skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I am finding the sublime in numerical methods and I have always been horrible at manual algebra.

It's like a time travel movie. "We have to go back!"

Machines can do math, sure, and even learn the contours of the systems they represent. That's incredible. But machines lack the human interface that allows infinite abstraction.

So, humans, left with the power of infinite regress, must teach the machines that are so adamantly automating the tasks we deem important as a species.

It is possible now, in 2024, to legislate runaway automation with more human-verified checkpoints and more skilled humans running these checkpoints.

Major integration network paths are verified by the veracity of the integral checks performed on the flowing data.

From here you can measure capacitance, rate of flow, and begin to inspect the data as far as legislation will allow you to.

For any practical scientific purposes, such as analyzing tornado paths and devising a rubric of resource allocation,

You can measure all elements as a wave until a significant event occurs (including malicious data vectors). You can tune a sample rate for that.

With enough people continuously performing validation analysis on data flow, the machines we rely on to achieve our target numbers can begin to rationalize truth and fiction.

--

Here's the catch: we just have to do it right the first time round.
Today I Learned from a link on that page that sloths camouflage themselves by growing algae on their fur and moving very slowly: https://slothconservation.org/with-a-little-help-from-my-fri...
I wonder if Google is going to kill us all, with that comment change.

Before the mega-angry were posting such comments, and youtube was absorbing it as some sort of great heat sync.

Now, the comments are gone, and the angry crazys will return to the streets, the villages, and this anger will flow into violence, war, nuclear annihilation.
Why had the advent of semi-intelligent agents suddenly turned Silicon Valley into a place that now hates its own workers. Why is it that a place that once believed the mutual benefit of an intelligent worker and a company has turned into a time to brutalize or even hate the very creators of this technology

Where is all this hatred coming from?
They are trying to figure out what they actually built.

I suspect the time is coming when there will always be an aligned search AI between you and the internet.
And they only have ~18 months of absurd profits from just a couple of customers (Meta and Microsoft/OpenAI) who are likely to realize they don't have the revenue to support 10 figure CapEx and will chose to develop their own chips, cutting NVIDIA out of the loop.

I foresee Nvidia stock playing out like a softer version of iomega that will still have consumer demand, but not as much temporary demand from the megacorps.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/day-market-history-iomegas-in...
I acknowledge that treatment works and decriminalization of (highly addictive hard) drugs does not. I don't necessarily advocate for treatment because we already spend too much money on this problem.
`cargo-geiger` would like a word. Feel free to try it.

Number of dependencies is a bad signal for JS projects, I am not so sure the same applies for Rust however.
I would assume that like most of these kinds of very public cases, they spent a significant amount of time building their case internally before committing to filing suit.

Trying to guess at the internal machinations for how a bureaucracy sets priorities and budgets is a bit of a fools errand though
There are two sides to this: investigations and monitoring. For HR and security investigations, this rewind capability would be very useful, is legal, and at least partially already performed using forensics tools.

Monitoring is where you run into moral and, in some places, legal problems. This would probably be a good topic for new legislation.
Particularly for the local music scene, where Live Nation usually isn't the promoter, the junk fees aren't coming from them.

Gotta remember Ticketmaster's margins are actually pretty thin.
EPA Alert: Drinking Water Systems Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
I'm glad I'm not the only one to be bothered by this. I watch a lot of interesting videos by smart people and clever makers, so I want to see some intelligent discussion in the comments. But every single comment is "omg you're SUCH a greater content creator!! Why don't you have more subs you're soo amazing!!". It's completely asinine and valueless.
From my recollection Wilson would disagree! Pretty sure he devotes part of that book to talking about how he doesn't think pure gene selection bubbles up to eusociality and that it's actually a little something else
You might find my library useful - https://github.com/Filimoa/open-parse
Are Voyager 1 & 2 the greatdst scientific achievement of the human race? I think it's an easy argument to make.

I'm very impressed about figuring out this problem and working around it. It would take 50 years to repeat, because it would take so long to send another mission that far out (47 years, depending on how much delta-V we could give it), and the odds that it survives that long is low anyway. We are too poor, too involved in arguing about other stuff to come close. There are the interesting ideas to send tiny specs of space ships using lasers to another solar system.
we intend to eventually have routers which improve the speed, cost (and maybe quality) to such an extent that we can then take some margins from these best performing routers, with users still saving costs compared to individual endpoints. For now we don't take any margins though, we want to ensure we're providing sufficient value before rushing to capture any of it.
Honestly, I don’t think they had to do a lot of political maneuvering. They were just allowed to grow unchecked, and no one was bothered. Until now.
I don't think that is remotely true. I think they are just as irresponsible.
C++ indeed has many gems like RAII, and many turds. My hope is that one of the last unavoidable turds (mandatory header files) gets replaced by modules but that seems eternally on the horizon.

