skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloomberg is kind of a funny one in that on the hand it's extremely dense but the density is very local.

Lots of numbers in Bloomberg should really be a clever chart rather than a bunch of numbers. There's a reason why traders have so many screens, often so they can build their own visual equivalent of the pile of numbers e.g. it's nice to have a chart where you left it.

Speaking of numbers in finance: A problem I have using what I'll call "big tech data" tools in finance is that I often need to care very deeply about fractions of a percent whereas these tools are basically made for terabytes of sloppy data for use in a machine learning model.
I recently hit that 40's age where short sight vision is now stuffed.
I foresee a future of phone use frustration.

Amusingly, I use my phone to magnify the labels for food ingredients to make sure myself or my kid aren't eating problem foods.

It is amazing how many years people live after their 40's and so much stuff is now "hard" and yet no one will design for it. Even when they themselves will inevitably suffer from it one day.
hidden volume / plausible deniability

and apparently it may not apply to phones: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/19/feder...

either way, remind me to never travel to australia
This. There is no point in arguing amongst ourselves when we're all wearing blindfolds and it is the zookeeper who decides what parts of the proprietary elephant we're allowed to touch.
Are you referring to the band Stereolab?
you throw so much of the real world out, in this simplistic rationalization. Economic niches could be related to ecological niches. Many ordinary animals have more than enough to eat for at least a season and a half, in so many places. What is the limitation? competition with your own burgeoning species for the physical space to occupy and, predation. Not everything is on the brink of starvation.

Predators evolve to exploit and kill those with abundance, and humans are expert predators. A vast portion of the civilized world it seems, was built directly from slavery and warfare. Slavery is very profitable, and wage slavery is alive today.

The simplistic example of food-scarcity is Reductio ad absurdum, to use the language of a top-line predator tribe from long ago.
Things like petals (https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals) exist, distributed computing over willing participants. Right now corporate cash is being rammed into the space so why not snap it up while you can, but the moment it dries up projects like petals will see more of the love they deserve.

I envision a future where crypto-style booms happen over tokens useful for purchasing priority computational time, which is earned by providing said computational time. This way researchers can daisy-chain their independent smaller rigs together into something with gargantuan capabilities.
The world is divided almost exactly 50/50 rn - I'll bet a far more benign question would work even but I'm not being sarcastic by agreeing with your sarcasm - that one could work quite well

Maybe the age old divide of our species is wether we fundamentally prefer sex or violence
Well, they do, down to the titanic..
I get where you're coming from. FreeCAD has come a long way recently, especially with the realthunder branch which improved a lot of the parametric modeling features. It's still not as polished as SolidWorks, but for open source, it's impressive. You might not need custom scripts for basic stuff, but it's definitely not as seamless as SolidWorks. Worth checking out if you're okay with a bit of a learning curve and occasional workarounds.
It's been repeatedly mentioned.

And brought up yet again in peer replies while I've been asleep.

You've oft mentioned your repeated failure despite your best efforts to find out which laws are being violated here .. it may have something to do with your demonstrated habit of simply not reading closely.

As mentioned I myself have no stance here other than someone who took an interest in the question and sought a reference.

You appear to be either arguing in bad faith or someone troubled by a reading disorder.
>Being told not to physically intervene in a dangerous situation and then being fired when you disobey company policy is unsurprising.

when the situation involves the police, I'd imagine the situation is different. Hence why he was reinstated after blowback. This isn't an employee tackling a violent customer (which should be allowed, but I digress).

If "leadership" gave no reason for the termination or simply said "you left the campus on company hours (outside of break)", they would have been slightly more in the clear (unless the employee sued, of course. That would have been an interesting lawsuit).
took me some time to find where it's described, but "LibertOS" is yet another degoogled android:
https://unplugged.com/blogs/news/the-unplugged-phone-inside-...

Doesn't say what it's based on (lineage or AOSP or something else)
You’ve proven my point. A bunch of data loading crap, but nothing substantial on the usability.

This is a simple tutorial task. Is it this easy in Gimp? No. It’s not. But hey, we have the same crappy ScriptFu plugins from a quarter century ago. Anyway, you have the source! Shut up and be grateful you insensitive clod!

https://youtu.be/K25F9RPrP9Q
Live synchronization of layout and schematic files. I consider this essential to circuit design, especially in later iterative stages. That alone totally eliminates KiCAD as a professional EDA in my opinion.
Yet spotlight did manage to do just that without those drawbacks.

For some reason its accuracy has dropped in recent years but in the Tiger days it was really good.
>our proprietary OS

You can't pitch a product to me that claims to be privacy oriented while bundling it with a service that expects me to route all my data through it, and then tell me that I'm not allowed to confirm or verify any of your claims myself.

This smells like a privacy-facade for marketing reasons rather than an actual commitment to privacy.
> I didn't say I trust them.

