skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr this is a liquid simulation toy. This starts with four colors of different densities (so they self-organize into layers). Clicking allows scooping up a ball of the liquid. I consider this pretty to watch, like a laval lamp that I can also throw globs of.
> along with the end of the belief in progress as an ideology, or way to salvation somewhere during the 20th century.

That 20th century belief in technological progress as a "way to salvation" killed itself with smog and rivers so polluted they'd catch on fire, among other things.
> "no such thing as a safe ad anymore because no one is policing them appropriately"

That's one of the most Kafkaesque sentences i have read in a while.
> Why can't I just pay a few bucks to watch one game?

You could argue that preventing this is a positive bundling. e.g. the Cup final game doesn't exist without the first round games and quarter-finals, and the other league matches that you don't want to pay for. They need to be subsidised or the whole thing might not work or won't be as good.

But "you can't buy x without y" where x and y are in different markets is (ahem) a different ballgame.
A recent creepy example in the news has been cars collecting data about drivers, which was bought by insurers, who used it to change rate information. Drivers were typically unaware that they had consented for any kind of data collection, let alone it being sold to their insurers. In one piece I saw, IIRC, a car sales person said that they commonly accepted some fine print terms on behalf of car purchasers to speed along the process.
They supposedly use trip info for their own advertising. Says also "in some cases" shared with third parties for ads.

"We collect usage data that includes trip history, buttons or links you click on our mobile app, in-vehicle interfaces, wait times for our vehicles, and other actions you take with our products and services"

"We collect information about your location in a few different ways. When you take a trip, we collect the pickup and drop-off location and details about the vehicle’s route."

"We may also use your information to personalize services, advertisements, content, and features, communicate with you including marketing (which you can opt out of), service, and account messages, or communicate other information we think will be of interest to you "

"We will retain information we associate with your Waymo account, such as name, email and trip history, while your account remains active."

"Waymo will not disclose your personal information with a third party unless one of the following applies:
...

- We're involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets

- In some cases to help us tailor ads and offers to your interests as detailed in the U.S. state law requirements section

- Comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request
...
"

https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9184840#zippy=%2Cinf...
This sounds interesting "Noyron — a foundational Large Computational Engineering Model". What kind of architecture this model have?
Practicing for Doomsday
> A Goldman vice president answers a frantic call from Archegos, pleading with her to send back almost half a billion dollars that had just been mistakenly wired to the bank by one of the family office’s junior employees.

Think about that for a second.-
Maybe something like "Simple UI to get started. Advanced options for power users who want more control."
Coil-on plug was not terribly common in the 90's. More likely you would have had a "distributorless" ignition system with a coil pack mounted somewhere in the engine compartment and plug wires from that to the engine. Earlier in the 90's you would have still had a distributor but with electronic fuel injection either by direct injection or by throttle-body injection. The only TBI engine I've had was an OBD1 system with a distributor attached to the oil pump. It was built in 1995. The only electronic ignition engine I drove from the 90's was from 1996 and it had an OBD2 system with a coil pack. My first coil-on-plug engine was from 2006.

Otherwise this is a great article.
I think we can agree that separation of socioeconomic status is prevalent (and maybe useful) while still disagreeing on what degree of that produces a vibrant and stable society. So the question is what degree do we find acceptable? I personally don't want beautiful gated communities contrasted with slums to be the norm, for a variety of reasons.

As to the "rules" of game theory in this context, they are arbitrarily set by society. They are not natural laws, so we probably shouldn’t treat them as immutable.

(As an aside, I don't think that "most likely" should be conflated with "optimal". There's lots of analogies that come to mind to describe that point, but I'd rather hold off so as not to come across as debating in bad faith)
Do you also see the ingestion process as the key challenge for many RAG systems to avoid "garbage in, garbage out"? How does R2R handle accurate data extraction for complex and diverse document types?

We have a customer who has hundreds of thousands of unstructured and diverse PDFs (containing tables, forms, checkmarks, images, etc.), and they need to accurately convert these PDFs into markdown for RAG usage.

Traditional OCR approaches fall short in many of these cases, so we've started using a combined multimodal LLM + OCR approach that has led to promising accuracy and consistency at scale (ping me if you want to give this a try). The RAG system itself is not a big pain point for them, but the accurate and efficient extraction and structuring of the data is.
Given that he was released with time served, I don't think US prosecutors gained much from allowing him to plea. What is the motivation for them to pressure him to do so when they are not seeking any additional outcome?
The 8-Bit Guy famously shorted an extremely rare IBM PC, with about 10 copies made, using a paperclip. Don't give him any sort of valuable keepsake, he'll destroy it.
Love it, very accurate results.
https://websim.ai/c/eE2jTOTQoiOBTTHpP
obviously giant space slugs and swarms of mynock (always chewin on the power cables...)
I think there are a few errors here. First there is afaict no reason the image of phi has to break up into power-of-two cyclic groups.

