skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether he considered himself one or not, Steve Albini will always stand out to me as the epitome of the Punk value system. Here are two of my absolute favorites:

* "I would like to be paid like a plumber" - https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/nirvana

* "The Problem with Music" - https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music
> TruAge encrypts your data points and then protects them even further by creating anonymous tokens. These anonymous tokens cannot be traced back to you without legal authorization from a court-issued subpoena

Yes, I think you are right. There is probably a way to make a fully anonymous scheme.
Oops sorry I forgot it: https://sr.ht/~rakoo/omail/
If you need to submit to their server, I don't know who would use it for commercial reasons anyway. Most biotech startups and pharma companies are very careful about entering sequences into online tools like this.
Hi, Devv founder here.

That sounds interesting. Could you provide further details? By the way, integrating an API is part of our future plans. We plan to enable Devv integration with Slack, Linear, and websites in the future.

Also, if you want to discuss more, feel free to email me at jiayuan@devv.ai
It was indeed an illegal invasion, but the problem was not having taken over in the Golf War - it should have been settled then.
Cool idea! My friends and I have chatted about building something similar, though with a coaching focus. Specifically for use with spray walls/kilterboards/etc.

It could be interesting to combine something like this with an analysis tool. Analyse a climbers attempts or successes and compare it to the beta figured out by the model. Then offer tips on body positioning or technique based on your weight/height/strength.
The parents of those otherwise terminally ill children disagree with you in the strongest possible terms.
That's a really interesting idea. I was just wondering how any of this could be prevented in a way that preserves user choice.
It's a separate app now and doesn't live in preferences anymore.
These kinds of proposals will hand the 'net to the darknet [its proper successor]. I can't wait for Freenet/Hyphanet to eventually get onion routing!
Akamai confirms acquisition of Noname for $450M
Apologies, that was a typo.
Show HN: Rejected by YC
In this specific case, it's fairly well known that Hochreiter was the major brain behind the original LSTM.
I was thinking it was because it would be easier than keeping track of usage which I assume you would need to do with a subscription based model i.e. all users using your key.
The success of these ML models has me wondering if this is what Quantum Mechanics is. QM is notoriously difficult to interpret yet makes amazing predictions. Maybe wave functions are just really good at predicting system behavior but don't reflect the underlying way things work.

OTOH, Newtonian mechanics is great at predicting things under certain circumstances yet, in the same way, doesn't necessarily reflect the underlying mechanism of the system.

So maybe philosophers will eventually tell us the distinction we are trying to draw, although intuitive, isn't real
There are a few AI-designed drugs in various phases of clinical trials, these things take time.
Also time to repost Slaughterbots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
> exactly the kind of engineering leadership a good C-suite would want to keep around and promote

... or, failing that, a different good C-suite might want to hire away from a less good C-suite.
That is not considered interpretable then, and I think most people working in the field are aware of this gotcha.

Iirc when EU required banks to have interpretable rules for loans, a plain explanation was not considered enough. What was required was a clear process that was used from the beginning - i.e. you can use an AI to develop an algorightm to make a decision, but you can’t use AI to make a decision and explains reasons afterwards.
Nice! Yeah without it, it wanted me to make my own node-llama-cpp: https://devv.ai/search?threadId=dl3rah43egw0

So agent mode is better for more recent stuff that you might find in a search engine?
As someone from the cell phone impacted generation, I wish our elders would spend less time trying to protect us from the internet and more time building homes.
Ugh, don’t remind me. I checked the other day and there are about the same number of people playing a day as V (which turned out pretty good at the end).

The Marines should have a backup plan because robots dogs can’t save everything.
In vivo in humans in the cloud
Massively underrated as satire.
Great work! Neat that an 8B model performs somewhere between GPT-4-Turbo and Claude-3. Thanks for open sourcing.
Money is not peace of mind, but lack of money--measured against real and perceived needs--is a great detriment to peace of mind.
This is hugely surprising. 61 is not old man. Is it me or does seem like the Gen Xers in the so-called counter culture are less long lived than their Boomer counterparts?
GGP is me, and yes that’s what I meant. Under no circumstance would zed actually be drawing 120 frames each second, right? That would be 100x more energy usage than would actually be required, and so I think “horribly” is accurate.
And it is different how? the point being is that incident was falsely blamed on the IDF while it was a Palestinian rocket misfire
Thank you for the explanation and for all the hard work on bringing virtual threads to the JVM. It's a really awesome feature.
This is why the world is starting to suffer from the age demographic bomb as we speak. Retirees are starting to outnumber working adults. Soon they will outnumber everyone and the financial sustainability of pensions like social security and socialized healthcare like Medicare will come into question. The problem becomes worse when voters are no longer ok with using immigration to mitigate it.
A new type of Kindle could be created that is owned by libraries and would solve this.
There's a scifi movie. 5 million years to earth. They do something like that.

