skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snowden is one of those guys like Stallman who you can disagree with and think their position is extreme but it is foolish to completely dismiss them. There is currently a gold rush to circumvent IP rights and exploit the works of billions without attribution or remuneration while society and legislators are sleeping.
Although this may be true, I'm not sure if it always matters. I mean sure, there are some high profile Excel failures that resulted in some big monetary losses, but the same has happened to hundreds of codebases written in a more traditional language that may have also had code review. Also, Excel CAN be reviewed as well. It's all just logic at the end of the day.

This argument usually comes from some IT group that takes like 2 years to do something for the users that get so frustrated that they do it themselves. Since the users are maintaining it, they're constantly reviewing it and are the ones with the most functional knowledge. An alternative IT group has to go to this same group anyway.
Your error stuff is pretty damn cool btw.
Koo, I believe, is named after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo#Calls

> People had a lot of fun talking about and asking others about their Koos.

You just might enjoy the opening sequence of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yek4hrl25qU&t=23
I've become such a Luddite. This looks like a great idea, and I especially like the looks of the pictured encyclopedia.
Oh good point! Thanks for the note.
Or holding up a blank piece of paper.

Or holding up an imaginary piece of paper (I'm serious, look it up)

It's absolutely comical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3W_lYO4DY
Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer
How many meme stocks are TSMC customers?
> who will be able to afford a robot?

How about capitalists/investors wanting to own an army of cheap-to-run blue collar workers? Your barista, hair dresser, mechanic, plumber, sparky, builder, bodyguard .. eventually one robot can probably do all of those jobs and more. Why would the AI revolution stop with knowledge workers?
Right - this isn't something that LLMs currently do. Adding search would be a way to add reasoning. Think of it as part of a reasoning agent - external scaffolding similar to tree of thoughts.
Another great book like that is Machinery's Handbook: https://books.industrialpress.com/machinery-handbook/
The goal is to enable it to model the world at different levels of abstraction based on the question it wants to answer. You can model car as an object that travels fast and carries people, or you can model it down to the level of engine parts. The system should be able to pick the level of abstraction and put the right model together based on its goals.
> AV1 is more magic with better licensing.

AV1 is bloody awful to encode in software.

I was recording videos of lectures (a slowly moving person against a whiteboard with thin sharp lines on it, in a questionably well-lit room) and needed to encode them to smallish 720p files to be posted somewhere (ended up uploading them to the Internet Archive). This is not something that x264’s default encoding profiles do well on, but with a day or two of fiddling with the settings I had something I could run on my 2014-era iGPU-only laptop the night after the lecture and have the result up the next day.

By contrast, libaom promised me something like a week of rendering time for the three hours of video. Perhaps this could be brought down (my x264 fiddling got me veryslow-comparable results several times faster), but the defaults were so bad I couldn’t afford to experiment. (This was some four years ago. Things have probably gotten better since then, but I don’t expect miracles.)
What makes you think that people do struggle?

Are you hinting at the sun's poles or the earth's? Further do you mean the rotational pole, or the magnetic poles?

FWiW, NASA has written on all of these, for example:

Why Variations in Earth’s Magnetic Field Aren’t Causing Today’s Climate Change

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/flip...
> Do you see similar distortions at 180 or 175cm in countries where the metric system is used?

No idea, but Vietnamese avg height is 168 cm :D I cannot find any sources published by our gov that has height distribution info.
Not true when we are talking about tract houses in brand new neighborhoods. They have to have the land, build model homes, hire staff to show the homes and process paperwork.

A couple years ago I went and looked at houses in a new development that no one was living in yet. They had at least 5-10 + houses that were already framed but were looking for a buyer.
Immutable back references seem limiting... because how are you inserting things if you have a reference saying the thing you are inserting it into can't mutate.