Ok, let me refresh your memory: "I don't know, that's what the experts say". Does that not sound like rhyming with "I trust them" to you?

> No one else can be trusted to have a good take on this except the experts. Fusion is complex topic.

Yes, fusion is a complex topic. But so is building fission nuclear power plants. If the experts in fission power plants keep telling you they can build these plants for X, and they consistently build them for 5X, do you give them a pass? Building rockets is complex too. The SLS system (also known as Senate Launch System) is permanently delayed and over budget. When the experts say they need more money, do you give them a pass, just because their domain of expertise is complex?

Why are you treating fusion any differently?

Take the famous "fusion never" graph [1]. According to that graph, if we had invested an average of about $5 BN over about 15 years, then it would have been the "maximum effective effort". What exactly would we have done in 1976-90 with $50 BN (in 2012 dollars) that would have made a difference? We are now half a century later. An iPhone has infinitely more computational power than the top supercomputer of the time (which was Cray-1, with 160 MFlops). Ok, not infinitely more, but at 2 TFlops and iPhone 15 Pro has more than 10000 time more compute, which means it most likely has more than the entire available compute in the world in 1976. The $50 BN in 1976 could not have bought you a time machine. You would have been stuck with Cray-1 and the likes. Similarly, we have made a lot of progress in the last 50 years in many areas, like software engineering, numerical methods, plasma modeling.

Yet, nobody would think now, in 2024 that you can achieve fusion with $50 BN. It is completely preposterous to think the same amount of money (adjusted for inflation) would have yielded better results in 1976. With what? With slide rules?

You see why I'm calling them liars? In the graph (more like a scribble) they put in front of you telling you that they would have done so much better if only they had better funding, if you actually read the numbers, you can see that they could not have achieved fusion.

Given that, why should the politicians give them money? Imagine you go back in time and some mad scientist asks for for some huge amount of money to build a supersonic plane in 1905. With your knowledge of today, you know that supersonic planes are possible, but you also know that no amount of money in the world can make that happen in 1905.

We are at such a point now. Basically 50 years after the 1976 projection of the famous "fusion never" graph, we know that there was no amount of money that would have achieved fusion in the era of Cray-1.

[1] https://benjaminreinhardt.com/fusion-never/
SolveSpace is how I teach people CAD at my local makerspace. It's the only program I know of that can be properly onboarded in an hour or so, figured out from there, is useful on its own, and that makes for a good stepping stone to Inventor/SolidWorks/OnShape/etc.
Over here dark fiber has meant private, dedicated fiber since the '90s. As opposed to connections managed by your telco. Seems similar in the US per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
Even though Blender can technically do just about anything, purpose built software like Marvelous Designer or Substance Painter make life a lot easier and allows for better looking work much faster.

But that costs a lot of money that someone may not have, which is the beauty of Blender being free and awesome.
Old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32264372

> "Powered by LibertOS, our proprietary privacy OS"

> James O’Keefe quote on the front page

> Gettr link in the sidebar

This is not a phone for privacy-conscious people. This is a phone marketed to Republicans.
I'm sorry, but I'm confused by this comment. What exactly is secret?
I think of it more as "dancing bear ware". If you've ever seen a dancing bear, you wouldn't say it's particularly good at dancing. You may even say it's hardly dancing at all. But we don't care that it dances well; it's amazing that it dances at all.

Current AI is a dancing bear. It gives us the feeling of understanding language, semantics, logic and reason, but when you look closely, you realize it's doing a very poor job of it in a way that suggests it is just mimicking those things without actually being capable of them.
I once tried to export a simple infobox template with dependencies and it exported 30-40 different template/module pages.
"money or thing of value" here seems to refer to the bribe (in cases where the bribe is non-monetary), not the benefit that the briber got from the bribe.

> gives an employee money or any thing of value
That's highly unlikely, given the gender of the writer.

As someone who spent too much time in junior high playing with Apple II+ computers, I have a lot of respect for the level of fanaticism that went into this disassembly work.
The fascination with ankle brackets notwithstanding (does a badge worn at the ankle count? How bout an ankle bracelet obscured in the pocket?) I hope the safety aspects dominate anything like that. How many people are in the mine? How many minutes was each employee exposed to over 90 dB?
I think he's said he would rebase the entire thing on 1.0?

I don't know if that is impossible but it would be an incredible amount of work for one person to manage. He last merged a year ago, AFAIK.

I'm sure some people will stick with it over 1.0 for a good while.

(ETA: For clarity, I think he basically saved FreeCAD.)
Cutting edge supercomputer programs get judged by different standards from basic forms.

And when slow is the only option, people will wait.
There are many types of early relational trauma, but I strongly recommend the (audio)book: "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents" by Lindsay Gibson, to anyone who thinks they might benefit from reading a book with that title.

