skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this effectively a force field? Not in a literal sense, just in terms of being able to stop anything airborne practically instantly.

Obviously impossible to defend against weapons like Russia's tsunami-triggering underwater nukes. But seems to rule out anything air-based?
Wrong couple get divorced after solicitor 'clicks wrong button'
I was about to quote post that exact line. I see this type of thinking everywhere. It shows that the majority of people who never tried to achieve anything have no clue how the system works.

Sam Bankman Fried was smart, raised in the US and he had decent connections too, look where he ended up.

In fact, I never met a smart totally honest person in my generation who got rich.
Thanks for those links. That GPU passthrough tutorial still looks like it is going to require some pain.
My class read a science fiction story in CS about a guy getting executed on death row for a late library book in a comedy of errors where a series of automated systems glitch out and a detached bureaucracy is slow to react. Or something like that.

I feel like it should be required reading to protect against "automate all the things" hubris.
There are lots of online articles referring to studies that arguing usually just entrenches people's previously formed opinions.

Here's an opinion: Mastodon threads are just as stupid as Twitter threads.
I always liked patio11's take on this: just play Factorio.
Actually, the corporate software repository is still pushing 0.67 or so.

I need newer PuTTY to have a capable agent.
The "Dragon Eater Vulnerability", that all managers will agitate about mitigating for the next 4 weeks...
So let's imagine this is how it went down:

1. The person impresses everyone during the interview process with their skills and potential.

2. Initially, the person doesn’t meet the expected productivity levels. They give various plausible reasons and commit to improving.

3. Time passes but there is no significant improvement in their output. Management invests time and resources in identifying possible support and interventions to help enhance their performance.

4. It’s eventually discovered that the person is only dedicating 2-3 hours per day to their role with your company, instead of the agreed 8 hours, because they are simultaneously pulling the same scam with two other companies.

In this situation, I don't think it would be rational for a manager to try and work out a suitable working relationship. The person has already shown they are dishonest and cannot be trusted. This not about envy or anger, but about using past behaviour to predict future behaviour.
The tvOS app really is a great Tailscale feature. My in-laws can access media on my home server any time they like with a box that's simple enough for them to understand and maintain.
...and this is why PAGEANT.EXE is required for Microsoft OpenSSH.
I don’t know, the study seemed rather flimsy (even if better than many other fitness studies) and the results drawn from it fairly weak.

As with most fitness/nutrition advice, you’re probably better off talking to your local gym bro who looks like you want to and go from there.

I’ve personally gotten a lot better gains from more gym sessions at slightly reduced length, which results in overall more volume.

Pack as much volume as you can recover from targeting the muscles you want to grow. Simple concept, hard to implement.
Perhaps this will be true, for the types of insights that also require tremendous intuition for people to see. One difference is that it will be possible to examine the full state of the AI which lead to the insight, and perhaps learn from it.

(edit: rewrote to flow a bit better)
I can't tell if you are being serious, but I'm afraid that you are.
28 It is unlawful for a person, after receiving a
29 verbal warning not to approach from a person he or she knows or
30 reasonably should know is a first responder, who is engaged in
31 the lawful performance of a legal duty, to knowingly and
32 willfully violate such warning and approach or remain within 25
33 feet of the first responder with the intent to

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/184/BillText/er/H...

Like the original comment said, it's "approach or remain"
The Internet is starting to Break – Here's Why [video]
After this blogpost was published in 2023, uv came along:

> TL;DR: uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust, and designed as a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-tools workflows.

> uv represents a milestone in our pursuit of a "Cargo for Python": a comprehensive Python project and package manager that's fast, reliable, and easy to use.

> As part of this release, we're also taking stewardship of Rye, an experimental Python packaging tool from Armin Ronacher. We'll maintain Rye as we expand uv into a unified successor project, to fulfill our shared vision for Python packaging.

https://astral.sh/blog/uv
Learning some Haskell is very educational; it changes the way you think about programming, including daily code (much like a Lisp, Erlang, SQL, Smalltalk also do).

These examples use pretty minimal features of Haskell, mostly expressions, function definitions with argument pattern matching, and algebraic type definitions. These would take an hour or two to get acquainted with. Nothing fancy is used in the code, in particular, nothing outright monadic :)

For comparison, you can check out a Lisp version at the end. It's much longer, and Lisp (well, Racket here) is usually a very expressive language.
Hydroxyapatite Deposition Disease ?
That is exactly who I was thinking of but I couldn't remember the name. $16 b and he was fingered for $400k hahaha.
As much as I hate to admit it, it does seem the most straight-forward option to recommend. Even after all of these years of this being an obvious problem.