Second and more importantly, it seems very difficult to start with the decomposition into cyclic groups and then choose a map from the multiset group into the permutation group that corresponds to the given decomposition in a good way.

Relatedly, the isomorphism between the image of phi (i.e., the action of accumulating hashes) and the decomposition into cyclic groups may be difficult to compute, which can make finding collisions infeasible for an attacker when they could do it easily if given the explicit representation.

So overall the conclusion that “you might as well make this forced structure explicit, and just pick the block structure you want to use in advance” seems incorrect.

The blog post someone linked on multiset hashing with elliptic curves proves the foregoing points. The cyclic groups do not have power-of-two orders and the group action is very complicated even though the description in terms of elliptic curve addition is quite simple.
Would a better analogy then be whether you should be able to sell your vote?
High-Tech Nomad (1984)
When are you going to add non-tech companies? I'm constantly scanning bios like this for lawyers, especially on what types of law they practice and what types of cases they've done in the past.
Take a look here - https://r2r-docs.sciphi.ai/quickstart#ingest-data and here https://r2r-docs.sciphi.ai/cookbooks/client-server#ingest-do...

Since multiple people have requested we are pushing a quick change to make this emphasized in the docs.
https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#open-source

Into the trash it goes.
This website was indeed created with sorta [marketing](https://www.c114.com.cn/news/16/a1243786.html). It is an attempt by CSDN and Huawei to build an open-source platform in China, promoting their compliance of regulations.

My view is that Huawei's involvement is likely primarily aimed at helping to establish package repositories for its Harmony OS and OpenEuler (such as [ohpm](https://ohpm.openharmony.cn/#/cn/home)), which require (real-name) identity verification via mobile phone numbers for package publishing.
> Are the hospitals allowed to charge for the organs somewhere?

Yes. That is the case in the US at least.
I hope I don't sound rude, but...

It seems you got lucky! You raised all this money without having the courage to do something simple, like talking with the people who footed the bill and your cofounder. How's that even possible?

You don't have an obligation to your team or anybody. Imagine if, instead, you make them waste a few years with you when you no longer believe in this business. This is much worse.

In my view, you must be transparent with everybody. If you keep running it, you are no different from Adam Neumann. If I had invested in your company, and you'd keep wasting my money as you no longer believe in it, I'd sincerely believe you are a conman.

ps: I'm still curious why VCs haven't kicked you out. 3,5 years and no revenue. This looks like fanfiction to me. Don't give me those Figma examples; you aren't building Figma.
Or just commmit --patch to save one step.
In a similar vein, Andrew Kelly, the creator of Zig, gave a nice talk about how to make use of the different speeds of different CPU operations in designing programs: Practical Data-Oriented Design https://vimeo.com/649009599
Bored of learning the same way? Try personalized learning
Do still have to pay if the livestock is part of regenerative agriculture farm? Such systems capture carbon, somewhere around a ton/hectare/year[1].

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-system...
Super fun to resize the window and watch the liquid slosh into the new space.
A lot of built environments in the US prioritize car throughput and parking over non-car accessibility. And cars have gotten huge relative to their often single-occupant usage. Should we really be "vexed" that this environments selects against pedestrians?
The thing is, I'm not on any jury, and I'm expressing my opinion. I never claimed to be a juror, judge, or anything.

I'm saying it's my personal opinion that his case is different from the many people I've read about who were railroaded by the criminal justice system, pressured to plead guilty and serve time. Typically those look very different from an espionage act case or compromised government emails, or whistleblower-like scenarios, or questions of press freedom, whatever. Often it looks more like some African American dude you've never heard of being wrongfully accused of a violent crime or drug offense on flimsy evidence.
> If you're too feeble to walk, you're probably too feeble to drive.

Again: patent nonsense.

Do you even know any old people?
I developed an app to streamline the process of tracking job applications
his app allows users to organize and monitor their job search activities. Feedbacks are welcome!
https://archive.is/SOe5w
Yeah, well, how come schools which get more money do better than schools who don't?

The U.S. spends more money per patient than almost any other country too. 3x what Canada spends. I guess you would be a big fan of a Canadian-style health care system?
We initially had this issue as well. So we put a small team of developers to work on the problem and were able to implement our own version of the metastore that supported optimistic concurrency and hidden partitioning. It has significantly improved reliability in stress tests (variable velocity ball bouncing in a hyper-dimensional click-cube environment). however, the larger size of our object store is increasing our monthly S3 costs.
I found this piece very insightful and thought-provoking. Thank you so much for sharing it.
I’ve worked with a few large code bases that use channels. In all those code bases, they were about as maintainable as GOTO-based control flow, except that GOTO makes you have unique label names. All the channel-based code I’ve seen just has 100’s of call sites like “chan->send()” and “chan->recv()” sprinkled around, and doesn’t even have the discipline to put related senders and receivers in the same source file.