Frankly I haven't used C++ since LLM copilots dropped, so that would address a lot of the tedium with managing headers in rapid greenfield development.
You're so right, it's utterly distracting to read a statement written in all lower case.

It looks like it was written in a sloppy way and nobody actually proofread it.

I think Sergey Brin used to do the same thing (or maybe it was Larry Page). I remember reading that in some google court case emails and thinking, the show Silicon Valley wasn't even remotely exaggerating.
Show HN: I Built a Tool to Experience Your Software Like a User
Hi Hacker News!

I’m excited to share a project I've been working on: a browser extension that lets you experience your software exactly as your users do.

Key Features:

- Records browser session, along with mouse events and resize events to give you an actual view into how users experience your software.

- Users can annotate videos with actionable feedback.

- Speed up, slow down, and add pan and zoom animations to demos (This is more for product people)

Why I Built It:

There's a huge gap between how developers see their software and how their users do. You'll notice that the first time you see someone using your web app at a resolution you didn't anticipate or clicking on things they thought were buttons.

This is a tool to collect feedback from coworkers, stakeholders, and power-users to record new features and user flows.

Try It Out:

You can check out the extension itself here:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/oadbjpccljkplmhnjek...

I’d love to hear your feedback and thoughts on how this tool can be improved or further developed. Thanks for taking a look Hacker News!
I think the main concern over this is that it's baked into the OS. That's a significant difference from "Here's a 3rd party app you can install if you want this functionality." Especially from an OS vendor who (a) dominates the desktop market, and (b) absolutely loves to hide or obfuscate the ability to disable such features (which are often enabled by default).
I wonder how much this is due to standstill to moving accidents.

The speaker noise should be active will the car is started. It sounds like it is off.
It doesn’t matter because meat is delicious, densely nutritious and frankly not up for discussion amongst the general population. Even if it isn’t meat, a mostly vegetarian country like India is heavily reliant on the milk that comes from cows for their protein requirement.
This is where a diversified portfolio makes sense. It's completely fine to take a "big bet" on what would amount to a years worth of returns/cash investment every now and then. But many great opportunities have already been priced appropriately, so the extra concentration of risk doesn't yield a great return.

If one was to be able to simply select the 50% of companies which perform better than the rest of the field. You would be in good shape.
Obviously I was demonstrating that I don't shill for Rust in particular -- I simply believe C/C++ are not cutting it anymore. Rust is not perfect but it solves a sizeable chunk of their problems, that's all.
It’s remarkable to see the hoi polloi to stand by CEOs and big corporations, rather than defending the few parts of the media that stand for regular workers.
How the meaning of colour varies per culture
it depends on the task, but this video gives an idea :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JYqNbIEac0
Although not using real money, I went 90% in to IOMG in a high school virtual portfolio assignment when I was selling Zip drives as fast as they could be produced.

The problem then becomes getting out before the rest of the market and before the good times stop.

Like a party, perhaps one should sell while everyone is still having a good time.
Real smart is to name them correctly. Opening and closing quotation marks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
Corporate price gouging is only due to increase in consumer funds.

Companies want to price gouge all the time, but were only able to do so because everyone, especially lower income people, had extra cash.

Good luck introducing price controls on basic goods like groceries. Otherwise, things like UBI will increase inflation.
Electron beatings will continue for as long as making a proper GUI for major platforms requires learning three different languages and four different UI toolkits, where every one of them is less flexible and harder to use than the web stack.

For developers Electron is the easiest way to have a portable UI, with very flexible and capable styling, decent text rendering, animations, and a layout and rendering engine optimized for a very broad range of use-cases, with fantastic developer tools.
youre not worth moving my pinky to the shift key, and you think that missed apostrophe was a mistake?

im busy running a billion dollar company i dont have time for this
Yup, Calva's pretty great.
Give it a year, it will become very uncool as people realize only people not using AI to make their writing better would send syntactically or grammatically incorrect wording.
I am curious which errors do you find most problematic? We have internal codebase with hundreds of developers, and we haven't observed many subprocess related bugs. And the ability to print command being executed (via shlex.join) so it can be copied to shell and debugged there is very nice.

That said, there is a bunch of rules in our internal style guide about this process, such as: avoid shell=True unless you need shell functionality and know how shell quoting works; use python instead of tools like grep/head/aws/etc.. when performance permits; check returncode after Popen calls; correctly quote ssh args (they are tricky!)
Microsoft's chutzpa lays down the ultimate "Trust Me Bro" years past the peak of trust.
It's really maddening just how right the board was.
The best way is probably to ask them to show you that it’s working and explain how they know that’s the intended or correct behavior.