It's a good movie.
If a "systems" program can afford GC, then I would consider it mischaracterized. The whole premise of "systems" programming IMO is that you need the code to behave exactly in the way specified, without unexpected preemption (i.e., preemption can only occur at controlled locations and/or for controlled durations). I think a lot of "embedded" software really isn't "systems" software, though the two get conflated a lot.

Note that GC cannot possibly promise "time-boxed pauses" in the general case; either allocations are allowed to outpace collections, in which case a longer collection pause will eventually be required to avoid memory exhaustion, or else allocations must be throttled, which just pushes an unbounded pause forward to allocation time.
Medicine can be explained fairly simply, and the why of how it works as it does is also explained by this:

Imagine a very large room that has every surface covered by on-off switches.

We cannot see inside of this room. We cannot see the switches. We cannot fit inside of this room, but a toddler fits through the tiny opening leading into the room. The toddler cannot reach the switches, so we equip the toddler with a pole that can flip the switches. We train the toddler, as much as possible, to flip a switch using the pole.

Then, we send the toddler into the room and ask the toddler to flip the switch or switches we desire to be flipped, and then do tests on the wires coming out of the room to see if the switches were flipped correctly. We also devise some tests for other wires to see if that naughty toddler flipped other switches on or off.

We cannot see inside the room. We cannot monitor the toddler. We can't know what _exactly_ the toddler did inside the room.

That room is the human body. The toddler with a pole is a medication.

We can't see or know enough to determine what was activated or deactivated. We can invent tests to narrow the scope of what was done, but the tests can never be 100% accurate because we can't test for every effect possible.

We introduce chemicals then we hope-&-pray that the chemicals only turned on or off the things we wanted turned on or off. Craft some qualifications testing for proofs, and do a 'long-term' study to determine if there were other things turned on or off, or a short circuit occurred, or we broke something.

I sincerely hope that even without human understanding, our AI models can determine what switches are present, which ones are on and off, and how best to go about selecting for the correct result.

Right now, modern medicine is almost a complete crap-shoot. Hopefully modern AI utilities can remedy the gambling aspect of medicine discovery and use.
I'll put in a vote for: https://lcwo.net/ (Learn CW Online)

If your goal is to be "conversational" in CW I suggest you crank up the character speed until you are not able to count individual dits/dahs anymore. This will probably be somewhere in the 25-35WPM range. The goal is "instant character recognition" where you hear the sound/shape of the entire character rather than counting elements, assembling them in your head, and doing a mental hash lookup on the result.

If you have trouble receiving or copying down the 5letter groups at this speed resist the temptation to add "farnsworth" spacing (extra gaps between letters). Instead increase the word spacing until you have enough down time in between to get everything copied.
I don't really get Perplexity - it is amazingly slick, but I get almost line-by-line identical output from Bing Chat, so I have to wonder how much differentiation they really afford (I haven't set up an account, just comparing free access). This, though, has mostly gotten what I asked it right (including some arcane C++ stuff), so I will be giving it a try at home.
I think the author is suggesting Signal may have a back door. There is a philosophy that you should not trust any crypto software unless it is open source andheavily vetted and you compile your copy yourself.
> Floating financing for editing, rendering,

Based on the error riddled books I see nowadays, they're not investing much on editors.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923404

You might want to check out this project.
I'm in the following camp:
It is wrong to think about the world or the models as "complex systems" that may or may not be understood by human intelligence. There is no meaning beyond that which is created by humans. There is no 'truth' that we can grasp in parts but not entirely.
Being unable to understand these complex systems means that we have framed them in such a way (f.e. millions of matrix operations) that does not allow for our symbol-based, causal reasoning mode. That is on us, not our capabilities or the universe.

All our theories are built on observation, so these empirical models yielding such useful results is a great thing - it satisfies the need for observing and acting. Missing explainability of the models merely means we have less ability to act more precisely - but it does not devalue our ability to act coarsely.
So you're agreeing that plain text doesn't prevent tracking ? And that advocating for it won't solve the problem ?

> As for attachments - obvious exaggeration to dismiss actual issue: bravo…

No, the issue is that you can't tell everyone to "just upload the picture somewhere and put the link in the middle", that's unreasonable. That is the issue. HTML solves an issue.

> Don't assume that someone using HTML actually do it conciously or is glad to receive it in that form because average user doesn't complain about it

Average users want formatting. Plain text doesn't provide it. HTML for emails sucks, but plain text isn't a solution to that.
I wrote something based around these concepts in 2008-2010: https://github.com/GWBasic/ObjectCloud

I don't think it "works" in today's world where installed apps on iOS / Android are more common than web applications.
> There is probably a way to make a fully anonymous scheme.

A fully anonymous scheme would be ripe for abuse: People would immediately take their keys and set up websites that exchanged age verification tokens for watching ads. Kids would visit these websites, watch an ad for 60 seconds, and get a fully anonymous age verification token in exchange.

Identity verification systems only work if everyone involved has some incentive to protect their identity. If the identity means nothing and nothing can be traced back to you, the tokens will be generated for next to nothing and handed out freely.

The idea is DOA.
Pyspark is probably the way to go.

I just wanted to mention that AWS Athena eats 15G parquet files for breakfast.

It is trivial to map the file into Athena.

But you can't connect it to anything else than file output. But it can help you to for example write it to smaller chunks. Or choose another output format such as csv (although arbitrary email content in a csv feels like you are set up for parsing errors).

The benefit is that there is virtually no setup cost. And processing cost for a 15G file will be just a few cents.
That’s what thermodynamics is - we initially only had laws about energy/heat flow, and only later we figured out how statistical particle movements cause these effects.
> It’s in the military industrial complex.

I remember when people used to complain about that. Now those same people are jumping up and down for billions “for Ukraine”, not knowing they’re the same thing.
Oh, does this actually work?

I was on the assumption that it was dynamically linking the libarary with the OS dynamic linker, which in no OS I'm aware of is capable of loading libraries inside of zip files.

Not sure where I got that notion. Maybe I was overthinking this.
It has been a while since I was a competitive swimmer (AAA+) but imho five minutes is a very good time for 500m. That would be faster than 95% of master swimmers at such distances, and well into the 0.01% of humans overall.
Not a climber myself but this is super impressive. Curious about what techniques you’re using. Is this based on a GAN model?
It sounds like you may be comparing the population density of a large, diluted area and not the downtown areas alone.

It doesn't get much denser than downtown Chinese cities, they have specialized in high-density mega-sized apartment buildings.

Even large US downtowns are dwarfed by the average Chinese city downtown flush with LED skyscrapers. They have way more people and manufacturing than other countries so it shouldn't be too surprising.
I think Data Plumber really does describe what my job is most days

I'm fine with that though, honestly. Plumbing is a super valuable profession

On my more ambitious days, I still would rather be a Software Gardener than a Software Engineer though
Americans Are Racking Up 'Phantom Debt' That Wall Street Can't Track
Thanks for the reminder! I loved Textpattern. Should check it out again.
Can you link to this "official" news which you are accusing other commenters of "falling for"?

Are you suggesting that drone technology and techniques are not being developed during the conflict?
wow, i've had the Georgify extension (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/georgify/ofjfdfaleo...) for so long I forgot HN was actually "ugly"
We could be entering a new age of epicycles - high accuracy but very flawed understanding.
Nature has long been willing to break its own rules to be at the forefront of publishing new science.
https://archive.is/FZBWH
Fun story time: I was at twitter for a few years and tended to write quick hacks that people wanted to replace with better engineering.

We never had scala thrift bindings, and the Java ones were awkward from Scala, so I wrote a thrift plugin in JRuby that used the Ruby thrift parser and ERb web templates to output some Scala code. Integrated with our build pipeline, worked great for the company.

I also wrote one era of twitter's service deploy system on a hacked up Capistrano.

These projects took a few days because they were dirty hacks, but I still got a below perf review for getting easily distracted, because I didn't yet know how to sell those company-wide projects.

Anyhow, about a month before that team kicked off Parquet, I showed them a columnar format I made for a hackweek based on Lucene's codec packages, and was using to power a mixpanel-alike analytics system.

I'm not sure whether they were inspired or terrified that my hack would reach production, but I like to think I had a small hand in getting Parquet kickstarted.
KM doesn't recognize all my mouse's buttons. If it did, that'd be my pick too.
Reddit shares soar 14% after company reports revenue pop debut earnings report
You must have missed this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40080406
The Wikipedia article did not define affirmative action as positive discrimination.
Had a yo-yo buff a couple of years ago showing me youtube videos, and he literally said "the yo-yo scene takes it's fashion cues from skateboard culture", so full circle?
>legal authorization from a court-issued subpoena

No good technological solutions which min-max on maximizing user sovereignty and privacy will allow the possibility of [GREENTEXT].
Third place is a specific term for those who have not been familiarized:

"In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace ("second place")."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Yes, search is one of my favorite features here, try '/' shortcut
> The only difference is, the ML model is really quite good at it.

That's the crux of it: we've had theories of physics and chemistry since before writing was invented.

None of that mattered until we came upon the ones that actually work.
> I think they do it because you can't copyright a recipe, so if copyright is important to you then you need to add other creative aspects to the recipe that can be copyrighted.

