skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. When the Bootcamp market flourished (early/mid devBootcamp days) and incredible results seemed common it was exactly for the reasons you mentioned. Many early attendees were folks who either had some previous technical experience or were very smart and proved in some other field but wanted to move into dev work.

Eventually the majority of those folks who were going to make the switch... Did. Then the average bootcamp graduate became someone who bought into the hype that anyone could learn to code. A lot of truck drivers, CS reps, and teachers applied. There nothing stopping those people from becoming great engineers. But they are going to have a more difficult time on average than the person who dabbled in coding for ten years while working as an engineer in another field and just needs a crash course to be proficient in web development.

Placement rates dropped significantly around that time.
Ugh, some horrid automated SEO process.
because we essentially did spend exactly that to build a cluster: what amount of ressources are you using (coreh/instances/storage)?
People don't generally read hacker news because of its polish, but because of its novelty. There's plenty of polished backwash to read elsewhere.

For me, undeveloped personal insight is just the kind of content I find most interesting here.
did you email info@mutable.ai?
A sixth sense? How we can tell that eyes are watching us (2016)
TikTok Testing its Instagram Competitor TikTok Notes in Canada and Australia
Which is why I've configured my browser to use the correct fonts that work for me. Use `font-family: revert;` for prose, and `font-family: system-ui;` for any widgets you've got.
https://archive.ph/ZVPzu
> The same is true for most software people. We think we’re super smart because we have logical thinking and understand a complicated thing that most people don’t, but then you can always get a good laugh reading the HN crowd try to talk smart on other subjects like physics / quantum mechanics.

Talking out your ass about subjects you don’t understand isn’t limit to software people. It’s funny you mentioned physics because really smart physicists would frequently spew all kinds of stupidity about software when I was in grad school.
I read it as "Fathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions".

It completely made sense. I heard some research where starting about 500K year ago humans started to pair bond as a way to prevent mom and child mortality during and after childbirth and indeed Fathers are a clever invention. So yea, feathers are cool - fathers too! (for more info/reading here is a book suggestion: Eve)
By that criteria, everything is a failure. After all, it's the job of the proponent to oversell you on things.
> running unsupported versions makes it harder to get help from a community that’s currently focused on the latest version

Great example of misuse of that simple word 'that'.

Should be 'which'.
Tautologies may be unsatisfying, but there's nothing specifically wrong with them.
> But are you really pushing the original Xbox to the limit

This is in the context of XBox modding, where “original Xbox” should be interpreted to mean “not an XBox 360”. Halo 2 can run at higher resolutions on a 360, so clarifying that this was a modding project on the original Xbox is helpful.

You have to read it in context. It’s not literally about an unmodded Xbox, it’s a modding project and the target for the mods was an original Xbox.
Many personal messages interspersed throughout, especially after it becomes clear what's happening.
He did a lot more than that.
Tesla risks losing its lead without an inexpensive EV
I get your argument, but like I said, pretty much everyone is well aware of data collection and targeted advertising. And they still use those services.

Just like people are aware that Ubereats is a pile of fees on top of higher menu prices...and they still just use anyway to avoid having to call the restaurant to deliver or pickup themselves.
People who just want to live their their best lives aren't "mindless robots". One could also characterize a "mindless robot" as someone who is willing to sacrifice themselves for a cause that they see in black and white.

If the protesters camped in an execs office for pride and refused to leave, they'd likely also get arrested. It's just that there wouldn't be such a protest in the first place.
You said “ > It was proven with math”

But that is not what I said! Do not put words in my mouth.

I didn’t say that the math “proved” it.

I was saying that the molasses analogy did not matter to what they did, and that the math, not the molasses thing, is the relevant thing they did.

Specifically, the math model described an origin for the mass of some things.

> In math I can even say "Infinity + 1" and it counts (literally). And have more oranges than what's in your infinity crate.