If you're willing to use locks or something for interior immutability though... I think it should already be possible. It works in a toy example: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
I'm continuously impressed by Costco. Not only is it one of my favorite places to shop, but I also recently recent to the Acquired episode on Costco[0] and was super impressed by how they run their business. They've continuously been able to align their unique advantages to reenforce each other and make their advantages even stronger. I highly recommend this episode to everyone.

[0] https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco
This is old hat though; I think it was already specified that way in 1990 POSIX.
Good to see this happening.

I remember sitting down with a Google engineer who told us that even though our ad code looked suspiciously like we had copied it from Google itself (we had) that one part of it would only work for Google on Google. That is, the wall between their sell side and buy side had special things no one else could use. This was ~10 years ago and it left us with such a sour taste.

Nothing like market dominance in an "open" market.
I liked it. It's ok for some of the internet to be for fun.
AWS Amplify Gen 2 supports Next.JS App Router finally. Not saying it's better or worse than SST/vercel, just saying it's also an option finally.

https://docs.amplify.aws/nextjs/build-a-backend/server-side-...
Similarly, found a bug in clang around 2010 that would only happen with max optimization. Actually did manage to track down the root cause; an array access would fail if the index > 255. It went something like this: on ARM (this was building for iPhone) the LDA (Load Accumulator) instruction can store the memory offset (array index) within the instruction itself if it would fit within 1 byte, otherwise the offset would have to get loaded from a memory location pointed to by a given register. One of the two cases was faulty.

Was just about to report this, but my Mac got upgraded to the next version of OS X, which magically solved the problem. What does the OS upgrade have to do with compiling? In the world of Macs, Xcode was also upgraded along with the OS, and in the newer version it was already fixed. Dangit!
Pico SDR
Those are laws. It is also illegal to distribute libelous material via Tor or Freenet. The relevant point is that the USPS doesn't unseal your envelopes and read your mail and anyone can stick a stamp on that sealed envelope and drop it into a mailbox with no return address and it will be delivered.
I think the FAA generally performs audits, not inspections.

They usually make sure the paperwork is in order. Less likely that they make sure the paperwork is actually correct, and vastly less likely that they make sure that the actual things happening in the shop are correctly done.

I worked in an FAA repair station that repaired commercial jet engine parts. We always got the same FAA inspector every year. We never seemed nervous when he would show up.

The only auditor that seemed to really be digging to find stuff was the GE financial auditor to make sure they were getting their repair royalties.

Oh and one time an auditor for an airline snuck in and stole one of his airline’s parts, or something like that. He was making the point that we had zero access control and literally anyone could just walk into the building.

They should really start testing the employees. It doesn’t matter what the paperwork says if the employees are incompetent.
SVT-AV1 is a much faster AV1 encoder: https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/
Here's a fun one that's not really code-related:

I was working on a web application with a maintenance mode feature where it would show a "system offline" while changes were rolled out etc. We noticed there was a typo (or so we thought) in the message, so it said "system olffine" instead.

Because this message could be overridden by site admins, there was a somewhat convoluted data flow to produce the final message. I grepped the codebase for "olffine" and found nothing. Then I checked my local DB to see what message was stored - it was spelled correctly. Then I stepped through the backend code to look at the message being returned - still correct.

Eventually I was back in my web browser with the page open on the left (spelled incorrectly) and devtools on the right (spelled correctly). What the hell?

It turned out the problem was that the font we were using had made a mistake with the "ffl" ligature so it rendered as "lff". We contacted the font author and they fixed it.
Deep thoughts, by Jack Handy.
Llama 3 does, it's a funny design now, if you also throw in training to encourage CoT. Maybe more correct but verbosity can be grating

CoT
answer
Wait! No, that's not right:
CoT...
And when they say Indochina, they mean neither India nor China.
Something that I have not seen studied at all, and which I think desperately needs to be, is the degree to which other viruses which cause similar infections - flu, RSV, other cold viruses - cause "long" symptoms similar to COVID.

