skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd disagree. The public is rainbows; the private is gray. Google is rainbows, and the exterior cladding of the new apartment block is not unusually rainbows. But new kitchens, living rooms, and bathrooms are all gray.

And I do think it connects to cars. There's been a recent trend (maybe now a year or so passe, but still relatively strong) for Nardo Grey.

https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/why-do-new-cars-look-lik...

There's a lot of gray.
This is awesome but I really want to have Custom domain from the start (make it a paid plan). Owning my own domain and being able to move content around on different systems with a standard (Markdown) format is an awesome thing.

The ability to paywall part of the content is a brilliant idea and I already have ideas but that non-availability of custom domain is a no-deal for me right now.
Again: if it weren't for organised labour those "efficiency gains" would manifest as bigger profits for the owner class, not as better working conditions or more leisure or more money for the working class.

As, indeed, we've seen for the past 50 years in the first world: weak organised labour and skyrocketing inequalities between labour and capital.
The Dead Internet Theory says most activity on the internet is by bots [1]. The Dead Privacy Theory says approximately all private data is not private; but rather is accessible on whim by any data scientist, SWE, analyst, or db admin with access to the database.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
Whisper WebGPU: Real-time in-browser speech recognition
There's an association here to another topic which came up recently: a review of Matt Strassler's new book, Waves in an Impossible Sea [1]. Professor Strassler says a big motivation for writing this book was what he calls 'phibs': 'explanations' of physics so bowdlerized that they are not just uninformative, but at least misleading and sometimes outright wrong. The particular phib which got him started was a commonly-repeated attempt to give an idea of how the Higgs field gives rise to the masses of certain particles [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607307

[2] https://profmattstrassler.com/2024/04/16/why-the-higgs-field...
There is always an implied "as far as we know". But astronomy has a couple reasons to be fairly certain about many things. We can see a lot of stars, and because light takes time to travel the further away they are the older the state we are observing. We only see each star as it is right now, but from looking at a lot of them you get a good idea of how they can develop. Like how you can get a good idea of how humans age by just looking at a lot of people of different ages; you don't need to follow each of them for 90 years. The other advantage is that most of it is well understood physics that can be reasoned about and simulated. And then we can compare those simulations to what we are observing across the universe to see if our simulations make sense.
Okay so is Mamba also an llm? There’s too much name overloading!

I’m familiar with mamba, the conda like thing in python, but a numpy implementation of that makes no sense.
Using the same logic you might say that people shouldn't be allowed to drive until they are 24. Statistically far more lives would have been saved yesterday if we'd only simply restrict more liberties based on age alone.
People want to listen to folks who are confident.

And that sentence right there is an example of what I mean. I could write 10 words, 100 words or 1,000 words adding caveats to "People want to listen to folks who are confident," but most people don't want to hear it and they'd tune out. But nine words, they'll listen to and use that, even if it's not right all the time.

This isn't just an "online" issue. Anecdotally, I'd say it's in human nature. I've read plenty lamenting how men are (over)confident at work and garner (unwarranted) success relative to less confident women. And IME, confidence at work is pretty successful, if only because folks _try_ the confident suggestion. The person with a host of caveats might have a better suggestion, but they are less confident in their result, which folks sense and shy away from.

And then there are casual situations (which most of "online" discourse is), where I regularly see strangers confidently offer one another advice which is usually received positively. A lot of the advice is wrong, but that doesn't really matter.

> I sometimes wonder if that is why LLMs can so confidently hallucinate — because they were trained on piles of overconfident human texts.

The LLMs that I have worked with have no concept of "true" and "false". They have no sense of confidence in what they sense.

They _phrase_ it definitively because that's what we want.

"What is the capital of Australia."

"The capital of Australia is Timbuktu."

The LLM doesn't know if that's true. It's just making a statement we asked it to make.
Well that is pretty bad IMO. What's the point of sharing it if people can't access it? And I don't think there is even an option to pay for personal accounts.

It was a wonderful community-driven service and they basically canned the whole community, and moved to focus on commercial users. I think that's very bad. Even the site is totally useless now. Only crap news and some basic weather reports but it's very hard to find anything community generated.

What's worst though is that no alternative emerged. I had expected that to happen. It's sad that community alternatives always end up selling out. The same with ADS-B Explorer.
> you just need to re-energize and do absolutely nothing.

some theories support this statement and some contradict this, but for every advice, there is a counter-advice. it's too baffling
This came out about the same time as you wrote your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610435
I can't find such a comment in this thread, can you link it?
The core principle is still calorie restriction, this is just a modifier on top of that.

If they ran it with 18k cal per week then both would gain.

I don't think anyone thinks that macro/micronutrients and eating patterns are completely irrelevant, just that they have less effect than total calories, so IIFYM is a good starting point.

