skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be a radar or IRST-style [0] system, both are used for that kind of thing. I imagine there might be some design complications with something like IRST to the extent they have to keep laser reflections from hitting the imager.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_search_and_track
I spent less than one minute googling, and came up with this [0] on my first try:

> I am quite clear, however, having spent more than quarter of a century walking the walk across many of the most intriguing ancient archaeological sites on earth, and digging into ancient texts and traditions from all around the world, that NO ancient archaeological site and NO ancient text or tradition that I have yet come across provides persuasive evidence for the “ancient astronaut hypothesis”.

> ... My own view is that all of the anomalies of history and prehistory pointed to by advocates of the ancient astronaut hypothesis are far better and more elegantly explained as emanating from a lost, advanced HUMAN civilization of prehistoric antiquity than from high-tech alien visitors from another planet.

So, you just made that up, even though he expressly says the opposite on his own website. Why would you do that?

0 -https://grahamhancock.com/ancient-aliens-or-a-lost-civilizat...
Discord is not a better option than Slack. They are basically the same thing. Matrix is a better option from a privacy standpoint, just not from a UX one.
Real change requires legislation.
This comment discusses only centralized services. Decentralized services run on protocols such that no one service provider or software project can dictate the experience for all users.

ActivityPub, used by Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, and Pixelfed among others is an example of such a protocol. BlueSky's ATProto is another, though it's in an earlier stage without mature third-party implementations and service providers. Email, too is decentralized, though it may serve as a cautionary tale; spam, attempts to block spam, and feature stagnation have all degraded the user experience considerably.
Yeah, that'd be a really nice thing to have! My current (and naive) approach is to just limit to the last 3 years of data. That said, it should be easy to add a date filter as a first step, and potentially have a more ingenious approach for letting the LLM reconcile contradictory statements based on the time at which they were posted.
I agree, and take it a little further. 10 engineers couldn't agree on the _point_ of quality code to begin with, let alone define how to get there. Consider two programs:

1. The spaghetti mess, half-done abstractions, inconsistent uses of anything everwhere. But accomplishes the users expectations perfectly
2. A beautiful codebase, clean abstractions, tests and documentation everywhere. But the user hates it. It's slow, requires some domain knowledge of how to drive and get result.

Two very contrived examples, but not unrealistic examples.

Intuitively, better cabinet quality leads to a better cabinet experience. Does better code quality lead to a better product? It should, that's what quality is about. And if not, is "quality" even the right word?

Whenever I hear an engineer talk about quality, I clarify. What kinda of quality are we talking about?
If you look at the data, I don't think structural and framing material has much if anything to do with fire deaths. Japan also has a high proportion of wooden framing, for single family homes about the same as the U.S. This is less so for multi-story, but if you look at the numbers the fire death rate in Japan is nearly identical between single-family and multi-story dwellings. Fire death rates in Europe, even Western Europe, vary significantly across countries even with similar building practices. In the US fire death rates have dropped precipitously in the past quarter century despite continued reliance on wooden construction.

What seems to matter are other factors, such as fire warning, fire suppression, and general fire safety knowledge. But also things like electrical systems, kitchen design, cooking methods, etc.
> We offer customers a choice around these practices

If you’re so customer-first, and make it so easy to opt out, just make it opt-in instead. Oh wait, you’re just a lying pathetic corpo
A difference in frequency is much less of an issue than a difference in voltage, I would have thought. Especially as 50 and 60Hz are fairly close to each other.

The only big problems I can think of are devices that use the frequency as a reference, such as motors and clocks. But even then, they wouldn’t break, they’d just run at the wrong speed.
Yes.

I am not against all formal methods. Pre and post conditions for loops etcetera. When they are useful they should be used (in many cases they are built in: `for i = k; i < l; i++` has a precondition, a loop condition, and an action all in one statement.)

It is the idea, that was very hot thirty or so years ago, that by using formal specifications and rules of inference we could eliminate bugs.
That's some great luck. 4 corners * 6+ cars between mine and parents * 200k each. Only advantage I guess could be that it's in California without rust or salt splashing everywhere.
They embraced AI slop and now their site is a wasteland, the best they can hope for now is that like NFTs before them AI art becomes a useful route for money laundering.

Its a shame to see what its become, the ascension of AI slop means a site like it will never be possible again unless there is some incredible filtering capabilities available.
> Because .NET is just a superior platform especially for back-ends.

Superior to what?
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Since that has nothing to do with what came previously, I'll be 100% uncharitable and assume that's a big old No and you support IDF bombing hospitals and schools and aid convoys unless you explicitly indicate otherwise. Glad we had this little chat.
I kind of can't believe a 2020 Biden voter would prefer a 2024 Trump presidency.
So, this has happened multiple times. Its best case.example.is.eugenics, where "intellectuals" believe.they can degermine what.the best traits are.in a.complex system and prune sociery to achieve some perfect outcomr.