Which reminds me that I need to revisit devcontainers for my work. When I first tried them, I ran into a few rough edges which might have since been resolved.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36336256

This one seems to fit. Happy I've never had reason to write one like it.
The point is more the attitude of "Fine for me but not for thee", with the corporation in question almost undoubtedly recording the call, but balking when a consumer dares do the same
I'll never figured out whether Einstein thought that the god as described by Spinoza is a real thing? Since there's so many misattributed quotes of him which frames him as talking about the judeo-Christian god as most people know by modern standards.

Also, there have been other early religions like Gnosticism in the west, which also falls into this category. Point is, even western religion has way more nuances.
They should throw raves.
I'd love to have this. Not just an updated visualization for 2024, but an ongoing project, with an automatic visualization generator, and the data behind that visualization open-sourced, in such a format that invited the history nerds to contribute wiki-style. Even though it will never be "perfect", hitting some 80% mark of relevance/accuracy would be a tremendous boon to anyone studying history.
Rye is listed. While the Astral guys continue to impress, their adoption of the project is still super young. I do not think uv changes anything over base rye yet.
I like there's a trend of this flag being raised from more and more places; but I wonder if there's also a solution somewhere in sight or what form that would take; more regulation after assholes reach monopoly status, sure... but what about before when they "disrupt" / destroy competitors by running red with cheap investor money?
Checkout MIT's 6.824 Distributed System lectures https://www.youtube.com/@6.824

The course has labs in Go: MapReduce, Raft, Fault-tolerant Key/Value, Sharded Key/Value

Spring 2024 course webpage: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/
The Venn in The Famous Article shows five overlapping dimensions of concern, and a fistful of tools capturing various overlaps thereof.
I people constantly complaining about modern web frameworks but these people never offer concrete alternatives. It’s always “it depends” or whatever to avoid even an example of what they are arguing _for_ and why it’s better.
This seems like it could be a good indicator for reduced consumer spending to reduce inflation.
Agreed—people on here are only recommending compose because OP only has the single node, which places their app squarely within the realm of what compose is very good at.
I think most behaviors in both corporate and actual politics are pretty much that of psychopaths. I don't believe this is true in general. Am I the psychopath?
Honestly I always take "This call may be recorded" as two way consent :) one time someone was referring to person with hard to pronounce name and I said "that's fine I will play it back". Person responded: "wait, are you recording? I didn't give you my consent". To which I said yes you did, when I called your line answered with announcement that this call can be recorded. He wasn't too happy :)
Meta-Population Epidemic Models in Python
If they do something wrong, it might not be recorded.
You're probably not searching with a genuine effort to find the good ones.

There's the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study. The authors found a politically incorrect result and tried to cover it up by inventing a new hypothesis (which they hadn't tested) after they'd collected their data.

I also read a fairly comprehensive secondary research paper trying to support the no-biological-differences theory and when it came to Ashkenazi Jews, they admitted the only plausible explanation was genetic superiority.

This is an area where the science all points in one direction but popular opinion is in the other direction. People don't look at the research. Probably because they don't want to understand, they just want to spread their political ideology. Nobody, as far as I know, has ever shown that no races are inferior.
yeah I get what you say, however a close read of what I wrote is .. specifically for LLMs, yes CNN was displaced by transformers .. that is what I meant to say.
One option that may be more cost effective for taxpayers may be to get a waiver of the Wolf Amendment and permit NASA to collaborate with CNSA on Mars Sample Return mission.

Separately, a waiver would also be helpful to permit the use of VLA for the upcoming Shensuo missions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Amendment
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shensuo_(spacecraft)
ResearchAgent: Iterative Research Idea Generation Using LLMs
You ask them if the phone call is recorder. They say Yes. You, in a surprised voice, ask if they are ok with that? Done.
I think this is one of the reasons that Google Plus failed. It's like if North Korea set up a social network. Nobody would post cause post the wrong thing and get executed.
i had a similar problem but for access control, getting emailed the new/old roles a person should have, or a list of new emails to onboard

i ended up showing them how to use github and create prs with a csv. at first i copy pasted the csv and imported it, but in the end completely automated it

it may seem completely alien to them at first, but if can get them access to a repo and just show them how to edit a file in the ui, it's much easier to do that and create a pr than it used to be in github. to me it was worth the initial headache - after a few weeks they were very smooth with it and changes got through way faster
I can’t think of any. We have enough overlap in flexible work hours to DM on Slack. Usually just two people need to chat to resolve issues and answer questions, we almost never get the whole team involved.

I forgot to mention GitHub, used for issues, PR reviews, and documentation.

We encourage developers to work through problems rather than stop and wait for answers. Stub in some code and keep going if they need clarity on requirements. Expect most code to get revised iteratively. That keeps everyone moving.
Windows 11 adding ads to Start Menu
Where is the source code for these email templates and websites?
That’s a real reason I don’t comment on YouTube or risk using any other Google services except Gmail and Voice.

