skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm willing to bet that [Khanmigo] will be [free] in the future.

If anyone doubts this, just take a look at what Khan Academy currently offers for a fresh perspective. Make an account and click around (https://www.khanacademy.org/signup); it should be easy to see that a ton of effort went into making this and, as far as I can tell, they run purely on donations. I wouldn't be surprised if the current cost of operating Khanmigo is just being passed along by Khan Academy at no markup, or even a slight loss.
Show HN: B-field, a novel probabilistic key-value data structure (`rust-bfield`)
`rust-bfield` is a Rust implementation of our novel "B-field" data structure, which functions like a Bloom filter for key-value lookups instead of set membership queries.

The B-field allows you to compactly store data using only a few bytes per key-value pair. We've successfully utilized it in genomics to associate billions of "k-mers" with taxonomic identifiers while maintaining an efficient memory footprint. But the data structure is also useful beyond computational biology, particularly where you have large unique key domains and constrained value ranges.

Available under an Apache 2 license. We hope it proves useful, and we're happy to answer any questions!
>The original design supposedly had two screws, but was manufactured with one.

I'm sure many here heard the saying(especially when doing FMEA): One screw/bolt is
no screw/bolt. ;-)
That's a different company (Rabbit Inc), not Humane Inc
One more internet jerk to add to my "avoid and never buy anything from" list.
That's definitely a big part, but especially recently VFX teams really don't have the option to bring in real intent and passion. Scenes are often changing until a few months or even weeks before release, frequently with very tight deadlines, and after months of crunch. There's no way to deliver a good product under these conditions, just look at many of the recent Marvel movies.

Practical effects are much harder to change later on, so VFX built on top is also more likely to avoid this ever-changing crunch. But that's also why they are being avoided more and more - it increases cost of changes, and studios won't give up late-stage changes.
In AI We Trust
ILM Compositor Todd Vaziri talks a lot about stuff like this both on his blog [1] and on X [2]. One of his pet peeves is marketing campaigns claiming mostly practical effects when in fact the opposite is true.

[1]https://fxrant.blogspot.com/

[2]https://x.com/tvaziri
It seems reasonable to say that a motor is something that moves something else, while an engine is also something that moves something else but uses internal moving parts of its own. We can just leave it at that. All engines that involve physical motion are motors, but not all motors are engines.

That seems better than making arbitrary distinctions regarding which type of input energy is being transformed into which output type. It would also be compatible with the OED definition mentioned in the article, as well as terminology used in rocketry.
As the author mentions, the "No CGI is really just invisible CGI" video is a great watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8oQ1jV859w)

The TLDR is basically that movie studios, directors, and actors start a hype train early "we haven't used any CGI!" or "it's all practical!" When the reality is that vast amounts of the movie still use CGI on top of the practical effects. It's just a really good marketing ploy, because a lot of people hate overdone VFX movies! So it feels more authentic and artistic to go practical.

But at the end of the day, most of those movies still have a huge amount of VFX. Some of the examples are extremely egregious and dishonest (e.g. the one TV show where the director/studio claims it was all real puppets on real sets, but the VFX studio has videos showing some massive VFX environments for the show instead.)

Others are more of a misunderstanding -- for example, when they claimed the sandworm in Dune 2 was practical... yes, the shot had a ton of practical elements, but of course lots of VFX and compositing was done to achieve the final product. Yes, there was a mechanical portion of a sandworm for the actors to stand on for some of the close-ups, but tons of the sandworm shots are still mostly VFX.
Uh, no - THIS is practical special effects: https://hackaday.com/2021/11/14/those-bullet-effects-in-term...
Would the usa even allow it ?

Divide and keep them distracted, right ?

China gets Taiwan

Middle East gets Israel

India gets Kashmir

Europe gets England

Russia gets Ukraine.
4 sets of 2 minutes?

I heard that wall sits were some of the most effective exercises for blood pressure and have been doing them as part of my morning routine. However, I could not do 30 seconds of them initially. This is the second article that I see mentioning this 4 x 2 minutes thing. Is it common to be able to wall sit for 2 minutes four times with breaks? My thighs are burning terribly at 1 minute, and that is an improvement from when I started!
That is absolutely not true. There are many restrictions on eminent domain. We live in a society of laws, not a feudal one where the government has god-powers.

If you are making a practical force argument, the government is physically capable of illegally exterminating the ranchers, but there would also be consequences.
"create issue in repo!" did not open upon click.

