skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You might hold some consideration

so you're holding that up as snobbery, when it's the exact opposite?

> this is how everyone around them talks

but someone had to start. It didn't just come out of nowhere.
Lack of trust in institutions due to economic hardship imo
Credit where credit is due: Sounds like no-one really gets away with corruption in Korea. The same can’t be said for more corrupt places.
Schwab has "slices" that act like an ETF that you decide the composition of
> There really is no practical way around it for businesses

No one I work with uses Office. I work for a business.
Interval arithmetic powers this graphing calculator I made.

The user can enter a formula without solving for y, like “y^y = x^x”. I rearrange into “0 = x^x - y^y”. Then I use interval arithmetic to calculate the result interval of “x^x - y^y” for x = the x-axis range of the graph’s view, y = the y-axis range of the graph’s view. If the result interval contains 0 then I have something to draw. I recursively divide the ranges in half and do a binary search until I find very tiny intervals that contain solutions. I draw those as points on the graph.

Example formulas this can handle:

https://memalign.github.io/m/formulagraph/index.html?f1(x,t)...
So there is no such thing as individuals conspiring to achieve a goal; colonisation wasn't a thing, national socialism was just some random frat parties, communism was just a book club.

The problem is assuming that everything is a conspiracy just as much as nothing is a conspiracy.
This is definitely true.
I find there's a certain irony in society that we condemn people who aren't sceptical of anything until they are then we condemn them again.

Some of the worlds greatest thinkers and innovators suffered social execution from their peers and were deeply depressed.
Story of USSR's First Surfer
I think it's similar to what I describe as my "Kardashian Problem" - that I don't understand why the Kardashians are famous. Not their problem, obviously; they are wildly successful, rich, famous, etc. They clearly understand their market very well and know how to address it. I have no idea why their market likes them, and that means I should never try to build a mass-market product.

Tech geeks (of which I am one) don't understand what's important to non-tech-geeks. And we don't care. We're building Linux for us, and what we care about is choice, transparency, privacy, ease of configuration, etc. Clearly the general public don't give a shit about any of that, and have other priorities (e.g. does it look pretty?). So they look at Linux and see a shitshow of nasty tech, and look at Apple and see a beautiful shiny product. While we look at Linux and see a happy playground, and look at Apple and see a prison.
Sounds like pulling teeth.

You can bend notes on a normal sax if you want. Maybe it's just my perception, the tune in the article and those linked here would be better if they just stuck to normal 12 notes.
'systemd-tmpfiles –purge' deletes your /home directory, not just temp files
Hello, when perusing through the posts last year about LK99 event, I notice the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691268) used a title other than original one.

Now that I am really new to HN mechanics, I am wondering how to decide which examples to follow. For example, despite the guideline statements, many threads around blog posts on HN actually use new titles.
Maybe but that perspective is more grounded and respectable. I think it’s cheaper, self serving and more pathetic like I postulated.
I meant more specifically the first time it was really being used as a rapidly drawn object on a screen.
Ragas also has a feature to generate ground truths and queries: https://docs.ragas.io/en/latest/getstarted/testset_generatio...
Although simply prompting an LLM with chunks of source documents might work better / cheaper - ragas tends to explode with retries in my experience.
I'm okay with bad things not existing and I'm okay with Apple throwing a tantrum and going home because the government says it can't do bad things. It can miss out on all that juicy revenue if it wants to, and the world will be better for it.
That sounds about right. I routinely dig through cybersecurity data from around 100k companies, and Microsoft has no real competition. Occasionally I see Google at a little 500-person up-and-comer, but almost never in the enterprise, and they show up less and less as the companies get bigger. I don't think I've ever seen them in the Fortune 100, for example, other than at Google itself. The world runs on Exchange and Office.
"Randomly following people creates conspiracy paranoia".
There’s a lotta links to a lotta documents in this world, and this one is a few dozen pages longer than I can quickly peruse.

Anything in it you want to highlight?
was this done with no announcement? with no chance for external groups to archive?
its obviously a conspiracy
What about this driver version has you excited?
why is the French debt rising fast?

https://www.euronews.com/business/2023/10/03/3-trillion-is-f...

While the Government rises subsidies to keep electricity bills down?

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/energies/article/2023/04/21/france...

"Increases in electricity bills have been less sharp in France thanks to government subsidies, at 4% in 2022 and 15% this year – at a projected cost of €45 billion in 2023."
yup. i wouldn’t consider sk a startup hub in the remotest. like you said, the vc landscape perfectly reflects it.
That was just the comment I needed, just at the moment I needed it. Thanks!
Commit messages don't matter. They're inherently redundant.
> I even remember seeing a couple of nontrivial apps implemented with it.

