skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reports of the slowdown of scientific progress are wildly exaggerated.[a]

Scientific -- and mathematical -- progress continues in fits and starts, as always, thanks to individuals who labor in relative obscurity, year after year. Journalists tend to became aware of past progress only after it has gained wide recognition or become accepted dogma. By the time you read about it in vox.com, it's history.

Katalin Karikó labored on mRNA vaccines for decades with approximately zero mainstream media coverage. Jeff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun worked on deep neural nets for decades with approximately zero mainstream media coverage. Yitang Zhang labored for decades on prime numbers, making sandwiches for a living (!!!), with approximately zero media coverage. Their stories are typical. Scientific and mathematical progress is invisible to almost everyone until suddenly it isn't.

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[a] With apologies to Mark Twain.
if you think the few people who were miffed about a lame advertisement could have any perceptible effect on apples bottom line whatsoever then i'd say it seems you know less about the market than i do.
Sure. I'm not claiming that everyone must find the ad disturbing, just that the ones who do tend to feel much more strongly than those who don't, and their feelings tend to not to be dismissed as hyperbole by the general public. I chose puppies as example since many people love dogs, but you can just as easily substitute your favorite objects / animals here.
This is the third time I’ve seen someone compare the crushing of a musical instrument with the crushing of living, feeling beings in this thread and I think you are absurdly off base.

People are mad when you crush their dog because it feels pain and experiences things and has some sense of self, things that inanimate objects cannot have. Not because they no longer have a dog or because of their emotional connection to that particular dog.

Perhaps a better analogy would be putting the corpse of an already deceased family dog in the hydraulic press but that isn’t too dissimilar from cremation.

Probably best to avoid the crushing dogs analogy all together.
I’ve never seen a guitar under about $300US new that was actually playable without some serious attention from a guitar shop, and on the lower end they’ll probably just tell you there’s not much they can do to make it better. They may need frets filed down to remove rough edges, neck adjustments, to simply have the tuners replaced because they’re so poorly-made they basically don’t work, et c.

Guitars that cheap are similar to crappy small-key $40-80 electronic keyboards that can only sound like three notes at a time and sound terrible doing it—they’re so bad that they will tend to frustrate and turn off even a beginner.
> Any modern OS you'll find will buffer write calls in one way or the other.

This is simply not true as a general rule. It depends on the nature of the file descriptor. Yes, if the file descriptor refers to the file system, it will in all likelihood be buffered by the OS (not with O_DIRECT, however). But on "any modern OS", file descriptors can refer to things that are not files, and the buffering situation there will vary from case to case.
My friends don't shit on my lawn.
On the general theme, I loved the book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Trembling_(film)?wpro...
Do you know metronomes and pianos and trumpets go to the landfill every day all the time? What’s the disgrace here? That you actually see it?
As stated in another thread, it's yet another 80% reduction in the number of habitable worlds. On top of all the factors, the exponential decay is pretty steep.

That's just the nature of the drake equation. It's very much a geometric series and if all factors have to line up with 1/10 odds, you only need 10-ish "vital things" to cancel basically all chance of life except earth.

And here we have a hypothesis which might be about 1/10 odds and might be vital. 9 left. Water? Diurnal duration? Spectrum of star? A billion years of peace? A moon? A magnetic field? There's potentially lots of factors.
There are probably a lot of independent online journals I'd gladly support with money even though I don't read them and don't even know they exist.

A curated independent journalism fund could do wonders. I donate to my local NPR station because it's good and I want to ensure something widely accessible still exists, but they also need my money less than smaller outfits. Even if I don't read those smaller journals, I think it's quite important for them to exist as an option and for those who do read them.
Summarisation & SDXL run just fine on M1 & above Macs. Probably the video editing features like Google/Pixel might need cloud compute.
Do hotels and rental cars next! Terrible shopping experience. "Resort fees" are total bs.
I agree with your comment on messaging, that is fantastic feedback–– reading through the comments here in the HN thread, it seems like that's a common understanding from our landing page. I appreciate you flagging that, we should find better wording to make it more clear.

And that's really nice to hear, thank you so much! Stack traces with source maps. I agree. We integrate now with logging tools like Sentry and I wonder if we can just use sourcemaps from that.
You missed the point. Apple want to make money in Japan.
I wonder if models trained on the real world will unintentionally destroy the game experience for people. In (NPC structured) video games things always work out ideally, you invest and you get a return. Any risk is illustrated for the user.

