skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ Second, there are no surface form clues to exploit and bias the search towards the ground truth proof”

Foundational models are usually trained with a lot of stuff before doing these kinds of tests. Can we know the above statement is true? That something (a) wasn’t in the training data and (b) didn’t have surface-level clues a ML algorithm could spot which the authors didn’t?

I felt like asking the latter because both GA’s and NN’s have found simple patterns in problems that humans missed for a long time. They used those patterns to heuristically solve those problems. It might be hard to design tests that eliminate a factor humans can’t see.
> Since its creation, STEM has evolved to cover a broader set of key air pollutants, such as ozone and particulate matter,

I've always found air quality metrics focusing on particle size confusing. E.g. PM2.5 (which describes fine inhalable particles, with diameters that are generally 2.5 micrometers and smaller)

But surely there must be a massive qualitative difference between particulate matter of, e.g., lead vs particulate matter of, e.g., pollen or fungal spores, right? How useful is it really to lump all of these together?
They're just making a comment about the consolidation reversing the anti-trust breakup of Bell/AT&T.
Didn't YouTube (and many others) make it clear that they're plenty willing to work with government officials to censor free speech that the officials don't like?

Don't get me wrong, YouTube is well within its rights to decide what content they do and don't want to host and distribute. Its clear that these companies are, in fact, for profit businesses though.

They aren't going to stand behind free speech and wouldn't even touch the idea of "absolute free speech" which is itself a confusing and misunderstood argument that we can somehow have free speech with limitations.

At best, YouTube will inconsistently protect free speech in some areas and censor it in others. The only real answer is for users to go elsewhere, ideally to something they themselves control, if they want to avoid most risks of censorship.
What does "free speech" mean to you?
Anyone who thinks C is simple is just aiming the gun at their foot. If you want simple, you want something like Scheme.
They don't even need to be heavier --- I'm still sad that I wasn't able to replace my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 w/ an equivalent (but newer) device.
Never. My sister-in-law had the same Model S for like 11 years. There was no need.

The whole thing about expensive battery replacements every 3 years is mostly propaganda from entrenched interests. There are legitimate isolated horror stories, but battery replacements don't generally need to be a thing. Do your own research, but that's my experience. I know a fair number of EV owners.
I don’t mind that iPadOS is limited, my gripe is that Apple limits Mac hardware to protect the iPad. Where’s my 11” OLED MacBook with eSIM? Where’s my Mac with hinged screen and Apple Pencil support? My mac with tolerable cameras?

I bet we’d have seen at least some of these if not for a decade of trying to make the iPad answer the “what’s a computer?” question.
Cameras Emulating Cameras
The most surprising IR controlled device I've seen lately is a butt plug.

Avoiding FCC testing for the win.
? It's a surprisingly long list of intergovernmental organisations and ProtonMail. Not sure why I've not heard of them before.
Why Japan Is Lagging Behind in Cyber Defense Capabilities
While it may not happen for you, “too lazy to look it up” is the vast majority of CS requests.

My understanding from talking to a couple of CS execs is that these have been a slam dunk in terms of ROI because CS agents don’t need to handle type C requests. I expect we’ll only see more as time goes on.
I have no idea how the author was unable to figure out that particular return process. It’s dead simple.

But also, we’ve gotta take our pick: either we want easy returns or more waste and new products hitting up the landfill.

My wasteful Amazon purchases have plummeted since I canceled Prime. Turns out that the little $9 widget you need isn’t so important when shipping visibly costs extra.
I see [1], thanks for sharing.
I'll need to dig a bit deeper in your implementation!

[1] https://github.com/wasmi-labs/wasmi/blob/master/crates/wasmi...
Maybe they already changed it, but there's a chapter "As easy as 1-2-3."