Another way would be to learn some technical details so you understand what they’re saying and doing instead of writing yourself off as non-technical.

A worse but doable way is to have someone with expertise check their work. That only makes sense if you don’t trust your developers which is a pretty bad situation.

Your question is weird because it’s sort of like asking “How do you know if a contractor is building a house properly when you don’t know anything about building houses?”
Does it work as expected? Then they did it correctly. Did they do it fast enough to meet the business needs? Then they did it quickly enough. Do they keep delivering things that work, that are done fast enough for the business, and you don't they keep working? Then the quality is high enough.

Trust your people. If you spend all your energy trying to second-guess whether they are competent, they won't stick with you. And if they did not deserve that trust, it will show in their results quickly enough anyway.
Interestingly, DynamoDB is cheaper than S3 though, compared by number of requests. DynamoDB costs $1.25 per million write request units and $0.25 per million read request units. While S3 is $5 per million PUT requests and $0.4 per million GET requests.
you are looking for the concept ontology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)

enjoy the rabbit hole!
I think there is a very valid argument to be made that what happens in the universe 10^14 years from now is not a valid scientific question. It is really just pseudoscience.

It seems an easy bet to handicap that the chance what we know right now happens to be correct to basically be zero.
What if it's sensitive data, and just want to make sure it's secure - not necessarily saying the dev is malicious, but maybe need a 2nd pair of eyes on security, etc.
In general, "everyone" always hates every re-design. Yet we collectively think that stuff looks better than it does 20 years ago. (You don't have to tell me if you personally liked it better, you're an outlier)
The hello world C+ example is literally hello world in C

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("hello, world\n");
return 0;
}

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>Comparing LLMs to the Manhattan Project based on budget alone is stupid and arrogant

Just want to clarify. The comparison to Manhattan Project or CERN is referencing "the countless small hands feeding the machine." In projects such as these, roles and jobs are divided into small parts, that people who are working on it don't really see the forest from the tree, and that only a few that has the picture of the whole project.
I stopped browsing Reddit. I imagine the people who posted comments to Reddit saying they’re going to leave Reddit aren’t a representative sample.
>You really think any of that would have been possible without him?

Where did I wrote that?

My point is not everything needed him being on site making some travels unnecessary.
It matters if you’re in a position, no matter how small, to influence your employer’s dealings with the companies you’re invested in.
Why Are Plants Green? (2020)
I am in the middle of implementing DMs. What are my options for making it e2e encrypted? I am using postgres if that matters.
> The difficulty of getting into a UC school being an obvious place to start.

its obvious that there is competition to get to top school. So, it is question of setting expectation to get there and not necessary difficulty (which is natural and given)
Khanmigo is a surprisingly naive product, but this isn't a particularly hard problem:

1. It's not necessary to invent all these problems from scratch. At least for any "normal" math problem the world doesn't need new problems on demand, you just have to fetch one. Khan Academy has a perfectly good bank of problems.

2. If you have a baked problem you should hang onto knowledge about the correct answer. Khanmigo just seems to put it in the chat history where it is easily forgotten.

3. If you want customized problems you might need to invent problems instead of reading problems from a bank. In that case you might want to create a more "formal" problem and an "informal" problem, where the formal problem is expressed clearly and solvable (e.g., by Wolfram or SageMath or something), and therefore can be verified. Translating the formal problem into a word problem is generally much more reliable than inventing a problem and correct solution.

That said, "right answers" aren't IMHO that interesting. Helping the student attack a problem in the right way, or adapt their knowledge to be able to apply it to a problem, is more interesting and helpful.
Comp clawbacks are quite common in finance, at least contractually. It's rare for it to go ahead, but it happens. It isn't some especially weird thing.
Well, it could capture only content of programs that ask to be captured, while they do.

Web browsers could not ask to be captured when sensitive content is on screen (perhaps the web server could communicate that in headers). So could code editors and other production software that deals with trade secrets and confidential information. As well as any government and armed forces, medical, legal and similar software.

SharePoint supports sensitivity labels for documents. These labels are synced to the device through OneDrive if my memory serves right. I think that could be (if it’s not already) extended to non-SharePoint documents. If an application deals with these documents, it could also not ask to be captured at that time.

Capturing for Recall should be opt-in per program, so no legacy software leaks info.

Even with visual captures, look at what Discord, Zoom and even PlayStation live streaming and captures do - they simply block out the parts of the UI that could contain sensitive info.

But bigger cross-program Windows API feature adoptions have been achieved, like dynamic DPI scaling, DirectX, multitouch support, UWP and similar.

