skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait and otherwise breaking the site guidelines?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules, we'd appreciate it. Note this one: "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."
Storing products and storing energy are very different. By storing work, you are consuming the energy while it is available… which is the entire point.

Storing fresh water is a good idea anyway. You don’t want to run out of that stuff :)
Most doxxing campaigns only last a few days. But effects can be felt for months
No, just visited.
Agreed. Change for the sake of change reeks of resume-driven development.
lol for real

maybe a form of planned obsolescence to sell routers with WPA3 support

intelligence agencies plugging agents into standards bodies is also not unheard of
It seems like there's a huge industry of people critiquing Java and OOP but misdiagnosing the problems as technical rather than sociological.

The immense pain and suffering that is related to Java and its ecosystem is because of the terrible organizational conditions that tend to co-occur with usage of Java. Big slow companies, long boring meetings, arguments about design patterns, "architects" who haven't written code in ten years, etc etc. Java correlates with, but does not cause, those conditions.

Another way of saying it: if Java was good enough for Nutch to use to write Minecraft, it's good enough for the vast majority of business purposes.
Hey - thanks for posting. I'm CTO/co-founder at NetFoundry (the company behind OpenZiti). We're excited to hit v1.0. It's a big milestone for us - a step closer to a world where zero-trust networking is embedded directly into your apps — simple, secure, resilient, distributed connectivity free for everybody. Happy to answer any questions
Very interesting to see GoEX the concept of “post-facto LLM validation," and concept of damage confinement, allowing reversible actions and limiting risk in real-world applications. Can't wait to try out the demos
I remember your username.

But StackOverflow suffered the issue every site that relies on user contributions/moderation does: it ultimately caters to those with the most free time, not those with the most expertise.

And I don't think there's an easy way around the problem.
> Hmm something about this title containing the word 'research' disturbs me. I associate that word with rigorous scientific methods...

The presence of the word "scientific" in this statement disturbs me.
People make fun of Kubernetes or "resume driven development" for making things more complex than they need to be, but this is why you want mTLS via a sidecar with short auto renewed certificates on a mesh inside your distributed system of a operating stack, when the system is big enough to justify that complexity. Something the size of, like, Airbnb should have that.
Could you please stop posting ideological flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Super appreciate your reverse calculation. The downstream 14% loss still is an easy enough fudge factor to use for a plausible output number.
That's pure speculation. There's no reason to assume he randomly dropped off a ton of containers full of stuff without having prior communication/arrangement with them, or at the very least, an acknowledgement/acceptance of the material when he arrived.
Google is trying desperately to lock down Chrome to prevent others from putting in filters to remove the junk. Hence all the new rules on add-ons.
Other people think that we need an all encompassing solution that solves every problem without changing the way the world works.
I've found embeddings to perform quite poorly on code because
1) user queries are not semantically similar to target code in most cases
2) often times two very concretely related pieces of code are not at all semantically similar
I often like videos simply because it's impossible to leave out crucial information; everything is shown.

Text guides will often skip steps because they assume the reader will know what to do.
Not entirely true, there are other PKE and DSA algorithms that were/are a part of the competition that used problems not related to lattices. However, the lattice-based options were often among the fastest and smallest.
We remember when swapping was not even a thing.
Code example?
can you link to typingmind docs or marketing page about claude 3 web search in the typingmind GUI?
Sam Altman has said in a few interviews that it was around $100 million for GPT-3, and higher for GPT-4.

But yes, this is a one-time cost, and far lower than the "millions of dollars per second" in GP comment.

https://fortune.com/2024/04/04/ai-training-costs-how-much-is...

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-the-age-of...
And the human bartender passes the check to the third logician.
And some modern coins are designed so that bags of mixed coins can be counted by weight. For instance, all US cupronickel clad coins (dime, quarter, Kennedy half-dollar and Eisenhower dollar) have the same ratio of weight to value, such that a pound of any combination of them is worth $20.
I don’t know how well this works (demo is broken on mobile), but I like the idea.

Imagine an infinite wiki where articles are generated on the fly (from reputable sources - with links), including links to other articles (which are also generated) etc.

I actually like this sort of interface more than chat.
>For me the main point is (runtime) polymorphism.