I would draw an analogy with say, distance running training. My understanding is that it is generally agreed that total mileage run is (within reason) the most important variable, and after that you have things like speed, intervals, other training, etc.
Feels more social than science.
this is som much confusing
Since you are familiar with the TeX StackExchange, perhaps you can ask there?

As you might be aware, the author of the message is David Carlisle, a very active member at TeX (766k rep) and is also a maintainer of many popular packages.

Needless to say, the guide you followed is 8 years old; Perhaps some things have changed.
I like to feel useful, and like I'm actually contributing to things. I probably didn't express it well in my first post, but the attitude is very much that my current role is obsolete and a relic that's just sticking around until the AI can do everything.

It means I'm marginalized in terms of planning. The company has long term goals that involve making good use of data. Right now, the plan is that "AI" will get us there, with no plan B is it doesn't work. When it inevitably fails to live up to the hype, we're going to have a bunch of clobbered together systems that are expensive to run, rather than something that we can keep iterating on.

It means I'm marginalized in terms of getting resources for projects. There's a lot of good my team could be doing if we had the extra budget for more engineers and computing. Instead that budget is being sent off to AI services, and expensive engineer time is being spent on tech support for people that slapped "LLM" all over their resume.
Or that the authors are themselves in a secret society that uses this gesture.
Define operations, because that sounds like a loophole that basically allows you to use it for anything
Where is your blog about this??

So I can post it to hacker news :/

No seriously I have a could have 2010 iMac laying around. How much was the i7?
Eww that’s not just a problem. The last two tell me something about the community. Hard pass.
They build a model of the universe's laws, as simple as they can get it while matching the evidence. They then look at other evidence they hadn't looked at before. It turns out, that quite simple models can predict a lot of different phenomena, which makes us reasonably confident in our assumptions that (1) the universe is governed by simple, fundamental laws; and (2) those laws are similar to our model.

If we make the assumption that our model applies everywhere and at every time (colloquially, that the laws of physics don't change), we can ask our models what happened in the past. Under our assumption, that's probably quite close to what actually happened. This assumption is called the "principle of induction", the "uniformitarian principle", the "cosmological principle", the "Copernican principle", and many other things besides.
We keep our cars at least a decade. Any color other than white or black will date the car fierce and many age poorly (I mean Teal went cool to lame in a snap — and I loved it in ‘92).

Honestly I felt that gunmetal grey would also age/date a car, but it does have staying power.
Ask HN: How to handle a senior hire turning out to be junior?
We hired a developer at the senior level who is lacking basic skills.

Essentially we had deficiencies in our technical interview that allowed for custom-fit preparation, the candidate excelled at selling themselves and negotiating, and there was a breakdown in internal communication where HR was under the impression we wanted to hire at any cost despite us giving the candidate a mediocre rating.

Now we've found they're struggling to do even basic stuff without help and are far from helping others or even taking ownership of minor areas.

They suffer from imposter syndrome (appropriately for once), which further hampers their productivity, communication, and growth as they're reluctant to ask for help with tasks they know should be easy, and equally reluctant to join the efforts of others who might notice their deficiencies.

The result is net-negative productivity. It would probably take another 6-12 months of intense training to get them somewhat productive, and several years to get them closer to the level we hired them at, assuming we can accelerate their learning.

This would require addressing the elephant in the room that they're not at the level we assumed, so that they will understand why we're changing the work mode, accept that learning should be a high priority, and feel permitted to seek more help when they need it. We probably can't reduce the salary, so more productive devs might also be offended if they become aware of it.

Even if we were to successfully address this elephant in the room, they might at some point realize they can't catch up to the level they were hired at without years of dedicated effort and thus quit or "quit internally", making our investment pointless.

I guess in most companies this would be a no-brainer, but we're a small outfit with a focus on personal development, intrinsic motivation, good climate, and low turnover.

Do you think there is any way to rescue this situation? Or should we make this (perhaps justifiably, after their misleading self-presentation) the first time we let someone go for performance reasons?
5. You can’t eat it if you don’t buy it. It’s easier to just not walk down that aisle in the supermarket, to not start looking at certain displays etc., than it is to not eat food that you’ve bought. It’s easier to not go to KFC than to eat less at KFC.

There is an excellent pizza restaurant one minute’s walk from my house, which does takeaway food. When I moved here I made a commitment to never order a takeaway from it, and in 18 years I never have.

I have no sugar in my house. In terms of sweet food I never buy more than I would feel was acceptable to eat in a day or so, and I go five or six days between shopping trips.

Aside from odd occasions in a pub, I haven’t had a fizzy drink with sugar in it for fifteen years, and I do not buy even the sugar free stuff to keep in the house.