God forbid I chargeback a purchase on Google Pay (or whatever their PayPal is this year) and trip some anti-fraud system that locks me out of my 20 year old email account. We all know their support is either automated or nonexistent, so it’s not worth the risk.
Very cool! How do you like WebGPU compared to WebGL?
For those adventurous souls who have gobs of memory, a good GPU, and plenty of disk space, some of the 8x22b models are now up. Use `ollama run wizardlm2:8x22b-q4_0`, `ollama run wizardlm2:8x22b-q8_0`, or `ollama run wizardlm2:8x22b-fp16`. The 4 bit quantized version is about 80GB, the 8 bit quantized version is about 150GB, and the non-quantized version is 281GB (!).
What I don't understand is why fund managers don't just form groups with each other and take possessions of their clients hidden offshore assets... Then collectively gaslight their clients about the non-existence of the assets. It would be easy nowadays. Their clients are tax avoiders so it would be ethical... Some of their clients are public figures who wouldn't want to draw attention to their offshore assets with a big news article about their asset managers embezzling funds.
I've given a few:

* the hard thing about hard things (by Horowitz)

* climate wars (dwyer)

* ender's game
There's a good read on a similar project called https://openalternative.co here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-grew-a-side-project-...

The HN post for it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39639386.
> What do you mean by "anthropomorphizing"?

"Anthropomorphizing is the act of attributing human traits, feelings, or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals, objects, or phenomena. It can happen consciously or unconsciously, and is a common way that people perceive the world. For example, children often anthropomorphize to help them make sense of their environment."
The first time I really dug into transformers (back in the BERT days) I was working on a MS thesis involving link prediction in a graph of citations among academic documents. So I had graphs on the brain.

I have a spatial intuition for transformers as a sort of analog to a message passing network over a "leaky graph" in an embedding space. If each token is a node, its key vector sets the position of an outlet pipe that it spews value to diffuse out into the embedding space, while the query vector sets the position of an input pipe that sucks up value other tokens have pumped out into the same space.
Then we repeat over multiple attention layers, meaning we have these higher order semantic flows through the space.

Seems to make a lot of sense to me, but I don't think I've seen this analogy anywhere else. I'm curious if anybody else thinks of transformers in this way. (Or wants to explain how wrong/insane I am?)
This has the added advantage of setting yourself up to meet new people.
Samsung awarded $6.4B ingrants for Texas chip facilities
So you didn't have any trouble finding financial institutions which allow software or hardware based MFA?
Its efficient at low speeds which is why it can be used on tugs. You want see these on a speed boat.
Why are you asking here? This seems like more of a Reddit question.
GV numbers are in some database as being VOIP. If there was some there that could do something, they could get the numbers out of that database.
I was with you right up until the word "emotion." Although "Hinduism" is vast and covers quite a few disparate beliefs and philosophies, none of them (to my knowledge) even approximately equate God with an emotion. Even bliss (ananda) is only one aspect.

I don't claim to know the particular religion of his village and/or lineage, but I understand his God to be something closer to the Consciousness that (supposedly) gives rise to all of reality.
Easy solution: Don't use SMS for password recovery.

SMS might even be okay for 2FA, but it must always be the second factor. "Forgot my password" -> SMS code -> new password is just 1FA. Using SMS as the only factor is really, really bad.
Bad. Interviews far enough apart that experienced gain diminishes by the time I had another one
I don't tend to debate politics (either online or offline), because for the most part, I find that people who differ from me in their opinions generally do so because they start with a different set of axioms.

Say, for example, one of us thinks that raising children is important / a duty, one of us thinks it's not / a bad idea, and from that come all sorts of policy decisions.

We can, if we want, do thought experiment style discussions around it all, we can learn more from each other, but ultimately no-one is going to convince the other.
Want to really get someone to consider your viewpoint? Carefully consider your ideas first, then tell them once. Be silent while they say whatever they want in response. Then drop the subject.
Israel using AI to identify human targets raising fears that innocents
Yes, all of those businesses provide me useful services. Do I have my criticisms of all of them? YES. Does that mean they are scams that rely on human weaknesses to thrive? No, that would be a very naive and, frankly, silly conclusion to draw.

This isn't boolean math, there's a whole continuum between "everything is perfect" and "everything is a corrupt scam".
In a way I'm glad it's not mentioned. As a FreeBSD user, nothing is more disheartening than to find a cool and interesting project written in a great^1 language without any packaging or distribution method other than "here's my container bruh". Like, ughh.