But you don't actually care about runtime polymorphism here. You care about polymorphic behavior, which can be implemented in a much more composable way with parametric polymorphism.
True, wasn't this move away from meritocracy dictated by the nonsensical critical race theory? Academia and its policies should be driven by science and not feelings. It's a good sign that they turned around on this.
ASK HN: Where/how do we get AI training data from SMEs primarily offline?
I recently had an unwelcome water leak then construction project at my house. During that, I realized wow a lot of knowledge is just know how by all the different contractors from the tile guy to the wood planker..And even when I hired 3 plumbers to look at where my water leak came from, they all had different diagnoses...So I've been thinking there are a lot of really valuable people in society that do not have an online / public presence at all. As boomers retire, there will be a gap in a lot of necessary trade work, like electricians. Maybe I'm missing a piece of the puzzle, but it seems like a lot of ai training data sets come from online content, publications, journals, books etc. And some of this does contain educational material, trade work knowledge. But I wonder does it really get down to the gritty details? My question is, where / how do we get AI training data from subject matter experts (SMEs) primarily offline, that never publish anything? Such as a metal shop worker, HVAC technician, the farmer, the dude that maintains the tennis ball machine molds, idk, etc.
But can't AI do that too?

I think AI can easily have more strategy and patience and coordinate 10000 swarm members than you. Why will we need you to do anything at all?
From your article:

"Distillation removes all minerals from water. This results in demineralised water, which has not been proven to be healthier than drinking water. The World Health Organization investigated the health effects of demineralised water in 1982, and its experiments in humans found that demineralised water increased diuresis and the elimination of electrolytes, with decreased serum potassium concentration.[citation needed] Magnesium, calcium, and other nutrients in water can help to protect against nutritional deficiency. Recommendations for magnesium have been put at a minimum of 10 mg/L with 20–30 mg/L optimum; for calcium a 20 mg/L minimum and a 40–80 mg/L optimum, and a total water hardness (adding magnesium and calcium) of 2–4 mmol/L. At water hardness above 5 mmol/L, higher incidence of gallstones, kidney stones, urinary stones, arthrosis, and arthropathies have been observed.[citation needed] For fluoride the concentration recommended for dental health is 0.5–1.0 mg/L, with a maximum guideline value of 1.5 mg/L to avoid dental fluorosis.[17]"

I have gotten used to the taste of my Zerowater filter and so I got worried when I saw your comment. Maybe its better to drink the clean water and supplement with electrolytes and vitamins/minerals. That way you control all the parameters vs leaving it up to chance.
Dillo 3.1.0-rc1 Released
This is the 3.1.0 first release candidate. Please report problems if you can test it.

Thanks,
Rodrigo.
The Canary Resuscitator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps

This happened roughly contemporaneously to the asteroid strike.
There's an important difference between wikipedia and the LLMs that are actually useful today.

Wikipedia is open, like completely open.

GPT is not.

Unless we manage to crack the distributed training / incremental improvement barriers, LLMs are a lot more likely to follow the Google path (that is, start awesome and gradually enshittify as capitalist concerns pollute the decision matrix) than they are the Wikipedia path (gradual improvement as more eyes and minds work to improve them).
If only that were true in practice.
You can have encapsulation without oop. Polymorphism is the real benefit of oop imho
The idea of "appear to be resistant to attack" is an empirical one. When someone says that, they are saying that we simply have not found a good attack against this problem. That can change any day, in principle. Unfortunately, "we don't know of an attack" is about as strong a statement you can make in cryptography, when talking about a fundamental hardness assumption. More verbosely, you'd say "the best known attacks take 2^whatever operations on a computer (classical or quantum), and that's expensive, so we're probably fine unless someone makes a significant leap tomorrow"
for others curious

ParadeDB - AGPL License
https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/blob/dev/LICENSE

Hydra - Apache 2.0
https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra/blob/main/LICENSE

also hydra seems derived from citusdata's columnar implementation.
That's not true, in the message they refer you to a web page with more details: About Apple threat notifications and protecting against mercenary spyware -https://support.apple.com/en-in/102174
It tells you to update your phone and turn on lockdown mode.
The concern is not just a vaguely cynical hand-wringing about how bad AI is. Feeding AIs their own output as training material is a bad thing for mathematical reasons, and feeding AIs the output of other very similar AIs is close enough for it to also be bad. The reasons are subtle and hard to describe in plain English, and I'm not enough of an expert to even try, so pardon if I don't. But given that it is hard to determine if output is from an AI, AI really does face a crisis of having a hard time coming across good training material in the future.
The real interest rate was zero or slightly negative for a long time. It only turned positive in the last two years.
Is Dubai really diversified away from oil? My naive impression is that it’s a major center for capital, with most of that capital coming from oil.