Myst being perhaps the most well-known example.
Recommended Books on Computational Complexity Theory
I am interested in computational complexity theory, especially in the discussion of the P vs NP problem and complexity classes. Could you recommend some books that provide an in-depth introduction to these topics?
Open ended things.

So many creations are done with the hubris, imagining that we know what we are doing, that we've figured out the possible uses & can diver them.

I love working on open ended things, where we are trying to create possibility. Not just picking from possibilities.
Some regulations or clarifications for copyright and fair use could be useful but trying to reduce the term or abolish it is not the proper solution...
Boy it sure is useful that you can trust code you don’t understand to have clear variable names and comments for the LLM to key off of.
> so you're holding that up as snobbery, when it's the exact opposite?

I've offended you. That was not my intention. My apologies.

> but someone had to start. It didn't just come out of nowhere.

Your statement is painting everyone who talks that way with the same brush. It's unlikely that anyone you encounter who uses those phrases was responsible for coining them.
>Still more usable than Google Maps though, which will only give you a not so good train schedule. No walking directions at all.

That's interesting, because Google Maps here in Japan is absolutely fantastic: train schedules are always correct (and updated with delays etc.), walking directions are good, etc. I guess having a big office here in Tokyo is a big part of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlAhRJjOhDg

First time I saw that Amiga ball bounce, mind = blown.
Looks like it already exists: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nwk37s35v5t
Just wasted half an hour at work playing the Get Rich Quick game. I remember the old days of point and click games, not knowing what the next step was, and just aimlessly clicking every item on every screen trying to make something happen
In Indian markets, I think Shyam does this https://stockviz.biz/

Edit:

Ah, I just realised you might have means software part more than the financial part. Shyam does publish R code of various things on GitHub
Not the OP but the longstanding issues with Nvidia on Linux desktop are largely fixed with more fixes coming in 560.
I was going to say this sounds like Go Go Red Ball. Wonderful to see the nod to Nate Heagy in the repo!
We have computers that can drive a car in city traffic and you're worried that we can't have a computer look at the inside of a car and tell me if someone's left a mess? A non-ML model background subtraction algorithm from the 2000's could tell you that.
I don't know what 'deeply understanding tech' has to do with any of that. Plenty of people who 'deeply understand tech' get drunk and puke in places. Honestly, you sound like a Victorian-era petty lord looking down his nose at 'commoners'.
That video is awesome. This [1] seems to be a pertinent paper. One thing I don't understand is why we intentionally limit the experiments. Having male + female and then running the experiment through generations seems like it would be vastly more informative. For instance that 'race tracking' behavior around the cage, only seemed to emerge in young mice. What sort of new behaviors, adaptions, etc will emerge in the first generation born entirely in low g?

Or perhaps even the 2nd generation could be even more telling. Why not simply run the experiment until they all die off, or go full Malthus? Another interesting idea would be to create a faux terrarium type enclosure instead of a plain cage. Would the mice exhibit a bias towards the "ground"? And also it's kind of odd that none of the studies thought to include a lens wiper for their cameras after the first one demonstrated the problem. In 0g, various 'matter' ends up getting stuck on the camera lens, increasingly trending towards 0 visibility.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-40789-y
Netflix Games' Second Season: Challenges, Changes, and the Path Forward
Hi Triplit's team,

Congrats on the launch and thanks for the awesome product! I've been using Triplit in one of my projects [1], and it do work as expected. In my self-promotion on Reddit [2], I posted about Triplit as well:

> I think Triplit is a nice database and works as expected. It's data model fits well with what I have in mind (more decentralized/P2P instead of having a single centralized database as the source of truth), but there are 2 areas I find lacking:

> - Server side/self-hosted: Triplit server requires a token for authentication. Triplit's documentation has a section about how to start the server without explicitly showing how to generate the token, which is mildly inconvenient. Therefore, on self-hosting the server, I opted for using their CLI command dev since the command has the token generation that I needed. I know it is not a good security practice as when the command is used as a system service, the token will be logged in plain text, but I have a bigger problem when someone can access that anyway.

> - Query language: I find their custom query DSL not as expressive as a full-fledged query language (lacking UNIQUE and COUNT like SQL is on the top of my mind). You'll have to do a bit of data aggregating yourself.

Recently, I found Evolu [3], which is quite similar to your project in terms of scope and functionalities as well. From a quick skim of their documentation, I think the differences are:

- Triplit have `.subscribe()`, while Evolu don't

- Evolu's querying is more familiar/advanced (typed SQL via Kysely)

- In the browser, Evolu seems to use SQLite on top of OPFS, while Triplit uses IndexedDB

I think there are more intricacies on the way Triplit differs from Evolu, so can you enlighten me on that?

