to be stuck in less traffic (composed primarily of passenger cars!) is well worth more than the toll paid
My memory of when schools re-opened in some states in August of 2020 was that nobody knew what the hell was going to happen, there was some science indicating that kids' immune systems were much better at handling COVID-19 but most of it was murky and preliminary, and there was a huge downstream risk of kids catching COVID and spreading it to their grandparents. I think back to the episode of This American Life about re-opening from that time titled "Long-Awaited Asteroid Finally Hits Earth". [1] Basically it was seen as extremely risky and I don't fault some school districts for taking the wait-and-see approach. By the end of the school year in 2021 it should have been obvious that schools were safe to reopen however.

It doesn't help that people were getting their COVID-19 news and updates from Twitter which was a huge mess of mis/disinformation, rumors, quack science and purely ideological/partisan arguments over COVID-19 safety protocols. Just an all around mess, remember when people were saying Vitamin D would prevent COVID-19 infection?

1: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/715/long-awaited-asteroid-f...
Not only that, people (well, mammals) want to get high. Alchohol is so much more destructive than weed or MDMA, on both a personal or societal scale. If you’d ban alcohol, people will just sniff glue or start brewing their own bathtub hooch.

Legalization + proper harm reduction + strict enforcement on public (ab)use is ultimately the way. You get a triple win of tax income, freed up police resources and less pressure on the healthcare system.
With a new technique, MIT engineers probe mechanisms of landslides, earthquakes
I worked at WhatsApp, one of the big Erlang users, almost none of our server team knew Erlang before joining, including me. Until we hired someone who actually used it before, I was the most knowledgeable pre-hire, because I remember seeing a post about it when Erlang open sourced it.

Yes, we probably could have done some things better if we had a bit more Erlang experience on our team; at least while I was there, none of our applications were properly packaged as OTP applications, and maybe that could have been useful. But overall, we were smart, experienced server people who were willing to learn Erlang and we were handed a tool that fit our needs very well, so we all got Erlang books and figured it out. If you can recruit smart, experienced server people who are willing to learn a new language, you don't have a recruiting problem. I haven't personally worked with Elixir, but I feel like most of the unfamiliarity is going to come from the underlying BEAM and OTP, so same difference; Elixir just has different syntax and macros are more heavily used, IMHO both syntaxes are going to be unfamiliar to most.
Writing OpenAPI by hand sucks, this looks fantastic. The only reason I prefer generators from code comments is because the structure and the code itself live in the same place, so it's harder to forget.
Fascinating to see this drop at the same time as Redis and TinyMCE both reneging on their licensing pledges.
Norway has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world; in 2018 the reconviction rate was 18% within two years of release, with a recidivism rate of 25% after five years.[1] The country also has one of the lowest crime rates on Earth.[2][3][4] Norway's prison system houses approximately three thousand offenders.[5]

Yeah but one must account for demographics and unreported crime. I am sure crime would surge in the US if it copied Norway's system. What works for one country is not always reproducible for others.
> which is when most truck deliveries are made

That's simply not true.

Also congestion based pricing strategies have never reduced traffic anywhere they've been implemented. Go ask London.
> The thing is, and like I mentioned in a post awhile back: technically competent actors, the ones bound to cause the most harm, would absolutely be using a bespoke method of covert communication. There's really little value, IMO, to the countrywide dragnet outside of sentiment analysis and control.

Agreed. And yet their persistence to surveil continue to expand. They're not trying to watch those who are sure to be hiding. They're watching the rest under the guise of "We gotta get those terrorists."
Thanks for sharing this -- I read the book maybe a decade ago and largely discounted it as non-replicable pop-sci; this changed my opinion of Kahneman's perspective and rigor (for the better!)
If that was strictly true then the toll wouldn't make any difference. I don't have a better solution for Manhattan, but I can recognize that fixed-fee tolls select for traffic with the "most disposable income" rather than the "most economically beneficial" traffic.

Arguments can be made in places like Denver that high tolls means that those who have control over politics (who tend to be rich) won't feel much need to invest in additional road infrastructure, because their experience is that "the travel times are fine!". But they're using an up-to-$15-each-way toll road (E-470).

Similar to how the TSA procedures would get reformed if everyone flying had to go through the same process (most importantly, including anyone taking private planes). But almost no one who has power to force changes actually goes through the TSA lines because they mostly take private chartered planes which don't have any TSA process.
I agree, the necessity of something stronger than SHA-1 should be demonstrate.
> We replaced it with our own argument parsing once we noticed that adopting clap was taking more code than doing it ourselves.

I feel like it's obvious that there are two sides to this echoed throughout the "programming" community:

1. Don't pull a package in for what you can do yourself because it might have 500 dependenices for no good reason

2. Don't roll your own, use something off-the-shelf third-party that is actively maintained, open-source, well written/easily usable/fleshed out, etc.