I'd personally move that way up. I had to scroll across all sorts of fluff and effects. I was sold by this (edit: this chapter, not the fluff)

Maybe I'd personally even research how to make the entire website just that. Where maybe step 0 is "install the app" :D

The (promised) simplicity of the app doesn't show in the communication of the website at least.
It means college kids can shout genocidal slogans without being arrested for it.
GraphQL is good at complex specificity. Leaving it to the caller how it wants its data structured in the return.

The struggle with it is more on the provider side. As you'd have horrible performance if you'd just rawdog an ORM onto it. The complexity of combining is where you'll struggle.

Last I played with GraphQL was with PHP. There is exactly one package that did GraphQL at that time. Where we had to define the models both in yaml and php.

Though this could probably be solved with dynamic building of the yaml.

Also last I checked the testing utils werent there yet.

Though it is really cool to be able to do supergraphs if you decide to do microservices.

Alternatives are json and protobuf. GraphQL kind of lands between big json blobs and protobuf's binary in size. Due to it's possible exactness. But that is wholly dependant on implementation.
Why do people like to suffer? Just get a used Lenovo Carbon that’s a few years old, plop Ubuntu on it and do all of that with a proper computer with a larger screen, good keyboard, and no “tricks” whatsoever. And if the internet connection conks out, you can still do whatever you need to do
Wait, disturbance is the prblem? I always thought disturbance is a means of getting attention. But maybe you should talk to FFF activists, I hear they are extremely good with disturbing the common man.
From your article:

> The results reveal that the cost of insuring these electric cars is indeed higher, but the difference is not as substantial as the headlines would suggest. The EV was actually cheaper to cover for one of our drivers.

Your £160/month on fuel over 2 years is £3,840. An EV charged on octopus would be at least a quarter of that, maybe less. So let’s say £960 - almost a £3k difference.

You can absolutely get second hand EVs for £11k - this seems to be at odds with your statement about low resale values too. The low residuals angle is being pushed hard at the moment but when I go looking all I see is standard depreciation on new vehicles.

The “burn forever” thing seems to be getting pushed a LOT lately too. Strange when they are 20x less likely to catch fire in the first place and car fires are already pretty rare. https://thedriven.io/2023/05/16/petrol-and-diesel-cars-20-ti...
When your API is large enough to where overfetching becomes an issue.
> roughly 1/3 of Vancouver’s condo supply was vacant.

Why do you choose to just tell lies?
LOL. Next you will say people setting off firecrackers on 4th July as cities are being set on fire across US.
Yes, I felt the same way. It felt like Allen Iverson's "Practice' press conference. Just because you repeat your opinion over and over doesn't make for an argument.
> EXCEPT when there's a fire

I heard a description a few weeks ago - on TikTok, of all places - that perfectly describes this for me:

I'm calm under stress, and stressed when it's calm.
People want youtube to censor totalitarian propaganda and allow free speech. It's not surprising when you thing about it.
Reproducing GPT-2 (124M) in llm.c in 90 minutes for $20
Are you just referring to the additional upkeep expenses of home ownership?
When your API becomes large enough where overfetching becomes an issue.
Well, I am serious, why is that such a surprise to you? I'm not puzzled by the fact that there aren't any explicitly organized "pro-Hamas" demos - I would suspect that most democratic countries would not allow demonstrations to support terrorist organizations, and that is what Hamas is considered to be by most Western nations.
Complexity without ease of use costs. S3 kind of forces you to use those features. If all you wanted was just a public/private access, you're forced to read into the complexity of S3's complex permission system.

So, to be fair, yes it costs to not use features you do not need in this case.

You literally pay by the hour to use S3, and you also pay the hours you spend trying to understand the permissions and modify settings, so it literally costs to not use the features you do not need in this case. I'm trying to make an argument, I'm not saying you pay much, but I answered your question, and you do pay, either by time, or money.
Do the go after the sail boats or is it just motorboats.