Really appreciate your comment! Thanks!

- [1]: https://github.com/thanhnguyen2187/cryptaa

- [2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/1dndpj8/cryptaa_a...

- [3]: https://www.evolu.dev/docs
Fig 3, bottom right "Quadratic fitting" ... X-D
No floating rock picture, so this is probably much ado about nothing.

The materials are cheap and readily available. This could be reproduced by random YouTube chemists, so expect confirmation or not within weeks.
How to Start a War over Taiwan
This is absolutely false in California, please don't spread dangerous misinformation.

See CVC 22400(a):

No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic unless the reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, becauseof a grade, or in compliance with law.

No person shall bring a vehicle to a complete stop upon a highway so as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic unless the stop is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.
Embarrassing the US is worth being jailed for years or being extradited to a country where you don't reside and are not a citizen and being tried for sedition in said country?
Show HN: Local dev, customer secrets or AI agents. Access secrets anywhwere
Julian Assange walks free after pleading guilty to US espionage charge in Saipan
I would love to see all those things myself. Part of my job this past week was inquiring with local jurisdictions about utilities to request utility atlases and other existing condition reports. Unfortunately, this info can be hard to find, inaccurate and inaccessible. There are many pros and cons for showing/hiding utility data etc. <p>
If you're interested in getting started with roads, Local GIS shapefiles and tiger databases can be found for much of the US. Not too familiar globally.
<p>
Downloading a database from the following site and opening with QGIS or similar might be something to start with:
https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series...
Shades of Parkinson's Law [1], along with the idea that more effort is more valuable than less effort. Sometimes, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I bet we would could reduce US capital market trading to four days a week and still arrive at a similar outcome wrt efficient price discovery and liquidity windows, tangentially [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-06/why-no... | https://archive.today/Ykapv
Kind of Bloop, an 8-bit tribute and track-by-track remake :)

https://kindofbloop.com/
Well, I’d be the first to admit that we have a gap here, the solution that I personally would consider ideal doesn’t seem to actually exist, at least on the server-side.

If we are running under something like K8S or Docker, then I think there should be some component that runs on the host, that provides access to secrets over a Unix domain secret, and then we mount that socket into each container. (The reason I say a Unix domain socket, is so then the component can use SCM_CREDENTIALS/SO_PEERCRED/etc to authenticate the containers). I’d also suggest not using HTTP, to reduce the potential impact of any SSRF vulnerabilities (although maybe that’s less of a risk given many HTTP clients don’t work with Unix domain sockets-or at least not without special config). (Can we pass memfd_secret using SCM_RIGHTS?)

For desktop and native mobile, I think the best practice is to use the platform secret store (Keychain on macOS/iOS, Freedesktop Secret Service for desktop Linux, Android Keystore, Windows Credential Manager API, etc). But for server-side apps, those APIs generally aren’t available (Windows excepted). Server-side Linux often lacks desktop Linux components such as Freedesktop APIs (and even when they’re present, they aren’t the best fit for server-side use cases)
Heh, Nvidia may want to take steps to bury this. Will likely be a humongous loss for them if it pans out.
Prompting LLMs to Learn Language from a Single Book
Julian Assange walks free with conclusion of court case in Saipan
I wish they did just because I can’t get the kakao app to work consistently on my Linux machine via wine.
Some titles are either too long to use or are clickbait/inaccurate and need to be reworded
> Despite overwhelming evidence they stick to their version of "reality", they never seek counter-evidence, they believe everyone but them is part of a ploy to hide the real reality from everyone.

Yeah but you're basically describing ideologues here. This is how the vast majority of political activists approach the world where, last time I checked, parties even pretending to do things by scientific consensus are rare and they tend to not, in reality, refer to much science.

> If you look at vaccines ... they don't trust experts or scientists.

My mother just caught COVID last week. I was told - by people confidently claiming to speak for experts - that this wouldn't happen after she and the rest of the population were vaccinated because the spread would cease. I personally doubt the experts actually said that because they tend to be accurate in their field of expertise but good luck with that perspective around the time of the vaccine mandates.

I suspect even more than lack of trust that the issue is experts are so rare in politics that people don't recognise them when they do turn up. There are a lot of unexperts playing pretend on such topics and expert opinions are subject to misrepresentation.
The paper in question is "A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book" by Garrett Tanzer, Mirac Suzgun, Eline Visser, Dan Jurafsky, Luke Melas-Kyriazi [0].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16575
A lot is lost here by using notation that looks like it is rigorous math, but is actually pretty vague. For example, are X and Y indicators for the same flip? If so, they are mutually exclusive, X=Y is contradictory, and hence P(X=Y)=0. If they are samples from different flips (and your coin is the usual idealized one) then X and Y are independent random variables and P(X=Y)=0.25.

