skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yeah, you caught me. It's not so simple as a transform from nodes to edges. What I actually have in mind is a bit stranger, but the node/edge swap was my stepping stone towards it, which is why I mentioned it.

The structs/records/tuples approach would work (I think this would correspond with "currying"), but I have this weird idea that certain types of reasoning have a "shape" and that we might be able to more heavily lean on analagous reasoning if we could easily show that shape in correspondence with explanations of our reasoning. I worry that currying everything would force us further away from the "natural" shape (if there even is such a thing).

I've been working on something called plibs (simPlical mad LIBS, since really we're showing a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicial_complex here). The functions are represented as tuples of the same arity, and described via sentences with blanks in them (e.g. when you run ____ code in ____ environment you get ____ from stdout). One with three blanks would then appear like a triangle and then I'd fill it in with a gradient indicating which sides are inputs and which are outputs. Functions sharing a mad lib would appear as a regular polygon in the same color (one edge for each blank). Or maybe they're sort of starfish shaped so that each leg can reach out an touch whatever the data representation ends up being.

One could imagine algorithms that generate patchwork quilts or 3D structures (like how protein folding is represented) out of such things. These could be computed only in one direction (from inputs towards outputs) but they could be traversed in any direction if one wanted to explore the relationships.

I'm hoping it will be a nice way of citing your computational sources. You would attach them to any computational result (alongside a scientific paper, perhaps) as a way if saying "here's how I came up with this, rerun it to verify my result". Aside from the computational pathway that yielded the result that's being scrutinized, you could explore adjacent plibs to understand why certain inputs were chosen or to gain other contextual hints.

Now that I'm describing it it sounds a bit like that awful zooming-through-towers-of-data visualization in "Hackers" the movie.

So the "edge" that I was using as a progress bar in my previous description is really a series of paths through a space made of these things. The details of the functions being called (and of the datasets being generated) are attached to the polygonal regions that the paths connect. The paths may merge or branch. It could get unwieldy, so the user would have to be explicit about which plibs to show and which to highlight as a chain of computation.

As for how the represent the intermediate data and their types, I keep changing my mind. Some days I like the stacks of cards thing, some days not. Hopefully something will sick soon, then I'll try to build it.
"Muslim empires preserved Greek learning" is a half-truth, because the medieval Latins traded more with the Arabs than they did with Byzantium. Thus when they got Aristotle etc. it tended to be from Arab sources, even though Constantinople had much better copies.
leave politics off of HN
It's a tough call.

I agree with so much of what you're saying. That grief is devastating and appropriate - you can't love somebody with your whole heart without also grieving them with your whole heart.

What I've never been able to figure out for myself is if antidepressants and their ilk are "suppressing" the grief. Or are they more like a cast that helps a broken bone to heal? I just honestly don't know.

Like you I've decided to largely avoid them and fight through on my own. I never know if I'm making the best choice.

I'm sorry for your loss and I'm glad things sound like they're heading in a better direction.
I'm most excited about getting a faster model. A model like GPT4 can be overkill because its too slow. What are the smallest fine tuned models that could beat a gpt4 model? Is it 7b or could a 3b model like phi3 do well for tasks like classification and summarization?
There are plenty of people here not interested in the VC space, not interested in startups (in the pg sense of the word), and not strictly looking for new ways to wake money. But it's run by a VC firm. It's primary purpose is one part of a large funnel for getting new applicants to that VC firm. It is by definition VC-adjacent, and by extension many or perhaps even most people on here, certainly most of the people posting and commenting a lot, will be somewhat in that market as well. You can ignore that if you want at no risk to yourself but just declaring "it isn't" as objective incontrovertible fact is kind of silly when at the very least it's up for debate. But honestly whatever HN is or is not is a pretty irrelevant point to argue.

What isn't irrelevant, I think, is the accusation that monetizing something you've worked on is somehow exploiting it. If this brings value to people, and they can make money using it, or make more money using, the OP deserves to charge them for it if they want to. There's nothing wrong or exploitative about that. You are free to donate all your time and not charge anyone for anything but it's silly to frame someone charging for their work as an exploitation of either that thing or the people paying for it.
Custom-made molecules absorb near-infrared but not visible light
Learning is using observations to create/update a model that makes predictions which are more accurate than chance. At some point the model ends up having generalizability beyond the domain.
If this interests you, it’s worth taking a look at Genetic Programming. I find it to be a simpler approach at the same problem, no math required. It simply recombines programs by their AST, and given some heuristic, optimizes the program for it. The magic is in your heuristic function, where you can choose what you want to optimize for (ie. Speed, program length, minimize complex constructs or function calls, network efficiency, some combination therein, etc).

https://youtu.be/tTMpKrKkYXo
>Why does a bed need to run Linux? Why?

