skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe AI won't forget bacteria in the ice, but like us, it is really good at finding patterns, but at a massive scale. Instead of an accident it could find the hibernation mechanism from another angle.

And if AGI becomes a thing, it might go "Hey, this is funny" in weird ways after it has ingested enough data.

I love the novel Colossus because almost 60 years ago it portayed realistically how a nascent AGI could behave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(novel)
Yarn (YC W24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers in NYC
Is there a database for s-expressions?
I find it contentful enough, but yeah, it doesn't get into the "how" of science and engineering at all.
US Regulators to Open Antitrust Inquiries of Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia
> The story you’re replying to happened in the United States.

I haven't seen any indicator of that at the time. Your comment does not mention anything in it about the US. Everyone is reading as if it happened in Spain. I don't even know whether occupying is possible in the US, bar a few specific states in certain conditions.

Regardless, it could have happened in Spain, and this is a topic related to Spain, my earlier comment still serves to make a statement in relation to the actual topic at hand.
It's a thing at Netflix! And a pretty extensive and detailed approach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCBA3VD5dQ

https://netflixtechblog.com/artwork-personalization-c589f074...
You're talking about the stated reasoning, but politicians in general, but especially those politicians, have long track records of lying.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://www.openculture.com/2024/06/the-roads-of-ancient-rom.... Thanks!
And int he uk the highest speed limit is 70, and in busy areas it’s usually 60 or 50 on highways from average speed camera enforcement of variable speed limits.

In towns it’s 30 and there’s plenty of cameras, for speed, red lights, bus lanes etc.

The world doesn’t end.
I'm waiting to see if the NY Times tells me I should be outraged by this.
TSMC ponders boosting AI chip production prices for Nvidia: Morgan Stanley
Fair points and I accept the minus votes. I just feel a bit desperate at the monent.

And I live in a place likely to be the best places to have civilization to survive.

Trying a random thing to shake the discussion on some relatively influential forum onto some novel tracks is one thing to try.

Last time my post was a bit longer and ellicited some interesting information.

One positive thing was this one claim that by some projection climate enissions might start finally going down in 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415541
But we have 100s of TLDs?
I think they package many of their chips in Thailand, so that's where those chips ship from. I don't know about these chips in particular.
Everyday Astronaut speculated that we may see a catch attempt next and that next flight could be as early as within 2 months.
I think they should be a distinction between open-source and open-weight LLM's.
This does not contradict what I've said.
To get a gentler reentry, you need a greater lift-to-drag ratio.

To have a better hypersonic lift-to-drag ratio you need significantly more wing area, which is dead weight (and drag and a control problem) on the way up.
If you have normalizations enabled, you don't need to "switch into a vertical stack"

Given this layout:

h_tiles
├── window1 (focused)
├── window2
└── window3

`move left` will produce this layout:

h_tiles
├── window1 (focused)
└── v_tiles
├── window2
└── window3
The analogy with the sea is great also in territorial questions, international waters and piracy of course.
Honestly, I think the problem is people, not tools. Any time a company wants to create an exception-based vs a rules-based process, it screws things up royally from an efficiency POV.

To give a stupid example, I was once responsible for all the enterprise apps at an F500 used by Finance, HR, and Supply Chain/Procurement. This included our internal travel request tool, which had embedded approval hierarchies based on HR hierarchies & levels -- as one would expect. In the 2008 recession, part of the belt tightening was a new policy that the CFO had to personally approve any international travel requests, no matter who submitted them. Theoretically it was a very easy change, but can you imagine how unpleasant it was to build that logic into the system in a non-destructive way ... but a way that also had exception-handling to deal with times the CFO wasn't personally available.
At worst everyone should have an access to piece of land where they can build a shelter for themselves, or live in a yurt or an RV if they don't want to build the typical housing.
They had at least 3 (I think 4 but there were 3 visible at once) different camera's on the upper stage I think they also got destroyed though and the melting fin was the most interesting thing they could show so they just stayed with it.

As neat as the idea of different shields is that's a whole extra layer of weight and controls for a non critical thing so I'm not surprised it doesn't happen.
Aptly dubbed Flap Norris.
> I do see many cyclists blatantly violating traffic rules. But I'm not even sure cyclists are more prone to do so than drivers

I think it's likely that many cyclists blatantly violate traffic rules because they aren't even required to remotely know traffic rules before riding

There is no training or licensing required to cycle

Car drivers are required to be both licensed and insured

I would guess some percentage of cyclists, the very serious cyclists, will know the traffic rules better than almost anyone on the road. The rest will be on par or worse than your average driver
ChatGPT stops answering questions on future elections after wrong answers
A dad's diet affects his sperm – and his sons' health
What happens if you resize your browser window?
TBH this doesn't seem much different than what western credit warehousers (e.g. transunion/equifax/experian) do.
And indeed has been done too!