^1 Caveat, making a package of a Python project can be a rabbit hole can be a real pita. Virtual envs are usually good enough for most stuff until I start to need a compiler in every jail. Nowadays I'm looking almost only at Go (best) or Rust because their distribution is trivial in comparison.
Choosing between Flutter and React Native is like deciding between a pizza with pineapple or a pizza without pineapple. It's a controversial topic that can divide even the closest of friends. Flutter, like pineapple on pizza, is colorful, vibrant, and might leave you wondering if it's a bit too much. React Native, on the other hand, is like a classic cheese pizza - simple, reliable, and loved by many. So, whether you want to take a risk with the tropical flavors of Flutter or stick to the tried and true goodness of React Native, just remember that in the end, it's all about satisfying your app development cravings. Bon appétit!
There's a dirty fashion in climate science to include political activism or call to action in their papers. Especially if they've found something that shows good news about climate change. They qualify it with "... but we must all make an effort to reduce fossil fuel use".

I used to teach science and would tell students not to give life advice to the reader, because that's what we were supposed to teach them. But then all these climate change papers started doing just that. It's equivalent of ancient mathematicians saying "glory to the king" in their work and reveals that the authors are bound by a conflict of interest and can't be expected to do honest work.

I recently read one about childhood safety, and they said that following the government's safety rules was important, while also defining their own idea of what kinds of safety are valuable or harmful. If the government already knows better than you, why are you even researching this? It's obviously just some effort to pressure people into not making their own dangerous decisions. But again, that's not science, that's activism and non-objective.
I would so never do that. Cryptominers are basically malware in my book.

Anyway it's not the only way to stop the onslaught of bots. Not firing all your moderators goes a long way as well.
Ours are all stored and managed in the CMS/DAM we use, which happens to be Adobe Experience Manager. When the email service renders an email, it calls the CMS endpoint which returns the html with handlebars style template placeholders. That endpoint is heavily cached so not too worried about the mail service hammering it.

Staff get to format the email in a graphical editor they’re familiar with that handles revisions etc, and we don’t need to manually import templates.
For websites, there's a bunch of hosted services for this, like VisualPing or ChangeTower or Sken.io or BrowserStack. It's often called "visual regression testing".

You can also do this yourself with something like Playwright: https://playwright.dev/docs/test-snapshots

For email templates, they usually create a HTML version hosted online somewhere too, don't they? You can probably use the same tools for those if they're publicly accessible.
So... Is anyone writing a JavaScript to GameBoy assembly transpiler?
You should’ve seen the Twitter post some time back about ML engineers at “tier 1 companies” discovering what SVD was because of LoRA
Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms
Well I’m 3 out of 4 pretty consistently. I’ve lived with tinnitus since early childhood. I guess I’ll continue to live with it.
after years with no issues, my bank stopped supporting my google voice number and said I have to use regular SMS as it's more secure
It's just Google. I have a Google Workspace subscription for my personal domain, but you can accomplish a similar thing using "plus-aliases" on standard free Gmail accounts: "foobar+lowpriority@gmail.com"
On a similar note, sometimes I feel my tinnitus as much as hearing it - it does feel like a pressure in my ears/head. It doesn't feel like real air pressure so much as the sound is pressing on the insides of my ears. Maybe a blood pressure thing like yours?
It’s colloquially
Malware built-in, just like mom used to make
> Why is 1/3 so critical to represent but not 1/10?

TLDR reason: Every second number is divisible by 2. Every third number is divisible by 3.

So if you want to divide something (like donuts or cans of beer, or the length of a wood plank) by N, it's far more likely that N will have a factor of 2 or 3 than it will not have a factor of 3, but be divisible by 10. Which is to say, you are far more likely to need tick marks spaced by 1/2 and 1/3 than tick marks spaced by 1/10. Which is to say that a 12-inch ruler is preferable to a 10 cm ruler, Q.E.D.

That's why they sell donuts by the dozen, and beer in 6-packs. And why the US officially (and Canada and the UK unofficially) still use English units for everyday measurements. Its just more practical.
There's a lot of evidence that users use those techniques for "prompt engineering."

So the better question is "is there any evidence that OpenAI uses user conversations and usage of the models to update their models?"
I'm a goody-two-shoes yet I also think all successful people must cheat. I don't see how anyone can compete against cheaters. It's like running a race where some people start at the halfway mark... You know for sure who the winners are going to be.
'Chinampas': The Ancient Aztec Floating Gardens That Hold Promise for Future
All true. You'll also find the overhead of dealing with Apple on any topic will come back to haunt you again and again.

On the web, no one can force you change the app you already shipped and no one can change the rules under which it operates. On iOS, Apple can and does do these things, which cost you money to keep up with.
Thank you for this kind of information. I have been pulling my hair out for years working with usbC hubs and monitor problems. There are bugs all the way up and down the stack: windows, the hub, the monitor itself. It seems there is fairly sparse testing of external monitors with windows for sure.