We're in the era of measuring yourself for better outcomes. A century ago we figured out antibiotics. Big gains. Then we figured out a lot of other pretty obvious diseases with pretty obvious cures.

Now we're down to the complicated subtle things. This bed is running Linux so it can tell you how you slept. If you're sleeping poorly it has all sorts of mostly mild negative effects. If you know about them you can do things to fix them. It's doing a low-grade sleep study on you every night. That can be valuable information.

>avoiding them is getting harder due to insanity like this linux-running bed

Sleep Number beds cost several thousand dollars, I think you'll be able to avoid them just fine.
The language in the announcement looks tricky (albeit I didn't get into the legal document). It says NEW content won't be used for training. Also, it's going to be on for a moment. You have to go out of your way to turn it off. They could claim they copied your info in the hour or so before you got around to it.
I can’t agree with this article:
“Instead, Martel echoes the great aesthete himself, Oscar Wilde, in his serene dictum that all art is perfectly useless. And yet, as Martel writes, “It is precisely the absence of political and moral interest that makes art an agent of liberation wherever it appears.””

This seems like it’s missing the point. Art deconstructs communication and therefore both creates the illusion of truth and represents the illusion of truth, showing us that it’s an illusion. Art can easily use political and moral interests to seduce its audience and does so often.

“Instead, the Real that art helps us come into contact with is something far more slippery, and far closer to what Walter Benjamin called the “true surrealist face of existence.” This is not the surrealism of predictive AI—endlessly recircling within its own sidewindings and elisions—but the bizarre wide-open Real out on the edges of experience, which has a good deal less to do with the measurable, quantifiable, empirical world than with the unseen possible: whether hidden aspects of the future simmering invisibly in the present, or mysteries so giant and unpredictable that science can’t begin to approach them.”

And what makes you think this is different than AI? Seems kinda like the author almost came to a valuable conclusion and then shook it off because they didn’t like the implications.

“But if true art is an instrument for transcendence and cognitive freedom, then artifice—art’s look-alike—is a homogenizing force that blocks off possibilities and alternate modes of being”

Now we get to the most boring and annoying tendencies of pretty much every piece of philosophy or criticism from the 18th/19th century: “hey guys I have a new philosophy. There is something that’s perfect and wonderful but it’s difference from this new thing I’m gonna define that looks the exact same but is actually evil and terrible. There’s no way to differentiate between the two except by vibes. It’s kinda just like God and Satan… almost like I just took my weird puritan religious values and recreated them in this other field of study for no reason. Also you know all those questions about my previous definition of art? All of them are answered because I’ll just classify any exceptions as this evil and terrible thing.”
> The bet is that a compromise in both the service and wireguard at the same time is unlikely

An RCE in wireguard would be enough -- no need to compromise both.
Telling good news is important.

(obviously this is a statistics ... so let us assume someone tweaked it ... but that does not minimize the positive news)
It seems to have become the no-brainer choice. Lots of mobile apps just load html views, and probably most desktop apps I see these days are just electron apps. You can reason about the best use case for HTML vs XAML vs Swift, but it seems that the speed of development time and the insane amount of community support out there has made the web the clear winner
What's that little blue bird icon in the top right corner? Seems to go to X, but I'm not sure why.

...jk!

On a serious note, this is REALLY cool. Great job.

Tiny feedback, your console is extremely chatty. I get this is a beta, but it still might be worth disabling that logging for production deploys.

I hope to see this evolve into a commercial product I really think it fills a need and it seems to work incredibly well.
Are RNNs completely subsumed by transformers? IE, can I forget about learning anything about how to work with RNNs, and instead focus on transformers?
Cities have too much thermal mass exposed to the Sun, that's is. As a result they makes heat domes between buildings and you can't reduce much the thermal mass with trees because you still have all the buildings.

A solution is new buildings "coated" with light air-gapped panels where air between them and the core structure of the building is free to slowly climb and going outside in the atmosphere. Of course you can't do so on glass facade walls. And it's hard to do on most existing buildings. Also you can't do much for the large asphalted area.

Like it or not, cities and global heating are incompatible, as cities and many other aspects of the modernity.
Supreme Court sends Trump's immunity case back to a lower court in Washington
Awesome, I'm so happy to hear that!
tiny bit of feedback : I tried to sign-in with a non gmail address and did not receive the confirmation email. Switched to a gmail address and everything was smooth in the sign-in process.
The Rick Cook quote is repeated.
Ignoring the snark. This will change as technology is adopted, go back 40 years (or even less) and a person walking around staring at a little black rectangle would have been perceived as weird and anti-social. We used to make fun of people talking on the phone via bluetooth headsets and now everyone does it with AirPods or whatever.