No, actually. Adding 1 to an infinite cardinality (I assume you are talking about cardinality because you speak of a number of oranges) results in the same cardinality. That is pretty close (but not quite) the definition of a cardinality being infinite. (Specifically, a common definition is that a set is infinite if it is in bijection with a strict subset of itself)
Redeveloping the Most Terrifying Airport [video]
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Playercoach.ai investor update – Q1 2024
> Nearly all layouts people actually want are table-like, and I think CSS really was misguided in its text-flow as layout approach.

I think this is the core misunderstanding in this discussion. CSS 2 supported both text-flow and tabular layout and both layout models were reverse-ingeneered from how Netscape rendered HTML.

There is this weird idea that CSS is somehow opposed to tables or tabular layout, while a significant part of CSS2 is actually the codification of how tables render.
They are referring to how California residents contribute more in federal tax dollars than they get back, making it a donor state. Florida gets more federal dollars than the residents contribute, which did surprise me, but it appears to be the case. However, it is not necessarily California residents subsidizing Florida. The residents of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts all contribute a significantly greater positive balance in federal taxes than do residents of California.
Isn't that what they all say? "Normally this would be special pleading but this time is different?"
Good read but nit: this isn't computer science, this is web dev.
> My god this man is more dedicated to Halo 2 than Bungie is to any of their IP today

Bungie isn't involved with Halo at all any more. Microsoft owns the IP and it's developed by 343 Industries.

Bungie has Destiny/Destiny 2 now and the upcoming Marathon extraction shooter.
Definitely avoid seed oils like your life depends on it, because it probably does.
> Starlink itself stated in the recent email to users that the 'Mobile – Regional' plans are meant for temporary travel and transit, not permanent use in a location. Continuous use of these plans outside the country where service was ordered will result in service restriction.

Is Starlink licensed in neighboring countries?
A Telegram Bot Dockerized to convert speech to text from video and audio files
A Telegram Bot to convert speech to text from small videos and audio files.

This bot uses Docker, Telegram, Python and Whisper.cpp to stand up a small telegram bot on your own infrastructure which can take media and convert it to text.

The setup is meant to be as simple and quick as possible, so it's not meant for production use. It is intended for personal use only.

Tested on AMD64, provided build scripts for ARM64 and ARM32v7.

There's a YouTube video of a full build, source and setup run through - https://youtu.be/Vo4OVdDRlcU

This was originally a Raspberry Pi 4 project I wrote and was manually running on a Pi. You can see a video about that here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjLzgebcDHo

And now it's a Docker container, which can run on a Pi, Mac and Windows PC!
Myo reps might have training benefit for strength-endurance athletes, but afaik they don't improve muscle growth or 1rm strength comparably to traditional schemes. If new work has come out showing that please share.

As of about 4 years ago the research I'd seen suggested that taking rest breaks of 3 mins vs 30s or 1m improves gains over time, though to be fair the lower rest breaks resulted in less overall work being done, so that's not entirely surprising.
This is also the right way to deprecate. Charge people an arm and a leg to keep things running (and eventually force them to migrate).
We haven't had "Reaganomics" at play since Bush senior. Repeal of Glass-Steagall under Clinton, ACA, and Dodd-Frank puts us in a completely different economic regime than 'Reaganomics.' Include alternative definitions for both CPI and unemployment which paint rosier but untrue pictures of the system. These have been in place starting with the Obama administration and continue today.

The admonition from the Reagan administration on economics was fairly simple: Lower the rates, broaden the base. We've not been doing that for a long time.
except protons. These are infinitely dense
Wouldn't a more friendly looking face push us further into the uncanny valley and make it more creepy, not less?
It is a big question - if you upload your code + keys to AWS infrastructure, are you really protecting them enough to be able to claim trade secret protection? Especially if you’re knowingly a competitor to Amazon in some other way?