Saudi diversification from oil is a fantasy. The culture is medieval from the POV of the rest of the world, and the hostile climate is only getting worse.
A company I used to work for provides custom colour classifying solutions for various industries. Classifying products into colour categories was one use case. Other uses were around perception, quantifying how different two colours were, trying to help contrast colours for colour blindness etc. They used a very different approach to this, which was a bit technical for someone not versed in colour science like me, but fascinating nonetheless. It would be interesting to compare the results between these two approaches.

https://www.lumesca.com/
I only use inheritance for what the author calls ontological inheritance. For example, I find it useful to represent expressions and statements. I prefer composition if I'm trying to reuse data structures.
He worked at a few large companies with offices, and this is what he told me. Maybe you need to be big and legacy with a physical footprint. But this is what he told me. He has a lot of very interesting anecdotes. For example in Laos if you impregnate a woman as a foreigner, you have to marry her, under penalty of death. So his girlfriends were always trying to mess with his condoms, try to get him to have unprotected sex, and various oddities. So he claimed
Mindcrime did in fact
Because deciding model trust is a function of how the stakes are for doing so combined with how many other indicators you have suggesting the data is reliable.

In this case it seemed to have worked, no one is really disputing the accuracy and instead seem to feel quite strongly about what it suggests.
No? Alligators, ghalials, caimans, and crocs all share a common ancestor ~120MYA that was very similar to all of those species.
Yes, I 100% prefer to live in a building designed by an engineer with the best scores instead of the one with the correct skin colour.
Another one of the 3 other people here who like small phones.

This exact same economic model of an oligopoly only offering larger and more expensive models has been done before. I'm pretty sure the big 3 automakers were also saying that 'the market has spoken', right up until the Japanese ate their lunch.
Asked a few, answered a few, same as most people I suppose.
I start pretty much every new electronics project with the question "Which M5Stack product handles 99% of the use cases?" and I start iterating from there

https://shop.m5stack.com/collections/m5-controllers
This seems to frame it as though bottled water isn't ultimately just tap water.
We have to have Power to make the Changes. Once we have the Power, the Changes no longer look so attractive...
We've stopped making things anyone wants
AI training on AI-generated content is a future problem. Using textbooks is a good idea, until our textbooks are being written by AI.

This problem can't really be avoided once we begin using AI to write, understand, explain, and disseminate information for us. It'll be writing more than blogs and SEO pages.

How long before we start readily using AI to write academic journals and scientific papers? It's really only a matter of time, if it's not already happening.
How did people end up in North America then?
One of the pretext that ivies are using can be summed up by Brown's statement:

"Further, the data suggested unintended adverse outcomes of test-optional policies in the admissions process itself, potentially undermining the goal of increasing access. The committee was concerned that some students from less-advantaged backgrounds were choosing not to submit scores under the test-optional policy, when doing so could actually increase their chances of being admitted."

If you believe that, I have a bridge you might want to buy...
That’s true of all knowledge organizational structures though. Even with composition, you end up with hierarchies that later you might turn on their heads, and also, those structures might end up being cyclical.

Paradigm shifts happen and shake up even loosely organized into structures like human perception, and most people’s perceptions aren’t trees
3 phones, 3 beeps; their owners glance at them briefly, and:

Leda: Who's sending me badly cropped Donald Duck?

Europa: That's nothing, I got Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Danaë: Get out, losers! I got champagne...
Born in the great depression. little to no interest in education.
Picks photography, gets a job as a photographer for a magazine.

Starts a movie company at 21 and makes shit movies.But importantly, develops a knack for persuading people to work for little or no money convincing them that the "experience" was was worth more than money

Young Kubrick is ruthlessness and ego centric, hard to like... mature Kubrik is intriguing and softer. Then he makes some great movies, gets a family going, has money and goes nuts.

This allows him to get obsessive, neurotic, totally fixated on his work, horrifyingly oblivious to the feelings of colleagues and employees driving some to breakdown. Outraged designers, writers all persuaded for the experience and the glory of the final result. All swearing never to work with him again.

persuading people to work for little or no money for the experience and the greatness of the purpose and the final result seems like the common pattern between Kubrik and others like Jobs.
In 2000, I sold a relatively high level Diablo 2 account for just over $200 on Ebay. I probably put more than 1000 hours into it so not a very good return on investment, but it sure felt cool to “get paid” for playing a video game I loved!
Unless it'a role playing game.
It also has a problem with quantity, so it gets confused by things like the cube root of 750l that it maintains for a long time is around 9m. It even suggests that 1l is equal to 1m³.
The article omitted it, but the message says to update iOS to the latest software and enable its lockdown mode.
Kubrick was remarkable in his singularity as a filmmaker.

There is a fantastic 1 hr BBC documentary from the mid 2000's called 'Stanley Kubrick's Boxes' in which the documentary crew is given access to Kubrick's estate and warehouses after his passing. They examine the contents of the boxes of research and pre-production material that Kubrick accrued over several decades when crafting his films. The lengths he went to flesh them out are stunning.

The takeaway is of someone with a singular ambition and extreme thoroughness when planning their films. It's been immensely inspiring to witness just how intently a creator can focus on crafting their work. I strongly recommend it.
One application for shape sensing technology is for surgical robotics. An example: https://www.intuitive.com/en-us/products-and-services/ion/sh...