It's just like if X~N(0,1), Y~N(0,1) and you want to know the distribution of X-Y. You need to know what the PDF of (X,Y) looks like. Well, you don't know. X and Y could be correlated or they might not be. e.g. if could be that (X,Y)~N( (0,0), [(1,0),(0,1)] ) or maybe (X,Y)~N( (0,0), [(1,1/2),(1/2,1)] ). The distribution of X-Y cares how correlated X and Y are.
This research smells so bad. It does not read as professional science at all. It is incredibly politicized and permeated with political judgements regarding which worldviews and demographics are 'problematic' to society.
A fan-boy would never call Musk a narcisstic a*hole.

Technology progress is non-linear. Yes, Tesla is at L3 and Waymo at L4.

But, you completely missed the point of rate-of-innovation, which was why I made that as first point.

My GOOG holdings are 4x than TSLA. But in terms of who will deliver FSD at better margins, it's hands down TSLA. It's simple Math and Elon's obsession about cutting material costs & process to it's barest minimum. Waymo has no such discipline or culture.
It's the other instruments that are out of tune.
IANAP, but isn't it suspicious that no specific pressure was mentioned (unless i missed it)?
Red is too angry.
This is false. Please don't spread dangerous legal misinformation.

See CVC 21209(a):

No person shall drive a motor vehicle in a bicycle lane established on a roadway pursuant to Section 21207 except as follows:

(1) To park where parking is permitted.

(2) To enter or leave the roadway.

(3) To prepare for a turn within a distance of 200 feet from the intersection.
Probably. Science is fascinating as people could do a lot with simple equipments.
I’m surprised not to see any mention of the Otamatone, a Japanese toy instrument with a bit of a cult following. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otamatone)
There's also a sample container inside the rover intended to be sent back. The cached samples exist so that more can be taken, and so it's still possible to get samples if the sample container in the rover fails to open for some reason.

The initial plan for retrieval involved Roscosmos and ESA, but that's been called off for now. So they need some new plans. My favourite part of their initial sample return plan was the decision to not use a parachute to land it on earth, since they couldn't be sure one wouldn't fail.
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I'm far less interested in what happens to ex-Googlers.

What's just wild about this to me is that Google does not give a crap about outside developers anymore.

None of the new plans court the outside world. Google is all in on Google tech for Googlers. ChromeOS tried to mix in some regular Linux-stack tech: dead, replaced by bespoke Android-ism forever and ever. Cutting off a toolkit used to help folks make good Google style web apps is again that cutting loose ties with the outside world, is turtling up inside their own inland empire.
In general I think microtonal music takes a bit of getting used to, and that most of it isn’t that good anyways because most of the good composers are on other stuff.
That's not really the mechanism at work here. Lonely people don't turn to conspiracy theorizing because they somehow happen upon "secret knowledge" that, in the absence of any external social pressures, spontaneously becomes apparent to them.

Rather, for these lonely people, conspiracy theories are how they project their own unmet emotional needs outward onto the perceived world around them -- as a coping strategy. They need to feel like they belong and are relevant in the world. This leads them to harbor resentment toward the rest of the world whom they perceive to be in league with an amorphous "them". The conspiracist's belief that he possesses "secret knowledge" about the world fulfills his needs for belonging and relevance by making him feel as if he is part of an in-group superior to the one he perceives to be alienating him[1].

But why do this through "secret knowledge"? Usually this is the conspiracy theorist's way of coping with some inexplicable world-changing event like 9/11, the COVID-19 pandemic, or the loss of their chosen political candidate in an election; they need to "know" why immediately, but cannot, and therefore move straight from the "thinking" stage (which requires holding uncertainty and multiple possible explanations) into the "knowing" stage (which is a kind of faith-based certainty about the world)[2][3].

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1. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-bul0000392.pd...

2. https://overcast.fm/+CuhudQ56w

3. https://psmag.com/social-justice/thinking-vs-knowing-when-fa...
Startups aren’t addressing this because printing isn’t sexy and Silicon Valley doesn’t really want to acknowledge paper as a solution to anything.
I don't think it materially changed anyones perception, maybe gave fuel to the fire and reminded people it was still going on

"Torture At Abu Ghraib" was published in 2004, Collatoral Murder not until 2010. Were there still fence-sitters at that point? I honestly can't recall the prevailing attitude of the time, besides Assange being an enemy of democracy who deserved to be brought in and shot. I think the reaction was most telling, the continued bloodlust for traitors who are doing little more than advertising the US's incompetence and aimlessness in that war. If collateral damage didn't make me any less patriotic, seeing our politicians harass an australian for treason (???) certainly did

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu...