skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The level of detail in the knowledge of the process is astounding. Having never studied anything like this, at every stage I kept thinking: how do we know all of this?
I got to try this thing out a few weeks ago! I've spent a lot of time in VR, and I've driven karts before, so I thought I had an idea of what it would be like when you put the two together. I did not, it blew my mind. Having the correct physical forces coupled with VR was incredibly immersive. I chatted with Greg about future ideas as well, and a drive-by-wire kart with VR opens some really mind bending possibilities that I'm so stoked to get to try as this develops. MARIO KART DRIFTING IRL, HERE I COME.
Do we actually want this, truely? If the species goes long enough in such sterile environs, free from voracious infection and without the constant assault upon the immune system, wouldn't the ultimate end result be far more disastrous? If removed from our protective civilization bubble or should a disease come along that can penetrate it, couldn't this be far more devastating to a population? Isn't a constant assault from the maximum amount of weakened and lesser disease of paramount importance to a robust and healthy immune response?
Back in 2003 I bought my first Mac, an PowerBook 12" which I love(d). Nobody else I knew had a Mac, only a professor at my university.

A few month later Apple released Mac OS X 10.3 „Panther“, to be sold still on DVDs in shrink-wrapped boxes. There was only one, small, store in my city which sold Apple stuff. Not an Apple Store, those are still very rare in Germany, but a chain local to Germany (which went out of business this year). For the release of Panther they made an evening party, for enthusiasts.

My city has a population of 0.5 million but it is part of a metropolitan region of 5 million people. That local shop would have been the shop for at least half of the region.

Including me there were less than 20 enthusiasts there that evening. You felt like a part of an obscure BDSM cult or something.

Apple in public opinion then was mostly inexistent in Germany. Partly because of the marketing incompetence of the Apple D-A-CH local organization, but also because Apple then had the image of a computer only for graphic designers with no practical usage for other computing and seen as hugely overpriced. Germany was and still is rather cheap in regard to computers. A big tech store chain at the time was using the slogan “Geiz ist geil” (“Parsimony is sexy”).
One of my "favorite" macos interface decisions - having the Refresh and Settings menu options at the bottom of the Wifi dropdown list - so it's a constantly moving target as you're waiting for a certain network to be seen, or if it automatically refreshes as you're going for the Settings option...
> He recognized patterns in minutes that would take me days, if not weeks, to recognize... he actually writes and runs code, overnight if need be

70-80 years of actually being hands-on and i bet you'd be pretty quick too. dude is definitely naturally "gifted" but it seems pretty obvious being hands-on has a lot to do with it.
> This was college, not kindergarten

Were you under the impression it's kindergarteners who are committing suicide?
Just work on them anyway, save the code, and follow the ticket. Once it's in the sprint, copy+paste and commit.
Federation implies delegation from a central authority, which makes Mastodon and ActivityPub more “confederated” than anything. Inasmuch that MX records stem from the root servers, email is federated that way, but otherwise it’s decentralized, with every MTA being its own authority. The line is fuzzy.
PostgreSQL database anonymization tool release. Greenmask v0.2.0b1
I feel like this is a trivial conclusion. Keeping the rank low in the optimization is a common regularization technique.
Highway 1 to Big Sur Has Reopened
What are you using for a data source? Just web scraping?
Show HN: LLM-powered News Hub, e.g "Games, science or open source" on HN
We created LightFeed to transform any websites into lightweight and focused news feed. Use LLM to sort and summarize posts using user's custom prompt. For example, you can get anything related to "Games, science or open source" on HN.

The news feed is automated daily and you can receive it in browser, email or RSS.

We will also open source the LLM web parser/sort library soon o (https://github.com/lightfeed/lightfeed). It reads HTML, turns main content into markdown, uses LLM to parse it into structured feed in JSON, then sort with embedding on user query. It is written in Typescript, uses llama index framework, and supports most LLMs on the market.