The peoblrm, of course, is the sysyrm is complex, filled with hidden variables.and humans will tend to focus entirrly on phenotypes which are the easiest to observe.

Thesr modrls will do the same humanbbiased selection and grabitateb to a substatially vapid mean.
> It might be able to defeat something “Hamas grade” or a Mavic with an RPG taped to it

That alone would be a major capability for a layered defense system. Cleaning up decoys would be another one (not necessarily getting those down, IDing them due to reflectivity is almost as good).
> These aren't built in a city, where most people will be staring at them

No, we reserve our cities for these lovelies [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/nyregion/nyc-5g-towers.ht...
My brother and a cousin both worked at different rental car companies, and I can assure you - they are not well maintained. My cousin worked at Enterprise, and he said they'd buy fleets of cars, run them until they had any failure, then sell them at auction. He was a mechanic, and I remember being gobsmacked when he said "the only fluid I ever put in a vehicle was windshield wiper fluid."

My brother has told me similar stories, though I can't recall specifics at the moment. Most were similar to my cousin's stories, the theme being "as mechanics, we didn't do anything except make sure there was air in tires and wiper fluid."

I think the companies they worked for probably knew what they were doing too. Most cars made within the last 20 years can go a hell of a long way without an oil change and still function (which isn't me saying that "function" means the same thing as "work well long term"). Rental car companies know when to sell them before they stop functioning.
There's a straightforward but costly way, tie it to something that costs money, over the long term. E.g. Utility bills, bank account statements, etc..., for x number of years.

And manually confirm with the companies at random.
musicbee is my favorite
It's weird when you consider how much money corporations waste on complete bs that they can't set aside a tiny amount to support the software they use.

So weird, it sounds like a conspiracy theory.
It is not. If I'm wrong, please quote the exact line in full.
Yeah, at least if the client is open source you could verify.
The pricing is still such that you can't routinely use a customized Gemini with your own long fixed pre-filled context + a variable short query. If the one-time compute cost of the caching could be effectively amortized over many queries, this pattern would replace many fine-tuning and RAG cases with something more predictable and controllable.

It's not as simple as that because the large cache needs to be loaded into GPU memory every time, but optimizations must be feasible if the usage rate is large enough to keep the cache alive in a dedicated machine.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40034972#40036309
Signed by both Russia and the US, FWIW.
Cats rarely kill large raptors.
Well,of course the one giving the prompts, not different from when your boss takes all the credit for a series of prompts that created a solution you wrote.
Thunderbolt-net on Linux will set up a link local ipv6 connection automatically. There's dozens of not hundreds of filesharing options that'll just work from there. Samba being advertised by avahi or systemd.dns-sd will be immediately visible. LocalDrop will work instantly. File Sharing is super solved, albeit not via generally with "slick" drag and drop (Samsung notably has a suite of proprietary protocols which also geant drag and drop across devices too.)

What's actually interesting is literally everything other than networking (already in thunderbolt) and filesharing (good options abound). I'm far more interested in the entire rest of the capabilities than I am the easy already done one:
> Install it on two Thunderbolt . . . computers, connect them . . ., and you should be able to share your mouse, keyboard, screens, storage, and other USB peripherals;

That's cool and worth doing and new. That starts to blur the boundaries of what a conventional computer is, draws outside the box of the typical system design. It sounds like an applicationized usb-ip. It sounds like shit MediaTek was trying to make protocols for 9 years ago, CrossMount, https://www.eetimes.com/why-mediatek-pushes-cross-device-sha...
They are called scissor stairs and it's very common here in newer buildings in NYC as well. Though I believe it's only permitted in buildings 12 stories are less? It always seemed very space efficient -- separated by concrete fireproof walls and taking up the same vertical space.
They know, as well, that opt-in simply wouldn’t give them the scale they’d need for meaningful training data. They’re being very intentionally self interested and unconcerned with their customers best interests.
For most people, housing costing more means spending years more of your life working. Is a tiny risk reduction worth that? It wouldn’t be for me. The risk of additional years of commuting is probably higher.
I just got here from the “DoJ moves to legalize weed” comment section, and I have the same thing to say: I don’t care why people do a good thing, I’m uncomplicatedly happy it happened.
Wouldn't the lenders be pissed you essentially gave away one of the valuable assets they could have sold off to someone else?
The problem is, it's really really hard to guarantee that.