Relevant patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240044638A1/

The first time I saw one of these in person I was in awe. You could take a normal looking cable (think bicycle cable sleeve) and bend it and see in real time the same shape on the display.
For statuary in particular, it's important to note that Egyptians, and Greeks to a lesser extent, believed that statues of gods were _physically inhabited by those gods_ and could be used to communicate with them, so it was pretty important not to mess with depictions.

For other common tropes, like Medusa, they were used as wards against evil and were basically magical spells or talismans.
Collecting the dictionary of all swear words for all languages and their dialects might be less trivial. Keeping it up to date would probably take an institute worth of researchers.
You stirred up an egregious flamewar in this thread, basically ruining it.

You've also been taking lots of other threads on low-quality generic tangents. That's not what HN is for, so please stop posting these things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can't build a moat with AI
This is my first time seeing the claim that the miners run the decentralized and centralized exchanges across all blockchains...
I have a hypothesis about that, based on prior battles with depression. A characteristic of many people who struggle with depression is revisiting things over and over in your mind, looking for what is often a non-existent solution. This is a very, very useful trait in a software engineer. It helps us think of solutions to hard problems, to see options that are not initially obvious.

But it also enables mental illness when you encounter problems that cannot be solved that way -- for me, it was divorce. But life is full of intractable problems.
1. Train an ai on everyone’s data

2. Try to replace everyone, and their companies too, but do it quietly

3. Try to sell ai tools to make those companies dependent on you, until your super ai can replace them completely
Integrating ADAS/IVI SoCs Using Automotive IP
I would highly recommend anyone who has the desire and financial means visit at least once. I was completely fascinated, could have spent days there instead of just one day.
The understanding is not a prerequisite to build one though. Evolution didn't need it. And all the functionality that already emerges from ANNs doesn't need it either.
You mostly need to understand the optimizer, not the result. Of course understanding the result is desirable to steer the optimization process better. But if all you care for is getting any result, even potentially undesirable ones, then building bigger optimizers appears to work.
This looks cool!

There's a small ironically funny typo in the first line: knolwedge
Docusaurus is great
Aramco’s not a perfect example, as it was built up as a private corporation, and only nationalized as a relatively mature corporation. It also has a state-sanctioned monopoly on a very low-cost, high-price commodity. On the other hand and to be fair to Aramco, the Venezuelans managed to make a mess of their state oil monopoly.
This is cool as hell! I hope your PhD continues well, and that this invention serves you in the future.

Do you put any lube on the interface between the silicone sleeve and optical cable? I imagine the bending action will cause displacement, and friction there could rub and/or cause the nominal position to shift around.
I don't know about other colleges, but when I teach my students inheritance, I tell them right away that it's a pretty bad idea. And that they will learn better ways in the next semester.
Generating Code Documentation with AI
Hi there, community. I'm building a product that will create documentation for front-end code using AI. This will include comments on the codebase, diagrams, component render tree, etc.
The purpose of this is to decrease the time it takes to a new developer to be productive on an existing codebase. Would you find this useful?
I'd love to know if you have this problem.
Thanks.
That gives me an idea.

There are wikipedias in other languages - Maybe this framework could be adapted to translate the search terms, fetch mulitlingual sources, translate them back, and use those as comparisons.

I've found a lot of stuff out through similar by-hand techniques that would be difficult to discover on english search. I'd be curious to see how much differential there is between accounts across language barriers.
My, and my friends experiences with SCIP indexers built by Sourcegraph have been less than stellar. They are buggy and sparsely maintained
Let's see the products. I'm so tired of hearing Google talk a big game about AI without delivering.
This dude's blog is a gold mine. I love the direct language. Thank you for posting this!
Only because programmers use up thier artistic juices at work. Plenty of my friends who are payroll or work in warehouses do not have any mental investment into work and use that energy outside of work to write, quilt, or do stimulating activities of thier own choice. For me after work I put on Judge Judy and let my brain rot
I'm familiar with the prisoner's dilemma. This is not that.

In general, I don't find price fixing that difficult a concept to grasp, which makes it challenging for me to break it down any further for you.

So, unfortunately, I don't think there's anywhere else to go from here. But, thanks for the discussion.
Java complexity is also an artifact of Java being used in large complex systems. People are really complaining about how hard programming is. There are many types of large scale systems where I would only code it using the JVM, everything else is a nightmare. Big tech companies largely feel the same
If houses were made easy to move the back door could go straight to the place of work.
Reminder:

- The waterproof tape you used for your plumbing is made of PFAS.

- Your floss too

- Microwave popcorn and cupcakes

- Contact lenses

- Tampons