We are also shaping an enterprise plan that comes with 1000+ news sources already indexed and a real-time LLM query engine.

Any feedback is welcome!
> Just because you've sold people drinks doesn't mean you understand why people buy them. I think you probably don't given you think this weird gel stuff could ever be popular.

A) Saying that as a decades-long professional in this business that I don't understand people's motivation for purchasing the product is pretty ridiculous. It's not like I was a distiller-- understanding why, when, where and how people consumed alcohol was why I was successful in that business. Beyond that, monitoring peoples alcohol consumption is a critical part of the job.

B) As I said, I spent over a decade as a 4-5 night per week regular in bars.

C) As a bouncer, I specifically engaged with the way people use alcohol and interact in situations not just selling it to them.

I deeply understand what goes on on both sides of the bar. It was my profession and hobby.

> An alcoholic drink without alcohol is just juice, the fact that there is no demand for juice at bars suggests that there would also be little demand for non-alcoholic drinks.

> Alcohol-free cocktails exist. They are called "mocktails" and are very popular if I understand correctly.

I think we're just about done here. Have a nice day.
> I was taught that a deeper understanding leads to better software/solutions

aside from being fun, it just makes everything so much easier when it's not "magic"
Caltech had other institute rules:

1. Calculating intermediate results and carrying them forward was an automatic F. (This was because accumulating roundoff errors was a big no-no, and often if you worked through the algebra a lot of the terms that contributed to errors would cancel out.)

2. Coming up with absurd answers got you not just an F, but negative credit. Caltech expected students to know what was reasonable. Negative energy was not reasonable. If you produced such an answer, you'd need to annotate it with "I know this answer is absurdly wrong, but I cannot find my mistake" and then you'd get partial credit for how far you'd gotten in the derivation.

Caltech was training engineers and scientists, where such mistakes can have disastrous consequences.
Depends upon why the code doesn't compile. It is a red flag, and if the student really didn't test it or try to compile it at all that would be a major problem. But even being able to compile code isn't must do in the business world. For example, just today I was fixing a CI/CD pipeline issue where local builds worked fine but the pipeline didn't. I don't think whomever caused the underlying root issue deserves to get fired for that.

There are obviously mistakes that go too far, but these generally involve an element of malicious intent. If a junior takes down prod, that's probably a sign that some security settings are missing. Only if they knew they were taking down prod, knew they shouldn't, and did it anyway should something like firing be on the table.
That doesn't follow at all. If you reduce investment then you reduce production. The price only goes down if the cost of creating more of them goes down, unless you can remove so much of the demand that you no longer need to add more supply. The small percentage of single-family homes owned by corporations isn't that.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40332094.
Raw pointers "are" a type too. It's just that there isn't really syntax to describe the type, at least in the original declaration syntax.

Note that structs and typedefs that you define are proper type names, you can switch out "int" for them. You can easily "typedef int *intPtr;" and then merrily go "intPtr myptr".

(I think cast type-specs might be a bit of an exception here were the rule breaks a bit -- because they don't "use" a name in the cast "expression". I don't intimately understand how those work. The whole thing is an idea that was stretched to the limits, especially with C++ where consistency has pretty much been given up).
Yeah, I'm just saying that maybe Thunderbird should create their own package to ensure 100% is as they want it.

Ports only gives myself a selection chosen by the packager, for example Chromium package does not have PulseAudio enabled. I had to recompile it myself to enable Pulse.
Precisely. All actual communication (family, friends, etc) has moved to text, facebook messenger, etc, in large part because of how crappy email is/has gotten.
Seems very arrogant at the end to say humanity is waiting on you. It’s not like Covid—19 where the population was literally looking to scientist/gov for an active solution. AGI is something a select set of computer nerds want, but the public isn’t clamoring for. In fact the entire idea of safety/alignment/cultural shift shows the potential downside on society if it actually were achieved.