If you've got the technology to enable you to seamlessly transition from working in your home to working while sitting outside at a cafe to working while sitting on a blanket under a tree in the park to working wherever you feel like it then there will be enough brave people that say "fuck what other people think" and just do it so they can enjoy being active and getting fresh air and eventually more and more people will join them. Eventually we'll reach the point where sitting inside at a desk for 8-12 hours will be the weird thing.
And you're missing the bigger picture. Boeing are in a slump, and things will only get worse in the foreseeable future.

And the problem is that when the foreseeable future is over, it will be the 2030s and we'll probably have entirely new radical designs flying. Hydrogen propulsion, CFM Rise, blended wings, etc. etc. If Boeing are bleeding money and taking on expensive debt, how will they prepare for those times? If multiple of their designs are being years late, how will they have the engineering capacity to think of future designs?

Boeing the company is going nowhere. Boeing the commercial airplane maker is circling the drain in terms of how competitive they are. Their military and cargo jets, as long as the massive backlog, will keep them up for the next two decades easy. However if they can't improve themselves by next decade, they'll be forever behind.
Market policymakers feigning surprise when market participants react to their policies. Whether the policies were reasonable or not is an entirely different matter, and so far, I have no opinion on that one way or the other. What Apple has done is created opportunities to enter the EU market with their AI solutions that are in compliance with EU policies - which actually spurs competition, and so isn't anticompetitive.

What other market participants and future market participants should be realizing is that Apple left their lunch unguarded, ready to be snatched and eaten. That's simply how business works.
It seems to me this means whoever has hoarded and declared ownership of the most personal data will make the best products. Kinda like how some people liked their targeted ads because they’re more “relevant”, only now it’s not just ads but useful products. Another winner is of course platform owners like Apple and Microsoft who can scrape your data off their apps and products, even locally. This is a much bigger edge than being 3-6 months ahead in model quality.

I despise the centralization of this tech as well, and while it’s hopeful that smaller fine tuned models are better, they won’t win (or barely stand a chance) out of the virtue of openness and privacy alone. Best we can hope for is proliferation in the small-medium sized business service space - that OpenAI tokens are not worth the extra expense if open models are commoditized and effective. This was probably Zuck's plan all along – to prevent centralized gate keepers in tech that’s mainly benefiting his rivals. But the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so his actions may be the best he’s ever done for the public good.
If you're anywhere close to a technical or developer space it's pretty clear how making your entire codebase public could negatively impact a monetization strategy. So yeah you're right that AGPL doesn't explicitly prevent monetization (other than "pay us for the source code" stuff of course) but in practice nobody with a serious monetization strategy is going to be releasing all their code AGPL either.
I'm a Tesla investor. It's not about a cult. Tesla is the fastest growing manufacturing company in the history of the world. They are the only profitable EV company and deploy the most stationary storage. They are leaders in distributed energy services and are positioning themselves well to earn ARR from every battery and car they sell.

I used to wonder why anyone who wasn't part of the Steve Jobs cult would buy Apple since they sold overpriced junk. Then I wondered why anyone would invest in Amazon because nobody trusts online sales, they want to look at things before they buy. After I went to business school and learned financial modelling I decided I would never miss another category winner in a nascent large market again. Now I'm a millionaire.
Great jab at the Motzilla foundation that focuses on "Pocket", "Mozilla VPN", millions of dollars in CEO compensations, AI investments, political deplatforming and other things (maybe Firefox).
0:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA8DFsJg9Tc
This is the analog (pun) in radio technology of abandoning physical cash and switching exclusively to digital money.

Optimisation, efficiency and monoculture versus redundancy, resilience and diversity.
Mumbai has mostly underground utilities, only broadband lines tend to be strung from building to building.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-277_d18f.pdf
I totally agree. What are they doing over there? It's funny because some of these companies are just jumping into trends, in this case, AI, probably to lure investors and users. They might be achieving the complete opposite result by doing so. If I didn't know about n8n from before and read the new headline on their homepage, I would have thought the tool was not useful for what I need.
PS: if you're interested in multiplying "ludicrously large numbers", Harvey and van der Hoeven had a nice breakthrough and got multiplication down to "FFT speed" (n*log(n)), see

https://hal.science/hal-02070778v2/document

A pop-sci description can be found at

https://theconversation.com/weve-found-a-quicker-way-to-mult...
What if I have good backups?
Angry Video Game Nerd, on Youtube, had a huge issue finding a working one and I don't think he ever did. He just kept ordering new ones and kept getting duds. Even took it to his friend that performs unusual repairs and the guy said they were all 100% broken. I believe you, though. Might have just been a problem with the resale market being flooded with all the broken ones.
Not if you want to be a PhD/Researcher in ML, yes otherwise.