They conflict...
$15 over an entire truck's worth of goods? Even if it was $150, this is pearl clutching at best.
IIRC, wasn't its arrival at Europa delayed in order to switch the launch contract to Musk on an apparently inside deal?
It's really sad this is just another [Extended] Latin only font. One more of all these beautiful fonts I cannot use because I have to edit files in three languages. Maybe 1 in 100 developers is visually impaired, but 75 in 100 developers are not native English speakers.
It's true that other jets exist, especially regional jets, but remember that these serve overall a fairly small percentage of the seat-miles (aka miles flown * number of seats) overall since they are smaller and fly shorter routes.

In some ways this doesn't matter that much (since these planes might actually do many more takeoffs and landings per day/week/lifetime and have to be engineered for that), but in other ways it does matter a lot.

As for the other companies you name, I will admit I am not familiar with them. Is there something relevant to add to the discussion from those companies? I would be curious to learn more
I don't think its THAT particularly surprising.

The old school rocket engines are still some of the most efficient engines ever created and most rockets never had a strong commercial market backing it so there was never pressure to try something else. The RS68 and RS25 are still amazing pieces of technology.

SpaceX succeeded because they were able to take advantage of NASA literally creating a commercial market (and also making an amazing engine that is "good enough" for 99% of payloads)
One of the things I still think about doing is just removing the top screen of my framework and just using a pair of those AR glasses as its main monitor, keeping the bottom chassis as a keyboard/touchpad/mainboard. That's how I end up using my laptop at night anyway, this just avoids the awkward screen.

Or if I were to go a step further, retro-fit it into the a ThinkPad keyboard/trackpoint chassis...
So there are three dimensions:

1. What work you do.

2. Where you live.

3. Your technical interests.

Coffee can be your job and programming your hobby.

Programming can be your job and coffee your hobby.

You can live anywhere you want. Realize that for you relocation might be much larger unknown than running a coffee shop. Or a bigger risk. Or just not what you want to do. Some people are from somewhere and relocating is harder than for people who are not from anywhere in particular.

Grad school is probably another option. Kick the can down the road. Do some internships, extend your professional network, make yourself more attractive to employers, etc.

Good luck.
Consider a relatively bulky item, say, a package of paper towel. Probably takes up about a cubic foot of volume, which is 0.027 cubic meters.

Suppose you drive that into NYC in a very small van, say a Ford Transit. A quick google tells me that has a cargo capacity of 10 cubic meters. The $15 toll amortized over 370 packages would add an additional cost of 4c per package.

This is the most extreme case I could think of off the top of my head. I believe most deliveries use vans with a much larger cargo capacity than a Transit.
i actually lost a small fortune (now its nothing but back then it was a lot) on nvidia options as well as buying large amount of puts on a crypto mining company.

the reason im telling you is exactly the mentality you described: in Q1 I hit a major home run buying puts on a bunch of banks that went under. I experienced 28,300% ROI. From then on I was like an addict. Constantly loading up on insane amount of FDs until I lost all of what I earned.

Quite an experience and I think its best to just focus on building or growing a business. Had I bought stocks and held I think that would've been better.

Just realize the winners and pros are writing you the options in the long run. Punters like me, as I experienced, cannot last.

Also its a zero sum game. When I experienced financial ruin, I realized when I hit that 283x bagger, the person who wrote me those put options experienced financial ruin.

So now I'm jaded about options and financial markets in general. its a double edge sword. its a dangerous societal drug.
Yeah, but that is what makes engineering interesting. You always have to find the right balance with your trade-offs.
Ask HN: How does Android development work in big companies?
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I am student in college and have worked on a bunch of Android Apps. What does a typical workflow look like for testing development deployment of the app work. how is Android Studio used in this process.

I am wondering about how it all works at a company which I'm assuming is more nuanced
^^ This. Companies often don't care about app size, because the (potential) users that avoid their app for size and/or performance reasons, are not the ones with the fat wallets (or valueable data).

Read: company doesn't care about including a large % of potential audience. It only cares about including the users that are most easily turned into profit.

P.S.: maybe those companies are right. But it also means they're fishing in a small & crowded pond. There's a lot of untapped market out there if only a company would care to cater to it.

P.S.2: Things change, and people's circumstances change. Today's 'useless' user could be your company's most valueable asset tomorrow. Get 'm while you can.
> One thing Britain isn't short of is water

Britain as a whole gets quite a lot of rain but it is not equally distributed [0]. Basically the western side and mountainous areas get the most (>2000mm per year) while the south east gets much less (600-700 mm per year). There is no 'national grid' for water (mechanisms for bulk movement from the wet to the dry areas). Even though the population has increased a lot there hasn't been a significant new reservoir built for decades. The south east regularly has hosepipe bans in the summer. Vast amounts are lost through leakage from the very old infrastructure, while the relatively newly privatised water companies have taken on massive debts in the process of generating shareholder value, rather than fixing things.

[0] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/typ...
or like https://www.workplace.com/ from a company called Meta
While invoices will get tracked to a cost-center in the accounting package, usually project managers won't access this directly and will have their own spreadsheets to the side to manage plan vs actual (i.e. they may also need to think about spending, and will update the sheet as their estimated costs change, do baselines etc).
In theory, yes. But in practice... I wouldn't be surprised to see many systems fail. It's probably not a code path that's been tested much, if at all.