Meanwhile deepmind with alpha fold etc is showing AI can help with pressing problems of humanity without AGI as the necessary first step.
The idol dancing example from is clearly from "Oshi no Ko", and the Nyarlahotep example is clearly from "Haiyore! Nyaruko-san". They seemed to have adopted an "ask for forgiveness" instead of "ask for permission" approach with respect to copyrights, and I don't think that's the right way to go.
Interesting... Twitter started working again for me as soon as I created a new container for it. I didn't have to add an exception.

I have Firefox's "Enhanced Tracking Protection" set to "Custom", with all boxes checked. And I'm running uBlock Origin.
the 2012 DA is so comfy.

oh well, it's not 2012 anymore, let the past die.
lucky! i took it 11 years ago.

would love to revisit the material, especially in this new era of specialized processing units and UMA.
Was it the form about various anti-spam solutions to fill out?
Feels like a heist movie. Breaking into the cell and hijacking it's machinery to make more of itself.
He didn't recall it correctly? Why didn't he asked Siri on his cell connected iPad?
This is about estimation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40394015
Yes they absolutely exist. I used to work with a bunch of them, and it was unreal. They would actually get angry when I mentioned that my Macbook Pro with Apple monitor (so all Apple hardware and software) would leave my laptop screen completely off after unplugging from the external monitor about 50% of the time. I had to hold the power button to hard reboot it in order to get the laptop screen back on. That bug was there for at least 9 months. It usually went in the same logically progression. First, denial (no way), then dismissal and blaming the user("works for me, you must be doing something wrong"), then acceptance but always with a comment like "it's worse on Windows" or similar.

My MBP before that had a weird bug where if the screen was completely off (which I routinely did at night so I could listen to a podcast while falling asleep), after right around 5 minutes it would suddenly blast the screen at full brightness, which lit up the room and shocked me back awake. I ended up "fixing" the bug by cutting out a piece of tin foil and taping it to the screen. Absolutely maddening when you're paying a premium for stuff that "just works" and the company (tightly) controls the entire stack to "ensure the quality user experience." After that point I finally had enough and just bought a Lenovo laptop and had a much better experience with Linux on it.

I think Apple makes some great hardware, and I wish it was more open/hacker friendly, but damn Apple is absolutely a religion to some people, and they don't take criticism well.

Now that said, I do think the vast majority of Apple customers are just like you. The super fans are just a very loud minority. Some Linux communities have the same problem where a small number of very loud assholes can overwhelm the average voice.
These aren't real stock, they are "profit participation units" or PPUs; in addition, the fact that there is a NDA and a NDA about the NDA, means no one can warn you before you sign your employment papers about the implications of 'PPUs' and the tender-offer restriction and the future NDA. So it's possible that there's some loophole or simple omission somewhere which enables this, which would never work for regular RSUs or stock options, which no one is allowed to warn you about on pain of their PPUs being clawed back, and which you find out about only when you leave (and who would want to leave a rocketship like OA?).
"Self-hosted email is not very popular in part because of the complexity of the current email system, so between Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Zoho, GoDaddy, Gandhi, Wix, Squarespace, MailChimp, SparkPost, and SendGrid – you have most of the email market covered for the US; anyone not in the above list would quickly fold."

In my opinion the last thing the world needs is a system that is so complex that only a few people can implement it. I would go farther and take the position that any email system that cannot be self-hosted is not worth the effort.