Source: Working on ML/LLMs as a research engineer for the past 7 years, including for one of the FAANG's research lab, always wanted to take time to learn about RNN but never did and never needed to.
It's almost certainly impossible. The amount of radiation, the toxic chemistry of martian soil, the lack of any form of liquid water, the long stretches of time with far below 0 temperatures [Edit], the near 0 atmosphere - all combined make it impossible for anything resembling Earth life to survive on Mars for anything close to a year, nevermind actually thriving.

Edit: you could first try to make a plant that thrives at the top of mount Everest and in Antarctica, and then add a significant amount of radiation, make it much colder, grow it in permanganate, and you might have something approaching survivability for Mars.
Yes of course. Extending the Lazarus ecosystem to support more languages would be a killer feature.
It was AI-generated
The seal team 6 example is a bit extreme, but you don't have to look back very far and you see both political parties leveraging the justice department or the IRS or other agencies to make life difficult for their rivals.
Port-knocking is a PITA in theory and even worse in real world : people do not have time nor the will to do wild invocations before getting job done.

Unless you are talking about your own personal use-case, in which case, feel free to follow your deepest wishes

Firewall is a joke, too. Who can manage hundreds and thousands of even-changing IP ? Nobody. Again: I'm not talking about your personal use-case (yet I enjoy connecting to my server through 4G, whereever I am)

Fail2ban, on the other hand, is nice: every systems that relies on some known secret benefits from an anti-bruteforce mechanism. Also, and this is important: fail2ban is quick to deploy, and not a PITA for users. Good stuff.
If they kept exposing them I wonder could they use artificial selection to make something that could grow in those conditions?
Ah, the novel that changed my teenage life! This work helped a generation of kids believe that maybe... computers could be cool. :-)

I reread all his novels recently, after having a read in previous years quite a bit about the art and craft of writing, the various approaches to the the classic three act plot, etc (writing features heavily in my own work).

On reread, I honestly think vol 3 "Mona Lisa Overdrive" is the perfectly crafted sci-fi thriller, and his best written book. It was so well done I reread it a third time as soon as I was finished. I think it was his best single work.

Used to see him around sometimes in Vancouver too. If you see this, thanks for everything Mr Gibson.
Hey,

Some time ago I started reading a book called "Building a StoryBrand" by Donald Miller and it let me born the idea of building a super simple tool to build landing pages, something that let you instantly start validating that what you want to build makes any sense.

I know that the market is very competitive but unlike Wix, Wordpress and the rest, I would like to focus on simplicity - no thinking about layout structure, fancy images, SEO, etc.

It's not perfect yet, but I'm really open for your feedback :)
Can you share more, what reader do you use? I think YouTube may be the service with the most RSS feeds, as each channel has one. I could see RSS working well for YouTube, especially if the ads still play.
If you view this as a Trump only specific ruling I would agree it's politics. The supreme Court was hearing a case in regards to Trump but the ruling is about the broader power of immunity for all presidents.
That's a totally reasoble way to do it, but it leaves you with other blindspots
People will tell you what they want anyway but also, sometimes people aren't aware of what they want or need

Non visible parts of aproject tend to get neglected a lot more if you just ask your users
What will get more people talking to you, a 10% speed up split among many small interactions, or a visual glitch that doesn't affect usability but it's front and center?
I personally used Sipser, but I think the book by Neil Jones [1] that takes a programming languages approach is really cool, and potentially more along the average HN reader's interests.

[1] http://hjemmesider.diku.dk/~neil/comp2book2007/book-whole.pd...
Jackson (page 98) lays out why this is such a dangerous thing.

Essentially, the court has said that the president is immune if the crimes are carried out as "official" acts. Only "unofficial" acts can be prosecuted.

The trouble is, what constitutes "official" vs "unofficial" has been left extremely vague (and by their own admission probably unsolvable), and so only the Supreme Court can decide which is which on a case-by-case basis.

Therefore, the Supreme Court now decides when and if the president is accountable for any criminal actions, and the judiciary and congress can do nothing about it. This is in stark contrast to how the law applies to everyone else.
Actually Maxwell's equation become unintuitive and become very difficult to model when not using quaternion. Unlike other waveform for example sound, electromagnetic (EM) waves has polarization components that can be intuitively, properly and comprehensively modeled using quaternion. Currently we are using quaternion to model robust and reliable wireless PHY modulation based on polarization that can work in a very limited Line of sight (LoS) environment, the performance is much better than conventional wireless PHY.
WPF is still a perfectly viable solution

> The issue is that with bundling the .dll, it would still mean it being extracted somewhere and writing additional code for the P/Invoke to work, and C++/CLI gets compiled to .NET IL code, in other words, you can open the resulting app in dnSpy and see the C++ code translated to C# equivalent (which is not what I want, I want native code).

I don’t understand how that makes WPF a non-viable solution. The author seems to have pretty strong feeling that it should absolutely be native code, but it’s not clear why