Kinda like those systems that went down on Feb 29, 2024. I mean, how does an app in the 21st century not handle leap day? Yet it happened.
> I'm sure the author has sincere concerns. I found the sweeping generalisations tough to read

Not that it makes either "side" valid, but in fairness, the pro-AVP side has been similarly full of gushing sweeping generalizations, too:

> Apple is using beamforming to direct the sound into your ears. And unless you are blasting it out loud — you could get away with wearing it in a public place — though people in Business Class will notice the slight din from the seat next to them. Let’s face it — the early adopters are at the front of the bus.

(not to mention a little haughty)

> For the last six days, I’ve been simultaneously testing three entirely new products from Apple. The first is a VR/AR headset with eye-tracking controls. The second is a revolutionary spatial computing productivity platform. The third is a breakthrough personal entertainment device.

> The VisionOS workspace isn’t infinite, but it feels as close to infinitely large as it could be. It’s the world around you.

> The Mac Virtual Display feature is both useful and almost startlingly intuitive.

> Vision Pro is simply a phenomenal way to watch movies, and 3D immersive experiences are astonishing. There are 3D immersive experiences in Vision Pro that are more compelling than Disney World attractions that people wait in line for hours to see.

> But I can recommend buying Vision Pro solely for use as a personal theater. I paid $5,000 for my 77-inch LG OLED TV a few years ago. Vision Pro offers a far more compelling experience (including far more compelling spatial surround sound). You’d look at my TV set and almost certainly agree that it’s a nice big TV. But watching movies in the Disney+ and TV apps will make you go “Wow!” These are experiences I never imagined I’d be able to have in my own home (or, say, while flying across the country in an airplane).

> "My four magic moments"... My last magic moment came when the Vision Pro became what I have always wanted — the future of television (and video.) A screen like none before. I opened up the Apple TV app, and picked an immersive video film of highliner Faith Dickey.
Yours is the best response to my comment so far.

I very much enjoy the observation that LLM's appear to function optimally when trained on "tokens" and not the pure unfiltered stream of characters. I think I am ultimately attempting to express an analogous belief that the individual audio samples here are as meaningless as the individual letters are to an LLM.

Instead of "representation with the fewest assumptions" I would maybe suggest that the optimal input for a model may be the representation where the data is broken apart as far as it can be while still remaining meaningful. I have suggested in other replies that this is perhaps achieved with quadrature samples or even perhaps with something such as a granular decomposition -- something akin to a "token" of audio instead of language.
Schiphol conducts trial with self-driving buses on airside
In my experience, Business Insider is generally a hit piece factory nowadays. I can't remember the last article I saw from them that wasn't viciously tearing apart its subject.
Try the "Interactive visualization" on the page!

Each bucket is either empty or has size 2^k, where k is the index of the bucket (0-based).
Sometimes I wonder if humans need more variability in sleeping positions. Animals sleep in all sorts of positions on all manners of not perfectly even terrain, probably trains nassal to be strong in different orientations. When I had bad heartburn/gerd I'd pass out propped up on the couch or setup a bunch of cushions in the corner of the room, or raise head of my bed up with a few books and getting great sleeps.
> On the other side we see politicians - bureaucrats that never built anything in their lives. Parasites living off our work. Greedier and greedier every year they forcefully confiscate more and more of our sweat and blood while "giving" us crappier and crappier services in exchange.

Slow down there, John Galt.

How is discouraging monopolistic practices going to line the pockets of these parasitic bureaucrats? If Apple has enough control of the marketplace that nobody can meaningfully compete with them, do you think that's better or worse for "us"?
can't wait for LLMs to dispatch field agent robots who search for answers in the real world thats not online /s
('18 alum) Yeah I agree. We even had internal-only versions of OCW with more recent recordings and more material.

Although I agree that professors were not accessible, and TAs were often not that helpful. But, I never felt like I didn't have the resources I needed. I just lacked enough time.

I did feel like i would have been able to _learn_ better from a smaller school with fewer students, and teachers hired for teaching instead of research. But I still don't think that would have outweighed the benefit of the MIT community and resources.
Makes you wonder where "sleep like a baby" comes from, because it definitely seems like only some babies are great sleepers.
Why do you keep thinking competition is what prevented blended wing bodies? Blended wing bodies make big trade offs that don't neatly fit with commercial flight.

The analysis of different lifting bodies is fairly fundamental aeronautical engineering work every student learns. There is no weird conspiracy here.
Is there anyone on HN who believes that either party really cares about competent public policy?

And in this case, we're talking about the party that lost control of the House in the 2022 election - because basic opposition research on George Santos (& a few similar things) was just too much effort to bother doing.
Yes, but Amazon also gets a partner that helps guide their buildout of machine learning features in AWS, and endless dogfooding.
By this logic, one could run an army legion without food supplies simply by keeping them sleep deprived.
For sure it's quid pro quo. That's the definition of any business transaction :)

But can you elaborate how in-kind investment is anti-competitive?