I could see it going either way in court.
Thanks! I don't cook baguettes; my ratio came from the first recipe I found looking online: https://lechefswife.com/baking-baguettes-for-beginners/
Key claims:

"We have found three potential issues with Hoffmann et al.’s
estimates of the Chinchilla scaling law that rely on Approach
3:
1. Their estimated model fits the reconstructed data very
poorly. These conclusions hold even when accounting
for potential noise in data reconstruction and excluding
outlier models.
2. The confidence are implausibly tight given the number of data points. Obtaining confidence intervals that
tight would require many hundreds of thousands of observations, while they likely had only ∼400.
3. Their estimated model implies a scaling policy that is
inconsistent with their other approach"

Data point most people are probably looking for:
"We find a range consistent with the 20
tokens per parameter rule of thumb. Indeed, our point estimates imply that 25.6 tokens per parameters is optimal."
My Dad was an ROV technician for a brief period in the early 2000s, he got made redundant in early 2002 just after 9/11, and the dot com bubble bursting.

On his last of the only two trips he made, he was based in Recife in northern Brazil. The ship was just there, on call, ready to respond to any breakages.

My Mum, sister, and I were lucky enough to be flown out to Brazil for Christmas 2001, and it's something I'll never forget.
I got to fuse bits of fibre-optic cable together under a microscope, drive an ROV about in the harbour a bit, and stand in some massive cable drums (all incredibly exciting for an eight year old child). It was the first time I went abroad, and the first time my Mum flew on a plane.

It's amazing how much damage the dot com bubble bursting did to the industry, and the people who worked in it (I don't think my Dad ever really recovered from it). I believe until very recently there was so much fibre laid during the dot com boom, that we didn't really need to lay much more.
Isn't Amazon already being sued by the FTC?
Why does Garmin's charging port suck?
I agree and disagree. Reddit moderators often get very involved into the community and make high-visibility changes and proclamations, and actively try to influence the culture of subreddits. Janitors do delete things and ban users, but in general they are far more hands off in their curation of boards.
Even his comments on programming are…questionable. He spent years hyping up Arc, his “hundred-year language”, and in the end it arrived as…Scheme with some shorthands?
The video mentions the risk of "over G" breaking the airframe.

I am wondering about the gap between the over G threshold for the pilot vs over G threshold for the airframe. Assuming the X-62 (or other AI aircraft) can stay below the airframe breaking point but above the human breaking point, does that mean that the AI has a practically insurmountable advantage in most dogfight situations vs human pilots (as well as other offensive/defensive engagements)?
I guess this was inevitable. It's a shame we have not advanced beyond our basic instinct in all these millennia. Every new technology always ends up as a weapon, one way or another. Even today, when we have more than enough resources and means to distribute them to everyone, blind greed and hunger for power prevails.
I just went through all of the easy ones and most of them seem "obvious", but some of them seem like preference (like the separator width). Another one I noticed is medium 6, where I'm not sure the smaller icon is necessarily always better. I'd be careful taking something like this as gospel without careful scrutinization. A lot of it feels like modern UI dogma which likes to waste space for no reason other than aesthetics, rather than actual UI research. Some of it just feels completely arbitrary.
Do the custom controller connectors introduce any amount of input lag? Would love to try and make one of these for Melee tournaments if it doesn't.
Very online founders seems like a massive negative signal to me.
I don't try to keep myself updated. I don't listen to podcasts. I'm not subscribed to any data science newsletter. Neither do I go to meetups. I think this is all a distraction.

If I encounter a problem that I cannot solve sufficiently with the methods I already know, I start exploring and read material until I find something that does the job.

The other way around makes you try to apply your new and fancy method everywhere simply because you're excited about it and it's new.