I bet they do, and I bet we've been ignoring it for a long time. The number of people whose bodies are changed semi-permanently after a flu or bad cold - messed up sense of smell, brain fog, all the classics of long COVID - are not actually particularly low. Maybe lower than with COVID, but not low.

In fact, there's substantial evidence of this. See, for example, https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/long-flu-has-emerged-as-a-co..., or https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/long-flu-long-cov....

I think looking at this as "long COVID" and not "long respiratory virus" is making a mistake. It both makes people more alarmist about COVID, and makes people less alarmed about other viruses which are no less serious just because we've been living with them a long time.

What we need are comprehensive treatments for and prevention options for respiratory viruses as a class, not just COVID.

(By the way, in an ironic twist of events, I have COVID for the second time as I write this, post four vaccinations. It's pretty the same as a cold at the moment.)
Looks like there is only a Director of Sales position on your careers page. Was the position filled? It sounds INCREDIBLE and like a perfect fit for me.
[Non-paywalled version]: https://dataconomy.com/2024/06/14/amazon-has-a-secret-way-to...

According to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider, Amazon’s AGI Group worked around Github's 5,000 request/hr/account limits by 'encouraging' its employees to create multiple GitHub accounts and share their access credentials. By leveraging a network of accounts simultaneously, Amazon aims to condense what would have been a multi-year endeavor into a matter of weeks.

Dataconomy: The ethical implications are significant. By soliciting employees to share personal GitHub accounts, Amazon is potentially accessing data without explicit consent from GitHub or the repository owners.
> a 2c/4t Skylake ULV chip can offer much better single threaded performance

Those Amber Lake Y chips were the bees knees. 5W Core CPUs -- these were the last. Ice Lake and Tiger Lake were 7W at last and then the low power Alder Lake CPUs only contain E cores so they are just renamed Atom CPUs. Which is visible from the N series numbering, too.
There is a Trader Joes with a apartment complex above it in Milpitas, CA (in the SF bay area). I've seen that in my city too but it needs to become more common.
What are glass bead games?
Isn't the only point of the tactic described here to abuse the delivery services' discovery features? More storefronts means more hits.
Linus Bot: Get Your Code Roasted by Linus Torvalds GPT
You can absolutely turn off everything, but you don’t change those settings on the Win10 enterprise machines themselves. You can, technically, but it’s registry stuff. You put the machines in an Active Directory domain and you configure group policy to turn those things off, and you push those policies to the workstations in the domain.

This is 100% normal everyday stuff for enterprise customers, and an enormous pain in the ass for someone who pirates Windows Enterprise.
If all your friends and all their friends said the sky was purple, even though at odds with your observation, would you be bold enough to declare it blue?

We'll be immersed in AI feedback and we'll all be influenced by the advice it provides. There won't really be a "source" in the sense Google sends you to BuzzFeed and you know you're reading trash. It'll all have the veneer of authority because ChatGPT said so. The product is trust. Would you ask a malicious thug the same questions and reveal your private details? No.

You can feel as untrusting as you want, but the streams of AI advice are like water and we're just like fish. It's influencing you, and if you don't realize how then you probably could pay closer attention.
The last of the V8 Interceptors... a piece of history?
Building onto this comment; Terrence Tao, the famous mathematician and big proponent of computer aided theorem proving believes ML will open new avenues in the realm of theorem provers.
Oh, they don’t need an internet connection! Just a terminal, vim, and gcc.