With LLM training, the NPC might take a more realistic approach and inform you that 4 of 6 the beetle nuts you collected for them are cracked and useless, and next time you should be more careful packing them in your backpack.
My recollection of CLIP is that it’s more of a text-language co-embedding, where you have two transformers, one which encodes images into vectors and one which encodes captions into vectors. Through a contrastive loss (positive pairs are captioned image pairs, negative pairs are random image-caption combinations), embeddings of positive image-caption pairs are brought together (i.e., made similar) and embeddings of negative image-caption pairs are made more dissimilar.

https://openai.com/index/clip/
I believe this could be described as a Pyrrhic victory.
Looks similar to replay.io
> It turns history into a giant steaming pile of garbage

Do we know that? There are still commits.
> Perhaps the blowback is a sign of a wider weariness that people have accumulated towards big tech companies over the past few years, mixed with a nebulous malaise about 'AI' and what it means for the status quo and people's livelihoods.

I think you hit it on the head. It's not so much anger about seeing a piano or a trumpet get crushed but more about the symbolism of it. Which, I think is definitely tone deaf on Apple's part.

The fact is, artists, developers and many people from all walks of life are terrified of what AI will mean for their jobs and their livelihood, and also, afraid that it cheapens everything they've spent all their life learning and mastering.

There's definitely a lot of pent up fear and/or hatred for it bubbling at the surface for many people and this commercial just kind triggers those feelings.
Given that Welles agreed to do the outtakes to prove incapacity for insurance purposes, I wonder whether he'd hammed it up a bit to be sure that they met the necessary bar.
or `Object` class instance with built-in additional details like timestamp
I generally agree with you, but one factor is the ability to filter out scripts using browser plugins. For example, if a page has 3rd-party scripts that trigger obnoxious modals, I can use NoScript to prevent those scripts from executing. If it doesn't require scripts to open the modals, would it shift the burden to adblockers, and start another competition in which the site and the adblocker are trying to get around the other?

I'm strongly in favor of the popover API existing, but it'll be interesting to see how it shifts handling page behaviors.
That's good feedback!
> The only people who could benefit are the producers, and I could imagine an unscrupulous manufacturer shortening the date on their food so that people will sigh, throw out a half-eaten package that has “expired,” and go buy some more.

Baffling argument. I’m sure producers would be much happier with indefinitely fresh products.

> Distributors fear legal threats if someone eats past-dated food and becomes ill (something that has rarely happened, but it’s still a looming threat).

That’s basically it. No scams or conspiracies needed.

As for the proposed solution about labeling standardization, I haven’t read the linked Harvard study in full, but I also haven’t managed to find the methodology by which they estimated the $1.8 billion benefit.
>I'm trying to put a pin in exactly why this is offensive.

While the corporate read of this would be "look, we've crammed all this cool stuff into an impossibly thin device!", which was probably the marketing pitch... the subtext of an ad like to most regular people is "we are here to destroy and replace everything that you already love".
Makefiles Are Wrong (2019)
PKM == "Personal Knowledge Management"
>>> ... nobody has a rubric for this evaluation that makes sense. ... I’m saying that when you take out all the legalese, the executive summary is “think really hard about whether this animal really helps this person, then think really hard about whether it will cause trouble, and if it helps the person and won’t cause trouble, sign the letter”.

Shoddy, unreproducible, not backed up science... is not science. There are plenty of blind people, handycapped people, seizure dogs and all sorts of legitimate service animals out there...

Looking to fund a study "Do emotional support animals prevent their owners from being selfish, and entitled"
> > when people say "you know v4 is very significantly better, right?" you say "but that one isn't free".

> I think you must be mistaking another poster for me. I didn't say that either.

Is this you? https://imgur.com/5wCeTZg
>By raising 'visible' prices for everyone some portion of the customers will shy away from the product, say by buying groceries rather than eating out.

Respecting the agency of customers to make informed decisions for themselves. How terrible.
There are two seemingly irreconcilable camps at this point as to whether X itself is fundamentally sound technology for remote display or any kind of display technology going into the future.
There are many reasons hashed out to death about this. Yes you could continue to add new X extensions, and the second system effect is a real consideration, but neither of those are absolute arguments against starting fresh without legacy baggage both in design and implementation.

X earned its place in the UHH over 30 years ago, at least let’s not pretend this was some universally beloved technology either.
Just on the meta-discussion of "who cares about dissecting some ad":

It's alright to consider implied meaning in media IMO. Just because it's misinterpreted by the standards of what the ad team wanted to accomplish, doesn't mean it WASN'T interpreted by people.