The propellers are quite loud under the water, I wonder if they are maybe annoyed by the noise and learnt attacking those vessels makes the noise go away
Integration Hurdles for Analog and RF in Next-Gen Packages
My calculator manages
Another quack science bloom, forensic science should be banned to the quack side of the campus for all the good they do. Bloodsplat patterns, firetraces, only one redeeming factor is dna traces.
From this list the only thing it can’t do is Steam and running a dev env (though you can do that via a remote shell or VM).

It already supports SMB, mechanical keyboards, storage, alt-tab via keyboard, multiple windows with stage manager or split screen, extended display, and headphones.
Because events in such states often are, they are similar to jokes, dreams, and mistakes (to evoke the Freudian trio)
I'm curious what types of sensitive data you scan for, besides personally identifiable information? For example, how do you scan for IP that might be custom to an enterprise?
CedarDB: German-Powered, PostgreSQL-Compatiable Freak of Nature Database System
CedarDB is the commercial version of the impressive Umbra database system from TU Munich.
Saying Goodbye to ICQ
Yeah we need a CivilTube, that will work very well.
> LLM chatbots are even worse. They have great latitude to say convincing and incorrect information, but can rarely actually do anything. It would be much better to just publish a good knowledge base.

The problem of course is that users have all been trained that knowledge bases are terrible and will go straight to support without even bothering to look.

Many users also don’t really want to become an expert in your thing. They just want someone to solve their problem and don’t care how

For example: I could learn the ins and outs of quickbooks, but I don’t really wanna. The once or twice per year that the UI won’t let me easily do what I want – straight to support.
From the article: *"Proponents promised it would jumpstart the economy and increase tax revenue, even at lower rates. Instead, budget deficits ballooned."

"Increasing tax revenues" and "ballooning budget deficits" are NOT mutually exclusive.

The use of the word "Instead" seems to imply that these things are mutually exclusive.
Because people are getting tiered of being fed which topics they should discuss. Let's discuss the hypocrisy at home before we talk about problems elsewhere
Ask HN: Best (Non-Material) Vue 3 Component Library?
Seems pretty barren, are there any good options? Preferably with solid accessibility
You should consider actually trying it, before you confidently write it off. F-Droid is amazing and the single-greatest force keeping me off the official Google Play and YouTube apps. I don't suffer through ad-enabled PDF readers or subscription-service native apps; it's all just free software, and it beats the pants off every other mobile software store I've ever used. It is actually that good.
No, it is disingenuous to suggest that there are bona fide Hamas supporters anywhere in large numbers in the West.

There are:

1) Naive college students who latch onto righteous political causes

2) Passionate lifelong anti-apartheid, anti-war activists who support the human rights of Palestinians

Neither of these groups are "Hamas operatives". Slinging a contentious slogan here and there is not that.

OTOH, the Israeli government is extremely interested in painting all opposition as "Hamas". And they've done so rather successfully.
Not sure how many really better words there are.

Onerous? Extreme? Oppressive? Bullying?

It does after all refer to a contract people were apparently pressured into signing when quitting (and not when signing up), that apparently offered no new consideration, and required them to never say anything bad about OpenAI, for life, on penalty of losing remuneration another signed contract entitled them to.

It's journalism. But even the lawyers are saying "egregious". Which is really really not good in this context.

"Draconian" fits, considering how it is normally used.
True. Those observations can be interesting!

At the same time, the Ruby repo has a few TOML files in it – not related to the implementation, but nesting in vendored Rust libraries for other tooling. So is TOML is used to implement Ruby? I can see how it could be argued both ways! Nearly all git repos contain a Markdown README – is Markdown part of an implementation? I just think a threshold could reduce the noise and make those insights you mention even clearer.

In any case, I salute your work because there are very few people doing this sort of analysis and hope you take my casual observations in the spirit they're offered. Take my upvote!
Indeed - clearly it matters what the particles are made from. Some stuff won't even be toxic, like particles of water (fog).
To counter the author’s experience, just last week I brought an Amazon return to the UPS store, they scanned the QR code from the email Amazon sent and I was on my way in less than a minute.
There's a 3rd party app the run the Figma editor inside. You can also run it through browser, but it's more ideal on a 13".