At least old-school syntax like “GOTO foobar_step_23” and “LABEL foobar_step_23” is grepable).

I greatly prefer programs that “color” functions sync/async, and that use small state machines to coordinate shared state only when necessary.

Go technically supports this, but it doesn’t seem like it is idiomatic (unlike rust, the go compiler won’t help with data races, and unlike C++, people don’t assume that the language is a giant foot-gun).
Net negative. Long term it's gonna be net negative due to lower competition, as now there are usually only 2 players in town. Inevitably they are going to raide prices for customers and reduce earnings for drivers
Please use the original title https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I haven't read the article because paywall, but a "what not do to do" from an unemployed person is probably quite relevant and valuable information.
This approach would increase compile times by an outrageous amount, since you now need to compile each function N times.

Optimizing compilers can also produce different output but with identical semantics depending on a lot of heuristics. What happens when deleting a line of code produces different inlining or specialization decisions? What is a rigorous definition of "identical"?

"Deleting a line" is also not the only way that unexpected and perhaps unwanted behavior from UB reasoning appears. Unexpected code motion is absolutely a thing that people have complained about. I don't think you can so quickly insist that things like hoisting are out of scope here.
We're mainly focused on the tech vertical right now, but are going to expand to a second vertical soon - and law is one we've been considering.

We use public data sources, so Find AI works best in industries where people want to be found. And, lawyers spend a lot of time building websites and profiles - so I think it would work really well with our data model.

I'll follow up with you once we add lawyers!
You're misrepresenting things. Many of your comments are like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8
In EU under the GDPR we have the "consent" thing. It has failed miserably because of bad enforcement and corporate shenanigans. Per polling around 3% of people want to give a consent for adtech tracking but majority click a consent button against their consent.

There's also a right to get the data they have on you and to who it was sold and to revoke the "consent". It's practically useless because of how it gets maliciously implemented.
The author is also working on a really impressive voxel physics engine: https://youtu.be/3259aycYcek
Looking back but can't edit. The first line should say

((a | b | c) -> T) -> T

This is just a mistake I made paraphrasing link 1.
A startup on hard mode: Oxide, Part 2. Software and Culture
Same. I have both limactl and podman setup but I think I’ll go all in on podman. On the Mac I was impressed how awesome podman is. Docker could have had this position but they need to make money and changed the license. More power to them. But the consequences are that I’ve moved.
Well, on the web side, it'd be a lot less complex if we weren't trying to write applications using a tool designed to create documents. If people compiled Qt to WASM (for instance), or for a little lighter weight, my in-development UI library [1] compiled to WASM, I think they'd find creating applications a lot more straightforward.

[1] https://github.com/eightbrains/uitk
Apple will soon offer better support for 3rd-party iPhone displays and batteries
Reminds me of this tweet:
https://twitter.com/WillManidis/status/1611369969916207108
I created a GitHub repo. If they cloned that, I can get 1 billion per year from them and their business partners.

Let's see.
https://github.com/Good-Luck-CSDN/OSS-License-With-Unlimited...
The article shows an interesting collection of different types of barbed wire with a name on each one. The article claims that different types of barbed wire allowed ranchers to tell at a glance if the land and animals belonged to them. Unfortunately, that theory is completely made up and wrong. The names on the barbed wire are the manufacturers not the ranchers. Different manufacturers produced different styles of wires due to patents and functionality reasons.

For instance, the first wire in the article is labeled "Kelly loose barb". That corresponds to the Michael Kelly patent [1]. The next name is Scutt, describing the improved barbed wire invented by H. B. Scutt [2].

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US283614A
[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US195239A
> Those are all conditions that exist in the current state of the world, so clearly US hegemony doesn't prevent them.

By that reasoning, murder, robbery, etc., all exist everywhere, so clearly the existence of police forces doesn't prevent them — so sure, let's get rid of the police and other law-enforcement agencies. (Or more succinctly: Half a loaf ....)

> I'll take a world where my country has to pay for our own defence, even if it means higher taxes for me, over one where US personnel can kill someone like me and the US will give them a getaway flight with no repercussions.