I am much more interested in a conglomeration of selfhosters.
Congrats on the HVM2 launch! Been following for a while, excited to see where this project goes. For others who are lost on the interaction net stuff, there was a neat show hn that gave a more hands-on interactive intro: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37406742 (the 'Get Started' writeup was really helpful)
reddit is lame too. it's facebook for millennials.

facebook: boomers posting cringe rightwing/normie (back in my day we worked hard!) stuff with occasional wholesome bits

reddit: millennials posting cringe leftwing/normie stuff (my dog might be gay, am i the asshole? btw i like ukraine) with occasional wholesome animal photos
The subset is very important, it is the subset of unique elements.
Vitalik Buterin says a lot of things.
I raise you the Gemini paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11805
I thought to check the creation timestamps on the images, to see if I could bruteforce the RNG seed (which is just time(NULL)) and recreate the parameters. But the images currently shown on that page weren't created by the linked gen.c program; that only produces black-and-white images, as you can see in older versions of the page [0]. The current JPEGs were exported from Photoshop CS6 on January 23, 2019, according to their metadata. Presumably, the high-resolution curves came from some unpublished program, so one would presumably have to email Bourke to see if he still has it.

(Though if you do still want to mess with gen.c, I'd note that the bitmaplib.c and paulslib.c dependencies can be found in S2PLOT [1].)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180812154751/http://paulbourke...

[1] https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/s2plot/index.php?title=S2PLOT:...
Oh yeah that’s not ideal, that should be a replace! Thanks for pointing this out.
>If the actual majority wanted

Well, no offence, but you idea of how society works is not particulatly correct. Both individuals, and institutions have to prioritize thousands of issues against limited resources. Because of that majority opinions doesn't necessary become policies. Only those urgent/emotional/tribal enough to become election fuel. Apparently, graffiti cannot compete with plenty of pains citizens experience now.

>A lot of cities even give space to graffiti

Try researching where it came from, and you'll see it's an attempt to civilize behavior cities found impossible to control.

So reality is that graffitists are active, and numerous to extent it's hard to fought them off the walls so to say, and while majority doesn't like it, it's not ready to re-allocate resources from other issues. This leads to equilibrium we are in at the time.

>plenty of gray boring

It makes a good excuse in the internet discussion, but it doesn't correspond to street reality. I'm in a nice medieval quarter now, and see lots of graffity across buildings which neither gray, nor boring. It is as if people who do that don't care about beauty, other humans, and all those good things usually claimed to legitimize the phenomenon
Unironically require gov id to send email?
> - different, more strict message structure and format replacing headers and parts (maybe some less verbose equivalent of XML)

Hard agree on that. Differences in header implementation is such a wide-spread problem with any kind of message forwarding program design, whether it's reverse HTTP proxies or chains of email middleware.

> - signature as a separate part of the message that is never quoted (and more standard way to identify and attribute quotations in the text)

I think this will inevitably lead to people accidentally mailing each other information they never intended to forward. I do agree that quotes and replies need better standardisation, but I don't think this is the solution.

> - legal information as a separate part of the message (imprint, privacy policy, confidentiality and copyright notices etc)

I can't say I see the need for this. Just a few links at the bottom are enough.

> - privacy controls as part of the message (unsubscribe, GDPR disclosure/removal etc)

There's already a standard unsubscribe header (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2369.txt has List-Unsubscribe, for instance). In my experience, it's only used by companies that have visible and simple opt-out links.

In a new protocol, the remote side will probably just ignore the unsubscribe request.

> - replace HTML with Unicode-based formatting that is equivalent of Markdown subset and is email-specific, to avoid any attempts to reuse renderers built for other purposes

This would prevent any company doing marketing from using this standard. That also means sign-ups won't be supported, which will work against any adoption.

People who want this can use text/plain in email already. You can even read most HTML email by telling your email client to view text/plain instead of text/html.
This caught out the current Show HN poster, so I imagine the comment could be useful to future Show HN posters.

Besides, the comment wasn't unkind to the present poster and is actually kind to future posters, so the admonishment and down-votes seem unwarranted.
No other Final Fantasy has come near the cultural impact as FF7 which is why they will never stop milking it.
That's where this company should end up in any fair world, given all the evidence pointing to intentional misconduct and structural governance issues as a cause for multiple fatal crashes and other serious incidents. Snark aside, this may just be a case of Boeing's numbers being distorted by its business model and airlines paying only on delivery of airplanes (which has been seriously cut back due to regulators imposing production stops and caps as a result of all its issues for years now), but Boeing having to pay their vendors upon receipt of parts.

Besides, anything aviation is a financial accounting shenanigans party. Many airlines, for example, are "loss leaders" - the money actually comes from their "reward programs" and credit cards [1], a practice that's been going on for decades now [2].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-b...

[2] https://airlinegeeks.com/2021/12/17/here-s-why-airline-loyal...
I love it. Thanks!
This would certainly raise awareness, but how exactly would it protect against deepfakes?
> Right below install instructions

Yeah exactly. I read most of the readme and watched the demo, but I'm not interested in installing it so I missed this. I would recommend moving this to the first section in its own paragraph.

I understand you might not want to focus on this but it's important information and not a bad thing at all.
One issue that’s come up a few times for me the challenge of developing a clear separation of test and training data which winds up being specific to the problem.

For instance I downloaded the articles from HN and trained models to predict, based on the title: (a) >10 votes, (b) comments/votes > 0.5, (c) is it dead?

Early on I got test-train splits based on hashing the id. For (a) I got a AUC-ROC (see https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/model_evaluation.htm...) around 0.62 or so, (b) got 0.73 or so, and (c) got around 0.98 which is shockingly good.

Turns out it was too good to be true: you never see it if you don’t have showdead on but HN get spammed repeatedly with the same spam headlines over and over that end up [dead] right away. The same headline thus ends up in both the train and test set which makes too easy for the algorithm. The same phenomenon also affected my other scores but didn’t make them completely unrepresentative of the performance the way it was for (c).

If I ever go back to try to improve those models I expect to make “stacked” models that need training and test data for submodels, more data for a model that aggregates the submodels, and eval data at the end so even more thinking will go into sampling.

I see other people run into problems like this too.
Friend, but anime was never about quality of animation. In fact, it was a prime example how to cut corners to get to animations. That was always the case. It doesn't reflect on the quality of character designs, environments, storytelling, camera action, directing, etc. Motion was not one of them; Never was. Anime is the first place I'd expect to see new ground breaking, just like it was with all the tools from 90's onwards (Toonz, anyone?).
UTM has been in App Store review for a month
> Is this mostly an anthropomorphization of the events

Yes.

Basically everything is bumping around until the desired reaction or configuration is obtained. The irrelevant proteins are generally not shown.

The length scales involved are extremely short so the chaotic soup works itself into configuration shockingly quickly.

There are also membranes, vesicles, and organelles (e.g. Golgi) that partition, package, and redistribute proteins so that they tend to be more concentrated where required.
This looks like the language I've wanted for a long time. I'm excited to see how this plays out.
Yeah but this quickly breaks down -- it's not how it "really works". What about arrays for example?

int* x[200];

You can fight all you want, but C doesn't have type syntax. What you're looking at is expression syntax.
What does porn have to do with drug use and gore?
ah i don't know. A 2023 (~cheap) car reverse camera for a videorecorder with (looking like) usb protocol on the wire between, does not work if cable is more than 5m. Or if it is another 5m cable (utp, ftp, 4x1mm, combination, whatever. Only that initial one). Period.
144hz track/ground pass thru with an overlay if you need it purple or something
We have a replacement for CUDA, it is called C++17 parallel algorithms. It has vendor support for running on the GPU by Intel, AMD and NVIDIA and will also run on all your cores on the CPU. It uses the GPU vendors compiler to convert your C++ to something that can natively run on the GPU. With unified memory support, it becomes very fast to run computations on heap allocated memory using the GPU, but implementations also support non-unified memory

Vendor support:

- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/g...

- https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/software-tools-optimization/hipst...

- https://docs.nvidia.com/hpc-sdk/archive/20.7/pdf/hpc207c++_p...