skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not doing it anymore. Worked great. Kept it up for a few weeks. Early to bed, slept well. I basically hadn’t done that since I was like 8 years old.

Yes, after dusk. Probably would have allowed a couple hours past dusk in Winter (northern hemisphere). Turns out you (nearly everyone, excepting the few who’d have had insomnia even in a Nebraska farmhouse in 1920) get tired fast with low light and no hyper-stimulus. You can still play musical instruments or play cards or read by candle light or a few other things. But that won’t keep you up until 2AM night after night after night (maybe every now and then).

But god, it’s hard to make that work with any amount of a modern life.
While the claim that Bitlocker is used to encrypt them is true, it’s really not good enough here. The files are unencrypted during a live session, which makes them an easy target for malware.
> An issue that didn't exist in the past doesn't need to exist in the future

Do you genuinely think homelessness is something of a new phenomenon?
> Hannah went through a phase where she didn't want to do it. We tried to compromise and work through it. Eventually, it became part of her "job" -- we told her that every human has a job, and her job was to do Anki.

In my personal experience, precociousness as a kid breeds alienation from your peers. I hope this kid gets plenty of exercise to train her social and emotional intelligence, too.
Miss Rachel alone seems to be a force of nature.

For parents who had pandemic babies, she was at times a digital co-parent. Questions of socialization or enough conversational development were fair questions as well, some kids genuinely saw far fewer family members, adults, or other children.

Not being huge fans of screen-time, exceptions for Miss Rachel were easier after seeing her home video style production quality (less addictive), and it was so focused on learning in a unique way that didn't seem about watch time.

Specifically, Miss Rachel's use of pronunciation, and music feels like it has helped in our case with unlocking a love for experiencing and learning, and without any extra rigour beyond reading books a lot, speaking and singing with them as much as possible, they have quickly grown bored of flash cards or the usual.
Pilots need to be calm under high pressure, because they know that panic means certain death. I suspect that selects for a certain type of personality who can make light of any situation.
Show HN: I am building this to learn languages from song's lyrics
This is just an MPV/Prototype.
I am making this much better if I have proof that this have a market.
Please share your thoughts to help me, and also tell me if there is something you would like to add or see in this to make this better.
You will need spotify premium for the song to play.

Thanks in advance.
Don’t listen to people telling you this is a bad idea. 301 similar 404 to the correct page and be done with it. Migrations are all too common. Google webmaster guidelines ruled and restriced creativity for long enough, so damn Google. If getting completely deindexed in Google would floor your business you got it all wrong anyway. Focusing on Google too much will get you exactly in a position where you don’t want to be. It’s their job to be able to index correctly all sorts of server configuration and assign link value correctly so their algorithms get it right. You are doing it well. Let’s just stop Google pleasing and focus on the user and good marketing
Or would be forced to walk ;-)

Fair point that the military can choose its subjects, or compel them.
I kept at it mostly as an exercise to test different compiler options. I found that a miner implemented in C runs in 1/5 the time of a Perl script (but at ~10 times more lines of code). Also, compiling with "-march=native" reduces the run time by ~10%, and concatenating all C files together to compile and link in a single step saves another ~0.5%.

I felt like I got enough out of this exercise and don't need to burn more CPU cycles on it :)
Stockfish doesn't use material advantage as an approximation to winning though. It uses a complex deep learning value function that it evaluates many times.
1. Do smaller factories typically use pre-fabricated <100> p-wafers with a FET gate-layer for CMOS?

2. Also, is it normal to see circular thickness defects over +-200nm where a wafer vacuum-chuck was obviously set during double-sided polishing? The deformed synthetic sapphire wafers are ruining my fun.

Thanks in advance, =)
One of the coolest things I learned in university was that you can just put rotation matrices inside the state of a Kalman filter if you just override the + operator to take a matrix and a change in vector space and the — operator to take two matrices. This allows you to estimate rotations without the fear of gimbal lock.

https://openslam-org.github.io/MTK
This is quintessential MSFT. I have absolutely less than zero doubt that there is a informal/formal agreement that they're called such. They always pull this crap. And then their OEMs realize later that the "Windows 8 Ready" sticker is almost more of a pariah.
> The reality is that the perceptions of what AI can do is impacting the world far more than what it can actually do.

Could you elaborate on this? What impact is the perception of what AI can do having? And what impact is it actually having?
We had an instance where a literal semicolon was accidentally added to the top of every page on our e-commerce website. Nobody noticed it for a while because it was hidden underneath the nav bar thanks to z indexing. The weird part is that after we found it and deleted it (someone erroneously terminated a line with a semicolon in a Razor template), it crashed the site entirely.

In the end, I found that the semicolon was in the <head>, and the inclusion of literal text caused document.body to be non-null. A later script in the head relied on the existence of document.body, making that particular semicolon load-bearing. (Angular 1 times, y'all.)
How is this different than Triton?
> This would help you gather information on poor performers and maybe help them get better.

Poor performers can get better on their own time, after they've been separated from the company. PIPs are a formality to provide documentation that ensures wrongful-termination lawsuits don't stick.
Thank You for explaining it. I will let HN be the judge.

Have a nice day.
When to Write a Simulator (2021)
Have you heard of predictive processing?
His song Full Moon is one of my favorites, it completely transports you to a place.
I think all of us agree that OpenTelemetry's end-goal of making Observability vendor neutral is futuristic and inevitable. We can complain about it being hard to get started, bloated, etc but the value it provides is clear, esp, when you are paying $$$ to a vendor and stuck with it.

OpenStandards also open up a lot of usecases and startups too. SigNoz, TraceTest, TraceLoop, Signadot, all are very interesting projects which OpenTelemetry enabled.

The majority of the problem seems like sentry is not able to provide it's sentry like features by adopting otel. Getting involved at the design phase could have helped shaped the project that could have considered your usecases. The maintainers have never been opposed to such contributions AFAIK.

Regarding, limiting otel just to tracing would not be sufficient today as the teams want a single platform for all observability rather than different tools for different signals.

I have seen hundreds of companies switch to opentelemetry and save costs by being able to choose the best vendor supporting their usecases.

lack of docs, learning curve, etc are just temporary things that can happen with any big project and should be fixed. Also, otel maintainers and teams have always been seeking help in improving docs, showcasing usecases, etc. If everyone cares enough for the bigger picture, the community and existing vendors should get more involved in improving things rather than just complaining.
TIL that "Nature Boy" is quoted in the Num Num Cat Tiktok collaboration.

(0:53 to 1:26)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C1FZ4HtzGY
Its a bit ironic because Turing seems to have came up with the idea of the Turing machine precisely by thinking about how he computes numbers.

Now thats no proof, but I dont see any reason to think human intelligence isnt "computable".
Anyone know which SUN workstations those techs were using to "talk" to Voyager?

They seem to be running some sort of Unix yet look quite new ish with their widescreen LCD Displays.
Boeing Starliner not ready to come back to Earth
We need to buy cheap. Testing is expensive EBIT _must_ grow.
If you are strapped for time maybe try https://www.cursor.com/ or similar offerings that do some of this for you.

Chatting with GPT4 and pasting into your editor code or pasting into a terminal some commands could also help alot.
Virtues can be measured only in confrontation with others. Living for yourself is not a way to have happy life.
Credits isn't the same thing as either revenue or costs. Look at kids pirating Photoshop and Maya to learn the tools and make cool shit - that's not really lost revenue, because kids just don't have that kind of money to spend on professional tools to begin with. Most open source projects taking Vercel credits don't have the money to pay Vercel in the absence of credits, so this doesn't result in lost revenue. And it's not the same as costs, because if it did, then Vercel wouldn't be making a profit.

The only reasonable way to track this is to understand how much each customer costs (in servers, hardware, etc) and internally attribute those costs to marketing instead of revenue.
what's a lot worse than pictures of children being abused is children actually being abused, for example right now in gaza

a photo of this child being abused was published in the new york times https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc and that photo is generally credited with significantly shortening the war that caused that abuse

many serial killers and other abusers have been caught, convicted, and sentenced because the recordings they made of their misdeeds were preserved

and that is the general pattern. censorship of evidence of abuse perpetuates the abuse and protects the abusers more than the victims

see, it's much easier to have a rational discussion when you spell out your position instead of relying on winks and nudges
This feels a lot like generation 3 AI throwing out all the insights from gens 1 and 2 and then rediscovering them from first principles, but it’s difficult to tell what this text is really about because it lumps together a lot of things into “search” without fully describing what that means more formally.
Seeing this news is a nice tribute to Ed Stone, who was one of the core project scientists for Voyager and recently passed [1] (and all those who work/worked on the program).

I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Stone at a public NASA event many years ago. I asked him, perhaps a silly question: "what does it feel like to know you built the furthest man-made known object in the universe?".

He paused for a moment, after which he responded, with a smile: "Pretty darn good".

RIP, Dr. Stone and go Voyager go!

[1] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ed-stone-former-director-of-jp...
I can't decide a tone for this comment. But comments like yours make me want to go make a new "distro" that is just triggered when nixos updates and publishes an iso with Nvidia pre-installed. Lol maybe even do it for every major distribution. Nvubuntu, fedoria, etc. And then we can be done with this? Idk.

Like you, I find the "hopping" nature of Linux enthusiasts to be exhausting. it's almost always nearly the same fucking bits at the end of the day. Great, you know how to use the package manager? Everything you like about NewShinyDistro's defaults can probably be hadon the distro you're on already.

Christ maybe the better approach is my other idea - customnixos.org. You always get nixos, but you get to pre-pick the desktop environment, theme, background, etc, and then it slips you an iso with those options set.
I think you outlined what benefit the Federal Reserve might serve. The question should then be whether it's the institution itself that's the problem with recent decisions - as you imply - or something else.
This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2
Sure, but at the end it doesn't matter if artist doing what he likes secretly if his happiness is not expressed in interaction with others.
Based on the minimal information in your question, I would be concerned about the level of technical debt you take on by stringing together bits and pieces generated with GPT, etc. It is hard to evolve a MVP into a robust product. In most cases you will need to re-architect and re-write - yup, the dreaded v2 effect.

Perhaps the better option is to hire the person you have worked with. Use the MVP to gain funding and then hire a tech talent to build a production grade product.
I'm making a video game, and I want to map a joystick position to a rotation (of a sword). I have a set of keyframes for certain joystick positions, and I want to interpolate between the three nearest ones to create a continuous function from joystick position to sword rotation.
Still, the fact that there are obvious heuristics makes that function easier to train and and makes it presumably not need an absurd number of weights.
This is just the scarcity principle and nothing new.
Link for the curious:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_(short_story)

Collection:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someone_Like_You_(short_stor...
I mean I'd love to get into motorsports but I don't have the garage space for another car, I don't want to buy a truck to haul it around, I don't want to spend years learning how to work on cars, I don't want to spend money buying new drift tires constantly, and I don't want to cause noise pollution in town

I wish there were a few more places that were like "drive a couple hours into the country, drop a few hundred bucks, and go nuts on a dirt track for an hour or two"
Wallstreet rewards rent seeking.
"You're already using it, and you don't even realize it."

With all the hype it would be quite difficult to not "realize" where it is allegedly being used. There is a comical effort to claim that "AI" is being used in everything.
Not only overparenting but lack of siblings as well. In big family you learn how interact with others, how share, how care. If you not learn this skills, later in life you struggle.
Do you mean no way to get there within realistic computation bounds? Because if we allow for arbitrarily high (but still finite) amounts of compute, then some computable approximation of AIXI should work fine.
I regularly check the LMSYS leaderboard, and while the latest version of ChatGPT 4 is still ahead, other models are catching up and well past ChatGPT 4 from last year.

I can’t predict the future, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Gemini takes the lead during 2024.

https://arena.lmsys.org/
Understanding Hallucinations in Diffusion Models Through Mode Interpolation
That… actually doesn’t seem as bad as I thought it would be. Obviously it’s not going to be evenly spread across the globe, but that’s about (napkin math) 350μg/m^2/year. Even over a century that’s barely a light dusting (to be fair, of toxic/carcinogenic/etc microplastics that are likely much more highly concentrated around major highways and population centres, and their waterways).

I always assumed it was orders of magnitude more than that. But that seems like an amount that, if it were to exist, some sort of bacteria/fungus/algae could actually probably handle.
Starter Guide to India
Most of this is not speculation. It's informed from current leading theories in neuroscience of how our brain is thought to function.

See predictive coding and the free energy principle, which states the brain continually models reality and tries to minimize the prediction error.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
Anyone got a guestimate as to the energy used to make that leaderboard?
Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M
What are the theoretical risks to sending out these beacons… our we at all, as a species, significantly increasing the chance of another life form more advanced than us discovering us by doing this?

If we come into contact with a significantly advanced life form it would certainly lead to ineffable destruction.

Deep space probing without the ability to exert any sort of defense if discovered seems risky. I know the chances are low but what’s the ROI on sending this stuff out without being remotely prepared for contact. I think another comment was saying the data we’ve collected has mostly just been used to confirm preexisting theories. If that’s all we’re getting out of it I’m apprehensive.

I’m just a layman but I’d feel much better if we can establish control, knowledge and dominance of our solar system and its celestial bodies first.

I’m genuinely asking not a conspiracy theorist.
Coincidentally, the age when my mother taught me to read, via manual repetition (first flashcards, then books, then my own library card)

(being in the habit of reading for years before you get there also makes elementary school far more bearable, as you have time free to think your own thoughts while the rest of the class is still finishing the assigned reading)
Or maybe acolytes!
Just invest in Nvidia instead
Fascinating. Thanks so much for sharing this. Good read.
You would think so, but there's a certain subset of zoomers who are _very_ into older cars, especially pre-mid-1990s cars.

Especially here in the Southeastern US... 90% of the time I see an old vette, NA miata, old civics, preludes, E36s, etc...it's some early 20s dude and they've done all the wrenching themselves and/or with their friends/dads. It's interesting to pay attention to the cars you don't see though -- the cars my generation absolutely destroyed -- Dodge Neons, 240SX and Turbobricks.

Most of the high-school and college aged dudes in my area are driving something 20 years old or more and it's not for lack of money -- they've done some _beautiful_ and expensive restorations on these cars.

When I brought my RX-7 home after getting rebuilt I had a gathering of teens at my door wanting to check it out.

It's mainly city kids who aren't interested in cars.
It is quite obvious that the issue is inside the people - not inside the words. People have the ultimate power (a gift by God) to make decisions. Words can not force someone to do something - they are just sitting right there, doing nothing. Humans have flaws (probably by design - who knows) - and these flaws are the ones that all "safety" intentions MUST address. But 90% of humans prefer the easy path.
Ask HN: Does my AI app offer good value?
Hey folks, I'm new to building AI applications. For the past 2 months, I have developed an AI tool(growthmakers.app) that creates marketing strategies and social media content autonomously. However, I have not yet validated my app, so I'm seriously looking for feedback specifically on pricing and the value offered.
I was surprised to find out that the fail rate is still pretty high, about 10 percent regretting doing it
You might also want to consider Zig: https://ziglang.org/

It supports cross-compilation to a wide range of targets and supports C & C++ as well.
I’m imagining a two meter high Canadian Goose. Completely terrifying.
I tell people, if you know how this stuff works, you'll understand its a fugazi. It produces a statistically likely sequence of tokens (words) that resemble data it was built with. There's nothing intelligent about it, it cannot create anything novel. It is truly nothing more than a language model. Everything that comes out of one of these is a hallucination, in the sense we mean when talking about AI.

I think it's a poorly understood form of compression, a very lossy form of compression.

I think it's big corporate adherents know all that, I think, particularly after the internet and the industry it unlocked, smartphone and the internet access that they made ubiquitous, software developers are just looking for things to sell to people. All the innovations have happened already in the software world, but this big industry was built while this happened and they can't just pack up and go home. The truth is, you can't just sell software to users, you have to sell utility, and most people don't have a real need for software beyond what they already have available, so shiny new trinkets it is. They've got video streaming, communication, information retrieval, report generation, and that's it. You can automate stuff, but that's not the end user buying software, that's the end user buying a widget that software is a component of, and a part they really don't care about. A symptom of what I'm talking about can be seen in the ever increasing needless complexity people keep finding in their lives, the software industry as it applies to direct to consumer sales is very little more than hype and noise and marketing. It's empty calories.

AI is just another thing in a long line of these things, yesterday it was augmented reality, day before that it was IoT, the list goes back quite a number of years. The last real big innovations that end consumers bought that improved their lives was smartphones and video streaming. Everything an end user can benefit from software wise they already have. Easy communication, multimedia content and symmetry of distribution, near free information availability, I can't think of anything beyond those 3 broad categories, money maybe if you're into the bitcoin thing. Maybe "AI" as compression can help with local information retrieval when it's more mature, which is very powerful, but the branding and marketing around it as if it is a mind is not conducive to success on that front. Software is well on it's way to being a mostly business to business thing again, like it once was, which necessarily means a big bubble is going to pop. That's where the innovations are happening, but for us regular people it's all marginal improvement of what we already have as a side with a healthy serving of hype and disappointment.
If an alien species can spot something as tiny as Voyager but doesn't notice our activity on Earth which is just a stone's throw away, I doubt they're a threat.

If an alien species finds Voyager in 10,000 years and tracks it back to our planet, they'll find some interesting remains of our civilization.
Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo
I've been learning a language from Tiktok videos for more than two years and that totally works, the results are there. This format is even more edited than YouTube
https://www.videolan.org/contribute.html
Keep in mind that offline Google Maps expire. If you want something that is guaranteed to work indefinitely, use OsmAnd+.
This thread is not about jail, but preventing you from posting something on a specific platform. (Moderation) If you think that's exactly the same as hanging people, you need to talk to actual people outside...
If you don't give them a copy of Kernighan and Ritchie, it's child abuse.
Indeed. It's obvious what search means for a chess program -- its the future positions it looks at. But it's less obvious to me what it means for an LLM.