Yes if they only train say, classifiers, then the only thing that can leak is the classification outcome. But these things can be super subtle. Even a classifier could leak things if you can hack the context fed into it. They are really playing with fire here.
This is basically an artificial concern. Waste from fossil fuel is massively more huge in scale - in my country we dump 12 million tonnes of toxic coal fly ash per year [1]. Wind turbine blades will never be anywhere near that order or magnitude… And that’s just the solid stuff you can see, not counting anything (like fine particulate matter, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, etc.) put straight into the air burning coal, gas and oil…

1. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-10/coal-ash-has-become-o...
That cheating is often going to be unrelated to happiness is news to no one who has been witness to infidelity as an uninvolved third party.

I'd venture that many people cheat because they will always be oriented to want to cheat. People who are not oriented in this manner tend to look for more complicated explanations. As they tend to project their differing mind onto the subject, and its requirement for a more complex rationale.
The very next sentence is:

> Christina Marie Chapman, 49, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, raised $6.8 million in the scheme, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday. Chapman allegedly funneled the money to North Korea’s Munitions Industry Department, which is involved in key aspects of North Korea’s weapons program, including its development of ballistic missiles.

The indictment is linked right there if you want to read it.
> There are many other variables like power sources (nuclear power for example)

The problem is that there aren't. You might be a wind NIMBY and nuclear YIMBY, but guess what, there's millions of nuclear NIMBYs ready to oppose whatever vision you personally hold.

The end result is permanent gridlock all in the name of preserving the subjective aesthetic preferences of a tiny handful of people. You can't run a society like this, you just can't.

At some point the urgent global concerns need to override sufficiently frivolous local concerns.
A bit of personal realization about popular music here in Colombia was some months ago where a mexican 'norteño' music was being interviewed at a local TV news program, and their singer said something like they were aware colombians pay way too much attention to lyrics (apparently even more than them in Mexico).

Mind you, I'm a music person - never paid much attention to the meaning of lyrics nor sang along, but rather, as some of you already commented, listened to them as another instrument - but it was just when realized how almost all, if not all popular music in here, is made towards the goal of _saying_ something - it's the music that seems to be built around the lyrics and not the other way round. Maybe that could explain how most the music in local popular genres have really simple, repeating structures (_reguetón_/_"urbano"_, _ranchera_, _popular_, _vallenato_) and the dominating figures are solo singers rather than bands.

Of course I'd bet there are more lyrics people than music people in the world, but it struck me that here it's getting to the point that music and lyrics aren't getting hand to hand, but music is just a mere veiled background to lyrics.
I think it’s easy to overestimate how thinly skinned most people really are because an exceptional complaint (that’s not easily dismissible) commands attention. (This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, insofar as it’s indicative of sympathy and sensitivity.)
Just checked my ~12 year old account because I had been worried about just that, instead of deleting posts i edited them with lorem ipsum. I noticed on logging in that two of my posts above 400 karma and two submissions were both changed back to the original post - deleted the submissions and re-edited the posts; lets see how long it takes for reddit to revert them again...
This reminds me of a company called C3.ai which claims in its advertising to eliminate hallucations using any LLM. OpenAI, Mistral, and others at the forefront of this field can't manage this, but a wrapper can?? Hmm...
> which requires an extremely high temperature to melt

What do you think 4kW in a square centimeter generate? Spring air?

Also, beryllium would be an odd choice because all you get is energy soaked up by ablation. No reflection whatsoever. How thick would you like to make that beryllium coating?

If you assume one millimeter (which is a pretty chunky coating), you'd need about 1/10th of a second to ablate it.

As for spinning... you do spin around an axis. And that axis is likely aligned with the direction of travel, otherwise you have interesting dynamic properties.

Which means if you aim at the nose, you can spin all you want. It's not moving. If you miss the nose a bit, oh well, it'll take maybe 2 or 3 tenths of a second. Even if you're well into hypersonic speed range, that's not enough to get the missile on target.

And drones... well, drones just limber along at speeds that make any rotations just a waste of engineering resources. You have time to heat up the whole thing. And fry an egg on it.

Look, there are issues with DE weapons. But 50 years of research mean you're not discovering them from first principles while typing a HN comment.
Interesting but I wasn't entirely convinced that it's fake. There might be more to this story. Maybe the seller is the one who got scammed when they bought it 20 years ago.
I think it will be less of a replacement and more like a partnership, per se. It will be hard for OpenAI to challenge services like Gmail due to the network effect. Same with Microsoft 365: People are used to that ecosystem. The success of partnerships hinges on whether Microsoft and Google can develop their in-house models and integrate them into their core products. OpenAI's partnership with Apple was a successful example of this strategy.
Sadly, even Firefox is using opt-out these days. I feel we're going downhill with regards to privacy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355982

> What Firefox’s search data collection means for you

> We understand that any new data collection might spark some questions. Simply put, this new method only categorizes the websites that show up in your searches — not the specifics of what you’re personally looking up.

> Sensitive topics, like searching for particular health care services, are categorized only under broad terms like health or society. Your search activities are handled with the same level of confidentiality as all other data regardless of any local laws surrounding certain health services.