I get that's a weird judge-a-book-by-its-cover metric, but it is excellent for working through and understanding those relationships.
The thing is, how would the companies know you're paid to do this, instead of perhaps just being an overzealous employee? Not like this service is going to disclose who is working for them...right?
CVE-2024-32002
Anthropic: Mapping the Mind of a Language Model
I'm actually shocked no one is arguing with you about your first two sentences. Capitalism will always have one lucky or unscrupulous company after another swallowing the smaller players.

you have 5 equal companies producing widgets. One of the companies has their building near a freeway, and one day a fully loaded truck crashes through a railing and impacts their building, causing a fire and lots of damage. Sure, they have insurance or whatever, but that company's customers don't care about that, they needed those widgets this week. Luckily one of the other four companies has them in stock and they can fill their order elsewhere. That company they filled the order with now has more capital, perhaps they hire a new employee or buy additional tools or machines. Now they can out-compete the other four, for whatever reason, QC, price, etc. The former company might be unable to keep up with the 3+1 other companies on the same playing field, so may sell to one of the other four, but only the latter company in the above example may have the money available to buy.

This is all simplified and nitpicking what i am saying is futile, because the point is - it doesn't matter how many companies are competing, nothing is in equilibrium, and this doesn't even get in to active sabotage or espionage. A lucky company will buy an unlucky company. Eventually you'll end up with 3 or fewer companies when there used to be dozens or even hundreds.

The end goal of a company is to be like Samsung, General Electric, Sony, etc - make everything, sell everything, own everything. A company being lucky for a few quarters even gets to spend money lobbying for preferential regulations that prevent further competitors from entering the market!

I don't have a solution, because there is a compelling argument to be made for huge companies being able to provide superior quality, price, whatever because of scales of economy, and it just takes one bright lawyer at a multinational to say "but if you break us up it will accelerate climate change because of x, y, z issues we have solved by fact of owning everything!"

Limiting personal wealth to 10-100 million dollars, even "on paper", might prevent this, but that would require global cooperation. I think the upside that things would gradually become more affordable would be a good selling point - if all companies are operating with the understanding the shareholders, owners, etc have a hard ceiling on how much value they can extract from the endeavor...
He didn't subsidize it - the U.S. Government did. Both with a last-minute loan and then tax breaks for consumers.

Musk also lied that he got a bank loan (apparently no one checks this shit) in order to get the DoE loan.
According to the NTSB data, turbulence encounters like this are the leading cause of airline accidents. Turbulence is the leading cause, not flying in a Boeing airframe, or whatever other meme you may have been sold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UYNFthOx1o&t=253s
This feels like a contradiction at first glance. Violates Ethics of privilege? It would be better and more fair to have everyone pay.
What bubble? This isn't crypto. Have you used these tools? They aren't going anywhere.
To keep control in the hands of the analyst, we've been working on UX's over agentic neurosymbolic RAG in louie.ai --

Ex: "search for login alerts from the morning, and if none, expand to the full day"

That requires generating a one-shot query combining semantic search + symbolic filters, and an LLM-reasoned agentic loop recovering if it turns up not enough such as a poorly formed query around 'login alerts' and the user's trigger around 'if none'

Likewise, unlike Disneyified consumer tools like chatgpt and perplexity that are designed to hide what is happening, we work with analysts who need visibility and control. That means designing search so subqueries and decisions flow back to the user in an understandable way: they need to inspect what is happening and be confident they missed nothing, and edit via natural language or their own queries when they want to proceed

Crazy days!
It's sad to see so many people forming opinions based on shallow ad hominem "Jack Dorsey bad" thinking. Bluesky rejected his ideas from the beginning and people spent two years refusing to see it. Better late than never though.
Yeah, elderly people, who are struggling to pay their bills as is, should spend $10k to pay people to pack up their stuff, break their lease, and move to a state with a better climate than, checks notes, California.
An additional anecdote: I see it in responsibility rejection and/or attempted erasure:

- I'm fine, therefore you are also fine (it's not my fault you can't deal with this)

- I'm fine, therefore you are also fine (you exist only as an extension of me, and I'm fine)
> I predict that tech companies will get in on it, and within a few years will offer paid customer service the way enterprises get today.

Good! That would be a fantastic outcome if that's all plsfix accomplishes. Tons of people would be willing to pay for support but it's just not offered.
I picked this up too: a minor error in an excellent article.
the carrier would also never say "you need to contact the manufacturer"
You know the rules, and so do I.
That quote about jobs is scary tbh

nursing homes here we come
Oddly enough you can do earth based geophysics and apply that to earth based distributed radio and microwave receivers such as the various SKA (Square Kilometre Array) projects and pull a cheque under the guise of "Astrophysics" ..