Maybe "outrage" is a bit useless if it's only there for screaming at people online, but talking about how crushing things that people love sends the wrong message, is a good thing for people to do. It's not exaggerating at all to me. A lot of people will see this ad spot, and each one is going to form some idea about what it means. That's a lot of power to give Apple.
I've never really worked with parquet or column based systems but just searching for parquet index shows https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/PageInd... which describes exactly what I would expect. Maybe it doesn't work well, I don't know- I typically work with structured bundles of data, rather than purely row or column formats (I have a patent on using bundled streams for this purpose).
Does GNU Jami work in the middle-east where most voip are banned, and only middle-eastern intelligence agency run apps like BotIM are allowed?
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313171
I wouldn't use "cloudflare" as a selling point. People that have used cloudflare know how good the engineering work they do actually is.
my comparison was just based on the size of the data set, not the brain or whatever. I thought about it in the sense that: if we'd ever had to map a complete brain, that would be the size required to store everything.

I have no idea how the brain actually encodes information :-)
I'm assuming IB = investment banking, PE = private equity, VC = venture capital, and PM = public market. To be clear, I did not work for a private equity firm itself (I do not posses the psychopathic ambition required to do so), but for a company that ended up owned by a firm; that was the terrible experience.
That is really awesome to hear. Thank you for such a nice message!

+1 –– when I worked at Cloudflare, the support team had to teach all of us how to export HAR files from our browsers for engineers. It's definitely a mountain to climb to get good bug reporting working internally.
> the miracle of exponential growth means that within 2-3 centuries, they could be the majority of the US population

It's so unhelpful to speculate about what the world will be like 100 years from now.

Think about what things were like in the 1920's and how unrecognizable the world is by comparison. Then, consider that technology is being developed significantly more quickly than it was in the 1920's.
Hopefully peak plastic pollution, anyways. Plastic is a very useful substance, the issues are that it is made from fossil fuel and that its pollution is significant. If we capture carbon and then use that carbon as a feedstock to create plastic in a form that won't end up as a pollution (aka not plastic bottles or synthetic fleece) we can turn it into a positive.
Asahi Linux, obviously
PBS Space Time: What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?https://youtu.be/469chceiiUQ

There are very few atoms that allow for the complex scaffolding for shapes. Many atoms are too large (and thus bond too weakly). Silicon is interesting, but it has some difficulties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon–oxygen_bond

> Silicon–oxygen single bonds are longer (1.6 vs 1.4 Å) but stronger (452 vs. about 360 kJ mol−1) than carbon–oxygen single bonds.

It is much easier to lock up oxygen and silicon in SiO than in CO compounds and in turn makes them less available for more complex structures of life.
For us regular US employees it was 6 days a week 12 hours per day. If you were more than 90 seconds late clocking in you were written up. 3 write ups and you're gone. 30 minute unpaid lunch break, but you weren't allowed to leave the site. To be honest, the strict stuff like that wasn't applicable to me because I was the only one there who could run the 5 axis CNC machines and edit the code. Everyone else was disposable.

One of the most memorable examples of not being treated like a human was when a coworker of mine wished to take one hour off in order to see his daughter graduate from high school. He had 4 kids at one time. But he lost one to cancer and two others to gang violence. He put in a time off request more than 5 months in advance so he could see his only remaining child graduate.

They denied his request. On the day of the graduation he clocked out and went to the graduation. He was gone maybe 35 minutes total. He saw his daughter walk across the stage and then he returned to work. They were waiting for him at the time clock and fired him.

When it comes to the interns, I saw a lot of yelling, grabbing by the arms while admonishing, and making them work without meals. All of the full time Korean employees had their lunch catered every day. The interns weren't allowed to eat with the full time employees and they weren't allowed to take any kind of meal breaks at all as for as I know.

I'm sure there was much more that went on behind closed doors, but seeing grown men grab 19 year old girls by their arms and shake them while yelling at them was pretty enlightening.
Was this worth developing?

We already have infinite popover js/css libraries so this doesn't solve any unsolved problem. I suspect this will be like select, where you almost always want some functionality or styling that can't be done natively so you reach for a custom solution or use some existing library.

Maybe if I start a new app this is OK as a stopgap until I need more functionality (which always happens), but in my existing app I'm just using the already existing popover library for consistency
Two questions that immediately jump at me are:

1. What is random? They seem to have run numerical experiments, which suggests they used (something equivalent to) uniform integer coefficients from a bounded set. And that could affect findings a lot!

2. Did they look at odd degrees (which always guarantees a real root), even or both?

Not trying to knock this fun post.
There’s a fire, and a piano is burned- that's okay as telling the story demands it in a movie. (I also believe that some among them would burn a fake piano rather than a real one. I may be wrong here.)

But stating that all those beautiful things "deserve" to be replaced by a thin silicon 3k USD machine by literally destroying them in an industrial crusher?

That's different.

The same Apple destroyed the Big Brother some decades ago in a commercial. The sense of irony!