"The human remains aboard the lander won't be the first on the moon, as ashes of Gene Shoemaker, the founder of astrogeology, were buried on the moon in the late 1990s by the Lunar Prospector."
Open AI: Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders [pdf]
The flash on the mbed was a real 2MB FAT disk that you could upload one or more random files to, not just mbed binaries. I assume they built a dual ported flash driver that arbitrates access between the loader and the USB storage driver. I should also mention it looked for .bin files and checked the mtimes
to load the newest .bin file in the disk's root. So it was using a real FAT file system on both ends.
QEMU is used in basically every single hardware vendor today and has been since I've been in virtualization/containerization tech (2010+).

I've only seen Vmware (gsx/esx) at Windows shops for things like big Exchange clusters, etc. Every CDN I've worked at used qemu.
I'm a little skeptical. Most politicians are just drumming up votes. Last time Trump won I believe they had the House, Senate, and White House for a year ot two. They didn't do very much. Most of it was small changes that didn't affect most people. It's unlikely this time would be any different, especially with less legislative branch support.

The real problem is that both sides have gotten more extreme, more polarized, and less likely to make legitimate compromises or understand the concerns of the other side.

Edit: why disagree?
Thank you for doing the right thing.
Unlike regular hash functions, so-called perfect hash functions guarantee that no collisions ever happen, that is, every two distinct keys map to different hash values, which allows for the construction of hash tables with strict O(1) performance. This seemingly impossible feat comes with the tradeoff that the set of elements must be known in advance prior to table initialization. In this talk we'll review the basics of perfect hashing theory, explain some of the most common algorithms found in the literature, review some C++ perfect hashing libraries and learn how perfect hashing can be used to improve the efficiency of our programs.

Video: https://youtu.be/yOo6GnbKzp8

Presentation: https://github.com/joaquintides/usingstdcpp2024/raw/main/Per...

Repo: https://github.com/joaquintides/usingstdcpp2024
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y4ntuyP6uk6JG3KKhAPEDoBjr7e...
Yep. Worse, p-hacking can be done by accident. I mean, the term implies intent, but a dogshit null hypothesis is problematic regardless of whether it is dogshit on purpose or merely due to lack of skill on the part of the researcher. Either way, it pumps publication numbers and dumps publication quality. If 100% of researchers were 100% honest, we would still see this effect boost low-quality research.
> The tools and systems would tell us "all data is used for everything"

Reminds me of the tendency in program analysis to just spit out top (e.g. all possible values) because the state space overwhelms automated reasoning, and the only way back is annotating/rewriting code to help the analyzer forward.

But, as someone who doesn't think/deal with data much, this is a surprise to me. It makes sense though. Does this mean our data is forever tainted, as were?

Since you've been proximate to this work: do you think there's any hope in flipping the script such that possessing/processing this data is a liability rather than an asset? That's one of the few ways I can see to align incentives between highly monied-interests and the targets of data collection. (I'm doubt this will happen in the US in my lifetime, barring a major, 9/11-level event where abuse of this data is directly tied to the catastrophe.)
This paper is not cited in the book thankfully.
Secondary residence here doesn't mean your 2nd house as opposed to the 3rd, it means a vacation home (ie a place you own for your own use, even if it's not you main residence. As opposed to a rental property)
Royal with cheese
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyona-egorova/
Structured logging is a thing; there are such libraries for other languages too.
Why doesn't a key exchange in a secure environment before any attacker has physical access give the same security benefits of "an interactively provided secret like a PIN"?
I don't agree with the notion of buying a plot. No one should ever have to pay for an empty plot of land.
https://youtu.be/8VESowgMbjA?t=31800

Around 8:50-10:00
Itidem mihi, nobis ergo sunt naves longae navigandae
I wish more news outlets would write news like this. So much value-less fluff now a days, all to improve a "time spent on page" metric, which they hope might possibly translate into more $ads.
One of the most predatory and litigious startups around, happy to see it dead.
No it doesn't. It's like the Linux market. Most effort is being wasted re-inventing the wheel, forking other repos, and creating new distros. Except now distro = LLM.
This is the official stream.

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ

If you prefer youtube, these are probably the best 3rd parties:

* Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VESowgMbjA

* NASASpaceFlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTkhv4fvOgA
This seems limited compared to the observability frameworks that integrate with the popular LLM frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex. When you use those, you want automatic traces for the nested calls hidden down the function call chain.