It 'twas by pure chance I caught this reply; it was several pages back in a collapsed thread that I by chance caught an comment increment on

HN was never built for conversation over days and I have no addons to track replies (nor do I see myself using any.
DJT: Trump Media stock falls after posting $327.6 million quarterly loss
So just guessing this is a LLM summary proxy for Wikipedia content?
I'm finding LLMs invaluable in deciphering this kind of thing, with suitable prompting:

System: Always provide clear instructions from the perspective of an expert in the field. Double-check answers for logical coherence and factual correctness, using a consistent step-by-step methodology. Explain the benefits and disadvantages of different approaches in a compare-and-contrast style, and value security, readability, and organization over clever tricks.

User: Consider the following code function in Python: "def minimumTotal(self, t): return reduce (lambda a,b:[f + min (d,e) for d,e,f in zip(a, a[[1:],b)], t[::-1])[0]" . The goal is to rewrite this using only simple python bulitins like for loops. Use a step-by-step approach to dissassemble this code into a simpler format, and include plenty of comments.

User: Clarify what is meant, mathematically, by "the minimum path sum from top to bottom in a triangle"

Okay now I understand it... This is much easier if the original code has a set of robust tests you can run your LLM-generated code against, to make sure it works as advertised, but you can get the LLM to generate tests too if needed.

Now I want to go see how it does when faced with C obfuscation competitions.
But is it right to punish everyone else because of accessibility reasons?
The design drawings did not have the fault, but the engineering drawings used for building may have. They were done by different teams in different organisations at different times.
Another absolutely off the rails site full of perpetual nonsense crazy town that gets posted 8 times a month. It's ridiculous that there's no noospheric defense or warning when the source is fucking ape shit wild. Ever submission has to be re-litigated again, as though they deserve full credibility.

See also reason.com, quilette.com, I dunno, a half dozen others.
ahem
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/micr...
I would disagree with you. Those numbers are exactly like numbers that would come from ISIS or Al Qaeda. Hamas uses violence including torture and summary executions to force compliance in Gaza. Nobody in Gaza will work against Hamas or disobey an order from Hamas. There is no "independent health department" as some would like to portray. No such thing. The same methods are used towards UN or humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza and the people employed by those organizations are mostly Gazans.

Even according to Hamas officials many of the the casualties are based on "self reporting" and/or so called "media reports". Even they do not claim that the count is as accurate as you claim.

Nobody can check the "names and addresses" of those Hamas declared to be dead. For one thing there has been huge movement of people and even Hamas doesn't know who is where, for another there's no way for anyone to independently check on this.

The IDF released plenty of evidence of fighting Hamas in hospitals by the way. It also released interrogation videos where Hamas operatives describe their use of hospitals. Probably not in the news you choose to consume.

I think the IDF simply does not know. I think Netanyahu said something like 14,000 combatants and 16,000 civilians is the estimate.
Are you well established in the N64 modding/emulation community? If so, I apologize. Otherwise I'm just assuming you are an armchair expert with a particularly strong opinion about this for some reason.
Microsoft's newly launched Copilot+ PC integrates GPT-4o and generative AI technologies, marking a significant step into the consumer market. This device not only enhances natural language processing and generation capabilities but also deeply embeds AI into hardware and software for an unprecedented user experience. Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips and optimized by Windows 11, Copilot+ PC changes how users interact with their computers, boosts work efficiency, and sparks creative inspiration. However, it also raises new challenges around privacy security and software compatibility. What opportunities and challenges do you see with the widespread application of AI in personal computers? Are you excited to use such AI-driven devices?
> No one is allowed to copy it nor do they have the Fuji scientists who developed it

I don't buy this. I can crank green and magenta, pull red, throw in a little contrast, and just a hint of gaussian noise to make the raw files from my OM-5 MKII look damn near identical to Fuji 400H.

Fuji has copyrights on things like "Superia," "Velvia," and "Provia." They have patents on Superia chemistry, and nobody else knows how to make it. What Fuji doesn't have is patents on "vivid greens and magentas with cool-leaning daylight white balance, fine grain and high acutance." Fuji's own ability to accurately simulate their film stocks digitally is proof that digital simulation of arbitrary film stocks is feasible. Just don't call them by name if you don't own the copyright.
Zooming allows you to narrow in on the content you desire from a big picture point of view while vertically scrolling you just must hope that you get lucky to find what you are looking for.
That's not what RAG is. RAG is the process of adding relevant information to a prompt in an LLM. It's a form of in-context learning.
As true today as it was back then. At MIT the atmosphere is around hard tech startups. That's even what the MIT accelerator specializes in https://engine.xyz/
Nice UI. Is some of this forked from Plausible?
On mobile it'd be helpful if the clickable area for the dots was larger
The write up two days ago by amalmurali47 [0], perhaps seems like a more usable source? (7 points)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40410427
Sale of what?
Macy's Went from Retail Pioneer to Dying Department Store [video]