GCC because C is small, you can just give them paper docs.
So that means a warehouse full of supplements? What else could there possibly be to be worth that much?
Can also go to the other side of the world and still get Papa John's.
Seems like a skill issue on your part.
I haven't actually done the comparison myself, but the common refrain is that the quality of the video suffers when you use GPU accelerated encoding. That's not a tradeoff I want to make, so I've just stuck with CPU encoding.
Neither the Earth nor life have been around for 13 billion years.
Long Covid, Electromagnetic hypersensitivity, and Shoenfeld's syndrome are all in the same family of disease.
Seems easy to avoid by just not ordering delivery from a restaurant that you've never tried, seen IRL, heard of, or even read good reviews for.
This article is a fancy way of saying "we take keywords and break them down to synonyms", bundling "machine learning", and acting like it's a magical solution. Not to be dreary it's just not exciting.
That has happened to me so many times, I should know better, but it still gets me. When I'm working in a document, I don't want to undo some other document. I just want to work on the document I'm working on. This is such a horrible "feature" that it really is a bug.
Given the example of Pfizer in the article, I would tend to agree with you that ‘search’ in this context means augmenting GPT with RAG of domain specific knowledge.
At the very least there's enough neutrino detectors on earth that we should have some warning a while before we can see it happen. (neutrinos are less affected by gravity while travelling away from the exploding star so they'll reach us before the light does)
Here’s my idea: A special highway lane that you can only be in if your cruise control is activated. Sensors in the road would set the speed and spacing for everyone, and it could exceed the normal speed limit if conditions allow. An automated convoy of sorts.
This post is a great way to show who doesn't understand L1 topologies lol.
Chips come on wafers. Wafers come in lots. To miss a wafer is to deliver a wafer later than promised, delaying the lot. Intel Israel has never delivered a wafer late.
The Trader Joe's they just opened in Hayes Valley in SF was put in under existing residential units: https://locations.traderjoes.com/ca/san-francisco/226/
Randomly could not send emails through outlook. No amount of screwing with accounts or outlook files would resolve this. Then things would magically start working again for a time. Finally pinned it down to the wireless mouse. Still don’t know why, but if that specific model of Microsoft wireless mouse was plugged in, outlook wouldn’t send emails. Confirmed with another of this model mouse on a separate person’s computer.
Will Costco be collecting rent? The mental gymnastics are impressive. It’s not a good thing that Costco gets to expand to housing. This is just like private equity and 401k’s buying houses. People should be able to own their own housing not become lifelong renters.
>Reminds me of the Gimli Glider

This was a very Canadian accident, in that they ran out of fuel halfway through their cross-country flight because of (in the end) conversion errors in calculating the required fuel amount for the then-new metric 767. Canada was still in the conversion process from imperial to metric, and the airline industry was a relative latecomer to that change.
This is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperNova_Early_Warning_System

> The SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) is a network of neutrino detectors designed to give early warning to astronomers in the event of a supernova in the Milky Way, our home galaxy, or in a nearby galaxy such as the Large Magellanic Cloud or the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy.
> locutus is a Latin word that essentially means "speak"

Or more precisely “spoken”, the (nominative masculine singular form of the) past passive participle. (In English, other Latin words from the same root get you locution, colloquium, etc.)
Aside from trying to capitalize on WWDC buzz by including "Apple" in the title, I don't see anything that couldn't have been said a year ago.
Analysis of Real-Time Logs for Apache NuttX RTOS with PureScript [video]
Construction loans are for custom builds where the homeowner is contracting directly with a builder, with no developer middleman, I thought?

Someone I knew recently “built” a home through a developer and they didn’t need to get a loan until a couple months before closing on the finished, move-in ready home.
DDR4 and DDR5 RAM for gaming tested
Why do I think that he is responsible for writing his own Wikipedia entry?
SaaS companies rise and fall all the time. I didn't get any sense of what was special about this tale.

A lot of "this happened, and then this happened," but I would have liked some more insight.
Where email only has inboxes and messages, ActivityPub also has HTTP-esque verbs. (Email can do everything ActivityPub can, in principle, but it has to send emails to do so. When an ActivityPub verb isn't understood, it's ignored, whereas when an email message isn't understood, it's presented to the user.)
> Ultimately, anonymity is an anti-pattern in the same way that the hot new zero-trust stuff is in the blockchain world. Humans, social beings that they are, fundamentally operate on trust, which fundamentally requires identification. Removing either of those creates more problems than it solves.