> But is just bug, that's normal for open-source projects :)

OK, then I take back my gripe about setting new standards :)
Samsung WiFi Camera Museum
How we blocked TikTok's Bytespider bot and cut our bandwidth by 80%
I am building app that will save Open Source BETA testers wanted
I know I made quite a statement in the title, but in a way, I really believe it.

Having battled with abandoned open source repositories throughout my career, I was desperate for a solution.

The idea that came to my mind was a platform where you could pledge a donation to a specific issue to increase the probability of it being resolved (I understand that this concept also has some drawbacks).

Since my idea solves the problem of unappreciated contributors by rewarding actual contributors, I believe that with a different approach than our predecessors and with the help of the community, we can build a platform that will be beneficial to all.

We plan on launching in June and will be more than happy if you would join our BETA testers list.

Any suggestions, critics or ideas are also more then welcome!
> Is it possible that you are talking about a specific case, while the people you accuse of shallow dismissals are actually going a lot deeper than you and talking about the greater (and much harder to nail down) principles?

Bootlicking for an unethical megacorp is the road to "deeper and greater principles"? Peak HN.
You ask a very interesting question, that to me speaks to the future of education gets to the bottom of education entirely.

Right now, education focuses on getting people through the system so they can attain a credential. It teaches us, primarily, how to get one over on the system, how to look for loopholes and shortcuts. It creates a culture of corruption, of looking for approval from institutions in order to move up in life.

What does a world where anyone can learn anything they like for free very easily look like? Well undoubtedly it looks like a place where a lot of people don't learn much, because they have no interest in learning. But it also looks like a place where people who are interested in learning can and do learn endlessly if they like, the opportunity for anyone to get educated to a degree reserved for elites that most of us could only dream of even two decades ago is upon us. Writing the paper won't be about proving you wrote the paper to some authority figure, because it's no longer proof that you wrote it. Writing the paper will become about helping yourself understand something you want to understand.

So to your question, what is the future of proving that I know something, the future is you can't prove you know something, there's nobody to prove it to and you know things because you want to know things, because you recognize the value on knowing them beyond "this piece of paper qualifies me for a job." The future is the truth that we have been pretending isn't true for a century: that no matter what you try to do, those that want to learn will learn and those that don't won't, and their lives will be what they are on their own merit and of their own volition.

If you want to call yourself educated, the only person you need to be proving that to is yourself. We have entered a world of information post scarcity, which necessarily comes with post scarcity of noise, distraction and disinformation. The competition to understand things and the benefit that comes with understanding things will get stiffer, but access to that competition will become egalitarian. There will be a great divide among people: those that follow the noise of the day and those that continue to learn freely of their own volition.
Same in Polish. "Silnik" is both motor and engine. You add second word to specify the kind (electric, combustion, stirling, steam, ...).
Cognitive function begins to degrade before that, but it's just like having been awake for longer.

Many pilots will huff oxygen lower than 10k especially if they're doing anything but straight and level.
Original programs work as is on bare metal on a UEFI system with CSM enabled.

Using DOS (obtained from W98SE) booted to its own FAT32 filesystem on a HDD, SSD or floppy if you got 'em.

Also works on Windows 10 32-bit if you enable NTVDM,reboot beforehand. In file manager double-click basica.exe in the original 204kb Program folder after unzipping. Doesn't need to be stored on FAT32 for this. Basica.exe doesn't launch from regular W10 command line, but can alternatively be launched using the Run routine from the Start menu though.
> I would say that MIT has jumped on the entrepreneurship train (for better and worse) much more wholeheartedly in the decade since this account of an even older (!) anecdote.

Also, a lot more west coasters (like me and my peers) started coming out to Cambridge for school this past 10-15 years after Stanford, USC, UCLA CS/Anderson, and Berkeley EECS/Haas became increasingly difficult to get admission into.

I have plenty of Harvard and MIT friends who were rejected by those 4 programs despite being Californians.

> if you mentor them even a little bit.

MIT started working much harder to explain this in the mid '00s when it truly was much more like what this story says.

Yep! Programs like Engine helped, and I-Labs across town at Harvard as well, and YC ofc had its origins in Cambridge.
That’s why I personally don’t like ideas like “queens English”, ect… language is defined by the way people use it. Some sort of authority attempting to police it’s correct usage has always just seemed like gate keeping to me.
These are very fun. I would say that they are not entirely in order of difficulty so if you get stuck you should try some of the later ones (you can shim the ones you didn’t solve yet if you’d like).