There's a similar phenomenon in tech in general, when people suddenly start to adopt OOP everywhere or there's a new JavaScript framework around the corner without assessing what the benefit will be.
Great read about a often overlooked part of global infrastructure. I personally liked the presentation style but get its not for everyone. Highly recommend the latest episode of the Vergecast where they talk more about the undersea cable world: https://youtu.be/bJnt87JgKMU
This is the future: swarms of tiny drones with just enough explosive to kill a person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqoGacUu07I
True, but I guess it'll be a surprise to many. And, unfortunately, upgrading isn't always the easiest thing with deprecations and stuff
So that Googlers can work tirelessly to support genocidal Israeli government, without such needless reminders and interruptions?
> Presumably if publishers were actually pressuring Microsoft to make a child-safe device, they'd have come up with a more advanced protection mechanism than that.

They did. For the next generation. They updated their model of "child safe".
> Testing cannot be used to prove that a flaw doesn't exist

This is not universally true, formal methods can take you a long way, depending on the problem domain.

And sometimes you can test for every possible input. This usually isn't feasible, but it's nice when it is.
GDPR enforcement is flawed. The regulator (Irish DPC) that has the power to do so is incompetent and/or corrupt (they have prior history of being "nice" to Meta despite sufficient evidence of bad faith).

This escalation to the EPDB is yet another attempt to get the Irish DPC to do what they were supposed to do in the first place.

There is little political will to fix this however, and data protection regulators are generally useless in every country (maybe not to the level of the DPC, but still). Here's a breakdown of EU-wide cases showing that over 50% of them are stuck for 2+ years: https://noyb.eu/en/project/dpa
> we have more than enough resources and means to distribute them to everyone

I read that as giving everyone weapons and was surprised at the tone shift.
Is it though? Could you really say a 200 Hz CRT is going to beat a 540 Hz LCD with backlight strobing? Has anyone actually done thorough testing to confirm it? Motion clarity is made up of a lot of parts, it can't be ballpark guessed.

See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bEKOp1GLDs
> In total, the team made over 100,000 lines of flight-critical software changes across 21 test flights.

I'm sure they're working much more rigorously than typical "tech" company software developers, and maybe the writer used that sentence to commend the scale of effort that contributed to a success.

But, to a tech industry software engineer ear, the sentence sounds different. Heavy reactive software changes would typically mean a lot of defects and tech debt introduced.

Here's to hoping that autonomous fighter jets aren't programmed anything at all like cat pictures sharing apps are.

("Commit #37f2ad30 - Fixed missing minus sign that had airplane flying upside-down.")
Is Putin in the room with us right now?
There's nothing in this particular article which suggests that Amazon would aim to violate any contractual agreements you make with them against hoovering up your AWS data to compete with you. If you use services which don't include any protections against that, then I'd expect those services to use your data against you if you posed a threat to their business.

Perhaps there could be a legal requirement that this type of protection be mandated, I'm not entirely sure what the downside would be, besides yet more regulatory bloat.
Isn't this how "Jia Tan" got started on xz?
There are dozens of us!†

†https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKie-vgUGdI
Is like camera focus points Center focus or weight focused, it depends.
Feds expand investigation into Honda's automatic emergency braking system
There are tradeoffs in both cases.

Some issues with building a cluster are, you're locked into the tech you bought, need space, expertise to manage it, cost to run/maintain.

You can potentially recoup some of that investment by selling it later, usually a quickly depreciating asset though.

But, no AWS or AWS premium.
While a compelling short film, those tiny quadcopters are handicapped missiles. They fly slowly enough that modern anti-drone systems could engage them; their use of visual sensors leaves them vulnerable to laser blinding. Self-destructing drones are missiles trading manoeuvrability for speed.
Seems like I'm a lucky one. Neither using RDS nor MySQL. But seriously, ouch. I mean, I get why they want people to migrate to supported versions but ...
I look forward to my annual eight day matzahpizza orgy.
Their rule of thumb would imply that a 70B model is saturated with 1.7T tokens, that's inconsistent with reality.
It absolutely matters.