This really seems more like a Flask API tracing example with as LLM call as an endpoint. Dare I call it a shallow developer marketing piece?

re: LLM observability more generally, they mostly seem to be building their own full-stack suite, whereas I'd like them to ship to my existing Grafana LGTM stack. I'm keen to check out https://docs.openlit.io/latest/introduction and migrate away from LangFuse, but there is the feedback on model response -> training dataset that is really nice
V2 was of questionable legitimate military utility too. Sure you can hit a target the size of a city, but unlike carpet bombing, the payload isn't enough to guarantee that something specific is destroyed. So you can only use it to randomly harm civilians and maybe every once in a while hit a military target. Compare this with the Western Allies' approach where they also killed and maimed tons of civilians but at least stood some chance of also destroying the building-sized thing they were aiming at, given the stupefying tonnage of bombs involved.

"Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? 'That's not my department,' says Werner Von Braun." -- Tom Lehrer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
>What if ubiquitous mass surveillance is good actually because it forces us to come to grips with realities we'd rather pretend are otherwise?

Then it still isn't good. The downsides outweigh the upsides.
Where did all that money go though?

I doubt it went to the business.
I don’t like that you’re being downvoted. I mean, I don’t agree with the hypothesis, but it’s an interesting perspective from a well known source.
How do we actually implement this? Imma struggling to work out how I could use this rather than my stupid langraph, recursive rag checking crap that takes too much time and never really does justice.
No doubt you hit the nail on the head, for two reasons:

1. Immigration is a federal matter, commerce is (mostly) a provincial matter. In practice, this means the federal government brings in the people it thinks should be most economically useful for the economic need that is present, but the provinces put up red tape to disallow them from being most useful. The canonical example here being the trained medical doctor left to drive a taxi.

2. Immigrants tend to want to settle amongst each other. Which is no doubt important socially, but the communities are most often not located where there is the economic need. This leaves individuals to be under-utilized, if even jobless, all while employers can't find anyone to hire. Since provincially-regulated employers can't find anyone to hire, the federal government sees a need for even more people and use one of the few tools they have. You can guess what happens next.
'Cold lava' floods Philippines village after eruption
Ask HN: Selling Software Solutions to a Hospital
I've recently uncovered a fairly large US hospital tech stack that consists of Salesforce (patient data entry) fed into HMS (managed services) and then fed into WellSky, which then ports to Sequel (Fortra?) for things like bed tracking, etc. It's wild, and many of the nurses/admissions are using additional apps (Excel) to fill in the gaps for information they need (nurses have worked together to make their own excel solutions). As for internal communication, they use Microsoft, Teams, etc. I know I can solve for at least 90% in a unified solution, maybe 100%. But I've never sold software to a hospital before. What do I not know? Is it possible they just over time have duct taped together different solutions?
> When I was young, there were no rocket landings.

For all born after July 1969, you lived with rocket landings: Apollo lunar lander was a propulsive soft landing.
Comical. I used to hang around Spain in wintertime in 80's, mostly living in tent, albeit I could afford a month in a pensionnat when I found a good one. People were friendly and sometimes suggested better camping place within their property. European Union and unhindered migration from every direction turned the country into total shithole.

Downvote all you want :-)
This paper is specifically investigating if ice melt in Greenland is strong enough to reverse the AOMC. The editor summarizes,

> However, because melting is causing the Greenland Ice Sheet to recede from the coasts of Greenland, where icebergs originate, its iceberg discharge should not persist long enough to cause major disruption of the Atlantic overturning circulation by itself.

That leaves that possibility that Greenland ice melt + other factors are sufficient to cause AOMC reversal.
Yes, agreed. That was actually my original point, that maybe the Industrial Revolution looks like a special period in history from the perspective of today, for that reason, but in reality it's just a period along a long-term exponential.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment wouldn't be so bad if you had taken out the obvious provocations ("awful personality traits" etc.), but in any case it flew too close to the planet Musk and the whole thread got sucked in. We don't want to die that way.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589501.)
I have found working with DSPy to be a nice middle ground. The python script contains functions that call different DSPy optimizers (the optimized prompt packaged as a function; tested and iterated individually in a Jupyter notebook). Using DSPy `TypedPredictors` returns structured output that I then parse (ie. with conditions/loops) within the larger python script.