6. You probably don’t need to eat red meat very often. Cutting back and finding alternatives will improve your diet.

7. Vegetables fill you up. Find at least one you like. Learn how to cook it. Then make it your longer term goal to find five more.

8. Only add salt when cooking —- if at all. And then less than you think you need. Herbs add flavours that can replace salt, and you can learn that by not buying salt for a while.

None of these habits are clever or pious. They all rely on the fact that I am an idiot with lifelong ARFID and little to no moral courage or willpower, and this means impactful decisions need to be taken where they are the easiest, and bigger changes need to be spread out over years.
Consider reading your book as chapters into a limited series podcast.
No, please no.
We're in a population boom thanks to fossil fuels, and our population either has to decline (accepting death and dying gracefully rather than propping up the near-dead with resource-costly modern medicine, for one, and also working on prevention) or we very quickly make do on much, much less.
SO2 is a technological stop-gap that is appealing because it might allow us, currently living, to keep living the way we're used to, with not enough consideration about future generations, including those other life forms with whom we're interdependent.
I actually think something like this could be a positive change. Anecdotally, I know many millennials who have found Instagram Reels uncomfortably addictive. My Gen Z friends and family say TikTok has an even “better” algorithm.

At a certain point, these platforms become like (no-cost) slot machines and take away a lot of our motivation and productivity as a society. Maybe this specific piece of legislation isn’t ideal but we should probably have some sort of regulation that treats addictive content along the lines of something similarly addictive like gambling. Gambling is obviously a more severe addiction for gambling addicts but social media addiction is much more common.

Does it go against the first amendment? No idea. However, we’re losing hours every day per social media addict to these algorithms and that’s a cost that I think we should take seriously as a society.
Don't forget about that earthquake in Japan in 2011 knocked out the only factory making automotive paint for a while. They focused on black and white until it was back up and running.
Unless you leave a note or tell someone, could the FAA determine it was intentional? Given the type of aircraft could a pilot plausibly commit suicide in a way that made it look like pilot error?
per the article: up to 13g or 3x the size of a normal earthworm. the photo in the article shows one that's just shy of two hand lengths.
Immunotherapy before surgery successful in treating colorectal cancer
This seems to be the absolute worst of all worlds: the burden of software engineering with the tools of an English Language undergrad.
> Fine-grained recognition. We found that humans are noticeably worse at fine-grained recognition (e.g. dogs, monkeys, snakes, birds), even when they are in clear view. To understand the difficulty, consider that there are more than 120 species of dogs in the dataset. We estimate that 28 (37%) of the human errors fall into this category, while only 7 (7%) of GoogLeNet erros do.

This is an interesting observation. It also makes claims of near-human-level performance somewhat suspect.
"Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy in Locally Advanced Mismatch Repair–Deficient Colon Cancer" - https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2400634
It's the photos that confused me. They weren't even dual-marked in C and F, just in F
Revolved I think would be the correct term for that.
How are can we get more followers on Twitter?
Earlier this year the FTC banned noncompetes in the USA.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/...
Wasn’t this basically what Dark Skies did?
Might cars that stand out more might attract the wrong kind of attention from police as well?
The way she wants to use "dark matter", MOND is a dark matter theory (explains (some of) the same observations), and no one else uses it that way. "Dark matter" always means some kind of matter, whatever the specifics. Think of it as a family of theories if that helps.
I probably should've clarified that I absolutely understand the hate for pointer acceleration. I just disagree that it's bad UX ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Your point though does make we wish that DPI, sensitivity, and the acceleration curve were all configurable directly in the pointer settings for Mac and Windows.
It's just a matter of style. People copy the styles that they identify themselves with/aspire to. Artist copy each other, black kids copy 50cent, white kids copy jake paul, gay men copy each others feminine affectations. Once you notice it, it's everywhere.
It should be noted that deuterium-tritium fusion is not what is happening in the Sun. The primary reaction chain involves proton-proton fusion, which yields deuterium. The deuterium immediately (within seconds) reacts with another proton to make helium-3. Helium-3 eventually fuses with another He-3 to make He-4 and two protons. There are some side chains, but the ultimate overall reaction is four protons + 2 electrons --> 4He + 2 neutrinos.
Why are emissions expected to peak in 2024? Are people going to fly or drive less miles? Are we going to live in smaller, more energy efficient houses? Are we going to consume less compute resources? I’m sure we will deploy more renewables; we have certainly seen impressive performance there, but it has supplemented rather than replaced carbon-based sources so far. I believe there are also a lot of new starts for natural gas power plants in the US to support power intensive AI needs. And coal use world wide is still quite high.

I do agree that it would be encouraging to see a decrease in emissions (though I suspect we may have already passed some points of no return), but we have not yet seen the peak and I do not understand why one would believe that next year will be better than this year. A solution will require actual collective action that has proven infeasible for my entire life.
The core principle is still calorie restriction, this is just a modifier on top of that.