The visualizations are great. Incredibly useful when debugging without being too noisy.
https://x.com/ylecun/status/1742563244949078369

This one. He deliberately writes wrong information. Even he is right in the future, 0 reason to follow his word.
I have read about it in some cases, but it seems to depend on the situation. I suspect (and hope) that this is not one of the cases, given that the government bought the land with full knowledge that it was land locked.
Similar problem in Canada where Parisian French is often taught in English Canadian schools rather than Quebecois.
It is your own choice if you wish to continue the maintenance or not (and, even if you wish to maintain the project, you can decide to not accept email messages). If it is FOSS, then other people can maintain their own version if they want to do, anyways (this is why FOSS is important; it is due to things like this).

However, whoever wrote the email message did not decomission the project; it is whoever maintain the project that did so, due to receiving such email message. I think that might be unnecessary to decomission the project just due to one message like that, but it is their choice to maintain or not maintain it, or to decomission it. (Anyways, if you receive too many messages like that then you might be too stressed to work on the project properly.)

Although, still they should not have written such a email message, because it is no good. It does contain an actual comment about the program (although I am not familiar with the program to know whether or not the complaint is legitimate), but that is a very bad way of writing it.

(Other comments also mention that stuff like this may be used to attack the project to make a version with malware if the original maintainer won't then someone else will and will add malware. It is a legitimate concern, which should be considered seriously, but one that can be handled whether or not this maintainer decides to maintain this project or not.)
Two heads of state, because one died, over the course of about 70 years. That's a very silly complaint.

One government since 2019.as far as I understand the term.

We've had a few prime ministers though.
This is perhaps one of the best use cases for AI.

(Khan Academy is excellent. Over a decade ago, my home-schooled daughter [we were not living in the US at the time] used Khan Academy throughout high school, scoring 2300 on the SAT and getting a full scholarship to a prestigious US college to study engineering.)
"Don't work on LLM. This is in the hands of large companies, there's nothing you can bring to the table. You should work on next-gen AI systems that lift the limitations of LLMs."

Even if, or especially if the technology is in the hands of large companies, understanding/studying them is important, not futile.
Your are out to lunch. I'm not sure what you think I'm advocating for or what I'm trying to be manipulative based on my short comment but you need to take a minute and think about how other people come to the conversation and that they don't come with some embedded agenda.
I was unaware that you had insider knowledge of Johansson's contract. Where can I read the sources that supports this assertion?

I suppose in the absence of Johansson's rights to the character she developed means that this unethical megacorp has defacto rights to that character? Absurd.
We've had a lot of prime ministers. Is it a new government when that changes? I don't think so.
As a child I routinely cut through neighbors' yards in a suburban area. It's not reasonable to deny this sort of passage to anyone. IMO it's reasonable that there be footpaths which allow general passage between buildings.
I did not think the term "Nazi" existed until more than a decade after WW2 ended.
Recruiters don't call up a business and just ask "how was X at their job?" They are given a list of referrals by the candidate. I am talking about situations where a toxic boss may say negative things for personal reasons. Currently, the candidate can filter out these by choosing people they assume will give positive reviews.
As carlinigraphy points out, shellcheck [0] exists, and can easily be put into pre-commits, a CI pipeline, etc. This would have almost certainly flagged your problem immediately.

> I would be willing to learn a sane language, but bash isn't one.

It's a general language that has to be both an interactive interpreter and script executor, and it needs to support a huge variety of architectures and kernel versions, as well as historical decisions. It's going to have some cruft.

[0]: https://www.shellcheck.net/
If you're not confused enough, here's another exercise: try distinguishing generator, dynamo and alternator.
1. It's the energy content. The stuff you can see (baryonic matter) is 5%, dark matter is 25%, the rest is dark energy. Technically you should take radiation into account, but this is negligible in today's universe. The types of energy can be characterized by how it changes as the universe expanda. If it becomes larger by a factor of a, matter density goes down as a^3, radiation density goes down as a^4 and dark energy density stays constant. Energy is not conserved in an expanding universe, so don't worry about that.

2. W is not the cosmological constant, but a related parameter. It does not go anywhere, the density just changes.

3. These things are unrelated. We do look for changes in these constants either way as good as we can, because imagine the excitement! But so far they all look very constant.

4. No one knows. It's probably always been close to -1, or else the universe would look very different, but you can play around with all kinds of time parameterization of w. The math gets complex very quickly, so the most common parameterization is a linearization. Simply measuring that is a challenge, so measuring this quantity in a model independent way is extremely difficult.
Mistral releases the v0.3 of its 7B LLM
> While we've invented a better way to transfer knowledge, we haven't removed the human desire to control information.

that is a huge problem; but it's not one solved by technology
As someone with thousands of jumps from this altitude, I disagree. The VAST majority of 'first timers' I've taken on tandems don't feel much, if any, difference either going up.
That assumes the dual screw would have disconnected them from each other (which probably would have been a better design).

I'm not sure that's what the diagrams showed, however.
In my usage, Engine is generally something that consumes gasoline (sometimes Diesel) and generate rotational power and lots of exhaust gas and heat.

I almost always use the term motor for an electromechanical machine that turns electrical into mechanical power.

Like all words, there's ambiguity to it.
(2019) How the search for MH370 has been set back because 25 minutes of sound waves supposed to be recorded as the plane plunged into the Indian Ocean are 'missing'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6646977/MH370-searc...
The objections to evolution on the grounds of racism and eugenics were in Bryan's closing statements. These were never read in court because the defendant did not give a closing argument. He never uses the term "eugenics" but that's clearly what he is referring to at times, especially in his references to Nietzsche:

https://profjoecain.net/last-message-of-william-jennings-bry...

At a public speech given right after the court case and just before his death, one of his arguments against evolution is because the theory was being used to object to vaccinations, asylums, and many medical treatments for fear that these measures were allowing the unfit to survive:

https://bertie.ccsu.edu/naturesci/evolution/unit15scopes/Bry...

To be clear, I want to reaffirm that I do not agree with the theological arguments and absolutely accept the Theory of Evolution. I'm only sharing this information because the debate over evolution was very much about ethics as it was about science.
Go further back and there were machines called "siege engines".
ARM isn’t open either, it’s a proprietary ISA owned by ARM holdings, inc.

RISC-V is an open ISA.
Nah, we live in a great world where most people recognize that absolute life quality matters more than relative life quality. Online commenters all go to therapy and are miserable, and their bosses are idiots, and everyone is spying on them, and so on and so on.

But most people are better off than their parents and knowing this, they’re generally happy.
As a musician, it's super interesting looking at the JS source (if you're a developer) and seeing how he applies musical concepts like notes and progressions to code.
Real-Time Feature Engineering
+1 for WezTerm.

Excellent documentation, fast and pretty much all the bells and whistles you could want in a modern terminal.
> So why aren't we separating the useful bit out?

It was trained as a chat-bot so that's all the current training can do. If you want to use it, you must hack something useful out of the chat bot interface.

It was trained as a chat bot because that was the impressive thing that got them investors. Useful applications need a lot more context to awe people, and context takes time and work to create.

So, now that they've got money, are those companies that created those LLM chat-bots making a useful next generation engines behind the scenes? Well, absolutely not! The same situation applies on every researching round, and they need to show impressive results right now to keep having money.

(And now I wonder... Why do VC investors exist again?)
Some of the best climbing in the world is in karst topography. The best known is in Central Europe. Far away from that is the Texas Hill Country, which while possessing incredible rock, is almost entirely privately owned. Central Texas could be a climbing mecca, but isn't, because of a lack of right to roam.
I think it's targeting a really old bash for max compatibility... and also it's super early alpha software
So, that explains why the private effort to service the HST wants to send up a robot.

Oh wait. That's totally wrong. They're proposing a mission to send up people to do the maintenance. Because that's far cheaper than developing robots to do it would be.
I'm deviant in my habits there, too: i prefer the manual control and feedback, even when they're not required. I want to feel the health of my brake pads and ball joints.

Did some drifting back when, in a car set up with all sorts of tricks, including 4 wheel line locks on the brakes. Those were used more often to put the car into a spin than to recover from one.
Doesn't Scandinavia have a right like this?
People need to give terms like low trust , especially as applied to large and diverse countries, a rest rather than spouting them because they think it makes them sound smart. In this case it’s what used to be a very rural town—founded 1653–which over the last few decades has become much more exurban and people who have lived there for a long time find the increased housing density, which in spite of still being pretty low, means people can’t just hunt and ride ATVs everywhere like they could 40 years ago.
Do you mean GPT-3.5 (free) or GPT-4 (paid)? Their performance and hallucination rates are very different.

GPT-4o (the best current model) is now becoming available to free, registered users now. What do you think of it?

Unless your domain is very specialized, I think GPT-4T, GPT-4o, and Claude 3 Opus for example are quite good.