You will forgive me, "indigochill", if I fail to respect your argument against anonymity made from behind a fake name.
Xi Jinping would like to have a word with you.
That’s a straight up violation of the terms of service, which seems legally perilous given how easy it’d be to prove:

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
Looks good, I have a few questions about the project:

- Is there an Android app or is it Web only on Android? (This is very important for playback on video player apps, which support more than the Webview does.)

- Is there a Flatpak available?

- Why did you choose to use a big server like Postgres over using SQLite? Did it not meet your needs? It seems way overkill for a personal media manager. Are there any plans to at least support SQLite as an alternative in the future?
>That would require knowing the original encoding.

Or just use a library that can detect the encoding, and spit out utf-8. There's several of those.
Face of ancient Australian 'giga-goose' revealed after fossil skull found
Topological Problems in Voting
I mean . Was it going cheap? I wonder what the depreciation schedule is for submarines.
>DuckDuckGo AI Chat: anonymous access to popular AI chatbots

https://spreadprivacy.com/ai-chat/
Pentagon city metro is right next to a Costco. Close enough?
> ex-military employees

Schmidt is talking about combatants. Thankfully for you, you haven't crossed any psychopathic murderous fascists.
Not a supernova, but this nova is expected any day now, in the next few months: https://www.space.com/new-star-2024-T-Coronae-Borealis
So many (perhaps most) successful apps and platforms are copies. It's not an argument for or against success.

Even Airplane was a copy!
I don't know enough about networking and that level of configuration to do it confidently and safely yet. I'd rather rely on using credentials where the only real access is some limited command line executables or file transfer, rather than exposing more of the hardware directly to the network for a direct connection. I do have interest in learning this much, but I find that my current FTP/SFTP approach has more guard rails than a direct connection. Do you agree with this or am I just not understanding enough about ipv6 and direct connections home?
More than 200 symptoms have been reported in those with long COVID. [1]

Light sensitivity. Dizziness when scrolling webpages. Daily headaches. Intense pain. Brain fog. Allergic to “synthetic fabrics”, and detailed cataloguing of more such "symptoms" can be found in [4].

Interestingly, there are cases where people have ended up with long covid, without ever going through short or medium COVID and in fact, no COVID at all.

The NIH reiterates that there is no definition of long COVID researchers can use to identify the disease, nor should insurers, disability agencies, or physicians use the study’s findings to clinically define or rule out long COVID. [3]

1. https://recovercovid.org/updates/recover-research-qa
2. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2805540
3. https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/nih-documents-show-1-6-...
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/05/28/long-covid-...
In my experience, LLMs do a very poor job of generalizing. I have also seen self supervised transformer methods usually fail to generalize in my domain (which includes a lot of diversity and domain shifts). For human language, you can paper over failure to generalize by shoveling in more data. In other domains, that may not be an option.
The more people that don't exercise their creative muscle the less competition.
Well in this case, Apple is going to avalanche the slop to an unprecedented degree.
History repeats itself.
Note the agonizing over memory. They were targeting a 16 MB machine.

We have the same problem. Ever try running linux on a 4GB machine? It naturally desires 16 GB nowdays.
Also, Uber Eats ate Postmates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game#:~:text=Th....
Show HN: Summarize Trending GH Repos in Terminal or Browser
Hey HN,

I built a tool that fetches the daily trending GitHub repositories and uses GPT-4o to generate useful, detailed markdown-style summaries. The app then offers to render them in the terminal itself or as HTML, which is then opened your default web browser.

I'm neither a trained programmer nor a computer science student, but I'm a geek nonetheless and had fun building this, so I wanted to share.

Maybe it doesn't save anyone any time, but again, I had fun building it.

Cheers!
You can pretty reasonably prune the tree by a factor of 1000... I think the problem that others have brought up - difficulty of the value function - is the more salient problem.