(Also, a car is a car. The world doesn't share Americans' obsession and weird relationships with cars. A photographer's camera, a musician's guitar are more important.)
I like that idea a lot, we should do that
How much less energy does a query against an 8B model take, vs a 70B model? Can we get more clever about using smaller, more specialized models?
People swear hoas but this is exactly the kind of issue an hoa is well equipped to deal with. I also haven’t seen newly formed apartments hoa that allows short term rentals at this point so airbnb is slowly killing its golden goose here
An indie Japanese-Vietnamese movie recently came out called "Along the Sea" giving a slice of life view of this [0]

I recommend watching it sometime.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qU2xaRBeFiU&embeds_referring_e...
Yeaaaaah, that is a weird license, and if I needed non-free software for anything, I'd go with Mathematica. Happy to play with it once it's open source and the maintainer has given up on trying to sell it.

I learned about Monte Carlo integration when looking through the codebase, though, so that was cool!
iOS 6 was peak user interface, especially for non-computer-geeks. It was brilliant. It’s been downhill ever since.
Brew install superfile

Now guess what the executable is called…
There's a lot of salesy talk on the Github page and like zero examples of real world use and/or how it compares functionally to git.

>Branch-level control of reference types

Please. Do not encourage this. This is just begging to become a mess, especially in B2B .NET/Java shops that like to over complicate things.

>Grace Server is designed to run on fast, cloud-based PaaS services for incredible scale and performance. Grace uses virtual actors as networked, in-memory data caches to maximize performance.

What? Why?

>Grace uses SignalR to create a live, two-way communication channel between client and server.

Oh god NO. SignalR is a pain in the ass to manage.

>When your parent branch gets updated, within seconds, grace watch will auto-rebase your branch on those changes, so you're always coding against the latest version that you'll have to promote to.When there is a problem, auto-rebase lets you find out right away. You can fix it while you're in flow, and skip the conflict later.

This sounds nice. How does it handle merge conflicts? Where is an example here? Does it store the results of that merge resolution in case another update was pushed to the remote during that time?
Very similar experience, it was cool seeing & hearing a whale up close, but man that must be annoying for the whale.
The real problem is the amount of Ram they include in the processors, Apple's insistence on keeping 8gb as the base is going to hold them back here.
I posted this link too.

"entire IP block that my email server VM lives on."

Try emailing an email from t-online.de good luck!

https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/rejected-by-german-isp/...
Are you worried enough to not fly?
RQ never publishes a real protocol for sending and receiving jobs. Also the `data` field could be anything because it's pickled so you could send a whole Python's object there.

See [1] for efforts to make RQ cross language compatible

[1] https://github.com/rq/rq/issues/1808
There are few things more dangerous to a software engineering project than the lead engineer(s) being a bit too much in love with their own abilities.
They are just recording the raw imaging data to enable that type of analysis, which is hard enough.

I imagine it must be quite complex to interpret the biological structure as a logical network, tissues are messy and there are many types of neurons and communication modes. I'm not sure if it's even possible to infer how electric signals will propagate just from a static picture, however detailed it is, do we know how each specific neuron and synapse will behave? We have a general mathematical model, but do we know how the morphology of each element affects its behaviour?

This is probably is a whole other massive research project after this.
I had a similar idea few months ago....didn't know so many people have the very same idea :)

Can you guys share a few examples so I can see how mail results look like?
By PM I meant Product Management. A lot of PMs with MBAs are burned out IB Analysts who did the MBA to escape the grind.

> for a company that ended up owned by a firm; that was the terrible experience.

That's a bit different. Depending on the type of PE, it may have been a PE of last resort.

You only sell to Thoma Bravo if your company is an absolute dumpster fire and has no roadmap forward, so it needs drastic restructuring.

Sucks for line level ICs ofc.
I see your point, but it hasn't really stopped novel features from coming to PC in the past. The PC market is about 50% larger than the console market too.
I concur. Apple really needs to get back to their roots and come out with a bugfixed macOS release without all the extra gunk. Perhaps even make it an LTS release as a last hurrah for Intel Macs.
I would have preferred the reverse of crushing our tools into something. I would have preferred pulling them out of the iPad to create. As a d&d fan, I could imagine a bard with a black hole pulling instruments and creative tools out in order to render magic.

I felt like I was watching the end of Terminator 1 when watching that iPad commercial.
I agree. My argument is that if your calories from food equal your energy expenditure over a given time period, and then you eat a single celery stalk, then the energy from the celery will "fatten" you (and/or contribute to muscle protein synthesis if you exercise). Conversely, if you ate nothing but cookies, but the total energy of those cookies was below what your body expended, then your body will necessarily make up for it by dipping into your fat reserves. Hence why labelling foods as "fattening" or "not fattening" is inaccurate.
Seems to me like “basically” is doing a lot of work, that leaves behind what.. a few billion planets?