Germany initiated two world wars and was responsible for the deaths of millions, including systematic extermination of 6 million jewish civilians. Yet, they are somehow the good guys now leading the EU. If Russia is bad because its parent USSR was an oppressive regime, what of Germany?
The explosive value of the networks [pdf]
It's proving to be a good release so far. Hopefully they get more support in the form of manpower and cash. Looking forward to NetBSD and the increasing popularity of ARM in the future.
I feel like I scrolled through several log files and couldn’t find anything that looked real and relevant?
Disagree. Baking is science. Cooking is art.
Normally, the airframe and/or human g limits are well outside the aerodynamic limits. Pulling 10+g is just not physically possible in most combat conditions, regardless of aircraft.
AI startup Stability lays off 10% of staff after controversial CEO's exit
I would love to see a comparison of phantom braking on Tesla's fitted with the radar before and after they switched off the radar to go full camera. To my understanding radar works better in conditions where sunlight might be blocking the camera.
Bootcamp outcomes reports are always bullshit. I used to work at a bootcamp and spent a few days digging into popular bootcamp outcome reports. Basically they all wittle down the qualifying students per graduating cohort until they have a good number.

Reasons to eliminate a student from your outcomes report:
1. Didnt finish the program
2. Didnt complete "career commitments" aka xx number of applications per week, x number of meetings with career counselors per week, responding to all emails from bootcamp within x days - for 6 months to 1+ year
3. Didnt pay tuition or missed a tuition payment
4. Had too many absences during the bootcamp
5. Received a job offer but turned it down
6. Accepted a job offer that wasnt tech related
7. Graduate just doesnt respond to outreach from bootcamp

The 30%-50% actual placement rate is pretty realistic. I later went through the same bootcamp I worked for and my graduating cohort was probably 30% to 40%.
Ask HN: Comments requesting paywall bypass links
I frequently see comments from people explicitly or implicitly asking for links to bypass paywalls on submitted articles. I'm confused by this, since it takes about the same amount of effort to generate your own paywall bypassing link as it does to post a comment asking for someone else to do it. Going beyond and posting this newly generated link for others to use does add a step, but doesn't seem like a lot to ask.

What's happening here?

Do these posters think some special magic is required? Are they not aware that creating such a link just involves going to the top level domain of one of the services (eg, http://archive.is) and pasting the URL into a form?

Are they opposed to the idea of creating such a link themselves, either due to moral qualms or legal fears, but willing a follow a link that some else has created?

Are they using a handheld device that makes it so hard to copy a URL and open a new page that they don't know how to start, whereas they know how to write a comment?

Or are they just so entitled that they think someone else should provide for them at all times, and don't want to demean themselves by helping others?

Can anyone who has posted such requests tell me their thought process? Can others who post bypass links suggest other explanations? General discussion on what the HN etiquette on paywall bypass links should be is welcomed as well.
UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were 'government' backed
I wonder if a human has to perform that modification or can the role of the human be reduced to selection.
It's not just computer science thing. I have numerous misaligned electric sockets, doors, light fixtures etc all over my house and it drives me crazy that I can't do much about it!
CTRL-W stops working on Windows when Samsung Magician has pending updates
I'm not really talking about trauma or anxiety. I'm talking about a feeling of resentment and anger directed at the other - the kindling for that flame of anger is past injustice. Letting go of this is forgiveness, I think.

It's specifically the injustice, rather than the hurt, that is keeps resentment alive. "It's not fair!" is the rallying cry. Hurt heals and lessens with time. But feelings can be nursed, indulged, prolonged, and inflamed.

Understanding operates on a different plane to emotions. Intellectually you can understand why something happened, but that doesn't necessarily have an effect on your emotions. Emotions seem to have a life of their own, if you don't take responsibility for them. And of course that's a key part of growing up, of maturity: emotional regulation.

You might use intellectual understanding as a rationale for regulating feelings of resentment, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient. You do need an act of will to let resentment go. And I think this is the core of forgiveness.
>> It is illegal as per the GDPR.

> Then they should simply tell Meta

Umm, who's the they in this?

Call me naive, but I'd assumed corporations were expected to comply with applicable laws without having to be told to.