Totally agree though, in this day and age 1st party Figma should be on there.
Well there's banning and there's effective banning. If you make the regulatory structure so cumbersome that no one wants to participate, that's an effective ban, whether you intend it or not, whether you realize it or not.

Given the almost complete lack of foreign Internet companies in China, I'd say there's good evidence the effective ban is intentional. That's really what I mean when I say "China banned Youtube".

Also, Google has shown prior willingness to comply with Chinese regulation (eg participation before the pullout in ~2010 and Dragonfly [1]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
You would literally have a hard time paying me enough to deal with AT&T ever again. Worst CS experiences ever, and I've managed to cancel XM-Radio and AOL before.
It’s a smear campaign because of the focus, not if he or he did not do what he said
From the articles I read, they are making 7 nm on old dutch (AMSL?) equipment and their yields aren't great (they get quantity by just throwing money at the yield problem).

> The chip was fabricated by China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC, a silicon foundry. (The Commerce Department says SMIC makes chips for the Chinese military, a charge the company denies.) SMIC produces the Kirin 9000s using Deep Ultraviolet lithography equipment acquired before the latest American sanctions. Huawei’s claim to have produced 7nm circuits was verified by the Canadian firm TechInsights and by Tilly Zhang of Gavekal Dragonomics.

> To begin, the DUV process “success rate”—that is, the percentage of chips coming off the manufacturing line that actually work as designed—may or may not be up to the industry norm. Neither SMIC nor Huawei are releasing much data about the new chip or its production process. As Gavekal’s Zhang has noted, SMIC may have pushed the DUV process as far as it will go, reaping only 40 percent or fewer usable chips. Huawei's competitors, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., have been producing 7nm chips for over five years; their success rate generally tops 90 percent.

(https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2023/11/size-isnt-everythin...)

It isn't commercially viable yet, but it can be subsidized. They do talk about using their own lithography equipment soon.
The New York Times' plans to correlate attention levels to other metrics
The Y Combinator explained in a runnable Scheme file
Context always matters. I have no trouble imagining scenarios in which I would prefer a chatbot, and scenarios where I would prefer or even require a human.

However, one way in which chatbots are often preferred: They cost less to the business. Whether they're good or not seems to be a secondary concern. So, if your coworker is describing what the people inside the business want, they're probably right!
>> want to bullshit some kind of demand for it into existence

Some blockchain people have leveraged that into lucrative careers, albethey short.
Do we need 1 atmosphere of pressure on Mars to survive? Cusco has 40% less oxygen than sea level and people there seem just fine.
Jeans escape is not the only way an atmosphere can be lost.

If a planet doesn't have a magnetic field, the solar wind can directly erode the atmosphere (ionizing molecules and carrying away the ions and electrons in the magnetic fields of the wind.)
My favorite style currently is bright yellow vertical bar (2~3px), non flashing, against a dark background.
If you are an international company, you play by their rules. If you are dealing with a totalitarian dictator, then expect you're going to have some unsavory rules to contend with and have a PR team ready for any blow back. This is some groups unhappy with mean person in charge being mean.

Civil society would be better if people were not taking advantage of free speech and posting whatever non-sense that gets passed as legit causing chaos and turmoil within the masses.
saying "randomness can't lead to intelligence" is the talking point

Given enough time, a monkey randomly typing on a keyboard could hypothetically produce Shakespeare.

But talking points aside, this does not make the monkey more "intelligent" nor does it mean that "randomness" is a practical methodology for achieving specific results on a human timescale.