I hear this claimed a lot but I don't think it's true. I'm not a lawyer, but everything I've read indicates you can't turn a recipe itself into a literary work (and thus make it copyrightable) just by surrounding it with prose, or even by representing it in a novel fashion (as a poem). You can always extract the guts of the recipe (the sequence of steps and ingredients) and share that. I believe this is part of why food companies often carefully guard their recipes.
Regarding the idea of only taxing corporate distributions (including buybacks?) rather than profits:

There are two types of companies in the United States that are taxed on retained earnings, not profits: bdc and reit.

They can keep 4% of earnings but must distribute everything else otherwise those get taxed.

Since those distributions are sent to people, they are taxed with personal income tax (though they are taxed at a much lower rate than earned income).

What the author missed is that corporate taxes are a great way for legislators to perform graft. The more complex the tax code, the more campaign contributions and other support
Can you share any example of non-fiction literature with beauty and humanity? Thanks!
Interview with a Social Engineering Hacker
My VPN provider claims I'm not vulnerable to this by default (running this VPN endpoint on a spare ASUS Router (https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/tunnelvision-expressvpns-sta...)
Using fins is extremely intuitive for anyone who has swum before.
Lenovo Thinkpad p14s(t14) gen 4, 7840U, $1300, oled 2.8K 400 nits P3, 64gb RAM, 1TB, keyboard excellent, speakers shitty(using sony wh-1000xm4), battery(52.5Wh) life not good not bad, OLED screen draws huge amount of power. weight ~3 lb.
Agent Mode has a "thinking" process, so it will be more intelligent than Fast Mode.
That's pre-publication review, not scientific peer review. Special interests try to conflate the two, to bypass peer review and transform science into a religion.

Peer review properly refers to the general process of science advancing by scientists reviewing each other's published work.

Publishing a work is the middle, not the end of the research.
Code is also hard. You got to generate code that accounts for all possible exceptions or errors. If you want to automate an UI for example, pushing a button can cause all sorts of feedback, errors, consequences that need to be known to write the code.
Are those adds from my/our ISP? How does he, someone who seems to write html somewhat poorly, manage to get so many intrusive ads into this post?
Google's Game of Life 3D: Spiral edition
The insurance on what I linked is that the issuer cannot see who redeemed the token, so the issuer can’t link an individual to what sites they visited.
For reference for future generations :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
If the user did not actively specify what they want to search for or subscribed to a content source, it is banned.
"Desired model behavior" is still a matter of perspective. If I want to have a LLM generate output following very specific rules or schema (or even just for fun without having to fight the AI), these guidelines are antithetical to it.
High accuracy could result from pretty incorrect models. When and where that woukd then go completely off the rails is difficult to say.
That must clearly be true, but I'd like cars to driver better than humans and make use of all the tech that we can't. Academically vision only is an interesting feat, and as a backup mode for when sensors fail it makes sense to pursue vision only operation, but it seems to me that having more sensors should be superior.
It's not clear to me that every site would have to perform age verification themselves. Seems like the "I am a minor" flag could be managed at the client operating system level (e.g. as a property of the cell account on mobile devices, or as a property of the user account on a laptop or desktop machine), and transmitted per-request (e.g. in a HTTP header).
Sometimes I feel like there's some kind of gaslighting operation going on to make people forget about how much western Europe was in favor of things like NordStream (2). Russia definitely wasn't always the Boogeyman people now seem to claim. A lot of people had to be ok with Russia for things like NordStream to happen.
Yes, Ikea and others recall products eg. for safety issues. Xiaomi did a recall too for their scooter for similar reasons. Nobody recalls for "bad design" because laws don't require that. Not sure how that helps the fact that design is bad though

(Xiaomi should probably recall this kettle for malfunctioning temp sensor but they don't have that level of responsibility.)

For the prices I saw they are not entry level at any of the rock bottom cheapest online markets in Russia (Yandex), Philippines (Lazada) or China (Taobao). It seems that in UK it sold for 30 pounds at amazon.

And again even at the advertised 69 rmb price that only is true in China you can buy multiple better kettles with sane button placement in China. If you know the prices and salaries there you would hardly call that entry level price for a kettle

The fact that you need to pay even more for a model just with sane button placement (forget other issues) just says it all. They spam white plastic until you don't see the ugly and now they think they're Apple, and apparently some people are buying that marketing. To be Apple you actually have to have good design.
Same here. My car mechanic seems to think i'm an imposter or at least an idiot, when i don't immediately understand his car gibberish.
Yes, but it's not my context.
Great link! It looks like the caps he used were ~ 3 J/cm³, so 1/65th the density of the ones in the article.
I'll second what everyone else said and add that the guy was absolutely amazing at capturing drums. Everything I ever read about the guy sounded positive to me even though the authors might not have agreed