If you can make such a world happen, you're of course free to do so. Until then, you might consider acknowledging that the U.S. — for its own mixed reasons, to be sure — provides the key support for an international rules-based order that, on the whole (and with tragic exceptions), has allowed billions of people to live better lives than they would have otherwise.
Public losing the idea of progress (2024-03-14)
Actual Ruling: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-411_3dq3.pdf
Yes. But this is obviously asocial enough to deter most people. Significantly better deterrent than self-checkout, at least.
"The Blast Shack", on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks (2010)
Autonomous Investigations by Datadog
Why not both? We aren't trying to be efficient here, we are dumping excess energy from intermittent sources.
The list is excellent; I found some I did not know or have seen.
That makes a lot more sense. Thanks for sharing this bit of historical insight.
No, I'm pointing that that we don't let other achievements eclipse "being a rapist" anymore.
Have you integrated with any popular chat front-ends, e.g. OpenWebUI?
>> Surprised to see such tabloid level discourse posted here

This is not even remotely accurate.
Re: quemu and apple hvf that’s really sad news.
Thankyou. My own comment giving a quickstart scenario was downvoted :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801453 but I saw you kindly replied to it! Thankyou, I appreciate that.
This discussion reminds me of literate programming. An old idea for a more civilized age.

It also reminds me of clitest[1] (very similar name to the author's lib, but it is another thing).

You can write examples with prose in markdown, then let clitest verify them for you as if they were tests. Best of both worlds.

[1] https://github.com/aureliojargas/clitest
Guest Users Module for Linux
India's Modi to visit Moscow soon, Russian state media says
Sounds a lot like the research regarding the Nacirema:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema
Attacker Adding Malicious Code to Legitimate WordPress Plugins Quickly Caught
The author seems to conflate several different types of documentation, like requirements, code comments, and api explanations. Additionally TDD isn’t intended to work in the absence of any documentation, the concept is that a test models the requirements.

Maybe a paradigm to consider more is:

Literate programming (LP) tools are used to obtain two representations from a source file: one understandable by a compiler or interpreter, the "tangled" code, and another for viewing as formatted documentation, which is said to be "woven" from the literate source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
Wholeheartedly agree, however... It's well accepted that most developers would rather chew off their own arms than write documentation. The acceptance, sort of, of TDD shows that developers would rather code even in pseudo code test languages than write narrative prose.
> And global demand for oil is going up up up

That's a (very) short term effect that you might be overestimating. The broad consensus seems to be that we reach peak oil before 2030. I.e. within the next five years. When I say broad consensus, I mean IEA (funded largely by oil producing nations) and similar agencies. Given their background, the IEA is actually somewhat conservative with their outlook usually. 2026-2030 seems to be the bandwidth of estimations here. I don't think it matters that much. The point is that in a few years, we should see oil production start to trend down year on year; for the first time pretty much.

Once electrical cars get cheap enough (i.e. right now thanks to BYD producing sub 10K$ cars suitable for the masses), things should pick up and go rapidly. There's a bit of lag here because of import tariffs, the fact that it takes time to ramp up production capacity, politics, and a few other factors. But millions of vehicles per year now with average sales prices projected to continue to drop year on year for the foreseeable future.

Developing nations are actually embracing renewables and batteries in a hurry. A lot of those vehicles aren't the big SUVs and cars we use in the west but simple electric scooters, mopeds, and bicycles. Those are being produced by the millions already and extremely popular across India, Asia, etc. The mass adoption of electric bikes and mopeds has already had a measurable impact on petrol demand. Cheap solar and battery operated vehicles deliver economical benefits everywhere, not just in rich parts of the world.

I actually expect oil prices and petrol prices to go up rather than down as that's an obvious way for oil companies to keep their profits up when they are selling less. Sell less for more, basically. The net effect that could have is speeding up the whole transition. Oil producers tightly control production levels to keep the prices where they want them to be. The word oligarchy comes from their tendency to do that.

As for Russian oil and gas. Their exports in barrels and tons of gas are way lower than pre war levels and unlikely to get back to those levels in the near future as they simply lack the infrastructure. China and India consume some but they don't seem in a hurry to become dependent on them. Russia is basically forced to sell at a discount right now. And the Ukranians have been hitting their oil infrastructure pretty hard too in recent months which isn't helping the Russians.
Ugh. This headline sucks.

SCOTUS didn't rule anything of the sort; they didn't get to the merits of the case. They dismissed the claim for lack of standing:

"We begin--and end--with standing. At this stage, neither the individual nor the state plaintiffs have established standing to seek an injunction against any defendant. We therefore lack jurisdiction to reach the merits of the dispute."
The worst use of analogy in my view is to use it not for improving understanding, but for morally loading the subject with the baggage from the analogy. When you say that data is like organs, you are morally loading all of our worst perceptions on what organ trade can be (harvesting, trafficking, and exploitation crimes) onto data.
Data resale is serious for different reasons, and trying to morally load it with organ considerations is obfuscating those reasons. We should instead understand those reasons for data itself.
Thankyou! I appreciate that, that's a good mini-start, ie quickstart :)

I have an AI service that I need to add RAG too, running as a direct Python server, and I can see running this as a second service being very useful. Much appreciated.