If they ran it with 18k cal per week then both would gain.

I don't think anyone thinks that macro/micronutrients and eating patterns are completely irrelevant, just that they have less effect than total calories, so IIFYM is a good starting point / first order simplification.
Yikes I hope this is tongue-in-cheek, I definitely don't want a statistical process deciding whether to surface a life-critical alarm to healthcare staff
sounds like you might like to read books from independent presses. this distributor is a good place to find stuff: https://asterismbooks.com/

> Write something someone wants.

i don't think we should apply a VC-isms to art. so many great pieces of art were overlooked because the market didn't want them at the time, only to be discovered and appreciated later.
There's far too much mention of climate science and carbon sequestration in the article. I appreciate that it does also note the importance of forested wetlands as habitats for organisms, but this should be without question the primary emphasis. I really worry that we're creating a generation of humans that think that the value of natural habitats primarily has to do with their effects on the climate.
Technically speaking, yeah. The US would much rather rely on strike warfare than grind out infantry over 155mm artillery. If US Military doctrine is ever made to rely on shelling your opponent and nothing else, America would have to surrender posthaste.

Practically speaking though, I wouldn't say NATO allies "force" Ukraine to do much besides make sure the war doesn't go nuclear. The biggest way they (especially the US) manipulates Ukraine is by offering conditional aid and creating red tape that Russia doesn't abide by. Ukraine wishes they had the ability to echo US doctrine, but circumstantially they are fighting a ground battle with last-generation weaponry.
I think the claim that it’s an unnatural position definitely needs justifying. A search of a corpus of modern photographs to determine the base rate for hands resting in this pose and a comparison of that to the rate depicted in renaissance art would seem to be the minimal due diligence to determine if there’s even an effect that needs explaining, before delving into the relative likelihood of Masonic symbolism.
The models are so good that when solar neutrinos were not as predicted, it turned out to be because of new physics (neutrino oscillation) not flaws in the solar model.
Dependency management is just.. hard. It is one of the things where everything relies upon it but nobody thinks "hey, this is my responsibility to improve" so it is left to people who have the most motivation, academic posts, or grant funding. This is roughly the same problem that led to heartbleed for OpenSSL.
Professor vs. ChatGPT: The Grading Showdown
A lot of people go into a car dealership because they need a car right now because of an accident or an impending expensive repair. If the only option on the lot is in hot pink, that might be enough to make the buyer go to the dealership the next town over but white/silver/gray options may be "good enough" even if that's not what the buyer would pick out of the catalog all other things being equal.
As a reader, but how about as a publisher, will you take the risk? :)
Who uses Twitter? That website is full of ads and too annoying to link to any of my friends.
Warren Buffet rates the CEO as the second best CEO in the world (after Jeff Bezos) and invested in 2008:

>BYD (for “Build Your Dreams”) is a Chinese manufacturer of automobiles and batteries that is building electric bus fleets and monorails for cities around the world. Berkshire Hathaway bought a large stake in the country in 2008. Wang, a trained chemist and the company’s low-key founder, is worth about U.S.$5.5 billion.

> Charlie Munger, Buffett’s long-time business partner and Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman, first suggested investing in BYD, Buffett told Quick. “Charlie called me one day and says, ‘We’ve got to buy BYD. This guy runs it better than Thomas Edison.’ And I said, ‘That isn’t good enough.’ And he called a little later and said, ‘He’s a combination of Edison and Bill Gates.’ And I said, ‘Well, you’re warming up but it still isn’t good enough.'”

> Eventually, Munger’s view prevailed. “Now it’s worked out so well that I’m actually starting to remember that it was my idea,” Buffett said. Of Wang, he added, “He’s got big, big ideas and he’s very good at executing.”
Hey! Author here! It's been 3 years since I wrote this article. I realized pretty soon I don't need as much resources. I think I'm at 17 bucks per month currently, and I have several more projects running.
Getting Started with Mister
Agree. But even with dependencies running "make" seems to be way simpler than having to install particular version of tools for a project, making venv and then picking versions of dependencies.

The point is the same - we had it simpler and now, with all capabilities for automation, we have it more complex.

Frankly, I suspect most of the efforts now are spent fighting non-essential complexities, like compatibilities, instead of solving the problem at hand. That means we create problems for ourselves faster than removing them.
Fine, "paying damages as claimed".
I think if weather.com or accuweather need my data they can pay for it.
How many books in the last 40 years have called for "the end of snowfalls" or said "glaciers are a thing of the past"? How many books were published insisting that there'd be dozens of billions of people, all starving to death, by now?

Odd how the concern to avoid error doesn't apply there.