Can't say for sure yet if the project will work, but this workflow seems OK because DSPy abstracts away the CoT optimization with still giving me full control of the inputs/outputs in a python multi-agent script
Why do they need to stay relevant

they don't need to stay relevant. reform is what they need to do if they want to stay relevant. otherwise they will soon stop being relevant. however as long as they continue to have a strong influence, we need to keep an eye on them and look for their replacement
It is frustrating that SPX wont stream these on youtube themselves. I think I counted 4 or 5 fake streams with a total of 1m viewers that were just bitcoin scams. Everyday astronaut and nasa spaceflight seemed to be the only ones with legit streams.
I’m currently in using sway on fedora, I’m considering moving to macOS because of tighter integration of icloud (everything is on my iphone) and generally better polish of the OS. This is another reason to switch
> 3.9 to 4.7 inches long

And these things grow to, what, 30-ish feet? If this one really was a baby colossal squid, I wonder if this gives us an estimate how long it takes them to reach adulthood. Although I know we hadn't even seen a living adult squid until recently so there's not much info about them.
Why would it be better for the rest of the world to delay it? It's possible it would be better to happen now before the world population is expected to peak so it affects fewer people. You might not want it to happen right now, but maybe you're just wishing it onto more people because you don't want to deal with it?
I see where you're going. Thanks, that was helpful.

I think that in my earlier, admittedly glib comments, I had assumed these things:

- strong democracy (as you suggested)

- there have been plenty of instances of the nation's army taking control, regardless of democracy or unionisation (e.g. Myanmar)

Given the second point, I don't see how unionising makes any difference to the likelihood of a military takeover. But your main point is powerful enough to make me want to think on this all some more.
That's true. The buyers of real estate on a large scale are often transnational investment funds. And they sometimes sit on empty properties for decades, waiting for them to accrue value. Some kind of regulation is certainly required. Or higher taxation of second homes. But squatting contributes nothing to solving this problem. It just promotes anarchy.
> It may be overblown by media, sure, let's say we agree on that, but I know of at least 3 cases of very close people that have suffered the issue in the last 3 years alone.

For curiosity's sake, were the affected people owners of multiple properties or was this issue considering their primary residential homes that they were actively living in?
If you were young between 1993 and 1995 then DC-X was making landings
"Strategic government support for next-generation batteries can enhance EV affordability."

Translation: subsidize my inefficient business that would fail otherwise.

There are but two things that govern the whole of economics:

1) the Law of Prices - the winning bids of purchase and sales in the face of what is on offer sets the price

2) the Axiom of Profit - the sum of sales on prices must equal break even or the firm goes to ruin.

Not enough are willing to bid prices high enough for break even. BEVs are 19th century tech, a huge step backward for mankind.

Meanwhile a methanol to methanol FCEVs with methanol synthed from nat gas and coal is the right way to go.
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Looks like Scott Manley has been working hard and was able to release his video very quickly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m0TY6i1Kuo
SB 1047 Is Weakened
Well, you know, a subway would pass under the mountains ;)
We did it because we run WireGuard gateways to the public cloud we operate, and our CLI wants to talk to things on customer networks (like remote Docker server instances to build new versions of apps). Our options were:

* Do user-mode WireGuard (and thus TCP/IP) and talk "natively" to the infrastructure deployed on our platform.

* Write case-by-case application gateways for each of those pieces of infrastructure tunneled somehow through HTTP.
The official Mistral-7B-v0.2 model added support for 32k context, and I think it's far better than MistralLite. Third-party finetunes are rarely amazing at the best of times.

Now, we have Mistral-7B-v0.3, which is supposedly an even better model:

https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3
Why is that suspicious. The rights holders core competency is in making the content. If they can offload poster/thumbnail creation then I'm sure they would.
> [Junior programmers] are often obsessed with "best-practices" and whatever fancy new tool is trending, but they have trouble starting with the problem they need to solve and focusing on the minimum needed to just solve that problem.

I’ve observed/experienced the same exact thing [0]. I think it’s due to a combo of (1) not knowing what “the right way” to do things are and (2) thinking it’ll make your peers perceive you as more knowledgeable or advanced if they see you writing “best practices” code. Not to mention that sometimes the simpler solutions are so simple, they make you feel like you’re not a real software engineer. I usually just do my best to help them understand that simple solutions are okay, especially since (1) I’ve been there myself when I was in their shoes and (2) I know they have good intentions.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40527071
Honestly, I simply don't understand any reason to add any ingredients to peanut butter than peanuts and salt (and the 2nd is optional).
Research comes to the rescue to make firefighters' clothing safer
Elon crypto deepfake scam is the new rick-roll
Can INI files be Unicode? Yes, they can, but it has to be your idea