Particularly when the desired result is as complex and poorly understood as "intelligence".
I know it's a minor thing, but why does this link to GitHub? The repository is described only as being a mirror of a SourceHut repo, and the user's profile has a banner telling that he's part of the giveupgithub.org movement. Looking at this post's submitter username, I think OP is the one who owns the repository, so why do this?
This article confuses several topics. It lures the reader in with the reasonable proposition that personal tax cuts for Bill Gates and other billionaires does not benefit the poorer class, but ends on the conclusion that high corporates tax rates and business regulation are thus good things. The topics are related in the sense many wealthy people own companies (as do most middle class Americans via stocks and 401K plans), but are distinct. In fact, several lines of economic thought criticize high corporate taxes on equality grounds: corporate taxes are blunt instruments and when they are raised, it’s not the CEO or board who takes the pay cut, it’s the rank and file worker the CEO and board decide to fire.

The article then tries to argue against business deregulation. Certainly there are industries that need more regulation (I.e. better privacy standards would benefit society), but the article makes no specific arguments against dysregulation other than a shallow pejorative association with Ronald Reagan, a politician the author clearly detests.

All in all, this is a poor, confused mess of an article that serves as more of a rant than any sort of analysis.
I prefer these mobile operating systems not dependent on the big tech: https://pine64.org/documentation/PinePhone/Software/Releases...
They're especially slam dunks when they don't provide you with a way to get out of the automated useless system. Looking at you Amazon
Is a neural network even really necessary? This seems like something where careful application of some normal math would work. Find a loud event, correlate the loud event across devices to get offsets (by sequence ID, not clock time), do some fancy math to apply inverse sin waves or what not.

That's not to diminish the accomplishment or say that it's easy (or that I could do it), but I don't think a neural network is necessary here.
Definitely. XP/Vista tablets had more weaknesses than strengths, and while Windows 8/10/11 tablets corrected many of the missteps of their predecessors the overall experience still wasn’t as compelling as that of an iPad, despite the versatility of Windows and limitations of iPadOS.

Part of that was due to x86 tablets either being hot and noisy with awful battery life or severely underpowered, though. While there would still be software issues (like traditional Windows apps not being touch-friendly) and privacy concerns (Recall), Snapdragon X powered tablets might finally fix at least the hardware woes of Windows tablets.
You make it sound so simple, but the devil is in the details. You've not even gone into the high level details, let alone the low level details. Each level adds more complexity and more cost.

At the highest level, obviously the problem can't be solved with a one time purchase of 600k homes. The homes will be worn out and require replacing, some of them very rapidly, and their number will need to grow with time as new people requiring homes come to the city or drop out of regular housing. How many more homes do you need to build each year after the initial batch?

Furthermore, this number of homes has an infrastructure cost which isn't captured in your 10k figure. How much does it cost to hook each one into the grid, water and sewage? Without these they will be spoiled immediately.

And what of the land cost? Tiny homes aren't usually high rises, so you'll be creating tiny home suburban sprawl. Where do you put it? It should be close to city services, otherwise you might as well make it a camp in the wilderness. But it would be an inefficient use of space close to the city where land is generally valuable, and the cost of the land needs to be factored into it.

Furthermore you need to consider the impact to property values this housing project will have. Reduced property values means reduced revenue, from property taxes, from the city. This should be included in the cost of the project when proposing it.
Completely unsurprised. Just consider the energy density of gasoline or a modern EV battery.

The fact remains that a full EV battery can really take you a long ways.
This is probably the most ground axe in the software dev blogosphere, I wonder if something is going on like the way Triplebyte paid bloggers to write articles titled “Hiring is broken”.
Yesterday someone posted this awesome 3D fractal visualizer for the browser (it runs really well on my phone):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493981
You registered your account in 2023, so you're relatively new here, but you're in the wrong place with that sort of comment.

Or maybe you're not, Hacker News has evolved away from its mission and audience and I'm in the wrong place.
The internet has run out of training data
This is what every web page used to look like
What age is reasonable? Okay, maybe not 30s. How about 40s? The way we are headed most GenZs are not going to have enough to be able to afford a house in their 40s or even 50s.