They could do it, if they wanted to. But I think right now it may all be a half-baked executive idea. It will evolve into something though… there is an opportunity to do it right.
Very sorry about that! I had an issue with my google calendar, I set it to "do not send emails" but for some reason some still came through. Fixed + removed now.
Oh wow, I didn't realise they'd dont that. Going to the page though:

https://cloud.google.com/iot-core

... shows this:

Google Cloud IoT Core has been retired.

Several years ago a startup owner I was friends with was doing IoT stuff. If they'd ended up choosing the Google option for their device comms they'd have been in a bad place from this. Pretty sure they went with the AWS IoT stuff though.

At this point, I wonder if there's anyone left on Earth who Google haven't screwed over in some significant way?
Because of the byte granularity, there's no interdependence between lanes. The result within a lane is not affected by the values of the other lanes.
Which areas? Did they contact news agencies yet?

EDIT this is the only thing I've been able to find

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2024/02/17/coyote-captured-a...

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2019/02/05/colorado-ru...
Note that statement says nothing about whether they will be allowed to participate in liquidity events
The headline is that it's not a shithole ridden with ads, spam, influencers, scams, etc. That's the important part of replacing Twitter.
So, Larry Ellison has an emotional block against recognizing that his doctor has genuine expertise to which he (Ellison) must defer. Instead, Ellison would rather create an anonymous pseudo-authority, which will never be able to look him in the eye and say: I, who have a name, know better than you. It will misdiagnose him, but that is better than the narcissistic injury of being forced to acknowledge dependency on another human being.

In a humane world, Ellison (and Musk, and Trump, and whoever) could have been diagnosed at an early age and humanely sequestered, for the sake of all the rest of us. Instead, the only approach that is available to us is to shame or criminalize mental illness, and the consequences of that only fall upon the people who harm one or a few people at a time, instead of those who blast the lives of millions.
> I don't mind paying for software, but not for the current crop.

Nothing about this is specific to commercial software. I've got 5 digits of hours in FOSS contributions.

> It was once expected to get training for a tool. But now the trend is for the tool to become a toy. Just play with it until you get light and sounds.

Your stance is pretty common among developers. The fact is that we use so much end-user-facing software for which we don't even think about the interfaces... we just accomplish whatever task you need the tool to accomplish and move on. Think about every phone app, screen, website, ordering system, electronic appliance-- all of those things have designed interfaces. Do you think it's reasonable to require customers to read instructions on using an ordering terminal at a quick serve restaurant? Their phone email app? Web browser? Messaging clients? If every one of those interfaces was assembled according to the developer's fancy rather than someone who knows how to utilize people's existing mental models and cultural understanding, well, that's a whole lot of "RTFM" time that would be better spent on actually getting something done. Most people will never read a single line of software documentation in their entire lives for the same reason they'll never need to learn how to use a Bobcat for yard work-- it's just not necessary for non-professional work. Developers have a fundamentally different perspective on software and it's not 'better.' Needing docs for basic application functionality is the right tool for some jobs, but not for most jobs.

> And for safety, we will reduce the set of actions you can take. Fine for a single purpose application, but not great when you want versatility.

You're conflating bad with intuitive with well-designed. An interface that doesn't let expert users work efficiently is a bad interface. Almost invariably when you see an interface that looks 'designed' but it's not functional, it's because a developer went looking for nifty UI mockups on Dribbbbbble and copied it so they could tell people about the beautiful interface they designed. They think that works because they think UI design is about aesthetics rather that making your interface as useful as possible. Great designs aren't even always intuitive to non-experts. Lots of times it has to be fast and efficient for people who know exactly what they're doing, and training might be appropriate for important, complex interfaces... but complex expert-targeted interfaces are not the same things as interfaces that are confusing because they were assembled rather than designed by someone who knows what they're doing. One of those things looks like the console for a modern X-Ray machine. The other looks like the interface for the Therac-25. I use vim (or, vim keybindings in other editors) these days because it's a great expert tool, and it's about as far from intuitive as you can get. If someone said "make an efficient text editor for people who will spend many thousands of hours at keyboards, there's a good chance interface designers would come up with something just like that, though probably with better visual cues.
unless this startup manages to get OS vendors to bundle it with their OS install and turn it on by default, it's not a good comparison.
I’ve tooted this horn before, and I would love to toot this again: I’d love to see a Fabien Sanglard style breakdown of Voyager’s hardware - or even some sort of simulation. If we want to aspire to build things with as much longevity, it behooves us to know the details…
People aren't ready for it, but we should be eating bugs.

Boca-bug-burgers would be an infinitely renewable 'meat' and farmable on massive scales, without destroying forests or watersheds. Without subjecting users to antibiotics.

Bug-burgers for the win.
Robotaxis will fix this problem as they just won’t hit pedestrians as much because they’ll check for pedestrians.