> Remember, you can always opt out of sending any technical or usage data to Firefox. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to adjust your settings. We also don’t collect category data when you use Private Browsing mode on Firefox.

> As far as user experience goes, you won’t see any visible changes in your browsing. Our new approach to data will just enable us to better refine our product features and offerings in ways that matter to you.
Hey! This leverages the official HN API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API), no scraping involved. I don't think it's my place to opine on "who owns the posts".
Which makes it an excellent candidate for being covered extensively on the I'm-not-saying-it's-aliens-but-it's-aliens History Channel.
"Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version," explains Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO of Winamp."

Which license will be used? "Opening up" is not exactly GPL.
I found the secret to C++ programming for Windows was using the C API.

It was a long time ago, but IIRC I was using Visual C++ (a very nice compiler that was the first to implement the STL as written) having abandoned Borland Foundation Classes (? name ?) which was dreadful. Woeful.

MFC, the MS C++ offering for writing Windows apps was impossible to use and undocumented at the time. We subscribed to those piles of CDs that MS would send out regularly and I could only find decent documentation for the C API, not the MFC one. Weird.

I used an explicit event loop (simple for a Computer Science graduate like I was) and the C API inside my C++ programme and it worked a treat

Those were (not) the days....
The text is very visually appealing, but it still cannot draw chess boards properly. We may need to wait for AGI for that one.
But that cost is not paid by the person creating the graffiti. The owner has a cost forced on them.

The aesthetic argument here is trying to validate a violent act. A lot of graffiti is beautiful, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay.
The license also says “unless otherwise required by applicable law”, and applicable law here in the US is the DMCA, which says that you can make copies for the purposes of playing the game on different hardware [1]… so long as you don’t need to circumvent copy protection in order to do so. Since the system doesn’t have copy protection, the law permits you to do this even if the license does not.

This is the odd thing about the DMCA… rights holders can prevent you from doing something in their license, but then the law can override that by allowing you to said thing… unless there is any sort of copy protection involved, in which case the law doesnt override the license.

- [1] Here I’m interpreting this as “format shifting”, which has largely been considered fair use by the courts. It’s the reason Apple got away with selling the iPod with CD ripping software and told customers to rip their CD collections… since CD’s didn’t have copy protection, the DMCA provisions didn’t apply, and thus it was not explicitly illegal to copy your CD’s to your iPod. And the prevailing view was that copying your own CD to your own other device was fair use so long as you didn’t sell the copy or anything. I would wager that the ROM situation on the NES/SNES classic is similar.
A transport protocol's view of Starlink
Regardless of whether the building is concrete or wood, it will have plastic: interior decorations, exterior cladding or siding, fittings, insulation, polymerized paint on the walls and ceilings, synthetic carpeting on the floor, furniture and personal property... You won't die from spreading flames, flames spread slowly; instead, you will very quickly die from toxic smoke from burning plastic. The toxic smoke which will spread equally well in a concrete or wooden apartment building.
Justin Frank used to hang out on IRC in #winprog or something, and I can remember when he was showing us how he made the UI skinnable. Asking for ideas and input etc.

This was back in 96-97?
Looking at those stats, only 11% fully oppose. The 57% is for recreation and medical, 32% for only medical. So it seems like your bending the truth for your argument, which doesn't surprise me since you're a lawyer.
In terms of performance GPT-4o doesn't seem like an improvement over GPT-4 (even worse in some cases afaiu)

And Google showcased the project astra thing, which seems like the equivalent.
LDAPjs Open Source Project Decommissioned After Maintainer Receives Abusive
Heh, I wish Justin had some time to lay his hands on it again after so many years. (On a second thought, I’m happier with him being busy with Reaper).
I solved this problem by contracting an artist to put a painting on the wall of my house. Sprayers are artists, they won't paint over it.
Opt-out and arbitration should both be illegal.
I bet Discord is already doing it.
I visited that amphitheater last year as part of the underground tour, really cool.

Might have read it at the Colosseum, but part of it were used by one of the noble houses to construct their Palazzo in Rome. Barberini if I remember correctly.
> For any model that will be used broadly across all of our customers, we do not build or train these models in such a way that they could learn, memorise, or be able to reproduce some part of Customer Data

This feels so full of subtle qualifiers and weasel words that it generates far more distrust than trust.

It only refers to models used "broadly across all" customers - so if it's (a) not used "broadly" or (b) only used for some subset of customers, the whole statement doesn't apply. Which actually sounds really bad because the logical implication is that data CAN leak outside those circumstances.

They need to reword this. Whoever wrote it is a liability.
winamp should release an LLM and claim that it really beats the Llamas....
What's the conspiracy? Why would a company support a Free software project if it didn't have to, out of the good of its heart?